When you were a kid, do you recall those delectable foods on a stick? Vanilla cream inside and frozen orange on the outside? Here is a cake that has the exact same flavor as those delicious delights. Note: Use a container of lemon cake mix and 1 little envelope of orange drink mix powder if you can’t find an orange cake mix.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 30 mins |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 1 to 13 – x inch cake |
Ingredients
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package orange cake mix
- 2 (3 ounce) packages orange flavored Jell-O® mix
- 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
Instructions
- Bake cake as directed in a 9×13 inch pan. When done, use a meat fork to poke holes across the top of the entire cake. Allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl, mix together 1 box gelatin, 1 cup hot water and 1 cup cold water. Pour over top of cake. Refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours.
- Mix remaining box of gelatin, pudding mix, milk and vanilla together. Beat well. Fold whipped topping into this mixture, and spread on top of cake. Chill in refrigerator until serving.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 224 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 39 g |
| Cholesterol | 2 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 308 mg |
| Sugars | 28 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Subbed fresh orange juice for water in cake mix. Used one cup of water with jello to pour over cake and no jello in frosting. Lovely & refreshing!
Tastes great. This would be a refreshing summer treat
Wonderful flavor, easy to make! Use boiling water for the Jello you pour over the cake, just as you would when making gelatin alone. Also stir for about two minutes so that it dissolves. I can’t wait to make this for church and family meals. The beautiful pastel color is perfect for spring!
I really liked it really took me back to the good old times.
This made a lovely cake. I don’t have orange cake mix available where I am so I took some suggestions from reviewers and used a white cake mix and added some orange zest and orange raro. Worked a treat. Would be interested to try other fruit flavours as well. Will make again.
Very simply done.
I have used different flavors & each 1 has worked 🙂
I have used different flavors & each 1 has worked 🙂
My family loved this!
Made this as directed. Easy and turned out great.
I did not have orange cake mix, so I added one package of orange Kool-Aid into the batter before following with the cake instructions. I did not use all the water called for in this recipe, I only use a half cup each of hot/cold water. After “frosting” the cooled cake, I studded the top of the cake with drained mandarin oranges. Just like a Dreamsicle/Creamsicle. This was great because it uses on hand ingredients, it’s cheap and easy to assemble and it’s absolutely delicious! NOTE: I did use sugar-free cake mix, sugar free orange gelatin, sugar free pudding mix and “lite” topping, just to some how make this a little less….threatening to us older folks who are watching our weight/sugars.
I made this cake for Thanksgiving and it was huge hit! Everyone loved it and thought it was pretty spectacular. Me and my husband thought it was too wet though. I think next time I will use less water. Other than that, it tasted just like a push up and was very good.
Doesn’t resemble a 50/50 bar by any means! The frosting however, is pretty good.
was very good! I could not find an orange cake mix so I used a white and added 1 and 1/2 tbsp orange flavoring. our family and friends love it!
This recipe was not to my liking.
We really loved this cake. I read the recipe wrong and only bought 1 box of Jell-O instead of two but I think it might’ve been too sweet with it. I used about 1 1/2 C water total then reserved about 1/4 C of the Jell-O mix to add to the frosting to give it a slight orange color. I’ve made a lot of poke cakes in my time and find a wooden skewer or toothpick work best for poking holes, the cake won’t stick on wood. Of course the orange flavor is artifical but so is it in dreamsicles so if you like more natural flavors this cake is not for you. Two thumbs up!
This is a great summer dessert, very refreshing and delicious. People always rave about it and ask for the recipe. I made no changes to the original recipe.
This cake was great! As is any jello cake is, except the icing was too runny. Next time I would use less milk in the icing or just use the cool whip. Great summer treat!
This cake is OK (at best). I have been wanting to make this for a long, long time, but just never got around to it. I wasn’t totally disappointed, but not impressed either (neither were my friends – I made this for a a cook-out last weekend). The cake is easy to prepare. I like that I can make it in the AM and leave in the fridge all day while I do other things. I was surprised by the taste – this didn’t remind me of a creamsicle at all (well, maybe a little…). The frosting tasted creamsicle-like, but the cake itself did not. It wasn’t too sweet as many others complained about (I did use only half of the package of Jell-O called for in the topping), just bland. I didn’t like the fact that the cake seemed heavy-wet (it didn’t cut well). I might try this recipe with a vanilla cake mix next time as the lemon one seemed out of place. Might also pour less Jell-O liquid over cooled cake as this could solve the heaviness issue. Thanks for the recipe!
I love this cake. I’ve made it the orange way. I’ve also substituted a strawberry cake w/ strawberry or raspberry jello and put some fresh berries on top! Mmm!!! Disappears!! Thank you!
I took this to work for a birthday and everyone loved it, and I had several requests for the recipe. I’m sure I’ll be making it again. Thanks for sharing.
I really wanted to like this, but its too sweet, just too much of something. It does taste like a orange push-up, but I could only eat 2-3 bites and that was enough. Would not make again.
This is a great cake on a warm day, nice and cool!