"jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote:
>> > wrote in message
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>>> On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 3:58:48 PM UTC-6, Janet B wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a dessert recipe that uses a boxed yellow cake mix
>>>> and no nuts or chocolate? I got the cake last fall to do some recipe
>>>> and then my husband got his kidney stone. After that no nuts and no
>>>> chocolate. It can be as hokey as you please. We're both from the
>>>> mid-west and have probably seen it all before. Wasn't there a cake
>>>> mix recipe at one time that used canned fruit?
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've had the one with the canned fruit cocktail and for the life of me I
>>> > can't remember the exact steps or what it's called (fruit cocktail
>>>> cake?). > I'm a lot of help, aren't I?
>>>
>>> Then there's the old recipe from the 60's-70's called a 'poke cake.' >
>>> Holes are poked into a 9 x 13 prepared cake with the handle of a wooden
>>> > spoon. Prepared Jell-O, flavor of your choice, is poured over the cake
>>>> and > refrigerated until the Jell-O is set. Frost with Dream Whip or
>>>> if you're > brave, Cool Whip.
>>
>> Blimey!!
>>
>
>
> There you have it! I don't think I've eaten a poke cake in 35+ years, but
> they were quite common during my mid 70's elementary school years.

Well it sounds as though it is still popular I am still trying to get my
head round it

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