Description
Heavenly blueberry cookies combine rich European baking traditions with delightful American flavor profiles. Sweet, tangy morsels offer an irresistible treat you’ll savor with pure culinary joy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup fresh blueberries (or frozen, thawed, and patted dry)
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup white chocolate chips (optional, for added sweetness)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
Instructions
- Preparation: Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line baking trays with parchment paper, ensuring smooth, even surface for uniform cookie placement.
- Creaming: Whip butter and sugars using electric mixer until light, fluffy consistency emerges, creating a smooth base for cookie dough. Add egg and vanilla, blending until perfectly integrated.
- Dry Ingredients: Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into mixing bowl, then gently fold into wet mixture until just combined, avoiding excessive stirring to maintain delicate texture.
- Incorporation: Tenderly fold blueberries and white chocolate chips into dough, distributing ingredients evenly while preserving berry structure and preventing crushing.
- Portioning: Scoop rounded tablespoon-sized dough portions onto prepared trays, spacing cookies two inches apart to allow proper expansion during baking.
- Baking: Place trays in preheated oven and bake 10-12 minutes, monitoring for golden-edged cookies with slightly soft centers, indicating perfect doneness.
- Cooling: Remove from oven and let cookies rest on baking sheets for 5 minutes to stabilize structure, then transfer to wire rack for complete cooling and final texture development.
Notes
- Prevent Berry Bleeding: Gently toss fresh blueberries in a light dusting of flour to prevent color bleeding and maintain cookie structure during baking.
- Moisture Management: Allow butter to soften naturally at room temperature for 30 minutes, ensuring smooth incorporation and preventing dense cookie texture.
- Gentle Mixing Technique: Stop mixing dry and wet ingredients the moment they combine to avoid developing gluten, which can create tough, chewy cookies instead of tender ones.
- Temperature Control: Let cookies cool completely on the rack to allow white chocolate chips to set and prevent crumbling, achieving the perfect melt-in-your-mouth consistency.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 11
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 14 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2.5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 25 mg