strawberry chocolate chunk cookie bars
Gooey cookies speckled with dried strawberries for a delightful fruity pop.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter, softened
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup freeze-dried strawberries
- 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate chunks
- 1/3 cup high-quality strawberry jam
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 x 13 inch cake pan with parchment.
- In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugars until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, then beat in the vanilla. Mix in the flour, baking soda, and salt until just combined. Folk in the dried strawberries, 1 cup of chocolate chunks, and the jam. Keep some swirls of jam visible in the batter.
- Spread the batter in the prepared cake pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle on the remaining chocolate chunks and bake an additional 5-10 minutes until golden brown. The longer you bake, the more set the cookie bars will be.
- Let cool for 10 minutes, then slice and serve!