Watermelon Pie

[Hanna]

http://www.makeandtakes.com/fun-summ...watermelon-pie
One of my summertime childhood memories is eating the yummy watermelon sherbet dessert at Friendly’s restaurant. I loved it, so I decided to try to replicate this dessert for my own kids’ summertime memories! I made some “watermelon pie” for our 4th of July feast this year…to great success! My 4-year-old daughter loved it – like mother, like daughter! She saw it in the pan before I sliced it up…at that point it was still just a circle. When I started to cut the pie, making the watermelon slices, she exclaimed very earnestly, “Wow! It’s magic!”

watermelon pie

The best part…watermelon pie was super simple to make! Here’s what I did!

Ingredients:
- Lime Sherbet
- Vanilla ice cream or Pineapple sherbet
- Red/Pink-colored sherbet…I couldn’t find this, so I bought Raspberry/Pineapple/Orange swirl sherbet, mixed it up with red food coloring and it was perfect!
- Mini chocolate chips

Directions:
1. For each flavor, you’ll let the sherbet/ice cream soften for a few minutes before using. The red sherbet should be mixed with the mini chocolate chips.
2. Use a round springform pan. You may want to line the bottom of the pan with wax paper or parchment paper if you plan to transfer the entire “pie” to another dish before serving. I served the slices on plates straight out of the freezer, so I didn’t line the pan. It’s actually cuter sliced!
3. Starting with lime, spread a ring of sherbet around the edge of the springform pan – about 2 inches high (or taller if you want!), and about 1-2 inches wide from the outside edge of the pan.
4. Put pan in freezer to harden lime layer.
5. Repeat step 3 with the vanilla, but make the layer much thinner – maybe 1/2 inch. Use a butter knife to flatten the top, even-ing out the lime with the vanilla. Put pan in freezer to harden again.
6. Repeat step 3 with the red/chocolate chip sherbet. Fill the rest of the pan, then use a butter knife to flatten the top. Freeze!
7. When it’s time to eat, run a knife around the edge of the pan before popping off the outside of the springform pan. Use a nice thin-blade knife to slice.

A funny tip…I served the watermelon pie on paper plates, but wanted to take a nice picture for this post, so I put my own slice on a real dish. It melted SO FAST on the real dish. I couldn’t even get a picture fast enough before it was a soggy mess! Even though paper plates aren’t as cute, the sherbet hardly melted at all. Go with paper!

[Cynic]

I thought they meant literal watermelon pie. I am disappoint.

[TA]

I really gotta stop reading these as if you wrote them yourself.

Such a mindfuck...

[Hanna]

I thought they meant literal watermelon pie. I am disappoint.

actual watermelon is gross D:

@TA
would it help if I quote it from now on?

[Claudia]

omg that looks so adorable.

I remember eating a sherbet dessert that was shaped like half a watermelon once...on the inside it looked like this.
I like sherbet but nobody else in my family does. @.@

[Osayidan]

For a second I thought it was an actual pie of watermelon and my mind exploded but then I read the thread.

[Applejack]

I really gotta stop reading these as if you wrote them yourself.

Such a mindfuck...

saaame.

[PorcelainVienna]

For a second I thought it was an actual pie of watermelon and my mind exploded but then I read the thread.

Agreed but it still looks really good, especially since it's so hot due to summer