Grandma Dot's Lemon Cake

Recently the Emergency Food Hotline made a post about a Red Velvet birthday cake...and in that post, mentioned a delicious Lemon Cake that was also present at the celebration. A few readers have requested the recipe for it, so Rhonda has obliged! Lucky us.

GRANDMA DOT'S LEMON CAKE

ingredients:
1 box lemon cake
1 box lemon instant pudding
1 box lemon jell-o
some real lemon juice, about 1/4 cup altogether give or take
heavy whipping cream
-some sugar to taste (you don't want this very sweet)
-vanilla extract

1.make the cake, let it cool
2.make the jell-o using slightly LESS water than the box says, and add some healthy squeezes of lemon juice, set aside (let it set almost all the way but not completely, it should be pourable still without being hot by the time you get to step 6)
3.whip the heavy cream with an electric mixer, adding some sugar to taste and a splash of vanilla extract. you don't want this to be overly sweet. make sure you mix it till it is nice and thick since this will be your top layer and you don't want it to be runny. set aside
4.make the pudding using slightly LESS water than it tells you to and substitute that water with lemon juice instead, set aside
here comes the important part...
5.poke holes all over the cake with whatever instrument you have handy, i.e. your finger or the end of a spatula. you will be pouring the jell-o over the cake to fill in these holes, so wherever you want the jello to get, poke a hole there.
6.once your jello is at it's usable point, pour it on the cake, aiming for the holes till they are all filled in.
7.next you will simply add a layer of the pudding, about 1/4" thick
8.add the next and last layer of the whipped cream and spread it thickly across the top without mixing into the pudding.

THAT is IT! easy, delicious and my grandma usually makes the cake at least a day in advance for whatever reason. I guess so it's not rushed at the end.


Lemon Cake shown in the middle.

enjoy...RHONDA
...not sure if it needs to be noted that the lemon jello is cook n serve?
don't know if they have instant jello. but this is not the instant kind.

Thanks, Rhonda!