It turns out that today is National Watermelon Day. While yes, watermelon is delicious on it’s own, it’s even better when it’s sitting on top of a cupcake. And actually, it’s even better when your watermelon is made out of pound cake, icing, candy and chocolate!

Ingredients

• 12 mini cupcakes
• A tub of vanilla frosting
• Red food coloring
• A chocolate bar
• 12 green apple Laffy Taffys
• 1 pound cake

Directions

• Ice all 12 cupcakes with vanilla frosting
• Cut the pound cake into 12 small triangles with a curved top (matching the shape shown in the picture above)
• Add a drop of red food coloring to 1/2 cup of frosting (keep adding drops until you get desired shade of pink) and mix
• Cover the sides and top of the pound cake triangle with pink frosting
• Put 2 pieces of Laffy Taffy in the microwave for 5 seconds (time with vary by microwave)
• Form the Laffy Taffy to fit on the curved top of the triangle
• Using a knife, cut small rectangular pieces of the chocolate bar off
• Add a few of the chocolate shavings all over the pink frosted body of the watermelon
• Place the watermelon on top of the cupcake and serve

Don’t be afraid to go for seconds, it is National Watermelon Day after all!