Watermelon is by far my favorite fruit.  Some people say it's a vegetable, but whatever it is, I love it.  I remember as a kid when my mother would cut up a watermelon I would stand and watch waiting to consume the pink treat.  She would hand me the rinds to dis-guard in the trash.  I would eat off any pink that she missed.  I just can't eat enough watermelon during the summer months.  It's a summer staple at picnics and barbeques.  Back when I hosted a Memorial Day BBQ, every year my friend Andy dropped a huge watermelon in the middle of our street because he was so excited to have arrived with the watermelon.  

I've made watermelon cookies before and pretty much everyone has too.  I wanted to do something different and polka dots came into my head.  I love how pink, black and white look together, so I said, "why not? I'll give it a try".  I used a large circle cutter, then sliced the cookie into two.  With the cookies I'm making this month, I will try really hard to take more pictures of the decorating process.  I just snapped them on my phone because that's what was handy. 

I tried to make a few of the watermelons look like they had bites taken out of them.  It didn't turn out like I was hoping.  First thing I did was take a food coloring marker and draw on the different sections of the watermelon.  I didn't really care if each one was the same or the sections were uniform.  If you want them to all be perfect, you could create a template to trace on all the cookies. 

Then next step was to flood the section I wanted to be white.  I allowed this section to dry for 24 hours because I would be airbrushing the polka dots on top of it.

The next day I used this stencil to create the dots with my airbrush machine.  Don't limit yourself to only polka dots, give any stencil pattern you have a try.  The image above is what the cookie looked like after I had finished.  Next, I piped and flooded the pink section of the watermelon.  While the icing was still wet, I added the black seeds.  I used three different colors of green for the rind to create the marbled effect.  You don't have to use three colors, I just had all the greens from previous cookies I had made.  I really like the look that I achieved with these cookies.