Make No Bake Fruit Cake
Ever wanted to make a delicious fruit cake but didn't have the time or facilities to use an oven? Here is a simple way to make a cake using the refrigerator instead of the oven.
Contents
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups chopped, mixed fruit. You can chop this yourself, or buy canned fruits.
- 1 can of condensed milk
- Graham crackers
- Jello mix
Steps
- Gather the ingredients. You will be needing 2 1/2 cups (or enough to fill a cake pan of choice) of chopped, mixed fruit or 1 can of canned fruit salad or fruit cocktail. Fruits good for this would be pineapple, mango, papaya, and cherries, but you can substitute fruits depending on your location. You will also need condensed milk, graham crackers, and jello mix.
- Crush the graham crackers until it is almost in a fine dust. You may want to use a mortar and pestle for this, but any type of pounding utensil is good. You can crush the graham crackers inside a bag with the help of a rolling pin, so you don't make a mess.
- Prepare the jello mix. Follow the instructions that come with the jello package. The traditional color is clear, but you can use other colors.
- Pour the crushed graham crackers on the cake pan. Make sure that there is enough to cover the bottom in an even layer. It should be about {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} in thickness at the least.
- Place the mixed fruits in an even layer on top of the graham crackers.
- Pour the jello mix on top. The idea is that you want the jello to mix with the fruits, without disturbing the layer of graham crackers.
- Drizzle the condensed milk on top of the cake. Since condensed milk is very sweet and sometimes used as a substitute for sugar, you should use it sparingly, and only for flavor.
- Take the cake, and place it in the refrigerator to set. This should take about two hours, but you want to leave it there as long as possible in order to get it to be somewhat stable.
- Finished.
Tips
- Make sure that you don't let the jello set before you are able to add it to the cake.
- You can substitute other fruits, like banana, or berries.
- Adding extra layers is optional. Just repeat the process.
- You may also want to frost the cake. Using some of the leftover fruits is a good idea for cake toppings.
- In order to speed up the cooling process, you may want to put the cake in the freezer instead.
