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This is the best Snickers cake recipe with you. This chocolate cake has caramel, peanuts and a delicious homemade nougat frosting – it’s fun and easy and starts with a cake mix. It’s the perfect poke cake recipe!
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Best Snickers Cake Recipe
Ever had a poke cake before? They are so gooey and delicious! This is called “poke cake” because of the baking style: You poke holes in the cake after baking, this way you can pour in the ooey gooey deliciousness on top. You can pour in sweetened condensed milk, pudding, or anything else the cake recipe calls for.
Assuming you are a Snickers fan, you are bound to love this cake’s flavor. But there’s much more to love than just the flavor of this Snickers poke cake. Rich and gooey from the cream, crunchy from the nuts and soft from the moist cake.
Why you’ll love this recipe
This easy cake recipe uses caramel ice cream topping with chopped peanuts. The topping will soak into the cake as it cools to give it the iconic gooey texture and a little crunch from the nuts.
The frosting is made from a jar of marshmallow fluff that gets stirred into melted chocolate chips, and then a container of Cool Whip is carefully mixed in to make it spreadable. Spread that amazingness all over the top of the cake, drizzle it with chocolate sauce, and top it with sliced mini Snickers.
Ingredients in Snickers Poke Cake
- Box chocolate cake mix: this makes the process faster and easier
- Jar caramel ice cream topping: this is the highlight of the recipe
- Chopped peanuts: finely chopped
- Milk chocolate chips: we will melt these later
- Vegetable oil: to help melt the chocolate chips without seizing
- Marshmallow cream/fluff: this is very sticky and thick but so good
- Cool Whip: we’ll mix this in the melted chocolate
- Snickers: mini or fun size for garnish
- Chocolate sauce: for garnish
How to make Snickers Cake
- Bake Chocolate cake: Make the cake according to box instructions for a 9×13” pan size cake. Bake until a toothpick tests done. While the cake cools slightly, pour the caramel into a small bowl and heat for 30 seconds.
- Poke: several holes in the cake then pour the caramel evenly over the cake. Sprinkle with peanuts. Let the cake cool completely before continuing.
- Melt chocolate chips and vegetable oil in a large, microwave safe bowl on high in 30 second increments, stirring between each, until melted and smooth.
- Stir the marshmallow fluff and Cool whip into to the chocolate mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until combined. Mixture will be hard to mix – but it’ll get there eventually – and may be a little lumpy.
- Spread the Cool Whip mixture over the cooled cake. Chill for several hours before serving so the flavors can meld together.
- Top with sliced Snickers and chocolate sauce for garnish.
FAQs
Yes you can! Try making this easy Chocolate Cake Recipe.
You can but I don’t recommend using fresh whipped cream because of the fat content. It won’t mix well when melting the chocolate chips.
When refrigerated, it can last for up to 4 days.
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Snickers Poke Cake
Ingredients
- 1 15 ounce box chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients to make the cake)
- 1 approximately 12.25 oz jar caramel ice cream topping
- 1 cup chopped peanuts
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1 7 ounce jar marshmallow cream
- 1 8 ounce container Cool Whip
- Mini or Fun Size Snickers for garnish
- Chocolate sauce for garnish
Instructions
- Make the cake according to box instructions for a 9×13” pan size cake. Bake until a toothpick tests done. While the cake cools slightly, pour the caramel into a small bowl or measuring cup and heat for 30 seconds.
- Using the back of a wooden spoon, poke several holes in the cake, at least 20-30 holes, all over. Pour the caramel evenly over the cake and sprinkle with nuts. Let the cake cool completely before continuing.
- Melt chocolate chips and vegetable oil in a large, microwave safe bowl on high in 30 second increments, stirring between each, until melted and smooth. The oil is to help the chocolate chips melt without seizing. You can also use shortening.
- Once the chocolate chips are melted, stir in the marshmallow fluff. It’s very sticky and thick!
- Add the Cool whip to the chocolate mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until combined. Mixture will be hard to mix – but it’ll get there eventually – and may be a little lumpy. Spread the Cool Whip mixture over the cooled cake. Chill for several hours before serving so the flavors can meld together.
- Top with sliced Snickers and chocolate sauce for garnish. Store in refrigerator for up to 4 days.
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Snickers Cake is an easy chocolate poke cake! This recipe is so simple to make – topped with a nougat frosting and tons of snickers!
Last Updated on January 22, 2023
This cake looks wonderful!!! Oh my goodness, thank you for sharing this recipe. People’s rude comments on the internet today are truly disturbing! It is very sad. What about (food) bloggers who use offensive language in their posts? I checked out a few sites from the post on here yesterday. Unfortunately, the first one I went to had the “F” word in the first few sentences. (I will not be visiting that one again.) It’s not a big thing, and I’m not a prude, but please……I am visiting sites for fun, ideas, entertainment, and/or maybe a delicious red velvet cake recipe…..not 50 shades of potty mouth! Perhaps it would be a more civil world if one would have some respect for their audience, if not for themselves. Oh, thanks for letting us share!
I totally understand swear words aren’t for everyone! When I remember, I try to mention that with links, but I must have forgotten in that post, sorry about that! Personally, I think in swear words…I just don’t write them because I know not everyone is like me, ha! 🙂
Just an idea: I’m currently making this cake for my own birthday (ha, I know, right?) and had a thought.
Instead of the sundae caramel topping, next time I’m gonna try the “old fashioned” caramel dip that comes in the white plastic tub, usually found near the fruit section of the grocery store. Kick it up even more!
Thanks for posting this recipe!
That would be awesome too Amanda!! Enjoy this cake! And happy birthday!! (I always make my own cake!)
I adore snickers and now I have a new vice. This is insane!
Boo to the trollers, they take the fun out of things 🙁 You are fabulous and love that you are going to shake it off. This poke cake looks absolutely heavenly! Happy belated to your mom – so glad your she loved it too 🙂
Wow this snickers poke cake looks AMAZING! I love snickers and they rate right up there with PB Cups. As for those mean people try not to let them bother you too much. I know it is hard- the other day in the grocery store I had a woman come up to me and ask if these were ALL my kids and why??? The nerve of some people just astounds me. I love reading your blog and I am so glad I found it!! You are a very uplifting person and you create amazing content!! Thanks for all of your hard work and making so many people happy!!!
I swear, people need to also abide by the “think before you speak” rule. No one does that anymore!! Thank you Malinda!
I love you, Snickers Poke Cake.
That is a lovely birthday cake and I know it tasted great. Snickers is one of my favorite candies.
That looks absolutely amazing Dorothy! I’ve never heard of a poke cake before, but it sounds fantastic. Especially when combined with Snickers flavours. Mmmmm. Also, so sorry you had to deal with crappy comments and stuff this week, that’s awful…I often wonder if people would say the things they type. Probably not. Much easier to be mean through the computer screen. I think I want to make absolutely everything you post, your stuff is awesome! 🙂
Yes trolls suck and so do fun haters!!! Boooo. But Dorothy you rocked this cake!!
Haters gonna hate hate hate! I’m just going to bake bake bake this cake! Yum! Someone who doesn’t like Snickers is someone I don’t want to be friends with!
Right? Me neither!!
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