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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There nothing harder than to chose what type of cake to make…
It better be chocolate! I guess I better make the Chocolate Sundae Cake too. It’s a family favorite during the summer and now they can chose from both. Your the best! (I’ll be lucky if they last for two days);)
Christy…oh my…you have brought the biggest smile to my face this morning!! You are sooo funny! I can really picture that poor camera skinny dipping in the batter and the look you must have had on your face as you fished it out!!
I sure do look forward to making the Coca Cola cake!! Thank you!
Bountiful Blessings!!
I stumbled upon this delightful blog looking for a coke cake recipe (I am from Washington state where we do strange things with coffee and where a coke is a coke and not a dr. pepper) — and by the time I wiped the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard (and trying not to wake up the house) — I am going to make this cake!
Thank you so much — I found a few more recipes I will give a whirl.
Hi Debbie..welcome to the Southern Plate family!! ~~pulling up a chair to the table for Debbie~~ …you will love it here!!
OK, Christy. I bought the ingredients and tomorrow my son and I are making Coca Cola Cake. I might even take pictures of us doing just that. LOL
Thanks for the link!
Yahoo Search is the best. Found your blog entry for a Coca Cola almost 2 years later! Love the simpler,modern version of the recipe. Great photos and hilarious commentary.
My son requested a Coca Cola themed party…so I am making and baking recipes with Coca Cola in them. Your cake looked delicious, even after you dropped your camera in it! LOL… Thanks so much!
nice pict on coca cola cake ..i am very love it thank for listing..
I was laughing bc you know I am Southern as they get and yea we say coke for everything in TN too, lol. My 2 year old has even adapted this. I keep meaning to make me some coke brownies so I need to get around to it. I love the coke factory in Atlanta, its an hour away from my house..