> wrote in message
...
On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 5:56:48 PM UTC-6, Je�us wrote:
>
> LOL, **** off.
>
>
Bite my ass, turd. If anyone wanted your stupid input into a box cake mix
we would have pulled your chain.

---

Really? That's what it takes to get input?

> wrote in message
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> On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 6:18:55 PM UTC-6, Jinx the Minx wrote:
>>
>> There you have it! I don't think I've eaten a poke cake in 35+ years,
>> but
>> they were quite common during my mid 70's elementary school years.
>> --
>> jinx the minx
>>
>>
> It's been about that long since I've eaten one, too. It was very, very
> good and not sure why this simple recipe fell out of favor.

I don't think people bake cakes like they used to. When I was a kid, I made
at least one cake every week. Nobody in *my* house actually liked cake. I
just liked baking them. And if we had a cake, my mom always had something
to offer the people who came to the door. In those days we sometimes had
religious people who came by, a lot more salesmen than there are now, and
for a few years we were product testers.

The woman who gave us the products to test was referred to by us as the
"woman who looked like a man". She did wear a skirt and blazer but very
sturdy, mannish looking shoes and had a very masculine looking hair cut.
She wore no makeup and had a deep voice. In those days, women and girls
mostly wore dresses or skirts whether they wanted to or not. When we did
wear pants it was only for casual things and I'm sure they would never be
acceptable for work, unless the person was doing something for a living to
where pants would be the better option. Anyway, she came by each week and
we always served her cake.

I wasn't the only one who made cakes. My friends or their moms also seemed
to make at least one cake per week. Another reason to have cake was that
the women on our street did not work and some did not have a vehicle to use
during the day so they'd get together for coffee and the cake would be
served then.

Now you mostly see cake posts on Facebook when it is someone's birthday.
And the only people who seem to make them are those who have kids and not a
lot of money.

Most of the stores here now sell cake by the slice. If someone in this
house wants cake, that's what they get! Even when we were still buying
desserts for birthday celebrations, that's what we'd get. Those who did eat
any, would only eat a bite or two so one piece of cake would be split many
ways. We'd usually buy two different kinds and maybe some strawberries to
go with.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:58:40 -0700, 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?
>
> Dump Cake! As Seen On TV!
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluob5fc3uI
>
> Duncan Hines Recipe (omit nuts):
>
> http://www.duncanhines.com/recipes/c...%AE/dump-cake/

Oh gawd! I can't stand that dump cake woman. Angela was very enamored with
the product she was touting prior. I can't remember now what it was called.
Some sort of lidded, griddle thing. She made what was essentially a
quesadilla but she didn't call it that.

Oh it got to bugging me and now I had to look it up. She is Cathy Mitchell
and the product is called a GT Express. I could see no reason whatever to
have it. It's the sort of thing that people who don't know how to cook
might think was useful. Angela was like... I could make that...and
that...and that... And I was like... I can make them too. In this thing
we already have. It's called a skillet!

People are talking about here here and it's kinda funny.

http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/io...hread,14195627

I guess there must be a market for that dump cake book though because the
infomercials are still on. Not sure I had heard about the dump dinners
though. Wouldn't that be a casserole?

"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
...
> Sqwertz > wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:34:43 -0700, Janet B wrote:
>>
>>> I like the idea of the poke cake. I also found a recipe for a dump
>>> cake.
>>
>> Shoot. I was too late! As soon as you said can of fruit I remembered
>> the infamous TV Infomercial for the dump cake cookbook.
>>
>> -sw
>
> I saw that dump cake cookbook at Target tonight. In case anyone is
> interested.


What did it cost? I think pretty much all of those recipes are on the
Internet for free now.

My mom used to have a Duncan Hines cookbook. Not sure where she got it or
why. This was it right here. It was a dessert book.

http://www.bonanza.com/listings/The-...FciGfgodYkAAjQ

I think it may have had a few black and white photos in the middle of it but
overall no pics. I do remember making a few things out of it and they
weren't cakes. Back in the 60's there were a lot of recipes going around
that used cake mix to make cookies and frosting mix to make candy. I tried
both. Cookies were not hard to make from scratch though and one recipe
usually gave you somewhere around 100 cookies. That was a big thing when I
was a kid too. How many cookies did you actually get from that recipe?
Using a cake mix only gave you maybe two dozen. Hardly worth the effort in
my book.

I did rather like the candy from frosting mix thing though. The end result
was nowhere as good as made from scratch candy but it was super quick.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:04:22 +0000 (UTC), jinx the minx wrote:
>
>> Sqwertz > wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:34:43 -0700, Janet B wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like the idea of the poke cake. I also found a recipe for a dump
>>>> cake.
>>>
>>> Shoot. I was too late! As soon as you said can of fruit I remembered
>>> the infamous TV Infomercial for the dump cake cookbook.
>>
>> I saw that dump cake cookbook at Target tonight. In case anyone is
>> interested.
>
> You can probably get "barely opened" copies at the used bookstore for
> $2 rather than paying the $10 list price (probably about $7 at
> Target).

Indeed. Damn! I just looked up the Dump Dinners book. The pic on the front
appears to be stew. But it only got two stars from the 33 reviewers. From
the looks of it, they should have called it "Crappy Crock-Pot Cuisine"!

Here's a cookie recipe from cake mix if anyone's interested. Calls for
white cake but I find that yellow subs in nicely for white and I usually
prefer it.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cake-mix-cookies-iv/

This one is the same. Says you can use any flavor.

http://www.food.com/recipe/heloises-...ix-cookies-822

But as I said prior, you only get 24 cookies. Do you know how long 24
freshly baked cookies last? When I was a kid, not long at all. Especially
if baked when the windows were open and one of the neighborhood kids got a
whiff of them. Word got around fast!

Now that I think about it, much of my childhood was spent cooking or baking
stuff and comparing it with the neighbor kids. I had a crush on a high
school boy when we first moved here. I was only 7 then and had an Easy Bake
oven. Every day I would bake him something and take it down there after
school. The mailman got quite a kick out of that one! He always had me come
up to the truck and show him what I had made. Usually it was a lone cookie
or soft pretzel. But when I learned that he was moving away, I baked every
yellow cake mix I could get my hands on and stacked them up with chocolate
frosting in between. Alas, I only had those stupid Easy Bake mixes so there
wasn't enough frosting to do the outside part. I wound up with what looked
like a weird stack of pancakes.

Imagine my surprise when I took it down there and he had baked me a cake
too! Only he said he couldn't give it to me because it didn't come out
right. It was a chocolate cake and there were two round layers that had
seemingly come out of the pan and remained intact. But they were so intact
they were sort of like rubber. Sort of like rubbery sponges. The whole
thing was sort of stretchy. He said he hadn't bothered to try to frost it
because he knew that something wasn't right with it but he wasn't sure what.
So we wound up having a baking discussion. Ha! At that point the only
thing I had really ever baked were the Easy Bake mixes and I think they only
called for water. Perhaps a little oil. But I was trying to help him fix
his cake.

I thought somehow that it was some sort of joke cake that he bought
somewhere but he showed me the pans, the box that the mix came from and the
cooling racks. We also broke off pieces (with some effort) and attempted to
eat them. The flavor was there but the cake was extremely hard to chew. To
this day I have no clue what could have gone wrong.

I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe. He
claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly small.
So that was a stumper. I would always try to add extra nuts and chips to my
cookies and of course that would yield more cookies. I could usually manage
the extra nuts without being caught. But using more chips involved needing
a second bag. So pulling that off was tough unless I managed to find a
super good sale or convince my mom that no, we had no chocolate chips at
home, when I knew we really did.

"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:58:40 -0700, 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
>
> My sister in law makes an orange cake that she says people can't tell
> the difference between boxed and scratch, so she uses boxed most of
> the time. I tried to find a link to something similar to what I
> remember what she said she did, but couldn't. She roasts whole
> oranges and grinds them in the food processor to add. Here's a web
> site with some suggestions. I'm gravitating toward the coconut milk
> idea.
> http://www.livestrong.com/article/43...-taste-better/
>

I made an orange cake but put no actual fruit in it. I did use orange zest
and orange juice in place of water. Also a little orange food coloring.

But my favorite cake to make with a yellow cake mix was chocolate tweed. I
used to make this from scratch but then learned that adding chocolate to a
yellow cake mix yields the exact same result. You just grate three squares
of good, unsweetened chocolate and add it to your mix before baking. I
would use a fudge frosting on this.

Julie Bove wrote:
>
> I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
> that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe. He
> claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly small.
> So that was a stumper.

About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
cheesecake and it worked very well.

On 2/17/2015 5:29 AM, Gary wrote:
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
>> that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe. He
>> claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly small.
>> So that was a stumper.
>
> About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
> their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
> normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
> cheesecake and it worked very well.
>

Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?

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.

I had a box about a year ago or so and didn't know what to do with it.

I ended up making an apple cake (or maybe an apple-upside-down cake?)

In a 9x13 pyrex baking dish, I put a layer of melted butter on the
bottom and sprinkled it with a bit of brown sugar. Added one layer of
apple slices.

Mixed up the cake mix as per directions but I did also add more small
apple slices to the mix. Pour that over the apples in the dish and
bake as directed. It was very good!

Travis McGee wrote:
>
> Gary wrote:
> > About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
> > their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
> > normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
> > cheesecake and it worked very well.
> >
>
> Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
> make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
> did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?

I made the batch of cookies one day then let them sit on the counter
overnight to dry out a bit.

Next day, I just crushed up maybe 12 or so? I forget the exact amount
but that's close. I mixed them up with melted butter, then pressed
them into the pie dish, bottom and up the sides. It's an old pyrex pie
dish. The deeper one with the fluted edges on top.

For the filling I used four 8oz packages of cream cheese, some vanilla
extract, and I believe it was 4 eggs too? I really forget the filling
recipe. I used the one on the Philadelphia Cream Cheese package.

Anyway, it was amazingly good with the cc cookie crust. I will make it
again!

Bruce wrote:
>
> Travis McGee wrote:
> >Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
> >make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
> >did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?
>
> If you add a can of Campbell's soup to the cookies, you can easily
> shape them any way you want.

That's pretty messed up, Bruce. ;-D

On 2/17/2015 5:44 AM, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:38:22 -0500, Travis McGee >
> wrote:
>
>> On 2/17/2015 5:29 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
>>>> that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe. He
>>>> claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly small.
>>>> So that was a stumper.
>>>
>>> About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
>>> their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
>>> normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
>>> cheesecake and it worked very well.
>>>
>>
>> Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
>> make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
>> did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?
>
> If you add a can of Campbell's soup to the cookies, you can easily
> shape them any way you want.
>

Wow, that sounds incredibly good! I usually do exactly what people in
this group tell me to do, so I'll be giving this a try very soon. Thanks
for the sage advice (even though no sage was involved).

On 2/17/2015 5:38 AM, Gary wrote:

> In a 9x13 pyrex baking dish, I put a layer of melted butter on the
> bottom and sprinkled it with a bit of brown sugar. Added one layer of
> apple slices.
>
> Mixed up the cake mix as per directions but I did also add more small
> apple slices to the mix. Pour that over the apples in the dish and
> bake as directed. It was very good!
>
A bit like Eve's Pudding.

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:36:45 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

>
>
>"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
...
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
>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.

Oh no Ophelia...you're going to be totally "ruined" as a "from
scratch" baker if you keep listening to these "semi-homemade"
bakers over in "the colonies"!

William

>
> I don't think people bake cakes like they used to.

In Scotland baking cakes (and bread, and pastry etc ) is alive and well
and very popular. NO packet mixes; home made from scratch.

There are numerous local charity and fundraising events where home
baking is sold (either to be eaten then and there, or whole cakes bought
to take home). Even kids (primary school to high school) bake mountains
of cakes to raise funds for their social activities; so do their parents
and grannies.

The annual Produce Show has a huge baking section (every imaginable
bread scone and cake) hotly contested by local WI womens groups but won
out-right, twice, by my husband :-) Local tea rooms and snack bars
catering for the tourist trade, all sell their own home baked from
scratch cakes. My Bed and Breakfast guests were ALWAYs given afternoon
tea with home baked cake.

On Sunday night a group of my poetry friends met here as they have
every month for the past decade. I provide the coffee and we all (men
and women) take turns to bake a cake (or two) to share. Swapping new
recipes is part of the fun.

This weeks offering from Lynn was this delicious, healthy and very easy
recipe

Yoghurt and blueberry cake.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...by-bakes-with-
yoghurt

Janet UK

In article >,
lid says...
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:38:22 -0500, Travis McGee >
> wrote:

> If you add a can of Campbell's soup to the cookies, you can easily
> shape them any way you want.

Don't forget the cream gravy topping made from hamburger grease

Janet UK

In article >, says...
>
> "Janet B" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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
>
> Use it for a dump cake. My grandma called hers Cherry Jazz because she used
> cherry pie filling but you can use any kind of fruit. If just plain canned
> fruit, I would drain the liquid off. Put the fruit in your pan, sprinkle
> the cake mix over the top and then add two sticks of melted butter or
> margarine. I am assuming this is is for a two layer cake. I would use less
> for a single layer. I always used one stick for a single layer but... My
> grandma's recipe said to use one or two sticks for the single layer box.
> Two would be overkill for me I think. Just dump it on and bake. I can't
> remember the bake time. Pretty sure it was 350 degrees and probably
> somewhere around 20-30 minutes. Just bake until it browns on the top.

No wonder your family won'e eat your cooking and and you all have so
many health problems

Janet UK

In article >, says...

> I made an orange cake but put no actual fruit in it. I did use orange zest
> and orange juice in place of water. Also a little orange food coloring.
>
> But my favorite cake to make with a yellow cake mix was chocolate tweed. I
> used to make this from scratch but then learned that adding chocolate to a
> yellow cake mix yields the exact same result. You just grate three squares
> of good, unsweetened chocolate and add it to your mix before baking. I
> would use a fudge frosting on this.

If there was any cook on rfc left, who didn't realise Julie is a
troll, this should convince them.


Janet UK

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
>> that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe.
>> He
>> claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly
>> small.
>> So that was a stumper.
>
> About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
> their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
> normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
> cheesecake and it worked very well.

They also make different sizes of packages. I think in those days they only
had the one size. But I could be wrong. Ever seen the Costco sized
package? I was in there once when a girl of perhaps age 12 asked her mom if
they could buy them? The mom looked horrified and said that they could not
because nobody needed that many chocolate chips.

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Bruce wrote:
>>
>> Travis McGee wrote:
>> >Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
>> >make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
>> >did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?
>>
>> If you add a can of Campbell's soup to the cookies, you can easily
>> shape them any way you want.
>
> That's pretty messed up, Bruce. ;-D

Well, there is that tomato soup cake...

"Janet" > wrote in message
...
>
>>
>> I don't think people bake cakes like they used to.
>
> In Scotland baking cakes (and bread, and pastry etc ) is alive and well
> and very popular. NO packet mixes; home made from scratch.

Uh... You're telling me that you hae no mixes whatever? I truly find that
hard to believe. And when I say that people don't bake cakes that's exactly
what I mean. Not from scratch or a mix.
>
> There are numerous local charity and fundraising events where home
> baking is sold (either to be eaten then and there, or whole cakes bought
> to take home). Even kids (primary school to high school) bake mountains
> of cakes to raise funds for their social activities; so do their parents
> and grannies.

That would never happen here! They did have some such events when Angela
was in elementary school but the items sold had to be purchased, labeled and
packaged. Nothing made at home.
>
> The annual Produce Show has a huge baking section (every imaginable
> bread scone and cake) hotly contested by local WI womens groups but won
> out-right, twice, by my husband :-) Local tea rooms and snack bars
> catering for the tourist trade, all sell their own home baked from
> scratch cakes. My Bed and Breakfast guests were ALWAYs given afternoon
> tea with home baked cake.

We have some tea shops here but I haven't gone into them. The sort of food
that they serve is nothing I would eat now. I did go to one when I was a
kid and had cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches which I liked. Odd because
I hate cream cheese and am not too fond of cucumbers.
>
> On Sunday night a group of my poetry friends met here as they have
> every month for the past decade. I provide the coffee and we all (men
> and women) take turns to bake a cake (or two) to share. Swapping new
> recipes is part of the fun.

Okay.
>
> This weeks offering from Lynn was this delicious, healthy and very easy
> recipe
>
> Yoghurt and blueberry cake.
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...by-bakes-with-
> yoghurt
>
> Janet UK

*shudder* Okay then. Nobody I know here does anything like that. They
just get Starbucks to go.

"Janet" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, says...
>>
>> "Janet B" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > 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
>>
>> Use it for a dump cake. My grandma called hers Cherry Jazz because she
>> used
>> cherry pie filling but you can use any kind of fruit. If just plain
>> canned
>> fruit, I would drain the liquid off. Put the fruit in your pan, sprinkle
>> the cake mix over the top and then add two sticks of melted butter or
>> margarine. I am assuming this is is for a two layer cake. I would use
>> less
>> for a single layer. I always used one stick for a single layer but...
>> My
>> grandma's recipe said to use one or two sticks for the single layer box.
>> Two would be overkill for me I think. Just dump it on and bake. I can't
>> remember the bake time. Pretty sure it was 350 degrees and probably
>> somewhere around 20-30 minutes. Just bake until it browns on the top.
>
> No wonder your family won'e eat your cooking and and you all have so
> many health problems

What? That's not even something I make! I made it once, many years ago
when I was cooking for a large bunch of people at my in-law's house. Most
people did like it. But my husband and daughter did not. I tried making it
once again many years later because I know that I liked it when I was
little. Not that we had it often. We did not. Again they didn't like it.
So I never made it again. It's a very common recipe.

"Janet" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, says...
>
>> I made an orange cake but put no actual fruit in it. I did use orange
>> zest
>> and orange juice in place of water. Also a little orange food coloring.
>>
>> But my favorite cake to make with a yellow cake mix was chocolate tweed.
>> I
>> used to make this from scratch but then learned that adding chocolate to
>> a
>> yellow cake mix yields the exact same result. You just grate three
>> squares
>> of good, unsweetened chocolate and add it to your mix before baking. I
>> would use a fudge frosting on this.
>
> If there was any cook on rfc left, who didn't realise Julie is a
> troll, this should convince them.

Wha? Why in the world would you say that? Seriously... Consumer Reports
reported that cake mixes were one of the few things where it paid to buy
them. Not only is it cheaper to make a cake from a mix but the end results
are the same.

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:11:02 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

>On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 3:58:48 PM UTC-6, 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
>>
>>
>I've had the one with the canned fruit cocktail and for the life of me I can't remember the exact steps or what it's called (fruit cocktail cake?). I'm a lot of help, aren't I?
>
>Then there's the old recipe from the 60's-70's called a 'poke cake.' Holes are poked into a 9 x 13 prepared cake with the handle of a wooden spoon. Prepared Jell-O, flavor of your choice, is poured over the cake and refrigerated until the Jell-O is set. Frost with Dream Whip or if you're brave, Cool Whip.

Have a look at Barb's rhubarb custard cake in the RFC signature
recipes.

JB

On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:32:44 AM UTC-6, BigC300 wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:36:45 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >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.
>
> Oh no Ophelia...you're going to be totally "ruined" as a "from
> scratch" baker if you keep listening to these "semi-homemade"
> bakers over in "the colonies"!
>
True. How much trashier can you get than slopping Jello, boxed pudding,
and/or canned milk (all of which are garbage ingredients) onto a cake?
With all the jokes about British food, the average USA cook is far worse.
>
> William

--Bryan

On 2/16/2015 4:38 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 3:58:48 PM UTC-6, 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
>>>
>>>
>> I've had the one with the canned fruit cocktail and for the life of
>> me I can't remember the exact steps or what it's called (fruit
>> cocktail cake?). I'm a lot of help, aren't I?
>>
>> Then there's the old recipe from the 60's-70's called a 'poke cake.'
>> Holes are poked into a 9 x 13 prepared cake with the handle of a
>> wooden spoon. Prepared Jell-O, flavor of your choice, is poured over
>> the cake and refrigerated until the Jell-O is set. Frost with Dream
>> Whip or if you're brave, Cool Whip.
>
> Blimey!!
>

Ugh. I remember those. Soggy cake.

"Julie Bove" wrote:
>"Sqwertz"wrote:
>>
>> Dump Cake! As Seen On TV!
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bluob5fc3uI
>>
>> Duncan Hines Recipe (omit nuts):
>>
>> http://www.duncanhines.com/recipes/c...%AE/dump-cake/
>
>I can't stand that dump cake woman.

Julie is the PNW dump cake. hehe

>Angela was very enamored with the product.

Angela is the PNW poke cake! LOL-LOL

Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

On 2/16/2015 3:58 PM, 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
>

Bake it in three thin layers, make key lime filling as follows: 1/2
cup lime juice, 1 1/2 cups whipped cream, 1 can sweetened condensed
milk (chilled), zest of two limes. Mix till thickened. Spread between
layers. Top cake with 1/2 cup whipped cream, garnish with lime slices.

Sqwertz wrote:
>minx wrote:
>>Sqwertz wrote:
>>>Janet B wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like the idea of the poke cake. I also found a recipe for a dump
>>>> cake.
>>>
>>> Shoot. I was too late! As soon as you said can of fruit I remembered
>>> the infamous TV Infomercial for the dump cake cookbook.
>>
>> I saw that dump cake cookbook at Target tonight. In case anyone is
>> interested.
>
>You can probably get "barely opened" copies at the used bookstore for
>$2 rather than paying the $10 list price (probably about $7 at
>Target).

Every Dump/Poke Cake recipe ever devised is on the net for free.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 06:01:31 -0500, Travis McGee >
wrote:

>On 2/17/2015 5:44 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 05:38:22 -0500, Travis McGee >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/17/2015 5:29 AM, Gary wrote:
>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I also remember the day when Bobby Norman ran around the block announcing
>>>>> that he had gotten 125 cookies from a Tollhouse (chocolate chip) recipe. He
>>>>> claimed he had made it as written. And the cookies were not overly small.
>>>>> So that was a stumper.
>>>>
>>>> About a month ago, I made a batch of the Tollhouse cc cookies. I used
>>>> their recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips. I got about 50-60
>>>> normal sized cookies. I used some of them to make a crust for a
>>>> cheesecake and it worked very well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Now that's one I've not heard before. How did you prepare the cookies to
>>> make the crust? Just crush them up and press them into the cake pan, or
>>> did you do something like saute the crumbs in butter to crisp them up?
>>
>> If you add a can of Campbell's soup to the cookies, you can easily
>> shape them any way you want.
>>
>
>Wow, that sounds incredibly good! I usually do exactly what people in
>this group tell me to do, so I'll be giving this a try very soon. Thanks
>for the sage advice (even though no sage was involved).

A can of condencsed tomato soup should work for chocolate chip
cookies, muffins, even cake.

Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
> A can of condencsed tomato soup should work for chocolate chip
> cookies, muffins, even cake.

I sure hope that's a joke, you moron.

"Julie Bove" > wrote:
> "jinx the minx" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Sqwertz > wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:34:43 -0700, Janet B wrote:
>>>
>>>> I like the idea of the poke cake. I also found a recipe for a dump
>>>> cake.
>>>
>>> Shoot. I was too late! As soon as you said can of fruit I remembered
>>> the infamous TV Infomercial for the dump cake cookbook.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> I saw that dump cake cookbook at Target tonight. In case anyone is
>> interested.
>
>
> What did it cost? I think pretty much all of those recipes are on the
> Internet for free now.
>
> My mom used to have a Duncan Hines cookbook. Not sure where she got it
> or why. This was it right here. It was a dessert book.
>
> http://www.bonanza.com/listings/The-...FciGfgodYkAAjQ
>
> I think it may have had a few black and white photos in the middle of it
> but overall no pics. I do remember making a few things out of it and
> they weren't cakes. Back in the 60's there were a lot of recipes going
> around that used cake mix to make cookies and frosting mix to make candy.
> I tried both. Cookies were not hard to make from scratch though and one
> recipe usually gave you somewhere around 100 cookies. That was a big
> thing when I was a kid too. How many cookies did you actually get from
> that recipe? Using a cake mix only gave you maybe two dozen. Hardly
> worth the effort in my book.
>
> I did rather like the candy from frosting mix thing though. The end
> result was nowhere as good as made from scratch candy but it was super quick.

I didn't look at the price. I wasn't interested.
--
jinx the minx

In article >, says...
>
> "Janet" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> >>
> >> I don't think people bake cakes like they used to.
> >
> > In Scotland baking cakes (and bread, and pastry etc ) is alive and well
> > and very popular. NO packet mixes; home made from scratch.
>
> Uh... You're telling me that you hae no mixes whatever? I truly find that
> hard to believe.

Certainly I've never heard/seen any Scot with any interest in cooking
(or eating) cake, discussing making one from a packet mix.

Janet UK

In article >, says...
>
> "Janet" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >, says...
> >
> >> I made an orange cake but put no actual fruit in it. I did use orange
> >> zest
> >> and orange juice in place of water. Also a little orange food coloring.
> >>
> >> But my favorite cake to make with a yellow cake mix was chocolate tweed.
> >> I
> >> used to make this from scratch but then learned that adding chocolate to
> >> a
> >> yellow cake mix yields the exact same result. You just grate three
> >> squares
> >> of good, unsweetened chocolate and add it to your mix before baking. I
> >> would use a fudge frosting on this.
> >
> > If there was any cook on rfc left, who didn't realise Julie is a
> > troll, this should convince them.
>
> Wha? Why in the world would you say that? Seriously... Consumer Reports
> reported that cake mixes were one of the few things where it paid to buy
> them. Not only is it cheaper to make a cake from a mix but the end results
> are the same.

> If there was any cook on rfc left, who didn't realise Julie is a
> troll, this should convince them.

Janet UK

On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:14:21 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Janet" > wrote in message

> >
> > This weeks offering from Lynn was this delicious, healthy and very easy
> > recipe
> >
> > Yoghurt and blueberry cake.
> >
> > http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...by-bakes-with-
> > yoghurt
> >
> > Janet UK
>
> *shudder* Okay then. Nobody I know here does anything like that. They
> just get Starbucks to go.

The Seattle metropolitan area has 3.6 million people. How many of
them do you know? I believe your sample size is a little too small
(and biased) to make any generalizations.

Cindy Hamilton

On 2/17/2015 11:55 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>> "Janet" > wrote
>>>> I don't think people bake cakes like they used to.
>>>
>>> In Scotland baking cakes (and bread, and pastry etc ) is alive and well
>>> and very popular. NO packet mixes; home made from scratch.
>>
>> Uh... You're telling me that you hae no mixes whatever? I truly find that
>> hard to believe.
>
> Certainly I've never heard/seen any Scot with any interest in cooking
> (or eating) cake, discussing making one from a packet mix.
>
You know, I've never noticed cake mixes in Scottish shops - they may
well exist, but they certainly aren't as noticeable as the row after row
of mixes (some of them garishly coloured) I see in US markets.

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:50:21 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> A can of condencsed tomato soup should work for chocolate chip
>> cookies, muffins, even cake.
>
>I sure hope that's a joke, you moron.

Any cookie recipe that begins with 1/2 cup butter can't be bad:
http://www.recipegoldmine.com/cookdr...p-cookies.html
I like muffins:
http://www.cooks.com/recipe/od3rn34p...p-muffins.html
This looks like a keeper:
http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/0...o-recipe-test/

In article >,
says...
>
> On 2/17/2015 11:55 AM, Janet wrote:
> > In article >, says...
> >> "Janet" > wrote
> >>>> I don't think people bake cakes like they used to.
> >>>
> >>> In Scotland baking cakes (and bread, and pastry etc ) is alive and well
> >>> and very popular. NO packet mixes; home made from scratch.
> >>
> >> Uh... You're telling me that you hae no mixes whatever? I truly find that
> >> hard to believe.
> >
> > Certainly I've never heard/seen any Scot with any interest in cooking
> > (or eating) cake, discussing making one from a packet mix.
> >
> You know, I've never noticed cake mixes in Scottish shops - they may
> well exist, but they certainly aren't as noticeable as the row after row
> of mixes (some of them garishly coloured) I see in US markets.

Neither have I.

Janet UK

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:09:12 -0000, "Ophelia"
> wrote:

> Thanks Mr D I am surprised that mixing cake mix and pudding together
> would allow a cake to bake propely.

People mixed boxed pudding with boxed cake mixes long before pudding
cakes came in a box. They're like a moist pound cake, not bad at all.


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A kitchen without a cook is just a room

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:11:43 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> I do remember those pudding in the mix cakes. What I don't remember is
> anyone poking holes in the cake and pouring pudding in.

Me either. Jello Poke Cakes got the holes.
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/...ake-53184.aspx

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