Decadent Poke Cake Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is a Tom Selleck cake? ›

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe. Tom Selleck – Sometimes Better Than Sex Cake or Robert Redford is a Midwest dessert that is a shortbread crust, chocolate pudding layer, and cream top. I cannot tell you why this dessert is called Tom Selleck. I can take a few guesses though.

Why is my poke cake soggy? Adding too much filling can make your poke cake soggy, although you want to add enough that it is moist!

A clean wooden spoon handle is the best tool and gives you nice big holes to fill with liquid gelatin, but in a pinch a chopstick or even a fork could work. Holes about 1½ inches apart in a grid pattern are ideal, but poke cakes are forgiving; it'll be delicious regardless of the spacing.

Poke-and-pour cake (also called poke cake) is a cake recipe that calls for holes to be poked in it after baking, usually with the handle of a wooden spoon or a wooden skewer. Then a liquid is poured over the baked cake to soak into the cake holes.

An Elvis Presley cake is a single-layer classic yellow cake that's topped with a pineapple glaze. Much like a poke cake, the syrup and juices of the pineapple will seep into the cake through fork holes, resulting in a decadent, ultra-moist cake.

JFK's Wedding Cake Specifications:

Seven-inch, three-layer cake. Features white cake, raspberry preserves, raspberry frosting and vanilla buttercream.

Pour batter into the prepared baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes out clean, 21 to 25 minutes. Poke holes immediately into warm cake with the round handle of a wooden spoon. Holes should be at 1 inch intervals and extend down to the bottom of the baking dish.

Bake cakes according to box directions! Let cakes cool for 15 minutes. Remove from pans and cool for an additional 15 minutes. Place them back in the pan so that you can pour the jello over the top.

Store the Jell-O poke cake, tightly covered with storage wrap or foil, in the refrigerator for up to three days.

After the cake is baked and cooled, you take the back of a wooden spoon (that's what my mom always used), and poke holes all over the cake. A poke cake then has some kind of glaze or soak (caramel, chocolate, fruit soak, etc.) poured on top and is finished with a whipped cream topping.

Do you use hot or cold rice for poke? ›

Only the freshest fish will do, but you can veer away from seafood using anything from tofu to chicken. Temperature is important – rice should be warm and fish cold. Use a rice cooker. Wet or starchy rice ruins a good poké bowl.

Coconut Flakes •Onion Crisps •Rice Pearls • Sesame. Seeds •Shredded Nori •Tempura Flakes • Wonton. Chips.

The most traditional version is the fish poke bowl, typically made with raw, marinated fish. The two most common fish poke bowls are the tuna poke bowl, made with sushi-grade yellowfin tuna, and the salmon poke bowl. These bowls are made using fish that has been marinated in a savory soy-based sauce.

A dump cake is an American dessert similar to a cobbler but with a cake-like topping. It is so named because it is prepared by "dumping" ingredients (typically canned fruit or pie filling, followed by a boxed cake mix) into a cake pan without mixing.

The origins and evolution of Hawaii's favorite dish. Poke's come a long way from its origins in pre-contact times, when ancient Hawaiians feasted on freshly caught fish massaged with sea salt, seaweed and crushed inamona or kukui nuts. Today poke shops are popping up from Los Angeles to Kansas City to New York.

Coonhunters Cake or Pineapple Dump Cake

I must say that this recipe is adapted from a dear woman who has since passed, Sandy Cox. She always made this when we had a carry-in dinner at our Southern Ohio Coon Hunters Club, hence the name.

The family-owned and -operated bakery describes the Cruise Cake as a coconut bundt cake with chunks of white chocolate, covered in a layer of cream cheese frosting and a mountain of shredded coconut. While Cruise has certainly made the cake famous, he wasn't the first actor to fall in love with it.

There are a few theories as to how it got its name. One, it's the decadent counterpart to angel food cake. Two, it's sinfully delicious. Finally, devil's food cake came about during a time when food that was spicy, rich, or dark was described as deviled, like deviled ham and deviled eggs.

A buckle is a funny name for an old fashioned fruit studded coffee cake. Like many other desserts in the extended cobbler family buckles take their name from their appearance—grunts grunt as they cook, slumps slump when served, buckles—you guessed it—buckle.