Description
Who doesn’t love a poke cake?! This is when you bake a cake in a 9×12 baking dish and then right out of the oven, poke holes around it and then pour something amazing down inside the holes (like in this recipe, I used sweetened condensed milk). It’s delicious, friends!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box of spice cake mix (or use a yellow cake mix with one tablespoon of cinnamon added to it)
- 2 (3.4 oz) boxes of instant pumpkin pudding (use instant vanilla if you can’t find these; you don’t prepare it, just use the dried mix)
- ½ cup veggie oil
- 1 cup water
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin (I use Libby’s)
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (8 oz) tub of Cool Whip
- holiday sprinkles, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Grease (I use Pam) a 9×12 baking dish.
- In mixing bowl, combine cake mix, puddings, oil, water, eggs, and pumpkin with an electric mixer.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake about 28 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and immediately poke your holes across the cake (see note at bottom). Next, pour your sweetened condensed milk all over the top. I allow it to cool before topping with Cool Whip and any sprinkles. Refrigerate the cake until it’s time to eat. These cakes are best served cold.
Notes
I always use the end of a wooden spoon to poke holes across my cake. I do this right out of the oven and then pour the sweetened condensed milk on top. I allow it to cool before topping with Cool Whip (another nod to my mama!) and refrigerating until it’s time to eat. These cakes are best served cold.