Chocolate Butterscotch Poke Cake

Today is My Birthday, so what better way to celebrate than with a Paula Deen Cake!!!! I just love Paula's Chocolate Celebration Magazine because there are so many recipes to choose from. I have been eyeing this Chocolate Butterscotch Poke Cake for awhile now, so I decided that would make this cake for my Birthday.   

Well, a promise is a promise so I had to bake it. This cake isn't anything fancy and doesn't look like your traditional birthday cake however there was just something about this cake that was so appealing to me. The first time I opened Paula's magazine it was definitely a WOW moment for me when I saw that cake. 

Not sure if it was the butterscotch sundae topping that you drizzle all over the warm cake or if it was the creamy frosting made with Butterscotch Pudding and whipped topping that got me, but it definitely looked like a delicious cake. 

This cake was so good that I could of ate the frosting alone. My son and daughter were both fighting over who was going to get the bowl to lick the frosting, I'm the birthday girl so actually I should of gotten that bowl. I was adult about the whole thing and gave the the bowl and I took the spatula. 

This cake was out of this world good, but I already knew that before I even tasted it. Its' a Paula Deen recipe and everyone knows I think Paula Rocks!!! I couldn't resist this picture of my sweet boy. Just look at that face. ❤ 

If you don't have her Chocolate Celebration Magazine, you don't know what you're missing. This magazine is a chocoholics dream!!

Chocolate Butterscotch Cake

3/4 - cup butter, softened
1 1/2 - cups sugar
2 - eggs
1 - teaspoon vanilla extract
2 - cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 - teaspoon baking soda
1/4 - teaspoon salt
1 1/2 - cups milk
1 - 12.5 oz jar butterscotch ice cream topping
1 - 12 oz container whipped topping (cool whip), thawed
1 - 3.5 oz box cook and serve butterscotch pudding mix, dry

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a 13 x 9 inch baking pan. In a large bowl beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. 

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. In medium bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. 

Gradually add to the butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon into prepared pan. 

Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

With the handle of a wooden spoon poke holes halfway through the cake in half inch intervals. 

Pour ice cream topping evenly over cake. Let cool completely.

 In a large bowl combine whipped topping and butterscotch pudding mix. Spread evenly over cooled cake. 

Cover and refrigerate cake before serving. Refrigerate any leftovers. 

servings: 8-10
adapted from: Paula Deen 

I'm ending this post on a sweet note. This is the present my 9 year old daughter Mackenzie made me. It's so cute and so thoughtful. She loves all the Disney princesses, so she colored me one of her Belle coloring pages and left a little note with a dollar bill attached that she saved. I told her to keep it but she said no mommy it's your birthday and insisted!