Easy Recipes: Orange Creamsicle Poke Cake

I am always on the lookout for easy recipes and lately I have seen several versions of orange cream poke cakes flying around the internet. Instead of making all of them and deciding which I liked best, I took what I thought were the best parts of each of them and created my own. Guess what? It worked! My Orange Creamsicle Poke Cake is delicious, light and easy to make.

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Recipe: Orange Creamsicle Poke Cake

Prep Time

1 hr 30 mins

Cook Time

25 mins

Total Time

1 hr 55 mins

 

Servings: 24 servings

Author: cindy

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 Duncan Hines White Cake mix
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 large egg whites

Filling

• 2-3 oz pkgs Orange Jello
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 cup cold water

Frosting

• 1-3.4 oz box Jello Instant Vanilla Pudding
• 1 cup milk
• 1-8 oz container Cool Whip thawed
• 1/4 tsp orange extract

Instructions

1. Bake the 13x9" cake according to the directions on the box.
2. Cool cake in pan 15 minutes then on serving dish 1 hour.
   
3. Using a wooden spoon poke holes 1-2" apart and 3/4 of the way through the cake.
   
4. Boil 1 cup of water
5. Mix in orange Jello until dissolved
6. Add 1 cup cold water
   
7. Pour Jello over cake, into holes
8. Refrigerate at least 1 hour
   
9. Mix 1 cup milk and vanilla pudding mix
10. Fold in Cool Whip and 1/4 tsp orange extract
    
11. Frost cake
12. Keep refrigerated until serving
    

I am in love with this frosting and I will be using the pudding and Cool Whip frosting in other recipes as it gave the cake a light fluffy topping with a bit more substance than just Cool Whip alone. I brought the cake to my small group and they loved it and said it was a perfect summer dessert. I brought slices into work where they also got rave reviews and Pastor asked me to make it for the next church picnic.

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