Jolly Jelly Cake Recipe
This is a kick ass recipe for jolly jelly cake which will knockout anyone who eats it. Excuse my french please. Jolly jelly cake goes perfectly as dessert. I suggest that you try out this jolly jelly cake recipe, and tell me how you find it.
Ingredients
1 package (6 ounces) strawberry-flavored gelatin
1 3/4 cups cake flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons 10X (confectioners' powdered) sugar
Directions
1. Preplare gelatin, following label directions, using 3 1/2 cups water; pour into 8x8x2-inch square pan; chill at least 4 hours, or overnight.
2. Measure flour, baking powder and salt into sifter.
3. Beat, shortening with sugar until fluffy in large bowl of electric mixer at high; speed; beat in egg and vanilla.
4. Sift in dry ingredients, alternately with milk, blending well after each addition; pour into a greased 8x8x2-inch baking pan.
5. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 45 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly touched with fingertip; cool on wire rack 15 minutes; loosen around edges and turn out; cool.
6. Split cake, crosswise, into 2 layers; place bottom layer on cake plate; unmold gelatin on small cookie sheet rinsed with cold water, slide onto cake layer; top with second layer; sprinkle with 10 X sugar. Decorate as you wish.
2. Measure flour, baking powder and salt into sifter.
3. Beat, shortening with sugar until fluffy in large bowl of electric mixer at high; speed; beat in egg and vanilla.
4. Sift in dry ingredients, alternately with milk, blending well after each addition; pour into a greased 8x8x2-inch baking pan.
5. Bake in moderate oven (350°) 45 minutes, or until center springs back when lightly touched with fingertip; cool on wire rack 15 minutes; loosen around edges and turn out; cool.
6. Split cake, crosswise, into 2 layers; place bottom layer on cake plate; unmold gelatin on small cookie sheet rinsed with cold water, slide onto cake layer; top with second layer; sprinkle with 10 X sugar. Decorate as you wish.
