Orange & Lemon Poke Cake

I have always loved lemon desserts, ever since I was a kid. Every holiday my aunt would make a traditional English Trifle and my favorite, lemon curd tarts! I also adore orange, so this orange & lemon poke cake is right at the top of my list.

I always have a jar of lemon curd in my refrigerator. It’s fabulous on toast or English muffins, and there’s something about its creamy texture and sweet-tart flavor that always gets to me.

Orange & Lemon Poke Cake

I’ve always loved poke cakes too, and doctoring up a cake mix, so my wheels were turning one day and I decided to combine a couple citrus flavors and make my own poke cake concoction. I love mandarin oranges and I had a lemon cake mix in the pantry. I knew I was going to love this orange & lemon poke cake.

I didn’t take any step photos of this process, but if you’ve never made a poke cake before, you can see the steps on my Raspberry Dream Poke Cake.

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I recently broke the baking pan I use all the time for my cakes (boo!), but am thinking about replacing it with this porcelain pan. Has anyone had any experience with this one? If not, do you have one you recommend?

I hope you get a chance to try this cake. It’s sweet and it’s tart, so if you love lemon curd, this orange & lemon poke cake is for you.

As always, a full printable recipe is available at the end of this post.
For this recipe you will need the following ingredients:

What you need for this cake:

• 1 box lemon cake mix, prepared
• 3-ounce box orange Jell-O
• 1 1/2 cups boiling water
• Dickinson’s Lemon Curd or your favorite brand
• 11-ounce can of mandarin oranges (in juice, not syrup)
• 8-ounce tub Cool Whip or 1 cup whipping cream, whipped

Kitchen tools you may find helpful:

• 13×9 baking dish
• Wooden spoon
• Liquid measuring cup

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Author: Amanda Davis

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 box lemon cake mix prepared
• ▢ 3- ounce box orange Jell-O
• ▢ 1 ½ cups boiling water
• ▢ Dickinson’s Lemon Curd or your favorite brand
• ▢ 11- ounce can of mandarin oranges in juice, not syrup
• ▢ 8- ounce tub Cool Whip or 1 cup whipping cream whipped

Instructions

• Bake cake in a 13x9 pan according to the box directions. Cool for ten minutes.
• Poke holes all over the cake with the end of a wooden spoon.
• Combine the dry Jell-O powder with the boiling water and stir until dissolved.
• Slowly pour gelatin over the cake.
• Refrigerate cake for 45 minutes.
• Remove cake from the refrigerator and spread the entire jar of lemon curd across the top of the cake. Return the cake to the refrigerator for another hour.
• Drain and chop the mandarin oranges and fold them into the Cool Whip. Remove cake from refrigerator and frost with Cool Whip mixture.
• Refrigerate 1-2 hours before serving.

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