Raspberry Chambord Chocolate Poke Cake - An Easy and Moist Cake Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Why is my poke cake soggy? ›

Why is my poke cake soggy? Adding too much filling can make your poke cake soggy, although you want to add enough that it is moist!

In a mixing bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, oil, gelatin, and thawed raspberries; mix 3 minutes with an electric mixer. Spread batter in a greased and floured 13x9 inch baking pan. Bake in a 325° oven for about 50 minutes or until a pick comes out clean; cool. Frost cooled cake, cut into squares and serve.

Poke cake is a cake that is poked to make holes in it. The holes are then filled with a sweetened liquid and then frosted. The filling makes the poke cake moist, extremely addictive & flavorful. If you have kids at home then a poke cake is a must try during holidays. They will enjoy every bit of making it.

Oil or fat makes a cake moist. Eggs, baking soda, baking powder or yeast makes it fluffy. The secret to making cakes moist and tender without adding extra fat or sugar is to incorporate ingredients with high water content, such as yogurt, applesauce, or buttermilk.

Yes, you can add water to make a dry cake moist. One way to do this is to brush the cake with a simple syrup made of equal parts sugar and water. Another way is to poke holes in the cake and pour a mixture of sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk over it.

Technically, funeral cake is a chocolate sheet cake with fudge icing and topped with crunchy pecans and big enough to feed a crowd—which you may recognize as Texas Sheet Cake.

Based on our first hand experience, GOOD GOOD's strawberry jam is the best store bought jam to layer your homemade cakes with. This is because it contains real berries and doesn't have any added sugar.

Fresh or frozen raspberries - if you're using frozen raspberries, don't let them thaw before adding to the batter. That'll cause extra moisture in the batter which we don't want!

Use one of these items to poke the top of the cake slightly in the middle. The hand method: Take your hand and spread it out. Palm face down, gently press your clean hand on the top of the cake. A firm top that does not give way under pressure and springs back means a ready cake.

A dump cake is an American dessert similar to a cobbler but with a cake-like topping. It is so named because it is prepared by "dumping" ingredients (typically canned fruit or pie filling, followed by a boxed cake mix) into a cake pan without mixing.

Is poke an insult? ›

US, informal : a usually minor criticism or insult that is directed toward a particular person or group — usually singular. She thanked everyone in her speech but she couldn't resist taking a poke at the people who said the movie would never succeed.

What do I do with a cake that's too wet? Rebake it for a few minutes at the temperature you originally baked it at. If only the middle of the cake is partially cooked, remove the fully cooked edges and rebake just middle part.

Problem: The edges of my cake are soggy.

This happens when the cake isn't turned out onto your cooling rack soon enough and condensation has built up on the inside of the tin.

Use baking strips to avoid a wet cake

Baking strips are just strips of fabric or insulated foil that wrap around the edge of your cake tin and stop the edges of the tin from getting too hot too quickly. This stops the edges of your cake from cooking faster than the middle, therefore avoiding a wet middle.

put it back in the oven for 12 or so minutes, at a slightly lower temperature. if the top is getting brown, cover the cake with foil before you put it back in the oven. take it out, check it with a skewer, if it comes out clean, its done, if not, put it back in the oven for another 10 minutes.