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DIY Watermelon Cakes

This Watermelon Cake Looks and Tastes Like Watermelon

— June 17, 2013 — Art & Design
Most cakes that look like rainbows don't taste like rainbows, but this watermelon cake looks and tastes like watermelon. This recipe and cake decoration by Bird On a Cake is visually fascinating and will blow your taste buds, too. As watermelons are the perfect fruit to slice open on a sunny summer day, a slice of this watermelon cake would be a fitting for a summer gathering.

The cake is topped off with frosting with pink and green food coloring dye to mimic the colors of a watermelon. It is sprinkled with dark chocolate chips to resemble seeds. To give the cake its flavor, watermelon puree made of blended watermelon chunks and artificial flavoring from Jell-O is used. The full pictorial as well as written instructions are available on the Bird On a Cake blog.
Trend Themes
1. Fruit-inspired Cakes - Fruit-inspired cakes offer a new twist on traditional cake making, providing opportunities for bakeries and restaurants to expand their product lines and target health-conscious consumers.
2. DIY Desserts - DIY dessert tutorials offer opportunities for influencers and online content creators to create engaging and shareable content that appeals to a younger audience.
3. Artificial Flavoring Alternatives - The rise in demand for clean label ingredients in recipes provides opportunities for manufacturers to offer natural alternatives to artificial flavorings in baking and dessert making.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - This trend presents opportunities for bakeries, restaurants, and food manufacturers to create and market fruit-inspired desserts as a healthier alternative to traditional cakes.
2. Influencer Marketing - Influencers and social media content creators can leverage the trend of DIY desserts and create engaging and shareable content targeted towards a younger audience.
3. Food Ingredient Manufacturing - The trend towards natural and clean label ingredients in baking and dessert making presents a market opportunity for manufacturers to produce and offer natural flavorings as alternatives to artificial flavors.
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