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    Home » Recipes » Desserts » Poke Cakes » Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake

    Last updated: Jan 20, 2022 by Keri · Leave a Comment

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake

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    I vant to ... eat that cake! This Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is a sweetly spooky and devilishly delicious Halloween dessert!

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake - this Halloween dessert is sweetly spooky and devilishly delicious!

    If you follow Shaken Together on Facebook, you may have seen that we live in Central FL and just made it through Hurricane Irma. Honestly, the aftermath looks like something out of the zombie apocalypse. While our fair Sunshine State has a lot of damage, displaced families and devastating losses, the stories that are emerging bolster my hope that we will pull through #Floridastrong. Communities are coming together, businesses are giving out free gas, local YMCA's are opening their doors to non-members for showers and schools are serving free lunch to their local families. While I am supporting out local community in various ways, I also decided that it's okay to get back to what I love ... and that's YOU GUYS! So, let's eat cake. A fun Halloween cake to be exact!

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake

    This Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake will be the spooky sweet star of any Halloween party!

    You know I had to do a Halloween poke cake. It's only right to keep up the tradition. A new holiday, a new poke cake. This is poke cake recipe #9! It starts out like every other poke cake:

    1. A baked white cake
    2. Holes poked all over the surface
    3. A good soaking with Jell-O

    And here you have it - a white cake drenched in tangy cherry Jell-O! She may not be a stunner yet, but just you wait.

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake starts with a vanilla cake soaked with cherry Jell-o

    The cake gets a layer of bright white vanilla frosting (or homemade buttercream or whipped topping) ...

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is topped with a simple vanilla frosting

    Then sprinkled with tons of red and black sugar!

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is topped with a simple vanilla frosting and lots of black and red sugar sprinkled on!

    But wait! There's more! Just before serving (otherwise the black sugar will run), the cake gets globs of glossy red cherry pie filling and ominous black vampire fangs. This Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake just got all kinds of awesome!

    Next, the Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake gets glossy globs of cherry pie filling and vampire fangs!

    Take a peek inside of this sinister sweet ...

    The inside of this Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake looks like it may have been bitten by a vampire!

    Ribbons of red Jell-O run through the white cake, making this sweet treat look like it met the business end of those fangs, right?! I seriously LOVE Halloween!

    Each slice of Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake gets a pool of cherry pie filling and vampire fangs!

    A bit more cherry pie filling to drip over the side of the cake is the perfect touch for a little more Halloween fun. And let me tell you, this Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake tastes nothing short of AMAZING!

    Soft, chilled vanilla cake.

    Tangy cherry Jell-O ribbons.

    Sweet vanilla frosting.

    Tart cherry pie filling.

    I'm pretty sure any vampire would bargain away a bite for a big piece of this cake!

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is a frightfully fruity Halloween dessert!

    Here are a few fun things to add to your shopping list for this Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake:

    This list includes affiliate links, which means if you click through to purchase anything (at no additional charge to you!), I receive a small commission which helps keep the kitchen stocked here at Shaken Together!
    • The metal cake pan pictured is from Target a few seasons ago, but here are some options for a 9x13 cake pan
    • Vampire fangs - (I found the fangs in a party pack at my local Target and cut each pair in half.) Here are white vampire fangs, multi-colored vampire fangs, black vampire fangs and glow-in-the-dark vampire fangs!
    • Fun Halloween plates! This set of plates is similar to the black owl plate pictured and I love these Kate Spade black & white plates!
    • Halloween fabric napkins to add to your table - I love this set with skulls, bats and spiders!
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    Ingredients

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    • One 9x13 white cake (baked and cooled)
    • One 3 oz box of cherry Jell-O
    • One tub prepared vanilla frosting (or a batch of homemade buttercream or 8 oz. whipped topping)
    • Black and red decorating sugar
    • One can cherry pie filling
    • Plastic vampire fangs for garnish

    Instructions

    1. Use the handle of a wooden spoon or a large drinking straw to poke holes over the entire surface of the cooled cake.
    2. Prepare Jell-o with 1 cup boiling water and ½ cup cold water. (This is ½ cup less water than the directions on the box.)
    3. Pour Jell-o over the cake - make sure to get some in every hole and over the surface of the cake.
    4. Refrigerate overnight or at least 3-4 hours.
    5. Just prior to serving, frost cake with vanilla frosting and sprinkle on black and red sugar.
    6. Add dollops of cherry pie filling to the top of the cake and plastic vampire fangs on top of the pie filling.
    7. Serve each piece of cake with additional pie filling to drip down the sides of the cake.

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    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is frightfully fun and devilishly delicious! The glossy globs of cherry pie filling and fangs are the perfect touch for this Halloween dessert!

    How do you celebrate Halloween? Do you host a party? (Check out this Halloween Dessert Bar!) Lead a group for trick-or-treating? (Cool off with these Vampire Floats!) Or hunker down and pass out candy to the littles? That's my favorite part 🙂

    Don't forget to pin this to your Halloween Pinterest board to treat your ghouls and guys!

    Cherry Vanilla Vampire Poke Cake is frightfully fun and devilishly delicious! The glossy globs of cherry pie filling and fangs are the perfect touch for this Halloween dessert!

    Here are a few more Halloween Sweets & Treats!

    Looking for an easy dessert for Halloween or The Walking Dead party?! Make these sweet, no bake Zombie Nachos! These dessert nachos are layered with all sorts of sweet treats and are dreadfully delicious!

    Halloween Marshmallow Pops - frightfully festive and so super simple to make! Everyone will love this Halloween sweet treat!

    Vampire Floats - just two ingredients and loads of spook appeal!

    Spooky Sodas - fun DIY Halloween party idea!

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