The Craftiest Workshop

I seem to have this habit of buying baking supplies when things are on sale. I over bought cake mixes and ended up with a butter pecan cake mix that was expiring so I decided to make a cake with it. I had found that making a poke cake using a pudding mix had been quite tasty. I looked for a poke cake recipe that was made with a butter pecan cake mix.

As I often do, I found two recipes that I liked and changed each a bit to suit ingredients I had on hand.

The other thing I should mention was that I made the cake knowing that we would have two more mouths eating it. I had made it the weekend that my brother and his wife came to pick up their dogs. I find it hard when I make a cake in a 9X13 pan and my husband only eats one piece; there is just too much left for me.

Ingredients

1 Butter Pecan cake mix

1 can sweetened condensed milk

caramel sundae sauce

1 tub of Cool Whip

1/2 cup Skor bits

1 1/2 cups toasted flaked coconut (stir in frying pan on low till browned)

Directions

Bake the cake as instructed on the box in a 9×13 pan.

When it is done, remove it from oven and poke holes in it using the handle of a wooden spoon or other utensil with a dowel type handle. I poked the holes about 1” apart.

Pour the entire can of sweetened condensed milk over the cake focusing on filling the holes.

After 15 minutes, drizzle caramel sauce over the cake.

Put into the refrigerator until cool.

Once cool, spread Cool Whip over the cake. Sprinkle the coconut over the whipped topping. Do the same with the Skor bits. I didn’t really measure either. I filled the bottom of a small frying pan with coconut and had a partial bag of Skor bits.

Note: I made the cake in the morning and we ate it for dessert at supper that day. It was quite good but even better the next day once everything had the chance to really soak into the cake. By the third day it was almost too moist.

I had forgotten to take a photo before we got into it. Four of us almost ate the whole thing in one sitting. It is rare that I eat something which makes me sigh out loud with how good it tastes. This cake had that effect on me.

This was my piece the second day.

I enjoyed this cake so much that I insisted that I wanted it for my birthday this past week. I am spending some time on my own visiting my parents in Saskatchewan so my mom offered to make me a cake. That was one thing growing up; we always got to choose the type of cake we wanted (and got to lick the mixer beaters).

Here is her cake showing how far apart the holes were.

And the finished cake after my niece, Sophia, added the Cool Whip, coconut and Skor bits.

My mom invited a few family members and family friends over for cake.

We managed to feed 14 people a fair sized piece of cake with a few pieces left over.
Now I feel a bit guilty that four of us ate 1/2-2/3 of the cake the first time I made it.
I will definitely make this cake again as it was so moist and the topping has such a nice crunch.