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Spooky October 11, 2015 - Head of Frankenstein

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 7:30am

Head of Frankenstein

Ingredients

  • Oblong shaped seedless or seeded watermelon
  • Large kitchen and paring knives
  • Melon baller
  • Honeydew
  • Green dry erase marker
  • Straight pins or toothpicks
  • Chocolate wafer cookies, large and mini sizes
  • Black edible sugar sheets or construction paper
  • Black licorice strings
  • Pair of chop sticks
  • Chocolate covered mini donuts
  • Spooky decorations

 

Preparation

  1. Wash watermelon under cool running water and pat dry. On cutting board, place watermelon on its side and cut 1/2 to 3/4 inch from each end, creating a sturdy base and top portion of carving. Stand watermelon upright.
  2. Scoop out a good amount of red fruit from top of watermelon with melon baller, also using a melon baller scoop a generous portion of honeydew to make fruit salad. Refill top portion of watermelon with balls of watermelon and honeydew.
  3. From ends that were cut off, draw nose with dry erase marker and use paring knife to cut it out. Attach to watermelon using straight pins or toothpicks.
  4. For eyes peel two large and two small chocolate wafer cookies in half. Using sturdy toothpicks or straight pins, attach large cookies with white icing facing out from watermelon and attach small black cookie portion to white icing to create Frankenstein's pupils.
  5. Cut black edible sugar sheets or construction paper half length wise then make zig zag cuts to create hair; attach this to top of watermelon using straight pins.
  6. Use straight pins to attach black licorice to create mouth and stitches randomly on face.
  7. Three-quarters down watermelon on each side of face, insert a chopstick and attach a chocolate covered mini donut to each chopstick to resemble screws in Frankenstein's neck.
  8. Complete carving with additional spooky decorations.

 

SOURCE:
National Watermelon Promotion Board