Cherries in the Snow Cake (+Video)
Cherries in the Snow Poke Cake is a super easy, pretty pudding poke cake. Cake mix, pudding, whipped topping and cherry pie filling! So good!
A DELICIOUS POKE CAKE RECIPE
Cherries in the Snow Poke Cake is the perfect wintertime poke cake. Not only does it taste amazing but the colors are beautiful. It is so easy to make but looks so impressive!
CAN I MAKE THIS WITH DIFFERENT CAKE FLAVORS?
Now, I will tell ya, this is also awesome with french vanilla cake and french vanilla pudding. As well as chocolate cake with chocolate pudding. Although, that would be more like Cherries in the Mud. 😉 So here we go, another pudding poke cake for all my fellow poke cake lovers.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
- white cake mix
- ingredients needed to make cake; egg whites, oil and water
- instant white chocolate pudding
- milk
- whipped topping (COOL WHIP)
- cherry pie filling
HOW TO MAKE CHERRIES IN THE SNOW CAKE:
Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for a 9×13-inch baking dish. When cake is finished baking, while still warm, poke holes in cake using the end of a wooden spoon or something of a similar size. Make them about an inch or so apart.
In a bowl, combine 2 cups of milk with dry instant pudding mix.
Stir well.
Pour pudding into the holes of the warm cake.
Spread pudding around and gently press pudding into holes of the cake.
Now pop the whole cake into the fridge for a couple of hours to finish cooling completely. Once cake is completely cooled, start spreading on whipped topping. Spread out as evenly as possible.
Then dollop on cherry pie filling. The pie filling won’t cover every square inch of the cake. You want that white to peep through.
Slice and serve. Cook’s Notes: This cake must be kept refrigerated.
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Cherries in the Snow Cake (+Video)
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounce box white cake mix
- ingredients needed to make cake; egg whites, oil and water
- 3.4 ounce box instant white chocolate pudding
- 2 cups cold milk
- 8 ounce tub whipped topping (Cool Whip), thawed
- 21 ounce can cherry pie filling
Instructions
- Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- When cake is finished baking, while still warm, poke holes in cake using the end of a wooden spoon or something of a similar size.
- In a bowl, combine 2 cups of milk with dry instant pudding mix.
- Pour pudding into the holes of the warm cake. Spread pudding around and gently press pudding into holes of the cake.
- Put the cake into the fridge for a couple of hours to finish cooling completely.
- Once cake is completely cooled, start spreading on whipped topping.
- Then dollop the cherry pie filling on top of cake. The pie filling won't cover every square inch of the cake. You want that white to peep through.
- Slice and serve.
Video
Notes
- This cake must be kept refrigerated.
- Cheesecake flavored pudding also works really well with this cake.
Nutrition
Nutritional Disclaimer
“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.
Originally published: January 2013
Updated & republished: December 2019
I wear the Revlon lipstick with the same name and I'm 26, (they still make it!) I'm going to have to try this cake, though some ingredients may be hard to get hold of here in the UK, it's looks scrummy and too good to pass up!
This is the only cake my son requests for his birthday. I think I've made this 3 times now and it's always a hit. I use 1 1/2 cans of cherries because 1 can just doesn't have enough fruit. We love this cake!
This poke cake is CRAZY good to say the least!! I made it for a Christmas Eve dessert. The name, "Cherries In The Snow" was so darn cute I couldn't resist! Everyone thought I was the BEST dessert maker ever!! Thanks for sharing!! Definitely a keeper!!
I love these, I never thought of using pudding. I have always used a white cake mix with different flavors of Jello. Then just top with Whipped Topping. But now….I can't wait to go get some pudding. I need a cake right now….lol. Thanks again.
This looked sooo good, I made it for MY birthday!((today))Celebrate!!! I used vanilla pudding and added Almond extract. Delicious. Thank You, Michelle
My mom also wore the Cherries in the Snow lipstick! Too funny….and she also used to make a recipe with the same name, but it had vanilla wafer crust, a cream cheese and cool whip filling, and cherry pie filling on the top! This one looks great, too. Thanks!
Tracy – hahaa. No problem! You are so sweet to take the time to comment! This only calls for one box because we are adding so much more on top of it. With the other pudding poke cakes, it's all about the pudding and cake. Where in this one, the pudding is just an accent flavor along with the cherries and Cool Whip. I hope that makes sense! And I hope you love it if you try it! ~Brandie
It makes perfect sense Brandie! And yes, I will be making this. My husbands favorite dessert has always been banana pudding, so for his birthday this past Tuesday, I made the banana pudding poke cake and sent half of it to work with him. He called me at lunch and I could hear his co workers from the construction site in the background. They were raving and so was he. Do you know my hand is hurting from writing that recipe down so many times? Every man there that sampled it wanted the recipe! Thank you so much for your recipes and insight, and thank you for replying. -Tracy
I cannot wait to make this one too! I've made two of your 'Famous Poke Cakes' for my family so far, and we absolutely love them. Question: The two previous poke cakes called for two boxes of pudding, and this one only calls for one. I was just curious as to why. I am fairly new to Pinterest, and I must say that your recipes are my favorites…and I don't just mean desserts!! I just love the layout, the easy to follow instructions, and especially the step-by-step photos. Thank you so much for all of your hard work…I know I'm not the only one who appreciates it!
PS: I tried to post that comment & question with my name. Clearly, I don't know how, sorry…Told ya I was new to Pinterest! lol
-Tracy Roberts-Bailey
I love the name! Can't wait to try this!
Making this today… Loving it so far! 🙂
We tried it this weekend. So yummy!
I want to poke this cake with my fork (that sounds kinda weird), it looks so delicious and it's pretty too.
This was AMAZING. Everyone absolutely loved it. So pretty too!
I hope y'all love this one! It really is good with the cheesecake pudding. That is so funny about the lipstick color – I love that! Terry -LOL! So funny you mention that because my husband had actually cleaned it out the day before. So lucky for me, it was camera ready!
How pretty your cake is!! I also had no idea there was a cheesecake flavor pudding. I wish I had the whipped topping so I could make this cake right now. Thanks for sharing! Yum!
This looks so good! I'going to pick up the ingredients for it on my way home from work in the morning. Thanks!!
I MUST make this…..my mother wore Revlon's Cherries in the Snow lipstick and nail polish! This looks wonderful!
I LOVE poke cakes! Thanks for posting this…pinned it and plan to make it!
My Mom used to make a Cherry's in the Snow dessert back in the 70s & 80s called Cherries in the snow..It was awesome & this reminded me I should get her recipe. It used a graham cracker bottom, cheese cake, whipped cream, & of course the cherry pie filling.
Yours looks lovely as well. We'll have to try it sometime! Thanks
So beautiful and sounds delicious! I used to wear Cherries in the Snow Revlon lipstick when I was in my 20's! Excellent job and I can't wait to make it.
I love poke cakes! My favorite is just a white cake with raspberry jello!
I bet this would also be good with cheesecake flavored pudding.
My granny used to make a yellow cake and pour on hot chocolate pudding! YUM!
This looks delicious! Thanks for posting!
This is so in time for Valentines. It looks so pretty & I can hear the positive comments already. Thanks so much for sharing.
Looks gorgeous…no doubt it tastes as awesome as it looks…..I would have to use the cheesecake puddin'. Mmmmm…yummy !
This sounds delicious and looks pretty! Also, I really like the cutsy name…but I'm into that stuff;)
I need to make a poke cake sometime, because I've never had one!
Blessings,
Leslie
Just love this idea of a poke cake! it looks and sounds delicious!!
Mary x
years ago in the sixties some of us neighbors made a similar cake. you bake a white or yellow cake as box directs and when it cools you dump a can of cherry pie filling all over the top and put whip cream all over that. its really good in hot weather .needs to be refrigerated .and so easy.i imagine you could use any pie filling but the cherry was the best.