“This tastes like America”, cried Irish Lebowski.
More like the dirty, trashy part of America, this cake really does taste like sweet, beautiful freedom.
It embodies the best this great nation has to offer…
This cake yearns for knowledge.
It benefits from the sexual revolution…
…yet, stilll engages in self destructive behavior as a result of the shame.
Like most of us in our overindulgent society, this cake struggles with it’s weight…
..but it is a true Patriot, so this cake can do no wrong.
GOD BLESS THE USA!
Note: Look, I know this is not really a recipe, but I am also the girl who brought you a poundcake sandwich. What do you expect? Sometimes, I just have to embrace the white trash/inner fat girl in me. This is best served along side frito pie, ambrosia salad and a Coors Light
Jello Poke Cake
1 bx. yellow or white cake mix (Yellow, for me, is the only way to go)
1 (3 oz.) bx. red jello (I used raspberry–it is classy)
1 (8 oz.) carton Cool Whip topping
9 x 13 baking dish
Bake cake according to package directions. While cake is cooling in its pan, poke holes all over with large fork. Mix jello according to package directions. Drizzle jello liquid over cake. Make sure jello penetrates all holes. Chill several hours or overnight. Frost chilled cake with whipped topping. Serve.
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I wasn’t trying to be cute. This cake honestly does taste like America.
This cake made me want to liberate all those oppressed Iraqis. Also, big props to you for indulging my vanity and taking about 20 pictures of me.
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Haha… you said penetrates all holes.
It’s good to see that the cake at least tries with the Lean Pockets, but we all know that it’s only a matter of time before it goes back to the good ol’ reliable Hot Pockets.
Yes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Ooof. This cake scares me.
The gross, sickeningly sweet, synthetic part? Or the freedom part? Do you hate America?
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Omigosh. That actually looks really, really tasty.
It is! It is total junk food, but it is super moist and the cool whip? Who doesn’t like cool whip?
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you’re hilarious… that’s one experienced cake!
This cake gets around…for serious.
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This is the cake that tried the stripper pole…and fell off. Sometimes we just let go of our pretensions and roll around in our animal print underwear having sex, eating cake and then lie there exhausted smoking a cig. I’m sorry, what was i saying….
Falling off a stripper pole hurts…so I hear.
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This cake brings back lots of memories. It was all the rage just about the time you were born. It can also be made with chocolate pudding, YUM!
I would not recommend making this with chocolate pudding…I don’t think it would set right. Are you thinking off another sort of cake? I could be wrong. It has happened once or twice.
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Oh it can be! I have the recipe at home. Off the top of my head I think you only use about 1/4 of the amount of milk that you would use if you were making pudding. I’m telling you, it is tasty!
I feel an experiment in my future.
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I think the bottle of cranberry supplements sealed the deal on the trailer trash.
I know…that really tipped the scales.
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All that cake needs a cowboy hat and a pair of Wranglers and it’s all set for a shift with border patrol….or a Lee Greenwood concert. Same thing.
I used to have a cowboy hat…from when I worked on the ranch. I still haven’t really written about that. I should.
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I like the “about to recite the national anthem” look on your face. God loves America.
That was totally what I was going for. It pleases me someone picked up on this.
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Hahaha, ambrosia salad! I feel ready to go to a family reunion in Ohio with ‘that side’ of my family and eat ridiculous ‘foods’ like this one, avoid talk of politics, religion, culture, or class, pretend to ignore my schizophrenic second cousin, and ride the bitch seat on a four-wheeler. Yee-haw!
You know the ambrosia salad reference was specifically for you, babe. And it cracks me up that the 6′7″ dude is the one sitting bitch.
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By the way, if I happen to see you on July 4th and you are not wearing that shirt, I will pitch a fit.
Nothing says 4th of July like a Scissor Sisters tank.
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If there was ever proof that Food Network needs you, here it is.
I mean, like you’re ever going to get something like this from Ina Garten. Seriously.
(although the thought of Ina Garten in a leopard-print bra kind of skeeves me out, but that’s neither here nor there.)
You know, that Jeffrey seems like a freak. I bet he likes Ina in some kinky stuff. I can lend her the matching underwear as well…
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I just got in trouble for laughing at work *pout*
That was just too funny.
You work for a bunch of killjoys!
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nice tank, tankgrrl. i like where the scissor holes are placed.
ps: i ate tuna out of the can last night. literally.
That is so sad. At least eat salmon out of a can.
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You know, I could totally picture this cake stirring a pitcher of Kool-Aid with her arm, telling her city cousins about how her science teacher said she’s the best kisser.
Ya know, one of the science teachers at my high school was seriously hot…I would have kissed him.
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Wow. You’re gorgeous and you can cook. Impressive.
Thank you; that is very nice.
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Ahh! Poke Cake! I love it so much, and yet had forgotten about it! There is a box of white cake in my kitchen just asking to be poked (I feel like there should be a that’s what she said in there somewhere).
I thought for a minute, from the title, that it was going to be that pretzle-cool whip-strawberry “salad” dish.
Let’s be honest, I could go for both.
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