Caramel Poke Cake you will love this cake! Perfect combination of caramel and chocolate! Caramel Poke Cake the best cake I’ve ever made! So delicious and moist!
In each home there are family members who like candies and sweet things. If you want to have happy family, you need to pay attention on preparing cakes, desserts, creams and other candies.
Every beginning is difficult and that is the case especially about cooking. Beside ingredients and right recipe you need to add something very important, love. You love your family so you need to cook meals for family members with love. Many people think that for good dessert you need to add expensive ingredients. That is a mistake. I tasted so many cakes which were made with most expensive ingredients I know, but I wasn’t surprised. On the other side, I tasted many cakes with simple basic ingredients but very good combination and stayed speechless.
This delicious caramel poke cake with caramel sauce topping is the real hit. Caramel poke cake is very simple and so delicious. When I found this recipe, I thought how simple it is, so I made a decision to make it and I didn’t expect a surprise but when I tasted it I was shocked. Today, this Caramel poke cake is favourite in my family. Caramel poke cake is really decorative cake and you can slice it very easy. With few basic ingredients which you usually have at your home and topping you can make based on your taste. You can make caramel topping, chocolate or banana pudding or you can add your favorite fruits.
For this Caramel poke cake you have many different combinations. When your cake is done, you need a wooden spoon which you need to make poke holes and then add your favorite topping. Holes will be full and the result is this very moist and delicious Caramel poke cake. I said this to you before, you can make topping which you like. Every topping gives to this cake special taste. Every time you eat this cake you will find lot of fill topping. I really love this dessert and when I eat this Caramel poke cake I really enjoy!
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- 1¾ cups flour, all-purpose
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup brewed coffee, cooled
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- Caramel sauce (12.25 oz jar)
- Small can of sweetened condensed milk (14 oz)
- Chocolate sauce
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking dish and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt
- Add eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla and beat on medium speed for 2-3 minutes, add coffee and mix to combine (the batter will look runny). Pour it in the baking dish and smooth the top. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. If the cake rise too much in the center and crack, you can press it gently with your palms, when it’s slightly cooled, just to smooth the top.
- Remove the cake from oven and cool
- In a separate bowl, mix the caramel sauce with the condensed milk
- Poke holes all over the entire cake using the end of a wooden spoon
- Pour caramel sauce over the cake allowing it to seep into the holes and use a spatula to spread it all over
- Refrigerate minimum 4 hours
- Top with chocolate sauce
Mouse says
Yummmmm! Beautiful to take when you are assigned the dessert!
Lidia Simic says
Nice comment… Thanks Mouse! 🙂
Carol says
Yum
Lidia Simic says
🙂
Teri says
Is the something else I could use besides cooled coffee?
Lidia Simic says
Hi Teri, I haven’t tried to make this cake without coffee, but you can use water. Good luck and enjoy!
Lynn Knowles says
I do not like coffee so I just used a cup of water and it turned out fine. However, when I topped it with the caramel/condensed milk mixture mine completely soaked into the cake. Did not look like the picture of the cut piece but was still delicious!
Lidia Simic says
I’m glad that you like the cake! 🙂 Thanks for a comment Lynn!
Elaine says
I have a cake recipe that calls for coffee. My husband HATES coffee but he doesn’t even know it’s there. I don’t take the coffee at all and he doesn’t either. But I’m sure water will be fine.
Tomi says
Why is sweetened condensed so thick. How do you get it like that
Kimberly Springer says
Mine did the very same thing, the cake tasted great, but was really disappointed in the look of the finished product. So, I made chocolate whipped topping and covered it in it. Yummy..
Foodie says
What caramel sauce did you use?
Lidia Simic says
Hi, I have used Smucker’s caramel sauce. Enjoy!
Paul Segner says
I have a question;
I have been cooking longer than you might have been alive and am wondering how the caramel sauce and sweeten condensed milk mixed together looks like pudding and stayed on top of the cake and did not soak in? Never seen this before . Mine soaked in so I just made a choc coffee frosting to go over everything. Worked fine then. Thank you for your time.
Lidia Simic says
Hi Paul, follow the right instructions next time.. Good luck and enjoy!
Michelle says
Did you use pudding mix in with the caramel and condensed milk? Mine was very thin and soaked right in unlike yours that sits on top and thickens.
Lidia Simic says
Hi Michelle, i don’t use pudding in this recipe, only caramel sauce and condensed milk. Good luck!
Oneh says
I think you must add cream cheese to thicken it.. my own version.. Caramel sauce and condensed milk cant be that thick.
Paul Segner says
Excuse me….. I mixed the caramel sauce with the condensed milk what more is there to do? I might be old (53) but I am not stupid! Then please explain how you sauce looks so different and other people have commented about this too. I have worked as a Chef and Kitchen Manger far too long to be insulted to assume I do not read properly. Class Alum C.I.A. 83.
Cheryl says
Mine too….made this….caramel sauce soaked into the cake….something is missing from this recipe
Vassy says
You are right. Some things missing.
carole says
Rude comment. He (and others) were just asking a question…you would think if you’re posting a blog online, you would treat the people reading/cooking/posting with a little more respect. I will definitely be skipping any recipes from your site.
Lidia Simic says
I’m really sorry Carole. I try to answer all the questions that you send me.
Vicki says
Are you suppose to beat with mixer to make it thick like picture?
Yummiest Food says
Hi, Vicki! 🙂 Yes, you could beat with a mixer, but it’s not necessary.
Lynn Bell says
hi Paul, I am sure you read the directions as I have, and the carmal mixture did soak in the cake.
Ann says
Mine did, too.
Maura says
I think if sweetened condensed milk, not just condensed milk it comes out like the pic. The sweetened kind is thicker.
Kathy says
I followed the “directions” and I agree, did not appear like picture, soaked in as everyone else has said. Been cooking for over 60 yrs and have made my share of poke cakes. Seems like something is missing from “directions”!!
Ann says
Is the chocolate sauce just chocolate syrup? Your picture looks like it is thicker than a syrup like Hershey’s.
Lidia Simic says
Hi Ann, you can use any chocolate syrup or sauce. Good luck and enjoy!
Teresa says
Looks like melted chocolate.
Teresa says
I , also would like to know why the picture shows the sweetened condensed milk/caramel mixture not soaked into the cake. What are we doing wrong when we are following the directions? My cake was cooled in the refrigerator and still soaked in. Needed an icing to cover the cake as it didn’t look pretty at all. Used a ganache but was too much chocolate for me.
Lidia Simic says
Hi Teresa, This is a normal family recipe that has been in my family for years so I apologize if you had a problem with it.
amy says
I mixed the Carmel topping and 1/2 can sweeten condensed milk together than poured over cake. Was delicious.Delicious! Everything turned out perfectly
lea smith says
This is my second time making this cake. Everybody LOVES this cake. They talk about it all the time. My granny is a cake connoisseur and this is one of her all time favorites that I have made. It’s really simple and easy to make. I’ll definitely be make a couple more before the year is out.
Lidia Simic says
I’m glad that you like the cake! Thanks for sharing this nice comment Lea! 🙂
Sherilyn says
Just a thought but you could boil the sweetened condensed milk to thicken it a bit before adding the caramel sauce. Essentially make dulce de leche, then it shouldn’t soak in so much. I’m making this tomorrow and am going to try that myself so I’ll let you know how I thought works.
Lidia Simic says
Great idea Sherilyn! Thanks for sharing this nice comment! 🙂
Margaret says
I think that’s why they call it a poke cake. It is supposed to soak into the holes. Never saw a poke cake that didn’t. So I to will be using a whipped topping.
Jean says
With so many comments and everyone I read said it soaks in, why not make a video for us. You are doing something different from the recipe. Maybe using only a half can of condensed milk or boiling before adding Carmel. There is absolutely NO way the recipe as written will look like your picture. Yes it tastes good even if it is runny.
Yummiest Food says
Thanks for the idea, Jean! 🙂 I’ll try to do that.
Diane says
I really don’t like negative comments for recipes , it’s always fun to try something different. My cake however was a Pinterest fail but Thanks for sharing your time I always appreciate people willing to share.
Yummiest Food says
Thank you for such a nice comment, Diane! I’m sorry to hear for “a Pinterest fail”.
Tammy says
Hi Lidia,
Did I miss something in the recipe? The carmel sauce/sweetened condensed milk mixture in the photos on your blog looks much thicker than the carmel sauce/sweetened condensed milk mixture I poured over my cake. Why is your’s thicker?
Yummiest Food says
I’m sorry but I don’t know, Tammy. Recipe on this Blog Post is the recipe which I’ve written and used.