Easy Strawberry Cake

As Much as I love cooking and baking from scratch, I have my days where it has been a long day at work and my couch is my best friend. So when I was asked to make a cake for work, I was happy, but to tired. So while looking into the pantry to figure out what and how to make an easy cake, I noticed  yellow cake mix, strawberry Jello and 7up soda. I also had cream cheese, and strawberries and of course I decided to put it all together. To my surprise this easy cake became the yummiest strawberry cake. Even my husband loved it. He had his doubts when he saw what I was combining. He never trusts me!!oh well... I surely prove him wrong. Needless to say, it was a hit a work. SUCCESS!!..So for days where you just don't feel like being a French pastry chef, and feel more like a Betty Crocker, then this the recipe for!

Easy Summer Strawberry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Cake
1 Yellow Cake Mix
3 Eggs
1/2 C. Vegetable Oil
1 C. 7Up Soda
1 Tsp. Vanilla
1 3 oz. pck. of Strawberry Jello
Foil

Frosting
1 Pck. of Cream Cheese (room temperature)
2 Tsp. Vanilla
1 C. Powder Sugar (more if you like it sweeter)
1 Tbsp. of milk
Pinch of Lemon Zest
Strawberries for decoration

Instructions
1. Preheat oven at 350 degrees
2. Combine cake mix, eggs, vanilla, 7Up soda and oil.
3. In a grease cake pan pour batter and cover with foil. Bake for 40 min.
4. Once bake remove foil and let cake cool for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile make jello according to  instruction.
5. After cake has cooled a bit, poke hole with a toothpick, then slowly pour jello over cake. Refrigerate for 4hrs.
6. When cake and Jello have set, start making your yummy frosting.
7. Using hand or stand up mixer, mix together cream cheese, vanilla, lemon zest. Slowly mix in sugar to avoid a mess. Once all sugar is in, add milk, now taste . If you want it a bit sweeter then keep adding 1 tablespoon of sugar at a time until desired sweetness.
8. Now to remove cake from pan, fill sink with warm water half way up the cake pan. Let cake sit in warm bath, for about 1 minute. Then remove from bath, place cake plate over and turn upside down. If cake comes out a little lopsided just trim the top. Once the frosting is on, no one will even notice.
9. So now just frost your cake and decorate with Strawberries.
ENJOY!!