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Cream Cheese
Strawberry Cookies
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Strawberry Avocado
Pico de Gallo
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Strawberry
Chocolate Chip Scones
• 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp. sugar
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg
• ½ cup butter (unsalted, cold,
and cubed)
• 1 cup strawberries (washed and
quartered)
• ½ cup chocolate chips
• ¼ cup flour (for dusting over your
work surface)
Preheat oven to 400 F degrees. Line
a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour,
sugar, baking soda, baking powder
and salt. In the measuring cup used to
measure the buttermilk, whisk the
egg with the buttermilk.
Add cubed butter to flour mixture
and using two knives or a pastry
blender cut in the butter, until dough
is crumbly and resembles peas.
Add the buttermilk mixture to the
flour mixture and mix well using a
fork or wooden spoon.
Add strawberries and chocolate
chips to the dough and roughly mix
until well incorporated. Turn dough
over onto a floured surface, and form
into a round disk. Cut the into eight
triangles.
Place the scones onto your baking
sheet. Brush with buttermilk and
sprinkle with a bit of sugar if
preferred. Bake for about 25 to 30
minutes or until golden brown.
• 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• ⅛ tsp. salt
• ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• ¾ cup fresh strawberries, chopped
• 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1-2 Tbsp. flour
• 5 oz. white chocolate, chopped
• Sanding sugar
Preheat the oven to 350 F and line
pans with parchment paper. Pour
fresh lemon juice over chopped
strawberries; drain after a few
minutes. Whisk together flour, salt
and baking powder and set aside.
Beat butter with sugar and cream
cheese until it’s light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
Gradually add flour mixture and mix
until well combined. Stir in chopped
white chocolate.
Sprinkle strawberries with 1-2
tablespoon flour, toss them until all
strawberries are coated with thin layer
of flour and then stir them really
gently in the batter.
Drop heaping tablespoon of batter
onto pan leaving an inch space
between.
Set the cookies in the refrigerator
for 5-10 minutes before baking.
Sprinkle with sanding sugar if you
want, but do not overdo it because
they are sweet enough.
Bake for 13-15 minutes (until the
edges become golden brown).
Let them cool a few minutes in the
pan than transfer them to a wire racks
to cool completely.
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five-Minute Healthy
Strawberry
Frozen Yogurt
• 4 cups frozen strawberries
• 3 Tbsp. honey or agave nectar
• ½ cup plain yogurt
(non-fat or full fat)
• 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
Add ingredients to the bowl of a food
processor. Process until creamy, about
five minutes. Serve immediately or
transfer to an airtight container and
freeze for up to a month.
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Strawberry Crumb Bars
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• ¼ tsp. salt
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup cold butter, cut into pieces
• 1 egg, beaten
• 4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled
and chopped
• ½ cup sugar
• 4 tsp. corn starch
Preheat oven to 375 F. Grease, or line
with foil, a 9x13 pan. In a medium
bowl, whisk together sugar, baking
powder, salt, and flour. Cut in the
butter using two knives or a pastry
blender, until pieces are no bigger
than pea sized. Stir in the egg to form
crumbly dough. Pat half of the dough
in an even layer in the prepared pan.
In a medium bowl, toss strawberries
with the sugar and corn starch, then
spread the mixture on top of the
dough in the pan. Crumble the
remaining dough evenly over the
strawberry layer. Bake 45-50
minutes, or until lightly browned.
Let cool before slicing and serving.
• 1 California avocado, halved,
seeded, peeled, and diced
• 1 cup diced strawberries
• 1/3 cup diced mango
• ½ jalapeno, seeded and minced
• 1/4 cup diced red onion
• 2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
• 1 tsp. honey, or more to taste
• Juice of 1 lime
• Kosher salt, to taste
In a large bowl, combine avocado,
strawberries, mango, jalapeno, onion,
cilantro, honey, lime juice, and salt, to
taste. Serve immediately.
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Southern Style
Strawberry Sweet Tea
STRAWBERRY SIMPLE SYRUP
• 4 cups fresh or frozen strawberries
• 1½ cups water
• 1 ½ cups pure cane or coconut sugar
Add the strawberries, sugar, and water
to a saucepan and bring to a boil,
Lower the heat and simmer or 10-15
minutes. Let cool slightly then pour
the syrup through a fine mesh sieve
into a gallon pitcher. Discard the
cooked fruit.
TEA
• 3 Luzianne family size tea bags
• 3 cups water
• Strawberry simple syrup
Bring water to a boil, remove from
heat, drop in tea bags, and steep for
10-15 minutes. Pour tea into the
pitcher with the syrup and stir. Fill the
rest of the pitcher with cold water.
Chill completely then serve over ice
and/or freshly frozen strawberries.
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