"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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>> Janet B > wrote:
>>> Does anyone have a dessert recipe that uses a boxed yellow cake mix
>>> and no nuts or chocolate? I got the cake last fall to do some recipe
>>> and then my husband got his kidney stone. After that no nuts and no
>>> chocolate. It can be as hokey as you please. We're both from the
>>> mid-west and have probably seen it all before. Wasn't there a cake
>>> mix recipe at one time that used canned fruit?
>>> Janet US
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>> You could always make a Midwestern friendly poke cake with any flavor
>> pudding or jello. As a kid I liked them with banana or vanilla pudding.
>> Just make sure to use a boiled pudding and not instant.
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> Please would you explain that more fully? I have never bought a boxed
> cake mix
> but I would be willing to try it if you explain how the jello works with
> it.

I don't think I've seen it made with pudding but with gelatin. And you
could use a scratch cake although I can't imagine making it with any cake.
You simply bake your cake as one big layer, then use something like the
handle of a wooden spoon to poke holes in the baked and cooled cake and pour
the Jell-O into the holes. With the gelatine, you get all the drama of the
two different colors.

Actually this recipe says to use a fork and cover it with Coolwhip which is
(IMO) a disgusting, faux whipped cream made with things that you don't want
to put in your body.

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/...ake-53184.aspx