VERY good and easy recipe. Was the perfect finish to a grilling-out meal of cheeseburgers and corn on the cob. I made it according to the recipe, but next time I will incorporate all of the whipped topping into the pudding mixture. It tasted delicious, but looked a little funny with the lemon colored filling on top of the cake, and the plain white whipped topping on the sides...

This cake was the talk of the weekend graduation party...delicious, moist and light. I added a layer of homemade cream cheese frosting and strawberries to the bottom layer.

This cake was amazing! It slid around a bit getting it to the party, but a few minutes in the freezer firmed the 'icing' back up. Was asked several times for the recipe!

Delicious! I used lemon pudding mix for both the cake and the filling and definitely only needed the 8 ounces of cool whip for the filling, top, and sides. It was a hit at our BBQ and no one knew it was so easy to make! Thanks for sharing.

This recipe was just the thing for a show-stopping birthday cake that had both looks and flavor without being decadently chocolate. I followed the recipe hints of using lemon cake mix with vanilla pudding, and needed only 8 oz. of whipped topping as well, stirring in the milk only until reaching the desired consistency. The perfect cake for a summer party!

I made this for a comany Easter Party. It looked great,and tasted better than I had hoped. Everyone loved it. I used a French Vanilla cake mix, light mayo, and Fat Free Cool Whip, and it just turned out great. It wasn't to gooey like I had read in the other reviews. Oh I also added a teaspoon of lemon extract to the cake batter for a hint of lemon. I do recommend drying strawberries before use.

good.

Not a bad cake, but my family wasn't 'overwhelmed' by it. I didn't have quite enough frosting so if I make this cake again I'll definitely double the frosting. I really liked the 'pudding in the mix' part. It made for a very moist cake. I think I'll try that with all of my cakes from now on.

This tasted really similar to lemon cake mix except lighter on the lemon. I enjoyed the strawberry/lemon combo and followed others' suggestions of using all lemon pudding. Lemon zest in the frosting would be a nice touch for next time.

After reading other people's reviews, I decided to use lemon pudding instead of vanilla pudding. I also added about 1/2 tbsp of freshly squeezed lime juice (I actually wanted to add some lemon juice, but, I didn't have one at that time.) I think adding some lime (lemon) juice was helpful to increase some citrus flavor. The cake was moist and tasty. My husband liked it.

this cake is simply amazing. I made it for a memorial day bbq. I originally thought it may have been too much since there were only 6 people there but everyone had seconds and there was only one piece left for me to take home. I am debating on making it again today....just because! its so tasty...i loved it!! also many reviewers complained about the frosting not being firm enough. i refridgerated the pudding and them when i mixed in the whipped cream topping and put it in the freezer to thicken it up some. turned out perfect!!! review edit: I made this cake again with jello brand pudding...BIG mistake. the "frosting" was so runny and i couldnt get it firm. i made another one the same day with generic lemon pudding...it turned out amazing!!! so i HIGHLY recommend using the generic pudding...its cheaper, it taste better, and it looks better....not to mention its easier to work with!!!

Very tasty! I made this for a friend's birthday, who doesn't like anything too sweet. She loved it. The only things I did different was to use less milk with the lemon pudding (to make the filling more firm) and I added some lemon zest to the sides, after frosting. That gave it a little extra zing and made it look really pretty.

Made this cake for mothers day this year and the family loved it, I didn't find it overly lemony but it was good. I did a few things different, one was instead of using whipped topping which I am not a fan of I used whipping cream and it turned out great. The other was I used a lemon cake using mayo in it instead of the white cake, and I only iced the top not the sides

My very awesome roommate actually made this cake (twice!), so the technical comments are based on her experiences. But I can definitely say that this cake tastes wonderful. It's very moist, but light, and not too sweet. The first time my roommate made it though, it looked really gloopy -- the icing was sliding off, and the juice from the strawberries made smears on the cake. Here's what she did the second time: she used less milk in the pudding mix (for the icing) to make it firmer. She handled the pudding/Cool Whip mixture as little as possible -- just enough to fold it all in, but no more. Finally, she drained the strawberries AFTER slicing them (leaving them in a papertowel-lined bowl in the fridge overnight), and blotted the slices w/ a paper towel before putting them on the ice cake. With these modifications, the cake held up much better, and looked as fantastic as it tasted!

The first time I made this cake, the frosting was too viscous; I might have misread the amounts for ingredients. The second time I made the cake, everything was perfect. Instead of using 16 oz. of whip cream, I just used the mixture of pudding, milk, and 8 oz. whip cream to frost the 2 9" layers and the sides of the cake. I also used lemon cake instead of white. Delicious.

This is a very moist cake. I substituted strawberry cake mix for the white and a white chocolate pudding mix for the lemon. It was wonderful!

This was a good and easy cake. It tastes wonderful chilled on a hot day. I only used half of the whipped topping and it was a very generous amount.

I made this for Easter and got rave reviews. Definitely a recipe I will keep and make over and over again. I used light mayo (even though I was skeptical of putting mayo in my cake), it turned out really moist. The lemony whipped topping provided for a very light and refreshing taste.

The taste is what saved this cake for me. 1st, make sure you read ALL the steps (i didn't read ahead, just followed the steps in order), my first mistake was mixing both boxes of pudding in with the cake mix (I used lemon cake, mayo). When I got to the 2nd step for the filling, I was like what pudding? Anyways I went to the store and got another box of lemon pudding for the whipped topping filling. So the cake wound up having an extra box of pudding in it. The filling was so runny that it would not set up and the cakes were sliding around. It wound up looking like an avalanche. But it was delicious. If I were to make it again I would fill it differently, maybe use real whipped cream instead of whipped topping or a whipped cream/cream cheese combo with the lemon pudding. But the lemon/strawberry combo is very good and the actual cake itself was dense and moist and really good.