JELL-O CHERRY POKE CAKE

JELL-O Cherry Poke Cake image

You only need the maraschino cherries for garnish to make this moist and delicious poke cake. It gets its cherryliciousness from cherry flavor gelatin.

Provided by My Food and Family

Categories Recipes

Time 4h30m

Yield 16 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

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Ingredients

2 round white cake layers (9 inch), cooled
2 cups boiling water
2 pkg. (3 oz. each) or 1 pkg. (8-serving size) JELL-O Cherry Flavor Gelatin
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed
3 maraschino cherries with stems

Steps:

Place cakes, top sides up, in clean 9-inch round pans; pierce with large fork at 1/2-inch intervals.
Add boiling water to gelatin mix; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Carefully pour over cake layers. Refrigerate 3 hours.
Dip bottoms of cake pans in warm water 10 sec.; unmold cakes. Fill and frost cake layers with COOL WHIP. Refrigerate 1 hour. Garnish with cherries.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 230, Fat 8 g, SaturatedFat 4 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Sodium 260 mg, Carbohydrate 37 g, Fiber 0 g, Sugar 25 g, Protein 3 g