Description
Scrumptious Easter poke cake delights dessert enthusiasts with layers of pastel-colored goodness. Creamy filling and festive frosting create a delectable centerpiece perfect for spring celebrations you’ll savor with each delightful bite.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 box white cake mix
- 1 (3.4 oz/96 g) box instant vanilla or white chocolate pudding mix
- 2 cups cold milk
- 1 (8 oz/226 g) tub Cool Whip (or 2 cups homemade whipped cream)
- Eggs (as specified on cake mix box)
- Vegetable oil (as specified on cake mix box)
- Water (as specified on cake mix box)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Gel food coloring (pink, yellow, blue, or pastel colors of choice)
- 12 Easter sprinkles or pastel-colored candy eggs
Instructions
- Oven Preparation: Preheat oven to specified temperature and lightly grease baking dish to prevent adhesion.
- Batter Creation: Blend cake ingredients until uniformly smooth, incorporating vanilla extract, then transfer mixture into prepared pan with fluid, consistent motion.
- Baking Process: Cook cake until achieving golden complexion and inserting testing implement results in clean removal, signaling optimal doneness within designated time frame.
- Surface Modification: After initial cooling, craft shallow indentations across cake surface using wooden spoon handle, creating natural reservoirs for subsequent filling.
- Pudding Development: Whisk milk and pudding powder until achieving silky, slightly thickened consistency with seamless texture.
- Color Transformation: Partition pudding into multiple vessels, integrating pastel gel food colorings through gentle stirring to produce harmonious, blended hues.
- Filling Integration: Distribute multicolored pudding into prepared cake indentations, strategically layering tones to generate captivating marbled aesthetic.
- Topping Application: Spread whipped cream across entire cake surface, ensuring comprehensive and uniform coverage that resembles delicate cloud formation.
- Decorative Finalization: Adorn cake with playful Easter-themed sprinkles and delicate pastel candy eggs, creating visually enchanting presentation.
- Chilling Protocol: Refrigerate decorated creation, allowing flavor melding and topping stabilization, with optimal results emerging after extended cooling period.
Notes
- Gentle Cake Handling: Use a light touch when creating indentations to avoid tearing the delicate cake surface, ensuring clean, smooth pudding channels.
- Color Mixing Strategy: Add food gel colors sparingly and incrementally, enabling precise pastel shade control without overwhelming the pudding’s delicate texture.
- Chilling Technique: Refrigerate the cake uncovered initially to prevent condensation, which can dilute the whipped topping’s fluffy consistency and compromise the decorative sprinkle placement.
- Dietary Adaptation: Substitute traditional ingredients with gluten-free cake mix, dairy-free milk alternatives, and vegan whipped topping for accommodating various dietary restrictions while maintaining the dessert’s festive Easter aesthetic.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 13
- Calories: 200
- Sugar: 18 g
- Sodium: 250 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg