Pick-Your-Own Fruit Cookies Recipe - King Arthur Baking
Pick-Your-Own Fruit Cookies Recipe - King Arthur Baking
Pick-Your-Own Fruit Cookies Recipe - King Arthur Baking
Cookies
Delightfully soft and bursting with flavor,
these fresh fruit cookies are an easy way to
use some of your pick-your-own bounty or
market haul. The lemon-flavored cookie
dough is the perfect backdrop for whatever
fruit you have on hand. Plus, it’s made with
pantry staples. Mix and match the fruit of
your choice: blueberries and blackberries,
strawberries and raspberries, raspberries and black raspberries,
peaches and blueberries. Try them all until you find your favorite
fresh fruit cookie!
20 mins 15 to 20
mins
1 hr 15 cookies
Ingredients Instructions
Cookies 1 Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with
parchment.
8 tablespoons (113g)
unsalted butter, cold 2 To make the dough: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with
2/3 cup (132g) granulated the flat beater attachment or working in a large mixing bowl
sugar with an electric hand mixer, beat the butter, sugar, salt, and
lemon zest or emulsion until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes on
1/2 teaspoon table salt medium speed.
zest of 1 lemon or 1/2
teaspoon lemon emulsion 3 Scrape the bowl, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
1 large egg 4 Weigh your flour; or measure it by gently spooning it into a
1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure cup, then sweeping off any excess.
Vanilla Extract 5 Add the flour and baking powder and mix until thoroughly
1 1/2 cups (180g) King incorporated. Scrape the bowl and mix again briefly.
Arthur Unbleached All- 6 Add the fruit and mix on low speed just until the fruit is
Purpose Flour
evenly distributed and beginning to break down. Be careful
1 teaspoon baking powder not to overmix or the dough will become pastel-colored
2/3 cup (101g) fresh fruit, instead of tie-dyed with streaks of bright fruit color.
washed*
7 To add the topping: Place the 1/3 cup (66g) granulated
*See "tips,” below. sugar in a small bowl.
8 Scoop approximately 2 tablespoons (about 38g) of dough
Topping (a level jumbo cookie scoop works well here) and roll in the
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1/3 cup (66g) granulated sugar to coat. If the dough starts to feel soft and greasy,
sugar scoop the dough onto a baking sheet and chill in the
refrigerator for about 10 to 15 minutes before rolling in
sugar to allow the dough to firm up.
9 Arrange the sugar-coated balls of cookie dough on a baking
sheet, leaving about 2" between them.
10 Bake the fruit cookies for 15 to 20 minutes, until the
middles are set and the edges are browned.
11 Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool right
on the pan; serve warm or at room temperature.
12 Storage information: Store leftover fruit cookies, covered,
at room temperature for up to 3 days; freeze for longer
storage.
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