These heart shaped homemade strawberry cookies made with fresh strawberries, whole wheat flour and oats flour are a healthy fruity sweet treats for your loved ones on this Valentine’s day. Soft and juicy strawberries aren’t just delicious, they’re also filled with antioxidants and helps to boost immunity in children. These cookies are vegan and free from refined flour and refined sugar. They are sweetened with jaggery powder and are mildly flavored with cinnamon powder.
How to Make Strawberry Cookies?
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup oats flour
- 8-10 fresh strawberries
- 1/2 cup jaggery powder
- 1/4 cup oil/ ghee/ butter
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
Method:
1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
2. Sift the whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and salt in a bowl. Add oats flour to it. Mix well.
3. Wash and hull the strawberries, chop them roughly and mash them in a bowl with a potato masher or using your fingertips.
4. Add jaggery powder to the mashed strawberries and blend well using a spoon or wire whisk until jaggery powder melts.
5. Add oil to this strawberry jaggery mixture and mix well.
6. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mix bowl and mix everything well using your hands. Gather the mixture to a dough ball without adding any water. Do not over knead.
7. Roll out the dough into a sheet of 1/4-inch thickness. Cut it into heart shape using cookie cutter.
8. Arrange the cookies on a lined or greased baking tray and bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 18-20 minutes.
9. On baking, the cookies should be firm at the edges and a bit soft towards the center. The cookies harden further on cooling. So do not over bake as they will turn very hard if done so.
10. Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack before transferring them to an airtight container.
11. Serve the delicious strawberry cookies with milk or as it is.
Recipe Notes:
- If the cookie dough is sticky, wrap it in a fresh wrap and keep in refrigerator for 15-20 minutes so that the dough is workable.
- On baking the cookies should be firm at the edges and a bit soft towards the center. The cookies harden further on cooling. So do not over bake as they will turn very hard if done so.
- These cookies are suitable for babies above 1.5 years of age.
- For a gluten free version replace whole wheat flour with oats flour.
- To make oats flour at home, dry roast the oats on a medium flame for 3-5 minutes. On cooling, powder the oats.
- Use fresh ripe strawberries in this recipe.
- You may use butter or ghee instead of oil in the recipe.
- You can bake these cookies in cooker as well.
- The cookies remain good for about a week when kept in an air tight container at room temperature.
This nutritious snack can be served with milk. Kids would love to carry these flavorful cookies in their snack box to school. For a gluten free version replace whole wheat flour with oats flour. These cookies are mildly sweet and crispy at the edges and chewy in the center. You may use butter instead of oil in the recipe for softer cookies. These cookies are suitable for babies above 1.5 years of age and remain good for about a week when kept in an air tight container at room temperature.
Strawberry Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup oats flour
- 8-10 fresh strawberries
- 1/2 cup jaggery powder
- 1/4 cup oil/ ghee/ butter
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
- Sift the whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and salt in a bowl. Add oats flour to it. Mix well.
- Wash and hull the strawberries, chop them roughly and mash them in a bowl with a potato masher or using your fingertips.
- Add jaggery powder to the mashed strawberries and blend well using a spoon or wire whisk until jaggery powder melts.
- Add oil to this strawberry jaggery mixture and mix well.
- Add the wet ingredients to the flour mix bowl and mix everything well using your hands. Gather the mixture to a dough ball without adding any water. Do not over knead.
- Roll out the dough into a sheet of 1/4-inch thickness. Cut it into heart shape using cookie cutter.
- Arrange the cookies on a lined or greased baking tray and bake them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 18-20 minutes.
- On baking, the cookies should be firm at the edges and a bit soft towards the center. The cookies harden further on cooling. So do not over bake as they will turn very hard if done so.
- Allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack before transferring them to an airtight container.
- Serve the delicious strawberry cookies with milk or as it is.
Hi mam..can I replace strawberry with apple or banana and do it in cooker. If cooker , how many minutes should I keep it.mam
Yes Kiruthiga, You can use apple or banana as well. If using pressure cooker, bake for 15 minutes in low flame (without whistle and gasket).
Hi Hema,
I have used loads of ur recipes to grwat delight by my kiddo. Thanks a lot..
Tried the cookies. I used raw sugar instead of jaggery . My cookies turned out to be very chewy. When baked for little longer, it turned out hard as u had mentioned in the Note section. I had mashed the strawberry to a pulp which resulted in a sticky dough wherein i had to add 1-2 teaspoon of atta. Could that be the reason for chewy texture? Can u pls Help me out?
Hi Ayisha,
Glad to know that your kid has liked our recipes. Ayisha,Heart shaped strawberry cookies will have crisp edges but the centre would be chewy and excess of Wheat flour do lead to extra chewiness which may result in change in the texture of the cookies.