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Watermelon Cake

List of Ingredients

Cake mix- white (for 2 layer cake)
2 pkgs Kool-Aid drink mix - cherry or strawberry
White frosting
1 cup Sugar
Green food coloring
1/3 cup Raisins (I use chocolate chips)
Flour
Ingredients according to cake mix directions
An large (4-qt) oven-safe Pyrex mixing bowl - for baking in

Preheat oven to 350º F. Grease and flour oven-safe mixing bowl. Put cake mix in another bowl with 2 packages of Kool-Aid type drink mix and 1 cup of sugar. Stir to combine and add rest of ingredients listed on cake mix package; mix as directed. Roll raisins in flour and add to finished cake mix.

Pour into oven-safe bowl and bake for 50-55 minutes, checking every 5 minutes after 45 minutes or so. Check for doneness with knife inserted in center of cake. Remove from oven and let stand 10-15 minutes before inverting onto cake plate. Let cool completely and remove cake from bowl.

Stir green food coloring into frosting a few drops at a time to make a nice, light green. Frost cake, bringing spatula from the bottom to the center.

Squeeze a few drops of food coloring onto a small dish. Dip tip of your frosting spatula into the color and onto the cake in an upwards pattern, to resemble a real watermelon. Do this around the whole cake - stripes are ok, when you consider what a real watermelon looks like! Starting at sides of cake, run spatula all the way up the cake and almost to the center and then stop. Repeat this all the way around the cake.

To add a little whimsy, you can pipe "vines" on top of and around cake - get creative and even let the kids help - they will enjoy doing this.



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