Granny is famous for her Holy Smoke Cake…well at least in our family she is. Granny’s been making the cake for as long as I can remember. Everyone is just crazy over it except me. It’s tasty, for sure, it’s just that I’d rather have one of the other desserts that Granny’s known for.
The Deer Hunter thinks I’m crazy for not being over the moon about Holy Smoke Cake because he is. Lucky for him Granny sometimes makes him one for his birthday. As you can see from the photo she did just that this year.
Here’s the recipe Granny uses. She found it in the back of a North Carolina Farm Bureau Magazine.
Tipper
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My great-aunt Mary (my maternal grandmother’s sister) used to make this with chocolate pudding and just called it “chocolate dessert.” She was a very no-nonsense lady who didn’t like to complicate things :).
As Eldonna says below, there’s a version that uses just Oreo cookies and butter for the crust and the one recipe I found for it calls for mini-chocolate chips on the top. I found mini cinnamon chips once, and used them instead and I also added cinnamon in the pudding, too. It was delish!!
Hi Tipper! I saw Granny on YouTube making her Holy Smoke Cake and decided to look up the recipe, which brought me here. Thank you for sharing your way of life, culture, upbringing with us. I’ve always been interested in regular people, their stories, what they do to live a productive, positive life. I’m about your age(50’s)and the older I get, I find contentment in simple things; family, friends, church, etc. Thanks again, and tell Granny we all think she’s real cute and to keep showing off those good recipes! I’ll be sure to come back. God Bless! Bill R.
This recipe has all the ingredients I really like! I will definitely make this Holy Smoke Cake!
I love these lil things I find on my stupid phone but I am not very good on these sites and can’t find them again. but I truly thank you so much for putting them on..
Butter pecan pudding?! Never heard of it but it sounds delicious.
Mr Allison,
I’d never heard of it either but I found it on Amazon, Walmart, Publix, Aldi
WOW Who knew. I need to looook more. Lol
Such a blessing to have a Granny in your life. Our family grannys are gone to paradise. I pray this sweet loving woman continues to live a healthy happy life.
Please give Granny a big hug from me. She is just precious and delightful. May the good Lord bless her with good health, happiness, and the time to enjoy it all. Her cake looks delicious! I’d like to have a big slice of it right now and sit down beside her and talk awhile. I know we would really hit it off!!!
Tipper will we get to see a video of the shower. Saw one with a few of the gifts .
Happy Birthday, Granny!
The cake looks delicious no wonder you get many requests for it to be made.
Tipper, it is so clear that you and your family cherish your Mama and taking a day out of your week to do things or just spend time watching westerns is such a precious thing. I hope you get to celebrate many more years together.
By the way, I make my own birthday cake as well! It is always strawberry shortcake!
Happy Birthday Granny!!!!! I hope many many more to come.Your are such a great blessing to your beautiful family aswell to all of us here at the blind pig and the acron subscribers. We so injoy your stories and recipes and your beautiful spirit. MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU ON YOUR BIG DAY!!!!!!
Tipper, I make this all the time, except we call it Holy Smoke Pie. It is my granddaughters’ favorite.
Looks delicious. My family loves what we call dirt cake which is chocolate or vanilla pudding, cream cheese, crushed Oreo cookies, whipping cream or cool whip, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. It’s layered and looks pretty in a tall glass dish. Me personally, I would rather have a slice of homemade pound cake.
This has been on my list of must makes since its been posted. I used peanuts, butterscotch pudding & caramel syrup; it’s like a Payday candybar! It’s very similar to a recipe I’ve got “Cherry Berrie’s on a Cloud.’ No nuts in the crust, no pudding, but mix in mini marshmallows instead. Top w/ a mixture of cherry pie filling, sliced strawberries, & peaches.
Would love to have the payday version.
It looks really good. I will have to try it for sure. Thanks Granny!!!
I should have known better! Here I am trying to get back to my “fightin’ weight,” and you put this incredible-sounding dessert on here. Then… all your amazing readers put their spins on it. Final straw was my brain popping up with, “Oooo I’ll just bet this would be terrific with banana pudding and sliced bananas!” Sigh
Oh, my! Definitely pinning this one for future use, hopefully! It looks amazing. I was just thinking how good it would taste with chocolate pudding, too. Thank you so much for sharing! By the way, I included a song by Pap and Paul on my latest Homespun Devotions blog post, in case you’d like to see. 🙂 God bless you all!
I make this using instant chocolate pudding. It’s called Chocolate Delight. So good especially when it’s really, really cold! Keep it in the refrigerator all day if you can before serving.
My grandmother used to make a similar dessert she called “Five Layer Delight”. She included a chocolate pudding layer along with the butterscotch pudding layer. The two pudding layers, the cream cheese layer, the whipped cream layer, and the cookie crust layer made five layers. It was really, really good. She also sprinkled chopped pecans on the top. We often took this to reunions and homecomings in the summer. It was a little difficult to keep cold but it was so refreshing on a hot summer day.
Thats sweet of Granny to make Matt’s favorite.. I’ve made this forever too but with chocolate pudding. I never knew the name of it.! This is a great crust because I don’t like graham cracker crust. Cream Cheese makes everything taste better..
been making it since I was a teenager..was called 4 layer delight
All I can say is “you lucky Birthday Boy” to get such a treat on your birthday!! And also a very Happy Birthday !! (by the way, I have copied down the recipe as Bob say the pic and said YUM<YUM)
Tipper,
I bet Granny’s Holy Smoke Cake tastes good, although I can’t chew the Pecans anymore. I’d have to put strawberries or something else in the mix. Anything Granny fixes looks so good. …Ken
It looks delicious and since I love butter pecan ice cream I am sure I would love this. I wondered where they got that name until I read TMC’s comment – lol – now that makes sense. I will certainly try that recipe out.
I think I’ll try this out on ole Adam this weekend!
It’s just too hot to have the oven on, even for 15 minutes to bake the crust. I do want to try this recipe as soon as we get the 100 plus heat index out of here. Several years ago my boss and his wife owned a restaurant that served a similar cake. They used strawberries and drizzled strawberry jam on top. She sold out of the dessert more than once.
I could just sit it out on the hood of my black pickup. It might take a little longer than 15 minutes but I think it would work. I made some beef jerky like that one time and it worked. And no Tipper it wasn’t what you tried.
After reading the posts on this I have a lot of choices. They all sound great. I am inclined to favor lemon but will try butter pecan.
I make this using lemon flavored instant pudding and call it Lemon Lush. But got to try the Butter Pecan flavor as sounds so good. Thanks for posting.
Yes, it is great with lemon. That is probably my favorite.
I’m definitely going to try the recipe! I’ll have to use almonds, since a dear friend of mine is allergic to pecans. Otherwise it sounds delicious. I may try cheesecake pudding mix.
Tip, I think it’s the cream cheese that makes the Deer Hunter like it so much, well, and the nuts and pudding! I think it’s pretty good too. Granny can make some grand deserts!
I pretty much agree with the Deer Hunter, this is good stuff. We call this Lucky If There Is Any Left, it is a hit at pot luck suppers at church. Other names I have heard it called are Butter Pecan Lush or Butter Pecan Lasagna. That said, The name varies according to the type of pudding used — Lemon Lush, Chocolate Lasagna, etc.
My favorite flavor is lemon, made with a cooked clear lemon pudding that does not have milk. Homemade butterscotch pudding is also great for this. I have used instant pistachio pudding as well, the nice green color is good around St. Patrick’s Day or Christmas, it also tastes great. Our sons like it when made with instant chocolate pudding. I have seen Oreo cookies used in the crust when chocolate pudding is used. I like the flour crust so I haven’t trued the Oreo crust.
I bet strawberry pudding would be good and even adding fresh berries on top would work.
Sadly, I don’t make this much now. With only hubs and me at home it is not good to have this wonderful stuff around, we would just eat it.
Wow, looking at the ingredients I can see how it got it’s name, Holy Smoke that’s rich.