All Germans who ate my Coca-Cola Cake agreed: it’s very very sweet. And very American.
Coca-Cola Cake
Preheat oven to 350F/175C (while heating toast 1 cup (0.24l) chopped pecans in oven for Coca-Cola Icing, see below)
Combine: 1 cup (225g) butter, 2 cups (220g) flour, 3/4ths cup (170g) sugar, 3 TBS Cocoa, 1 TSP Buttermilk, 1 TSP baking soda, and 2 eggs. Mix.
Then add 1 cup (0.24l) Coca-Cola. Mix
Fold in 1.5 cups (0.35l) mini-marshmallows.
Bake in 9×13 baking pan until tooth pick comes out clean–approximately 40-45 minutes. (I did two 8″ round pans, which worked fine and took less time.)
Coca-Cola Icing
Combine 0.5 cup (112g) butter with 3 TBS cocoa, 1/3 cup (0.08l) Coke, and 4 cups (I used 500g) confectioner’s sugar. Once smooth, add toasted pecans.
Frost cake while cool, but before it gets too cold.
Credits
I found the Coca-Cola Cake with Coca-Cola Icing in the guide to Key Ingredients: America by Food. It was contributed by Lynabel Crowne of LaFayette, Georgia, who has been using the recipe for more than 25 years.
It tasted quite good. Just the amount of sugar I needed this winter…
I think I am getting a cavity just thinking about your Coca Cola Cake 🙂
I sent this to my boss in the US, who used to work for Coke. She’s quite enamoured with the recipe and told me that there’s even a Coke Cookbook! I’ll have to get a copy of that… It must be the most bizarre cookbook on the planet! 🙂
Prashanth – Glad to know I was of service!
PseudoWife – you should be making this for your office. I bet it would be a hit!
Emily – I’m familiar enough with southern cooking to not be all that surprised that there’s a Coke Cookbook–even as the notion of an entire cookbook filled with recipes incorporating Coca-Cola repulses me.
I have a Twinkie cookbook, which has a lot of great recipes, even though it seems like an odd concept. Coke seems like an odd choice to have a cookbook, but maybe after I saw the recipes, I might think different.