20 Easy Christmas Poke Cake Recipes
Why not make Poke Cakes for Christmas desserts this year? These Christmas poke cake recipes are simple and delicious and perfect to serve on your holiday treat table. This collection has tons of flavor options to delight your friends and family.
Why you’ll love these Christmas Poke Cake Recipes
These Christmas poke cake recipes are the perfect addition to any holiday season menu.
Whether you’re looking for a traditional poke cake or a Jello poke cake recipe to make for Christmas Eve or Christmas day, look no further than these tasty holiday cake recipes.
Many of these recipes incorporate a box cake mix and red or green colors making them festive and perfect for any special occasion or gathering.
Related: Jello Poke Cupcakes
Adding candy canes or white chocolate curls to these Jell-o poke cakes will make them a huge hit at your holiday parties.
Some are simple and some are more elaborate but all of these are super delicious! These desserts are easy to put together and great to serve a crowd.
Pair them with some coffee or Christmas Bourbon Cocktails for any holiday party. Find a delicious cake recipe to try this year from the list below.
Poke Cakes for Christmas
Looking for the best Christmas desserts to serve your holiday guests? A delicious dessert recipe from this collection of poke cakes for Christmas will durely catch your eye!
Easy Gingerbread Poke Cake
This moist and delicious gingerbread poke cake makes an amazing Christmas dessert! Every bite is a tantalizing blend of holiday spices and sweet creamy filling. It’s irresistible and SO easy to make!
Ingredients: spice cake mix, spices, buttermilk, molasses, oil, eggs, sweetened condensed milk, Cool Whip, gingersnap cookies
Christmas Poke Cake
This Christmas Poke Cake is a fun and festive dessert that’s perfect for the holiday season. Made with boxed cake mix, white chocolate and a cream cheese frosting, this delicious cake recipe will be the star of your holiday dessert table!
Ingredients: red velvet cake mix, white chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese frosting, sprinkles, white chocolate curls
Christmas Jello Poke Cake (Easy Recipe!)
Christmas jello poke cake is a sweet and colorful holiday treat that’s just as much a feast for the eyes as it is for the palate.
Ingredients: cake mix, jello mix, water, frosting, sprinkles
Coquito Tres Leches Cake
This recipe combines two of my favorite things: coquito and tres leches cake. The cake is the traditional tres leches cake with shredded coconut.
Ingredients: flour, baking powder, spices, butter, coconut oil, eggs, sugar, vanilla, rum, coconut, coconut condensed milk, coconut evaporated milk, cream of coconut, egg whites, water
Eggnog Tres Leches Cake
Rich, creamy and bursting with eggnog-y goodness, this eggnog tres leches cake is a festive twist on a favorite classic.
Ingredients: eggs, sugar, oil, milk, sour cream, vanilla, flour, baking powder, salt, eggnog, sweetened condensed milk, heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, cinnamon
Death by Chocolate Poke Cake
Death by Chocolate Poke Cake is just the chocolate overload dessert for any chocolate lover. It costs $12.40 to make and serves 12. That’s just $1.04 per serving!
Ingredients: cake mix, pudding mix, milk, oil, eggs, sour cream, sweetened condensed milk, hot fudge sauce, whipping cream, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, chocolate sauce, chocolate chips, sprinkles
Easy Tiramisu Poke Cake
Make this decadent Tiramisu Poke Cake recipe—a simple, moist cake drizzled with sweetened coffee syrup and topped with a whipped mascarpone vanilla frosting.
Ingredients: cake mix, cold brew coffee, sweetened condensed milk, frosting, mascarpone cheese, chocolate
Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake Recipe
Cake recipes don’t get much better than this Cinnamon Roll Poke Cake – tender white cake filled with buttery cinnamon-sugar filling and rich cream cheese frosting!
Ingredients: cake mix, eggs, milk, water, butter, brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, vanilla, cream cheese, powdered sugar
Chocolate Poke Cake
Indulge with this decadent chocolate poke cake with triple the chocolate!
Ingredients: chocolate pudding, milk, heavy whipping cream, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, chocolate chips, chocolate syrup
Easy Banana Pudding Poke Cake
Your favorite Banana Pudding dessert turned into a delicious cake!
Ingredients: milk, eggs, butter, vanilla, cake mix, bananas, vanilla wafers, pudding mix, heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar
Strawberry Poke Cake
This Strawberry Poke Cake is so moist, fluffy, and packed full of fantastic strawberry flavor.
Ingredients: cake mix, water, oil, egg whites, gelatin, frosting, decorating gel, strawberries
Eggnog Poke Cake
This Eggnog Poke Cake is filled with creamy eggnog and pumpkin spice flavors. It’s a delicious festive dessert perfect for the holiday season!
Ingredients: cake mix, spices, eggs, milk, oil, pudding mix, eggnog, whipped topping
Key Lime Poke Cake
Key Lime Poke Cake is filled with refreshing lime zest, fresh raspberries and key lime juice to make it tangy and pucker worthy!
Ingredients: cake mix, oil, eggs, milk, raspberries, limes, sweetened condensed milk, heavy cream, key lime juice, powdered sugar, cream cheese
Mixed Berry Jello Poke Cake With Fruit Compote
This Mixed Berry Jello Poke Cake is the perfect treat for your next get-together! An easy dessert to make that looks fancy and impressive!
Ingredients: cake mix, jell-o, berries, whipped topping, sugar, lemon juice, corn starch
EASY Jello Poke Cake (5 ingredients!)
A super moist jello poke cake topped with whipped cream and fresh berries. Takes only 5 ingredients to make and can be used with any flavor or gelatin!
Ingredients: cake mix, Jello, water, whipped cream, berries
Christmas Poke Cake Recipe - ZEN AND HONEY
Christmas Poke Cake – Christmas dessert recipe that is a total crowd pleaser – Christmas Jello Poke Cake! Delicious, easy and super pretty holiday cake that is quick and simple to make and tastes absolutely incredible.
Ingredients: jell-o, cake mix, water, sprinkles, whipped cream
German Chocolate Poke Cake
This German chocolate poke cake recipe is simply delicious and perfect for special occasions when you don’t mind spending a few extra minutes in the kitchen.
Ingredients: flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, eggs, milk, oil, vanilla, coffee, pudding, milk, cream cheese, powdered sugar, mint extract, food coloring, heavy cream, chocolate drops
Scrumptious Banana Pudding Cake
If you love bananas, this Banana Pudding Cake is a fun way to satisfy your cravings.
Ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, instant pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, oil, vanilla, milk, heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, Nilla wafers, banana slices
Boston Cream Poke Cake
If you’re looking for a show-stopping dessert, this Boston Cream Poke Cake is always a good choice! Everyone will be raving over the delicious combination of yellow cake, vanilla pudding custard, and chocolate glaze.
Ingredients: cake mix, pudding mix, milk, vanilla, chocolate chips, corn syrup, heavy cream
Top Tips
Many of these poke cakes use box cake mix to create easy cake recipes that taste amazing. And it’s so easy to dress up simple ingredients for a holiday poke cake that your guests won’t forget.
Follow my top tips for easy cake recipes that turn out just right!
- Get creative with filling for your Christmas cakes. If you love chocolate peanut butter cups, think about filling a chocolate cake with peanut butter pie filling. If you are a fan of banana pudding, maybe you’d like to fill your cake with banana pudding mix.
- The best way to poke holes in a cake is to wait until the cake cools completely. Then, use the handle of a wooden spoon or a thick chopstick to poke the top of the cake with large, deep holes ¾ of the way through the baked cake. This is a great way to get the kids involved in dessert prep with a little bit of fun this Christmas season.
- Make sure to poke the holes all the way through to the bottom of the cake for best distribution.
- If you are using colorful Jello, use white cake mix for the best color visibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is called a poke cake, sometimes called a poke-and-pour cake, because the recipe calls for you to poke a hole through the cake. Whatever filling or flavoring you are using fills in the holes and seeps into the cake. It’s delicious and let’s you be super creative with your desserts. Christmas poke cakes usually include seasonal flavors and colors.
If you want to remove your poke cake for Christmas from the pan, you’ll need to wait until the cake has cooled and the Jell-O or other filling has had time to set in the fridge. After refrigerating the filled cakes for a few hours, you can remove them from the pan as you would any other cake. But it is absolutely fine to serve a poke cake in the same pan you made it in.
You may need to store your festive dessert differently depending on the ingredients you use for filling. If your Christmas poke cake uses Jell-O, it must be kept chilled. Tightly cover the cake in an airtight container and keep it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days for best results.
Making poke cakes for Christmas is a lot of fun! Christmas poke cakes can be made festive with red gelatin, red velvet cake mix, or green gelatin. Once your cake is ready to serve, you can add a fun whipped topping or cream cheese frosting to level-up your Christmas poke cake and make it into the perfect dessert for the holiday season. Using fun sprinkles or candy pieces also adds some visual punch to the dessert.
Will you be making a poke cake for Christmas dessert this year? Share your favorite Christmas poke cake recipe or one you’d like to try in the comment section. I can’t wait to read them and try a few of your favorite cake recipes too!
