I haven’t made any more Watermelon Soup, but I still plan to, and I promise, I’ll let you know how it goes. In the mean time I’ve been making cookies. Today I found the yummiest little recipe ever over at http://www.ourbestbites.com/.
Chocolate Nutella Cookies.
Need I say more? They totally live up to their name. I love them.
For those of you who don’t want to follow the link over to Best Bites, I’ll post the recipe again here:
Chocolate Nutella Cookies
Recipe from Two Peas and Their Pod
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (omit if using salted butter)
2/3 cup Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (I ran out of butter and ended up using half margarine and half shortening and they were still superb) 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon hazelnut extract (you can substitute 1/2 teaspoon vanilla if you can’t find or don’t like hazelnut extract)
1/3 cup Nutella
1/3 cup milk
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325°
In a small mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder. Set the mixture aside. In a large bowl, beat together the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes or until smooth. Add the extracts and beat for another 30 seconds or so. Add the Nutella and beat until smooth.
With the mixer running, add half of the flour mixture and mix until combined. Add the milk, mixing until combined completely, then add the remaining flour mixture and mix completely. Cover and refrigerate the dough for at least 15 minutes (and as long as 2-3 days).
When you’re ready to bake the cookies, line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll tablespoons of dough into balls and place them on the lined cookie sheet, allowing about 2″ between the dough balls.
Lightly press the dough balls with the bottom of a drinking glass and then bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are crackly on top and soft, but starting to set. Remove from the oven and allow them to stand for about 5 minutes and then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
(I rolled them really tiny and they made 4 1/2 dozen. Only 2 Weight Watcher PointsPlus that way-Not that you should be eating these if you’re on Weight Watchers, but we all know how it goes. . . . .)
Watermelon Soup- sounds weird but tastes good!
I heard about Watermelon Soup when I was listening to NPR’s fabulous cooking show, Splendid Table. I did not try the exact recipe she shared but went to All Recipes and used their Watermelon Gazpacho recipe. Here’s the link: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/watermelon-gazpacho/detail.aspx
Yummy, easy summertime dinner!
I served this with salad and the Easy Breadsticks recipe that follows. Be sure to make your soup early in the day, it needs to sit. Oh, and I blended everything together- we liked it way better that way.
I plan to make a few other varieties of this style of soup, so I’ll keep you posted on which one is the tastiest.
The SahmSisters have a new cookbook coming out sone day soon! Here is one of the truly fabulous, delicious and easy recipes that will be in it:
Easy Bread Sticks
3/4 C warm water
1T yeast
2T honey
1tsp salt
3-4 cups of flour
Mix all together, seriously. This is the easiest thing ever, just mix it all up, roll into sticks about 4 inches long and 1 inch diameter. Bake at 400 for about 10-13 minutes
Variations: When I’m feeling decadent, I brush them before and after baking with melted butter either alone or with garlic mixed in.
