Mocha Poke Cake
This Mocha Poke Cake Recipe combines the rich flavor of coffee with the sweetness of chocolate!
I've been realizing lately that for a blog with coffee in our name, we don't have many coffee recipes. So I figured I needed to set to work changing that! At the same time, I've had poke cakes on my mind after looking at Kerry's Pina Colada Poke Cake lately, so I decided to make a Mocha Poke Cake and kill two birds with one stone.
This Mocha Poke Cake is chocolatey coffee goodness. It's easy to make, and a nice change from a regular chocolate cake.
If you've never heard of poke cakes before, a poke cake is just how it sounds. You bake a cake, poke holes in it (with the end of a wooden spoon or something similar), and pour something over it.
For this Mocha Poke Cake, I poured coffee and chocolate pudding over it, and then topped it with whipped cream. Yum!
📖 Recipe
Mocha Poke Cake
Ingredients
For the cake
- 1 box Chocolate Cake
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup water
- ⅓ cup oil
For the coffee
- ½ cup strong brewed coffee OR
- 1 ½ teaspoon instant coffee crystals and ½ cup water to brew
For the pudding
- 3.4 ounce small box chocolate pudding
- 2 cups milk
For the topping
- 1 small container of whipped topping
- Garnish with shaved chocolate or chocolate chips
Instructions
- Grease 13x9 pan.
- Make cake as directed on box.
- During the last 5 minutes of the cake baking, brew the coffee and make the pudding according to the directions on the box.
- Let cake cool 5 minutes.
- Poke holes in the cake with the end of a wooden spoon.
- Pour half (¼ cup) of the coffee over the cake.
- Stir the other half of the coffee into the pudding (which should now be thickened). Spoon pudding mix over the cake (making sure plenty gets into the holes you poked).
- Spread the whipped topping over the top of the cake, and garnish as desired.
- Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.
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I love a good poke cake! This sounds divine!
Another great recipe! This mocha cake would be great as an afternoon snack! Yum!
Thanks! Even my kids loved it!
Ok now I want cake for breakfast!
lol! Well with this one, you don't even have to drink your morning cup of coffee 😉
Ah this sounds really good, I love all things coffee flavored, but don't care for coffee itself. I am also glad to see that there isn't sweetened condensed milk in this recipe!
I considered sweetened condensed milk, but figured I'd try it first without. I felt like it was plenty sweet enough without 🙂
Looks deliciously simple. Yum!
Thanks! It was so easy!
I just loooove poke cake - this looks awesome 🙂
Me too! The pudding really just mixes into the cake this way, and helps the coffee flavor penetrate!
Kim, thanks so much for pinning! We love that you come and party with us!
This cake is making my mouth water. Looks so divine!
Thanks, Pixie Dust Savings! It was so tasty!
I would LOVE this cake! I've only made toffee poke cakes and this is a nice alternative!
This is definitely not as rich as the "Better than..." cake, but personally I prefer that! This is delicious chocolate and coffee and yum! 😉