Ulja says hers are full of fresh fruit. I'd really like to find a recipe that was made with fresh fruit. Then you could try those exotic flavors like mango! (yum!) I tried several batches of cookies when the old thread was up, but was never really satisfied with the outcome (although I did get some that held their shape).

It might also be fun to figure out a recipe that used melted ice cream so that the cookies both LOOKED and TASTED like scooped ice cream....

why don't you try to puree some fresh fruit in a food processor and mix it in with whatever recipe you tried before? that might be good.

A disher is the restaurant word for a cookie scoop, I guess. They come in about 10 or so different sizes and they are my new favorite gadget!

Someone asked about the second recipe. It is the one I posted up on page 2 of this thread.

So both of the recipes from that thread are now on here, and no longer lost.

MichelleM77, I did as you suggested and just used a sugar cookie/butter cookie recipe and they turned out as you stated they would...

Cool! I made them totally by accident. Glad it worked out for you! They are beautiful!!

What flavors are they? They do look like scoops of ice cream. Are they baked all the way through?

Those are so cute. Did you chill the dough before scooping or chill them after scooping before baking?

Thanks. My dough was slightly chilled before I scooped them.

I made some also (darn it, still in my camera!) with shortbread cookies. They were good and flavorful, and held the shape wonderfully, but as the problem with shortbread, pretty dry. I'll definitely try it with the sugar and see if that is better.

I'm relatively certain that the woman on Etsy uses fruit puree's and not whole fruits. I bet she even orders from this company as her selection is very similar to what they offer.
http://www.perfectpuree.com

They are available via Amazon.

She states she uses 'fresh fruit purees'. In the large pictures, you can see some seeds and teeny fruit bits.

How seedless are those 'all seeds extracted' purees, anyway? Anyone know? My Squeezo gets out most of them, but some of the smallest strawberry and raspberry seeds make it through.

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but could you just mix in seedless jams? I know they don't come in as many flavors, but it's an option...and a much cheaper one than those purees!

I would think a jam would affect the flavor because it would add so much extra sugar?

The purees contain sugar as well. I'm not going to do the math, but the puree has got 6 g of sugar per serving which is 28.35 grams, and the raspberry jam I looked at has 12 g of sugar per tablespoon which is 20 grams. Either way, we are talking about cookies here, so they are already made with sugar, just don't eat the whole batch!

.......and I was lookin at the banana puree ingredients. The red raspberry puree has 4 grams per serving. Just if anyone cared.

So did anyone ever order from her, Ulljas? If not, well it's too late. She is no longer selling them on Etsy and I guess the glass bead shop she had on Etsy was also closed down. There are some posts about it on an Etsy News site about her bakery in Texas being shut down by the state/county/whoever and her bead shop being closed down by Etsy due to the fact that she was lying about making the beads herself, selling other people's beads as her own, etc. Sheesh. Now we will never know how good they really are/were!

It's so sad this thread was lost! I was thining of making some scoop cookies today, I'm going to do cherry chip, dried cherries with chocolate chunks. What I would really like is a recipe that's right in between shortbread and NFSC.

If she is out of business maybe she would be willing to sell her recipes. I would pay for the real thing.

I believe she moved to Italy. You can find her information on her jewelry website. http://www.ullja-s.com/

I love making them with the sugar cookie recipe. I took them to a boy scout dinner and they were a hit. I can't wait to try more flavors!

Why pay for something that a little legwork can lead you to?

If I had an original idea and it would be difficult to reproduce, then why not patent it? I assume the reason she never did it because its really easy to figure out (and it is!)

That was a quick move! I wonder if she *really* moved, or her website just says she did since she was shut down?

I agree. I made them purely by accident! I love happy accidents.

There was some talk on this other website about her misleading people as to where she really was, was it a mother/daughter business and one was in Italy and one was in Texas, etc. Very confusing. From what I could tell, she was selling those cookies like hotcakes on Etsy!

Well my shortbread recipe didn't work, the spread out a bit. But you had luck with a sugar cookie recipe? Maybe I'll try that tonight.

I really don't think it's the recipe. I don't know what a shortbread recipe is though. The NFSC doesn't spread, but I always bake the scoops frozen anyway.

I have some of her cookie scoop pictures.
As the website is gone, if anyone wants me to I could post them here.

I would love for you to! I'm new and I'm very interested! These sound really fun! So am I correct in understanding we don't have a certain recipe? And how do we get all the flavorings that look and taste as a flavored scoop would taste??
Thanks in advance!!

I've been making them with NFSC and a disher (scoop). I was thinking of adding a drop of flavoring (mint, cocoa powder, raspberry jam, etc.) and a coordinating drop of food coloring if needed.

Great! Thanks MichelleM77, I think I will start simple, but I know I will end up doing tons of experimenting!!