“When one has tasted watermelon, he knows what the angels eat.” –Mark Twain
Watermelon Boy!
Some of y’all might remember Whole Foods Boy.
But I only referred to him as Whole Foods Boy on the blog. In real life, I gave him the nickname of Watermelon Boy, because he could eat an entire watermelon at one time. Therefore, if you ever still read my blog, WF Boy, this recipe is for you!
As a vegan and a healthy eater, I get a ton of veggies in my diet. But I don’t actually eat much fruit. (Maybe only 1-2 servings per day?) I adore fruit—especially summer-fresh fruit—but I never eat a ton of it at one time because it’s so sweet. I guess my lack of sweet tooth extends to naturally-sweetened foods too. And fruit as dessert?
I’d rather have chocolate!
Or fruit and chocolate, like in my Chocolate-Raspberry Frosting.
If given a choice between (vegan) ice cream and sorbet, I’ll pick the ice cream every time. Except yesterday… About a week ago, one of my friends cut up a super-huge watermelon and gave me a container to take home. I ate some of it fresh, but was afraid the rest would go bad before I had a chance to finish it all. So I froze it. Then, yesterday afternoon, I made the most delicious sorbet! (You can also turn it into ice cream.)
Watermelon Ice Cream
- 2 cups cubed watermelon, frozen
- 2 fresh mint leaves (you can omit if you don’t have any)
- Optional: feel free to add sweetener if you want a sweeter sorbet
- Optional: if you don’t have a high-powered blender, add a little milk of choice or juice right before blending, so your blender can handle it. The result won’t be ice-cream-like, but it’ll still be a delicious slushie!
Thaw your watermelon a little, so your blender can handle it. Then blend everything together. I opted for sorbet this time, but if you’d rather have ice cream, simply freeze a little milk of choice along with the watermelon cubes. (For a rich, ice-cream-like consistency, use canned coconut milk.)
For presentation tips, see: How to make it look like ice cream.
Do you like fruity desserts, such as sorbet?
I love to throw fruit into recipes, such as my Blueberry Pie Pancakes.
I also like it in oatmeal or paired with my vegan whipped cream. And although I don’t often crave fruity desserts, I do eat fresh fruit every day, as part of pre-run breakfast.Watermelon is one of my favorite summer fruits, because it’s only good when it is very fresh.
My toddler would eat that by the bowl. Yum!
This sounds like the perfect summer dessert! 🙂 So light and refreshing!
Yum!! Looks so good! How much does it make? Just one serving?
I’d say probably two servings.
I LOVE ur blog. I have a super sweet tooth and its hard to give up certain things. I made the watermelon ice cream today with a tweak – added some frozen strawberries in it.
OMG it is sooo good and I don’t have the guilt or the lactose issue after I eat regular ice cream!
thank u and keep up the blog please – I am addicted!!
Awwwww Toni, thank you so so so much for such sweet words :).
Usually I prefer rich and creamy desserts, drinks, or whatever, but my mom brought home half of a watermelon the other day and it just looked so juicy and delicious! So I made this with a little bit of coconut butter. Sooooooooo delicious. I could eat it for days. I freaked out when I got home today because I thought all of the watermelon was gone 🙁
So glad you tried it! I love your idea to add coconut butter!
I love your website! Just learned I needed to be on a dairy-free diet about a year ago and have been searching for good recipes ever since. You’ve helped me so much! Can all the ice cream recipes be made in an actual ice cream maker?
Sorry, I haven’t tried.
To be honest, I don’t see why not, though!
The great thing about this recipe is that you can eat it when watermelon ISN’T fresh, since you freeze the watermelon first!
I love this idea for myself, but for my son who has a life threatening dairy allergy the milk won’t work for him, I am following you on pinterest, can you tell me if you have a recipe for sorbet, or ice cream that doesn’t use regular milk, he can have coconut or almond, but mostly drinks the 8th continent soy…thank you…………oh and I am a BIG chocolate person myself…LOL!!
I guess I’m confused… there’s no milk called for in this recipe.
Also, ALL of my recipes are vegan, as long as you use a non-dairy form of milk (which I always do, since I’m a vegan).
I apologize, I saw the non dairy but for some reason I thought milk, and then stopped reading, if I hadn’t stopped I would have seen the coconut milk………….thank you for this site, I am using so many of these recipes!!
Made this tonight with watermelon I cubed and froze a month ago. Used my Vitamix, added a little bit of milk (up to the bottom of the blades & not frozen), agave nectar, 2 mint leaves and the frozen watermelon (didn’t defrost it & about 3 cups). Came out DELICIOUS! thank you so much!
Thank you so much for making it! 🙂
Bonjour,
Je suis française ( près de Paris ), je découvre ton site. Gourmande, je le colle en favori, j’ y reviendrais à mon retour de vacances, pour essayer tes recettes.
Merci pour tout, et belle journée.
Helene
Hello,
I am French (near Paris), I discovered your site. Greedy, I glue favorite, I would return to my return from vacation to try your recipes.
Thank you for everything, and beautiful day.
Helene