Carrot Cake Poke Cake

If you are looking for a fun new Easter dessert to try this spring, this easy Carrot Cake Poke Cake recipe is the best treat that you can make for your family. Filled with white chocolate pudding and topped with cream cheese frosting, this super moist carrot cake is over the top delicious!

A Carrot Cake Poke Cake Easter Dessert

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is classic Easter dessert. But you can make a fun twist this year and turn it into amazing, perfectly moist, homemade poke cake filled with white chocolate pudding.

Almost every recipe I found on the internet uses box cake mix and caned cream cheese frosting for poke cakes.  They all sounds super simple to make, but I prefer real homemade cakes from scratch, with this magic custard cake as one of my favorites to make (and taste!). Especially when it comes to a holidays and family gatherings such as Easter dinner or brunch.

Although I baked dozens of cakes with many different flavors, I do not have too much experience with carrot cakes. To tell the truth, I’m not a huge fun of carrots so I refused to try any kind of carrot treats for years. I always imagined that carrot tastes much in the cake and it seems yuck to me.

What I fool I was! One day I decided to try carrot cake and realized that I been missing a lot. Baked goods with carrots actually taste so good. You can’t even tell there’s carrot in it.

A Twist on a Classic Carrot Cake Recipe

However, when I tried first recipe, my Carrot Cake Banana Bread, I couldn’t stop myself. I made Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Filling, Carrot Cake Cheesecake, Carrot Cake Cupcakes and even Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies.  In fact I made so many versions of carrot cakes, but never a classic one.

Looking for perfect base for my poke cake that doesn’t include a box cake mix I found this Crazy Good Carrot Cake from Happy Hooligans.  It seems extremely moist and delicious. That was my starting point for this Carrot Cake Poke Cake. I made some changes, replace some of white sugar with brown sugar, spiced it up with ginger, nutmeg and cloves, besides cinnamon, and stir in some chopped walnuts. I was afraid that I might mess things up with my add-ins, but it turned out great.

Finally this Carrot Cake Poke Cake with white chocolate pudding and cream cheese frosting is really easy recipe and so simple to make. When you try this super moist and flavorful homemade carrot cake you’ll never buy a box cake mix again.

Easy Easter Dessert Recipes

Homemade Reese’s Eggs

Strawberry Jello Cake

Old Fashioned Banana Cream Pie

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Easter Krispie Treats

Carrot Cake Cheesecake

 

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