This dessert delivers deliciously tart and sweet flavors by combining lemon cake mix, lemon pudding mix, and even a sugar-based lemon drink mix (or frozen lemonade concentrate, if you prefer).
The vintage inspiration: Jell-O’s pudding lemonade cake recipe from 1977
For one of the most lemony lemon cakes you can make, bake a Jello pudding lemonade cake. It’s a deliciously light and moist triple lemon treat.
And the recipe is simple. Start with your regular lemon cake mix. Mix in Jell-O Lemon Flavor Pudding for more moistness and lemon flavor. Then top it off with a luscious lemonade glaze.
So make a really lemony lemonade cake. After it rises, you’ll shine.
MORE LEMONY RETRO RECIPES TO TRY:
- Ladybird Johnson’s classic lemon pound cake recipe (1966)
- Triple lemon ripple cake with cream cheese (1982)
- Sour cream pudding pound cake: Retro recipe from 1977
Easy pudding lemonade cake
Ingredients
- 1 package (2-layer size) lemon cake mix
- 1 package (4 serving size) Jell-O lemon flavor instant pudding
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup lemonade flavor drink mix
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
- 2 cups confectioners sugar
Instructions
- Combine lemon cake mix, lemon instant pudding mix, eggs, water and oil in a large mixer bowl.
- Blend well, the beat at medium speed of electric mixer for 4 minutes.
- Pour into greased and floured 13- by 9-inch pan.
- Bake at 350 (F) degrees for 45 to 50 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, and cake begins to pull away from edges of pan.
- While the cake is cooking, make the glaze. Start by combining lemonade flavor drink mix (one that includes sugar, such as Country Time), water and melted butter in a bowl. (You may instead use 6 ounces of frozen lemonade concentrate, and omit the water and butter.)
- Add confectioners sugar, blending well with fork or wire whip.
- Once the cake is done, cool in pan about 5 minutes, then thoroughly prick warm cake with utility fork completely through to bottom of cake.
- Gradually spoon lemonade glaze over cake until completely absorbed.
- Cool and cut into squares.
Notes
For high-altitude areas, use large eggs, add 1/4 cup all-purpose flour, and increase water to 1-1/2 cups. Bake 50 minutes.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 335Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 68mgSodium: 392mgCarbohydrates: 58gFiber: 1gSugar: 38gProtein: 4g
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One Response
I use to make this cake in the late 70s and 80s and misplaced the recipe. Will be making it again soon.