Watermelon Cups with Cranberry Mascarpone

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 mini seedless watermelons
• ¼ cup cranberries

  pulsed in a food processor
• 2 tsp sugar

  (honey and agave also work to sweeten the cranberries)
• 1 cup mascarpone
• 1 bunch basil

  tear, chop or mince
• 1 medium orange

  zest

Instructions

• 1 Cut the rind off the watermelons. Try to cut it in a way to get the fruit as
  square as you can. I know it’s hard with a round fruit. I suggest cutting it in
  half, then place the cut side down on the cutting board so you can cut the edges
  off easily and safely. Once the rind is gone, cut the watermelon into small
  squares. You can cut them into small bite size squares or larger two bite
  squares. Either way works.
• 2 Now lay out all your squares on a platter, and use a small melon baller to
  remove a small circle of watermelon from each piece. (save the pieces for a
  salad!) Use small pieces of paper towels to soak up any juice from the wells
  you’ve made in each piece. I tore one paper towel into strips then placed a tiny
  piece in each one and left them there while I made the filling.
• 3 In a food processor pulse the cranberries until they are small pieces, not quite
  crumbs but close. Now add sugar (honey or agave can be substituted if you’re not
  able to use sugar) and pulse until it’s mixed thoroughly. The sugar helps
  sweeten the cranberries because they can be too tart for most people.
• 4 Pour mascarpone into a large mixing bowl. Add the pulsed cranberry mixture to
  the bowl and mix by hand.
• 5 Remove the paper towel pieces from each watermelon well and discard the paper
  towels.
• 6 Use about ½ to 1 teaspoon of cranberry mascarpone mixture in each watermelon
  well. I rolled my cranberry mixture into balls so the presentation was pretty
  and also so the mixture went deep into each well.
• 7 Zest one orange and use as a garnish on each watermelon cup.
• 8 Tear pieces of basil and use them to garnish each watermelon cup.
• 9 Serve with a big old Watermelon loving smile!

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