Cherry Coke Poke Cake

Cherry Coke Cake Recipe

This Coke Cake is an ooey-gooey-moist-and-sweet dessert recipe that has a cherry coca cola cake taste. It’s a basic chocolate cake mix but I upgraded it by substituting Cherry Coke for the water in the recipe. 

This cherry Coca Cola cake is so fun to make because you get to pour a bunch of stuff all over the top, increasing the calories and deliciousness by about 1,000x and it’s perfectly acceptable. 

Served up with a side of Coke, this cake is Coca Cola overload.

Ingredients Needed

• Cake mix: I’m using a box of chocolate cake mix. This recipe also works well with a gluten-free cake mix.
• Cherry Coke: or use regular Coca Cola
• Sweetened condensed milk: fat-free condensed milk works just fine, just be sure it’s condensed milk not evaporated milk.
• Hot fudge: store-bought or this 5-minute hot fudge recipe 
• Cherry pie filling: I made the Cherry Pie Filling easily from scratch but you can use a 20 ounce can.  
• Cool Whip: use any kind of cool whip you prefer

How to make coca cola cake

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×13 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Mix all cake ingredients in a large bowl until smooth. 
2. Pour into a 9×13-inch baking pan. Bake for 25-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool your cake to room temperature before pouring in any mixtures.
3. Stir together sweetened condensed milk and half of the Cherry Coke.
4. Heat up your hot fudge until liquid (but not too hot!) then stir in the remaining Cherry Coke into the hot fudge liquid.
5. Poke several holes in the top of your cooled cake. I used the handle of my wooden spoon to do this.
6. Pour your mixtures evenly over the top of your cooled cake. Starting with the sweetened condensed milk mixture followed by the fudge mixture. Make sure you get them in all of the poked holes. 
7. Spread cherry pie filling and Cool Whip evenly over the cake
8. Chill the frosted cake with plastic wrap for at least 4 hours