Food and Recipes Desserts Cakes Layer Cakes Coca Cola Chocolate Cake Recipe 3.8 (4) 4 Reviews Coca-Cola cake was a favorite at family reunions during the 1950s. We topped out Coca-Cola cake with white sugar pearls for a fun and fizzy look, but they are completely optional. By Pam Lolley Pam Lolley Pam Lolley developed and tested recipes for Southern Living Magazine in the Souths most trusted Test Kitchen for 19 years. She worked closely with the editors planning and packaging stories, collaborating with art and photo teams on food styling and recipe reproduction to ensure reader satisfaction, content quality control, and recipe authenticity history and cooking. Her area of expertise was baking and and pastry development and she acted as the point person for these areas in the Test Kitchen. With 30+ years of experience in the culinary field, Pam created and tested 1000s of recipes for Southern Living. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Published on July 5, 2019 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Active Time: 35 mins Total Time: 2 hrs 10 mins Yield: 12 serves Coca-Cola cake was a favorite at family reunions during the 1950s. It resembles Mississippi mud cake, a chocolate sheet cake studded with marshmallows that are sprinkled on the top before baking or immediately after while the cake is still hot. In Mama's Tea Cakes: 101 Delicious Soul Food Desserts, chef and author Wilbert Jones stirred the marshmallows into the batter before putting his version of the cake in the oven. If that wasn't decadent enough, in 1997, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain used twice the cocoa, intensifying the taste. Their rendition was called Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake. —Toni Tipton-Martin Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans 1 1/2 cups (9 oz.) semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup butter, softened 3 large eggs 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 (8-oz.) container sour cream 1 cup cola soft drink (such as Coca-Cola) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Fudgy Coca Cola Cake Frosting Assorted sizes of white sugar pearls Directions Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 2 (9-inch) round baking pans with cooking spray; dust with flour. Microwave chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl on MEDIUM (50%) until melted and smooth, about 2 minutes, stopping to stir every 30 seconds. Beat granulated sugar, brown sugar, and butter with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium speed until well blended, about 4 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until just blended after each addition. Add melted chocolate, beating until just blended. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating on low speed until just blended after each addition. Place cola in a microwavable cup; microwave on HIGH until hot, about 45 seconds. Gradually add cola to flour-butter mixture in a slow, steady stream, beating on low speed until just blended. Beat in vanilla. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center of cakes comes out clean, 33 to 36 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans. Transfer to wire racks, and cool completely, about 1 hour. Spread Fudgy Cola Frosting between cake layers and on top and sides of cake. Garnish with sugar pearls. Rate it Print