Brighten up summer season with these vibrant watermelon sugar cookies. A household favorite, they give the impression of being spectacular, however you solely want a couple of substances to make them

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:25 minutes
  • Cook dinner:15 minutes
  • plus not less than 2 hrs chilling and setting
• Extra effort
• Makes 40

• Freezable (unbaked dough)
• Vegetarian

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Elements

• 175g chilly butter
• 100g golden caster sugar
• 250g plain flour, plus further for dusting
• 1 egg yolk (freeze the white for an additional recipe)
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• pink and inexperienced meals colouring gels
• black edible icing pen

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Methodology

• STEP 1

  Tip the butter, caster sugar and flour right into a meals processor with a pinch of salt and blitz till the combination seems to be sandy. Add the egg yolk, vanilla and 1 tbsp chilly water, and blitz once more till the dough begins to clump collectively.

• STEP 2

  Take away half of the dough from the meals processor and put aside. Add a couple of drops of pink meals colouring to the dough nonetheless within the meals processor and blitz till it’s vibrant pink. Halve the reserved plain dough, then add a couple of drops of inexperienced meals colouring to at least one piece, kneading it till it’s evenly colored.

• STEP 3

  Roll the pink biscuit dough into a protracted sausage form on a calmly floured floor – it ought to be about 20cm lengthy. Roll the plain dough out on a calmly floured floor right into a 20 x 10cm rectangle. Repeat with the inexperienced dough, rolling it out to the identical measurement. Roll the plain dough across the pink dough, bringing the ends collectively and trimming any extra. Repeat with the inexperienced dough, rolling it across the plain layer. Wrap the sausage of dough tightly and chill for not less than 2 hrs. Will hold wrapped and frozen for as much as two months.

• STEP 4

  Warmth the oven 180C/160C fan/ fuel 4 and line two baking trays with baking parchment. Unwrap the dough sausage, then use a pointy knife to chop it into rounds about 1cm thick. Organize these on the ready trays, then reduce every spherical in half to make the watermelon wedges. It’s best to have about 40 in complete. Bake for 12-15 minutes, swapping the trays over midway via cooking if wanted. Go away to chill fully on the trays.

• STEP 5

  As soon as cooled, pipe small dots over the pink ‘watermelon flesh’ utilizing the black icing pen to appear to be seeds. Go away to set for 30 minutes earlier than serving or packing into baggage. Will hold in an hermetic container for as much as three days.