

Top dollops with strawberries.These from scratch strawberry crunch cupcakes are strawberry shortcake in cupcake form with a fun strawberry crumble topping! Made with an extra soft and moist vanilla cupcake, filled with strawberry jam, and topped with a slightly tangy whipped cream cheese frosting.

Just grind them up in the food processor or put them in a zip-top bag and crush them with a rolling pin. Finish it all off with the crunch, which starts with vanilla sandwich cookies (such as Golden Oreos). We love this dessert with cream cheese frosting, but you can go with straight up whipped cream if you want things less sweet. This soaking time will help make sure that you get pretty white and pink swirls when you cut into the cake. Let the cake chill out in the fridge for at least a couple of hours or up to overnight. All you have to do is heat up water, mix in the Jell-O powder, and pour that into the holes. For this dessert, we’re using strawberry Jell-O. To keep the flavor inside the cake, don’t go all the way down to the bottom of the pan. Using a bamboo skewer or a chopstick, poke holes all over the cake. They start with a cake mix (see, simple!), then once the cake is cool, the fun begins-adding your flavors. Unfamiliar with poke cakes? Now’s your chance to get on board with the easiest, most delicious desserts ever. Here we start with a boxed cake mix, infuse it with strawberry flavor, top it with fluffy cream cheese frosting, then finish it off with a strawberry-and-cookie topping. The ice cream truck treat took its cues from classic strawberry shortcake, but then added what we all know is the best part: that crunchy coating.

If you liked strawberry shortcake ice cream bars growing up, then you’ll love this strawberry crunch poke cake.
