A Savoy Cake to Imitate a Green Melon

Ingredients

• savoy cake
• icing
• small lumps of sugar
• pale yellow food coloring (gamboge)
• green food coloring (gamboge and prussian blue mixed)
• green gum paste for stalk

Directions

1. Bake a savoy cake in a round melon mold.

2. Once cooled, prepare icing thin enough to pour over the cake.

3. Cover the cake with icing without disfiguring the flutes.

4. Attach small lumps of sugar to resemble a rock melon.

5. Once dry, color the cake with pale yellow food coloring.

6. After it dries, apply green food coloring to mimic a real melon.

7. Make a stalk using green gum paste.