1 Store bought angel food cake-from your local grocer (if you've got the time and the perfection to create your own fluffy, finely molded angel food cake, go for it!)
1 pkg. frozen berry mix-thawed (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries)
1 tub of frozen whipped topping-thawed
Sugar to taste
I told you this was easy, but wait! Let's start with the angel food cake (afc)! Lay afc on its side, and 1/3 from the top, cut top off, reserve. Stand cake upright now, you are looking at a cake with top cut off, and exposed hollowed out center, like a doughnut. Pretend like you're going to make another doughnut-but not quite! Take a sharp knife, find the most center aspect of what is before you, and slide knife into that first point of cake, leaving about an in from the bottom, continue to travel the knife around, so it almost looks like you are going to have two separate circles, but they are still attached as you are not cutting through to the bottom, are you with me???
Once you have completed your circle, your cake is all still in tact; with your hands GENTLY separate cake from the center slit (point is you are going to add filling here, so make room for the berries, cake is pliable, and will allow you to make a trough). You will use your hands and spoons here to help make the trough hold the berries and not break the cake! (I should do a demo, if this seems a bit daunting, cause once you see this, you can do this in your sleep!)
With the berries and sugar, place them into a sauce pan, on low-medium heat, let the juices of the berries come out, stirring the while, and let them mingle, you want a runny berry mixture, if needed add a bit of water, and add that sugar to bring sweetness out, but not too much. If you want it super sweet, add as much as you want. You are creating a sort of berry sauce here, but its not a puree.
Remove berry mixture off heat, let cool a few minutes, then begin spooning into the trough you've created, using your fingers to hold open the trough, and with your other hand gently spooning mixture in throughout whole cake. Once you've got your berry filled AFC, put the top that you cut off back on. And now, as if to decorate a cake, bring out your whipped topping and begin to decorate your cake with a spatula! Once entire cake is covered, put it in fridge to solidify and form.
Then serve! Its refreshing and light! Has won over my guests on a memorial day bar-b-que! One day I will make my AFC from scratch, as well the whipped topping, but this costs you about $5-6, and your guests will enjoy it!!
Bon appetit!