"Watermelon" (cake): a recipe. How to make a dessert of unusual shape

Lovers of watermelons try to enjoy this delicious and healthy berry from the heart in the season. And the rest of the time it remains only to dream about summer, indulging in pleasant memories of favorite sweets and sun. But the onset of cold weather is not an excuse to give up favorite delicacies, especially on a holiday. "Watermelon" is a cake that will not leave anyone indifferent. Draw this way you can almost any pastry - from a multi-tiered mead to a simple biscuit.

An unusual dessert

No wonder they say that they meet on clothes. "Watermelon" - a cake that attracts primarily a cheerful appearance. For its decor, usually use expressive colors: red, green and white. A scattering of chocolate-brown seeds sets the final accent. Prepare this feast for the feast, and you will see how appetizing it looks. For a piece of bright food will certainly line up.

Recipe for cakes

Cake in the form of watermelon should resemble the original externally - this is the main thing. But the treat will be even more effective, if in a cut make it look like a watermelon. The easiest way to achieve this effect is by using a red dye added to the dough. For this delicacy the recipe "Red velvet", on which lush cakes of beautiful red color turns out perfectly approaches.

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 of sugar;
• 1/4 tsp. Salt (small);
• 1.3 tsp. Baking soda;
• 2.5 tsp. baking powder for the dough;
• 2-3 tsp. Food coloring red.

We beat eggs with sugar until thick, in kefir we dissolve soda. We connect with the sour-milk base oil and add the dye. If the color does not seem bright enough to you, add a dye to make the shade look the most like a watermelon. The cake will be even more beautiful.

It's time to tackle the loose ingredients. Sift flour, add sugar, salt, cocoa, baking powder. Step by step we introduce the mixture into the egg mass, whisk thoroughly. In the end, add a tinted yogurt. The dough is ready. If you plan to bake it in the usual round shape, spread the bottom with baking paper, and apply a little oil to the edges. The specified quantity of products will allow to prepare 2 round cakes with a diameter of 22-23 cm. In a preheated oven, each of them will be prepared for about an hour.

Edible ossicles

Cake in the form of a watermelon, the photo of which you see below, is decorated with "bones". Are they like real ones? You can use chocolate drops, roasted without the seeds of the shell, pieces of nuts. Simply sprinkle the finished cake from above, but if you want, add them to the dough. You can use ordinary chocolate bars, broken into small pieces.

Forming a cake

There are many ways to make a cake in the form of watermelon. Most popular forms:

• hemisphere;
• Semicircular cake;
• round form.

If you have a shape in the form of a half ball, you can bake the dough in it. It will take about an hour of time (at 180 ^o ), and the readiness can be checked with a traditional bamboo skewer, piercing it with the product. Finished high cake cut into several layers, cream with cream.

You can combine cakes, cooked in usual round shape and form in the form of a truncated ball. The cake will turn out tall 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 round form and form the product in the form of a water-melon slice.

Green cream for "crust"

Use any creams that hold the shape well. To the above recipe, the cake is perfect for cream. To make it, whip 300 ml of cream with a high fat content. Separately, whip 400 grams of cream cheese and 150 grams of powdered sugar. Step by step, enter into the curd mass cream, stirring with a spoon. Part of the cream postponed, because we will need white too. Tint the main part with a green dye. For the indicated amount of ingredients you need about 2 tbsp. L. Gel color.

Apply the cream on the cake with a patty spatula, a pouch or a syringe.

Ornaments from mastics

This recipe has gained immense popularity a few years ago. Its wide distribution is not surprising, because thanks to a simple recipe everyone could feel himself a virtuoso of confectionery art. If you want to make a cake "Watermelon" from mastic, you will need a pack of marshmallow marshmallows and a little powdered sugar.

Ornaments from mastic are not fond of all. Some experts advise them not to eat at all, but only for decorative purposes. If you suspect that the elements from the mastic will still go to work, add a little condensed milk to the mixture - it will be softer and tastier.

Transfer the marshmallow into a bowl (about 400 g), put in a microwave for 2-3 minutes. You can drown the marshmallow and the water bath. When the mass becomes soft, put a handful of powdered sugar. Fill a handful on the table and use it as a flour, mixing the marshmallow dough. Use powder or gel dyes for toning. Decorate from it ornaments for a cake.

As easy as pie! Cake with sweets

If you are not sure about your abilities as a confectionery esthete, or just really like chocolate pellets, look at the following illustration, which features a candy "Watermelon". The cake looks very appetizing! It will be appreciated by both children and adults.

Decorating will take you a few minutes. The main thing is to pick up suitable tablets of red, green, white and brown color. In this way, you can decorate and round, and semicircular, and even triangular cake.

Natural fruit

And the next dessert and cake can not be called, because he did not bake in the oven. But the shape of the cake is simply not distinguishable.

Such delicacies, consisting of different fresh fruits, are very popular abroad. Watermelon with a small amount of pits is great for this bright and truly summer dessert. Sweet grades are especially good.

If you started cooking this spectacular treat, choose a watermelon larger. With a large knife, cut off his over-stitched ends, leaving the middle in the shape of a cylinder. Put it on a wide dish or cutting board, gently cut the skin. Remove the visible bones.

It remains only to decorate the watermelon cake with cream or cream, add a little fruit and chill before serving. Very good for ornamentation fit multi-colored berries: raspberries, yellow cherries, blueberries, currants, strawberries. They look very effective against the background of white whipped cream. You can use and nut shaving, for example, almond.

Choose a favorite cake recipe in the form of watermelon and try to cook this treat. It will surprise the guests and they will definitely like it.