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A poke cake infused with champagne and cherry, all topped with white chocolate cherries dipped in gold glitter! This would be perfect for New Year’s Eve!

I just googled “who invented the poke cake” because I want to thank them! What did google give me?

Nothing!

‘Poke Cake’ doesn’t have it’s own wiki page and you can’t define it in google, but urban dictionary has a definition for jello poke cake!! Apparently the idea of the poke cake originated around 1969 as a way to increase jello sales. Lucky for them, it worked, and we’re still hooked on the idea of the poke cake today!

What’s not to love? There is delicious cake combined with ooey gooey filling – it could be jello mix, pudding mix, hot fudge, sweetened condensed milk, or peanut butter sauce!

A poke cake infused with champagne and cherry, all topped with white chocolate cherries dipped in gold glitter! This would be perfect for New Year’s Eve!

If everyone loves the poke cake, why not have a poke cake recipe for every occasion?!

This poke cake is all about New Year’s Eve. Which, in my world, means it includes champagne and glitter :) Champagne is baked into the cake mix and I topped the cake with cherries dipped in white chocolate and covered in gold sprinkles!

The champagne flavor is not overwhelming, but it adds a nice, light airy taste. The cherry flavor is an excellent complement to the champagne, and the whole recipe becomes extra fancy when you serve each piece with a cherry dipped in white chocolate and covered in gold sprinkles. The cherries are my favorite part – can I serve just those at a New Year’s Eve party? :)

A poke cake infused with champagne and cherry, all topped with white chocolate cherries dipped in gold glitter! This would be perfect for New Year’s Eve!

I shared another recipe that uses those dipped cherries – white chocolate champagne cheesecake shooters. I’m in love, I want to live in a world filled with champagne flavored cheesecake and fancy dipped cherries.

A poke cake infused with champagne and cherry, all topped with white chocolate cherries dipped in gold glitter! This would be perfect for New Year’s Eve!
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Champagne Cherry Poke Cake

By: Beth
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Additional Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Servings: 20 servings
Everyone loves poke cake. It's a great vintage recipe that stands the test of time. I love it for celebrations like New Year's Eve!

Ingredients

Cake

  • 1 box white cake mix, plus ingredients on back of box, *replace the water with champagne*
  • 1 box cherry flavored jello mix, 3 oz
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • ½ cup cold water
  • 1 container cool whip, thawed

Dipped Cherries

  • cherries, 16-20 or one for each piece of cake
  • 1-2 squares white chocolate candiquik, depending on how my cherries you’re dipping
  • 1 tsp vegetable shortening
  • 1-2 containers gold glitter sprinkles

Instructions 

Cake

  • Bake the cake mix according to the directions on the package, however substitute the water for champagne, so if your box calls for 2/3 cup water use 2/3 cup champagne.
  • Allow the cake to completely cool before poking holes.
  • Once cooled, use a straw to poke holes all over the top of the cake.
  • Combine the cherry jello mix and boiling water, and stir until dissolved.
  • Add in the cold water, and stir again.
  • Pour the jello mixture evenly over the cake, allowing it to seep into the holes you created.
  • Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
  • Before serving, top the cake with cool whip and garnish each piece with a cherry dipped in gold sprinkles.

Dipped Cherries

  • Pour the gold sprinkles in a very small bowl.
  • Wash and dry the cherries. Melt 1 square of white chocolate candiquik with vegetable shortening in the microwave for 1 minute and 30 seconds on 50% power. Continue to microwave on 50% power in 20 second intervals until the chocolate is melted.
  • Dip one cherry at a time in the melted chocolate, allowing the excess chocolate to fall back into the bowl.
  • Then dip each cherry into the bowl with gold sprinkles. You may have to shake or rotate the sprinkles to get them to cover all of the chocolate. Place on a plate to harden until your ready to use them.

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 209mg | Potassium: 29mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 20IU | Calcium: 69mg | Iron: 1mg
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28 Comments

  1. That’s crazy that there’s no origin of the fabulous poke cake! This one looks perfect for New Year’s!

  2. This looks great. I think I will try subbing more champagne for the cold water with the jello so the alcohol isn’t all cooked out.

  3. I would honestly love to know who invented the poke cake too! This one is a beauty. Happy New Year!

  4. What a gorgeous cake, Beth – I’m such a huge fan of champagne and having it cake form sounds divine!