Fruit Cake!

So it was my daughter's bday recently and instead of getting her a regular cake, i decided to make her a watermelon fruit cake!  It was a lot of fun to make and was really yummy!  Here's how to make it!

What you'll need:

1 large watermelon

1 cantaloupe/honeydew melon

grapes

blue berries

strawberries

melon baller

cookie cutters (any shape you want)

shish kabob sticks (i used plastic ones i saved from Edible Arrangements)

toothpicks broken in half

candles

Start by washing all of your fruit really well.  Grab watermelon and cut off edges with enough meat on it.  Make sure you remove enough of the watermelon meat with the end so you can create little balls with them.  Remove skin from large middle piece and cut watermelon to desired shape for cake.  (i used circle but you can do a square, star, heart, etc.).  

Take your other melons and cut in half and clean out seeds.  With one half, use melon baller and create balls.  With other half, cut skin off and cut a large, 1/2 inch thick piece that you could cut a shape out of with cookie cutter.  I used a flower. 

Grab your pineapple and cut off the head and end and remove skin.  Cut into 1/2 inch thick pieces (hamburger way) and grab a dif shape cookie cutter and make your shape.  Clean fibers around edges with a knife. 

Everything else is up to you!  Decorate the top of your cake with whatever fruits you like!  I topped my cake with berries and lined the edges with cantaloupe balls.  With your shish kabobs, spear whatever fruits you like and top with your cookie cut fruit.  Put your shish kabobed fruits where ever you want on your cake!

For the flowers on the sides of the cake, i cut out little flower shapes with a pearing knife and stuck it in the cake with half of a toothpick.  I did the same for the blueberry i used for the center of the flower.  Finish decorating with candles!  Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight so it's nice and cold.  Don't forget to take out all the toothpicks before serving!  Enjoy your wonderful fruit cake!

Here's how i served it.  I took off all the fruit on the watermelon and sliced watermelon like i would a cake.  Then i evenly distributed the rest of the fruit.