What Exactly Is A Jello Cake, And How Do I Make One?
Decorating By meyers14 Updated 20 Jan 2006 , 5:50am by Doug
Hi, this is my first post here. I was going to attempt to make my son a Spiderman cake from the Wilton cake pan, the 2005 model. I already have the pan, the Spiderman Icing kit, and everything. I came to this site for tips before I started, and while I was looking in the gallery at all the Spiderman cakes, I found this:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=spiderman&cat=0&pos=39&search=spiderman
It is a jello cake. Made by nejied. I hope it is ok for me to post that link here, while giving her credit.
Anyway, I thought that this might be better for me to try, since he is already going to be getting a bakery cake also, because I am NOT a cake-maker, or baker, or whatever! I am more than willing to pay money for a cake, I'm just not really good at stuff like that, but I am just going to do the Wilton cake as a whim, just to see how it turns out. But when I saw this jello cake, I thought that might be something neat also.
I was wondering if someone could tell me or direct me how to do this? In the comments section under that picture, someone asked about "milk jello"...what is that? And would I need to buy special paints, or can I use the Spiderman color gels to paint, or what? I just basically have no idea at all.
Thank you all, and let me just say, I am AMAZED at the talent I have seen on this site, I am in AWE of some of the pictures I have seen tonight. I have been on this site for over 4 hours now, and it's the middle of the night!
Thank you again!
this is what i found for JELLO cake.... hope it helps
Here is a recipe for jello cake, it really is very good!
Ingredients:
One box of white cake mix
Two small boxes of jello, any flavor
Two cups of water
Cool Whip
Directions:
Bake white cake according to directions on box, using two round cake pans or one long cake pan. Let the cake COMPLETELY cool before next step. After the cake is cool, take a fork and poke holes all over the cake.
Boil the water. Pour one cup of the boiled water into each jello mix. Stir each jello and water mix until the powder is dissolved. Slowly pour the jello solutions onto the cooled cake. I usually designate one side of the cake for each flavor of jello, but you can do it any way you like. Put the cake in your refrigerator for a few hours until it has cooled again. Cover with cool whip, and enjoy!
I'm not sure what it is, but have you tryed PMing (private message) the person who made the cake? Just click on their name (the "uploade by:" name below the picture), and then click the PM button in their profile. Hope this helps! Oh, and don't forget to post your finished cake to show it off! 
Yes, that's the recipe for the originally called "Jello Poke Cake"....it used to be on the jello.com website and I've made them lots of times! My daughter will be 16 soon and I wanted to make a really cool sweet 16 cake for her...but she only wants a Jello Poke Cake! I usually just bake them in a 9x13 and leave them in it, etc., but I think I'm going to try to make a tiered one! I'll let you know how it turns out and post a picture!
Cammie
Thank you all for your replies! I don't think that is the kind of cake that she used. It looked like something more like a milky colored gel, that could be painted with Wilton colors. Would the cakes you are talking about be able to be painted with a brush? Im actually thinking it was like a solid jello creation, I just can't figure out how she got it white to be able to paint on the colorings. If you will click the link I posted in the original post, you will see what I'm talking about.
Thank you very much!
hmmmm sounds like a variation of Panne Cotte
here's a recipe I found on About.com
Emily's Gelatin Dessert
submitted by Emily in the Best Old Fashioned Baking Recipe Contest
4 small boxes Jell-O (4 different flavors)
4 envelopes Knox unflavored gelatin
2 cups whole milk
2 cans sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
Make the Jell-O using only 1 cup of water for each flavor and put into 4 separate loaf pans. Let harden. When the Jell-O is done, cut it into squares and put into a glass Pyrex pan. Mix the whole milk and sweetened condensed milk in a bowl, adding the sugar and vanilla. Dissolve the unflavored gelatin with 1 cup of water, then add to milk mixture. Pour the mixture into the Jell-O pan and let harden for about 3 hours. Cut into squares and enjoy. (You can choose the Jell-O flavors depending on the holiday-ex: red and green for Christmas, red and blue for 4th of July.)
that would certainly give you a very stiff, white molded product you could paint.
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