Recipe: Coca-Cola Cake
Posted by starwoodgal on February 11, 2009
Another family favorite! This is a close relative of a Traditional Mississippi Mud Cake, but a little lighter in texture. Perfect for treating your Sweetie to sweets for Valentines Day.
Coca-Cola Cake
Ingredients
1 cup Coca-Cola
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
Coca-Cola Frosting (instructions below)
Garnish: 3/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
Preparation
Combine Coca-Cola and buttermilk; set aside.
Beat butter at low speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar; beat until blended. Add egg and vanilla; beat at low speed until blended.
Combine flour, cocoa, and soda. Add to butter mixture alternately with cola mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended.
Stir in marshmallows. Pour batter into a greased and floured 13- x 9-inch pan. Bake at 350° for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven; cool 10 minutes. Pour Coca-Cola Frosting over warm cake; garnish, if desired.
Coca-Cola Frosting:
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup Coca-Cola
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 (16-ounce) package powdered sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Preparation
Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil in a large saucepan over medium heat, stirring until butter melts. Remove from heat; whisk in sugar and vanilla.
Y’all Enjoy!
Mental P Mama said
Yum!
Debra Rector said
This is the strangest conncoction of ingredients. But it sounds delicious! Living in the Coca-Cola capitol of the world, I may have to give this a try.