There poke cake it takes its name from the English verb "poke" which means "to make a hole".
The peculiarity of this cake is the fact that the cake is cooked and then bucata with the handle of a wooden spoon or a small knife and in each hole is inserted filling which can be a cream, a jam, a syrup, a bagna or a ganache like the one we propose.
Chocolate poke cake recipe
This is perhaps the most delicious version of this dessert because inside it has one milk chocolate ganache and the decoration is made with whipped cream and chocolate chips.
The base is a simple cake that is particularly soft and buttery with a vanilla flavor, but you can enrich it with cocoa to give it color or you can flavor it with cinnamon.
The base
To obtain the base of the cake, they are mounted 2 eggs with 180 g of cane sugar finely chopped.
They are then added 100 g of butter with cream, 125 g of plain yogurt, a tablespoon of vanilla extract and 100 ml of milk or fresh cream.
When the mixture is well blended and mounted add it one sachet of yeast and 300 g of 00 flour.
Then pour everything into a small square or rectangular baking pan (20 × 20) and cook a 180 ° in a static oven for 30 minutes.
Once cold, the base is extracted from the mold and gods are practiced equidistant holes over the entire surface without getting to the bottom.
You can use a wooden spoon, a small knife or even a tool to extract the apple core.
At this point you just have to fill every hole.
The chocolate ganache
The ideal filling for the poke cake is the ganache because it is soft and creamy and is softly absorbed by the base dough.
To prepare this chocolate cream just cut 150 g of chopped chocolate and mix it with 100 g of very hot fresh cream.
We suggest you use milk chocolate, but if you prefer dark chocolate the proportions are the same and the result is just as good.
The final decoration
Once stuffed all the holes decorated the surface of the cake with the whipped Cream and completed with chocolate flakes.
To make them, just grate a tablet with a grater with large holes.
The cake should be cut and served in cubes of the same size and can also be eaten with a spoon.
It is very good even cold, but it cannot stay in the refrigerator for more than three days because it dries up.
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