Vanilla Swirl Cake

Name: Vanilla Swirl Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 box French vanilla cake mix (white or yellow cake mix); 1 package vanilla instant pudding mix; 1/3 cup instant powdered milk; 3 large eggs; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup buttermilk; 1/2 cup white chocolate chips; 6 ounces cream cheese, softened room temperature; 4 tablespoons butter, softened room temperature; 1/3 cup white sugar; 2 large eggs; 1/4 cup dried apricot, finely shredded; 1/4 cup candied ginger, thinly sliced; 1/4 cup salted cashews, thinly sliced; 1/4 cup golden raisin; 1/4 cup flaked coconut, sweet and toasted; 2 tablespoons flour, plus; 3 teaspoons flour; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, pure; 3 cups Cool Whip

Submitted by Baby Kato

"People will think this easy cake was time consuming and difficult to make. To vary the flavours of this cake change; the cake mix, the vanilla extract, pudding, fruit and or nuts to suit your own tastes. I hope you enjoy this cake."

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Ready In:: 1hr
Ingredients:: 20
Serves:: 10

ingredients

Cake
1 box French vanilla cake mix (white or yellow cake mix)
1 package vanilla instant pudding mix
¹⁄₃ cup instant powdered milk
3 large eggs
¹⁄₃ cup vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk
¹⁄₂ cup white chocolate chips
Swirl Filling
6 ounces cream cheese, softened room temperature
4 tablespoons butter, softened room temperature
¹⁄₃ cup white sugar
2 large eggs
¹⁄₄ cup dried apricot, finely shredded
¹⁄₄ cup candied ginger, thinly sliced
¹⁄₄ cup salted cashews, thinly sliced
¹⁄₄ cup golden raisin
¹⁄₄ cup flaked coconut, sweet and toasted
2 tablespoons flour, plus
3 teaspoons flour
2 teaspoons vanilla extract, pure
3 cups Cool Whip

directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Butter and flour a 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan
Cake Mix
In a large bowl add the cake mix, pudding mix and powdered milk
Add the eggs, one at a time mixing well
Next add the vegetable oil and the buttermilk
Mix on low then medium speed for 3 minutes then add the white chocolate chips and set aside
Swirl Filling
Beat the cream cheese and butter on high for 2 minutes with blender
Next lower speed and add the sugar, then the eggs, one at a time, mixing well
On low speed, add 2 tbsps plus 2 tsps of flour and vanilla extract
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and set aside
In a small bowl toss the apricots, cashews, raisins, candied ginger and toasted coconut with 1 tsp of flour
Add the fruit and flour to the cream cheese mixture
Pour half of the vanilla cake batter into the prepared pan, top with the fruit and cream cheese mixture
Now pour the remaining vanilla cake batter ontop of the fruit and cream cheese mixture
Take a knife and gently swirl thru all 3 cake layers to create a marbilized effect
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 40 - 50 minutes - or until a toothpick comes out almost clean
Cool completely and frost top of cake with cool whip
Refrigerate for 1 hour and enjoy
This cake is also wonderful sprinkled with icing sugar, or served with vanilla bean ice cream, or glazed with chocolate or carmel

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Reviews

This cake deserves more than 5 stars! I omitted the ginger and apricots for this only because I did not have any on hand, this cake is company-worthy, it is very rich so a small piece goes a long way, thanks for sharing BK!...Kitten:)

Kittencalrecipezazz
Wow! This takes a cake mix and turns it into something special. I have to confess I did use lemon instant pudding in this recipe. After two trips to the store and buying the wrong pudding mix twice, I decided to just go ahead and use it. I added it to a white cake mix and followed the rest of the recipe I promise! This cake smells heavenly baking and bakes up very fluffy and tall. I served the cool whip on the side instead of frosting the cake with it. (It takes us a while to finish a cake at my house ) Whipped topping finished this cake off beautifully, the cake itself is plenty sweet and doesn’t need a sweet icing. I would make this again, and possibly leave out the raisens. I also want to note that this cake kept well and stayed soft for the week it was in my fridge. The last piece was as good as the first! Good use of contest ingredients!

Susie D
this was delicious and easy and no one @ at the dinner party I brought it to even guessed it was a cake mix. Very good, moist, fruity.

mandabears
My family enjoyed this recipe. The cake mixture was very thick and difficult to spread. I think a "little" more liquid might help that consistency. It did take me a longer than the 15 min. prep time to make it. The center of mine sunk while cooling and looked rather bumpy, and it was gooey when I tried to cut it. The sides tasted great though. I had used the toothpick test and thought it was cooked through after 43 minutes - but maybe not.

Trisha W

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Baby Kato

Canada

I am a very lucky lady. I recently moved to a very small town in New Brunswick, Canada with my wonderful husband who is my best friend. Very fortunate to have a cherished son, wonderful daughter in law and adorable granddaughter and cute wee grandson. We are very blessed. A big thank you to everyone that has made my recipes... hope you enjoyed them.

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