Lemon Poke Cake with Whipping Cream

Lemon Poke Cake 

With Lemon Curd and Whipping Cream

This is an easy, refreshing and delicious lemon poke cake made with a boxed cake mix, lemon curd and topped with a stabilized whipped cream and raspberries It’s always a hit any time of the year and goes very quickly. 

This oh so simple and delicious Lemon Poke Cake is slathered with lemon curd and topped with a scrumptious homemade stabilized whipped cream, lemon zest and fresh raspberries (optional). It’s simply delicious and if you love lemon desserts this one will quickly become a new favourite!

For The Love of Lemon

The refreshing flavour of lemon always seems to go hand in hand with spring and summer which of course brings us warmer weather. I however have always loved anything with lemon, especially when it comes to desserts. I don’t love overly sweet desserts but I don’t want them to be sour either. You can create and enjoy some amazing lemon desserts and our lemon poke cake is one of them!

If you love lemon desserts as much as we do make sure to check out our other lemon desserts like the ones below!

What you need for this recipe:

• White or lemon cake mix
• Eggs
• Oil (vegetable or canola)
• Raspberries for garnish
• Lemons
• Lemon curd 
• Whipping cream
• Powdered Sugar
• Plain Gelatin

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What’s Poke Cake?

I admit until a couple of years ago I hadn’t even heard of poke cakes and now I’m all over them. So many variations to be made and eaten, so little time and my waistline can’t take them all. However, that doesn’t stop me from wanting to try all those different and delicious flavours!

However, even though it has a funny name it also gets right to the point because you are literally poking holes on the top of a baked cake. Hence why it’s called a poke cake, makes sense right? Once you’ve poked the holes into your cake then you’re slathering some time of liquid and/or pudding on top of it which then sinks down the holes that you created in the cake. 

The cake absorbs the pudding or in our case lemon curd and once the cake has been chilled the liquid or pudding or lemon curd thickens into the cake make it super-duper moist and yummy. Once the cake has been chilled then you can put whatever toppings you want on the cake. For us we started with a stabilized whipped cream. 

The Best Poke Cake

One thing to think about for your poke cake is how deep you want to poke the holes into the cake. Do you want there to pockets of the lemon curd (or pudding) throughout the cake or do you prefer to have it so it’s more of an evenly dispersed layer throughout the cake?

If you want pockets of lemon curd goodness throughout the cake make the holes deeper, at least halfway down the cake. For a lemon-y more evenly dispersed layer then make the holes more shallow, no more than 1/3 down the cake. 

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Optional flavours

If you would like an intense lemon flavour then you can use a lemon box cake if you prefer (or make one from scratch). You can also add more lemon zest on top of the whipped cream and you can even add some zest to the cake mix itself. 

In the photo above you can see the lemon curd in the cake. We did deeper holes to get the pockets of lemon curd. Either way, you can’t go wrong. You can also use a lemon pudding but if you use an instant pudding it solidifies quickly so slather it on the cake as soon as possible. 

Make sure to check out all of our recipes including our Coconut Chocolate Poke Cake recipe that also has a video!

Now let’s get to our lemon poke cake recipe shall we?

Hopefully, you can see how easy this lemon poke cake is to make! It’s so yummy it won’t last!

This lemon poke cake with the stabilized whipping cream and raspberries on top is a family favourite. I almost regret making it as the family is always asking for it but it is so yummy so I give in as I want to have some too!

If you try this recipe make sure to let us know how you liked it and if you did any variations that you loved we want to hear about them. In the meantime enjoy!