Caramel Poke Cake – Recipe from Yummiest Food Cookbook (2024)

August 14, 2016 By Yummiest Food 46 Comments

Caramel Poke Cake you will love this cake! Perfect combination of caramel and chocolate! Caramel Poke Cake the best cake I’ve ever made! So delicious and moist!

In each home there are family members who like candies and sweet things. If you want to have happy family, you need to pay attention on preparing cakes, desserts, creams and other candies.

Every beginning is difficult and that is the case especially about cooking. Beside ingredients and right recipe you need to add something very important, love. You love your family so you need to cook meals for family members with love. Many people think that for good dessert you need to add expensive ingredients. That is a mistake. I tasted so many cakes which were made with most expensive ingredients I know, but I wasn’t surprised. On the other side, I tasted many cakes with simple basic ingredients but very good combination and stayed speechless.

This delicious caramel poke cake with caramel sauce topping is the real hit. Caramel poke cake is very simple and so delicious. When I found this recipe, I thought how simple it is, so I made a decision to make it and I didn’t expect a surprise but when I tasted it I was shocked. Today, this Caramel poke cake is favourite in my family. Caramel poke cake is really decorative cake and you can slice it very easy. With few basic ingredients which you usually have at your home and topping you can make based on your taste. You can make caramel topping, chocolate or banana pudding or you can add your favorite fruits.

For this Caramel poke cake you have many different combinations. When your cake is done, you need a wooden spoon which you need to make poke holes and then add your favorite topping. Holes will be full and the result is this very moist and delicious Caramel poke cake. I said this to you before, you can make topping which you like. Every topping gives to this cake special taste. Every time you eat this cake you will find lot of fill topping. I really love this dessert and when I eat this Caramel poke cake I really enjoy!

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Mouse says
August 28, 2016 at 12:13 am
Yummmmm! Beautiful to take when you are assigned the dessert!
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- Lidia Simic says
  August 29, 2016 at 9:37 pm
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  Nice comment… Thanks Mouse! 🙂
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Carol says
August 29, 2016 at 4:15 am
Yum
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- Lidia Simic says
  August 29, 2016 at 9:43 pm
  🙂
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Teri says
August 30, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Is the something else I could use besides cooled coffee?
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- Lidia Simic says
  September 1, 2016 at 8:23 pm
  Hi Teri, I haven’t tried to make this cake without coffee, but you can use water. Good luck and enjoy!
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Lynn Knowles says
September 8, 2016 at 2:10 pm
I do not like coffee so I just used a cup of water and it turned out fine. However, when I topped it with the caramel/condensed milk mixture mine completely soaked into the cake. Did not look like the picture of the cut piece but was still delicious!
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- Lidia Simic says
  September 9, 2016 at 9:38 pm
  I’m glad that you like the cake! 🙂 Thanks for a comment Lynn!
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- Elaine says
  July 3, 2017 at 2:31 pm
  I have a cake recipe that calls for coffee. My husband HATES coffee but he doesn’t even know it’s there. I don’t take the coffee at all and he doesn’t either. But I’m sure water will be fine.
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  - Tomi says
    July 2, 2019 at 8:09 pm
    Why is sweetened condensed so thick. How do you get it like that
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- Kimberly Springer says
  February 10, 2018 at 12:44 am
  Mine did the very same thing, the cake tasted great, but was really disappointed in the look of the finished product. So, I made chocolate whipped topping and covered it in it. Yummy..
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Foodie says
September 12, 2016 at 2:04 pm
What caramel sauce did you use?
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- Lidia Simic says
  September 19, 2016 at 11:06 pm
  Hi, I have used Smucker’s caramel sauce. Enjoy!
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Paul Segner says
October 10, 2016 at 12:17 am
I have a question;
I have been cooking longer than you might have been alive and am wondering how the caramel sauce and sweeten condensed milk mixed together looks like pudding and stayed on top of the cake and did not soak in? Never seen this before . Mine soaked in so I just made a choc coffee frosting to go over everything. Worked fine then. Thank you for your time.
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- Lidia Simic says
  October 17, 2016 at 11:47 pm
  Hi Paul, follow the right instructions next time.. Good luck and enjoy!
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  - Michelle says
    October 25, 2016 at 10:50 pm
    Did you use pudding mix in with the caramel and condensed milk? Mine was very thin and soaked right in unlike yours that sits on top and thickens.
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    - Lidia Simic says
      October 29, 2016 at 6:36 pm
      Hi Michelle, i don’t use pudding in this recipe, only caramel sauce and condensed milk. Good luck!
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    - Oneh says
      November 29, 2017 at 8:50 am
      I think you must add cream cheese to thicken it.. my own version.. Caramel sauce and condensed milk cant be that thick.
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  - Paul Segner says
    October 30, 2016 at 2:27 am
    Excuse me….. I mixed the caramel sauce with the condensed milk what more is there to do? I might be old (53) but I am not stupid! Then please explain how you sauce looks so different and other people have commented about this too. I have worked as a Chef and Kitchen Manger far too long to be insulted to assume I do not read properly. Class Alum C.I.A. 83.
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    - Cheryl says
      November 3, 2016 at 2:38 pm
      Mine too….made this….caramel sauce soaked into the cake….something is missing from this recipe
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    - Vassy says
      November 17, 2018 at 10:44 am
      You are right. Some things missing.
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  - carole says
    February 16, 2017 at 10:12 pm
    Rude comment. He (and others) were just asking a question…you would think if you’re posting a blog online, you would treat the people reading/cooking/posting with a little more respect. I will definitely be skipping any recipes from your site.
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    - Lidia Simic says
      February 21, 2017 at 4:11 am
      I’m really sorry Carole. I try to answer all the questions that you send me.
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  - Vicki says
    May 26, 2019 at 10:27 pm
    Are you suppose to beat with mixer to make it thick like picture?
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    - Yummiest Food says
      May 26, 2019 at 10:59 pm
      Hi, Vicki! 🙂 Yes, you could beat with a mixer, but it’s not necessary.
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- Lynn Bell says
  October 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm
  hi Paul, I am sure you read the directions as I have, and the carmal mixture did soak in the cake.
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  - Ann says
    October 27, 2016 at 1:50 am
    Mine did, too.
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  - Maura says
    February 8, 2018 at 9:48 pm
    I think if sweetened condensed milk, not just condensed milk it comes out like the pic. The sweetened kind is thicker.
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- Kathy says
  September 19, 2018 at 7:25 pm
  I followed the “directions” and I agree, did not appear like picture, soaked in as everyone else has said. Been cooking for over 60 yrs and have made my share of poke cakes. Seems like something is missing from “directions”!!
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Ann says
October 22, 2016 at 1:45 pm
Is the chocolate sauce just chocolate syrup? Your picture looks like it is thicker than a syrup like Hershey’s.
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- Lidia Simic says
  October 25, 2016 at 10:10 pm
  Hi Ann, you can use any chocolate syrup or sauce. Good luck and enjoy!
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- Teresa says
  September 25, 2017 at 8:14 pm
  Looks like melted chocolate.
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Teresa says
September 25, 2017 at 7:36 pm
I , also would like to know why the picture shows the sweetened condensed milk/caramel mixture not soaked into the cake. What are we doing wrong when we are following the directions? My cake was cooled in the refrigerator and still soaked in. Needed an icing to cover the cake as it didn’t look pretty at all. Used a ganache but was too much chocolate for me.
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- Lidia Simic says
  September 28, 2017 at 1:19 pm
  Hi Teresa, This is a normal family recipe that has been in my family for years so I apologize if you had a problem with it.
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amy says
September 26, 2017 at 10:18 pm
I mixed the Carmel topping and 1/2 can sweeten condensed milk together than poured over cake. Was delicious.Delicious! Everything turned out perfectly
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lea smith says
September 26, 2017 at 10:26 pm
This is my second time making this cake. Everybody LOVES this cake. They talk about it all the time. My granny is a cake connoisseur and this is one of her all time favorites that I have made. It’s really simple and easy to make. I’ll definitely be make a couple more before the year is out.
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- Lidia Simic says
  September 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm
  I’m glad that you like the cake! Thanks for sharing this nice comment Lea! 🙂
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Sherilyn says
February 27, 2018 at 10:28 pm
Just a thought but you could boil the sweetened condensed milk to thicken it a bit before adding the caramel sauce. Essentially make dulce de leche, then it shouldn’t soak in so much. I’m making this tomorrow and am going to try that myself so I’ll let you know how I thought works.
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- Lidia Simic says
  February 28, 2018 at 2:42 am
  Great idea Sherilyn! Thanks for sharing this nice comment! 🙂
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Margaret says
June 7, 2018 at 4:48 pm
I think that’s why they call it a poke cake. It is supposed to soak into the holes. Never saw a poke cake that didn’t. So I to will be using a whipped topping.
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Jean says
May 13, 2019 at 5:39 pm
With so many comments and everyone I read said it soaks in, why not make a video for us. You are doing something different from the recipe. Maybe using only a half can of condensed milk or boiling before adding Carmel. There is absolutely NO way the recipe as written will look like your picture. Yes it tastes good even if it is runny.
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- Yummiest Food says
  May 13, 2019 at 6:22 pm
  Thanks for the idea, Jean! 🙂 I’ll try to do that.
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Diane says
May 21, 2019 at 5:57 pm
I really don’t like negative comments for recipes , it’s always fun to try something different. My cake however was a Pinterest fail but Thanks for sharing your time I always appreciate people willing to share.
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- Yummiest Food says
  May 24, 2019 at 11:41 pm
  Thank you for such a nice comment, Diane! I’m sorry to hear for “a Pinterest fail”.
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Tammy says
June 12, 2019 at 2:12 pm
Hi Lidia,
Did I miss something in the recipe? The carmel sauce/sweetened condensed milk mixture in the photos on your blog looks much thicker than the carmel sauce/sweetened condensed milk mixture I poured over my cake. Why is your’s thicker?
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- Yummiest Food says
  June 13, 2019 at 11:54 am
  I’m sorry but I don’t know, Tammy. Recipe on this Blog Post is the recipe which I’ve written and used.
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