Strawberry Poke Cake | Jello Gelatin | Easy Cake Mix Dessert Recipe

It's Strawberry Season! Here's a simple, easy and quick dessert recipe using a cake mix to put together.  A classic Strawberry Poke Cake made from a cake mix and Jello gelatin is also a fun way to teach the kids or grandchildren home ec baking cooking skills in the kitchen! It can be made with your favorite flavor of Jello!

Doctored Cake Mix Quick Desserts

Easy quick desserts make a nice ending to a meal.  Fresh Strawberries picked during berry season make it even better! 

Make this fun dessert using red jello for a a treat in the summer, or Holiday dessert such as July 4th, or perhaps lime Jello or gelatin, for St. Patrick's Day or Christmas dessert.

A nice alternative to the usual classic Strawberry Shortcake, try it also with your favorite from scratch sponge cake recipe. What a fun family activity in the kitchen with the kids for a rainy day or the next time you're babysitting the grandchildren!

Check out a favorite recipe from a co-worker for fresh Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese frosting

Clean up your kitchen easily with my crochet handmade Dish Cloths from my Moomettes Crochet shop!

 Jello Poke Cake

1 box cake mix (white or yellow)
1 box of flavored Jello or gelatin
Red food coloring
1 container of Cool Whip or fresh whipped cream
1 container of fresh strawberries or frozen strawberries (thawed)

Prepare and cook cake according to package directions. Add some red food coloring if desired.
Cool cake.
Using a fork, poke holes all over
Spoon or pour Jello mixture all over the cake.
Chill until jello is no longer runny.
Ice or frost cake with Cool Whip or fresh whipped cream.
Decorate as desired.
Serve with fresh fruit strawberries 

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Fresh Strawberry Cake Recipe | Cream Cheese Frosting

When it's strawberry picking season, and this is a delightful cake to make with fresh strawberries!  There's nothing like taking the kids or grandchildren and going out to the strawberry patch to pick your own fruit! Strawberry Cake is a great comfort food dessert to hit the spot.

Of course you can always make this delish cake with strawberries from your grocery store.

I like to make a fresh fruit strawberry rhubarb cobbler too! This recipe was shared by one of my co-workers and has quickly become a favorite!  Starting with a box cake mix, it's easy and quick to make. Bring to your next summer picnic - Top it off with homemade cream cheese icing!

Check out my other yummy recipes with Strawberries - 

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

Strawberry Peach Trifle

Strawberry Poke Cake

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Easy Strawberry Cake Desserts

1 box yellow or white cake mix with pudding
1 (3oz.) box strawberry Jello gelatin 
3/4 cup salad oil
2 tbl flour
4 eggs
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
1 pint fresh strawberries (crushed)
1/2 cup sugar

*Cream Cheese Frosting*
1 package (8 oz) cream cheese or Mascarpone
1 tbl milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup confectioner's xxx sugar
Add sugar beating until smooth.

Beat all ingredients together on medium speed for 3 minutes
Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes.
Cool on rack for 10 minutes.
After taking cake out of oven let sit for 15 minutes in pan, then take tube part of cake out of pan and let that set for 15 min.

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Strawberry Peach Trifle Recipe | Trifle Bowl Desserts | Party Food

For an easy, refreshing summer dessert using fresh fruit, try making Trifle bowl desserts with this favorite Strawberry Peach Trifle recipe! It's related to Peach Melba.

Trifle Bowl Desserts

I made this yummy Strawberry Peach Trifle once for my charming son-in-law's birthday.  Trifle Bowl Desserts are so easy to make.  He enjoys Angel Food Cake, so I always try to incorporate the sponge cake into a birthday cake recipe for him.

One of the gals in my office is always bringing in Trifle to celebrate special occasions, and I've been gathering quite a collection of trifle dessert recipes on my Pinterest Boards for pinspiration!

This fresh fruit recipe was just something I happened to throw together in a pinch yesterday, after I got finished scraping wallpaper from my upstairs bathroom, which I'm redecorating.

But now the real story begins!

I found a great elegant Trifle bowl to replace my smaller Trifle bowl that I've had for years.  The new one is quite heavy, even when empty.

Both my grandson and son-in-law have summer birthdays. Years ago we celebrated with a family birthday party for Slugger on Saturday, and a joint party to finish the leftovers on Sunday.

I put together the fruit trifle and had it in a freezer bag on my lap in the car.  As my husband backed out of the driveway, it tipped over, all about 4 pounds of it. A new Summer Olympic Sport was born!  Catch The Trifle Bowl Desserts Save - and I won a Gold Medal!

In the process, I broke and dislocated the joint in my pinky finger on my right hand, which happens to be my dominant (read - mouse) hand.  Both hubby and youngest daughter voted right then and there to eat dinner first, and worry about me going to the ER or Walk-In Clinic later, after dinner. So after a visit to the Emergency Room later that night; some x-rays, a huge long needle as a pain blocker, and a realignment of my finger from a 45 degree angle I was in a splint for 6 weeks and had an appointment with my Orthopaedist!

He's actually turning out to be my buddy since he put together my broken wrist when I fell off a scooter when on vacation in Bermuda!

 But it didn't stop me from crocheting my handmade Dish Cloths for my Moomettes Crochet shop!

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Anyhow, enjoy this easy pudding Strawberry Peach Trifle Recipe and make it as simple or fancy as you please! You can serve for brunch, or bring for a party foods, Pot Luck and it will always be a crowd pleaser!  I guess I can say you can even make it out of Lady Fingers!

My other Strawberry recipes that are yummy - 

Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

Strawberry Poke Cake

Strawberry Cake 

If  you enjoy peaches, check out my recipe for Peach Dump Cake!

Strawberry Peach Trifle Recipe

1 lb fresh strawberries, hulled
4 ripe peaches
1/3 c. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 pkgs. Jello instant vanilla pudding
3-3/4 c. milk
1 8 oz. container Cool Whip dairy topping
Strawberry jam (optional)
1 store-bought or homemade Angel Food Cake

Wash, hull and cut up strawberries.
Wash, skin and dice peaches.
Stir and whip together milk, vanilla and Jello instant pudding mix.
Fold in one-half container of the Cool Whip dairy topping into pudding mixture, then set aside and refrigerate until ready to use.
Break up Angel Food cake into bite size pieces.

Assembly:
Alternate layers of Angel Food Cake, strawberries, peaches, pudding mixture and strawberry jam (if desired)
Frost with remaining Cool Whip mixture.
Garnish as desired.
Refrigerate until ready to serve. 

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