Strawberry Jell-O Cake

The pansies are not in full bloom. Instead of making the glazed pansy topped cake (for my birthday) I made a Strawberry Jell-O Cake.
Ingredients:
1 prepared 9 x 13 vanilla cake
6 oz strawberry Jell-O
3 ½ cups boiling water
8 oz cool whip
1 pound fresh strawberries




Equipment:
Stove with oven
Refrigerator
9x13 cake pan – preferably glass
Mixer
6 cup pot with lid
wooden spoon
measuring cups
spatula
paring knife
Large mixing bowl

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1. Prepare cake according to the box directions or if making from scratch according to recipe directions. Cool cake completely.

2. Put water in pot with lid and put on the stove to boil before starting step 3.
3. Take the handle of the wooden spoon and poke holes in the cooled yellow cake as shown in photos.
4. With wooden spoon mix 6 oz. of strawberry Jell-O with 3 ½ cups of boiling water in mixing bowl.

5. Slowly pour hot Jell-O over cake and especially into holes. Take Cool Whip out of freezer and place in refrigerator to defrost. Refrigerate cake for 3 hours

6. While cake is gelling, prepare fresh strawberries. Wash fruit, cut off leaves and then slice as shown in photo. Place, covered, in refrigerator.

7. Using a spatula spread 8 oz of cool whip over entire top of cake

8. Place strawberries on top of cool whip. Cake must be refrigerated until ready to serve.

9. A slice of Strawberry Jell-O Cake shows how the Jell-O has gelled in the holes. It is a delicious refreshingly cool cake.

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Pansy Visitor

Another pansy has bloomed in my back shade garden. I took a photo and when I downloaded it realized this pansy had a visitor

There are more blooms coming. They should be in full bloom by the weekend. The plan is to bake a cake and decorate it with sugared pansies. Yes, pansies are edible.

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Trimming Zucchinni Plants

Zucchini seeds grow into a very large plant. The leaves can be as big as or bigger than two hand palms. Sometimes the plant gets a fungus. I prefer to trim the leaves off rather than use chemicals or dish soap and water solution.

Zucchini plant after trimming the diseased leaves off is healthier and more vibrant.

To trim you need a pair of gardening scissors or hand pruners and a pair of gloves. The zucchini leaves are very bristly which can give you a slivers.

Zucchini plant with fungus before trimming.

Step 1– Grab the diseased leaf about 1 ½ - 2 inches from the main stem and cut.

Here you can see the leaf stems that have been cut. They are hollow.

Step 2- Throw out the diseased leaves. DO NOT put them in your compost heap.

Notice the bud is still attached to one of the zucchinis and there are allot of new leaves growing along with new buds and blossoms.

A close-up of the zucchini flower still attached to the zucchini.

The next day after trimming the zucchini plant I took this photo. The zucchini is lying on a bed of chives.

The flower top has fallen off the zucchini.

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