Recipe

Summer fruit cake

Fresh and fruity - this watermelon cake is the perfect summer dessert! Layered with fresh fruit and served with creamy ice-cream, this cake is a little slice of summer-heaven!

  • 10 mins preparation
  • Serves 4
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Ingredients

Summer fruit cake
  • 1/2 (2kg) seedless watermelon
  • 1 medium (430g) mango, flesh sliced thinly
  • 1 medium (150g) ripe peach, sliced thinly
  • 125 gram blueberries
  • 4 scoops (200ml) vanilla ice-cream or mango sorbet
  • 125 gram raspberries

Method

Summer fruit cake
  • 1
    Cut the watermelon into 2cm-thick slices. Using a 9cm cutter, cut out 12 rounds of watermelon.
  • 2
    Layer the watermelon slices with the mango, peach and blueberries on four serving plates. Top each with a scoop of ice cream and decorate with raspberries. Serve immediately.

Notes

Not suitable to freeze.