Easy Poke Cake

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Servings: 14
Yield: 14 servings

Description

This easy poke cake recipe makes a moist, flavorful, and very tasty dessert with cake mix, pudding, and your favorite fruit flavored Jell-O.

Ingredients

1 (18 1/4 ounce) package white cake mix
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
1 cup water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 (3 ounce) package fruit flavored Jell-O® mix
1 cup boiling water
1 cup ice water
1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Directions

1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
2 Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, 1 cup water and the vegetable oil and blend well. Beat at the medium speed of an electric mixer for 4 minutes. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
3 Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes or until the cake springs back when lightly touched. Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes.
4 Meanwhile, dissolve the gelatin in the boiling water, then add the cold water.
5 Poke holes in the warm cake with a fork at 1/2 inch intervals. Pour gelatin over cake. Chill cake completely before frosting with whipped topping. Keep cake refrigerated.