By now we have certainly reached the point where we have to bid farewell to the cherry blossom season. But even though we can’t gawk at the pretty trees blooming in pink anymore, we can still bake cherry blossom cookies! You won’t even need to buy a new cookie cutter. A regular circle one works just as fine after a little tampering.
These cookies owe their bright pink colour and intense strawberry aroma to a special natural ingredient: freeze-dried red berries! You might remember my instructions for making delicious pink berry chocolate with this ingredient from this post. Your local supermarket may sell freeze-dried berries (such as Coop in Switzerland), otherwise try looking for them in specialty stores or simply buy a box of cereals that contain freeze-dried berries and pick them out by hand :-D
I suggest serving the cherry blossom cookies with a cup of hot vanilla-scented black tea, for example Twinings’ Vanilla Black Tea. Enjoy!
Recipe for Pink Cherry Blossom Cookies with Strawberry Yoghurt Flavour
(makes 2 baking trays full of cookies)
Based on this recipe for Coffe Glazed Yoghurt Cookies
- 125g butter, room temperature
- 100g sugar
- 1 egg
- 4 Tbs strawberry yoghurt
- about 30g whole freeze-dried berries or 20g freeze-dried berry powder (I used a mixture of strawberry, raspberry and red currant sold at Coop)
- 300g all-purpose flour
- 25g cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- a round cookie cutter squished to an almond shape
- Preheat oven to 150°C.
- First, beat butter and sugar. Then add the egg and yoghurt and beat well.
- If you are using whole freeze-dried berries, grind them and sieve the powder to remove the seeds.
- Combine freeze-dried berry powder, flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt and sift everything into the butter mixture. Knead well. At this point you’re supposed to notice a fruity fragrance. Divide the dough in tw0 and refrigerate for about an hour.
- Roll the dough to a thickness of 0.5cm.
- Cut out cherry blossom petals with your cookie cutter by overlapping the pattern like shown in the pictures.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes.
- Voilà, pink cherry blossom cookies! Let them cool down before serving.
Have a nice tea party.
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Tags: cherry blossom, cookies, flower, pink, strawberry, yoghurt
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Oh, how beautiful! The colour and shape of the cookies are simply lovely. And the smell! I can’t even imagine how gorgeous the smell would be.
This is a lovely recipe and how-to. Thanks so much! :) I really like your blog, by the way. It’s very informative, looking forward to more posts soon! :)
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These are so beautiful! I saw these at foodgawker and really have to check it out. I have some frozen strawberry powder, so now I know exactly what to do with them.
Lovely! A store near me sells several varieties of freeze dried berries, so I definitely see these cookies (and perhaps a raspberry variation) of these in my future.
They sound delicious! I love strawberry cookies but I rarely see strawberry flavors in homemade cookies. Thank you for sharing. I really want to try this out! “…or simply buy a box of cereals that contain freeze-dried berries and pick them out by hand” <– Haha, that's what I was thinking about doing :D.
So pretty! And I love how they’re naturally pink – so many folks are allergic to red food coloring… Thanks for sharing. :)
UWAH! These are way way WAY too cute. I showed my friend this link and we’re both really dying to make them ourselves (and frantically looking for freeze dried berries xDD)
I was goign to try substituting just frozen berries but I dotn think itd work since the fruits are kind of made into a powdery substance :( But I am tempted to try that variation one of these days just for my own curiousity.
Thank you lufflee. Freeze dried berries aren’t easy to get – but you could try and substitute them with instant strawberry milk shake powder or something similar. I guess tastewise this would be a well substitute. To achieve the right colour tone you would have to add some drops of red food colouring, though.