This Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake is a rich homemade chocolate cake topped with homemade peanut butter pudding, Crème Chantilly and chopped peanut butter cups makes the perfect treat! Peanut Butter and Chocolate lovers will go crazy over this fun cake!
This post was created for Dixie Crystals by BigBearsWife, post and words written are 100% mine as always.
My husband loves peanut butter and chocolate, so I tend to make these desserts for him any chance I get! Earlier this week, I shared our favorite Banana Cream Pie Poke cake, and now it’s time for a fun chocolate and peanut butter poke cake.
Ingredients For Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake
- white sugar
- all-purpose flour
- cocoa powder
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- eggs
- milk
- vegetable oil
- vanilla extract
- boiling water
For the homemade peanut butter pudding filling:
(amounts in recipe)
- milk
- eggs
- cornstarch
- all-purpose flour
- white sugar
- creamy peanut butter
Toppings:
- whipped cream
- chopped mini peanut butter cups
Ingredient amounts and recipe directions are below with a print option!
How To Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake:
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This amazing poke cake starts off with my favorite chocolate cake recipe. It’s easy to make, taste amazing and I’ve been using this recipe for years. It’s always perfect with whatever puddings or frostings I use for poke cakes.
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We’re baking this cake at 300°F, so so ahead and preheat the oven.
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In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix in eggs, milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla. Mix in boiling water until smooth. YES, it’s gonna kind of look like chocolate water and that is ok.
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Pour into a greased pan, bake for 55-60 minutes or until done.
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Let the cake cool completely. When the cake is cool, use the end of a wooden spoon and poke holes into the cake.
Make sure that cake is cool before you start poking holes into it or you’re going to tear it up.
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Since this is a Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke cake, we’re going to need a homemade peanut butter pudding for this cake.
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Homemade pudding might sound scary but have no fear! It’s actually pretty easy to make.
It is just a matter of heating milk, whisking eggs, sugar, cornstarch and flour. Adding peanut butter and whisking until thick. -
Make sure to pour that pudding on to the cake while it’s hot so it gets down into those holes we made in the top of the poke cake.
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Place cake into fridge for 2-3 hours or until pudding is cold.
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Remove cake from fridge and top with a layer whipped cream. Sprinkle top of cake with chopped mini peanut butter cups.
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Poke cakes are best when served cold.
QUICK GLANCE Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake FAQ:
How many holes do I poke in a poke cake? I don’t use an exact number for poking holes in poke cakes. If I’m using my 2 quart dish that I normally bake pokes cakes in, then I find that I normally poke about 8 – 10 holes across the top and then start a new row. I like for the pudding to really get down into poke cakes when I make them. Just remember, if you poke too many (aka rip the top part of the cake up haha) then the poke cake might get too much pudding down into it and be a soggy mess of pudding and cake. (A delicious but soggy mess of cake haha.) If you don’t poke enough holes, then the pudding won’t get down into the cake and then it could turn out to be a dry poke cake with pudding on top. No one wants a dry poke cake.
Can this Peanut butter Poke cake be made with other cake flavors? Of Course! I love Chocolate and peanut butter together but you could make any cake you like
How long will poke cake keep in the fridge? Poke cakes should last about 2-3 days in the fridge.
More great chocolate peanut butter recipes:
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies
- Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Rabbits
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Mix
Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake
Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Poke Cake is a rich homemade chocolate cake topped with homemade peanut butter pudding, Crème Chantilly and chopped peanut butter cups makes the perfect treat! Peanut Butter and Chocolate lovers will go crazy over this fun cake!
Ingredients
For Chocolate Cake:
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
For Peanut Butter Pudding:
- 3 cups milk
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
For Topping:
- whipped cream
- 1 cup chopped mini peanut butter cups
Instructions
In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Mix in eggs, milk, vegetable oil and vanilla.
Mix in boiling water until smooth.
Pour into a greased pan, bake for 55-60 minutes or until done.
Let cake cool completely.
When cake is cool, use end of wooden spoon and poke holes into cake.
For Peanut Butter Pudding:
Heat 3 cups milk in medium sauce pan over medium heat.
In a medium bowl, stir together 3 egg whites and 1 whole egg.
Stir in cornstarch, flour and sugar.
When milk is hot, stir in sugar mixture. Stir until smooth.
Add in peanut butter and whisk until smooth.
Heat and whisk for 8 minutes. When pudding starts to thicken, remove from heat and pour pudding over cake.
Place cake into fridge for 2-3 hours or until pudding is cold.
Remove cake from fridge and top with a layer Crème Chantilly.
Sprinkle top of cake with chopped mini peanut butter cups.
Serve cold.
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I wish you put the recipe here instead of making us click on a link to a recipe that doesn’t exist, I then searched for the recipe on the dixie crystals website but it said no such recipe was even on their website 🙁
Hi Kandis! I’m so sorry about that! This was a sponsored recipe for Dixie Crystal and I had a link at the bottom to take readers to the recipe. However, recently Dixie Crystals deleted all of those links from their site! So I’ve just done an edit on the post and added a recipe card with the recipe.
You say poke holes after cake is cool but then say pour pudding over cake while it is hot??????
The pudding 🙂 Poor the pudding over the cake while the pudding is still hot.