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Watermelon cake is light and refreshing, elegant and unusual. This is just the perfect dessert for a summer holiday! It will perfectly decorate the table, is sweet and light in taste and easy to prepare. No baking required, and you only need 3-4 ingredients to create this masterpiece.
Plus, watermelon dessert is much lower in calories and much healthier than traditional cake! Watermelon contains a large amount of antioxidants and amino acids. Eating it is beneficial for the digestive system, maintaining heart function and replenishing electrolytes in the body.
We'll tell you how to prepare it.
Ingredients:
Take 1 medium watermelon weighing 3-5 kg, 500 ml whipping cream (30% fat), a spoonful of powdered sugar, a vanilla stick
For decoration: fruits (e.g. raspberries, strawberries, blueberries), nuts, coconut, lemon balm leaves
Preparation:
Step 1: Refrigerate the watermelon. Cut off the top and bottom with a large knife, then cut off the sides of the crust.
Step 2: Whip the cream until thick, adding powdered sugar and vanilla bean seeds towards the end.
Step 3: To ensure that the cream lies securely on the sides and surface of the cake, first dry the watermelon with a paper towel. And that's the whole secret! Now apply and smooth the cream.
Decorate the cake as your imagination dictates.
The lemon balm sprig and watermelon balls cut out with a special spoon in the photo above turned out to be a wonderful decoration for the cake!
The cream on the watermelon cake in the next photo is made with the addition of yogurt.
For the creamy yogurt cream you needed:
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon powdered sugar
3/4 cup thick coconut flavored yogurt
After whipping the cream until thick and adding powder, spoon and stir the yogurt into the cream.
We offer several variations for decorating a watermelon cake:
What to do if you can’t find a watermelon without seeds? Cut out the seed center and fill the inside of the cake with gooseberries, grapes or other fruits!
Canapes with watermelon and feta
Calculated for 10 servings
Cut a small watermelon into 3 cm cubes (you should get about 40 pieces), remove the seeds. Cut 450 g of feta cheese into 0.7 cm slices, then divide the slices into squares with a side of 3 cm. Fold the watermelon - feta canapes, garnish with green basil leaves and secure with toothpicks. Transfer the canapes to a plate, pour 3 tbsp. l. olive oil and sprinkle with freshly ground pepper. Tips on how to choose a watermelon.
Watermelon cake with cream
Calculated for 10 servings
From one large watermelon, cut off the top (so it can stand) and the rind to make a cylinder. If possible, remove as many seeds as possible. Whip 2 cups heavy cream using 2 (8 g) packets of cream thickener. Brush the watermelon pulp with whipped cream and garnish with fresh seasonal berries and mint leaves. Place the watermelon cream cake in the refrigerator before serving.
Tip: To decorate a watermelon cake, you can replace the whipped cream with frosting using a ready-made cake decorating mix.
Chicken and watermelon taco
Calculated for 8 servings
In a bowl, mix 2 cups of watermelon cut into small cubes (remove the seeds first) with 1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper, ½ chopped red onion, add ¼ cup each of lime juice and chopped cilantro, pepper, salt and stir. In 8 tortillas, place grilled chicken fillet slices (about 1 pound), add spicy watermelon jalapeño salad, and sprinkle with ½ cup crumbled feta or goat cheese.
Watermelon ice
Calculated for 4-6 servings
Pre-freeze 4 cups diced watermelon (seeds removed). Place the frozen watermelon cubes in a large blender suitable for crushing ice, add 5 cups ice cubes, 1 cup raspberry sorbet (raspberry juice stirred several times with a fork while freezing), 1 tbsp. lemon juice and ½ tbsp. fine sugar. Grind until smooth. Place the watermelon dessert in cups and place in the freezer before serving. Watermelon ice is ready!
Watermelon salad - recipe
Calculated for 4 servings
In a large bowl, mix 3 tbsp. diced watermelon (seedless), 3 tbsp. sliced peaches with 1 bag of arugula and ½ tbsp. green basil leaves. For the dressing, lightly whisk 2 tbsp. l. olive oil and red wine vinegar with ¼ tsp. salt. Pour the dressing over the salad, toss gently and sprinkle with ¼ tbsp. roasted chopped hazelnuts.
In our understanding, a cake is a pastry + cream with some additives, but today we will destroy all the stereotypes associated with this dessert. If you have not yet had a chance to try a watermelon cake with cream, and its recipe is a great secret for you, then now, when the melon season is in full swing, is the best time to try it. You certainly won’t be able to find such a dessert in the store, so we will prepare it at home ourselves in two different versions.
Choosing the right watermelon for the cake
The main secret of a successful watermelon cake is, of course, a ripe, sweet, tasty and definitely NOT WATERY watermelon. How to choose such a beauty among hundreds of green berries? We suggest you pay attention to the following parameters.
Season
The most ideal time for ripening good watermelons that are minimally loaded with chemicals is from the end of August to the end of September.
During this period, watermelons, without the help of saltpeter and nitrates, purely in the sun, reach the apogee of their ripening in the form of sweet sugar pulp. Therefore, now, in mid-September, is the best time to buy a large berry.
Color contrast
A dark, rich skin with bright light stripes is the key to a “healthy”, natural and tasty watermelon. Moreover, the more contrast the picture, the greater the chances of buying real yummy food.
Yellow spot on the skin
Such a whitish or yellowish spot is present in all watermelons, because they do not grow on trees, but lie on the ground. However, the size of such a speck should be small, which will indicate the ripeness of the watermelon. If you see a huge yellow side of the berry, don’t take it, most likely it’s not ripe and not sweet.
Gloss on watermelon peel
It (glossy) will tell you about the “health” of the watermelon, and also about the fact that the fruit left the melon plant quite recently. This watermelon has a very strong, elastic skin that is easily scratched with a fingernail.
Carburean tails
The tail is yellow and slightly dried out - a good watermelon. A completely dried tail is a watermelon that has been stored in a warehouse for a long time. The green tail is an unripe watermelon. There is no tail at all, which means the seller is clearly hiding something.
Melon size
Huge “globes” of 15 kg each clearly indicate nitrate feeding of the berry giant. Such a watermelon will be both harmful and tasteless.
Balls that are too tiny (3-4 kg) will most likely be pink, unsweetened and unripe inside. The optimal option is 6-8 kg.
Sound from the peel
Well, the most common way to select a good watermelon is by knocking. Pat the fruit you like: if the sound is dull and you feel a crackling sound when pressed, then you can take that watermelon.
If there is silence in response to a knock, then most likely this melon representative will turn out to be rotten. An unripe watermelon can be too loud.
Watermelon cake with cream
Ingredients
- Watermelon – 4 kg + -
- — 1 whole cylinder + -
- coconut flakes— 100 g + -
- Almond petals- 2/3 tbsp. + -
- — 100 g + -
- — 4-5 pcs. + -
- Fresh blueberries— 100 g + -
How to make a watermelon cake with your own hands
The recipe for such a cake is very simple, one might even say elementary. But for it to really come out beautiful and very tasty, you should act step by step, carefully, using all your artistic and culinary talent to decorate it.
- Wash the watermelon thoroughly, then cut off the peel from both sides, capturing a little pulp so that you get a cylinder of the required height for the cake.
- Now we cut off the side skins, trimming the walls of the “cake” with a knife. As a result, we should get a beautiful, even cylinder of watermelon pulp, weighing 1 kg, 15-20 cm high and approximately 20 cm in diameter.
- Watermelon pulp releases quite a lot of juice, from which the cream can flow, so before decorating the cake, blot the watermelon “cake” on all sides with paper towels so that it is not too wet.
- When all the preparations are completed, let's start creating the cake. Apply whipped cream to the top and sides of the watermelon in an even layer and smooth the cream with a silicone spatula so that it is beautiful and completely hides the red flesh.
- Sprinkle the sides of the cake with almond petals, and sprinkle the top with coconut shavings. We decorate the cake on top (along the outer edge) with blueberries, then with strawberries cut in half, and in the center we place the remaining blueberries and raspberries in a beautiful mound (mixed together). If there are almond petals left, you can also sprinkle them on top.
Here we have such a beautiful summer cake, decorated with fresh berries and nuts.
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Watermelon and Cookie Jelly Cake Recipe
Another original watermelon cake that we want to offer you is a classic representative of cold jelly desserts. We will have a two-layer cake with watermelon and sour cream on a delicious sand base.
How to make watermelon cake without baking
- Take 200 g of shortbread cookies and grind them in a blender along with 50 g of butter.
- For the cake we will need a regular round mold (20-25 cm in diameter), which is used for baking.
Line the bottom and walls of the container with vacuum film. This will help you later carefully remove the cake from the bowl.
- Pour sand crumbs into the mold, compact everything and level it to form a cake.
- Now let's deal with the cake itself. Our first layer will be watermelon. To prepare it, grind 1 kg of seedless watermelon pulp using a blender into a puree, and then strain the juice through a sieve.
- Heat the watermelon drink until hot (do not boil!) and dissolve gelatin (40 g), half a glass of granulated sugar and a pinch of citric acid in it. Mix everything thoroughly until the gelatin granules dissolve, cool and pour into the mold on top of the cookies.
Now the container with watermelon jelly should be placed in the refrigerator for an hour or two, until completely frozen.
- Only after the red layer becomes elastic can we proceed to preparing the second layer - sour cream. To do this, dilute 15 g of gelatin in half a glass of water, heat until the granules dissolve, and then cool the homogeneous gelatin solution to room temperature.
- While the jelly composition is cooling, we will mix 120 g of sugar with 400 g of sour cream, and stir the mixture with a spoon every 5-10 minutes until the sugar grains have completely melted.
- Now mix the sweet sour cream with the gelatin base and pour it over the watermelon layer. Place the mold in the refrigerator again and wait for the cake to harden.
No matter how surprising the name of the dessert may sound - “Watermelon Cake”, nevertheless, both recipes discussed today are quite simple and can be easily repeated at home. The main thing is to find the right and tasty watermelon.
Enjoy your tea!
Dish ingredients: one watermelon, fruits and berries - to taste, 1 glass of heavy cream, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, 1 tsp. sugar, 1 tsp. gelatin.
Making watermelon cake
Carefully remove the middle of the watermelon in one separate monolithic block. To do this, you need a fairly free working surface and a long, sharp knife. The extracted cylinder is very juicy. Therefore, we put it on a large plate and leave it for a while to wait for the excess juice to be removed.
Fruit preparation
Any fruits and berries will do. We cut them very thinly, otherwise they will not stay on the vertical surface.
Cooking whipped cream
Cool the bowl and whisk before preparing, as whipped cream melts and spreads easily at elevated temperatures. Add the cream, vanilla extract and sugar to a large bowl and beat on high speed until the cream begins to thicken (about 2 minutes). Continue beating until stiff peaks begin to form on the cream. It is at this point that you can add the cooled (but not frozen) gelatin solution. Place in the refrigerator, let the mixture cool further and thicken a little.
Coat the watermelon with the resulting mixture, begin to spread the cream on top. Everything must be done quickly, but carefully. Wipe the edges of the plate with a damp cloth.
Add fruits and berries. Let's do it quickly! Otherwise, the heat and weight may cause the decor to slide down.
For decoration you can use anything: chopped almonds, kiwi, grapes, raspberries, blueberries, pears and more.
Serve on the table. We cut the dessert into thin blades, like a regular cake. You can add a scoop of your favorite ice cream.
Bon appetit!
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