- Remove angel food cake from container and invert onto plate; bottom is now the top of cake. With a serrated knife, carefully remove top of cake by slicing horizontally 1/2 inch down from top. Set aside.
- Gently hollow out center of cake. Be careful not to tear inside or outside "walls" of cake. Tear removed cake into small pieces and place in medium bowl.
- Pick out best looking strawberry to use as garnish; set aside. To bowl containing cake pieces, add strawberries, mint, orange-flavoured liqueur, and 1/2 cup of the frozen whipped topping. Fold until combined.
- Fill cake, both well and center with strawberry mixture. Replace reserved top of cake.
- Stir orange extract into remaining frozen whipped topping; frost cake. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and top with reserved strawberry. Chill cake for 4 hours before serving.
Okay, so I didn't bother with the mint because while it looks really pretty in the cake I just know Maddie would have hated that. Also, I had no orange flavoured liqueur hanging around and even though it's such a small amount...probably shouldn't be giving booze to the kiddos. I did have orange extract, though...so I used that in the Cool Whip. The brand of mine is "Frontier" but I don't remember now where I got it...probably from "Goodness Me".
Verdict: yummo.
So simple and easy and really impressive looking. Well, mine is a bit messy (Sandra Lee swirled her Cool Whip and I just spiked it. The swirls are prettier. Plus, Sandra had all the little hits of green from the mint in hers - which also makes it look prettier). This would be great if you needed to bring a dessert to someone's house but you really had no time. They'd think you slaved over it all day! Dave thought it would be even better with fresh strawberries and that would probably be true but only if you added sugar and water to them and let them sit for a bit to get all nice and squishy. You need there to be some sugary syrup around them to seep into the cake.
Easy-Peasy!
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3 comments:
YUM! I love mint in anything and I love strawberries with anything...this would make me berry, berry happy ;)
This looks heavenly! Michelle and I also did desserts this week for WCW - must be that time of year. ;-)
Well great minds, as they say. I haven't seen any of her cookbooks, but I did get her autobiography for Christmas that I haven't read yet. Since I just finished the Memory Keeper's Daughter (which I loved, highly recommend) I think I'll dive into that next. I used to make a chocolate cake similar to this, but since everything was from scratch it was way more labour intensive. Looks so yummy!
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