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Watergate Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 White cake mix
1 package Pistachio Pudding mis
1 cup crisco
3 eggs
1 cup club soda or ginger ale
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Frosting: (Or Cover-up?)
1 package cool whip (9oz)
1 package pistachio pudding mix
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Directions:
Directions:
Mix dry cake mix, pudding mix and crisco together. Add one egg at a time. Stir. Add club soda. Stir. Add pecans. Cook in three round cake pans at 350 for approximately 25 minutes.

Mix Pistachio pudding and milk. Fold in cool whip and pecans. Cover cake tops and stack. Depending on amount of icing left, icing top or top and sides. Refrigerate.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This cake was the rage in 1975 and 1976, just after Lee and I married, when everyone was talking about Nixon and Watergate. I guess the proof is in the pudding

 

 

 

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