Dark Chocolate Banana Poke Cake

By srumbel

This dark chocolate banana poke cake is inspired from my friend, Meshelle. One of my closest co-workers, that I used to work with, Ruben, would bring his wife’s chocolate cake to our potlucks all the time. Meshelle’s dark chocolate cake with chocolate frosting was always requested at every single potluck. It was SO delicious!
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Ingredients

• For the Dark Chocolate Cake
• 2 2 2 boxes dark chocolate cake mix
• 2 2 2 cups water
• 1/3 1/3 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 3 3 3 eggs
• For the Banana Cream Cheese Filling
• 2 8 2 8 2 8 oz pkgs cream cheese
• 8 8 can 8 oz can evaporated milk
• 3.4 3.4 box 3.4 oz box instant banana pudding
• 1 1 1 tsp vanilla
• 8 8 8 oz cool whip
• 2 2 2 medium bananas, sliced
• 2 2 2 cups vanilla wafers, coarsely crushed

Details

Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 75mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325° and spray a 13x9 baking dish with a non stick spray.

For the Dark Chocolate Cake

In a large mixing bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and eggs together on high-speed until blended.

Pour cake batter into prepared baking dish and bake for 60 minutes or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

Remove from oven and after a few minutes, poke holes throughout the cake. Let cool

For the Banana Cream Cheese Filling

In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese together until smooth and creamy, approximately 2-3 minutes.

In a small mixing bowl, beat banana pudding mix and evaporated milk together until thick and creamy.

Add banana pudding to cream cheese and beat until well combined.

Once cake has cooled, add half the pudding mixture into a quart size freezer bag and clip the corner.

Squeeze banana filling into each hole then spread remaining pudding mixture over the top of the cake.

Spread cool whip over the top of pudding, cover with plastic wrap, place in fridge to chill.

Once chilled, sprinkle vanilla wafers over the top and add sliced bananas.

Enjoy!!