Watermelon Christmas Trees

These watermelon Christmas trees make the cutest healthy Christmas snack or appetizer for a Christmas party.

These watermelon Christmas trees are so easy to make and look great served up as a Christmas appetizer or snack.

You don't even need any special equipment like a cookie cutter. This can all be done just using a knife and a bit of greek yogurt in a piping bag.

Although you could just as easily use a ziplock bag with the tip of the corner cut off.

These watermelon trees are a delicious and healthy way to get party guests are kids

This is a fantastic gluten-free recipe that encourage kids to eat more fruit and healthy food.

It's sugar free and a deliciously perfect raw treat. These watermelon trees are sure to be a total hit.

Ingredients

Watermelon Slices: Try picking a nice ripe and juicy watermelon. Staring with a whole watermelon, cut nice thick slices. We used 2 big ones to make 16 watermelon trees.

Greek Yogurt: Use this to add pretty designs and "ornaments" to your trees.

How to Make Watermelon Christmas Trees

Start by using a large knife to cut your watermelon into a couple of thick slices.

Our slices where about 1 inch thick, which makes it possible to stand them up.

Then cut the slices into 8 even pieces but cutting in half, and then in half the other way.

Continuing until you have 8 triangle shaped pieces of watermelon.

Once you have your slices, create a tree trunk for each your Watermelon tree by cutting our a sqaure in the center of the rind.

Be sure to flatten the base of the tree "stem" so that you can stand the trees up, like shown below.

Next, fill a piping bag, or Ziplock bag with your Greek yogurt. If you're using a bag snip the corner off to allow you to "pipe" designs onto the trees.

And that's it. Repeat with a second slice of watermelon to create even more cute little watermelon Christmas trees.

Make sure to chill them in the fridge to chill and remove right before serving.

This little healthy Christmas treat will sure to get anyone in the Merry Christmas spirit.

If have a large Christmas tree cookie cutter, you could also try using that to create the shapes around the rind of the watermelon slice.

I haven't tried this technique, but I'm sure it would work great as well.

Top Tips

Make sure to cut your watermelon slices thick enough to give your Christmas trees some structure. If they are too thin, they won't stand.

When creating the designs for your Christmas trees, change them up from tree to tree to create a fun variety. We used dots, waves and stripe like patterns.