White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies – My Baking Habit

Tart raspberries, candy white chocolate, and chewy cookie dough make for an surprising, scrumptious cookie. Make and bake these white chocolate raspberry cookies immediately or freeze the dough for warm-from-the-oven cookies later!

Strawberries get a lot consideration this time of yr, and they need to. You know the way a lot I really like recent strawberries!

However let’s be certain that raspberries get some love, too.

I really like the tart sweetness they add to the whole lot from raspberry buttercream to lemon raspberry scones to raspberry mousse.

So after all I needed to pair them with white chocolate for these unbelievable white chocolate raspberry cookies!

Excellent white chocolate raspberry cookies

These white chocolate raspberry cookies are so nice. They’re just a little bit chewy and just a little bit comfortable, filled with loads of white chocolate chips and items of tart raspberries. 

The dough requires zero chilling time, so you may combine up the dough and bake the cookies immediately. Or you may freeze the dough for later!

I designed this recipe to make use of frozen raspberries as a substitute of freeze-dried raspberries. Freeze-dried raspberries will be tough to search out, however most main grocery shops carry frozen raspberries.

And since frozen fruit is inexpensive than recent fruit, it helps make these cookies a bit extra inexpensive to make. Which is certainly a win lately! 

Methods to make white chocolate raspberry cookies

If you can also make chocolate chip cookies, you can also make these white chocolate raspberry cookies! 

Components you’ll want

This recipe makes use of the Grand Floridian chocolate chip cookie recipe as a base. To make these cookies, you will have:

• 2 1/2 cups all goal flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon tremendous sea salt
• 10 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
• 1 cup calmly packed mild brown sugar
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• 2 giant room-temperature eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup white chocolate chips
• ¾ cup roughly chopped frozen raspberries 

The mix of brown sugar and powdered sugar is a bit uncommon, however belief me—it really works! The brown sugar makes the cookies chewy and the powdered sugar provides them a softer texture, which works completely with the raspberries.

I usually use white chocolate chips, however be happy to make use of white chocolate chunks as a substitute.

And regardless that these are white chocolate raspberry cookies, you possibly can all the time swap the white chocolate for darkish chocolate for a completely completely different vibe!

I like to make use of frozen raspberries in these cookies. They’re fairly simple to search out they usually maintain up higher if you combine them into the dough.

You probably have recent raspberries readily available that you just’d like to make use of, merely place them on a parchment-lined sheet tray and freeze for a few hours, till stable. Then you need to use them in these cookies.

Making these cookies

First, whisk collectively the dry components: flour, baking soda, and salt. Set this combination apart.

Now, use a mixer to cream collectively the butter with each sugars on medium-high pace. It’ll take 3-5 minutes to get the combination mild and fluffy. Ensure to scrape the perimeters and backside of the bowl with a spatula as wanted.

Add the eggs one a time, beating effectively after every addition, then combine within the vanilla.

Now slowly add the dry components with the mixer on low. Combine till simply mixed. Stir within the white chocolate and the frozen raspberries till simply mixed.

Strive to not over-mix the dough; not solely will it make the cookies robust, nevertheless it’ll trigger the raspberries to “bleed” and tinge the dough a slight blue coloration. 

I wish to make these white chocolate raspberry cookies good and large, so I exploit a big (3 tablespoon) scoop to portion them onto the baking sheets. 

Ensure to go away loads of area between the cookies; I normally solely bake 6 at a time.

Bake the cookies at 325°F for 15-17 minutes, or till the perimeters are golden brown. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes earlier than shifting them to a wire rack to complete cooling.

Storage and freezing ideas

Retailer these white chocolate raspberry cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for 2-3 days. The moisture of the raspberries does imply they received’t keep recent as another cookies, such because the New York Occasions chocolate chip cookies.

You could possibly additionally freeze the baked cookies in an hermetic container or zip-top freezer bag for as much as a month.

My favourite trick is to freeze the cookie dough balls in order that I can bake some every time I get a longing for fresh-from-the-oven cookies. 

It’s additionally the most effective trick when you will have surprising visitors. They’ll suppose you spent a very long time making them cookies if you actually simply popped some frozen cookie dough within the oven!

Portion the cookie dough together with your giant cookie scoop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Place the tray within the freezer for 1-2 hours, till the dough balls are stable, then freeze in a zip-top freezer bag.

Take a look at extra info on this course of in my put up on the right way to freeze cookie dough.