Watermelon Cookies Pt. 1

I am finally getting back into cooking for fun rather than just for sustenance and part of that is stemming from Kirah's love of watching cooking shows with me on that network dedicated to Food. She has asked recently to help me with dinner and while we are doing it she wants to pretend we are doing our own cooking show. And it dawned on me that I have this great blog I started and never update - why not resurrect it and get Kirah involved?! 

So we pulled out my numerous recipe magazines to pick our first cooking show selection. I thought having Kirah pick something out would make it more fun for her to participate. So I grabbed all my Taste Of Home magazines from the June/July issues and let her at it. She picked the Watermelon Cookies from the 2003 issue, and having all the ingredients already in the house, I thought it was the perfect reentry into the blog. Not to mention something fun I could do with my kid. She's been getting the short end of the attention stick lately as the baby takes up most of mine. But that's another blog ;)  http://twelveoheighterm.blogspot.com

This will be a picture heavy blog as our videographer was at work ;)

The ingredients:

Butter - already in mixer bowl, flour, sugar, etc. I think you can read the rest. But since this is a blog involving my daughter and her adventures in cooking with me - here's a better picture of the ingredients we need for a successful cooking show!

Not to mention the cute apron too ("Mom, make sure you see my feet")

So we started our cookie dough by creaming the sugar into the softened butter,

After we added the egg and the almond extract, and Kirah wanted a picture of herself with our mixer;

Then we combined the dry ingredients and began to add them slowly to our butter mixture;

Then once that was all incorporated (Kirah's favorite cooking word) we had to tint part of the douhg red;

And in the spirit of sharing the air time, Kirah wanted to take a picture of me... (two things about this photo - 1. I'm not naked. 2. I used to work for the siren of coffee and I kept the apron.) I am tinting part of the dough green for the outside of the 'watermelon slice'.

We did learn something partway through, or rather I realized too late in my sleep deprived haze that we need to put Kirah's hair up BEFORE we start... here she is with our dough bundles;

Then all the dough needed to be refrigerated overnight to firm up before making the cookies - I debated posting this photo as you can see my messy fridge - but I'm going for reality here, so;

Now we have dough chilling and will be waiting for a break in Mommy/infant duties to finsh the cookies and

bring you part two of this episode.