Cocoa-Cola Cake
Created by LilyInTheValley on June 22, 2013
- Servings: 12
- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 30-35m
- Recipe #9910
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter, soft
- 1 cup Coke cola (not diet and no generics use the real Coke cola)
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups mini marshmallows (or more)
- COLA FROSTING
- 1/3 cup butter, soft
- 1 3/4 to 2 cups confectioners sugar (as needed)
- 2 tablespoon baking cocoa
- 1/4 cup Coke cola (or as you needed)
- 1/2 cup pecans chopped and toasted
- 1/2 cup tiny marshmallows, pastel-colored (optional)
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
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Step 2: In large bowl, stir together flour and granulated sugar. Set aside.
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Step 3: TO MAKE CAKE: In medium saucepan, combine butter, cola, and cocoa powder. Cook and stir over medium heat until butter melts. Pour over flour mixture. Add eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, and vanilla; mix well. Stir in marshmallows. Pour into prepared baking pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on wire rack.
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Step 4: TO MAKE FROSTING: In medium bowl, beat 1/3 cup soft butter with electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Slowly add 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, beating until combined. Add 1/4 cup cola, beating until combined. If necessary, beat in additional confectioners sugar and cola if needed to make frosting easy to spread.
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Step 5: Spread Cocoa-Cola Frosting over cake. Sprinkle with pecans and marshmallows, if desired.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (171.7 g)
- Calories 613.7
- Total Fat - 27.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 15 g
- Cholesterol - 82.5 mg
- Sodium - 316.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 91.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.2 g
- Sugars - 71.6 g
- Protein - 4.4 g
- Calcium - 29.7 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg