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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
I LOVE your cake and I’m so happy that your submitted it to YG – Tomorrow is National Chocolate Covered Peanut Day and I’m featuring this wonderful Poke Cake on the YG FB page during the afternoon.
I’ve noticed unkind commentators since I first started reading blogs but luckily I have only had a few on my personal blog. I think it comes from American Society teaching everyone now that they have something important to say……….well, of course they do, but they don’t have to say it! 🙂
Thank you so much for featuring it!! And LOL, yes that society visits often! 🙂
first, this cake….I just died and went to snickers heaven!
second, mean people SUCK, and NO I don’t think anyone teaches people how to not be an ass these days
and finally that instagram troll, she must be such a miserable unhappy person to constantly be slamming others for the work they do, it has nothing to do with you at all!!
<3 love you Heather!
Haters are going to hate no matter what you do. Just keep being you because you are fabulous and amazing!!! I heart you!!! And this poke cake…holy yum!!!!! I have made nougat topping before but never thought to put it on a cake!!! I must do it…and eat it by the spoonfuls of course 🙂
Thank you Jocelyn!!
I don’t know why people have to be so cruel. Do I come to your dinner table and tell you how awful your food was? No, I don’t. Sometimes I might politely decline or say I am too full to finish, but GEEZ people. I think they don’t realize that we put out heart and sole into our recipes and other posts. So when someone says something negative about it, we take it personally. In the case of Instagram, that was just plain WRONG.
In the case of this Snicker’s poke cake, I am mopping up the drool over here.
Thank you Julianne!!
Just wanted to say that I am so sorry you received some negative
comments. I am behind you 100% when you say “if you can’t say
something nice, don’t say anything”. You do a fantastic job on
your blog so don’t let these rude insensitive people get to you. Thank
you for what you share with us. May God bless you and your family!
With
love and appreciation to you.
Thank you so much Janet!! <3
ugh. people. they’re the worst.
but this cake is THE BEST! Your mom was a lucky birthday lady! caramel and peanuts in a poke cake? and snickers and just…goodness??? aghhhhh!
Oh my that looks good. I may try this out for my hubby’s co-workers. I may try it as big cupcakes, too! I feel so out of touch with reality – I did not realize poke cakes had gone beyond jello and whipped topping!
What’s funny is I’ve never had one with jello!! It’s on my list to make a few that way. 🙂
Yum! Anything with chocolate and snickers is going to make me drool! 🙂 I never knew how poke cakes are made, this looks delicious!
Ah, Dorothy, I’m so with you! I’m all about constructive criticism, but fruitless negative comments are getting old. They’re completely not-helpful and purposeless.
This cake, though, sounds and looks amazing! Love everything with snickers and chocolate, no matter if it’s going to give me a heart-attack or not. Hehe
Oh Yes. You know how I feel about it. All of that. Seriously…when did people get so angry about food? Has it always been like this, or did the internet just bring out the worst in people? Maybe a little of both. Boxed brownie mix ain’t going to kill you people, unless you eat 20 of them every single day. ARGH. Bring on the poke cake!!
I like to think it’s the internet and people haven’t always been this way. But I like to think that all people are good so… 🙂
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