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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Love,love,love me some co-cola cake! It is a favorite around my house when they have it at Cracker Barrel.And I have always baked my hams with coke-the flavor is awesome!I agree with you, Christy, the coke museum is a must see when in Atlanta. We’ve been twice and the kids love it. Some of the things in the tasting room are just plain ol’ weird!
Have a great day!
I know what I’m going to be making soon! lol
I can’t wait to give this a try! I love me some Coke Cake and I’m a Coke fanatic as well. (You should see my puter room!) So this Is definitely up my alley.
The last time I’ve had this was from Cracker Barrel and got hooked on It. But I can bet that this will be even better! Cause If It’s from Southern plate, you know It’s gonna be good. 😉
Thanks so much for sharing this Christy! Hope all Is well with your phone. 😀
Who is Pinky? Am I missing something?
Love Cocoa-Cola cake! Plus I hope your camera survived.
Christy,
Oh my! ain’t nothing the real thing baby : ) And when I ask for a coke I’m asking for the original Coca Cola. And no thank you Taco Bell Pepsi will not be alright. ; )
My Daddy use to call them belly washer’s, he didn’t allow us kids to drink them. He always said why would we want to drink something that would eat the dirt off white wall tire’s. So whenever possible my sister’s and I would sneak off to the 7-11 store and get a coke. But believe it or not I’ve never had the pleasure of eating coca cola cake and I eat at Cracker Barrel fairly regular. Oh! what a sheltered life I’ve lived. : ). I was born and raised in Atlanta. I will have to try this soon it sounds scrumptious. Thank’s
Sheila
Hi Christie – That cake looks SOOO good – but I live alone and I’m diabetic – what to do? What to do?? Oh, I know – I can make it, have a piece and send the rest down to the Drive Inn and they can serve it there!!
When you’re done emptying the Coke can, save it – as you now know, it makes excellent packing material!! Glad you and your mom had a good laugh about that! I have sold a lot of glassware on ebay, and it works great – and it’s recyclable! No added weight! I’ll enjoy my evening, thanks to you!!!! I had chemo yesterday and a white blood cell booster shot this afternoon, so now it is rest, rest, rest. It gets old after awhile, but if it gets me where I want to be, I’ll do it!! Got lotsa living left to do!!! Thanks!
I have made the cake and trying to get up the ambition to make the Coke Pie.