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poke em!

It has been my habit to make goodies for friends, office mates and family for no special reason other than I wanted to try some new recipe or cooking idea. It's a win win situation you see - I get to satisfy my cooking curiosity and they can feast on the results - that is if it is edible enough!!!

I had been seeing poke cake recipes on Pinterest made with vanilla pudding and though it didn't interest me at first, it kept on appearing on boards so I decided to give it a try with the results of which I will share with co workers from a branch of our office where I had been reporting to for the last two months.

Poke Cakes were invented in 1969 primarily as a way to increase Jello sales,  jello poke cakes became popular thanks to its festive looks and easy of assembly - all youe need to do is holes in th cake and pour  jello (or pudding) on top which seeps into the holes thus you get colorful lines of flavor.

I made a basic chocolate cake thinking of making it into a layer cake with chocolate frosting but I did not have enough time to whip, layer and frost add to that the fact that I think I over baked the cake and was afraid it would not be moist and so I decided to use the poke cake method. I poked holes onto the cake and poured melted caramel, chocolate ganache and sugar glaze on top - talk about glaze overload!


 holey cake! I used chopsticks to make those holes



 had poured the caramel, topped it with chocolate ganache and then drizzled it with sugar glaze


 see the caramel?? it made the cake extra moist!!


ready to bring to the office tomorrow!!
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