Hey guys, it’s Ro! Some of you know that I have been obsessed with
watermelons lately! I’ve been wearing them on my clothes, I have little accessories,
I even got a watermelon colored stand mixer and matching hand mixer!
I’ve been going a little crazy with it. And, I got so many requests from you guys
to make some DIY Watermelon treats so that is exactly what I’m gonna be doing today!
So let’s get started!
The first treat that I’m gonna be making are these cute Watermelon Sugar Cookies!
The things you will need to make these yummy cookies will be: 3 cups of all purpose
flour, 1-1/2 cups of sugar, 2 sticks, which is 8 ounces of salted butter at room
temperature, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1/8 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon
of baking powder, 1 lemon and a zester, a triangle cookie cutter, green food coloring,
a small paintbrush, and then green, white, black and red royal icing.
The first thing that we’re gonna do is whisk together our dry ingredients, we’re
gonna whisk together our flour, baking powder, and salty salty!
Whisk together until well combined and then set it off to the side.
Next thing that we’re gonna do is cream together our butter and sugar into a
bigger mixing bowl. So we’re gonna take our butter, and add our sugar.
Then, using a hand mixer, I’m gonna mix together until it’s light and fluffy.
Once your butter and sugar is all creamed, light and fluffy just like this,
now we’re gonna add our eggs, we’re gonna be adding 2 eggs, add the full
egg, but we’re gonna mix in-between each one.
The next thing that we’re going to add is our lemon zest, juice and vanilla
extract. If you’ve never zested a fruit before, I just wanted to show you, it’s
super easy. take your fruit, and then you’re just gonna brush it down.
Boop-boop-boop!
After you've zested the lemon, just to get some juice, I cut the lemon in 1/2 and
squeeze a little into a bowl. Then we are going to add our lemon zest, juice
and vanilla extract to our mixture.
And then, mix it up!
We have got our wet ingredients and our dry ingredients and now we are gonna mix
them together! We are going to be adding our dry ingredients to our wet ingredients
in 2 parts, I’m just gonna eyeball it, pour about 1/2 in. And then mix it up!
Then we’re gonna pour in the other 1/2. and mix it up!
Ah, that smells so good! Our cookie dough is ready and now we’re gonna let it chill
in the fridge, but first we’re gonna wrap it up with some plastic wrap!
Using my spatula, I’m gonna cut the dough in 1/2, gently form it into a disc
shape, wrap him up like a little burrito!
We’re gonna wrap both of these up, just like this, and put it in the refrigerator
for about an hour to chill!
After your dough has chilled, we are gonna roll it out.
I’m gonna do a little baking flair, I’m just gonna pull it really fast!
Ha-ha-ha-ha! We did it!
Now, take a little pinch of flour, put it on top of the dough, and I like to put
a little bit on my rolling pin. Then we’re just gonna roll it out to be about
1/4 inch thick.
Now it’s time to cut out our cookies, we’ve got our triangle cookie cutter, we’re
just gonna cut out a bunch of these, and then we’re gonna bring it over here to
the baking sheet lined with a piece of parchment paper.
We’ve got all of our cookies cut out, this recipe makes about 3 dozen cookies,
but I like to put them on the baking sheet 8 at a time, so that they have plenty
of room. Also before I bake, I like to pop these into the freezer for about
10 minutes to chill. And then, you’re gonna heat your oven to 350 degrees and
bake for about 12-13 minutes.
After your cookies have baked and have had plenty of time to cool, now it is time for
my favorite part, its time to decorate! We are gonna be icing these little triangle
cookies to look like watermelon slices! I’m gonna start decorating using the red
royal icing that I’ve got in this little plastic baggie with a number 2 tip
at the end for a little bit more control. I’m gonna pipe a triangle at the end
of my triangle, but leave a little room at the bottom.
Let them dry for just a few minutes and now we’re gonna flood ‘em, which is a fancy
baker word for just, we’re gonna fill ‘em in!
And you can use a little toothpick to smooth it out.
All done with our red royal icing, and now onto our white royal icing.
Again, I put my white royal icing into a plastic baggie with a number 2 tip at the end.
And, I’m gonna pipe a strip of white all the way across the top of the red.
I just let the white icing dry and now I’m gonna pipe the same thing with the
green icing, and I’m just gonna pipe a line right behind the white.
The last icing that I’m gonna be using is the black royal icing, to make some
watermelon seeds. Before you do this you want to make sure that your red royal
icing has completely dried.
Now for our final decoration step you’re gonna take a little bit of green
food coloring dye, I’m just gonna put a few drops into a little bowl that I have here.
Then using your small paintbrush just take a little dab, and we’re just gonna
paint some lines. And I’m gonna try to fit 8 of them across. So we’re gonna do a
little line, and then do a space, and then another little line.
Dee-dee! And here they are, little Watermelon Sugar Cookies!
Mmmm-mmmm-mmmm-mmmm-mmmm!
The next treat that we’re gonna be making are these Watermelon Cupcakes!
The things you will need will be: 2 cups of all purpose flour, 3/4 cup of whole milk,
1-1/2 cups of sugar, 1/4 a cup of shortening, 1 stick, which is 4 ounces of
salted butter at room temperature, 5 egg whites, Watermelon Jell-O, red food coloring,
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 1/4 a teaspoon of almond extract, 2 teaspoons of
baking powder, 1/8 a teaspoon of salt, 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips,
red silicone cupcake liners, and light and dark green vanilla buttercream frosting,
which I’ve placed into the same piping bag.
The first thing that we’re gonna do to make our cupcakes is we’re gonna mix together
our dry ingredients in this bowl right over here.
Our flour, baking powder, salt, and our watermelon Jell-O.
I’m gonna whisk everything together and then set it off to the side.
The next thing that we’re gonna do is cream together our butter, sugar and
shortening. I’m gonna pour our shortening, our butter, and sugar!
Using a hang mixer we’re gonna mix until everything is light and fluffy!
This is looking good, I mixed it up and scraped down the sides, now we’re gonna
add both of our extracts. Our almond extract, and our vanilla extract, using our
hand mixer we’re gonna mix it up again.
In this bowl I’ve got 5 egg whites and I’m gonna slowly pour them into our bowl
while we’re mixing until well combined.
Things are coming together, we’ve got our dry ingredients, our wet ingredients
and our milk. Now we are gonna alternate adding our dry ingredients, and our milk
to the wet ingredients bowl. We’re gonna start with dry, and end with dry, it’s gonna
be 3 parts dry, 2 parts milk, add your dry ingredients, mix it up! Add the milk,
mix it up! Add the dry, mix it up, add the milk, mix it up! Add the dry, mix it up
and then boom! We’ve got some batter!
Our batter is mixed up, and as you can see, it’s a light pink color because we added
our watermelon jello mix. But I want my batter to look bright red, so I’m gonna be
adding a few drops of red food coloring. You can add as many as you like
depending on what shade of red you want.
Last addition to our batter are these mini chocolate chips, we’re gonna fold them
in so that they look like little watermelon seeds!
The batter is all ready, we’re gonna fill our cupcake liners, over here I’ve got our
cupcake tray lined with a bunch of these red silicone liners, I really like these
because when you bake them, they don’t change color like some of the paper ones,
And, they’re re-useable!
We’re gonna fill them 2/3 full, I’m gonna be using a little ice cream scoop to
make it easier. Cupcakes are ready to bake, you’re gonna heat your oven to 350
degrees and bake them for about 18-20 minutes!
After your cupcakes have baked give them plenty of time to cool because now we are going
to frost, and when you’re frosting, you don’t want your cupcakes to still be warm
because the frosting may melt!
Over here in a little plastic baggie I scooped dark and light green buttercream frosting,
and I just cut off the end, I’m not using a tip and I’m just going to pipe a little
swirl on the top of each cupcake.
I’m gonna show you a really cool part, we're gonna take off the liner, let me just
pop it out of there, all the little chocolate chips look just like little
watermelon seeds!
Onto our final treat, we’re gonna be making some watermelon popsicles!
You guys may remember these from when I played the popsicle challenge with Ingrid.
The things you will need, will be: A popsicle maker, I’m using a Zoku Popsicle
maker because they flash freeze, but you can use any popsicle maker you want.
1 cup of watermelon puree, 1/2 a cup of plain coconut milk, 1/2 a cup of coconut
milk that I’ve dyed green, black food coloring, and a small paintbrush.
Making these popsicles is super easy, there’s only a few ingredients.
Over here, my watermelon puree was super easy to make, I just chopped up some
fresh watermelon, threw it in the blender, and mixed it.
And voila! My popsicle awaits! And in front of my I’m also using a Zoku, which is
basically just a flash freezing popsicle mold. You can use a regular popsicle mold.
It just takes about 6 hours to set in the freezer. But these set in 8 minutes.
So we will be able to enjoy these popsicles… In a jiffy!
If you’re using a Zoku, the first thing that you’re gonna do is pop in the little
sticks. And then we are gonna pour in our watermelon puree, and you’re gonna
want to leave about an inch at the top.
When you’re making a layered popsicle, you’re going to have to let the layers
set in between the pours, so that the colors will stay separate. After our first
layer is set, now we’re gonna add our coconut milk and our green coconut milk,
to look like the watermelon rind. I’m going to attempt to make them even so I’m
going to try and fill the coconut milk about a 1/2 inch and the green coconut
milk 1/2 inch. Let the white coconut layers sit now, then we’re gonna add our green
coconut milk! Our popsicles have set, they’re layered, it’s time to pop ‘em out.
If you’re using a Zoku you use this little thing, it has a screw, and you just
twist-twist-twist-twist-twist.
And, la-la! Look how cute that is you guys! It looks just like a watermelon!
Time to decorate, this part is totally optional, but I wanted to paint a few little
seeds, so over here I have a little paintbrush and with a little drip of
black food coloring. And I’m just gonna go doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
And ta-da! You’ve got a cute little watermelon popsicle ready to nom on!
You can share with your friends or eat all of these for yourself!
Ta-da! Here are all the DIY Watermelon treats that we made today!
We made: Watermelon Sugar Cookies, Cupcakes, and Fresh Popsicles!
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting these Watermelon Treats because you know
that I love making these! I’ll be taking lots of pictures of these treats and posting
them on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter. And if you guys make these,
please take a picture and send it to me, I love seeing your creations, it just
makes me happy! It makes my day!
And if you have any other ideas for any other treats I should make, please leave
me a comment down below.
Alright, thanks again you guys, I hope you have a good summer.
Bye-bye!