Coca Cola Cake ~Oh So Good!~

By Becky Jo

Ingredients

• Icing:
• 1 package plain white cake mix
• 4 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 8 Tablespoons (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
• 1 cup coca cola
• 1/2 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 1/2 cups of marshmallows
• 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!)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from southernplate.com

Preparation

Step 1

Gift Mixes

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!).

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!

You’ll need: White cake mix, cocoa, coca cola, eggs, margarine, vanilla, marshmallows, and buttermilk (Or substitute whole milk with a bit of lemon juice mixed in like I do).

Dump cake mix into a mixing bowl.

Add cocoa powder and melted butter to cake mix.

Pour in Coca Cola

Add eggs.

Add 1 Tablespoon lemon juice to milk. If you have buttermilk there is no need to add lemon juice.

Add milk and check to see if your digital camera will still take a photograph, continually wiping more chocolaty batter from the sliding cover as it drips out from beneath the areas that you can’t possibly clean under because the

*Add vanilla but get frustrated trying to take a picture of it and just give up, making a note to put a little asterisk beside the tutorial instructions reminding folks to add it.

*Make another note reminding folks to wear that little camera strap on their wrist next time they happen to be baking and photographing each and every step like an obsessive bake-a-holic

Mix your batter and scrape down the sides.

Turn the mixer on low and go dampen a dishcloth and try to wipe some of the dripping chocolate goo off your camera after taking one more picture. Don’t forget to open the battery compartment because it got in there, too….and also that little slot that holds the now chocolate covered SD card. Yeah, clean that also. Hurry up, its starting to get sticky holding that thing.

Toss in your marshmallows and turn the mixer on just so they are all dunked down into the batter – much like your camera was – only this time it is intentional with the marshmallows. What the heck were you thinking? I mean, how does someone drop a camera into cake batter? Have fun explaining that one!

Pour in Coca Cola.

Bring this to a boil, then remove from heat.

Add Confectioner’s Sugar. Stir well until there are no lumps. I use a wire whisk for this.

Remove cake from oven. Pour hot icing over hot cake.

1 package plain white cake mix

½ cup buttermilk (Or substitute 1/2 C whole milk with a T of lemon juice stirred in)

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.

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.

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, This has to be one of my all time favorite cakes! It brings back so many memories from the days (1972) we lived in Midwest City, OK. My husband was Air Force and we were far away from home (Florida). We became close friends with the Pittman family while stationed there and Mrs. Pittman became a second mom to us. One time when we were going on leave, Mrs. Pittman made a “coca cola” cake and sent it with us to munch on as we traveled to visit family in Ohio. We had never had a coca cola cake but fell in love with it. Every time I make one or see the recipe, it brings back fond memories of Mrs. Pittman. I have recently found her daughter on Facebook and was so excited to find her after all these years! So, thank you for providing a memory from my past today! So glad your camera survived the “fall”!

I have made the cake and trying to get up the ambition to make the Coke Pie.

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!

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

This icing is also GREAT on brownies. Just use a family size box of brownie mix. Make and bake as directed. Poke holes in the brownies…make the icing and pour over brownies. Put in fridge till icing is set well…YUMMMMMMMY

Well, Christie – about that camera………..I imagine it is long gone now but you could have done what I tried once – it was an accident, I promise. I was loading the washer, decided to add the slacks I had on, forgetting that my phone was in the pocket. It came out nice and clean – and wet. I thought I’d ruined it, but my grandson took out the battery and left it lay open on a towel on top of the dryer – it’s still working just fine!!! Would have gotten rid of the cake batter, too, I’ll betcha. Modern miracles – and kids who know what to do, huh???

Oh, Christy, What memories you have stirred up!!! I made my first Coca-Cola Cake as a newlywed in Alaska over 40 years ago!!!!! Thanks for bringing back some sweet memories!! Girl you rock! So glad you are human like the rest of us and admit your (additions?) to the recipe….I love it!!!

Christy, Have you tried the orange soda cake where you just pour the soda (or coke?) into the yellow cake mix, bake and frost with Cool Whip and mandarin oranges? My friend told me about it, but I haven’t tried it yet. Your Coca Cola cake is a keeper, I’ll try it in August when my niece gets married on the beach at Sanibel and we all go back to her father’s condo for refreshments.