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--Ruth Witmer, Stevens, Pennsylvania
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 161 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 32 mg cholesterol, 119 mg sodium, 20 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 2 g protein.
Originally published as Watermelon Cookies in Country June/July 1993, p49
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Reviewed on Sep. 05, 2011 by shecooksalot
These cookies are cute but seemed to be a lot of work for what they were, which was basically a sugar cookie. I used mini chocolate chips for the seeds since I did not have currants and I omitted the sesame seeds because I just thought that it would not taste very good. I like the idea of finding watermelon flavoring for next time I try to make these.
Reviewed on Sep. 02, 2011 by Chantaloo
Very great! it look like watermelon and taste very good. The kids were happy!
Reviewed on Aug. 28, 2010 by dianaluv
Was making cookies for a summer party , how cute my daughter and I talked about them and she would make them to take. Reading how they looked like watermelon but did not taste like a watermelon. My first thought was jello and it is red will not need as much food coloring. The raw dough tasted like watermelon. A 1/3 more of recipe need to be made in order to have enough dough to complete the watermelon look. After baking the cookies the next day, the cookies had a great flavor and yes looked like a watermelon. Although the texture of the cookie was heavy. From the addition of f jello being dissolved. {The jello was in only mixed with enough hot water to dissolve the jello.} The cookieswere a hit! Everyone loved them, although I still thought they cookie was to heavy. After doing some surfing of the world wide web. There are several company’s that have watermelon extract. The average price at suttonsbayspices.com for 1 ounce is $5.30 plus shipping and handling , this is the average price. The only change would be omit almond flavoring and use watermelon.
Was making cookies for a summer party , how cute my daughter and I talked about them and she would make them to take. Reading how they looked like watermelon but did not taste like a watermelon. My first thought was jello and it is red will not need as much food coloring. The raw dough tasted like watermelon. A 1/3 more of recipe need to be made in order to have enough dough to complete the watermelon look. After baking the cookies the next day, the cookies had a great flavor and yes looked like a watermelon. Although the texture of the cookie was heavy. From the addition of f jello being dissolved. {The jello was in only mixed with enough hot water to dissolve the jello.} The cookies
were a hit! Everyone loved them, although I still thought they cookie was to heavy. After doing some surfing of the world wide web. There are several company’s that have watermelon extract. The average price at suttonsbayspices.com for 1 ounce is $5.30 plus shipping and handling , this is the average price. The only change would be omit almond flavoring and use watermelon.
Reviewed on Jul. 04, 2010 by hillaryskitchen
The flavor of the cookies was good. I had trouble with a couple things, first I felt like I didn't have enough dough. My cookies definately didn't look like the picture. Second, I had a hard time cutting thru the dough without the dough losing it's shape. I don't know what I can do to fix that, but I will try again.
Reviewed on Aug. 23, 2009 by vilaski9
I made these at home today. Once they came out we tried them and everyones reaction was,"ew!". In my opinion, they tasted like playdough! How gross! I don't know about you, but I give it a 0 out of 5 stars!
Reviewed on Aug. 05, 2009 by orange08
I think I would like vanilla flavoring but I also think I would use the mini chocolate chips to save from buying the dried currents and sesame seeds which myself I would not get much use from.
Reviewed on Aug. 04, 2009 by ladyj0729
Since they look like watermelons I think this recipe would almost be better if you could use some kind of fruity flavoring instead of the almond flavoring.
Reviewed on Jul. 26, 2009 by greenfaerae
I'm going to be brave and try these again today. The first time I made them I found that the directions were a little short in the coloring of the dough. I had a hard time getting the size of green dough with the 1/3 cup. This time I plan on doubling the recipe and tweeking it to my habits.
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