Recipes

Dessert

Snowball Cake

 

From Linda Cicero’s Cook’s Corner Column

Dessert

Snowball Cake

2 envelopes unflavored gelatin

1 (20-ounce) can crushed pineapple

1 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

Juice of 1 lemon

3 envelopes (from a 5.2-ounce box) Dream Whip or 11/2 cups whipping cream, divided

1 large angel food cake (baked or purchased)

Coconut (optional)

Dissolve gelatin by sprinkling over 4 tablespoons cold water. Add 1 cup boiling water and mix well. Stir in pineapple, sugar, salt and lemon juice. Refrigerate until partially jelled. Whip 2 envelopes Dream Whip or beat and sweeten 1 cup cream; stir into gelatin mixture.

Remove all brown from cake and break into small chunks. Line a 4-quart bowl with wax paper and fill with alternate layers of cake and gelatin mixture, starting with cake. Refrigerate overnight.

Invert onto platter, remove wax paper and frost with remaining whipped cream or Dream Whip. Sprinkle with coconut. Makes 8 servings.

Per serving: 350 calories (3 percent from fat), 1.3 g fat (1.2 g saturated, 0 monounsaturated), 0 cholesterol, 6.4 g protein, 80 g carbohydrates, 0.7 g fiber, 529 mg sodium.

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