Strawberry cookies with cream frosting

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 sticks Butter

  softened
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 tbsp Vanilla extract
• 1 Egg
• 3 cups Flour
• 1 tbsp Baking Powder
• 1 tbsp Strawberry Puree
• Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel
• 4 tbsp Butter

  softened
• 4 oz Cream Cheese
• 4 cups Powdered Sugar
• Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel
• Red Food Coloring Gel
• fresh strawberries

  to decorate

Instructions

• 1 In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add butter,
  sugar, vanilla and egg, and blend until light and fluffy.
• 2 In a separate bowl, add the flour and baking powder, and stir well to blend. 
  Add the flour a little at a time and mix on low to blend, until all the flour is
  added.  Remove the whisk attachment, and use the paddle.  Add the strawberry
  puree and several drops of the Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel, until the desired
  shade of bright pink is achieved.  Continue to blend the cookie dough until it's
  completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form.  Scrape down the mixing
  bowl as needed.
• 3 Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into
  small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the parchment paper.
  Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to
  turn a light golden brown around the edges. 
• 4 About half way through baking the cookies, check the oven, and the cookies may
  have started to crack a little.  Take a flat bottom glass, dip it in sugar
  before lightly applying to each cookie - smash the cookies very gently, and
  slightly, making them a little flatter, and spread out a little more.  This will
  give the cookies the crinkle look. When the cookies are done, remove from the
  oven to a wire rack to cool completely. 
• 5 While cookies are cooling, make the frosting. In the mixing bowl of a stand
  mixer, add the softened butter and cream cheese and blend to combine. Add the
  powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition, until the
  frosting is smooth and fluffy. Divide the Frosting evenly into two bowls. 
• 6 In one bowl,  add a few drops of the Rose Pink Food Coloring Gel, and stir to
  blend until the frosting is bright pink.  If the frosting thinned a bit add a
  tablespoon of powdered sugar, and stir to blend.
• 7 In the other bowl, add a few drops of the Red Food Coloring Gel, and stir to
  blend.  If the Frosting thinned a little, add a Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar,
  and stir well to blend.
• 8 Using plastic wrap, tear off a piece about 10 inches wide, and place the
  frosting length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap; it will look like two
  long ribbons of frosting. Then, roll the plastic wrap around the Frosting,
  making sure to keep it long, or length-wise like a long ribbon. Snip the end off
  of the plastic wrap, on one end only, and place it in a pastry bag with the
  large Star Tip.  Pipe the frosting onto the cookies, using a swirl, and bring it
  up to a point. Place a strawberry on the top of each cookie.  Allow the Frosting
  to set or firm up a bit, about 30 minutes. 

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