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Cola Cake

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, medium difficulty, recipes for cake, recipes for dessert, recipes for frosting and icing, recipes using baking soda, recipes using buttermilk, recipes using cocoa powder, recipes using powdered sugar, recipes using white sugar, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACola_Cake)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACola%20Cake&oldid=4517713

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Cake

  • 2 cups (275 g / 9.7 oz) flour
  • 2 cups (450 g / 16 oz) white granulated sugar
  • 1 cup (250 ml / 8.5 oz) cola
  • 2 sticks (250 g / 8.8 oz / 1 cup) margarine
  • 3 tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup (125 ml / 4.2 oz) buttermilk
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cup (125 g / 4.4 oz) miniature marshmallows

Frosting

  • 6 tablespoons cola
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 stick (125 g / 4.4 oz) margarine
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 cups (500 g / 1.1 lb) powdered sugar
  • 1 cup (80 g / 2.8 oz) chopped nuts (optional)

Directions

Cake

  1. Combine flour and sugar in a bowl.
  2. Mix cola, margarine, and cocoa in a saucepan, and bring to a boil.
  3. Pour over flour/sugar mixture and mix well.
  4. Beat the eggs and mix them in. Add milk, soda, vanilla and marshmallows to make thin batter. Marshmallows will float to the surface.
  5. Bake in a 9x13-inch (23x33 cm) pan at 350 °F (177 °C) for 35 minutes. Make frosting before it cools.

Frosting

  1. Mix cola, cocoa, and margarine in a pan and bring to a boil.
  2. Add vanilla, sugar, and nuts. Mix until smooth.
  3. Spread the warm frosting on the cake.