Blueberry Poke Cake

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By Jessie Sheehan

This moist and fluffy vanilla barroom is poked portion inactive warm, and past filled with a somewhat saccharine blueberry sauce. After chilling, the barroom is topped with a blueberry-streaked whipped pick and the effect is the eventual saccharine trifecta of barroom and pick and berries successful each bite. The barroom is made with a operation of melted food (for flavor) and lipid (for moisture), and whitethorn go your go-to vanilla cake.

The poking of the barroom takes a spot of time. Your poking utensil — ideally the extremity of a smooth-handled woody oregon silicone spoon with a diameter of 1/4- to 1/2-inch — should beryllium round, not flat. It whitethorn person a inclination to get a spot sticky, poke aft poke, truthful beryllium definite to hitch your utensil successful betwixt pokes, and you'll beryllium fine. Also, usage a utensil that's smooth, not unsmooth oregon worn (as the second volition apt to clasp onto barroom crumbs). This process mightiness beryllium a small messy, but this berry-filled barroom is worthy it.

From cookbook writer Jessie Sheehan.

Ingredients

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Servings: 12-16 (makes 1 9-by-13-inch cake)

For the blueberry puree

3 cups (420 grams) caller oregon frozen blueberries, positive a fistful of caller for decorating, if desired
3/4 cupful (180 milliliters) water
1/2 cupful (100 grams) granulated sugar
1 tablespoonful cornstarch
1/8 spoon good salt
2 teaspoons caller citrus juice

For the vanilla cake

Cooking spray oregon softened butter, for greasing the pan
1 2/3 cups (333 grams) granulated sugar
1/2 cupful (120 milliliters) rootlike oil
1/2 cupful (4 ounces/113 grams) unsalted butter, melted and somewhat cooled
1 tablespoonful vanilla extract
2 ample eggs, astatine country temperature
1 ample ovum yolk, astatine country temperature
1 3/4 cups (420 milliliters) buttermilk, astatine country temperature
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 spoon baking soda
1 spoon good salt
2 2/3 cups (308 grams) barroom flour

For the whipped cream

2 cups (480 milliliters) dense cream
3 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (2-by-3-inch portion of cake) based connected 16

Calories
292
Fat
25 g
Saturated Fat
12 g
Carbohydrates
40 g
Sodium
314 mg
Cholesterol
93 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
33 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Jessie Sheehan.

Tested by Debi Suchman.

Published May 10, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026