Watermelon Cookies
--Ruth Witmer, Stevens, Pennsylvania
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Red and green food coloring
- Miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- Sesame seeds, optional
Reviews
Looks good, tastes great. Left out the white layer and didn't add the currants or sesame seeds.
Ok, this is what I did and they came out just like the photo. To achieve this, I had to make 3 batches of dough. The first one, pink, I added 2 small packages of watermelon Jello. I did not add water, just treated it as sugar, but still added the 3/4 cups more sugar as the recipe called for. I wished, however, that I would have added 3 packages as the watermelon flavor would have been stronger. I could not find watermelon extract or watermelon Koolaid. I shaped the first, pink batch into a log and refrigerated while preparing the second batch of dough. The second batch of dough,(the white part) I added cherry extract. After chilling, I could still not roll it out, so I patted the dough over and covering the pink dough, wrapped it in plastic wrap and refrigerated while I made the 3rd batch of dough. The third batch I used the green food coloring and used cherry extract. This dough, after refrigerating still would not roll out, so I once again patted it over and around the white (2nd) layer of dough. I refrigerated all, wrapped in plastic wrap overnight. The next day proceeded with the rest of the recipe. I used small M&M's as the seeds and the end result was very cute. I am giving this recipe a 4 because I really do not like the dough that much. As a previous review said, it tastes like playdough. The addition of the extracts and the Jello help this, however, a lot of extracts are needed to overcome the taste of the dough. If not for the dough, I would give this a 5 star as it is very cute and creative. One final note: The cookies do not spread out on your cookie sheet so you can put them closer than you would with other sugar cookie dough.
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.
Very great! it look like watermelon and taste very good. The kids were happy!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.