This is the cake I make when I want to remind myselfthat summer is almost here. 🍋🍓Strawberry Lemonade Poke Cake. The pink lemonadeJello soaks down into every hole and turns the wholecake this gorgeous blush pink, and then the lemon creamcheese frosting on top is tangy and sweet and light and itjust — it tastes like a warm Saturday afternoon in July.Made this last weekend and my neighbour knocked onthe door specifically because she could smell the lemonsfrom outside. She left with half the cake and zeroapologies. 😂

Ingredients:

1 box white cake mix plus box ingredients

1 pack (3oz) strawberry Jello

1 pack (3oz) lemon Jello

2 cups boiling water total, 1 cup cold water total

8oz cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

Zest and juice of 1 lemon

8oz Cool Whip, thawed

Fresh strawberries and lemon slices to decorate

Directions:

Bake cake in greased 9×13 dish per box directions. Cool

completely. Poke holes all over with wooden spoon

handle. Mix strawberry Jello with 1 cup boiling water

until dissolved, add ½ cup cold water. Mix lemon Jello

with remaining water the same way. Pour both Jellos

alternately over the cake so the colours swirl together

into the holes. Refrigerate 2 hours until set. Beat cream

cheese with powdered sugar, lemon zest and juice until

smooth. Fold in Cool Whip. Spread over chilled cake.

Decorate with strawberry halves and lemon slices.

Refrigerate 1 more hour before serving. 🍋

Tip: Pour the two Jello colours from opposite ends of the

dish and let them meet in the middle — you get the most

stunning pink and yellow swirl pattern through the cake

when you slice it