SNACK-CAKE CAKE
ON THE “SILLY SCALE” OF ONE-TO-TEN THIS IS A TEN!
Category: Vegetarian Recipe (but it’s not healthy!)
My first appearance on national TV was on the Food Network in a segment of Roker on the Road starring weather man Al Roker. I made this cake and it was featured repeatedly in commercials for the show. Although I made many dishes in that episode, most people only remember this one.
This cake is a no bake cake. Any idiot could make it because it’s basically a bunch of snack cakes piled up and then slathered in whipped topping. I think the cake tastes absolutely disgusting. But everyone else seems to love it.
Ingredients:
1 box chocolate snack cakes (12 oz or 8 cakes)
1 box yellow or white snack cakes (12 oz or 8 cakes)
20 oz can cherry pie filling, low sugar (but not artificial sugar!)
8 oz whipped topping — (defrost if frozen)
food coloring of your choice (a few drops)
2.5 oz slivered almonds
cake toppers or decorations of your choice
Method to the Madness:
Line-up white snack cakes on a plate, making a rectangle.
Spoon the cherry pie filling over the top of the cakes.
Gently place the chocolate snack cakes on top.
Mix food coloring into the whipped topping.
Frost the “cake” with it.
Press the slivered almonds into the whipped topping along the sides of the cake.
(Almonds are high in potassium — the heart mineral –
you heart will need all the help it can get after eating this cake!)
Decorate the top of the cake in a silly way!
I originally developed this cake as a goof to serve at a Super Bowl party. I made it from a favorite local snack cake, colored the whip topping “Eagles Green” (Go Eagles!) and then decorated it with cake toppers that exemplified my Fantasy Football League — Ballerinas vs. Football Players. Once I held the cake down so a young girl could see what was going. She was absolutely stupefied!
