I love chocolate cake. I love making it and eating it. Just the perfect comfort food I think.
Years ago I found a recipe which incorporates cola into the cake batter which makes for a moist and light cake. I cannot recall where I saw this recipe, but I have made it a few times and this is how I make it. Chocolate Cola Cake really is scrummy and very easy to make.
Serves 12
Ingredients
250g unsalted butter
200ml cola drink
250g self raising flour
50g cocoa powder
250g caster sugar
2 eggs, beaten
200ml milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
Method
Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC fan
Grease and line an 8 inch losse bottomed cake tin
Place the butter and cola in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter is melted
Mean while place all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl and pour in the beaten egg, milk and vanilla essence.
Once the cola and butter have melted, add to the other ingredients and mix well at a gentle pace for a couple of minutes
Pour into the tin and cook in the oven for approx 45-55 minutes until cooked all the way through
Leave to cool completely before removing from the tin
You can serve the cake like this and it is tasty enough ,however, if you fancy being really indulgent why not add a
Chocolate Cola Topping
To make this you will need
3 tbsp cola
1 tbsp full fat cream cheese
2 tbsp chocolate spread
few marshmallows
Method
Add the marshallows to the sauce and mix well – dont worry about lumps it is nice to have the gooey soft texture when you eat it with the cake
Once cooled and removed from the tin, simply pour the sauce over the cake and enjoy mmmmmmmm 🙂
The cake is light, soft and moist with a crunchy top. The sauce makes it a bit like a warm chocolate fudge cake when the frosting has become a sauce. It is delicious. Really very yummy indeed!
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I can vouch for how yummy it is. Am going to pin this and try. Thanks Jenny and for bringing me my one too.
Yum! Might have to try this 🙂
Yummy looks and sounds delicious
oooh that looks nice
I’m so making this. Thank you so much for posting the recipe lovely x
Now that does sound gorgeous – love moist cakes.
cola cake? wow! i think my hubby will really enjoy this cake!
wow thanks! deffo making this 😉
I have blacked out and woken in chocolate heaven and there’s cola – what’s not to love? You might have persuaded me to bake Jenny 🙂
I was given this recipe 5 years ago by a woman I met at a VW show – and I’d totally forgotten about it. I think I might know what’s for pudding tomorrow 😀
Cooking a cake with Coca cola?!? Has to be worth a try – it looks so delicious too!
I really just want to lick that cake!! Looks delicious, never tried coca cola, yet!
We’ve made this tonight, and by gum I can’t wait for dessert….my house smells gorgeous and it looks fantastic. Thank you for the prompt and the recipe! 🙂
For someone who is OBSESSED with diet coke and who is obsessed with chocolate- this sounds like an amazing combination. I may have to break my ‘not much baking’ rule and give it a go. It looks so yummy. x
i am so pleased you have made one!!! i hope it didn’t disappoint x
do it do it do it!!!!! enjoy x
oh it is delicious and ever so naughty but oh so nice x
it is very good!! x
please try it x
yaaay i hope you like it x
yes and you should try it – sooooo nice x
it is very moist x
yaaaaay! let me know what you think when you do x
tastes nice too x x
ohhh yes x
please do x
thank you Fiona x
Wow I want to dive right in-never used cola in cooking before, will have to try now! Yum! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays too! x
P.S Do add the badge too if you can x
It certainly did not! :oP x
This looks really really yummy. I was trying to avoid this post as I’m trying to diet but I gave in to temptation.
I think it’s Nigella who has had a recipe with cola in a cake before xx
I have got to make this!!
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