This is the recipe I was talking about that we served at our Valentines Party.
My roommate from college brought this recipe home from her mom one day and all of us living in the house were totally in love! Picture this: 4 college co-eds sitting around a sheet cake in front of the TV with forks in hand, not even serving a slice on a plate, just eating right off the pan!
1 box of white cake mix
1 package of Danish Dessert, *see note below
2 8oz packages of cream cheese
3/4 cups of powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
fresh strawberries
***I have only seen Danish Dessert in Utah!!! No grocery store in CA or AZ that I have been to sells it! It is basically a gelatin mix (very similar to Jell-O) found in the baking aisle. In an effort to duplicate this recipe outside Utah, I have either done without it, or I have bought canned strawberry pie filling. It is definitely not as good as the Danish Dessert, but whats a girl to do?!? If any of you have any ideas on where to find this in AZ or what to use as a substitute, I would love to hear from you!!! Here is what the box looks like:
Ok, here are the directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350. Mix cake mix according to package directions, using the specified number of egg whites instead of whole eggs. Grease a sheet pan and pour cake mixture into pan. Bake for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Let cool completely. If the cake is warm when you put the toppings on, everything will seep down and leave you with a soggy cake- that will not be good!
2. Meanwhile, prepare the Danish Dessert to package directions and let it cool completely. I usually pop mine in the freezer to speed up this process.
3. Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with electric mixture until well blended.
4. Wash strawberries and slice them into halves or thirds.
5. Spread the cream cheese mixture on top of cake, then the danish dessert, then the slices of strawberry.
This is like a fluffy yet creamy dessert- how is that even possible?!?
Grab a fork and your close friends and enjoy right off the pan!!!
Have you tried using the Marie Calendars Strawberry glaze? Seems to me like it's pretty much the same thing...
ReplyDeleteI love Danish dessert. I couldn't ever find it when I was in NV either. If you want I could ship some to you :)
ReplyDeleteI found your blog on my friends blog. I love your ideas. I have made the same cake but with raspberries. I live in AZ and at one point I found the danish desert at Albertson's. I am not sure if they still sell it. Also, check Bashas if you haven't yet. I love this cake. It is so dang good. Now I'm hungry.
ReplyDeleteI think you could follow any glazed pie recipe to make the glaze and use it. It's usually just sugar, fruit with some syrup and water, and corn starch.
ReplyDeleteThat looks amazing!!! Thanks for the new cake reicpe.
ReplyDeleteI saw Danish Dessert at a local store (in Seattle) and wondered what it was good for. I will have to try it out, and if you want, I could ship some to you!
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