Cookies and Cream Poke Cake
Any extra Oreos laying around? All you need is four other ingredients to make this delicious cake happen.
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Did anyone else beg their mom, grandma, or great aunt to make them dirt cake for their birthday parties? I can’t get enough of these creamy chocolatey flavors and neither will you! It’s a decadent vanilla pudding with a bunch of crushed-up Oreos folded in and on top with cute little gummy worms poking out. As a child I was shocked, I could eat dirt?! That top layer tastes so rich with those crispy chocolatey little Oreo crumbles. Take your favorite box cake mix and poke some holes in the cake and that Oreo pudding mix sinks in through all the crevices. Let your cake cool and set with the pudding before frosting it with some Cool Whip and finish with all of the Oreos. Yes! All of the Oreos! So many that your inner child screams with excitement. If you like cookies and cream like I do, then this cake recipe is for you.
I was surprised to find Oreo makes an instant pudding mix. If you can find it at your local grocery store, use it over your standard vanilla pudding mix. If you’re having a hard time finding this, use the vanilla pudding mix and crush up some Oreo cookies to find and fold into the pudding while mixing. It should work just fine.
Be sure to let your cake cool before pouring over the pudding mix to prevent your cake from sinking. Top tip for your first poke cake: poke cakes tend to taste better with an overnight or 24-hour soak in the fridge. Time gives the pudding time to soak deeper and deeper into the dry cake more evenly. This helps to make the cake taste richer and moister without adding anything extra. Do yourself a favor and give yourself more time to make your cakes taste better.
Desserts like these make me happy when I don’t have to spend so much time on baking and decorating. This is a quick bake to delicious Oreo satisfaction. To make my cake more special, I made my own chocolate syrup for this and infused it with instant espresso for a little more bold chocolate flavor. That’s my favorite part of baking. How will you make your cake special? You’re in control of all the goodies you’d like to sprinkle on top. Maybe even scratch the cool whip by making your own whipped cream.
Cookies and Cream Poke Cake
Ingredients
- 24 oreo cookies, divided
- 1 (14oz) package of white cake mix, plus ingredients called for on the box
- 8 oz (tub) cool whip
- 1 (4.2oz) package of Oreo cookies and cream instant pudding, plus ingredients called for on the box
- Hersheys chocolate syrup, for drizzling
Preparation
- Preheat a 350° F oven and prepare a 9x13 baking tray with cooking spray.
- Whisk together the cake batter according to the box instructions until a smooth cake batter is formed. Fold in twelve crushed Oreos with a spatula and pour the cake into the prepared 9x13. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let cake cool for 20 minutes and mix the instant pudding mix according to the box instructions. Use the back of a wooden spoon to poke holes in the cake evenly all over the cake, then pour over pudding. Refrigerate cake for at least one hour.
- Spread cool whip all over the top of the cooled cake and decorate the top with a drizzle of chocolate syrup, six halved oreos, and crushed up remaining Oreos.
Recipe adapted from Sally Baking Addiction.