Description
This Gluten Free Vanilla Pudding Poke Cake is the most moist, tender, and impressive sheet cake you will ever make and it is always the first dessert to disappear at any gathering. A fluffy gluten free white cake is filled with creamy vanilla pudding that soaks into every hole and topped with light homemade whipped cream and colorful sprinkles for a beautiful and crowd pleasing dessert that is naturally gluten free. Perfect for birthday parties, Easter, spring celebrations, and any occasion that deserves a stunning and delicious gluten free sheet cake!
Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 cups Gluten Free Flour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Sea Salt
- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups Granulated Sugar
- 4 Egg Whites, at room temperature
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 tsp Almond Extract
- ? cup Milk
- ? cup Sour Cream
Pudding Filling:
- 3.2 ounce package Instant Vanilla Pudding
- 1-2 tsp. Beet Powder or Ground Freeze Dried Strawberries
Whipped Cream Topping:
- 1 1/2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 baking pan with coconut oil or butter and set aside.
In a mixing bowl sift together the gluten free flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of your stand mixer beat together the room temperature butter and granulated sugar until smooth. Add the egg whites, vanilla extract, almond extract, milk and sour cream. Blend the ingredients together. The mixture will be a bit lumpy.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat together until mostly smooth. You may still have a few small butter lumps in the batter and that is fine.
Pour the cake batter into your 9x13 baking pan evenly.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. The cake will be browned, pulled away from the edge of the cake pan and a toothpick inserted in the center will come out clean when it is done.
After the cake comes out of the oven let it cool for 8-10 minutes. Then using the end of a wooden spoon, a chopstick or anything else that will make a hole easily in the cake.
Poke holes in the cake about one inch apart until the entire cake is covered in holes. Let the cake finish cooling completely.
Prepare the instant vanilla pudding per the instructions on the box. Add 1-2 teaspoons beet powder or ground freeze dried strawberries for pink coloring (if you want a pink tint to the cake, this step can be skipped if you don't want coloring).
Before the pudding mixture sets up pour over the cake evenly filling the holes poked into the cake.
Put the cake into the refrigerator to let the pudding set up completely.
Before serving the cake prepare the whipped cream topping. In the bowl of your stand mixer using the whisk attachment beat the heavy whipping cream, sifted powdered sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks begin to form.
Evenly spread the whipped cream topping onto the cake and then add the sprinkles on top.
Serve the cake immediately. Store the leftover cake in the refrigerator.
Notes
You can omit the beet powder or ground freeze dried strawberries if you want the pudding filling to be cream instead of pink. The cake is delicious either way!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American