Trick or Treat Cake Two Ways! (Poke Cake!)
Ingredients
- 1 box white cake mix plus ingredients required to prepare it
- 2 boxes orange Jell-O (3oz each)
- orange food coloring gel color works best
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Frosting
- 6 tablespoons butter softened
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 2 ⅔ cups powdered sugar
- ⅔ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅓ cup milk room temperature
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1
Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Grease & flour a 9x13 pan.
- 2
Divide the batter into 3 bowls, ½ of the batter in one bowl and ¼ in the other two bowls.
- 3
Add add orange food coloring to ¼ of the batter to reach desired color. (Gel Color works best). Add the cocoa powder to the second bowl with ¼ of the batter. Mix well.
- 4
Pour about ¼ cup white batter into your pan. Alternate pouring the different colors of batter ¼ cup at a time, one on top of the other. (I did: white, orange, white, brown). Bake according to package directions.
- 5
Cool and frost with frosting below or make a poke cake. Poke cake can also be frosted!
- 6
Poke holes all over the top of the cooled cake using a skewer or chopstick (or similar).
- 7
Dissolve Jell-O in 1 cup of boiling water. Once completely dissolved, stir in cold water. Gently pour over cake and refrigerate at least 3 hours.
- 8
Mix together icing sugar and cocoa. Set aside.
- 9
Combine shortening and butter in a bowl. Beat shortening and butter until creamed.
- 10
Combine milk and vanilla.
- 11
Slowly alternate adding cocoa mixture and milk mixture
- 12
Beat until combined and fluffy (approximately 3 minutes). Frost cake and serve!
To Make Orange Poke Cake
Chocolate Frosting
Nutrition
Per serving (based on 12 servings)
