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Caramel Carrot Poke Cake

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Carrot Poke Cake
Our family went to dinner the other night at Sweet Tomatoes.  It’s a buffet, and they had the most delicious carrot cake dessert.  I tried to figure out how they made it  and looked on the internet for a recipe, but I had no success.  So I decided to try making it up.  So this is my version of their carrot cake recipe, and I have to say it turned out pretty darn yummy and close to the one I had the other night.  This Caramel Carrot Poke Cake is a must to serve warm with ice-cream!  This is super easy to make, and I will for sure be adding this to my collection!! Thank you Sweet Tomatoes for the inspiration!

Caramel Carrot Poke Cake
 
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Recipe type: Cake
Serves: Serves 12
Ingredients
  • 1 box Duncan Hines Calssic Carrot Cake Mix (21.41oz.)
  • 4 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
  • ½ cup confectioners sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • 3-4 Tbsp. milk
  • 1 cup caramel topping
Instructions
  1. Make cake mix according to package directions. For this cake it requires:
  2. /4 cup warm water
  3. large eggs
  4. /4 cup vegetable oil
  5. Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray and lightly flour.
  6. Cook for 30-33 minutes (according to package directions) in preheated 325 degree oven for dark pans, and 350 degrees for metal or glass pans. (I used the dark coated pan and cooked for 33 minutes in a 325 degree oven.)
  7. Pull cake out of oven. Let rest for 5 minutes.
  8. While cake is resting, make the cream cheese glaze by first beating the cream cheese till smooth. Add the sugar and beat again for another minute. Add the salt, lemon juice and milk. Mix on low speed until smooth. (If you need it a little thinner you can add a little more milk)
  9. Set aside.
  10. With end of a ¼ inch dowel, or whatever you might have around that size, punch several holes in the cake.
  11. Warm 1 cup of the caramel topping in the microwave so it thins out.
  12. Drizzle ½ cup to ¾ cups of the topping over the cake so that it flows into the holes. (Save the rest of the cake for drizzling over the ice-cream when serving.)
  13. Drizzle the the cream cheese glaz over the top of the cake.
  14. Serve warm with a scoop of ice-cream, and drizzle the left over caramel topping on top.
  15. So delicious!!!
Notes
(If cake is cooled, warm up in the microwave. I promise it is best when served warm and topped with ice-cream)

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  1. Pavel says

    Hi Em-Thanks for the kind words-very nice to meet you. I actually don’t have a pearsnol blog at this moment, but I am in the early stages of putting together a book (shhh)-writing has always been a passion of mine, and I have decided to get back into it. We will see how that goes .

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