watermelon recipes

Watermelon Mojito Pops {Holiday Recipe Club 5/25}

I have been wanting to try this recipe since I saw a link to it on Facebook about a month ago.

The title watermelon mojito pops was immediately intriguing. I figured, not much could go wrong with all of those things in one!

Lucky for me this holiday recipe club hop, in honor of Memorial Day, included watermelon as one of the ingredients.

The other choices were pork & beer. Interested in joining us? Sign up here!

mojito ingredients Watermelon Mojito Pops {Holiday Recipe Club 5/25}

Simple Syrup Watermelon Mojito Pops {Holiday Recipe Club 5/25}

As I was saying, one of the ingredients was watermelon.

Many say it’s still too early for watermelon but I beg to differ. Down here in South Carolina I found one of the best watermelons I’ve had in a long time.

Super sweet, juicy, and still crunchy. I hate when the watermelon is tasty but starting to get mushy…

These pops include all the flavors you would want on a hot summer day. Watermelon, mint, lime and coconut rum! [Read more...]

Watermelon Soup

Before you click away because this is something so completely unheard of on a sweets website, hear me out!

My friend Keely over at Gormandize with A-dizzle and K-bobo is hosting a vegan soup hop this week and I thought that sounded like the perfect challenge for a sweet baker.

In my daily life I’m pretty much as far as I can be from vegan – eggs and bacon for breakfast, turkey sandwiches or ramen for lunch, meat and potato type dinners….and of course baked good after baked good.

But all of us need some balance in our lives so I figured this was a good place to start.

Watermelon is one of my favorite fruits. I love it. It totally reminds me of being 5 and having seed spitting contests in the summer.

After a bit of consulting with friends on Twitter I was inspired to make a soup with gazpacho type flavors. After ripping through all my cupboards I realized I didn’t have anything gazpacho like!