Coca Cola Cake ~Oh So Good!~
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If you’re familiar with Coca Cola cake, just seeing the title had you scrolling down to make sure you had the ingredients to make it today. If you’re not familiar with Coca Cola cake, allow me to offer a brief introduction (because you need to hurry up and make this cake!).
We love our Coca Cola. After all, Coke is a southern product! It was invented in Atlanta, just a few hours from where I live, and the extremely large World Of Coke museum is located in downtown Atlanta today.
If you’ve never been to Atlanta, you simply must put World Of Coke on your list of things to see should you ever get to visit. My kids love it so much that I can’t even tell you how often we have been. With in-laws living just outside of Atlanta, every time we go to visit I hear “Are we going to the Coke Museum?”
They especially love the tasting room where you can drink all the different beverages Coke makes around the world. Some of them are amazingly delicious – and some are downright strange – but all of them are fun to try!
The museum also hosts an interactive movie theater, complete with 3-d, smell-o-vision, vibrating seats, and even special effects like water sprays and such (all minor). There are coke relics from around the world and several floors of interesting and interactive exhibits. Kids love this place!
Oh, back to my cake….Coca Cola does wonderful things to baked goods. The sugar in it caramelizes, the carbonation tenderizes, the flavor is so amazing that it enhances everything. I have a few Coke recipes up my sleeve to share with you but we shall start with this wondrous cake!
Oh, and yes, in the south, if it is a carbonated beverage, it is a “Coke”. No one ever says “soda” or “pop”. All carbonated beverages are “cokes”.
“You want a coke?”
“Sure!”
“What kind?”
“Dr. Pepper”
That is generally how it goes. We really do love our Coke!
Alrighty then, on to our cake! Did you know that Coca Cola cake is so popular in the south that our beloved Cracker Barrel Restaurants even have it on their menu as a seasonal special? Yup, see how much you learn with me? You N’ me, we’z smart folks!
Ingredients
- 1 package plain white cake mix
- 4 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 8 Tablespoons 1 stick butter or margarine, melted
- 1 cup coca cola
- ½ cup buttermilk Or substitute 1/2 C whole milk with a T of lemon juice stirred in
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups of marshmallows
- Icing:
- 8 Tablespoons 1 stick butter or margarine
- 4 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/3 Cup coca cola
- 4 Cups confectioners’ sugar sifted
- 1 Cup chopped pecans I left these out because my kids prefer this cake with no nuts, but pecans are GREAT in this!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly mist a 13x9-inch baking pan with vegetable oil spray. Set the pan aside.
- Place the cake mix, cocoa powder, melted butter, cola, buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Scrape down the sides with a spatula. Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes.
- The batter should be well blended. Fold in the marshmallows. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Place the pan it the oven.
- Bake the cake until it springs back when lightly pressed with your finger and just starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, 40 to 42 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, prepare frosting while cake is still hot.
- Place the butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. As the butter melts, stir in the cocoa powder and cola. Let the mixture come to just a boil, stirring constantly, and then remove it from the heat. Stir in the confectioners’ sugar until the frosting is thick and smooth. Fold in the pecans.
- Pour the frosting over the top of the cake, spreading it out with a rubber spatula so that it reaches the edges of the cake. Cool the cake for 20 minutes before serving.
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I made this for Christmas Day. It was awesome! I am not a baker but something told me that I just had to make this cake! I am so glad I listened to that little voice. My oldest daughter who is ten and doesn’t even like cake and icing, asked me to make this for her birthday next month. Thanks so much for sharing! Happy New Year!
I am so glad to hear it was a hit Bonnie!!! Happy New Year!!
Mmmm, I made this cake because my in-laws came for the weekend with very little notice and I needed something easy. It was so good! Very moist. Just about my favorite chocolate cake. My father-in-law especially liked it too and was found eating some in the middle of the night 😀
~giggles~ I like the way he thinks!! I am so glad that everyone liked the cake and glad you had a great visit!!
I do have an excellent marinade made with coke tho’ for ribs or chicken,,, sorry, meant to add that on above post of mine, have u ever used it in a marinade?
I have had Coke cake before but it was different then this… you had to use a devils food cake mix or brownie cake mix and chopped walnuts/nuts optional, and the can of coke, mix and pour into a greased and floured pan….thats it…
Oh, my goodness, I am ‘happier than a bird with a french fry!’ after seeing this!!! I used to have a cookbook from Atlanta that had this recipe in it, and OH, how I’ve missed it! Thank you SO MUCH! I will probably get one of these going VERY soon!! 🙂
Loved the write-up and the recipe! Am saving it for when it’s cooler in the house to cook…
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Christy, Have you tried the orange soda cake where you just pour the soda (or coke?) into the yellow cake mix, bake and frost with Cool Whip and mandarin oranges? My friend told me about it, but I haven’t tried it yet. Your Coca Cola cake is a keeper, I’ll try it in August when my niece gets married on the beach at Sanibel and we all go back to her father’s condo for refreshments.