Fruit Cake in a Flash

This sounds like an easy solution when you need a fast dessert and don't have time to fuss. And, it certainly lends itself to lots of creativity.

Fruit Cake in a Flash
1 15-22-ounce can of fruit (peaches, apricots, plums, pineapple - your choice!)
1 box yellow cake mix
1 cup melted butter - not margarine
3/4 cup chopped nuts - your choice

Vegetable oil spray the bottom of a 9x13 baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spread the fruit (don't drain it!) over the bottom of the baking pan. Sprinkle half of the cake mix over the fruit. (You can either save the other half of the cake mix for another time or make two, different fruit desserts!) Sprinkle the chopped nuts over the top of the cake mix. Drizzle the melted butter over the whole thing.

Bake for approximately 30-45 minutes. Eat warm or cold. Whipped cream or ice cream would certainly not go amiss when serving this!

Ideas . . .
Use chocolate cake mix which goes particularly well with crushed pineapple for the fruit layer.
A spice cake mix with canned apples is a treat.
Using peanuts with an apple fruit layer and yellow cake mix is sort of a caramel apple taste.

Now a word from the Holy Father . . .

“The Virgin Mary, who believed in the word of the Lord, did not lose her faith in God when she saw her Son rejected, abused and crucified. Rather she remained beside Jesus, suffering and praying, until the end. And she saw the radiant dawn of His Resurrection. Let us learn from her to witness to our faith with a life of humble service, ready to personally pay the price of staying faithful to the Gospel of love and truth, certain that nothing that we do will be lost.” ~Pope Benedict XVI