Favourite Coca Cola Cake
Submitted by Mary007
Coca Cola cake, a moist, fudgy chocolate cake with cola whisked into both the batter and the glossy poured frosting. The fizz keeps the crumb tender while a warm cocoa icing sinks right in.
YIELD
16 servingsPREP
25 minCOOK
50 minREADY
75 minCoca-Cola cake is a Southern potluck legend, and this one earns its place: a dark, fudgy chocolate cake where cola goes into both the batter and the frosting.
The soda isn’t a gimmick. Its acidity reacts with the bicarbonate of soda to give the cake lift, while its sugar and bubbles keep the crumb remarkably moist and tender.
The method is a melt-and-mix one, no creaming required. You melt butter into the cola, stir in milk, then whisk that warm liquid into the cocoa-spiked dry ingredients for a smooth, pourable batter.
The real trick comes at the end. A hot frosting of butter, cola, cocoa, and icing sugar is poured over the cake while both are still warm, so it soaks into the top and sets into a glossy, fudge-like layer.
Leave it to cool right in the tin and you get a chocolate cake that’s almost brownie-dense and deeply moist.
Pro Tips
- Don’t let the cola-butter mixture boil; gentle heat keeps the batter from seizing.
- Whisk the warm liquid into the dry ingredients quickly, then stop, since overmixing toughens the cake.
- Pour the frosting over the cake while both are warm so it absorbs and glazes.
- Wait until it’s fully cool before slicing so the frosting sets.
Variations
- Stir mini marshmallows or chopped pecans into the warm frosting, Southern-style.
- Use cherry cola for a subtle fruity note.
- Swap half the cola in the cake for strong coffee to deepen the chocolate.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Grease a 24cm loose-bottomed cake tin.
Sift the flour into a bowl. Mix in the bicarbonate of soda, cocoa powder and sugar.
Stir in the eggs and vanilla extract.
Put the butter in a saucepan and melt over gentle heat.
Add the cola to the butter and stir to mix, making sure mixture does not boil. Stir in the milk and remove from the heat.
Quickly whisk the cola mixture into the dry ingredients. Mix gently but thoroughly.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Leave to cool in the tin for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the frosting. Sift the icing sugar into a bowl.
Put the butter in a saucepan and melt over gentle heat.
Stir in the cola and cocoa powder.
Bring the mixture to the boil, then pour it over the icing sugar.
Beat until smooth.
With the cake still in the tin, pour the frosting over it and leave in the tin until completely cool.
Comments
this sounds so delicious