This OREO POKE CAKE RECIPE is one of our favorite EASY and delicious cakes to throw together for any occasion. This moist and flavorful cookies and cream cake is layered with chocolate cake, Oreo pudding, cool whip, and crushed Oreos! It’s the perfect OREO CAKE RECIPE for birthday parties, holiday get togethers, or for celebrating making it to Friday. So good!
Oreo Cake Recipe
I’ve always been a sucker for Oreos. Oreo Cheesecake, Oreo Blizzards, just plain ole Oreos…I’m a huge fan! There’s something about the flavors of a cookies and cream cake that takes me back to childhood and puts an instant smile on my face.
When I’m in the mood for an easy and amazing poke cake recipe, especially when going to a potluck or feeding a crowd, this CREAMY OREO POKE CAKE is at the top of my list.
It uses all kinds of shortcuts but is still DELICIOUS and typically devoured in minutes. You’re gonna love this one!
Oreo Poke Cake for a Crowd
I just love the way the Oreo pudding seeps down into the moist chocolate cake to create the ultimate flavor combination. This would be a great cake to make for Valentine’s Day, birthday parties (Henry’s first bday is in March and I still need a good smash cake recipe…send it my way if you have one!), work potlucks, Summer BBQs, and more!
It’s certainly a cookies and cream cake that you can make year-round ranging from Summer to Christmas.
Luckily kids and adults alike are all enamored with this delicious and OH SO SIMPLE Oreo poke cake recipe.
How do you make an Oreo cake?
I never get tired of the cookies and cream flavor of an Oreo cake. That’s why I love this Oreo Poke Cake!
The good news is that you probably already have the ingredients for this Oreo Poke Cake recipe in your pantry. All you really need is a chocolate cake mix, Oreo pudding, and some Oreos of course!
That’s a win because I know you want to make this NOW and you totally should. You won’t regret it, and neither will your loved ones.
What is a Poke Cake?
If you’ve never had a poke cake, you’re in for a treat! The great thing about poke cake recipes is that after baking the cake, you can poke holes in the cake.
When you pour the pudding, frosting, or cream (whatever you might be using for your poke cake recipe), it fills in the holes to create an extra flavorful dessert. That’s what makes this Oreo poke cake so creamy!
Easy Oreo Cake??? Yes PLEASE! I can’t turn down this delicious dessert, and I have a feeling you won’t be able to either!
More Poke Cake Recipes
If you like this Oreo Poke Cake Recipe, be sure to check out ALL our favorite Poke Cake Recipes! They make for such a creative, easy, and delicious dessert! This Sticky Toffee Pudding Poke Cake is soooo yummy.
If you want even more desserts, try our S’mores Cookies, Magic Chocolate Cake with White Icing, the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Pound Cake, Instant Pot Oreo Cheesecake, this Chocolate Lasagna, or this easy French Silk Pie.
Watch the video or see the recipe card below for full details on how to make this Oreo Poke Cake Recipe. Enjoy!
Oreo Poke Cake (Easy Oreo Cake Recipe)
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces chocolate cake mix 432 grams (1 box)
- 1¼ cups water 284 grams
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil 67 grams
- 3 large eggs 150 grams
- 8.4 ounces instant Oreo pudding mix 238 grams (2 4.2-ounce boxes)
- 3 cups milk 681 grams, at least 2%
- 8 ounces whipped topping 227 grams, thawed (1 tub), such as Cool Whip
- 14.3 ounces Oreo cookies 405 grams, half crushed and half left whole (1 package)
Recommended Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
- Food Processor (click for my favorite) (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a 9×13-inch baking pan with nonstick spray. Bake cake per instructions on the box.15.25 ounces chocolate cake mix, 1¼ cups water, ⅓ cup vegetable oil, 3 large eggs
- Transfer cooked cake to a cooling rack and let it cool 10 minutes.
- Use the rounded handle (diameter ¾-1 inch) of a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to poke holes in 1-inch intervals in the cake.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together dry pudding mix and milk until it just begins to thicken, approximately 1½ minutes. It should be slightly thickened.8.4 ounces instant Oreo pudding mix, 3 cups milk
- Pour the pudding over the warm cake and specifically aim for the holes.
- Use an offset spatula to spread the pudding over the entire cake. Gently push down on the pudding as you spread it over the cake.
- Cover the cake with plastic wrap and refrigerate until completely cool, about 1 hour.
- When the cake is cool, spread the whipped topping over the pudding layer.8 ounces whipped topping
- Recover the cake with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- While the cake is in the refrigerator, place half (about 20) cookies in a Ziplock bag and crush them or use a food processor.14.3 ounces Oreo cookies
- When ready to serve the cake, sprinkle the whipped topping layer with the crushed and whole Oreos.
Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @thecookierookie on Instagram!
Becky’s tips
- This cake can be made up to 1 day ahead if covered tightly and kept in the fridge. Be sure not to add the Oreo cookies until ready to serve.
Nutrition Information
My older grandson is an Ore freak. Unfortunately he is at college in LA and I would have no idea how to mail this to him!!!’
This would be a great surprise next time he visits!!
Made this tonight and simply amazing !
Thanks for sharing, Patricia! It’s a tasty one, isn’t it!
I made this day and it was delish. Even my youngest son who is a health nut, couldn’t pass up trying a health piece. My only change/additionwas I used triple chocolate chip cake mix and added extra chocolate chips to cake mix and substituted one cup of the milk for 1 can of sweetened condensed milk for extra sweetness to the pudding It was DA BOMB!!! Thank you for such a great easy and quick dessert.
Your Oreo Poke Cake looks and sounds delicious. However, I think your nutrition facts must be wrong. The cake mix alone would have a lot more than 64 calories per serving if it only made 8 servings, as you stated. Then you add the pudding, milk, Cool Whip and the cookies. How did you calculate this?
You are so right, thanks for saying something! It’s a wordpress app that calculates based on the ingredients, but it’s not fool proof by any means. I went through and calculated by hand and it changed it a lot :) :). Thanks again.
BECKY ,MY SON JUST TURNED 55…HE LOVES COCONUT SO I MADE HIM YOUR COCONUT POKE CAKE IT WAS A BIG HIT AND SO EASY TO DO..THANKS I NEED TO TRY THIS OREO ONE NEXT MONTH FOR HIS SONS BIRTHDAY…MY LITTLE CHOCOLATE LOVER…
Hope you love it! Happy bday to your son :) :)
I made this day and it was delish. Even my youngest son who is a health nut, couldn’t pass up trying a health piece. My only change/additionwas I added extra chocolate chips to cake mix and substitutedo one cup of the milk for 1 can of sweetened condensed milk for extra sweetness. It was DA BOMB!!! Thank you for such a great easy and quick dessert.