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Raspberry (or Strawberry) Cream-Filled Angel Cake

  • 1 store-bought angel food cake
  • 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
  • 4 TBS lemon juice
  • 1-1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 1-12 oz container of Cool Whip
  • 2 pints fresh raspberries, cleaned and hulled or strawberries, cleaned, hulled, and sliced

Turn cake upside down and cut a 1 inch slice off the “top”. Lift if off carefully, set aside, and cut out the insides of your cake. Cut pieces into 1 inch cubes. Leave at least a one inch cake “cushion” all the way around the edges as well as on the bottom. You’ll be left with a hollow shell that we’ll fill with fresh berries and cream!

Combine sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, and extract. Fold Cool Whip into milk mixture and chill for 10 minutes. Once chilled, pour 1-1/2 cups worth into a bowl and stir in cake pieces. Gently fold in raspberries (or strawberries) and spoon mixture into cake shell. Replace “top” and press to seal. Use extra cream mixture to frost cake. Chill in fridge for 2 hours – garnish with additional berries if desired. Sliced and toasted almonds also look nice sprinkled on this beautiful cake.

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Strawberry Shortcake Lush

  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix
  • Butter and egg called for on cookie mix pouch for drop cookies
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
  • 1 container (7.5 oz) strawberry cream cheese spread, softened
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup strawberry jam
  • 1 container (12 oz) Cool Whip, thawed
  • 2 boxes (4-serving size each) vanilla flavor instant pudding
  • 3 cups cold milk
  • 1 cup chopped fresh strawberries
  1. Heat oven to 375. Make and bake drop cookies as directed on pouch. Cool completely, at least 20 minutes. Set aside 4 cookies for garnish.
  2. In food processor, process 1/2 of the remaining cookies to coarse crumbs. Remove to medium bowl. Continue to process second half of remaining cookies to coarse crumbs; add to bowl. Stir in melted butter until well blended. In ungreased 9X13 glass baking dish, press cookie crumb mixture firmly in bottom. Set aside.
  3. In large bowl, beat cream cheese spread, powdered sugar, and jam with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, scraping down side of bowl frequently. Beat in 2 cups of the whipped topping. Spread over cookie crust.
  4. In another medium bowl, beat dry pudding mix and milk with whisk about 2 minutes or until thick. Spread over cream cheese mixture. Drop remaining whipped topping by spoonfuls over pudding layer; spread evenly. Cover and refrigerate 4 hours.
  5. When ready to serve, crumble remaining 4 cookies; sprinkle cookies and strawberries on top. Cut into 6 rows by 4 rows. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pieces.
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Cottage Cheese Salad

  • 1 pint cottage cheese, small curd
  • 1( 3 oz) package Jell-O, any flavor
  • 1 (8 oz) container Cool Whip

Add Jell-O to Cool Whip and cottage cheese. Mix well. Chill to set and meld.

You can add fruit like strawberries or raspberries or even mandarin oranges or pineapple. If using frozen thaw and drain. If using canned drain.