Coca-Cola Cake
Bittersweet chocolate will make a deeper chocolate taste, demi-sweet makes a slightly lighter chocolate taste and a bit sweeter cake. The choice is yours, just don't forget the scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Cracker Barrel® Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola® Cake
Cake
1/4 cup butter
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate or bittersweet chocolate
12 ounces Coca-cola
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate or bittersweet chocolate
6 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 - 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup Coca-Cola
Vanilla Ice Cream
Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Set aside.
Melt butter and 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate in microwave on high,for 1 minute stirring every 15 seconds, or in the top of a double boiler over hot water. Stir until smooth.
In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, sugar oil and vanilla. Add mixture to the chocolate mixture. Add Coca-Cola and blend just to incorporate cola.
Add the flour mixture into the chocolate and Coca-Cola mixture. Using an electric mixer, blend on low speed for about 30 seconds. Scrap bowl and mix on medium speed until well combined. Pour batter into a buttered 9x13-inch baking pan and bake cake for 35 to 38 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Frosting:
Melt semi-sweet chocolate in microwave, for about 1 minute, stirring every 15 seconds until the chocolate softens. With an electric mixer cream butter and half of the sugar. Add Chocolate, vanilla and Cocoa-Cola. Mix until smooth. Blend in remaining powdered sugar and unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt. Adjusting the amount of sugar for desired consistency for frosting cake. Mix until frosting is smooth and fluffy. If frosting is too thick add more Coca-Cola a teaspoon at a time until desired consistency. If mixture is too thin, add powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency.
Serve with vanilla ice cream.
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