This Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Recipe is one of the most unique and heavenly cakes ever!! Why wouldn’t Coca-Cola and chocolate as ingredients not make it perfect? This Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake is made with a lot of butter and fantastic homemade icing.
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If you haven’t noticed, I have a bit of an obsession with using Coca-Cola in savory recipes and decided it was time to try it out as a dessert! I had a friend who knows of my obsession with cooking with Coca-Cola loan me a Cooking with Coca-Cola cookbook; she said this was the best cake ever!! Now to warn you, this is fully loaded with calories! And as you can see, the kids were dying to get a taste of it!
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Ingredients:
- Butter– Either salted butter or unsalted butter will work for this. You will want the butter to be softened, so I leave mine out of the fridge the night before.
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Flour
- Buttermilk– I make mine most of the time, take two cups of milk and add two Tablespoons of white vinegar and allow it to set for a bit.
- Baking Soda
- Cocoa Powder
- Cinnamon
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Icing Ingredients:
- Butter– Either salted butter or unsalted butter will work for this. You will want the butter to be softened, so I leave mine out of the fridge the night before.
- Coca-Cola
- Cocoa Powder
- Vanilla
- Powdered Sugar
- Optional Pecans
How to make Coca-cola Chocolate Cake
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour an 11×17-inch pan or roasting pan. I did use a Pyrex 4.8 Quart pan; next time, I will leave some of the batters out as it still overflowed a bit.
Combine the flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and sugar in a mixing bowl, and set aside.
Heat the butter with the cups of Coca-Cola in a low-heat pan on the stove until the butter has melted.
Next, add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk to the butter and Coca-Cola mixture, be sure to mix well.
Add the Coca-Cola liquid mixture to the dry ingredients and beat until mixed well.
Pour batter into the baking pan
Bake for 30 minutes.
(You could make two tube pans baked for 60 minutes or 24 cupcakes for 15 minutes.)
How To Make Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Icing:
In a saucepan, heat together the butter and Coca-Cola. Be sure not to boil.
Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well.
Pour icing over the cake. You must ice this cake warm!
Serve and enjoy!!
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Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Ingredients
- 4 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 8 Tablespoon Baking Cocoa
- 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 Tablespoon Salt
- 2 Tablespoon Baking Soda
- 4 Cups Sugar
- 4 Sticks Butter
- 4 Eggs
- 1 Cup Buttermilk
- 4 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 Cups Coca-Cola
Coca Cola Chocolate Cake Icing Ingredients
- 1 Stick Butter
- 1/2 Cup Coca Cola
- 6 Tablespoon Baking Cocoa
- 2 Teaspoon Vanilla
- 16 Ounce Powdered Sugar
Instructions
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease and flour an 11×17 inch pan or roasting pan. I did use a Pyrex 4.8 Quart pan next time I will leave some of the batter out as it still overflowed a bit.
- Combine the flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and sugar in a mixing bowl, and set aside.
- In a pan on the stove at low heat, heat the butter with the cups of Coca-Cola until the butter has melted.
- Next add eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk to the butter and butter mixture and mix well.
- Add the Coca-Cola liquid mixture into the dry ingredients and beat until mixed well.
- Pour batter into the baking pan and bake for 30 minutes. (You could make 2 tube pans baked for 60 minutes or 24 cupcakes baked for 15 minutes.)
Coca-Cola Chocolate Cake Icing Directions
- In a saucepan, heat together the butter and Coca-Cola. Be sure not to boil.
- Add in the remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Pour icing over the cake. You must ice this cake warm!
Jamie says
Yum – that cake sounds amazing!
Amberjane says
Looks divine Jenny
Leslie Crosbie says
Pop & chocolate!! 2 of my favorites, only question…can I use Pepsi instead???
Jenny says
I would imagine so but it might change the flavoring of the cake.
Melanie says
What about Diet Coke can I use that?
Ashley says
This sounds like heaven!!!
belinda bell says
I have made coke cola cake and they are soooo good
Sherry says
Love the cake! I do like coca cola recipes.
Tracy Robertson says
It looks really good! I would like to see the recipe sized for a 9″x 11″ pan though. I don’t have an 11″ x 17″, and that would be a bit much cake for my household of 2.
Bernice says
is 2 cups of butter correct if each stick half a cup
Jenny says
Yes its that much butter in the cake.
Cheryl Lamb says
I would highly question a TBS. of salt.
Thomas Lehart says
A tablespoon of salt sound a lot.should be a teaspoon.
Mrs. Doll says
I made this cake with Root Beer instead of Coca Cola. I also swapped out the buttermilk for root beer and I halfed the recipe. It made a 11×7 rectangle pan, 2 inches deep, which made 16 pieces of cake. I halfed the frosting as well. I was concerned about spending so much butter on this recipe and halfed it to make sure the recipe was a success before committing to more than a pound of butter. I just took the cake out and my house smells amazing. I am frosting it warm and waiting until tomorrow to cut into it.