Watermelon lovers try their best to enjoy this tasty and healthy berry in season. And the rest of the time you can only dream about summer, indulging in pleasant memories of your favorite sweets and the sun. But the onset of cold weather is not a reason to refuse favorite delicacies, especially on a holiday. “Watermelon” is a cake that will not leave anyone indifferent. You can decorate in this way almost any baking - from a multi-tiered honey cake to a simple biscuit.
Fancy dessert
No wonder they say that they are met by clothes. "Watermelon" - a cake that attracts primarily a cheerful appearance. Expressive colors are usually used for its decor: red, green and snow-white. A scattering of chocolate-brown seeds places the final accent. Prepare this treat for the holiday, and you will see how delicious it looks. For a piece of bright treats, a queue will certainly be lined up.
Cake Recipe
A cake in the form of a watermelon should resemble the original in appearance - this is the main thing. But the treat will be even more spectacular if, in the context, make it look like a watermelon. The easiest way to achieve this effect is with the help of red dye added to the dough. For this delicacy, the “Red Velvet” recipe is excellent, according to which lush cakes of a beautiful red color are obtained.
We will need:
- 4 eggs;
- 1.5 tbsp. l cocoa;
- 370 g of kefir;
- 450 g of flour;
- 400 ml of vegetable oil (refined);
- 400 g sugar;
- 1/4 tsp salt (shallow);
- 1.3 tsp baking soda;
- 2.5 tsp baking powder for the dough;
- 2-3 tsp food coloring red.
Beat eggs with sugar until thickened, dissolve soda in kefir. Combine the butter with the fermented milk base and add the dye. If the color doesn’t seem bright enough to you, add a dye to make the shade look as water-melon as possible. The cake will be even more beautiful.
It's time to tackle the bulk ingredients. Sift the flour, add sugar, salt, cocoa, baking powder. Gradually introduce the mixture into the egg mass, beat thoroughly. At the end add tinted kefir. The dough is ready. If you plan to bake it in the usual round form, cover the bottom with baking paper, and a little grease the edges. The specified number of products will allow you to cook 2 round cake layers with a diameter of 22-23 cm. In a preheated oven, each of them will be cooked for about an hour.
Edible bones
The cake in the form of a watermelon, the photo of which you see below, is decorated with "bones". True, they look like real ones? You can use chocolate drops fried without husk seeds, slices of nuts. Just sprinkle the finished cake on top, but if you want, add them to the dough. You can use regular chocolate bar, broken into small pieces.
Cake making
There are many ways to make a watermelon cake. Most popular forms:
- hemisphere;
- semicircular cake;
- round form.
If you have a half-bowl shape, you can bake the dough in it. It will take about an hour (at 180 o ), and readiness can be checked with a traditional bamboo skewer by piercing it with a product. Cut the finished high cake into several layers, spread with cream.
You can combine cakes made in the usual round shape and in the form of a truncated ball. The cake will turn out high and beautiful.
You can cook a classic round cake. Your task of decorating it in the form of a watermelon will be reduced only to decorating with red, green and white cream.
And if you like everything unusual, cut the cakes baked in a round shape and form a product in the form of a watermelon slice.
Green cream for the "crust"
Use any creams that hold well. A creamy cream is perfect for the cakes recipe above. To prepare it, whip 300 ml of cream with high fat content. Beat 400 g of cream cheese and 150 g of powdered sugar separately. Step by step, add cream into the curd mass, stirring with a spoon. Set aside part of the cream, because we will also need white. Touch up the main part with green dye. For the specified amount of ingredients you will need about 2 tbsp. l gel dye.
Apply cream to the cake using a pastry spatula, pouch or syringe.
Mastic jewelry
This recipe gained immense popularity a few years ago. Its wide distribution is not surprising, because thanks to a simple recipe, everyone could feel like a virtuoso of confectionery art. If you want to make a watermelon cake out of mastic, you will need a packet of marshmallows marshmallows and some powdered sugar.
Mastic jewelry is not loved by everyone. Some experts advise them not to eat at all, but to use them only for decorative purposes. If you suspect that the elements from the mastic will nevertheless go into action, add a little condensed milk to the mass during cooking - it will be softer and tastier.
Put the marshmallows in a bowl (about 400 g), put in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. You can drown marshmallows in a water bath. When the mass is soft, pour a handful of powdered sugar. Pour another handful on the table and use it like flour, kneading marshmallow dough. Use powder or gel dyes for tinting. Fashion cake decorations out of it.
As easy as pie! Sweet cake
If you are not confident in your abilities as an esthete-confectioner, or if you just really love chocolate tablets, look at the following illustration, which shows a candy “Watermelon”. The cake looks very appetizing! Both children and adults will appreciate it.
Decorating will take you a matter of minutes. The main thing is to choose suitable dragees of red, green, white and brown. In this way, you can decorate both round, and semicircular, and even a triangular cake.
Natural fruits
And the next dessert can not be called a cake, because it was not baked in the oven. But in form from the cake, it simply cannot be distinguished.
Such delicacies consisting of different fresh fruits are very popular abroad. A small-pitted watermelon is great for this vibrant and truly summer dessert. Sweet varieties are especially good.
If you started cooking this spectacular treat, choose a larger watermelon. With a large knife, cut off its stale ends, leaving the middle in the shape of a cylinder. Put it on a wide dish or cutting board, carefully cut the peel. Remove visible bones.
It remains only to decorate the watermelon cake with cream or cream, add some fruit and cool before serving. Multi-colored berries are very good for decoration: raspberries, yellow cherries, blueberries, currants, strawberries. They look against the background of white whipped cream very effectively. You can use walnut chips, for example, almond.
Choose your favorite watermelon cake recipe and try to cook this treat. It will surprise guests and they will certainly enjoy it.