Dessert for a Crowd

5 from 3 votes

This easy-to-make dessert is perfect for serving a crowd, featuring a moist cake layer topped with a creamy cheesecake-inspired mixture. Finish it off with your choice of fruit topping, like macerated strawberries or a Danish dessert sauce, to suit your taste. It's a versatile and flavorful option for parties, showers, and holiday gatherings!

Course Cake, Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword fruit, sheet pan

Prep Time 35

Cook Time 20

Cooling Time 35

Total Time 1 30

Servings servings

Calories 294kcal

Author Laura

Equipment

Ingredients

1 white cake mix plus ingredient to make the cake mix
16 oz cream cheese, softened (two 8 oz pkgs)
4 cups powdered sugar
12 oz pkg Cool Whip
fruit topping *** see not below for options

Instructions

Mix cake mix according to the package. Spray the bottom on a jelly roll pan ( 13 x 18) . Pour batter into pan and spread evenly.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Let cool completely.
With a mixer, blend cream cheese and powdered sugar together. Add cool whip and beat until smooth and creamy.
Spread mixture on top of cooled cake.
Cut into pieces and serve with fruit topping.

Notes

Options for fruit topping

canned pie filling
Danish Dessert prepared according to fruit sauce directions with fresh fruit mix in
Macerated strawberries
To macerate the strawberries, place hulled and sliced berries in a bowl and sprinkle with granulated white sugar about 2 tablespoons per pint. Let the berries and sugar macerate at room temperature for at least 30 minutes.
any berry sauce recipe you like (I have a few on my site)
raspberry (blackberries would work too) sauce
For the raspberry sauce you need 2-3 pkgs of frozen raspberries (the kind in heavy syrup is what I have used). In a sauce pan, mix berries with 1/2 cup sugar and enough cornstarch (like 1 Tbp cornstarch) to thicken sauce to desired consistency. Heat until sauce is just bubbly and thickened. Let cool.

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