On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:36:45 -0000, "Ophelia"
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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
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>> 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.

Oh no Ophelia...you're going to be totally "ruined" as a "from
scratch" baker if you keep listening to these "semi-homemade"
bakers over in "the colonies"!

William