Patriotic Poke Cake

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Ingredients

  • 2 baked 9-inch round white cake layers, cooled
  • 2 cups boiling water, divided
  • 1 pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Strawberry Flavor Gelatin, or any other red flavor
  • 1 pkg. (3 oz.) JELL-O Berry Blue Flavor Gelatin
  • 1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed

Preparation

Step 1

make it

PLACE cakes, top-sides up, in clean 9-inch round pans; pierce with large fork at 1/2-inch intervals.

ADD 1 cup boiling water to each flavor dry gelatin mix in separate small bowls; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Pour red gelatin over 1 cake and blue gelatin over remaining cake. Refrigerate 3 hours.

DIP bottoms of cake pans in warm water 10 sec.; unmold. Fill and frost cake layers with COOL WHIP. Refrigerate 1 hour.