White Chocolate Chip Strawberry Fudge Drop Cookies

These are great soft chocolate cookies with a slight strawberry flavor and white chips. They are always on my holiday cookie list.

• Ready In: 27 mins
• Yields: 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup butter, softened
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  large egg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon  strawberry extract
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 6  tablespoons  pureed frozen sweetened strawberries
• 1 3⁄4 cups flour
• 6  tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa
• 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups white chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Combine butter, sugar, egg and strawberry extract in a large bowl.
3. Beat at medium speed until well blended.
4. Beat in buttermilk and strawberry puree.
5. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and mix into creamed mixture at low speed until blended.
6. Stir in white chocolate chips.
7. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2-inches apart onto greased cookie sheets.
8. Bake 10-12 minutes or until tops spring back when touched lightly.
9. Remove immediately to wire racks to cool completely.