This Lemon Strawberry Poke Cake recipe is easy to make with boxed cake mix, strawberry jello, and lemon pudding mix. It’s a refreshing summer cake that your family will request again and again!
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Serving a jello poke cake for dessert is one of the easiest ways to delight your family and guests! It’s excellent for warmer weather during the spring and summer months.
Ingredients Needed for Lemon Strawberry Poke Cake:
- Strawberry Cake Mix
- Strawberry Gelatin
- Vegetable Oil or Canola Oil (3/4 Cup)
- Large Eggs (3)
- Cream Cheese (2 – 8oz)
- Frozen Lemonade Concentrate (3/4 Cup)
- Evaporated Milk (5oz)
- Lemon Instant Pudding (3.4oz)
- Whipped Topping (8oz)
Cooking Equipment Needed for Lemon Strawberry Poke Cake:
- Cooking Spray
- 13×9 Baking Pan
- Medium and Large Mixing Bowls
- Hand Mixer
- Reuseable Storage Bag
- Cooking Spoon
How to Make a Lemon Strawberry Poke Cake
For this recipe, you’ll use a boxed cake mix, which you add dry strawberry jello mix to. You’ll add the other usual ingredients too — such as eggs and oil. Then, bake the cake as usual.
After your strawberry poke cake is done baking, you’ll poke holes in the cake with the top end of a wooden kitchen spoon (or similar cooking utensil). With a bunch of holes all over your cake, you’ll then use the refreshing lemon pudding to fill all the holes on the cake.
With the lemon pudding mixture filling the holes, each piece of cake gets a delicious combination of strawberry and lemon. A perfect summer cake!
To finish off the cake, the remaining cream cheese lemon pudding mixture is spread on top of the cake. Then, this is followed by a layer of whipped topping. Before garnishing, place your cake in the refrigerator to set for at least 4 hours.
Before serving, top with some strawberries. Then, cut into pieces for serving.
Garnish the top of your cake with strawberries and it’s ready to serve!
Lemon Strawberry Poke Cake Recipe
Ingredients
1 (15.25 oz.) box strawberry cake mix
1 (3 oz.) box strawberry flavored gelatin
3/4 cup vegetable or canola oil
1 cup warm water
3 large eggs
2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese
3/4 cup frozen lemonade concentrate
1 (5 oz.) can evaporated milk
1 (3.4 oz.) box lemon instant pudding
1 (8 oz.) tub whipped topping
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F and lightly grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
Combine strawberry cake mix, strawberry gelatin, oil, water, and eggs in a large bowl and stir until combined. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 40-42 minutes, or until cake passes the toothpick test. Immediately after removing from the oven, poke holes in the cake with the round end of a cooking spoon. Let cool.
To prepare the filling, beat cream cheese in a medium mixing bowl for 2-3 minutes until fluffy and creamy. Add in lemonade concentrate and beat again until fully incorporated.
In a small bowl, whisk together the evaporated milk and lemon instant pudding mix until smooth. Add the lemon pudding mixture to the cream cheese mixture and beat until combined. Add some of the combined mixtures into a resealable storage bag (like a Ziploc bag), press out the extra air and seal. Cut off one bottom corner of the bag and fill the holes in the cake by squeezing the mixture into the holes. Squeeze any remaining extra filling over the cake. Spread the remaining filling from your bowl evenly over the top of the cake.
Spread whipped topping over the lemon cream cheese mixture layer. Cover and chill in the fridge for at least 4 hours before slicing and serving. Garnish with strawberries, if desired.
Miz Helen says
Your Strawberry Poke Cake was featured on Full Plate Thursday and pinned to our special features board last week! Hope you enjoyed the blog love and thanks so much for sharing with us!
Miz Helen
The Girl Next Door says
The concept of poke cakes is not very popular in India yet – it is just catching on as a trend, with just a few select bakeries and restaurants making them. Your poke cake looks so, so good! I want to try it out right away! 🙂
Katy says
I love poke cakes! This one looks so delicious! We would love if you would share at our weekly link-up party Handmade & Otherwise (Fridays 8am-Mondays 8pm).
Karren~#OMHGWW Bloghop says
I love poke cakes they are so moist, they sure dont stay around long.
I saw your cake on Inspiring Monday and would like to invite you to share your blog on #omhgww bloghop this week.
Hope to see you soon. Pinned to share.
Kristine says
This looks absolutely delicious. I am pinning this so I can try it this summer. Visiting from Finding Silver Pennies. Thank you for sharing this recipe.