Strawberry Lemonade Cake - lemon cake mix and strawberry pie filling combine to make one amazing dessert! Top the cake with a quick cool whip lemon pudding frosting. This cake is the most requested cake I make! Lemon cake mix, strawberry pie filling, eggs, vanilla, milk, vanilla pudding mix, powdered sugar, lemon extract, and cool whip. I have to bring it to all of the potlucks I'm invited to. It is always the first dessert to go and everyone asks for the recipe! Make it today!
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×13 inch pan. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pie filling, vanilla extract, eggs and milk. Mix with an electric mixer just until combined.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool.
Frosting
Beat pudding mix, powdered sugar and milk in large bowl with whisk for 2 minutes.
Stir in Cool Whip and frost cake.
Notes:
I used a hand-held mixer to mix up the cake batter. Using a mixer will break up the strawberries in the pie filling. If you want bigger chunks of strawberries in the cake, mix the cake batter by hand.
Feel free to stir in some fresh chopped strawberries and lemon zest into the cake batter. It really puts the cake over the top.
The cake can be made a day or two in advance and stored in an air-tight container in the refrigerator. I just pop the lid on top of my pyrex glass baking dish and it is good to go.