Better Than Cake

By JimMac

Best Cake Ever!!

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 (16-oz.) can crushed pineapple with juice
• 1 yellow cake mix (Duncan Hines)
• 2 cups milk
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 1 small box vanilla instant pudding or prepared regular pudding or,
• prepared Bird’s Custard
• 1 large container of Cool Whip
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup diced maraschino cherries

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Method:

Bake cake according to package directions in a 9x13-inch pan.* Mix sugar and pineapple in a saucepan, boil for 5 minutes, pour over cake evenly while everything is still hot. Cool and set aside.

Put milk, cream cheese and pudding together in bowl and beat well. Spread evenly over cold cake. Cover cake with Cool Whip, pecans and cherries. Refrigerate over night.

*cake can also be made into two 9-inch layers. Use half of the pineapple mixture on the first layer and the remainder on the top layer. Similarly, spread half the milk, cream cheese mixture on the bottom layer and the remainder on the top layer.