Patriotic Poke Cake

photo by:kraft

We pledge allegiance to a cake that shows its colors this deliciously. Serve with fresh blueberries and red strawberries and you'll cause even more revelry.

time

prep:

30 min

total:

4 hr 30 min

servings

total:

16 servings

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What You Need

baked 9-inch round white cake layers, cooled

cups boiling water, divided

pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Strawberry Flavor Gelatin, or any other red flavor

pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Berry Blue Flavor Gelatin

tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed

Make It

PLACE cakes, top-sides up, in clean 9-inch round pans; pierce with large fork at 1/2-inch intervals.

ADD 1 cup boiling water to each flavor dry gelatin mix in separate small bowls; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Pour red gelatin over 1 cake and blue gelatin over remaining cake. Refrigerate 3 hours.

DIP bottoms of cake pans in warm water 10 sec.; unmold. Fill and frost cake layers with COOL WHIP. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Special Extra

Serve with colorful fresh berries, such as blueberries, strawberries and raspberries.

Substitute

Prepare using COOL WHIP LITE Whipped Topping.

Variation - Patriotic Poke Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pour gelatin over cakes and refrigerate as directed. Beat 2 pkg. (8 oz. each) softened PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese and 2 cups powdered sugar in large bowl with mixer or whisk until blended. Gently stir in COOL WHIP until blended. Unmold cakes as directed. Fill and frost cake layers with cream cheese frosting.

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lesliethompson1

posted:1/25/2008

Tasty and Moist- Tasted like strawberry shortcake!

lillianjewell

posted:11/13/2007

For the 'frosting' I use 60/40 sugar-free vanilla pudding & cool whip. I took it to a party EVERYONE LOVED IT-along with how pretty it looked. I didn't tell them that I used sugar-free everything!

a cook

posted:7/27/2007

I make this every year for Memorial Day and it is always a hit! I replace the strawberry Jello for cherry though, and I think its better. I will definately make this many more times.

scorpio1x1

posted:7/22/2007

Very good!

MrsMatthies

posted:7/11/2007

This was the talk of the dessert table! So tasty for a very hot 4th of July!

sprucelady

posted:7/5/2007

This was a big hit at the 4th of July picnic :)

kwaltos81

posted:7/5/2007

I loved this cake, it was cute, easy to make and everyone thought it was yummy! My only complaint was that, i didn't know that you had to even out the bottom cake and as soon as we cut into it the whole top part came sliding down. So next time I make it I will have to even it out and make it a flat surface.

lilmisszarah

posted:7/5/2007

I took this to my in-laws house last night and everyone thought it was wonderful. I've never been complimented so much on a dessert that I've made. It was reallly easy to make. I used the cool whip topping and decorated the cake with blueberries and raspberries.

Jarholly

posted:7/5/2007

Very easy to make. Family loved it for the holiday. I didn't care for the cream cheese frosting. It was easy to work with and make, but was a bit bitter for my liking. I added vanilla for more flavor. May use more powder sugar next time as well. But over all was a family hit.

Angie46236

posted:7/4/2007

I like it with the variation of using cream cheese icing because the top layer always has a tendency to slide on me when I use cool whip