(Recipe) Watermelon Coconut Cake With Raspberry Filling

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Watermelon Coconut " Cake " with Raspberry Filling 

 

Chef Harry Schwartz developed this unique faux cake recipe for the

National Watermelon Promotion Board, who shared it with us. This makes a

spectacular presntation of a fruit everyone already loves. Try it at

some of your summer parties and collect the kudos.

 

1 watermelon

3 cups fresh raspberries

2 cups shredded sweetened coconut

 

 

Serves 8.

Cut the center 8 to 10 inch slice from a watermelon. Lay it down on a

flat work surface and cut around the rind and slide the rind off leaving

a cylinder of watermelon.

Slice widthwise into 3 slices as you would a cake.

 

Place 1 slice of the melon cylinder on top of a serving platter.

Surround it with a ring of coconut. Place 1/3 of the remaining coconut

and raspberries over the slice and repeat to form a 3 layer watermelon

" cake " with the raspberries on top arranged attractively on the coconut.

To serve, slice into wedges and present them upright.