Coca-cola Cake

I made a coca-cola cake today out of a Nigella Lawson cookbook, the domestic goddess one. And it was fantastic!!!
Its just a chocolate cake but it has the texture of brownies.YUMMY!!

Now you can't just going saying that and not share the recipe Sal!! Sounds divine.

can we please have recipe please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG me too I would love the recipe!!!

share!

would it make good cupcakes? DH takes cupcakes to work all the time... we make in bulk and freeze them..

Yum that sounds devine.

Yep, me three.....
Has anyone tried the Nigella Coca Cola boiled ham?
I have the recipe but have always wanted to meet someone who has actually made it.

i had "house mates" at uni who used coke to cook chicken all the time - they loved it - i was never brave enough to try it!

just told dh and he wants one please can you share the recipe

Sal! :o That's just RUDE. Share share share!

And on the subject of coke, I've heard of people using it in their slow cooker recipes, I think to help tenderise meat or something?

Oooooh the coke cake! Marc wants me to do the coke ham, but I haven't got around to it. But my gf did it for last christmas and it was great!

Coke gives a beautiful spiciness that makes it taste great

We've done the chicken in coke in the slow cooker and it was yummo ;)
Luke was asking me yesterday if I could make it with Vanilla Coke next time! Tried to explain that its not the flavour so much but what the coke does when it cooks... the logic of a 10yr old sometimes is too hard to oppose though... so next time we cook with Vanilla coke ;)

OK girls.... now its time to post both recipes, thanks :D

Cai - would LOVE your recipe for the coke in ham, and Sal... you'd better post the cake one before we all coming looking for you :lol:

Stop talking about cake lol!!

Please post the recipee Sal so i can make it before this one makes his entrance!

Did some searching and found the recipee

Coca Cola Cake

1 1/3 Cups flour
3/4 Cup plus 1 Tbs sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 large egg
1/2 Cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup unsalted butter
2 Tbs cocoa powder
3/4 Cup Coca-Cola
8 or 9 inch springform pan lined with foil to prevent the batter leaking, then greased

Preheat the oven to 350 F and put in a baking sheet at the same time.

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Beat the egg, buttermilk, and vanilla in a measuring cup. In a heavy bottomed saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola, heating gently. Pour into the dry ingredients, stir well with a wooden spoon, and then add the liquid ingredients, beating until everything is blended.

Pour into the prepared pan and bake on the warm sheet for 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Leave to stank for 15 minutes in the pan before unmolding. Then unclip, unwrap and turn out onto a wire rack, making sure you 've got a sheet of newspaper or something underneath the rack to catch any icing that drips through.

Icing:
1 1/2 Cups Confectioners sugar
2 tbs butter
3 tbs Coca-Cola
1 Tbs cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla

Sift the confectioners sugar and set aside for the moment. In a heavy bottomed saucepan combine the butter, Coca-Cola, and cocoa and stir over a low heat until the butter has melted. Remove from he heat, add the vanilla, and spoon in the sifted sugar, beating as you do so, until you've got a good, spreadable, but still runny icing.

Pour this icing over the cake, while the cake is stillw arm and leave till cool before transferring to the plate on which your serving it.

I would assume that confetioners sugar would be icing sugar. I hope this is the same recipee, either way it sounds devine

Thanks Mrs B26.... It sound yummo....

But as I am NOT a cook whats Butter milk and could I just use normal milk :redface:


I remember someone on either Ellen or The View made this a few mths ago and said to make slices into the cake before icing it ( P***k it with a knife or fork all over ) as this way the runny icing seeps into the cake aswell...

i googled something about the coke cake last night (very impatient) and apparently if you have no buttermilk you can substitute a bit of low fat milk with lemon juice - not sure the ratio, but maybe google it...

You can buy buttermilk in the dairy section of most supermarkets. I have done the lemon juice thing beofore and it worked fine, i have also just used regular milk, but buttermilk gives a yummy texture and slightly different flavour.

Thanks for finding the recipe MRSB26. And yep confectioners sugar is icing sugar. ;)

If you look up the Coca Cola website they have recipes all made with coke, was looking at them lastnight!!!