This opulent tiramisu poke cake is made with white cake that has been poked, drizzled with a sweet coffee-flavored glaze, and topped with cream cheese icing. can be prepared up to two days before serving.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 29 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 29 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch baking dish |
Ingredients
- 1 (16.25 ounce) package moist white cake mix (such as Betty Crocker® SuperMoist®)
- 1 ¼ cups water
- 3 eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- ⅓ cup coffee-flavored liqueur (such as Kahlua®)
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon instant espresso powder
- ¾ teaspoon sea salt, divided
- 4 egg yolks
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 3 tablespoons coffee-flavored liqueur (such as Kahlua®)
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- ½ teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Mix cake mix, water, eggs, and oil together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into the prepared dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 29 to 34 minutes. Cool cake for at least 30 minutes.
- Whisk sweetened condensed milk, 1/3 cup coffee-flavored liqueur, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, espresso powder, and 1/2 teaspoon sea salt together in a bowl until drizzle is smooth.
- Poke holes into cake using the large end of a chopstick or a similar tool. Pour poke drizzle over entire cake, smoothing with a spatula and ensuring the drizzle goes into the holes. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Beat egg yolks and white sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until very light yellow and stiff. Add cream cheese, 3 tablespoons coffee-flavored liqueur, and 1/4 teaspoon salt; mix well.
- Beat heavy whipping cream in a separate bowl until stiff peaks form; gently fold into egg yolk mixture until topping is just mixed. Pour topping over cooled cake, smoothing well. Dust with 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder. Cover and refrigerate.
- The directions for making the cake are based on the particular brand mentioned. Follow instructions on box if using a different brand.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 564 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 62 g |
| Cholesterol | 174 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 13 g |
| Sodium | 491 mg |
| Sugars | 51 g |
| Fat | 30 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Love it. Have taken this cake to three social occasions. Each time all was consumed and recipe was requested. I especially like the can be made day head I recommend doing this. Cake soaked up the favors. Yummy
I probably won’t make this again, it was actually a lot of work. I’d rather make real tiramasu.
I’m sorry to say that no one in my family liked it. The Kaluha just didn’t work with the cake. The frosting didn’t have a good flavor. It was a surprising amount of work. Tons of cleanup for what I thought would be a shortcut tiarmisu.
Easy and my Grand daughter loved it.
Five starts is not enough stars for this amazing cake!!! I made it for my friend who is a Tiramisu conesuor…..she loved it!!!! I had to give her the recipe immediately!!
My husband liked it better than “real” tiramisu!!
Tasted very good BUT the frosting was a thick messy soup. I had problems with lumps prior to folding in the whipped cream and used a blender to smooth out the flecks if cream cheese. I whipped the cream and folded it in but the topping was just too runny and never set(I made it the night before and it didn’t help).
This is fantastic! Brought it to a friend’s for dinner and everyone loved it! I’ve made it twice in three days as it was gobbled up at the dinner and after I told my neighbor/friend about it, I decided to make it again so 1) some for me again and 2) so she and my other neighbor could try it. Best of the two used the french vanilla box cake vs white cake mix! On the second cake, I creamed the sugar with the cream cheese before adding the other ingredients for the topping and it prevented the lumps as happened on the first try. The Kahlua is a bit spendy but this cake is worth it and one bottle will make many cakes. Thank you for this recipe! It will be made again… and again!
This is definitely easier approach to the authentic Tiramisu, but still a little time consuming while waiting on the cake to cool. I replaced the cream cheese with mascarpone cheese, and at the end I also grated a little bitter dark chocolate along with the cocoa powder
Made this to take into work the other day. They all asked for more, it was nearly gone by lunch break. Making a cake, instead of the lady fingers, made this recipe a lot easier.
Looks great and taste good too
I omitted the raw egg yolks altogether and it still turned out good.
Delicious
I made this for our Independence Day celebration and everyone raved about it!! One of the kids suggested it would be perfect for Christmas. We will certainly be having this again.
Love this dessert! Friends have requested it many times. The only change I’ve made is to add more Kahlua to both the frosting and the base.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe. I followed your direction and it came out perfect for us. Can you freeze this?
Love this recipe. Rave reviews. I’ve made it three times now, first two times used white cake mix and strong coffee and instant coffee powder respectively, as I couldn’t find the Espresso Powder. This cake always turns out well, but by far my best result has been this third time, when I used a Betty Crocker Supermoist French Vanilla cake mix, and finally, the Espresso powder, which gives it an unsurpassed depth of flavour. I recommend to follow this recipe as written, and to not substitute any of the ingredients.
Made this for Father’s Day dinner, hubby loved it and told me that I should make this again. Only change I made was I used Cool whip instead of the whipping cream, easier and less calories. A definite keeper!
Made with Angel Food Cake and made a layer cake. Used Marscapone cheese filling for frosting. DELICIOUS!! And I just stumbled on recipe too
Very good and moist I use strong coffee in place of the liquor and regular salt instead of course salt.
Made this for kids and grandkids when home for Mothers’ Day. Everyone liked it. Please note this recipe has uncooked egg yolk.