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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Pinky: You will DIE if you make this, it is so freakin good!
Just Jess: Pepsi works fine in it!
Stephanie: You can absolutely substitute in this. The main thing you want to do is make sure you substitute something carbonated and sweet. You need the sugar and that carbonation. I would recommend Root Beer and just call it a root beer cake. I bet that would be AMAZING! I make it with Dr Pepper sometimes and it is SO GOOD.
Eek! Laundry is calling! I ‘ll respond more later!
y’all have a great day!
Christy
Oh my, that cakes looks yummy! I just might have to try that! 🙂 Pinky sent me over to say HI!
Oh wow! I’m in heaven! My mom used to make fried green tomatoes when I was a kid, but I have never made them. I’ve got a few out in the garden now so I think I may whip some up!! Oh yea, Pinky sent me over to this dangerously delicious blog!!
Hi Christy
Pinky suggested we come over and visit….my goodness I have put on pounds just looking at the yummy recipes. I am certainly going to try some of these. Thanks for the great blog to read.
Bree
Hi , Pinky sent me here! I used to make coca cola cake back in the 70’s!!
I chat with a few gals from Canada and have heard of Poutine but was afraid to ask what is was. Love your site and I visit often. I’ll have to try the coca cola cake. BTW pinky sent me.
Mmmm….I am a Coke girl through and through. No Pepsi for me! Didn’t know you could make Coke cake, but have you tried leg of ham glazed in/with Coke? I don’t eat pork (except for the odd crispy bacon!) but apparently it’s really good. I think Nigella Lawson has a recipe for it.
And I swear, I do get some work done when I’m at work! I don’t spend all my time reading blogs. lol