Healthy and easy recipe with the grandkids: Four-layered fruit cake
Feeds: 8–10 birthday buddies
Ingredients
- 1 round seedless watermelon
- 1 rockmelon
- 1 honeydew melon
- Blueberries, strawberries and redcurrants for decoration (optional)
Tools
- 1 long cook’s knife
- 1 chopping board
- 1 x 16-cm round cake tin
- 1 plate
- 1 x 11-cm round cookie cutter
- 1 x 9-cm round cookie cutter
- 1 x 6-cm round cookie cutter
- birthday candles toothpicks (optional)
How to make
1. Ask Mum or Dad to cut off both ends of the watermelon with a long knife. Sit the watermelon flat on the chopping board and place the cake tin on top. Using the cake tin as a guide, ask Mum or Dad to help you cut a round shape from the watermelon, approximately 10 cm deep. Transfer the watermelon round to the plate and keep any leftover watermelon to eat later.
2. To make the second layer of the cake, ask Mum or Dad to cut the ends off the rockmelon and sit it flat on the chopping board. Use the 11-cm cookie cutter to cut out a circle, approximately 4 cm deep. Place the rockmelon round in the centre of the watermelon round.
3. Next, ask Mum or Dad to cut the ends off the honeydew melon. Sit it flat on the chopping board and use the 9-cm cookie cutter to cut out the third layer of the cake. Transfer the honeydew melon round to the top of the rockmelon.
4. Finally, use the 6-cm cookie cutter to cut out a small circle of rockmelon from the leftover rockmelon and then place this at the very top of your cake.
5. Add your candles and feel free to decorate the cake with blueberries, strawberries and redcurrants, using toothpicks if you’d like.
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