An excellent treat for a hot day.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 – 9×13 inch pan |
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package lemon cake mix
- 1 (3 ounce) package lemon flavored Jell-O® mix
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 (3 ounce) package instant lemon pudding mix
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions for a 9×13 inch pan. Poke holes in cake while still hot with the round handle of a wooden spoon. Make gelatin with only 1 cup of boiling water. Pour liquid gelatin over cake while hot. Cool cake completely.
- Beat together whipped topping, pudding mix, milk and vanilla extract. Pour mixture over cooled cake and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 308 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 51 g |
| Cholesterol | 13 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 468 mg |
| Sugars | 30 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I added 1 lemon to replace a little of the boiling water for the jello pour over, added juice of 2 lemons and use oz sour cream w 1/2 c powdered sugar for between the layers and used lemon frosting w 2 T lemon juice to frost the cake. With these changes, I received rave reviews and requests for more!
Simple, no fail recipe. Everyone raved about the cake.
Oh, THIS one right here is a keeper!! From previous experience with a similar type of cake though, I did cut back on the milk in the pudding, which worked out well.
Made this cake for my mother’s birthday! DELICIOUS!! Everyone loved it!
Yes! Love this cake. I added lemon pie filling on top of the cake before I added the final topping. Yum!!
I made this for a coworkers birthday and it was delicious. I love lemon and this was the best lemon cake
I made this for my dad’s birthday! It was absolutely amazing!
It was good but not really good for my tastes
Very good. Want to make this for Easter next.
This was an excellent recipe. Very most and delicious
Very good recipe. Used with lemon cheese frosting.
Very good as stated. I made it with 2 9 inch cake rounds. Perfect!
This is a nice light cake, great for the summer or spring. Went over extremely well with my family who do not always like rich desserts.
This cake is so easy–and very delicious! I added about 2 tbsp of lemon extract to the frosting because it wasn’t lemony enough for my liking. But the cake itself was moist and very flavorful. Make sure you grease or spray the bottom of the pan – the cake will stick to it (could be because of the jello). I made this in a 9×13″ glass pan and it still came out great. Everyone at work loved it, and I will definitely be making this again!
This is a crowd pleaser!!!! I call this my cheating cake because everything comes from boxes…It has a homemade taste but quick and easy to make. Just follow the directions and everyone will love it. I love the way the pudding becomes a lemon moose instead of a frosting. I have made chocolate moose on the side, using these ingredients, instant chocolate pudding mix, vanilla, and milk. Amazing what you can do with instant pudding.
I’m not sure why this recipe has gotten so many good ratings. It tastes like a boxed cake mix with whipped cream on top. I was looking for something easy and different and chose this recipe but was very disappointed. The jello does not saturate the cake and as a result only some bites are lemony and moist. The other bites taste just like a lemon cake mix which reminds me of pine sol. I found the frosting to be bland. I took this cake to a get together at a park and no one said a word about it and I took half of it home. So, needless to say, this will not make it into my recipe box.
Very tasty! Light and scrumptious. Perfect for a hot day. Be sure when making the icing, to mix the pudding with the milk first, instead of the cool whip (like I did). Result- icing was clumpy, but still very yummy.
Pretty good. Used a bundt pan and had trouble removing it, so it wasn’t beautiful to look at but the taste was good.
This is a very nice recipe. I made it for Mother’s Day and everyone raved. I was skeptical because of the mix and “Non Scratch” style, but it was so easy and delicious, I soon forgot about that. This would be great for any Spring or Summer event.
Everyone really liked this cake; especially the frosting part. Very easy, foolproof, and I will make again. I used extra creamy whipped topping. It was a big hit and a few asked for the recipe.
The frosting is wonderful! I used real whipping cream, beat it until thick, then added the remaining ingredients. Everyone wanted the frosting recipe…