Punch Bowl Cake

"I tried this delicious cake just recently when a fellow co-worker brought it to a potluck we were having at work. Everyone raved over it and I made it at home to try it, using my favorite fruits and chopped pecans. I lightened the recipe using lite ingredients when I could, so this is the lightened version. * Note: You can use any kinds of fruit you happen to have on hand and any nuts of your choice (optional). ***FYI: Zaar doesn't want to seem to display the amt of strawberries but the recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups diced strawberries."
 
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Ready In:
49mins
Ingredients:
6
Yields:
2 cakes
Serves:
16-24
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ingredients

  • 1 (18 1/4 ounce) box pillsbury moist supreme reduced-sugar yellow cake mix
  • diced strawberry
  • 4 bananas, sliced
  • 2 (1 ounce) boxes jello fat-free sugar-free vanilla pudding
  • 1 (16 ounce) container Cool Whip Lite
  • 12 cup chopped pecans (for topping, and or layering in cake) (optional)
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directions

  • Bake cake according to directions on box, using two round cake pans with removable bottoms. Set aside to cool.
  • Mix up both packages of pudding according to box directions, let set up in fridge.
  • Drain pineapple, and put in a large bowl, along with diced strawberries, and sliced bananas, set aside.
  • Take one half of cake, removed from cake pan, but still on cake pan bottom, and loosen with knife from cake pan bottom.
  • Then cut cake into cubes and layer in bottom of punch bowl, or trifle dish.
  • Then top lightly with a layer of each: vanilla pudding, fruit, cool whip, nuts, and another layer each of cake cubes, pudding, and fruit, finishing with top layer of cool whip and nuts.
  • Use only half of total ingredients for this cake.
  • Then take the other half of cake and repeat the process as with the first cake: cut cake into cubes and layer the rest of all ingredients (in order) in a second punch bowl or trifle dish, until finishing with cool whip and nuts on top.
  • Enjoy!

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Reviews

  1. The recipe sounds easy and when I say the word Jello etc. it reminded me when my girlfriend would put cubes of jello as one of layers or just sprinkle throughout. <br/>I tried this with store bought angle food cake, made the jello a bit firmer than usual and used the jello low sugar pudding and low fat low sugar cool whip, Sprinkle some Chambord among the layers of cake and fruit, which gives a wonderful flavor. Being hubby is diabetic, this was his birthday cake during a camping trip and the crowd loved it.
     
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