♫ Elvis Presley Cake ♫
This post is dedicated to Su, one of my readers from Australia. Su and her mother are coming to the South US this fall just to go visit Graceland! Her mother is a huge Elvis fan and has had a lifelong dream of seeing “The King’s” home in Memphis.
Lord, how many times have I been to Graceland? My father fancied himself Elvis throughout our childhood. When he wasn’t channeling Elvis, it was Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, or Conway Twitty. Daddy sang them all at moment’s notice in his best impersonating voice. Any wonder why I don’t listen to country music now? 
One things for sure, Daddy has never sang Beyonce’.
So back to my point…I saw this cake and just had to do it for Su’s mom. Su’s Mom, I hope you get to try this! It is said to have been a cake Elvis’s cook made for him on a somewhat regular basis. If you weren’t an Elvis fan before this cake, you certainly will be after!
This is what we call an “Ice Box Cake”. Old folks still refer to their refrigerators as ice boxes. Ice Box cakes and pies are such wonderful treats during the heat of our southern summers! Thanks goes out to another reader, Rachel, as well. She posted on my fruit cocktail thread today about how it was so hot (she is in Bama, too) that she was putting the cake in the fridge and serving it cold. VOILA! I realized that I have a few ice box cake’s all done up with photographs and everything and I haven’t posted them yet. SO, thanks to Rachel, you’ll all be getting series of tutorials on my favorite icebox cakes this week!
For the cake, you will need: Sugar, Oil, Milk, Crushed Pineapple, Eggs, Vanilla Instant Pudding, and a box of yellow cake mix. In the south, we have an unnatural fixation with Duncan Hine’s cake mix. I can probably do a little research and find out why we all love it and are so darn loyal to it but for now its good enough just to say that we love it and you should too.
Continue mixing about two more minutes, until smooth. Try not to taste of this batter. Seriously, try really hard not to taste it. If you do, there may not be any left to actually bake. It’s that stinking good! Okay, now you just HAVE to taste the batter so you know what I am talking about!
* I am baking mine in two 8×8 dishes so I can send one to my mother’s house.
Don’t stop until it looks like a swarm of four fanged mosquitoes took hold of it!
We are doing this to keep from stirring up all of our pineapple into our icing.
Su, you and your mama have a wonderful time at Graceland!!
Ingredients Instructions
Think this looks good? WAIT TIL YOU SEE THE OTHER TWO ICE BOX CAKES I’M GONNA POST NEXT!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEE!
Ain’t that perty? Hang on gals, we ain’t even got its clothes on yet!
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Aug 16 2008. Filed under Cake, Dessert.
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hi there… I’m here by way of The Friday Friends Blog
Lovely looking cake.. yum! Mind if I link to you?
Shoot yeah, Kitchengirl! Linkie linkie away! May I add you as well?
Thank you for visiting, please come back often!
Christy
indeed… add me as well… I am off to link you right now
And yes, I will be back!
OMG! This looks sooooo good! And it is pineapple! Terri can make it! LOL I can’t wait to give it a go!
Treva
OMG I’M LAUGHING SO HARD!!!!
LOL
PINEAPPLE!! A TERRI FRIENDLY RECIPE!!! lol
I love ice box pies. I bet this is good. I never tried a ice box cake. Another good one Christy.
Oh my gosh! Your instructions are SO fun
I rarely pay as much attention to a blog as I did to yours, and I WILL be making this cake tomorrow!
Renee
Kitchengirl: It is done!
Tina: OMG You HAVE to try the one I am about to post! If I have to, I will FLY to your house and make you taste it! I know know know know know know know that you will love it!
Ragtree: Well thank you and welcome to Southern Plate!! I’m thrilled you found it and even more thrilled that you like it!!!
If you ever have any questions or requests just give me a holler!!!!
Christy
OMG, I just realized I posted this recipe on the anniversary of Elvis’ death.
I had no idea.
Wow.
Oh my goodness…..I’m famous on a blog! I will have to show my mum, she would love it!
It has been Elvis the last few days with her, and I saw her on Saturday (the anniversary of his death) and she was wearing an Elvis necklace!
LOve it..and Yes Duncan Hines is might fine in my parts as well!!
HEY! I LIKE pineapple!
Can’t wait to try this one! Yum… what more can I say!
Su: My son has been hearing me talk about my site stats and visitor counts and your saying you’re famous made me think of this! Just last week he said “Ma, have you had a lot of people asking for your autograph and recognizing you now that you have such a popular website?” It was so cute.
Leslie: I’m so glad you think so, too!!! Have you ever made a yellow duncan hines mix with some vanilla pudding mix in it and just made it like a pound cake? it is so good with strawberries. oh god, I love cake mix. I can’t help it!!
Teri: LOL you’re such a nut!
I just found your website through Cafemom, and I am SO glad! You’re food looks awesome and I can’t wait to try everything. The Elvis cake caught my attention because my family is obsessed with him, especially my brother, in fact he’s a Elvis impersonator! He’s pretty good too
I’ve favorited you and thanks again!
I just recently found your website and have tried several of your recipes already. Everything I have tried has been so good! I tried this cake and my daughter said it was the best cake she has ever had! I agree with her, this cake is awesome!! Thanks for such a great site. I looked forward to your new recipes!
Hi – I enjoy your site so much! I made your Country Casserole the other day and LOVED it! I am a widow and live alone and it is very hard to cook for one person. I froze part of the casserole for future days! I love your dessert recipes – heck, I just love all your recipes!! Keep up the good work!! Check out my site!
I was watching America’s Test Kitchen a while back and they were talking about how awful box cake mixes were due to the powdered vanilla. I remember thinking then, that must be a yankee thing. Bless their hearts. Every southerner i know loves them some Duncan Hines. And it’s even better when you poke holes in it and pour something involving Eagle Brand and puddin’ over it….
The quote of John Lennon: “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” says it all about that great artist of all times. Here I’ve tried to collect all notable tributes paid to Elvis Presley by peers:
http://www.tributespaid.com/category/e/elvis-presley
And easy too! I love pineapple in cake.
I grew up in the Elvis era, no one can
equal his voice.
Thanks. DT
As you know Christy, I visited Memphis and Graceland in October ’09 and I was unimpressed that none of the little cafes and diners had this on their menu. Especially those that claimed to serve Elvis’ ‘favourite’ foods. There was however plenty of fried banana and peanut butter sandwiches, which I did not try, but my mum did! She said it was really good. hehehe
I laughed more at your comments while mixing and cookie!! Can’t wait to try this one! I’m a Tennessee gal and loved Elvis!
I love Elvis and I love the looks of this cake! I even have one of those awful velvet paintings of elvis, it is huge. Oh and by the way, Thank you…thank you very much for this recipe, my lip is wigglin as I say this.
this sounds and looks so good! my parents are coming to visit next weekend and i am going to make this for them. one of their first dates was to an elvis presley concert!
Oh my goodness! I have everything to bake this cake! I thank you, thank you very much!!!
Kristy, is your new cookbook going to contain your recipes we have been privy to already, or all new ones. You see, I have a cookbook addiction, which I am trying to kick by checking Southern Plate on the internet, but if your book is going to be new recipes, I might have to relapse into my addiction just one more time.
Yummy! sounds good. I would probably have to eat the whole thing because I don’t think my husband would eat the pineapple, but I am definitely going to make it even if I do gain 10 pounds eating it all.
Happy birthday Elvis. I loved your music and still have all of your albums.
This looks delicious!!! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
I’m actually one of the few that don’t like Elvis, neither did my family, odd right? But we all have a strange fascination with Duncan Hines and pudding mix, preferably Royal. I am going to love this cake, looks so good! There is just no possible way to exactly measure the ingredients like they do, its always perfect from the box. If you want more vanilla, add some Watkins.
I am salavating just thinking of how good this is going to taste!
My dad would’ve liked this cake. He was a big pineapple fan–I’m not sure what he thought of Elvis thought! I think Duncan Hines is the best cake mix, too, so it must be more than just a Southern thing!
“Well, blow me down” that cake sure sounds good.
Rich. but good. I have a great pineapple cake
that I make with pineapple and pecans in it. It
calls for a cream cheese icing but I put a glaze
on it instead , and everyone wants the recipe.
Hey Dahling , I am among the living again.
Ohhhhh Christy… As if you weren’t already loved by me enough, you had to go and play the Elvis card! You see, I am a huge Elvis fan. My most fond memories of time spent with my dad when I was little are listening to him sing (I swear he can sound JUST like The King himself on certain songs… And yes, we know ALL the songs) and dancing on his shoes (to Elvis, of course!). I do believe I’m just gonna have to go on and adopt you in to my family – or beg you to adopt ME!
LOVE it… but I didn’t see the SUPER DE DUPER, TOTALLY SPECTACULAR WAY TOO AWESOME gold fork! Did your DD swipe it back…
Darn… I just got back from Wally World… I KNEW I should have picked up a cake mix.
Wow this looks great!! Gotta love Elvis! I think in the South it is instilled from an early age! Can’t wait to try this recipe
We used to tease our mother about Elvis — she loved him! Then we got to see him in about 1974 or 1975 at the Houston Rodeo when I was in high school! You have never seen such a showman! We were ALL screaming! He sure did have an effect on the ladies
But I am NOT going to make this cake, because I know I would eat the ENTIRE thing, like I did with the Pumpkin Crumb Cake. Twice. (Can I blame my too-tight jeans on you, Christy?)
I just knew you were my kind of gal…Real Margarine, instead of real butter and GV cream cheese, pineapple, and powdered sugar instead of “Philly and those others”….Cake looks great and also being from your sister state of Mississippi, love that DH. (Duncan Hines)
Every time a new out of town guest comes to town I get to revisit Graceland…I think you would enjoy my last post
I love Elvis and I love this cake! I have a similar recipe but it’s called “Pig Picking Cake” and I actually got it from Dollywood! I guess all of us Southerners like the same stuff! All my growing up years I dreamed of going to Graceland. Two summers ago we finally did, and it was my favorite vacation ever! I love your recipes so much but I truly look forward to your stories! You are really good writer! Have a wonderful weekend!
I’m not from the south, albeit southern Illinois. Mt mother swore by Duncan Hines also.Said it made better cakes. She also would put a tiny amount of mace in a yellow cake. Gives it a great flavor.
AND, Christy, the second time you posted this was on his birthday today. Saw his grandson on news tonight… he’s the spitting image of his Papa. This was one of his favorites but not everyone knew that. I’ve actually eaten in his kitchen just before he died, part of being a cop and he loved law enforcement officers, was shocked I was one at that time. I’ve met his cook and his nurse also and they are very special people. You can’t live in Memphis and not know someone who knew Elvis “when”.
Christy,
That looks scrumptuous! Will surprise the kids with it over the weekend. My husband’s favorite cake is pineapple upside down and he will surely love this.
Channeled our inner Elvis last year with a spring trip to Graceland. Even our teenaged son loved it. Still laugh at when one of my husband’s friends from Pennsylvania called his cell phone while we were there and my husband asked him to guess where he had reached him. He had a great laugh when told we were at Graceland of all places, just having been through the Meditation Garden. It was a great trip and I recommend it to anyone, whether or not Elvis fans.
Blessings,
Deborah
Christy, Thanks so much!!! I have made this before,but lost my recipe..so I plan to print this off and put in my coolbook..It is a great cake,I could eat the whole thing. I have enjoyed your southern plate this past year,and hope you will continue in 2010.
thanks again!!!!
Christy,
I have never, ever, ever said anything bad about you before but this post makes me have to turn to the dark side. Quite simply, you are pure evil and you must hate my metabolism! You may not have come up with this recipe but by sharing it you have cursed me for life! This cake combines so many of the yummiest things that I love the most into one decadent delight!! I don’t know what I’m going to do now! I just KNOW I’m going to make one of these and then am going to have to make another immediately afterward to cover the fact that I ate the whole first one by myself!! I’m just glad I don’t have a kitchen here in the desert or I’d go back 100lbs heavier! hehe
Thanks for sharing it though and for all that you do for us.
Michael
My whole family LOVES ELVIS! (even my teenagers) We love Lisa Marie too. Boy can she sing….
This looks YUMMY! I can’t wait to try it this weekend. Will fit in good with my Sunday dinner.
I have a recipe for an Icebox Coconut Cake that I am famous for…lol! Icebox cakes are the best.
There is a cake mix OTHER than Duncan Hines? lol!
I made this cake yesterday, didn’t have any vanilla pudding mix, so I used lemon. Turned out great and so good. Thanks.
Amen! Duncan Hines is the best. Thats all my momma used and now thats the only kind you’ll find at my house. It’s cause southern women just know what taste good. I’ll be tryin this cake soon. Thank you!
Hey Ya’ll!
I am a Southern Plate newbie and loving it. I qickly pointed my sister in your direction too. Anyway, Elvis’s cake…we had a Chili Cookoff at church last night and I brought dessert…The Elvis Cake. It was awesome…awesome good and awesome easy. When I made it I got to thinking about how many times I heard Elvis loved pnut butter and banana sandwiches. I love banana and pineapple flavors together and I’ll bet this cake would be good with banana pudding added to the cake mix instead of vanilla. If anyone has tried it tell us what you thought.
Keep up the good work Christy, I feel like I know you, you know…the girl next door sort of thing.
Tina, Dallas, GA
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