You may also want to try our Southern Banana Pudding Poke Cake or this Cookies and Cream Poke Cake. An eclair cake is a twist on the classic cream-filled, chocolate-covered French pastry.

Melissa Doyle sent her recipe for chocolate eclair cake, describing the dish as "a delicious and very easy recipe that everyone loves," adding that "a child could even help" make it.

The secret to this mysterious crackle, admits Tillman, is a layer of cookie dough baked onto the top of the choux-pastry shell—a vast structural and textural improvement on classic pastry design.