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This is the best Snickers cake recipe with you. This chocolate cake has caramel, peanuts and a delicious homemade nougat frosting – it’s fun and easy and starts with a cake mix. It’s the perfect poke cake recipe!
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Best Snickers Cake Recipe
Ever had a poke cake before? They are so gooey and delicious! This is called “poke cake” because of the baking style: You poke holes in the cake after baking, this way you can pour in the ooey gooey deliciousness on top. You can pour in sweetened condensed milk, pudding, or anything else the cake recipe calls for.
Assuming you are a Snickers fan, you are bound to love this cake’s flavor. But there’s much more to love than just the flavor of this Snickers poke cake. Rich and gooey from the cream, crunchy from the nuts and soft from the moist cake.
Why you’ll love this recipe
This easy cake recipe uses caramel ice cream topping with chopped peanuts. The topping will soak into the cake as it cools to give it the iconic gooey texture and a little crunch from the nuts.
The frosting is made from a jar of marshmallow fluff that gets stirred into melted chocolate chips, and then a container of Cool Whip is carefully mixed in to make it spreadable. Spread that amazingness all over the top of the cake, drizzle it with chocolate sauce, and top it with sliced mini Snickers.
Ingredients in Snickers Poke Cake
- Box chocolate cake mix: this makes the process faster and easier
- Jar caramel ice cream topping: this is the highlight of the recipe
- Chopped peanuts: finely chopped
- Milk chocolate chips: we will melt these later
- Vegetable oil: to help melt the chocolate chips without seizing
- Marshmallow cream/fluff: this is very sticky and thick but so good
- Cool Whip: we’ll mix this in the melted chocolate
- Snickers: mini or fun size for garnish
- Chocolate sauce: for garnish
How to make Snickers Cake
- Bake Chocolate cake: Make the cake according to box instructions for a 9×13” pan size cake. Bake until a toothpick tests done. While the cake cools slightly, pour the caramel into a small bowl and heat for 30 seconds.
- Poke: several holes in the cake then pour the caramel evenly over the cake. Sprinkle with peanuts. Let the cake cool completely before continuing.
- Melt chocolate chips and vegetable oil in a large, microwave safe bowl on high in 30 second increments, stirring between each, until melted and smooth.
- Stir the marshmallow fluff and Cool whip into to the chocolate mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until combined. Mixture will be hard to mix – but it’ll get there eventually – and may be a little lumpy.
- Spread the Cool Whip mixture over the cooled cake. Chill for several hours before serving so the flavors can meld together.
- Top with sliced Snickers and chocolate sauce for garnish.
FAQs
Yes you can! Try making this easy Chocolate Cake Recipe.
You can but I don’t recommend using fresh whipped cream because of the fat content. It won’t mix well when melting the chocolate chips.
When refrigerated, it can last for up to 4 days.
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Snickers Poke Cake
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Ingredients
- 1 15 ounce box chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients to make the cake)
- 1 approximately 12.25 oz jar caramel ice cream topping
- 1 cup chopped peanuts
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 7 ounce jar marshmallow cream
- 1 8 ounce container Cool Whip
- Mini or Fun Size Snickers for garnish
- Chocolate sauce for garnish
Instructions
- Make the cake according to box instructions for a 9×13” pan size cake. Bake until a toothpick tests done. While the cake cools slightly, pour the caramel into a small bowl or measuring cup and heat for 30 seconds.
- Using the back of a wooden spoon, poke several holes in the cake, at least 20-30 holes, all over. Pour the caramel evenly over the cake and sprinkle with nuts. Let the cake cool completely before continuing.
- Melt chocolate chips and vegetable oil in a large, microwave safe bowl on high in 30 second increments, stirring between each, until melted and smooth. The oil is to help the chocolate chips melt without seizing. You can also use shortening.
- Once the chocolate chips are melted, stir in the marshmallow fluff. It’s very sticky and thick!
- Add the Cool whip to the chocolate mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until combined. Mixture will be hard to mix – but it’ll get there eventually – and may be a little lumpy. Spread the Cool Whip mixture over the cooled cake. Chill for several hours before serving so the flavors can meld together.
- Top with sliced Snickers and chocolate sauce for garnish. Store in refrigerator for up to 4 days.
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Snickers Cake is an easy chocolate poke cake! This recipe is so simple to make – topped with a nougat frosting and tons of snickers!
I would love such cake too! Looks irresistible!
This cake looks so delicious, Dorothy! And I love the name “Poke Cake” – hehe it sounds like so much fun!
And “hatas gonna hate” as they say! I try to “kill them with kindness” but am too taken aback by mean comments! If you don’t like a recipe – I welcome constructive feedback but some people are downright mean about it #trolls!!
It kills me to be nice, but I always try. Sometimes I just want to yell at them, lol. 🙂 Thanks for reading!
I looove Snickers. This is going on my make-it queue. Thank you for sharing
Thanks Edna!! Enjoy!
Just want to say that sorry to hear that you get trolls like that. I love your blog, and it’s not even the recipes that keep me coming back, I just love your writing! Your desserts look wonderful too, and I have tried some, but I find it quite hard to convert American ingredients to something I can buy in NZ. Anyway! Please don’t let the trolls get you down – even though there seems to be so many horrible people out there, I’m sure there are more nice people than horrible ones. Thanks for sharing your life with us, and don’t ever forget to just have fun!
Oh NZ and Australia. I wish we could send you cake mix, Cool Whip, and Marhsmallow fluff! I’ve actually seen recipes for all of them on blogs…but I have no idea how they’d perform all together. Thank you so much for reading and your comment!! It makes me smile to hear from wonderful readers. 🙂
I’m a big believer in “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” yeah, social media can bring out the crazies. . but we gotta hang in there for the nice, real people. . blogging sure makes you have thick skin, huh? Well, I for one LOVE this cake!!! next to peanut butter and Cheetos, candy bars are my next comfort food (and I love me some snickers). 🙂
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