Watermelon Cake

For our Memorial Day celebration, I was in charge of the sweets. And what says summer better than watermelon? I've seen the Betty Crocker watermelon cake, and it was my inspiration, but I did not use their recipe.

You will need:
white cake mix

oil, eggs & water per cake mix instructions

a round pan (I used a Wilton soccer ball pan)

food coloring

chocolate jimmies

frosting (I prefer to make my own but I was going for fast & easy)

Mix the cake according to directions. Then add coloring until you reach your desired shade. Then add chocolate jimmies & stir.


Bake according to your pans directions, let cool & frost. And that's it! You can see my attempts to copy the stripes of a watermelon. I just dyed my frosting a lighter shade of green, frosted it and then dyed the rest a darker green. I used a spatula to add the dark green & drag the stripes. It probably would have looked better if I had used homemade frosting.


And there you have it, Watermelon Cake! You can see that the jimmies resemble the black seeds.


I hope you had a good Memorial Day! How did you celebrate?

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