Butterfinger Poke Cake starts with a boxed marble cake mix and filled with a delicious caramel sauce and topped with caramel whipped topping.
THE BEST BUTTERFINGER POKE CAKE RECIPE
I suppose by now y'all know my history with these types of cakes. I just can't help myself. If you'll remember, it all started off with the HONEY BUN CAKE. Then it was the WHOPPER CAKE. Then it was the TWINKIE CAKE. Now, I'm sharing the Butterfinger Cake.
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WHAT IS A POKE CAKE?
It is simply a cake that has had holes poked in it and those holes are then filled with some sort of sweet deliciousness like jell-o, pudding, or in this case, sweetened condensed milk and caramel. They gained ground in the 70's when cake mixes were gaining in popularity. It's so easy to make, everyone thinks it's delicious and I look like a super-star to my family. Now, let's dig into this Butterfinger Cake.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
marble cake mix
eggs, oil & water
sweetened condensed milk
caramel topping
Butterfinger candy bar
whipped topping (COOL WHIP)
chocolate syrup
chocolate syrup
HOW TO MAKE BUTTERFINGER POKE CAKE:
Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray 9x13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Prepare cake as directed on back of box and bake according to cooking times on back of box.
When it comes out of oven, allow to cool for just a few minutes.
In a medium bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk with caramel topping.
Poke holes in the cake with a fork. Really get in there and stab that sucker. You want plenty of crevices for the caramel mixture to go into.
Drizzle caramel mixture over cake. Put cake in the fridge to let it finish cooling. 
Once it is cooled, spread whipped topping over entire cake. Then sprinkle with crushed Butterfinger candy.
Cake needs to be kept refrigerated (because of the whipped topping.)
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Butterfinger Poke Cake starts with a boxed marble cake mix and is filled with a caramel sauce and topped with caramel whipped topping.
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Servings: 12
Calories: 182kcal
Ingredients
- 1 box fudge marble cake mix
- ingredients listed on back of cake mix box (eggs, oil and water)
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (12 oz) jar caramel topping
- 1 bar Butterfinger candy (large bar)
- 1 (8 oz) tub whipped topping (Cool Whip) thawed
- chocolate syrup to drizzle on top optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Spray 9 x 13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Prepare cake as directed on back of box and bake according to cooking times on back of box.
- When it comes out of oven, allow to cool for just a few minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk with caramel topping.
- Now, start poking holes in the cake with a fork. Lots of holes! You want plenty of crevices for the caramel mixture to go into.
- Drizzle caramel mixture over cake.
- Put cake in the fridge to let it finish cooling.
- Once it is cooled, spread whipped topping over entire cake.
- Then sprinkle with crushed Butterfinger candy.
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Notes
- Keep cake in the fridge until ready to serve (because of the whipped topping).
- If you like, sprinkle some extra crushed Butterfinger bars on top before serving or drizzle with a little chocolate syrup, then dig in!
- This cake is also very good if you use a Devil's Food Cake mix.
Nutrition
Calories: 182kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 325mg | Potassium: 31mg | Sugar: 21g | Calcium: 93mg | Iron: 0.9mg
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Originally published: December 2011
Updated and republished: May 2019
This is a delicious line up of your lovely cakes! Glad I do not have to decide on just one, perhaps a cake party is in order so I can sample them all. Your latest is a sinful treat, butterfinger is hard for me to pass on. Great post-yum!
I love it! That looks amazing. You are an all-star, Brandie!
Brandie! I'm loving this presentation... Such a huge fan of Butterfingers, however I only indulge in them once (or twice) a year at Halloween when I plead with my children to share one from their trick-or-treat bag. Okay, I beg! I'm thinking I'm going to have to make an exception and try this for myself, me and I. Another homerun moment girl, thank you for sharing!
Yes please!! They all look incredible & now I really really want a piece. Delicious!!
You've been busy whipping up those delicious cakes...your family is lucky!!! Love all of them very much!!
Have a Merry Christmas!!!
OMG!! this is sooo yummy!! Wanna grab it right now 🙂
Looks and sounds like a cake my hubby would adore! Thanks for sharing Brandi!
Yummy! This sounds SO GOOD. Plus, so easy!
So many cakes, I simply can't decide so I think I must have them all..
I am loving these decadent cakes Brandie, keep 'em coming girl!
Looks divine! I'm not big on 'plain ole cake' but you dress it up with these fab ingredients and I can't stay away. They all look awesome...can't get better than this. Love the ease of these kinds of desserts too. Thanks for sharing - enjoy a blessed and beautiful Christmas week. {{HUGS}}!
Minus the chocolate syrup (which wasn't in the recipe I used), I made this cake this past weekend. It was YUM. My boyfriend, who does NOT like sweets, loved it.
Wow is all I can say. That cake looks so delicious! We have a pimento cheese quiche appetizer this week. Delcious. Come over and visit. Merry Christmas!
Wow is all I can say. That cake looks so delicious! We have a pimento cheese quiche appetizer this week. Delcious. Come over and visit. Merry Christmas!
Oh Brandie, This cake is amazing, and has my name all over it. I love Butterfingers, so I ahve to try this one soon.
Wow, I just saw this on Top 9 and had to stop by. That cake looks gorgeous. Conratulations and it is nice to meet you. Happy Holidays!
Oh my, that looks amazing! I love all of the different candy bars you have done in cake form. Yum!
This looks like the tastiest, sweetest cake ever! Fab recipe.
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I think my husband would kill for this cake
Congrats on the top 9 very well deserved indeed. The cake looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing.
The Whopper cake caught my eye, but that Butterfinger concoction makes me weak at the knees!!! WOWWW! Love it!! Congrats on the Top 9, buzzing to try to get you in the 1st spot!!!
Oh Sweetheart I don't know if I will ever be the same again after looking at all of your food.... magnificent
Congrats on the Top 9 yesterday!!
That looks *just* like my kind of cake! 🙂 Mmmm. Love the crunchy crushed topping!
I baked this cake for one of my co-workers birthday a few weeks ago. Everyone loved it & he said it was one of the best cakes he ever tasted, thanks for sharing !!!