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- By The Click Americana Team
- Added or last updatedJune 6, 2023
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This vintage Stripe-It-Rich cake recipe — made easy with boxed cake mix and your favorite flavor of pudding — can make an ordinary cake extraordinary. (One bonus: You don’t even need a separate frosting, because you can use the pudding mixture to frost the cake.)
So combine a chocolate cake with vanilla pudding, a white cake with butterscotch pudding, a lemon cake with lemon pudding… or any other deliciously creative combination you can imagine. Here’s how to do it, with the retro-how-to from the 1980s!
Retro recipe for Jell-O pudding Stripe-It-Rich poke cakes: Ordinary to extraordinary
Stripe-it-Rich pudding poke cakes make ordinary cakes extraordinary. It’s easy! Use the Jell-O instant pudding mixture to frost, fill and stripe. Here’s how. (Get a rainbow poke cake recipe, too!)
How to make a jello pudding Stripe-it-Rich cake – step by step photos
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Stripe-It-Rich cake (Pudding poke cake)
Yield: 12 servings
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Additional Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours
This Stripe-It-Rich cake recipe - made with your favorite flavor of pudding - can make an ordinary cake extraordinary. It's easy! Here's how to do it, with the retro-how-to from the 1980s.
Ingredients
- 1 package cake mix, any flavor
- 2 packages (3-1/2 oz each) Jello instant pudding, any flavor
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 4 cups cold milk
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix as directed on package, baking in a 9 x 13 pan. Remove from oven.
- Poke holes quickly down through cake with round handle of a wooden spoon at 1-inch intervals.
- Only after poking holes, combine instant pudding mix with powdered sugar in large bowl.
- Gradually stir in milk. Then beat at low speed of electric mixer for not more than 1 minute (do not over beat).
- Quickly, before pudding thickens, pour about 1/2 of the thin pudding evenly over the warm cake and into the holes to make the stripes.
- Allow remaining pudding to thicken slightly; then spoon over the top, swirling it to "frost" the cake.
- Chill at least 1 hour.
- Store in refrigerator. Cover with plastic wrap if desired.
Notes
This is also known as aJell-O pudding poke cake
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 264Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 8mgSodium: 424mgCarbohydrates: 53gFiber: 1gSugar: 32gProtein: 5g
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- Categories: 1980s, Vintage advertisem*nts, Vintage dessert recipes,
- Tags: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, cake frosting, cake mixes, cakes, chocolate cakes, jello, packaged mixes, poke cake, pudding, pudding mix, puddings, recipes, Vintage chocolate, vintage dessert recipes
- Original publication date: August 1982
- Added or last updatedJune 6, 2023
- Comments: 2 Comments
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One of my all time favorite recipes. I use it ALL the time!
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Actually the jello and pudding poke cake goes back farther than you think! When I was a child in the 60s my mom used to make these two cakes for us all of the time! In fact I still have her handwritten recipe that she wrote down in the mid sixties! I also remember Shake-A-Pudding; does anyone remember that?
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