Snickerdoodle Poke Cake Layer Cake

Name: Snickerdoodle Poke Cake Layer Cake
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 85 min
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 1 box white cake mix; 1 c. whole milk; 1/2 c. sour cream or Greek yogurt; 6 tbsp. unsalted butter (melted); 3 large eggs; 1 tbsp. cinnamon; 2 tsp. vanilla; 1 - 12 oz. can sweetened condensed milk; 1/2 c. butter (melted); 1/2 c. packed brown sugar; 1 tsp. cinnamon; 1 c. unsalted butter (softened); 4 - 5 c. powdered sugar; 2 tsp. cinnamon; 2 tsp. vanilla; 1/4 c. milk or cream

September 25, 2016

This Snickerdoodle Poke Cake features two dreamy layers of snickerdoodle cake, doused in a cinnamon and brown sugar syrup, and slathered in snickerdoodle buttercream! This Snickerdoodle Poke Cake is truly out-of-this-world!

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I NEVER make layer cakes because I stress about decorating them. I haven’t done any cake decorating in years, and when I look around at other blogs, I nearly fall over by how beautiful they decorate their cakes. I can’t handle the pressure of living up to other blogs’ layer cakes! So I didn’t even try, until this Snickerdoodle Poke Cake Layer Cake.

I have done some cake decorating in my day, but it’s been YEARS.

I lived in San Francisco for two years, and I hardly knew anyone there. Berkeley wasn’t far from me, and it was a very artsy area. To meet people and to occupy myself, I signed up for a bunch of classes at a local adult school. I took pottery, stained glass, mosaics, and cake decorating.

I also took golf lessons, but my swing has never been the same, fyi.

The cake decorating was a favorite. I’ve loved to bake for as long as I can remember, but I never concerned myself too much with how to make baked goods look beautiful and ornate. It was so fun to learn decorating techniques. Basket-weaving, fondant, different kinds of flowers, all that stuff. When I moved to Tampa, I tried to find a similar class with no such luck.

It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve attempted to frost a layer cake with the goal toward having it look pretty and presentable, let alone try to pipe a flower. I was just impressed that the frosting on this Snickerdoodle Poke Cake is as even and smooth as it is.

I’m easing back in. Flowers can come later. I’ll just stick with simple stars on the edges for now.

Actually, scratch all that. Are YOU going to pipe flowers onto cakes? Let’s keep things simple… that’s what I did with this Snickerdoodle Poke Cake, and it was very achievable!

Speaking of keeping things simple, this Snickerdoodle Poke Cake Layer Cake starts with a cake mix. Yes, it’s a doctored-up cake mix. I love cake mix recipes. I’m no snob about it.

With melted butter, sour cream, and a few other additions though, the white cake mix is transformed into a much richer cake, and it’s loaded up with a ton of cinnamon for warm spice.

As the Snickerdoodle Poke Cake name would suggest, you’ll poke holes in it. You’ll drizzle each layer of cake with a mixture of sweetened condensed milk, butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. The syrup is absurdly good. Drenching the cake layers with that crazy, wonderful syrup turns them into something extraordinarily delicious and gooey and sticky.

Stack the cakes with snickerdoodle buttercream in between each layer, and slathered all around it. Fluffy vanilla buttercream packed with cinnamon!

This Snickerdoodle Poke Cake Layer Cake is sweet, it’s spicy, and it’s gooey. It’s the perfect cake, if you look past the decorating. If you love cinnamon and snickerdoodle stuff, then this Snickerdoodle Poke Cake is a must-make.

If you like snickerdoodle desserts, I’ve also shared these Snickerdoodle Thumbprints with Cookie Butter Buttercream. They are AMAZING. The cookie butter buttercream is absolutely outrageous!

And I also have these awesome Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Nutella Muffins. Omg, are they good, and they are ready in about 30 minutes, start-to-finish!

Also, this Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cobbler is easy as can be, and it’s a total fall favorite!

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