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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Hey Christy!
I just made Coca Cola Cake for the first time ever. Oh my gosh! I thought it would be good but this stuff is sinful!! It left me wondering where this cake had been all my life!! Yum!!
You’re awesome!!
Lindsey 🙂
Christy…I wanted to make that delicious cornbread (using 2 cups buttermilk) thought I could find it again but can’t. Can you please post it again or whatever so I can try it..now I know you’re not busy with that new kitchen with house attached and all ha! Just love the pics!
Thanks bunches
Hope this helps! here is the link
https://southernplatecom.bigscoots-staging.com/2008/10/dixie-cornbread-go-dawgs.html
You can also click on “index” at the top of Southern Plate at any time to see the complete listing, in addition to using the search window at the top right of the page. Thats what I did to find this for you!
Thanks!
Christy 🙂
I made this after I saw your hilarious post and your oh-so-helpful pictures!
It was a hit! It was even better on Day 2…after all the icing absorbed through the cake. YUMMMMM….I couldn’t see or taste the marshmallows..wondering if I baked it too long. Only one way to find out – I’ll try again!!
Thanks, Christy!!!
I haven’t had this cake since I was a girl. My aunt used to make this cake and it is absolutely delicious. Although she called it a Texas Coke Cake…I’m sure its the same thing. It is like a very fudgy chocolate cake…I adore it. Can’t wait to give this a try and make it for my family. Thank you for sharing it.:)
Somebody needs to give you a show on the Cooking Channel, you are a hoot !!!! Love your post, keep up the good work!
We had some after supper tonight. It was DELISH!!!!! My southern hubby was in hog heaven =)
This is in the oven as I type. I used a yellow cake mix because it’s what I had on hand and forgot this called for a white one. I just added a bit of extra cocoa.