Watermelon cake
Watermelon cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1, 18.25 ounce, box white cake mix
- 1, 3 ounce, box watermelon gelatin
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 containers vanilla or cream cheese frosting
- Red and green gel food coloring
- Chocolate chips
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and flour two 9 inch round baking pans.
- In a mixing bowl, combine dry cake mix, gelatin, eggs, water and vegetable oil.
- Beat on low speed just until moistened then on high for until well blended.
- Pour into prepared baking pans.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes.
- Remove from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- Set aside 2 to 3 tablespoons frosting for decorating.
- Place one container into a bowl. Tint red.
- Tint second container green.
- Place one cake layer on a serving plate.
- Spread with 1/2 red frosting to within 1/4 inch of edges.
- Top with second cake.
- Frost top with remaining red frosting to within 3/4 inch of edges.
- Frost sides and top edge with green frosting.
- Place reserve white frosting in a small plastic baggie, cut 1/4 inch hole in one corner.
- Pipe around top edge of cake where green and red frosting meets.
- For seeds, insert chocolate chips upside down into the cake top.
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