Recipes Made with Cake Mixes
Old-Fashioned Cola Cake
Yield: 20 servings
Ingredients
Cake
- Vegetable oil spray
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 (18.25 ounce) box plain white cake mix*
- 2 large eggs
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup cola
Cola Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/3 cup cola
- 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup pecans
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly mist a 9 x 13-inch pan with vegetable oil spray.
- Cake: In large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, cocoa powder, melted butter, cola, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla extract. Blend with electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Stop machine and scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula. Increase mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more, scraping sides down again if needed. Batter should look well blended.
- Fold in marshmallows.
- Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing it out with rubber spatula.
- Bake cake until it springs back when lightly pressed with finger and just starts to pull away from sides of pan, 40 to 42 minutes.
- Remove pan from oven; place it on wire rack to cool 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare frosting. Pour frosting over top of cake, spreading it out with rubber spatula so it reaches edges of cake.
- Cool cake for 20 minutes before serving.
- Store cake, covered in aluminum foil (room temperature) for up to 1 week. Or freeze it, wrapped in foil, for up to 6 months.
- Thaw cake overnight on counter before serving.
- Cola Frosting: In medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. As butter melts, stir in cocoa powder and cola. Let mixture just begin to boil, stirring constantly, then remove it from heat.
- Stir in powdered sugar until frosting is thickened and smooth.
- Fold in chopped pecans.
Notes
* 18.25 ounce boxes of cake mix have been replaced by 16.5 ounce and 15.25 ounce boxes. To compensate for the volume loss in a 16 ounce box, whisk 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour into the dry cake mix before proceeding with the recipe. To compensate for the volume loss in a 15.25 ounce box, add 1/2 cup + 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder.
Attribution
Posted by Annette at Recipe Goldmine on 9/30/2001, 10:06 am.