Recipes: Now That's Using Your Melon

Frosted “Watermelon” Gingerbread Cookies

Use colorful sprinkles to create these watermelon look-alikes.

Cookies frosted to look like slices of watermelon — plus how to turn them into Christmas-tree ornaments.

A cocktail mixing watermelon, cranberry, and smoke-infused mezcal is a complex celebration of each of its flavors.

This sweet-salty broiled appetizer is a traditional cocktail tidbit served throughout the South.

A luscious, light fruit ice with a deep-fruit undertone.

A slushy watermelon drink that got dubbed a best American recipe one year.