The Best Ways to Bake with Freeze-Dried and Frozen Strawberries

Longing for the sweet taste of spring? Even when fresh strawberries are out of season, freeze-dried and frozen strawberries bring their vibrant flavor to your bakes year-round. These recipes highlight the bold, concentrated sweetness of strawberries in all their forms. This National Strawberry Day, preheat your oven and celebrate with berry-packed treats that taste just like spring—no matter the season!

This herbal, crumbly Strawberry and Rosemary Shortbread turns a blush pink with a final dusting of Strawberry Sugar.

Packing a filling with freeze-dried strawberries and chopped pistachios, these Strawberry-Pistachio Sweet Buns pack a lot of fruity flavor. A tangy cream cheese drizzle offers an orthodox finish to very unorthodox buns.

If you love a Negroni, this will be your signature spring and summer cookie.

Slice into this unassuming Triple-Strawberry Pound Cake to find a surprise berry-brilliant interior. In sweet shades of strawberry and vanilla ombre, this velvety Triple Strawberry Pound Cake is the epitome of the colors and flavors of spring. 

To accentuate the sweetness of our strawberry frosting-filled sandwich cookies, we relied on a triple dose of Heilala Vanilla. Heilala Vanilla’s extract and vanilla bean paste pump up the flavor of the cookies and frosting while a final roll in Heilala Vanilla Sugar gives the cookies a satisfying, vanilla-forward crunch.

While decorating these classic Strawberry Mascarpone Strudels, we looked to strudels’ nostalgic breakfast cousin, the Pop Tart. For our version, we swap out the usual sprinkles for crushed freeze-dried strawberries for a more refined look and an extra boost of berry.

There’s no need to wait for summer to enjoy cobbler right out of the oven. This Strawberry-Apple Cobbler warms up chilly days.