Editors' Pick
Box-Mix Jello Cake

photo by Ashley Cuoco





- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
- 18 ounces white cake mix (Duncan Hines brand preferred)
- 3 egg whites (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1⁄3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 1⁄3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1 (3 ounce) box strawberry Jell-O gelatin dessert (or any flavor)
- 1 3⁄4 cups boiling water
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding
- 1 Cool Whip
- fresh strawberry, garnish
directions
- Bake cake according to package directions in 13 x 9 pan (use all egg whites).
- Cool awhile.
- Dissolve jello in boiling water.
- Poke holes all over cake with large utility fork.
- Spoon jello evenly over cake.
- Refrigerate at least a couple of hours.
- Prepare pudding as directed on package for pudding.
- Chill awhile.
- Spread pudding evenly over cake.
- Chill.
- Spread Cool Whip over top of cake and garnish with strawberries.
Reviews
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This is a family favorite and a popular dessert at pot-lucks. To save a step I decided to try mixing the vanilla pudding and Cool Whip together before spreading on the top of the cake. I got so many compliments after making this change it is the only way I make this now. Additional note - the vanilla/Cool Whip mixture is what I put in my cream puffs.
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This recipe brings back a lot of childhood memories. Although we never used pudding but that sounds very tasty. We also made it slightly different. We would use 3/4 cup boiling water to dissolve the Jell-O then we would use a 1 cup of a complimentary flavor soda pop (ice cold) to cool down the Jell-O. Such as orange crush with orange Jell-o or Squirt with Pineapple Jell-O. If you want to be fancy I sometimes make 2 flavors of Jell-O(Orange and Pineapple for instance) and use 1/2 of each flavor alternating flavors to spoon into every other it looks really pretty when sliced.
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Surprisingly good and out-of-control easy, I made this cake after one of my co-workers couldn't stop raving about how amazing Jell-O cake is. Naturally, I took it upon myself to try. He swore pudding shouldn't be used, so I left it out, but other users seemed to love that addition. I also used a whipped cream cheese frosting for the topping (recipe # 187817) and they went together SO well. I'd make this cake again and I'd definitely recommend cherry Jell-O.
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This was delicious! I added too much jello though which is not your fault at all just because i didn't read the directions right. It would have been better with less jello like you have posted in the recipe but it was still very very good. I used cherry jello instead of strawberry. I will be making this again but next time I will follow the directions. Thank you for a great recipe!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Rita1652
Jamesburg, New Jersey