Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

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This super easy, caramel soaked Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake recipe is so lush and delicious!  Plus, the whipped cream topping on top gives it a lightness with swirls of infused caramel sauce heaven.  It will literally melt in your mouth and who doesn’t love chocolate and caramel together? 

It’ll have your tongue waggin’ for more!  And ‘best part’ is, it’s so easy with using 4 main ingredients!   More Poke cake love?  You’ll love this Pumpkin Butter Pecan Poke Cake, this Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Poke Cake and this Red Velvet Cream Cheese Poke Cake too! 

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake slice

Why I Love this Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake Recipe!

  • Ok, I love that this recipe is pretty simple to make and assemble!  You will too!
  • We used one yummy doctored up boxed chocolate cake with caramel sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream and your favorite caramel sauce. That’s it!
  • Oh…And you’ll need a refrigerator.  Poke cakes are wonderful for this time of season because they are refrigerated and they are refreshing to eat.
  • Rich, light and full of caramel and chocolate flavor!!  Definitely a delicious caramel and chocolate dessert recipe everyone will love!

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake top slice

Why Poke Cakes Are So Delish!

I somewhat feel like a barbarian when I get around poke cakes.  I get all territorial and basically shovel it into my mouth, looking pretty much like I said…A barbarian.  

A Poke Cake Barbarian at that! Ugh…Well, it does sound a little better that I don’t use my hands to shovel it in with!  I do have that going for me, at least.

Poke cakes are so much fun! They are a fool-proof way to make an ultra-moist cake by poking holes in it so that you can put pudding or a sauce/sweetened condensed milk into the cake to make it super flavorful and lush.

Well, I did something a little different this time.  I made smaller poke holes (using a wooden skewer like you use for grilling kabobs, flat side poking into the cake, not the pointed side) instead of using the bottom of a wooden spoon, which makes larger holes. It saturated the cake even more evenly by doing this. YUM!  

Those heavenly caramel swirls on top are glorious!  You can go as heavy or as light as you want when you pour that golden, caramel on top and make your swirly-doos! This caramel soaked chocolate cake is so lush and delicious, no one will resist the temptation!

Are you ready to dive in and bake up something sweet everyone will love?  Let’s get to making this Caramel Chocolate Poke Cake!

pan of Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

Ingredients You Need

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake Recipe

inside of Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

How to Make Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

  1. Bake cake as directed for 9×13 pan size. After transferring out of oven, poke holes all over cake with wooden skewer or by using handle of wooden spoon.
  2. Gradually pour the sweetened condensed milk all over to soak up in the holes in the cake.
  3. Place cake in fridge until cooled. Frost cake with whipped cream topping and then spoon caramel sauce on top of cake, then swirl around with butter knife for swirl effect.  
  4. Serve and enjoy!

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake PinterestEasy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

Great summer chocolate and caramel cake treat after your dinner, BBQ’s and family get-togethers.  Unless you eat dessert before dinner?  Never!!!  Except this easy poke cake recipe may change that! 

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Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

Easy Caramel Cream Chocolate Poke Cake

Kim Lange
This caramel soaked chocolate cake is so lush and delicious.  The whipped cream topping gives it a lightness with swirls of infused caramel sauce heaven.  It will literally melt in your mouth.  It'll have your tongue waggin' for more!  And 'best part' is, it's super easy!  Eating is right up there with 'best part'. 
3.92 from 23 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 12 Servings
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix with ingredients called out, baked, but still hot/warm.
  • 1 can Caramel Sweetened Condensed Milk or Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 12 oz or 4 1/2 cups Whipped Cream Topping
  • Caramel Sauce or Salted Caramel Sauce

Instructions
 

  • Bake cake as directed for 9x13 pan size. After transfering out of oven, poke holes all over cake with wooden skewer or by using handle of wooden spoon. Gradually pour the sweetened condensed milk all over to soak up in the holes in the cake.
  • Place cake in fridge until cooled. Frost cake with whipped cream topping and then spoon caramel sauce on top of cake, then swirl around with butter knife for swirl effect.
  • Serve and enjoy!
Keyword cake, poke cake, pudding, sweetened condensed milk, whipped cream
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28 Comments

  1. Oh, my! This is one heavenly dessert! Anytime chocolate and caramel are involved, I go weak in the knees!

  2. Hi Judy, I would definitely put them in cupcake liners to hold in the condensed milk and when poking small holes in them and I wouldn’t poke them all way to the bottom of the cupcakes. Yum! 😀

  3. I so loved Ren & Stimpy haha!! Kim, I’m being 100% honest when I say I’m going to make this cake for my husband’s birthday. It would be a dream come true for him (and me). YUUUUUUM!!!!
    Happy happy joy joy!!

  4. Now who can think of dinner when there is this delicious cake in the fridge? THIS WILL BE DINNER?
    I love the beautiful caramel swirls… looks amazing. Love it !!!Definitely saving for when summer decides to roll around here in South Africa!?

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