Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Mix Cookies
Thick strawberry cake mix cookies topped with cream cheese frosting, crushed graham cracker, and fresh strawberries. A simple showstopper!
Ingredients
- 4 oz room temperature butter
- 6 oz cream cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 box strawberry cake mix 15.25 oz
- 1 cup freeze dried strawberries
- 1/3 cup flour
Cream Cheese Frosting
- *This amount of frosting makes enough to do a thin covering as shown in the photos. If you'd like a thicker coating, I'd recommend doubling the recipe.
- 3 oz cold cream cheese (6 tbsp)
- 1 oz salted butter (slightly softened) (2 tbsp)
- 6.4 oz confectioner's sugar (1.5 cups)
- 1/4 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2-4 pinches salt (to taste)
Assembly
- 3 graham crackers (crushed into small/medium pieces)
- 8 oz fresh strawberries
Instructions
Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Pulse freeze dried strawberries in a food processor until it becomes a fine powder. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, (or the bowl of an electric mixer), beat butter until smooth.
- Add in the cream cheese, and beat until fully incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add egg and beat until fully incorporated.
- With mixer on a low speed, add in cake mix, freeze dried strawberry powder, and flour, and beat until just combined. Scrape down sides as you go to ensure even incorporation.
- Using a large cookie scoop, place cookies onto a standard half baking sheet, placing no more than 8 cookies per tray.
- Bake 17 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies are set and the center no longer looks wet and doughy. Rotate your tray halfway through baking.
- When cookies are fresh out of the oven, scoot them back into perfect circles. Place a cookie cutter, large mouth glass, or bowl that's slightly larger than your cookies around each cookie and swirl it around until the edges have scooched back into an even circle shape.
- Allow cookies to fully cool before frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Beat cream cheese and butter together until smooth. Don't mix for more than a minute or two or the frosting may become soupy.
- Slowly add in powdered sugar and beat until thoroughly combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Add in vanilla, salt, and lemon juice, and beat until combined.
Assembly
- When cookies are cool, frost each one with cream cheese frosting.
- Dice strawberries and set aside.
- Crush graham crackers and set aside.
- Shortly before serving, top with crushed graham crackers and diced strawberries. Best served chilled and on the day of assembly. Enjoy!
Notes
If cream cheese frosting feels soupy, place in the fridge to chill and firm up a bit before frosting. If it still feels soupy, you can add a little bit of powdered sugar at a time until you've reached your desired consistency.
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