There is the sweetest, homemade sno-cone stand at our farmers’ market called Sno-con AMOR where the owner (and Kenya’s newest love), Lauda, serves up the most incredible traditional Raspados (Mexican Snow Cones). With homemade syrups in flavors like walnut, coconut and mojito (I almost want to drop to the ground with embarrassment every time Chloe screams, “MORE MOJITO” in a crowd full of parents), these are nothing like the artificially sweetened and colored sno-cones you may be used to seeing. Lauda uses only the freshest, all natural ingredients to produce her frozen works of art.
Recently Lauda has been featuring watermelon-cinnamon as a flavor and it is heavenly. The first time she offered me a taste I was skeptical. Cinnamon and watermelon sounded like quite an unusual combo, but it took just one bite and I was knocked out. So knocked out in fact, that I had to replicate it at home. Given that the kids only see Lauda on Sunday, having granita (very similar to sno-cones) for them at home the remaining six days of the week made me very popular with them indeed.
And no, your eyes aren’t fooling you. That’s yellow watermelon pictured above. The kids can’t get enough of it when it is in season, so I used it to make this cinnamon spiked watermelon granita that tastes almost as good as Lauda’s sno-cones.
Whether you decide to make this with red or yellow watermelon, it’s a super sweet summer time treat that’s filled with AMOR!
Watermelon Cinnamon Granita
Ingredients
- 5 Cups Watermelon Chunks
- 1 Tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/3 Cup sugar
Instructions
- Place all of the ingredients in a blender and puree.
- Place the puree in an 8×8 inch Pyrex dish and put in the freezer for 1 hour.
- Remove from the freezer and scrape with a fork to break up pieces.
- Place back into freezer for 1 hour.
- Remove from the freezer and scrape with a fork to break up pieces.
- Repeat this process one or two more times over several hours until the granita is similar in consistency to shaved ice.
- Serve (cover the dish with tin foil to keep the rest in the freezer).
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