Lime Ribbon Delight
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Ingredients
  • 1 white cake mix
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 3 oz. lime flavored gelatin
  • ½ cup chilled fruit juice or water
  • ½ cup, chilled, drained, crushed pineapple
  • ¼th cup chopped nuts
  • Few drops of lemon juice
  • 1 cup chilled whipping cream
  • ΒΌ cup confectioner's sugar
  • 1 t. vanilla, scant
Instructions
  1. Make cake according to directions.
  2. Bake in 9-inch layer pans.
  3. Cool completely.
  4. Remove cake from pans.
  5. Pour boiling water over gelatin in bowl
  6. Stir until gelatin is dissolved.
  7. Stir in fruit juice.
  8. Chill until slightly thickened but not completely set.
  9. Stir in chilled pineapple, nuts and lemon juice.
  10. Return to refrigerator.
  11. Place 2 strips of aluminum foil, 2 to 3 inches wide, in each pan.
  12. Extend foil over edges of pans.
  13. Place a cooled cake layer in each pan.
  14. Place one layer right side up.
  15. Place other layer upside down.
  16. Spoon gelatin mixture evenly on the layers.
  17. Refrigerate four hours.
  18. Close to Serving Time:
  19. In chilled bowl, beat cream and sugar until stiff.
  20. Add vanilla, beat.
  21. With extending foil strips, lift cake out of the pans.
  22. Stack layers gelatin side up.
  23. Frost side of cake with whipped cream.
  24. Refrigerate.
Recipe by Hopelessly Hopeful at http://www.hopelessly-hopeful.com/2020/04/13/lime-ribbon-delight/