It's fun to surprise people. Surprising them with a great dessert is the Best! If you like banana pudding, you can make it with cooked or instant pudding, sliced bananas, and vanilla wafers. Not much cooking to do there. But it's good and easy.
If you have some left over cake (pound cake that got a little dry) you can substitute the cake for the vanilla wafers. Cut the cake in chunks and layer it with the sliced bananas and pour the pudding over it.
Of course, if all you have are strawberries, I guess they'll have to do. Slice them and sprinkle a little sugar on them and let them sit while you cut up the cake and stir up the pudding. If you have more than one kind of fruit, throw it in. Kiwi, Mandarian oranges, cantaloupe, whatever.
If you have a little whipped cream or topping, add that on top. Put it in a clear glass bowl so all the colors and combinations show. It looks like a show piece.
If you decide to use canned fruit, be sure to drain it and make syrup out of the juice to soak the cake in. (Make the syrup by boiling the fruit juice with sugar, 1 cup juice to 3/4 cup sugar until it thickens slightly.) In this case, you might leave out the pudding and just layer the fruit, the syrup-soaked cake, and the whipped cream. Make two or three layers, whatever your bowl will hold.
Even old fashioned fruit cocktail takes on a sophisticated flavor when it is dress up like this.
You might even soak the cake in rum and even leave out the fruit. Cut the cake in squares and arrange them on a plate with fruit in the center. If you use strawberries, you don't have to do anything but rinse and dry.
I've given you some ideas. Now you try it!
If you have some left over cake (pound cake that got a little dry) you can substitute the cake for the vanilla wafers. Cut the cake in chunks and layer it with the sliced bananas and pour the pudding over it.
Of course, if all you have are strawberries, I guess they'll have to do. Slice them and sprinkle a little sugar on them and let them sit while you cut up the cake and stir up the pudding. If you have more than one kind of fruit, throw it in. Kiwi, Mandarian oranges, cantaloupe, whatever.
If you have a little whipped cream or topping, add that on top. Put it in a clear glass bowl so all the colors and combinations show. It looks like a show piece.
If you decide to use canned fruit, be sure to drain it and make syrup out of the juice to soak the cake in. (Make the syrup by boiling the fruit juice with sugar, 1 cup juice to 3/4 cup sugar until it thickens slightly.) In this case, you might leave out the pudding and just layer the fruit, the syrup-soaked cake, and the whipped cream. Make two or three layers, whatever your bowl will hold.
Even old fashioned fruit cocktail takes on a sophisticated flavor when it is dress up like this.
You might even soak the cake in rum and even leave out the fruit. Cut the cake in squares and arrange them on a plate with fruit in the center. If you use strawberries, you don't have to do anything but rinse and dry.
I've given you some ideas. Now you try it!
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