Strawberry Jello Cake

Strawberry as a berry is a favorite with people all around the world. Therefore, anything with strawberry as an ingredient is a gastronomic delight. Likewise is the case with jelly. Most of us like the taste of jelly, as well. Therefore, when we combine two of our favorite ingredients with another favorite ingredient (namely cake), the resultant recipe will certainly come up to our liking as well. The ingredients used to make a strawberry jello are gelatin, sugar, water, natural strawberry or artificial strawberry flavors or colors. When you have to make a strawberry jello cake, you will be able to find a number of cake recipes. Most of these recipes make use of cake mixes, which helps in saving a lot of precious time and effort as well. Now let's turn to the recipe to make this delicious cake.

How to Make Strawberry Jello Cake

There are various ways in which, you can make this cake. We will see some of the recipes now.

Cake Recipe
This is the basic version of the said cake, using which you will be able to make a perfect dessert for warm afternoons. You can make use of this recipe to make dessert, when you are hosting people for a party.

Ingredients

• White Cake Mix 1 pack
• Strawberry Gelatin 1 pack
• Frozen Strawberry 1 pack
• Flour 3 tbsp
• Salt ¼ tsp
• Oil 1 cup
• Eggs 4
• Water ½ cup

Method

• While you get the batter ready to make the cake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a large mixing bowl, sift cake mix, gelatin mix, flour and salt together.
• Add oil and water to the dry ingredients and beat well.
• Add one egg at a time to the mixture and blend well.
• Mash the strawberries in a medium size bowl.
• Add the mashed strawberries into the cake batter and mix well. Use the other half of the mashed strawberries to make icing for the cake, using different icing recipes.
• Pour the cake batter into 2 layer cake pans and place the pans in the preheated oven.
• Let the cake bake for about 30 minutes.
• Once the cake is ready, remove it from the refrigerator, let it cool down completely, before you spread the frosting on the cake.

Cake Filling
You can also make use of strawberry jello filling to make a wonderful cake. Let's see the recipe to make the strawberry cake filling.

Ingredients

• Hulled and Crushed Strawberries 2 cups
• Boiling Water 3 tbsp
• Sugar ½ cup
• Unflavored Gelatin 1 tbsp
• Whipping Cream ½ cup
• Cold Water 2 tbsp

Method

• In a bowl place the crushed strawberries and add sugar and keep it aside.
• In a small bowl, mix cold water and gelatin together, till it is softened.
• When the gelatin softened, add boiling water to the gelatin and continue to stir until the gelatin dissolves.
• Mix the gelatin mixture and strawberries together and let it cool down.
• Whip cream, till it is stiff.
• After the strawberry mixture thickens up to a thickness of a syrup, add whipped cream to it.
• Place the filling in the refrigerator, till it sets.

Jello Cake with Cool Whip
This jello cake is also called 'poke cake'. Here is the recipe to make this great jello cake. You may want to take a look at the cool whip jello recipes, as well to help you to make jello cake with cool whip.

Ingredients

• White Cake Mix 1 pack
• Strawberry Flavored Gelatin 1 box
• Water as per directions on the pack
• Cool Whip 1 pack

Method

• Prepare the cake as per the directions on the pack.
• When the cake is ready and has cooled down, use a pair of chopsticks to poke holes into the cake. Make sure that the chopsticks do not make their way to the bottom of the cake.
• Prepare the gelatin as per directions on the pack, but do not chill it.
• When the gelatin liquid cools down, pour it evenly over the entire cake. The holes in the cake will help gelatin to seep into the cake.
• Now refrigerate the cake, till gelatin firms for about 3 to 4 hours.
• Whip the cool whip, till it is stiff and spread it over the cake. You can use cake decorating ideas, like decorating it with strawberries. And voila, your jello cake with cool whip is ready.

Making a jello cake is indeed easy, don't you agree with me? Are you still here or are you off to make jello cake already? The best time to make this cake, is when strawberries are available in abundance, so that you do not have to make use of flavors. The same way, you can also make jello cakes with the available fruits as well.