Coca-Cola Poke Cake

By jab120638

This is the best chocolate cake ever! I make this often with my 5 yr old granddaughter! She says it is the bestest cake and would eat it at every meal if allowed! I too get the occasional powdered sugar lump, but it does not take away from the chocolate, moist, gooey cake!

Ingredients

• CAKE:
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup butter at room temp
• 1/2 cup oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup coke
• GLAZE:
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 cups cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cups coke

Details

Servings 12
Adapted from southyourmouth.com

Preparation

Step 1

CAKE:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Grease and flour a 13x9 baking pan; set aside.

Using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat together butter, oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs until creamy (about 2 minutes). Add Coca-Cola and mix on low speed. With mixer still set at low, add flour mixture and continue mixing for one minute or until all ingredients are thoroughly combined.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Once done, poke holes in the cake at about 1-inch intervals using a serving fork, skewer or whatever gets it done (try not to use a regular fork if the tines are pretty close together because it might tear up the cake too much); set aside and make the glaze.

GLAZE:

In a medium-sized saucepan heat butter and Coca-Cola over medium-high heat until boiling. Once mixture starts to boil, continue cooking for one minute. Remove pan from heat and whisk in sugar and cocoa mixture until smooth.

Slowly pour glaze over cake. If your cake isn't completely level (and mine wasn't), using potholders to handle the pan, slowly tilt cake back and forth, forward and back until all the glaze has soaked into the cake.