Almost Heaven Cake
Almost Heaven Cake requires around 45 minutes from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 242 calories. This recipe serves 15. For 76 cents per serving, this recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 8 people were glad they tried this recipe. It works well as a very budget friendly dessert. If you have cake mix, mandarin oranges, cream cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is brought to you by Foodista. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 25%. This score is not so amazing. Similar recipes include Almost Heaven Cake, Heaven on Earth Cake, and EatingWell's Died-and-Went-to-Heaven Chocolate Cake.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 15 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix
- 15 oz mandarin oranges
- 20 oz pineapple
- 1 box vanilla pudding- 4 serving size
- 0.5 cup milk
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 8 oz cool whip
Instructions
- 1
Prepare the cake mix as directed on the package
- 2
Add in one drained can of mandarin oranges as you mix the cake
- 3
The oranges will be blended into small pieces
- 4
Bake in a 9x13 inch prepared oblong cake pan
- 5
After baking, while the cake is still warm, poke holes in the cake over the entire surface using a fork
- 6
Pour the undrained crushed pineapple over the hot cake
- 7
Spread the pineapple evenly over the surface of the cake
- 8
Allow the cake to cool
- 9
Mix cream cheese with the pudding mix and 1/2 cup warm milk
- 10
After mixing together well, add gradually the cold milk while continuing to mix until well blended (easiest with an electric mixer)
- 11
If you add the cold milk too quickly to the cream cheese, it will be lumpy
- 12
Place in the refrigerator for about 1 hour or more until it is more firm
- 13
Then remove and spread over top of the cake
- 14
Then spread the cool whip over the cake
- 15
Drain the second can of mandarin oranges
- 16
Arrange the pieces over top of the cool whip in rows or another type of pretty design
- 17
Cover and refrigerate for at least another 1-2 hours before serving.
- 18
Store covered in the refrigerator.