Watermelon Icebox Cookies
- 140 grams Margarine
- 90 grams Sugar
- 60 ml Heavy cream (or milk)
- 300 grams Cake flour
- 2 tbsp Black sesame seeds
- 1 *Food colourings (red, green)
- 1 dash *Water
- Bring the margarine to room temperature.
- Once softened, cream together with the sugar until the sugar has dissolved.
- You can quicken the process with a hand mixer.
- Add heavy cream to the mixture from Step 1.
- Once mixed thoroughly, add the flour and combine until there are no flour streaks.
- Bring the dough together into a ball.
- Half the dough should be colored red, while the remaining quarters should be green and plain.
- The food coloring can be diluted in a bit of water and mixed into the dough.
- Use red and green!
- Roll the red ball of dough into a rope.
- Knead out the white ball of dough to fit the circumference of the red dough stick, and wrap it around the latter.
- Repeat the step for the green ball of dough as well.
- Once the sheet of green dough has wrapped around the roll of dough, sprinkle on the sesame seeds.
- These are intended to resemble the black striped patterns on the outside of watermelon.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
- Cut into 7.5 mm slices.
- Sprinkle on black sesame seeds on the red portions that resemble the fruit.
- Bake in an oven heated to 170C for 10-15 minutes.
- Once baked, place them on a rack to cool off.
- They'll be crumbly and crunchy!
- You can make cookies that look like cookies with this method, too!
- All you need to do is prepare 5 orange ropes of dough to wrap around a rope of dough that you leave uncolored.
margarine, sugar, cream, flour, black sesame seeds, colourings, water
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/148249-watermelon-icebox-cookies (may not work)