Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Italian Love Cake



This was my first baking exploration and I always associate this with hunting the grocery store for cool whip cream, instant pudding mix, ricotta cheese and measuring cups. The path was quite irresistible especially after tasting a piece of it at an annual senior graduation party and an interesting name!


I must warn you that you have to like ricotta cheese to enjoy this cake. Its a three-layered cake and interestingly I haven't seen it in any baking book so far.

Ingredients:
1 pkg fudge marble cake mix
2 lbs ricotta cheese
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup sugar
1 Pkg instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup milk
8 oz cool whip

- Preheat oven to 350 F
- Prepare fudge marble cake mix according to the instructions
- Spread the cake mix onto a greased 9X13 cake pan
- In a separate bowl mix ricotta, eggs, vanilla and sugar
- Evenly spread the ricotta mix over the marble cake mix in the pan
- Bake for 60 minutes and remove the pan from the oven. As the cake bakes, the cheese layer will move below the marble cake layer
- Cover and keep it in the refrigerator for at least six hours or overnight
- For icing, mix instant chocolate pudding mix with milk. Slowly fold in cool whip
- Spread the icing evenly over the cake and enjoy this heavenly cake:) This tastes really good after 2-3 days

9 comments:

Isha said...

Is mein photo kyun nahin aa rahi hai?

Anjana said...

Really...mere screen pe to aa rhi hai...

snigdha said...

I feel sooo hungry after seeing ur blog.....

Anjana said...

@S, take the next flight to SB:)

Unknown said...

looking nice.......

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Guneet said...

Anjana Di,

Thanks so much for this delectable recipe..I made this cake for my friend's birthday yesterday and can't tell you how much everyone loved it..It lived true to the Italian theme of the party.

Keep up with the good work :)

-Gunnu

Guneet said...
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Anjana said...

Gunnu,

Sorry somehow missed ur comment. I am glad it turned out good. This was the first cake that I ever baked so its special to me:))