Boston Cream Poke Cake
on Jul 06, 2015, Updated Oct 21, 2020
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When I am in hurry and need to make a quick dessert for our summer bbqs, this Easy Boston Cream Poke Cake is perfect. The recipe is so super simple and uses a boxed cake mix, pudding, and store bought frosting. SUPER simple.
Boston Cream Poke Cake
My hubby is a huge fan of cream filled baked goods. He loves our Homemade Eclairs recipe best. Before we made the homemade eclairs, this super simple Boston Cream Poke Cake was his favorite dessert that I have made.
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The recipe is so super simple but tastes out of this world amazing. The flavor combinations taste just like a high end Boston Cream cake.
Poke cakes are always a hit at our summer bbqs. I make our Oreo Poke Cake often but this is another one of my “go to” cake recipes when I am pressed for time.
This cake is so simple because it uses a store bought cake mix, boxed pudding and store bought frosting. It’s so simple I can have my teens make it for me when needed.
INGREDIENTS
1 box Yellow Cake Mix (plus box ingredients)
2 small boxes (3.4 oz) Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
4 cup Milk
1 container Chocolate Frosting
DIRECTIONS
Prepare cake in 13×9″ pan according to box directions.
Allow to cool until just slightly warm.
Use spoon handle to poke holes evenly across cake.
Combine milk and pudding mix and whisk until well blended.
Pour pudding over cake making sure it gets down into holes.
Refrigerate cake for several hours to allow pudding to settle and set up.
Open frosting container and remove foil seal.
Microwave for 15 seconds and stir. Repeat this until frosting is pourable.
Pour over pudding layer and spread with spatula to cover completely.
Refrigerate for at least several more hours.
Do you have a favorite summer bbq dessert recipe that you like to make?
This cake is always one of the first desserts that everyone at our bbqs finishes off. Most everyone is always amazed at how simple the recipe is. I like to keep it refrigerated up until I serve it so the layers are perfect. If I am transporting, I will freeze it ahead of time so it stays chilled.
Boston Cream Poke Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix, plus box ingredients
- 2 small boxes, 3.4 oz Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
- 4 cup Milk
- 1 container Chocolate Frosting
Instructions
- Prepare cake in 13x9" pan according to box directions.
- Allow to cool until just slightly warm.
- Use spoon handle to poke holes evenly across cake.
- Combine milk and pudding mix and whisk until well blended.
- Pour pudding over cake making sure it gets down into holes.
- Refrigerate cake for several hours to allow pudding to settle and set up.
- Open frosting container and remove foil seal.
- Microwave for 15 seconds and stir. Repeat this until frosting is pourable.
- Pour over pudding layer and spread with spatula to cover completely.
- Refrigerate for at least several more hours.
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OMGosh…that Boston Creme Cake looks sooooooo Delish! I live by myself and don’t generally make things like this….but I’m gonna make this cake and eat the whole thing by myself!! And gain 20 pounds! I will try freezing some of it in serving size portions, just to see how it holds up. YUM….I can’t wait!!!
You can get personal tins at $tree pack of three that way just make 3 cakes eat 1 freeze 2. Just watch the baking time they also might have round cake pans there to that are 4 per pack that are personal size.
Do you let the cake cool before pouring the pudding on top
The recipe says you are supposed to wait till it’s warm so let it cool a little bit but not completely.
I just finished baking the cake and pouRed the pudding on top. The pudding was VERY liquidy anD went straight to the bottom of the cake. Any suggestion so? I’m afraid the pudding won’t set.
I let the pudding get slightly thicker before I put it in on the cake and it worked out just fine.
The same thing happened to me… it’s in the fridge now. Not sure how this will turn out!
Do you let the cake cool completely before adding the pudding?
Do you wait until the cake cools afterbaking before you poke holes and spread the pudding? Or do you poke holes while cake is still hot and then cool before spreading pudding? Not clear from the recipe.
recipe tells you to wait til semi cool.
I’m going to make this with gluten free cake mix for my sister. My grandmother always made it for her and I think it would be nice to make it for her in my grandmother’s memory. Thank you for sharing this super easy recipe.
How long does it take for the Boston Cream cake to unthaw? Will definitely make it for our next church dinner. Thank you for the recipe!
How long does the Boston Cream cake take to unthaw?
Sure looks good and I plan to make it for our next church dinner!
Thanks for making something so delicious so easy!
It looks like 3.4 oz pkg on the pictures…