The Fun Fruit Dessert Kids Love Making (and Eating)

This watermelon fruit pizza is basically a giant slice of summer. Circles of watermelon loaded with colourful berries, some creamy yogurt, crunchy nuts and a drizzle of chocolate. It's an easy dessert to feed a crowd on a hot day and kids love making it too.

A round slice of watermelon, topped with yogurt and fruit.

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Doesn't this look like a fun dessert! It's an easy way to get kids to eat some extra fruit and they will love getting involved and making it too. Give everyone their own round of watermelon and let them create their own. It's like a pizza party, with fruit.

Watermelon just screams summer. It's refreshing, thirst-quenching and if you buy it in season it's pretty cheap too. Whilst we love nothing more than biting into a slice of watermelon, it's nice to do something a little more creative with it.

If you're looking for more ways to use this delicious fruit, try our Watermelon and Feta Salad - sweet and salty in one meal! Or our easy Fruit Kebab Sticks, Watermelon Slushie or Strawberry Watermelon Smoothie - all are so simple!

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Why You Will Love It
Ingredients and Substitutions
Step by Step Instructions
What Fruit To Add
Other Toppings
How to Use Leftover Watermelon
Dannii's Top Tips
Frequently Asked Questions
More Dessert Recipes
Recipe
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Why You Will Love It

Really fun to make
You can get creative with the toppings
Really refreshing
Looks great served up to guests

Ingredients and Substitutions

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A full ingredients list, along with US Customary and Metric measurements, can be found in the recipe card at the end of this post.

Watermelon - The star of this recipe, and the key is to choose the perfect watermelon. Look for the yellow spot, as watermelons develop a patch where they rest on the ground. When this patch is a creamy yellow, it is ripe. Give it a tap underneath the watermelon, and a ripe one will have a deep hollow sound. This means it is juicy and peak ripeness.
Yogurt - This is the "sauce" for the fruit pizza. We used a thick Greek yogurt, but you could use your favourite flavoured yoghurt.
Berries - We used a mixture of berries, such as blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. Cherries and blackberries work well too.
Toppings - We love some crunchy toppings on our watermelon pizza too, so we add a sprinkling of chopped nuts and seeds. We have some more topping ideas below.
Herbs - We add a sprinkling of fresh chopped mint, which adds some extra freshness. You can leave this out.
Chocolate - If you want to make this fruit pizza a little more indulgent, then give it a drizzle of chocolate before serving. We go for dark chocolate.

More ingredient substitutions and variations can be found in the recipe card.

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1: Slice the watermelon to get a large round.

A round slice of watermelon with yogurt spread over it.

Step 2: Spread the yogurt on the watermelon slice.

A round watermelon slice topped with yogurt and berries.

Step 3: Add the strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.

A round watermelon slice topped with yogurt, berries, crushed nuts, coconut flakes and mint leaves.

Step 4: Sprinkle with the chopped nuts, coconut and mint leaves.

Watermelon fruit pizza drizzled with chocolate sauce.

Step 5: Drizzle with chocolate syrup.

What Fruit To Add

Fruit pizza has become a big thing recently, but it's usually still a dough base, with a Nutella sauce and then loaded with fruit. It's amazing. But, why not make it more nutrient dense by using fruit as the base. Watermelon is nice and sturdy and each to hold.

Other Toppings

The topping options are almost endless when it comes to this Watermelon Fruit Pizza. We used berries to make it super colourful, but you could use apple, peaches, grapes - anything really.

After the fruit is on, you can get even more creative with toppings with the nuts, seeds and sauce drizzle. We make it a different way every time and they all taste great. Apple and caramel is a favourite of ours though.

Try almonds, cashews or hazelnuts and chia seeds, pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.

A slice of watermelon with strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.

How to Use Leftover Watermelon

You are going to left with a fair bit of watermelon after making this watermelon pizza, so don't let it go to waste - make some other watermelon desserts instead. Add it as a topping to ice cream or waffles, or make a sorbet with it for a super refreshing summer dessert.

This watermelon fruit pizza takes less than 10 minutes to make, so it's the perfect dessert to make when you are in a rush and want everyone to get a few extra vitamins in their diet.

Dannii's Top Tips

You don't just have to use berries - you could use chopped up peaches and grapes instead. If you want something chunkier, chop up some apple to go on top.
We added chopped nuts and some coconut to add some extra texture, but you could either leave it out or use mixed seeds instead.
The chocolate drizzle on top (we used Choc Shot) just gives it something a little extra special, but you could either leave it out or use caramel or a drizzle of honey instead.
Add even more flavour to this watermelon pizza by swapping the plain yogurt for a flavoured one.
You could leave out the yogurt completely and use a cream cheese and ricotta mixture instead.

Watermelon fruit pizza with a slice cut from it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to store cut watermelon

Wrap tightly in plastic wrap to keep it fresh and moist and keep in the fridge for up to 3 days. If you want it longer than that, it can be frozen.

Can you freeze cut watermelon?

You can freeze cut watermelon, but once thawed it will likely be very mushy. This is great for making sorbets or putting into drinks, but if you want to enjoy a watermelon's fresh crisp crunch, then fresh is always best.

What can you use instead of yogurt?

Instead of a yogurt "sauce", you could make a cream cheese frosting.

More Dessert Recipes

If you've tried this watermelon pizza recipe, then let us know how you got on in the comments below.
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Recipe

Watermelon Fruit Pizza

By: Dannii Martin

This watermelon fruit pizza is a giant slice of summer! Loaded with berries, some creamy yoghurt, crunchy nuts and a drizzle of chocolate.

Gluten Free

Low Carb

Vegetarian

5 from 22 votes

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: British

Prep: 5

Total: 5

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 51kcal

Allergens:

Dairy

Nuts

Ingredients

▢ 1 Watermelon - (large; sliced from the middle is best)
▢ 4 tablespoon 0% Fat Free Greek yogurt
▢ 2 Strawberries - large; diced
▢ 6 Raspberries
▢ 10 Blueberries
▢ 4 Almonds - chopped
▢ 1 tablespoon Desiccated coconut
▢ Chocolate syrup - (optional)
▢ Fresh mint - (optional)

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Instructions

Slice 1 Watermelon to get a large round.
Spread 4 tablespoon 0% Fat Free Greek yogurt on the watermelon slice.
Add 2 Strawberries, 6 Raspberries and 10 Blueberries.
Sprinkle with 4 Almonds and 1 tablespoon Desiccated coconut.
Add Fresh mint and drizzle with Chocolate syrup (both optional).

Recipe Tips

You don't just have to use berries - you could use chopped up peaches and grapes instead. If you want something chunkier, chop up some apple to go on top.
We added chopped nuts and some coconut to add some extra texture, but you could either leave it out or use mixed seeds instead.
The chocolate drizzle on top (we used Choc Shot) just gives it something a little extra special, but you could either leave it out or use caramel or a drizzle of honey instead.
Add even more flavour to this watermelon pizza by swapping the plain yogurt for a flavoured one.
You could leave out the yogurt completely and use a cream cheese and ricotta mixture instead.