I couldn't find a recipe for this Dreamsicle Cake from Applebees anywhere on the internet. Since I really wanted to make it for Father's Day yesterday, I came up with my own version. Although it didn't turn out exactly like the dessert from Applebees, it was pretty tasty. Here's the recipe:
Dreamsicle Cake
1 butter recipe yellow cake mix
1 large box orange Jello
2 cups boiling water
1 1/2 cups cold water
20 graham cracker squares, crushed
1/4 cup sugar
6 Tbsp. melted butter or margarine
1 small box white chocolate instant pudding mix
2 cups milk
1 1/2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup thawed cool whip
2 (11 oz.) cans mandarin oranges, drained
Cool whip
Mix cake according to package. Bake in two rounds or squares. Set out to cool.
Dissolve orange Jello in boiling water. Stir in cold water. Refrigerate to cool while putting together the rest of the cake, but don't allow to set.
Mix graham crumbs, sugar and butter. Press onto bottom of 13x9 inch pan. Mix pudding and milk according to package. Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Carefully stir together cream cheese mixture, pudding, and cool whip. Spread over graham cracker crust. Cut half the baked cake into 1/2 inch cubes. Spread cake cubes on cream cheese mixture. Sprinkle mandarin oranges on top. Pour orange Jello over cake and oranges, soaking cake cubes. Refrigerate several hours. Serve with cool whip spread on top.
I freeze the other half of the cake to use again, or feed it to the kids who refuse to eat orange cake. I use low-fat milk, cream cheese, and cool whip. You could use non-fat dairy products to take out some calories, or regular and make it really rich.
It always amazes me how many different desserts you can make with pudding, Jello, and cool whip!
3 comments:
This looks delicious! I am in this mode where I want to make all these yummy recipes that I keep finding, but when it all comes down to it, it really is no fun cooking for 2 people! Especially when it is dessert and you end up eating the whole thing yourself. (yikes). So, for now I will just keep collecting and stashing them away in my yummy looking recipes to be tried later file.
Yes, this recipe makes a ton of dessert--you could probably get 16 good size servings out of it. Brian and I have pretty much finished the whole thing off ourselves! It's really good.
I'm impressed by your creative cooking abilities! I'll have to add it to my pile of desserts-that-I'll-have-to-try-someday pile. I must admit, though, that the desserts I actually get around to making are few and far between (as my family well knows) and extremely simple, like brownies.
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