The Poke Cake Cookbook by Jamie Sherman

If you love easy, nostalgic desserts with a fun twist, The Poke Cake Cookbook by Jamie Sherman is a sweet treat worth diving into. Packed with creative flavors, simple instructions, and crowd-pleasing combinations, this cookbook brings new life to a classic retro dessert. I gave it a try—and here’s what I thought!

About The Poke Cake Cookbook:

Easy Techniques for Cakes Bursting with Flavor

Making incredible-tasting desserts with great new flavors has never been easier: simply bake your cake, poke some holes and stuff it with inventive fillings. Jamie Sherman is the founder of Love Bakes Good Cakes, which has nearly two million Facebook likes. Here, she presents 75 cake and filling combinations, including:

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– Death By Chocolate
– Chunky Monkey
– Sweet and Salty Pretzel
– Root Beer Float
– Cookies and Cream
– Caramel Apple
– Fluffernutter
– Creamsicle
– Butterbeer

With sweet cakes, savory cakes, decadent cakes, light and refreshing cakes and everything in between, the possibilities are truly endless. This book is packed with fun, accessible and unique desserts that anyone can master. The hardest part will be waiting for your oven to preheat.

About the Author:

Jamie Sherman is the founder of the wildly popular food blog Love Bakes Good Cakes. Her work has been featured on numerous online sites including Foodgawker, MSN, BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, Walmart, Country Living, Womanâ”s Day, Delish, PopSugar, PEOPLE, PARADE and many more. Jamie lives with her husband and five children in Phoenix, Arizona.

My Opinion:

I will admit that I had heard of poke cakes but had never made one. What can I say – I’m a bundt girl. I thought it would be fun to branch out. The book is full of all kinds of flavor combinations for poke cakes – some familiar some not.

These cakes look pretty easy to make and all start with a box cake mix. Most include a box pudding or jar of something for the “poke” filling. This is where I found and lost my fascination. It was truly interesting to me to see just how many different possibilities the creator came up with for each base cake; chocolate, vanilla, etc. But I don’t use box cakes. I am sure I could transfer the ideas to homemade cakes with ease and I do have a world of ideas that I will probably put into use when I have cake needs in the future.

I’m particularly intrigued by anything chocolate/strawberry, chocolate/coconut or s’mores and the book offers plenty of opportunity to poke your way to cake heaven. There are lots of gorgeous color photos of the various cakes showing the different flavors “poking” into each other. The directions are well laid out and simple to follow.