"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 2/16/2015 12:36 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "jinx the minx" > wrote in message
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>>> 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
>>>
>>> You could always make a Midwestern friendly poke cake with any flavor
>>> pudding or jello. As a kid I liked them with banana or vanilla pudding.
>>> Just make sure to use a boiled pudding and not instant.
>>
>> Please would you explain that more fully? I have never bought a boxed
>> cake mix
>> but I would be willing to try it if you explain how the jello works with
>> it.
>>
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> Some time ago, somebody got the idea of adding a box of pudding to a box
> of cake mix - it could have been during the 70s. Typically you added a
> bunch of oil to the mixes too which gave you a richer, moister, cake. The
> practice got to be so popular that some mixes will claim to have pudding
> already in the mix.
>
> "Poke" cake refers to the practice of poking holes in the warm cake and
> pouring Jello on the top. The holes make the cake accept the liquid more
> easily and gives it some interesting striations. I have not heard of
> pouring pudding onto a poke cake but it appears that some people do.
>
> My feeling on the subject is that well heck, if you're gonna poke holes in
> a cake and pour stuff on it, you might as well make tres leches cake. This
> is pretty much instant death to lactose intolerant folks like me but what
> a way to go!
>
> http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/t...ke-recipe.html

Thanks Mr D I am surprised that mixing cake mix and pudding together
would allow a cake to bake propely.

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