Sugar biscuits that resemble miniature watermelon slices!
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 3 dozen |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup butter
- ½ cup shortening
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 drops red food coloring
- ⅓ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 3 drops green food coloring
Instructions
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small mixing bowl.
- Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Stir in egg, milk, and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture to creamed mixture, mixing well. Add a small amount of red food coloring to color dough as desired, beating until blended. Shape dough into a ball; cover and chill at least 3 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Divide dough in half; store one portion in refrigerator. Roll remaining portion to 1/4 inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut dough with a 3-inch round cookie cutter; cut circle in half. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press several chocolate mini chocolate chips in each cookie. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes (do not brown). Cool on wire racks.
- Make frosting: Combine powdered sugar and water, mixing until smooth. Add a small amount of green food coloring, mixing until blended. Dip round edge of each cookie in green frosting, and place cookie on wax paper until frosting is firm.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 223 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 135 mg |
| Sugars | 20 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I really like this recipe. These cookies are very cute and easy to make. Normally, cookies that need to chill are a challenge to make, but these were super easy to make. Although, I did make 2 changes. 1) I put 3 chips on the top and 4 chips on the bottom of the cookie. 2) when i cooked this for 10 minutes, it burned, so instead I cooked it for 4 minutes, spun the pan and cooked for another 3-4 minutes.
The kids loved them
Made this with my sister and nieces! Had a lot of fun and the cookies are so cute! Dipped them in green sugar right after the frosting for a little bolder green!
Yummy!!!!!!! They were a little stale though.
These cookies were great with a package of watermelon jello added into the dough
they are so cute and yummy
These were good but not as good as i expected! They were kind of long to make but it was fun and they tasted kinda plain, everyone loved them though and the idea of the watermelon cookies.
just use butter
A great idea but it didnt work out for me and the frosting made the cookies all soggie and they fell apart plus the cookie part wasnt the best tasting
This recipe is AMAZING!!! They taste, look, and smell great! The instructions were not complicated at all which, I like very much. My family didn’t believe me when I told them that they were cookies. I will definitely will use this recipe again. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These cookies are absolutely tedious, but they are cute as can be. I will be making watermelon slice cookies again, but not with this recipe. I found the dough temperamental to work with, crumbling and cracking all over my board. So I would recommend “Sugar Cookie Cutouts” for the base of this recipe for ease of use and a slightly better flavor. Thank you for the idea, Linda =)
These take some time to make, but what a cute cookie to make! (This would be great for kids on a rainy day.) I didn’t have the mini chips and i cut my big ones in half like another reviewer, and that is just plain crazy! next time i’ll wait til i go to the store! I added about 8 drops of food coloring to the red batter, rolled them out using powdered sugar instead of flour, and baked them for just over 8 min. Take them off the sheet quickly, the ones i let set for a couple of minutes i almost didn’t get off the pan. I wanted a little more finished look so i piped a white line (the rine) using a ziploc baggie snipped at the end after I frosted with the green. A made the white (about 1 c powdered sugar and T water) almost too thick to pipe so it wouldn’t run over the green. Next time i think i might add some more sugar to the dough (1/4 c), as it wasn’t quite sweet enough for my sugar cookie preference. Picture perfect summer cookies! EDIT: these cookies ended up being terribly crumbly. They were perfectly cooked but they just didn’t keep well. Would use a different sugar cookie base next time.
really fun and easy to make! super delicious! I making this for different occasions! Awesome cookie!!!
I made these cookies for a class and everyone loved them! The cookie itself is a bit lacking in flavor, but the icing adds an extra sweetness that gives it a nice taste! These cookies aren’t the easiest to make, however I had a good time making them, and they came out great!
My mom used to make these when I was growing up! I LOVE how cute they are and am having so much fun baking them for my own son right now! I did substitute a 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour and a 1/3 cup splenda. Not that it will make much difference but any little bit helps!
So cute, kids and adults loved them!!
Great Recipe! I made these for my 2 years old’s birthday party (we had a watermelon theme) and everyone loved them. The only thing I might change if I make them again would be to add some Almond Extract!
This cookie was very cute but it just has no flavor. After reading the reviews I used all butter, more sugar and vanilla thinking that would help, it didn’t. I used paste dye so the color was true. I also divided my dough and made red and green, formed into a half circle and draped the “rind” over that. Placed in the freezer and cut slices out of the frozen dough. I think next time I will use a good tasting firm sugar cookie to make these. Thanks for the idea!
Cute? Definitely. Tasty? Eh, good enough. Cuteness makes up for a lot. I do have to say though that my friends and their kids devoured them far more speedily than I would have imagined. If you do not have the cookie cutter, a biscuit cutter or even the rim of a glass will work fine.
These cookies were a big hit !!! They are so cute and taste good too. Although I think next time, I might sprinkle a little bit of sugar on them before baking to give them that “sugar cookie” taste. I didn’t follow the directions as written. Instead, I colored 1/4 of the dough green and the rest red. I then shaped the red into a log with a flat bottom, rolled out the green and covered the red log with a thin layer of the green – then refrigerated the log. The next morning, I just sliced the cookies, added the chips and baked – very easy!
This was the BEST RECIPE EVER! I made your cookies, and not only do they look good, they taste good. There were a few things I did differently 1)Instead of the green icing I took some dough, added green food coloring to it, and wrapped it around the red dough 2)Added more food coloring, so it is a brighter color. 3)Since I didn’t hvae chocolate chips, I cut a small piece of chocolate into smaller pieces. I only put them on some cookies, even though you could barely taste them in the end 4)I used a funnel as a cookie cutter Those weren’t really necessary, but just thought I would share. Everyone who ate the cookies loved them. Thanks for a great recipe. It was a big hit!