Raspberry lemonade Jell-o Cake

As I was preparing for the baby’s first birthday party I started considering what cake to make.  My husband’s all time favorite is Jell-o cake and I thought it would be fun to try it.  I also made it a pink camo cake which was fun too!  The cake turned out awesome, Grammy touted it as the best cake I’ve made yet and my sister even asked to take a piece home to her fiancee.  This just doesn’t happen because my deserts are usually considered too healthy…

I started with the white cake recipe from an earlier blog post and changed it slightly, it came out so much fluffier than the original recipe that I updated that recipe.  You can find the improved version here:  white cake recipe

In order to make the cake camo colored I added red food coloring to the batter and mixed it well. I scooped dolops of the batter randomly around the pan and changed the color in the remaining batter.  I repeated this process about four times, using 3 shades of pink and 2 shades of purple until I had covered the pan and used all the batter.  I also used this process with the whipped topping to make the frosting camo colored.

 

Raspberry Lemonade Jello Cake

1. Make white cake  according to the recipe.

2. add 1 tsp of raspberry flavoring to the cake batter.

3. baked it following the recipe directions, remove it from the oven to cool.

4.  poke holes all over the top using a fork.

5. prepare the “Jell-o”

6. Spoon liquid over the baked cake, making sure to get it into the holes.  Chill in refrigerator.

7. Prepare whipped topping, mix in 1/2 tsp raspberry extract and 1/2 tsp lemon extract

8. Spread topping over cake, chill and serve.

 

Homemade Jell-o

1 cup 100% fruit  juice of choice – I used white grape raspberry

1 package gellatin

 

directions:

1. pour juice into a pan

2. Sprinkle Gellatin over cold juice.  Mix well

3. bring to a boil, stirring frequently

for regular Jell-o this can be poured into cups and chilled in the refrigerator.

 

Whipped Topping (replacement for cool-whip)

2 Cups Heavy Whipping cream

1/4 Cup Honey (or to taste)

1 tsp vanilla extract

 

directions

1. Whip heavy cream until soft peaks form

2. Add honey and vanilla. Mix well

 

Easy Vanilla Ice cream

2 C heavy cream

1 C milk

1/2 c honey

1/8 c stevia (cup for cup like sugar)

1 Tbsp vanilla

1 tsp almond extract

Directions:

put all ingredients in ice cream maker and churn according to machine directions

or

mix ingredients together then freeze flat in a gallon size baggie.  Once frozen break up and put into food processor, blend until smooth. YUM!

This recipe was adapted from a recipe I found on allrecipes.com see the original recipe here