[Sca-cooks] faux watermelon?

[Aurore]

Great idea but I can't even have anything remotely mixed or touching
watermelon.  I'll just enjoy the fake watermelon ice cream cake without the
watermelon products.  Aurore


> I've got another recipe (somewhere) for faux watermelon.  It involves
> half a watermelon (halved from pole to pole, instead of around the
> equator <g>), lots of raspberry sherbet, and chocolate chips.  One
> scoops out the watermelon insides (using them for another purpose), and
> fills the shell with the sherbet.  The chips are used to simulate the
> seeds.  After assembly, it's frozen until serving time.
> The football mold would work, too...If you wanted, you could even do
> multiple colors of sorbet, with something colored green on the outside
> (lime? mint?), and your choice of red on the inside....
> yummm!
> --maire (who thinks of jello as a scribal error, personally ;o)
>
> Huette von Ahrens wrote:
> >
> > --- Aurore <Aurore at hot.rr.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 2pints of frozen strawberries, a package of
> > > strawberry glaze, a handful or
> > > two of raisins: all in a bowl.  Mix.  Then a
> > > thin layer of green frosting on
> > > top.  A little sweet but it was good after a
> > > good afternoon of swimming.
> > > Aurore
> > >
> >
> > So I take it that this remains in the bowl and is
> > not molded?
> >
> > I am not sure that I would like green frosting on
> > top.  If I made this. I probably would use green
> > jello, following the jiggler recipe, on top.
> > This would be a lot less sweet.
> >
> > Now that I am thinking about it, I have a cake
> > pan that is shaped like half a football.  I think
> > that I will fill it with the green jello jiggler,
> > then when it is stiff, I will scoop out most of
> > the jello, leaving a shell.  I will then fill it
> > with the strawberry mixture, but I think I will
> > use
> > strawberry jello instead of the glaze [but still
> > using the strawberries and raisins], again using
> > the jiggler recipe.  When this is unmolded it
> > should look just like a watermelon cut in half.
> >
> > Thank you for the inspiration!
> >
> > Huette