Watermelon Slice Cookies

From Taste of Home Magazine

3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
Red and green gel food coloring
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon sesame seeds

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Set aside 1 cup of dough. Tint remaining dough red; shape into a 3-1/2-in.-long log. Wrap in plastic wrap. Tint 1/3 cup of the reserved dough green; wrap in plastic wrap. Wrap remaining plain dough. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm. On a lightly floured surface, roll plain dough into a 8-1/2-in. x 3-1/2-in. rectangle. Place red dough log on the end of a short side of the rectangle; roll up. Roll green dough into a 10-in. x 3-1/2-in. rectangle. Place red and white log on the end of a short side on green dough; roll up. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate overnight. Unwrap and cut into 3/16-in. slices (just less than 1/4 in.). Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Cut chocolate chips into small pieces. Lightly press raisin bits and sesame seeds into red dough to resemble watermelon seeds. Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until firm. Immediately cut cookies in half. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: about 2 1/2 dozen.

I usually double the recipe because it just doesn't seem to make enough cookies for us. That may be because I resemble the cookie monster in more ways than one!

Fh'Zookie

(Repeat from my other blog, but it's so good I had to put it here!)

I had this dessert at The Firehouse Pizzaria. They call it the Fh'zookie and it's the best thing I've had in a long time. So I had to figure out how to duplicate it at home. I thought I'd share it with you.

You need cookie dough. It can be homemade, or it can be the kind you buy. I used the kind you buy because I really don't need a bunch of cookies sitting around to turn me into a blue monster that drools at the word cookie.
So anyway, put your cookie dough into a ramekin (my friend even did it in her muffin tins). Cook the cookie until it's golden around the edges but still a little bit undone in the middle. Pull them from the oven and top with a scoop of ice cream and drizzle with chocolate and carmel. Eat while the cookie's hot! If you wait the cookie becomes just a cookie and not this wonderful, melty, dreamy desert.
At the resturaunt they have all different kinds of cookies to choose from-oatmeal raisin, white chocolate macadamia nut, chocolate chunk, toffee, and M&M. I really like the chocolate chunk, with the toffee as a close second!
I think this may even be better than cheesecake. :)