I found a fun ongoing project that I decided to participate in for the first time this month. It's called Cookie Carnival and it's run by Kate over at the blog Clean Plate Club. She picks a recipe once a month, and all the participants make it and post the results.

This month's recipe was Martha Stewart's Pink Grapefruit Sandwich Cookies. I'm not a fan of grapefruit, but that's the whole point of this - to try something new and interesting. The recipe can be found here.



Here are the ingredients:



Zesting the grapefruit and squeezing out the juice (one grapefruit was more than enough):





The zest mixed with one tablespoon sugar (this smelled really good):



No photos of me making the dough, so here is it ready to refrigerate:



The recipe says to roll out the dough in some flour, but I don't like doing that. It's messy and can dry out the dough. I turn the dough out onto parchment paper, then cover with another sheet of the parchment.





After rolling out. I'm not sure if I got it thin enough; it's always hard for me to judge.



Cutting out the cookies. I also baked them on the parchment. I put sprinkles on half the cookies for the tops of the sandwiches.





They smelled really good while baking. I think I may have left them in the oven just a little too long, but they weren't burnt or anything.



Here is the cream filling. I added a little bit of red food coloring to make it pink, but I don't think you can really tell.



And the cookies all put together.





These are a pretty cookie, but I don't think they taste anything like grapefruit. They just tasted like a regular sugar cookie, only extremely sweet. They were too sweet for my husband, which is really saying something! Also, the filling wasn't that great. For one thing, I don't think it needed the honey. Not only did it add extra sweetness that wasn't needed, but it made the texture very goopy. As you can see in the picture below, it started oozing out of the cookies after just a couple minutes as I was trying to get a good picture. I had to keep the cookies refrigerated, which made them hard to bite into.

I wouldn't make this cookie again, but it was a fun way to spend an afternoon, and I'm looking forward to next month's.