Lemon Pudding Poke Cake

A easy cheat for a tangy springtime dessert or maybe even Easter.Note" You are substituting the cake box ingredients with these ingredients and baking the cake as normal. What is a poke cake? Simple – bake a cake, poke it full of holes, and then pour something (sweetened condensed milk, jellies, pudding, curd, Jello etc...) over the cake and let it seep into the holes that you poked. Ingredients 1 (18 ounce) lemon cake mix 3 egg whites 1 ⅓ cups water ⅓ cup vegetable oil 2 cups cold milk 2 pkg. (3 ounce) Instant Lemon Pudding mix 8 oz. Cool Whip topping (optional) Directions Mix cake mix, egg whites, water and oil for the cake batter THEN bake as directed on package in 13x9-inch baking pan. Note** you will want your cake to spring back when lightly pressed so do not overbake. Remove from oven. As soon as you remove it from the oven, poke holes all over the cake with the end of a wooden spoon. Holes should be at 1-inch intervals. Pour milk into large bowl. Add dry pudding mixes. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. Immediately pour about half of the thin pudding mixture evenly over warm cake and into holes to make stripes. Let remaining pudding mixture stand until slightly thickened. Mix remaining thickened pudding with 1/2 container of Cool whip topping and Spoon over top of cake, swirling to "frost" cake. Refrigerate at least 1 hour or until ready to serve. Store in refrigerator. Lemon Cake Variations Image source: Lemon Curd Poke Cake from FaithfullyGlutenFree Frost and serve with Lemon Pie Filling and only use 1 box of pudding mix for filling in holes. White cake mix and Lemon Jello filled into the holes, then a Lemon Pudding layered with cool whip for the traditional Jello Poke Cake. Jell-O Lemon Bars using a cake mix and lemon gelatin from SixSistersStuff And Last but not least Your basic Jello Lemon Pudding Cake -w- Lemon Glaze or A Lemon Cake to Die for! Also check out this Lemon Pudding Cake Goodness and video from TheWhoot Thanks For Visiting