16 poked recipes

Devil's food cake imbibed with cream of coconut and sweetened condensed milk, it is reminiscent of a tres leches cake. Topped with whipped cream and a sprinkling of toasted coconut, it's an easy to do treat.

Poke is a Pacific Islands banana and arrowroot pudding baked in squares and soaked in fresh coconut milk. Naturally gluten-free, lightly sweet, with a chewy-silky texture.

A poke a hole in the cake cake that features red, white and blue. Strawberries, blueberries and whipped cream, how can you go wrong?

Brazilian iced chocolate with Coke layers melted unsweetened chocolate, double-strength coffee, hot milk, and chilled cola over ice. A retro Brazilian beverage that fizzes between dessert and drink.

Retro Southern Jello salad with dark cherries, crushed pineapple, and pecans set in cherry gelatin and Coca-Cola. Molded, chilled, and ready to steal the potluck.

Tropical lime poke cake from a lemon cake mix and lime jello, soaked with a tangy lime sugar glaze that seeps into fork-pierced holes for moist, citrusy bites all the way through.

Lomi lomi tuna tosses fresh diced ahi with cucumber, tomato, red onion, lime, and chili sesame oil for a Hawaiian poke-style appetizer served on crisp baked wonton chips. Tobiko optional.

Better-Than-Sex cake: poke cake made from German chocolate cake mix soaked with sweetened condensed milk and caramel, topped with whipped cream and crushed candy bars.

Lemon Jello cake made with lemon cake mix and lemon gelatin, topped with a fresh lemon juice and powdered sugar glaze poked right into the warm cake.

Flowerpot baked Alaska bakes individual servings of ice cream, yellow cake, and meringue inside real flowerpots with a fresh bloom poking out the top. A showstopping vintage dinner-party dessert.

This easy strawberry poke cake gets its fizzy twist from strawberry soda and jello soaked into tender cake, topped with a creamy vanilla pudding whipped frosting. A crowd-pleasing potluck favorite!

Flowerpot desserts layer yellow cake, ice cream, and golden meringue in clay pots with real flower stems poking through the top. A showstopping party trick that looks wild and tastes like baked Alaska.

Patriotic jello cake is a red-white-and-blue poke cake with strawberry and blueberry jello soaked into a white cake, frosted with whipped topping. A July 4th potluck classic that slices into stripes of color.

Use whole raw pistachios to mix in the dough, and the lemon flavor from the lemon zest and juice adds extra great taste to biscotti, a cup of tea or coffee with a couple of biscotti.

Summer means barbecue season, so enjoy this succulent dish that will have you licking your lips in satisfaction!

Tongue-in-cheek eggplant recipe where the real secret is ditching the eggplant entirely and reaching for Kentucky bourbon instead. A classic joke recipe for eggplant haters everywhere.