Oreo Poke Cake

This Oreo poke cake is an easy and delicious moist chocolate cake that’s loaded with cream pudding and topped with a whipped topping, Oreos and chocolate sauce. It’s an Oreo-lovers dream and is perfect for a birthday party, holiday, or a get together with family and friends.

I love the delicious cookies and cream flavor of this simple cake recipe. This easy chocolate cake is simple and uses a boxed cake mix as the base and is bursting with Oreo flavor. This makes this cake recipe super simple and easy! It’s one of our favorite poke cake recipes. But, we also love our strawberry poke cake!

 

Oreo Poke Cake

Poke cake recipes are super popular for a reason. They’re fast, easy, and always taste great. And, because they start with a box mix, they’re simple to make taste different and take minimal time and effort as well.

The kids will love helping out with this easy dessert because they’ll get to poke the holes in the cake! This is a great cake recipe to have everyone baking in the kitchen together.

Trust me on this one…every time you go to the store from now on you’re going to be picking up a package of Oreos to have on hand for this delicious chocolate poke cake.

What is a poke cake?

A poke cake is typically a one-layer cake baked in a 9×13 pan. After it’s baked, holes are poked in the top of the cake before it’s frosted. The frosting layer then fills the holes in the cake to allow the flavor to be inside the cake.

This easy poke cake recipe uses homemade pudding as the ingredients that gets pushed into the holes of the cake creating an extra moist and creamy layer cake. It’s my new favorite way to make chocolate cake.

Ingredients

• chocolate cake mix – use your favorite brand
• water
• vegetable oil
• eggs – you’ll need enough eggs for the chocolate cake, and egg yolks for the pudding
• sugar
• cornstarch
• salt
• milk
• heavy cream
• egg yolks
• vanilla extract
• butter
• cool whip
• Oreo cookie sandwich cookies

How to Make Oreo Poke Cake

Use these simple steps to make Oreo poke cake with pudding. You’ll be making the pudding from scratch and it’s going to add tons of extra flavor to this cake. The texture of the cake is going to be super moist because it uses this poke cake technique to allow the pudding to absorb down into the center of the cake.

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9×13 pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
• Prepare cake according to the directions on the box.
• Pour cake mix into a 9×13 pan and bake according to package directions.
• In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, and salt.
• Add in the milk and cream and stir to combine.
• Heat the milk to just under a boil.
• When small bubbles start appearing on the sides of the pan, it’s time to temper the eggs.
• Take 1/2 cup of the milk and slowly whisk it into the egg yolks. The eggs are now tempered and ready to add the pudding.
• Add the eggs to the pudding and cook for three minutes then remove from the heat.
• Stir in the vanilla and the butter. Set pudding aside to cool a little.
• With the handle of a wooden spoon, poke holes in the entire cake, about an inch apart.
• Pour the pudding over the top of the cake, guiding the pudding into the holes.
• Place the cake in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

• Take five Oreo cookies and crush the chocolate cookies into crumbs and stir them into the eight ounces of cool whip.
• Top the cake with the cool whip and return it to the refrigerator for another 30 minutes.
• Just before serving, Crush the remaining 15 Oreo cookies and sprinkle the crushed Oreos on top of the cake.
• Put some chocolate syrup or hot fudge sauce in a ziplock bag and drizzle over the cake, or use the back of a spoon to drizzle.

What do you use to poke the holes into a poke cake?

You’re going to want to holes to be bigger in such so this is why I use a wooden spoon handle.

It makes the holes the perfect size to hold some of the goodness and really hold the flavors and taste.

For Jell-o poke cakes I sometimes use a fork so the distribution of color gets distributed into more of the cake, but for this recipe I like the bigger holes so you get a creamer piece of pudding in your cake.

Substitutions and Additions

• Get creative with toppings – The great thing about making this poke cake recipe is that you can easily change up the toppings. Try other cookies and flavors and see what you like best.
• Change the cake flavor – You can also easily change up the flavor of the cake, too. This recipe is for a chocolate cake, but this can easily be done with a vanilla cake. A white cake would be another option that would give a cream flavor to the cookie cake.
• Use homemade whipped cream – If you have time to make homemade whipped cream, put it on the same way you do the Cool Whip at the end.
• Chocolate chips – add chocolate chips or sprinkles to the top of the cake if you want added chocolate flavor or more decorations.

Can You make the Chocolate Poke Cake ahead?

Yes, you can make this cake up to 1 to 2 days before you serve it. If you want to refrigerate for a day or two, don’t put the whipped topping and cookie pieces on the cake until just before you serve it.

Want More Chocolate Oreo Desserts?

• Oreo Peppermint Truffles
• Oreo Cheesecake Balls
• Chocolate Lasagna