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Cake:

1 box white cake mix
1 pkg instant pistachio pudding
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup ginger ale
3 eggs

Frosting:

2 envelopes Dream Whip
1 pkg instant pistachio pudding
1 ¼ cups milk (low fat)

Directions:

Grease/flour two 8 in. cake pans. Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Mix together cake ingredients. Divide evenly between the two pans.
Bake at 350 deg for 45 minutes. Use toothpick test to determine when they are done.
Cool for 10 minutes.
Remove from pans and cool completely.


Beat together frosting ingredients until stiff. Start at low speed on your mixer and increase the speed accordingly. Frost cake and refrigerate.

Optional: festive sugar sprinkles.

Commentary:

My family calls it “Green Cake” because it’s green throughout thanks to the pistachio pudding mix in both the cake and the frosting. It is a family tradition to have this cake on Christmas morning prior to the exchanging of gifts. Maybe my parents were crazy. Think about it. Your kids are already hyped because of the holiday. Is it really a good idea to sugar them-up, too? (chuckle) Dad grew-up with this back in the late 1950 & 1960’s. As such, I suspect the recipe came off the back of a Dream Whip box or out of a women’s magazine from the late 1950’s. You know back when they believed chemicals could make everything better and convenience foods first really started hitting the market.

As many of those reading this may be outside the USA, Dream Whip is an instant whipped cream. It’s an envelope of dry, shelf-stable ingredients. You add low fat milk, whip with a hand mixer until stiff, giving you a whipped cream-like topping. You could easily substitute real whipping cream or heavy cream for it and the milk in this recipe. I’ve never dared alter the “family” recipe.

One of my brothers tried this using butterscotch pudding instead and reported it worked well that way too. “Orange” cake anybody?