Million Dollar Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (18 1/4 ounce) package yellow cake mix
• 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 1/3 cup oil (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 1 1/3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice
• 2 (8 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Recipe

• 1 mix and bake cake mix as per package instruction for two 8 or 9 inch round layers.
• 2 let layers cool, and then split each layer in half so as to have 4 layers.
• 3 in a large bowl, whip cream cheese until soft, and then gradually mix in confectioners' sugar.
• 4 stir in the pineapple with juice and the drained mandarin oranges, reserving about 5 mandarin orange slices to decorate the top of cake.
• 5 mix in the dry pudding mix.
• 6 fold in the whipped topping.
• 7 place one cake layer on a cake plate cut side up; spread with frosting.
• 8 place another layer cut side down on the first one, and top with more frosting.
• 9 repeat until all layers are used, spreading last bit of frosting on top and sides of cake.
• 10 decorate with reserved mandarin orange slices.
• 11 refrigerate overnight before serving.