Coconut Cake

Here's another recipe from Bee. It's similar to the Jell-O Cake recipe.

You'll need:

1 box of white cake mix (and all the add-ins, egg whites, oil, water)

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of milk

cool-whip

coconut

Here's how to make:

Bake cake mix according to directions. Right before cake is done, boil 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of milk and a handful of coconut. Pour mixture over hot cake. (I poked holes in the top of the cake as well before pouring the mixture over.) Let cool completely. Top with cool whip and coconut.

Jell-O Cake

So for a belated birthday cake, I decided to make Keith a Jell-O Cake for his birthday. I normally make it with strawberry jello, but this time I tried raspberry. I’m always hesitate to try new things when I know I already like something, but this seems to be a winner.

Jell-O Cake
1 box white cake mix (with add-ins… eggs whites, oil, water)
1 box (4 servings) Jell-O of your choice
1 carton of Cool-Whip (I used Cool -Whip Lite)

-Prepare cake mix according to directions on box.
-When cake is done, polk holes in the top so that it appears you’ve aerated your cake. I normally use a straw or a chop stick. A fork would probably work good too.
-Boil one cup of water and add to Jell-O. Mix.
-Pour Jell-O over the top of the cake.
-Let cake cool completely. I normally put it in the refrigerator for 2+ hours.
-Top with cool whip.

You’ll see variations of this cake and some recipes call for a large box (8 servings) of jello. Keith and I find this too be way too much jello.

July 14, 2008… Note to self: Learning to cook takes time and patience. Few things come out perfect the first time. Please refer to July 8's post.