Easy Smores Poke Cake Recipe

This is the most amazing easy smores poke cake recipe ever! If you love chocolate this is how to make a poke cake with marshmallows and graham crackers over the campfire but want that same flavor at home, this is the perfect dessert!

SMores Cake Recipe

It’s part of my childhood. Sitting at the beach after a long day in the waves. A marshmallow on my skewer, legs covered in sand. Smooshing chocolate between two graham crackers was the best. I remember the friends I was with, the messes we made, and have lots of pictures of us like this.

This is my middle child. Love her! Like me she loves chocolate and baking too so we try to think outside of the box often and come up with new yummy ideas to try. First we used kisses to make our Hershey kiss Christmas cookies, then it was time to go for the whole shebang!

Chocolate Poke Cake

I have three daughters of my own and I want them to have those same memories, friends, and photos. I also want to share the memories I had with them as a child, and create memories of our own in the kitchen. Yes we still love traditional S’Mores when we are camping.

The chocolate covered faces and sticky noses made while huddled up around our campfire. The best.  😉 Why not make Smores in the Oven right or another type of treat with the same ingredients right? Well this smores cake is a great way to do just that.

Smores Poke Cake with Marshmallow Fluff

If you love baking with your kids, this smores dessert is a great dessert to make with them.  It is sure to bring up a memory or two of your own, when you too were enjoying this sweet classic treat as a child. I mean not to say that other flavors aren’t amazing too but……

What can you use instead of graham crackers for Smores?

There are several other options including crushed Golden Grahams cereal or Nilla wafers work great as well.

• 7 HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate bars
• 1 box chocolate cake mix (& ingredients to make cake batter)
• Marshmallow creme or could use Cool Whip instead on top
• Mini marshmallows
• Crushed graham crackers
• Chocolate sauce is what we poured on top but sweetened condensed milk works too
• 9×13 baking dish
• Large straw to poke holes in the cake

If you’re hosting a Christmas cookie exchange, but want to offer something different on the side, this is a great one. The whole idea for how to make one of these cakes is simple. You “poke” holes into it and allow your favorite flavors to seep thru those holes and inside the cake, ours being melted milk chocolate!

This is probably the kids’ favorite part because you really can’t do it wrong, just make sure to pour the milk chocolate over the holes so it can drain inside and you’re good!

One of the many great things about HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate bars is that they are made with farm fresh milk which makes them REALLY easy to melt and maintain that creamy smooth flavor. What’s the first memory that comes to mind for you when I say the word s’mores?

Tips

• Melt and pour chocolate sauce on top of this warm cake it sinks in and creates a little slice of heaven I tell you.
• I saved 1 of the bars to break up and put pieces on the top of the smores poke cake when it was done. (chocolate chips would work instead too)
• Just to add to the “prettiness” of it all. It really doesn’t matter what it looks like though…it’s all about the taste!

After you make this you should try our other s’mores dessert recipes, most take less than 30 minutes and some are even no bake without any fire at all.

Make cake as directed on box, pour mix into a 9×13 cake pan and bake as directed. Do so just long enough so middle springs back when touched lightly. 25 min. is perfect for us so it isn’t overdone. When done set on a cooling rack for about 15 min.

How to Make Smores Poke Cake

1. Then when your cake is still warm poke holes all over so the holes go all the way thru to the bottom of the pan.
2. Pour 24 oz of chocolate sauce on top so it seeps into holes OR….
3. In a bowl break up 6 of your broken up chocolate bars into smaller pieces and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, microwave for 30 seconds more, then stir again.
4. It should be warm and nice and smooth without any chunks now.
5. Pour over your cake making sure the melted chocolate is poured directly over the holes so it can seep thru. Place into the fridge for at least an hour, or until it is cooled.
6. Take out and spread your marshmallow fluff on top evenly. Sprinkle your mini marshmallows on top of that. Sprinkle your graham cracker crumbs.
7. Break up the remaining chocolate bar and push the pieces into the top layer of marshmallow gently so each piece that will be cut will include a chocolate square. Enjoy!

Now that you know how to make a smores poke cake, get creative! Try our no bake eclair cake next.