Name: Healthy fruit ‘pizza’ kids birthday party cake
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Equipment; 2 25cm round cake boards; Cake; 2 x 16cm diameter rounds rockmelon, cut 1cm thick, peeled; 2 x 14cm diameter rounds seedless watermelon, cut 1cm thick, peeled; Decorations; 50 gram piece fresh pineapple, peeled, cut into matchsticks; 4 strawberries, hulled, sliced crossways; 14 blueberries; 1 kiwifruit, peeled, sliced, cut into small wedges

Healthy fruit ‘pizza’ kids birthday party cake

These cute little pizza cakes from The Australian Women's Weekly's 'Easy Party Cakes' cookbook are not what they seem - they're actually made entirely out of fruit, creating a healthy sweet treat.

Ingredients

Equipment

2 25cm round cake boards

Cake

2 x 16cm diameter rounds rockmelon, cut 1cm thick, peeled

2 x 14cm diameter rounds seedless watermelon, cut 1cm thick, peeled

Decorations

50 gram piece fresh pineapple, peeled, cut into matchsticks

4 strawberries, hulled, sliced crossways

14 blueberries

1 kiwifruit, peeled, sliced, cut into small wedges

Method

1.Discard seeds from centre of rockmelon slices; position slices on cake boards.

2.Top rockmelon with watermelon then with remaining ingredients to resemble a pizza.

Any colourful fruit can be used as a ‘pizza topping’, although fruit that browns when cut, such as apples, pears and bananas, should not be used unless the pizza is served immediately. The pizza can be assembled up to 3 hours ahead, store in the refrigerator. Serve with pineapple ‘chips’ (fries); simply cut slices of fresh pineapple into chip shapes, about 1cm thick.
Note

Women's Weekly Food

Trusted by home cooks for 90 years, The Australian Women’s Weekly’s Test Kitchen and cookbooks hold a singular place in shaping home cooking within the Australian culinary landscape. Today, the AWW Test Kitchen in Sydney is a thriving hub for food content, connected to two bustling photographic studios where a talented team of Australia’s best recipe developers, art directors, editors and photographers create our world class food content. Our recipes are thoroughly tested and tasted and given the Test Kitchen tick of approval, guaranteeing you’ll get great results in your home kitchen.

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