Watermelon Cake

I've been waking up in the morning lately and the first thing that's been popping into my head is "a cake, right, in the shape of a watermelon", so I made this in the hope it would make the voices go away...

The stripes on the icing are something called "lustre dust" - it's a very fine powder a bit like poster paint powder, but edible. You can either mix it with water (or vodka if you prefer) to create a liquid paint or just brush it on dry, which is what I did to get the mottled effect.

I put a cheeky little surprise inside the cake - yay for red food colouring! I also bunged a handful of raisins into the cake mix to represent the watermelon seeds.

Hopefully that'll make my mornings a little less obsessive, at least until the voices start whispering the next design. I'm turning into a cake-baking puppet to my subconscious :-(