Food and Recipes Desserts Fudgy Coca Cola Cake Frosting Be the first to rate & review! This delicious frosting is the perfect topper for our Coca-Cola Layer Cake, or any cake for a soda lover. Like a traditional chocolate frosting, it is made with butter, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla, but we added Coca-Cola as well, to add a double dose of the soda's signature warm and spicy flavor. White sugar pearls give the top of the cake 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 3, 2019 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Active Time: 15 mins Total Time: 15 mins Yield: About 3 1/2 cups Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 6 cups unsifted powdered sugar 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5 to 6 tablespoons cola soft drink (such as Coca-Cola), as needed Directions Beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Sift together powdered sugar, cocoa, and salt in a bowl. Stir together vanilla and 5 tablespoons of the cola in a small bowl. Add powdered sugar mixture to butter alternately with vanilla mixture, beginning and ending with powdered sugar mixture, beating on low speed until just blended after each addition. Beat in remaining 1 tablespoon cola to mixture, 1 teaspoon at a time, if needed, until desired consistency is reached. Rate it Print