"dsi1" > wrote in message
...
> On 2/16/2015 12:36 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "jinx the minx" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> 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.

I do remember those pudding in the mix cakes. What I don't remember is
anyone poking holes in the cake and pouring pudding in. That almost sounds
like a *******ized Tres Leches cake.
>
> "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

I have never tried one. They actually served that at a Mexican place that
we used to eat at. We were very ambivalent about that place. We'd love the
food and eat there a lot, then one day the food would come with seemingly no
seasoning to it. The rice would be barely pink so they clearly added
something to it but certainly not enough of anything. So we'd quit going.

Then we'd think about it and decide to try it again the food would be good
for a while. Repeat.

Then just when I thought about going again, it was no longer there. I did
ask around because most of the Mexican restaurant owners around here know
the owners of the other places. But nobody knew what happened to this
place. We also used to run into the owner at Costco now and then but
haven't seen him since.