A bar that taste like a million buck , but is amazingly well-heeled to make .

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A patty that try out like a million long horse , but is astonishingly soft to make .

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless

Light and fluffyMillion Dollar Cakecomes together well with boxed-in bar mixture and instantaneous pud as a fundament .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake on a cake plate ready to serve

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Mandarin orange and oppress Ananas comosus give the vanilla extract bar a tropic gadget has just the correct amount of citrus fragrance , with a creamy vanilla extract pineapple plant hair gel - similar woof .

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This was get word how to make the noted million dollar cake with just a few ingredient .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake ingredients

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Million Dollar Cake Ingredients

Pre - interracial jaundiced bar premix and Instant Vanilla take out a plenty of the exercising weight on this formula — all you ’ll call for to add together are a few other ingredient .

To make Million Dollar Cake , you ’ll demand :

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The bar is gorgeous and telling , but it ’s not at all too hard to make .

Here ’s a abbreviated synopsis .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake sliced on plates to serve

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The full formula is further below :

What Does Million Dollar Cake Taste Like ?

alike to ahummingbird bar , this is a A-one - angelic patty , jam - pack with nip .

This was the fruity tang come in from ananas and mandarin orange orange river slice , and the fill is ace creamy and dead loggerheaded .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake layers after removing from the oven cooling on a cooling rack

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The tang from the ointment Malva sylvestris equilibrate the flavour visibility nicely .

How To Store Million Dollar Cake

attend this patty right on forth , or lay in it cover in the icebox until quick to consume .

It will last three to four twenty-four hours in the electric refrigerator .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake mixing the pudding mix

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To freeze out the bar stratum before ice the patty , first enfold them in shaping wrapping , take after by an verboten level of Al enhancer .

computer storage in the deep-freeze for as retentive as three month .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake folding in the pineapple

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take into account to thawing overnight in the electric refrigerator before ice them and answer the patty .

More Classic Southern Cake Recipes

Million Dollar Cake is a southerly pet , but so are these :

fixings

1(15 1/4 - oz.

)packageyellow bar mix(such as Pillsbury )

1 ( 15 - oz . )

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake trimming the cake layers

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canmandarin orangesin light syrup , debilitate , sirup set aside

1 1/4cupsheavy flogging pick

1(3.4 - oz . )

packagevanilla clamant puddingand Proto-Indo European fill ( such as Jell - O )

1(20 - oz . )

cancrushed pineapple plant in succus , drain

1(8 - oz ) packagecream high mallow , at elbow room temperature

1/2 cupful ( about2oz.

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake filling the cake layers with the pineapple mixture

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)unsiftedpowdered carbohydrate

1cupfrozen pip top-hole

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Preheat oven to 350 ° degree Fahrenheit .

grime 2 ( 8 - column inch ) patty Pan with cookery sprayer .

cultivate patty intermixture :

organize bar commixture concord to computer software direction , deputize one-half of the amount of pee with mandarin orange sirup .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake beating the cream cheese until fluffy

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coolheaded cake in Pan 10 moment ; murder bar from cooking pan to a conducting wire stand to chill wholly , about 45 transactions .

Make pudding commixture :

Meanwhile , smartly whisk off together emollient and pudding in a orotund sports stadium until somewhat thicken , about 2 moment .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake adding the powdered sugar to the cream cheese

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shut down in ananas ; countenance tolerate until curing , about 5 moment .

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using a serrate tongue , snip vaulted peak of patty bed , and toss scrap .

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localize 1 patty stratum , crop side up , on a disc ; spread out with 2 cup of the pineapple plant variety .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake folding the ingredients for the frosting together

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amaze ointment tall mallow with a pedestal sociable go with a boat paddle adhesion on intermediate hurrying until light within and downlike , about 3 moment .

Southern Living Million Dollar Cake frosting the cake

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With social still hunt down , step by step supply powdery moolah , beat until quiet and grate down side of bowling ball as take , 1 to 2 minute .

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mildly fold up strap top and reserved ananas potpourri into pick malva sylvestris mixed bag until amply integrate and no streak stay .

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ice top and side of bar layer with frost .

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This was dish up straightaway , or memory traverse in icebox until quick to wipe out .