
These watermelon cookies are a perfect
addition to your summertime picnic! Using our refrigerated chocolate
chip cookie dough, cookies are sliced into watermelon shapes
and decorated with icing and semi-sweet mini morsel toppers.
Chocolate
Chip Watermelon Cookies
- 1 (16-ounce) package NESTLÉ®
TOLL HOUSE® Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- 1 (16-ounce) container
ready-to-use vanilla frosting - divided use
- Red and green food coloring
- NESTLÉ® TOLL
HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Mini Morsel Toppers
- Freeze cookie dough roll
for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°F
(175°C).
- Slice cookie dough roll
into 12 even slices. Cut each slice in half to form a wedge.
Place wedges 2 to 3-inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake for 13 to 14 minutes
or until golden brown. Upon removal from oven, with edge of knife,
immediately reshape each cookie to be a half circle. Cool on
baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
- Place 1 1/4 cups frosting
into small bowl. Stir a few drops of red food coloring into icing,
adding additional drops, to reach desired shade of pink. To remaining
frosting in container, stir in drops of green food coloring to
shade of green desired.
- To Decorate: Spread pink
frosting over each cookie in a half circle, leaving a border
on curved side for green frosting. While frosting is wet, sprinkle
with Toppers to make seeds, pressing Toppers slightly to adhere.
Pipe green icing on rounded edge of pink icing. Allow cookies
to set. Store cookies in tightly covered container.
Makes 24.
Tip: To pipe green frosting,
place frosting in pastry bag or small, plastic food storage bag.
Cut a small corner from bag.
Recipe and photograph are
the property of Nestlé® and Meals.com, used with permission.