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Watermelon Cake

List of Ingredients

I've changed the recipe a tad. You can get the original instructions and pictures at the link posted here.

FYI: Did you know?...
*Early explorers used watermelons as canteens.
*In 1999 over 4 billion pounds of watermelon were produced in the U.S.
*Its official name is Citrullus lanatus.
*The largest grown watermelon was 262 pds in 1990 according to 1998 Guinness Records.
*The first U.S. cookbook published in 1796 had a recipe for watermelon rind pickles.
*Watermelon is 92% water, does not contain any fat or cholesterol, is high in fiber and vitamins, and a good source of potassium.

Cake mix- white (for 2 layer cake)
2 pkgs Kool-Aid type drink mix - cherry
White frosting
1 cup Sugar
Red food coloring
Green food coloring
1/3 cup Raisins or some other ingredient that is edible and resembles watermelon seeds
Flour
Ingredients according to cake mix directions
Ovensafe Pyrex mixing bowl (4 Liter) - for baking in



Recipe

PREPARATION :
Preheat oven to 350º F. Grease and flour ovensafe mixing bowl. Be sure that your bowl is completely oven safe. It must say it right on the bowl to be assured of being oven safe most glass bowls are not oven safe.

Put cake mix in another bowl with 2 packages of Kool-Aid type drink mix and 1 cup of sugar, stir to combine. Add rest of ingredients listed on cake mix package and mix as directed.

Roll raisins in flour and stir into to finished cake mix (just raisins not any extra flour). Pour into oven safe bowl. Bake 50-55 minutes. Checking every 5 minutes after 40 minutes. Check for doneness with knife inserted in center of cake. When it comes out clean the cake is done. Remove from oven. Let stand 10-15 minutes before inverting onto cake plate to remove cake. Let cool completely.

Make a small bowl of white icing tinted slightly pink. Frost cake with a light covering of this for that pinkish rind look. Place cake in refrigerator to settle icing; meanwhile:

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 (the uneveness of the frosting will resemble where the vine was attached to the watermelon). 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 a radial pattern. Do this around the whole cake, don't worry if streaks are too dark; when you do the next step they will lighten up and, besides, the streakier the better for a watermelon cake. 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.

Enjoy your summer watermelon cake.

http://www.funroom.com/summer/wtrmlncake.html