Coke Cake
A delightfully moist chocolate cake with a Texas sheet cake type icing that gets semi-hard and crackly. Each decadent bite melts in your mouth.
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 c sugar
- 2 c flour
- 1 can Coke
- 1/2 c Kerrygold salted butter (1 stick)
- 1/2 c vegetable oil
- 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 c buttermilk
- 2 eggs large
- 1 tsp vanilla
Icing
- 1 can Coke
- 1/2 c Kerrygold salted butter (1 stick) diced
- 1/4 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 c powdered sugar sifted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- For the cake, to a large bowl add sugar, flour and whisk to combine.
- To a medium saucepan add the butter, oil, cocoa powder and coke and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Whisk continuously.
- Once boiling, pour liquid into the bowl of the flour and sugar mixture. Whisk.
- In a liquid measuring cup, measure buttermilk. Add baking soda directly to the buttermilk. Mix.
- Add buttermilk mixture to the batter and whisk.
- Add the eggs and vanilla. Whisk.
- Pour batter to a parchment lined 9x13 pan.
- Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- In the final 15 minutes of baking, make the icing.
- Add Coke to a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook until reduced to 1/2 C. About 12-15 minutes.
- While the coke cooks, sift powdered sugar into a large bowl.
- Once the Coke has reduced lower the heat to medium and add butter and cocoa powder and whisk continuously until the butter has melted.
- Add the Coke mixture to the powdered sugar and whisk until smooth.
- Pour the icing immediately over the warm cake. Allow icing to set for an hour before slicing and serving.
Notes
This recipe is from AverieCooks.com
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