Monday, August 07, 2006

Here's the recipe for the Watermelon Cookies

Sugar Cookie Dough
3 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened (not melted!)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
6 drops red food coloring
1 cup miniature semi sweet morsels


Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium sized bowl. Set aside.
Beat butter or margarine, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and red food coloring in a large bowl with electric mixer until fluffy. Gradually add flour mixture and stir with wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed. Cover dough with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for two hours.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out circles with a cookie cutter or other round object, such as a glass or round plastic container. Place circles on ungreased cookie sheet. With a butter knife, carefully slice circle in half and separate by at least 1/2 inch to allow for expansion during baking. Gently press miniature semi sweet morsels into each semicircle.
Bake for 6-8 minutes, checking after 6 minutes. Cookies will be done when edges are lightly browned. Do not allow cookies to get too brown. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool on cookie sheets for 5 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets to aluminum foil on a flat surface and allow to cool completely.

Glaze
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2 tbsp water
15-20 drops green food coloring

In a small bowl, mix all ingredients to form a glaze. You may add drops of water to thin glaze if it is too thick.
To decorate the cookies, roll the round end of the cookie in the glaze, allow excess to drip off into bowl. Place cookies back on foil until glaze dries. Eat!

7 Comments:

At 6:59 AM, Blogger Tina Leigh said...

They are cute as a button! Go ahead & make them Mouse, I'll be right over with a glass of milk!

 
At 7:40 AM, Blogger mouse said...

And you will be more than welcome, make it tomorrow though, I won't be home much today.

 
At 8:08 AM, Blogger dot said...

Yes, I want to know how they turn out before I try them. Cut out sugar cookies have never worked for me.

 
At 12:42 PM, Blogger dot said...

Oh I can see that I'm obsessed with those cookies. Every time I get on line I come look at them.

 
At 3:46 PM, Blogger mouse said...

Ok Dot when I make them I will mail you a box of cookies and you can decide then what you think.

 
At 10:54 PM, Blogger dot said...

ha! I bought the chocolate chips today and I'm fixing to print out the recipe. Maybe I'll make them tomorrow.

 
At 7:45 AM, Blogger mouse said...

You will probably beat me at making them then, it has been crazy busy around here the last couple of days and they changed the picnick to next Sat. anyway.

 

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