Reviewed: Sep. 16, 2010

Living in south Louisiana, we thought it would be appropriate to make it a beach and add chocolate chips to the graham craker/brown sugar "sand" and call it 'Life's a beach and Then You Get Tarballs Cake". (See photo submitted today) The cake / jello combination was surprisingly delicious! We did add cream cheese to the whipped topping and some vanilla. Will definetly make again...need to use up all the 'decorations' anyway!

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Cloud9

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Mandeville, Louisiana, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 10, 2010

Made this for my daughter about 5 years ago for her birthday pool party. She requested it again this year for her birthday.

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SCOOBY11_13

Reviewed: Feb. 9, 2010

I had so much fun making this cake! I decided to make this an 'ocean cake' instead of a pool cake. I did the quick set with the jell-o and it worked great. I also used crushed graham crackers over brown colored "Special Buttercream Frosting" from this site to make it look like sand. I used tie-dyed fruit roll-ups as beach towels, cream wafer cookies as surf boards, drink umbrellas for beach umbrellas, teddy grahams as 'people', lifesaver and peach gummies for floaties, and I put gummy fish and octopus in the 'water' before it set! I also used some of the cake that I cut out for the water area to make sand dunes! The kids and adults alike thought this was the coolest cake!

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M&K's Mommy

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Mar. 26, 2008

This makes such an adorable cake, and you can use any flavors you like for the cake & pool. I used a white cake and made a 2 layer rectangular cake. I placed the first layer on my platter, then placed the second cake layer on top of that. I then cut the rectangle for the 'water' out of only the top layer and filled it with the chilled blue Jell-O. This recipe is great for Summer birthday parties!

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