Patriotic Poke Cake
This Patriotic Poke Cake is the ideal dessert for Memorial Day or the Fourth of July. Your taste senses will be delighted by the brilliant and beautiful red, white, and blue cake with the cheesecake topping. Garnish it with red, white, and blue sprinkles to give it a festive look. Perfect to make ahead, too!
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Servings: 12
Calories: 265kcal
Ingredients
- 1 box, 16 oz white cake mix + ingredients called for on the box
- 2 boxes, 3.5 oz each instant cheesecake pudding mix
- 3 1/2 cups milk
- 1 tub, 8 oz Cool Whip whipped topping
- Patriotic sprinkles
- gel food coloring in red and blue
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish. Set aside.
- Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Divide the cake mix evenly into three separate bowls. Use gel food coloring in red and blue to tint two of the bowls of cake batter. Stir until each color is consistently distributed. Leave the other bowl of batter white. *See Note about the blue batter
- Working quickly, spoon each color of cake batter into the greased baking dish. Try to keep the red and blue batter separated by only spooning the colored batter onto the white batter. Continue spooning the batter into the dish until all batter has been added. Bake for 25 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes then use the handle end of a wooden spoon to poke holes about 1 1/2 inches apart all across the cake, poking about 3/4 of the way through the cake. Cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk and both boxes of pudding mix until the mixture is just slightly thickened. Pour pudding over the cool cake. Spread the remaining pudding over the top of the cake.
- Refrigerate for 20 minutes until the pudding sets completely. Top with Cool Whip. Garnish with Patriotic red white and blue sprinkles or candies.
Notes
To make navy blue batter, use three drops of Americolor Royal Blue plus two drops of the Fuchsia Pink and one drop of black.
This cake can be made in advance. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
If using hard confetti sprinkles or hard candies, the candies will soften if you refrigerate the cake overnight before serving. Some sprinkles may melt into the Cool Whip so consider adding the sprinkles when you're ready to serve.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving: 1 g | Calories: 265 kcal | Carbohydrates: 55 g | Protein: 4 g | Fat: 3 g | Saturated Fat: 2 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 6 mg | Sodium: 589 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 38 g
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