Dennis Weaver
When you simply don't have time to bake, make it a poke cake. It's a cake mix. Stick it in the oven. Poke holes in it. Pour syrup or sauce over it so can run down the holes. Sprinkle goodies over the top and your done.
The syrup or sauce soaks into the cake making it moist and decadent. It's incredibly good.
Here you'll find three cakes:
- Lemon Coconut Poke Cake
- Caramel Pecan Fudge Poke Cake
- German Chocolate Poke Cake
Each has a syrup poured over a down the holes, a luscious lemon syrup, and buttermilk syrup over the other two. You can use other syrups or dessert sauces. You can stop there but we sprinkled goodies over the syrups.
Lemon Coconut Poke Cake
If you like lemon meringue pie, you'll love this cake. We used this lemon syrup mix. It tastes like lemon meringue pie.
It's hard to find a really good lemon syrup. Most lemon syrups taste "tinny"--not like a lemon pie. So we made this syrup with a lemon pie filling. It's fabulous.
So the cake tastes like a coconut lemon meringue pie. That's really hard to pass up.
Ingredients:
- Vanilla Bean Baby Cakes Mix
- Shredded coconut
- Yellow food color (optional)
- Lemon syrup
Instructions:
- Bake the cake according to the directions on the packaging in a 9x9 inch pan, so the cake is tall enough for deeper holes and more flavor dispersed throughout the cake.
- After baking, use the handle of a wooden spoon or a skewer to poke quarter-inch holes about an inch apart in the cake.
- Pour the dessert sauce or syrup over the cake and into the holes.
- Top the cake as desired, but it' not necessary.
To prepare the optional coconut topping:
Cover the cake with the coconut.
Caramel Pecan Fudge Poke Cake
We've tried this cake with Old-Fashioned Buttermilk, Vanilla Buttermilk, and Butter Rum Buttermilk Syrup and loved all three.
Ingredients:
- Very Fudgy Baby Cakes Mix
- Chopped pecans
- Old Fashioned Buttermilk Syrup
Instructions:
- Bake the cake according to the directions on the packaging in a 9x9 inch pan, so the cake is tall enough for deeper holes and more flavor dispersed throughout the cake.
- After baking, use the handle of a wooden spoon or a skewer to poke quarter-inch holes about an inch apart in the cake.
- While the cake is in the oven, prepare the caramel syrup according to the package instructions.
- Poke holes into the cake with the end of a wooden spoon and pour the caramel syrup over the cake and into the holes.
- Pour the dessert sauce or syrup over the cake and into the holes.
- Top the cake with chopped pecans.
German Chocolate Poke Cake
This cake takes classic German Chocolate Cake to the next level with a rich caramel sauce dispersed throughout the cake.
Ingredients:
- Very Fudgy Baby Cake Mix
- Caramel Sauce
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Instructions:
- Bake the cake according to the directions on the packaging in a 9x9 inch pan, so the cake is tall enough for deeper holes and more flavor dispersed throughout the cake.
- After baking, use the handle of a wooden spoon or a skewer to poke quarter-inch holes about an inch apart in the cake.
- While the cake is baking, prepare the German chocolate cake topping. Bring the evaporated milk, brown sugar, and butter to a boil and let boil for three minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the coconut and pecans. Set it aside to cool.
- Poke holes into the cake with a wooden spoon and pour the caramel sauce over and into the holes. You may use buttermilk syrup.
- Top the cake with the German chocolate cake topping.
Comments (1)
I love all the good recipes you post, but I especially liked the suggestions for good & easy poke cakes, I am going to try them. I have tried poke cakes before pouring warm jello into the tiny holes, but not using a wooden spoon to make the holes bigger. Smart idea, thanks