today on sugar's fun run i'm sharing a
recipe for coca-cola cake hey sugarspun
bakers sam here and today i am so
excited to be sharing another carefully
tested well-researched and perfected
recipe today's recipe is my take on the
classic coca-cola cake we are going to
be using two cans of coke let's go ahead
and get started for today's recipe
you'll want to start by getting your
oven preheated to 350 degrees fahrenheit
but today's recipe actually begins over
on the stovetop you will want to use a
medium sized saucepan preferably one
that has a lip like this one does it's
going to make pouring a lot easier which
is something you're going to have to do
and into this saucepan we are going to
add one cup of unsalted butter and
because we're going to be melting
everything i want to just cut up the
butter into pieces just to encourage it
to melt a little bit faster
now along with the butter we're going to
be adding one 12 ounce can of coke
coca-cola
and we'll add one-half cup of natural
unsweetened cocoa powder now for this
recipe i do not recommend using dutch
processed cocoa powder because while
this cake really only has a very subtle
coca-cola flavor to it if you use dutch
processed you are just going to end up
with a very strong chocolate flavor
instead and we want to go a little bit
lighter on the chocolate flavor in this
cake in this cake particularly you won't
hear me say that very often now turn
your stovetop heat to medium and we are
just going to whisk everything together
until the butter is completely melted
now once that butter is melted i like to
bring this mixture to a quick boil and
once we do have a nice boil going like
we do here we'll just remove this from
our heat and we'll set it aside we don't
need it right now and we are going to
move over to our dry ingredients now i
have two cups of all-purpose flour
already measured out and i'm going to be
adding 1 and 3 4 cup of granulated sugar
2 tablespoons of corn starch one and a
half teaspoons of baking soda a teaspoon
of baking powder and a teaspoon of salt
we'll just whisk all of these
ingredients together until they're
really well combined okay so hopefully
your saucepan mixture has had a little
bit of time to cool down we'll go ahead
and grab that now and we'll add this to
our flour mixture and i'm gonna try to
pour this facing you but my arms just
don't work that way
make sure you get all of that chocolate
mixture out of there i don't want to
leave any behind now just stir these
ingredients together until you have a
nice smooth batter make sure you're
scraping the sides and bottom of your
bowl that's always really important
anytime you're making a cake or just
about anything next thing you're going
to need is 3 4 cup of sour cream
we'll also add two large eggs i do
prefer these to be at room temperature
and a teaspoon of vanilla extract and
once again we want to stir everything
together until it's really well combined
you want a nice smooth batter so today
we're going to be baking this in a 13 by
9 inch baking dish and before i add the
cake even though we're going to be
serving it in the pan i do like to
lightly grease this with a little bit of
baking spray i don't like a lot of that
baking spray in there so i just like to
use a paper towel to just kind of smear
it around that way we only have a light
coating all right now just pour your
batter into the prepared cake pan and
it's a pretty thin batter some of my
cakes have a really dense batter today's
does not
and we'll take this over to our
preheated oven where it's going to need
to bake now most often i make this cake
in a metal pan typically that takes
about 28 to 30 minutes in a metal pan
today i'm using this light colored
ceramic pan and it can take about 35 to
40 minutes to bake either way you bake
the cake the best way to test whether or
not it is finished baking is to do the
toothpick test which means we're just
going to take a toothpick and insert it
in the center of the cake now ideally
the toothpick will come out with a few
moist crumbs or it will come out dry
like today's did that's how you know
that it's done now while the cake is
cooling we can prepare our frosting
unlike many cake recipes this frosting
can be poured on while the cake is still
warm which is really nice to make
today's frosting we are going to need to
head back to the stove top and you're
going to need to grab yourself a medium
sized saucepan again now for the
frosting you are going to need a 12
ounce can of coca-cola now because we
want to get as much of the soda flavor
into the frosting as we possibly can
what we're going to do is reduce it so
we're going to cook out a lot of the
water to make the flavor more potent so
we're starting with a 12 ounce can the
12 ounce can is about one and a half
cups what we're going to do is we're
going to cook this over medium or
medium-high heat we're going to bring it
to a boil and we're just going to cook
it until this mixture has been reduced
we want to reduce it until it is between
one-third and one-half cup of coca-cola
i know i keep saying coca-cola a lot but
i feel like youtube's going to end up
falsely flagging my channel if i just
keep talking about coke so how long this
takes to reduce is really going to
depend on your stove top for me i feel
like it usually takes around 7 to 10
minutes and you just want to check that
it has reduced properly by pouring it
into a measuring cup and making sure you
are between the one-third and one-half
line this is looking pretty good so i'm
just going to pour that back in my
saucepan because we're not done here and
i'm going to add one half cup of butter
and i have cut this into about
tablespoon sized pieces and the smart
thing to do would have been to put the
butter in first and then add the coke
back in because i just splattered it
everywhere now this is unsalted butter
and i'm also going to add 1 4 teaspoon
of salt but if you just want to use
salted butter that would be fine here as
well now we'll just cook this over
medium heat until the butter is melted
and i do like to stir it occasionally
and once your butter is melted we'll
remove this from heat and we are going
to add three tablespoons of natural
unsweetened not dutch processed cocoa
powder and we'll whisk this in until
it's nicely combined and smooth
i also have four cups of powdered sugar
we'll add this as well and you can add
it all at once oh but maybe do it a
little bit more gradually so you don't
make a mess since my second one today
now whisk this together until the sugar
is completely absorbed and you have a
nice smooth
frosting now immediately we are going to
pour this over our cake and like i said
if the cake is still warm that's great
that's not a problem at all once again
i'm trying to pour this so you can see
the frosting instead of just the bottom
of the saucepan now we'll just smooth
this over the surface of the cake
and now all that's left to do is wait
for the cake and the frosting to cool
completely before digging in or you can
serve it while it's still a little bit
warm with some vanilla ice cream that is
also pretty delicious all right let's go
ahead and dig in would be nice if i knew
how to cut a straight line one day one
day corner piece is always so tricky to
get out but we did it
and that is how you make my take on
coca-cola cake i really think you're
going to love this recipe i can't wait
for you to try it out at home and if you
do please let me know what you think i
always love hearing from you thank you
guys so much for watching and i'll see
you next time
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