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Schools out! (Insert loud cheers and high-fives here.)
Time for sunshine, swimming, picnics, bbq, campouts, and (best of all) no homework. If you’re celebrating the glorious start to summer, like my family is, then I have the perfect treat: Watermelon Fruit Pizza. Don’t let the name fool you though. There’s no actual watermelon in this recipe. I simply used grapes and strawberries on a sugar cookie crust to look like a watermelon. You could also use red apples, cherries, raspberries, kiwis, green apples or honeydew melon. Any combination of red and green fruit would work. (Ironically, watermelon wouldn’t be a very good choice. It’s too…. well, watery.)
![Recipe: Watermelon Fruit Pizza](https://www.handmadecharlotte.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Watermelon-Fruit-Pizza-4.jpg)
If you ask me, watermelon is the most iconic symbol of summer. It’s simple, refreshing, and sweet. Everything that summer should be.
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Ingredients
- Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough
- Green food coloring
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup green grapes (cut into halves)
- 2 – 3 cups diced strawberries
- 10 ounce jar of strawberry preserves
- 1/4 cup black M&Ms or raisins
Step 1
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add green food coloring to one tube of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough. Mix well.
Step 2
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Spray the bottom of a cheesecake pan or small pizza pan with non-stick cooking spray or line the bottom with parchment paper. Spread the dough evenly in the pan. Bake for 16 – 20 minutes. Allow crust to cool.
Step 3
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Mix the cream cheese, granulated sugar and vanilla together in a bowl. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.
Step 4
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Cut the green grapes in half and dice the strawberries. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.
Step 5
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When the sugar cookie crust is cool, remove it from the pan.
Step 6
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Spread 2/3 of the cream cheese mixture on the bottom of the cookie crust and around the top edge. Put the remaining cream cheese mixture in a piping bag to pipe between the fruits once you have them in place.
Step 7
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Line the outer edge with green grape halves.
Step 8
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Fill the center with diced strawberries.
Step 9
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Using a spoon, spread the strawberry preserves lightly over the top of the diced strawberries. You may not need to use the entire jar. I used about 1/2 cup.
Step 10
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Pipe the remaining cream cheese mixture in a line between the grapes and the strawberries.
Step 11
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Place the watermelon “seeds” randomly on the strawberry-filled center. I used black M&M candies, but you could also use raisins.
Step 12
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Serve up a yummy slice of summer!