How To Make Coca Cola Cake With Actual Coca Cola

This Coca-Cola Cake recipe comes straight from a handwritten recipe card in my Grandma Blick’s collection. When I saw she had written “Good!” and underlined it on the top corner of the card, I knew I had to try it. No boxed cake mix here, this cake is made from scratch! Since ovens and ingredients have changed slightly since my grandma’s time, I had to make a few adjustments, but the final result is a rich and decadent chocolate cake with hints of everyone’s favorite fizzy drink!

Ingredients in Coca-Cola Cake

Salted Butter – If you don’t have salted butter, then add a pinch of salt to the cake batter. Let the butter sit out on the counter for half an hour to soften. All-Purpose Flour Sugar Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Baking Soda Vanilla Extract Eggs Buttermilk – If you don’t have buttermilk, then you can a tablespoon of lemon juice to a ½ cup. Fill the rest with whole milk and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Use this mixture instead of the buttermilk. Coca-Cola – Do NOT use diet cola. It will not yield the same results.

For the Frosting

Softened Butter Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Coca-Cola – again, NOT diet soda. Powdered Sugar or Confectioners’ Sugar

Variations

We love to serve this simple Coca Cola Cake topped with a maraschino cherry. However, you can also serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You can also use Cherry Coke or Root Beer instead of Coca-Cola. The original recipe had mini marshmallows incorporated in the cake batter, but we did not have success with this addition, so we omitted them. The original recipe also had 1 cup of toasted chopped pecans added to the frosting, so feel free to try that when you make it! Read Next: 33+ Easy Dessert Ideas (with Pictures + Simple Recipes)