This Jell-o cake is a lite, and cool, sweet treat for a hot summer day, or really any day.
You can make it with regular Jell-o and regular whipped cream but I have served it in it’s ‘lite’ version & nobody ever realized it. They gobbled it up like it was full-on sugar overload.
1- box of white cake mix
1 – 12 oz can of diet 7-Up
2 – pkgs of Cherry Jell-o .30 oz
Note: When Jello-o is made make sure you hold out at least 1 to 1 1/2 cups or just make one pkg
1 – tub of lite or fat free whipped cream
Ok, for those of you who haven’t heard of soda cakes, this is the different part.
Pour the contents of your cake mix into the bowl & 12 oz of soda, no eggs, no oil. Just the soda. Don’t worry, it will cook & rise normally.
I have used other white sodas but prefer the flavor of 7Up for this recipe.
Mix well until blended. Poor batter into your baking dish, saving just a little at the bottom of the bowl for you to ‘clean up’ later <wink wink, nudge nudge>. Place your cake in the oven and while its cooking, go lick, I mean, clean the bowl.
Refer to the back of your cake box for baking times.
When cake is done, let cool for a few hours.
Use the handle of a wooden spoon or something of similar size (I used this fork) to poke holes in the cake. I poke about 3 – 4 holes across, in rows aprox 1 to 2 inches apart.
Prepare sugar free Jell-o as instructed on packet and then pour over cake making sure to douse generously. In preparing two .30 oz pkgs of jello, I usually leave about 2 or 3 cups out of the cake to pour in cups and snack on later.
Ohhhh, see those beautiful vege’s behind the Jell-o, those my dear are for the Italian Sausage Stromboli recipe coming soon. My mouth is watering just thinking about its yummie-ness.
Get out your lite or fat free cool whip and schmear it on top of your cake.
You can even decorate it on top with fruit, get all fancy & stuff.
I didn’t. I had too many other things to do that day. It was still de-licious.
After you’ve schmeared on the whipped cream, refrigerate & serve when your kids (or spouse) are screaming, crying, or otherwise driving you nuts. It should quiet them down at least temporarily. Hopefully it will also put a smile on their faces & they will forget they were ever acting out in the first place.
Heres hoping!
Stromboli now posted —> https://mamarazzipages.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/italian-sausage-stromboli/
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