Old Fashioned Coca-Cola Cake Recipe (A Southern Classic!) (2024)

FAQs

What is Coca Cola cake made of? ›

Ingredients for Coca-Cola Cake

For the frosting, you'll need: Coca-Cola, butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and salt. For the cake: all-purpose flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, Coca-Cola, oil, buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla.

When baking with cake mix, you don't need to use eggs, oil or even water! You just need a can of soda pop. The carbon dioxide bubbles in soda pop act as a leavening agent — the element that makes baked goods rise and makes them light and fluffy.

A boxed cake prepared with a can of soda instead of eggs will potentially have a slightly different texture depending on your altitude, mixing level, and other factors; expect it to be a little denser. A can of prepared frosting works to top off these cakes, or try some of our favorite frosting recipes.

Mix one box of cake mix with one 12 oz (255 ml) can of soda. Pour into a greased glass baking dish. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 30-40 minutes (depends on the cake mix/soda combination). Make sure not to touch it until it's cool.

A can of soda and a box of cake mix can create an easy, delicious dessert. Call it a hack, a shortcut, or a super simple "recipe," but combining a 12-ounce can of soda and a standard box of cake mix is like a magic trick.

Baking soda and baking powder are both leaveners made from a chemical called sodium bicarbonate. When sodium bicarbonate is combined with an acid, it produces a gas (carbon dioxide, C02, the same gas we exhale when we're breathing) that lifts cakes, cookies or other baked goodies while they're in the oven.

Use of baking soda while baking or making cake, makes the cake taste bitter due to the formation of Sodium carbonate during heating. Hence, to neutralize the formed sodium carbonate and its bitter taste, we use tartaric acid. As an acid tartaric acid neutralizes the base effect of Sodium bicarbonate.

Release of the carbon dioxide gas - the gas that forms the bubbles in the drink when it is opened - causes the cake to rise and develop a lower density and lighter texture that distinguishes cakes from brownies or cookies. I would expect a cake with Sprite added to be somewhat less dense than a standard cake.

Adding an acidic ingredient like 7Up or carbonated water will neutralize some baking soda and produce carbon dioxide. In addition, both 7Up and carbonated water also provide their own carbon dioxide to the cake batter.

Why is it called a 7UP cake? ›

For cooking and ingredient purposes, the 7-Up used in the recipe for 7-Up Cake serves as the substitute for baking soda in the batter of this moist pound cake and additional 7-Up is used for the liquid and flavor agent in the glaze ingredients.

Placing baking soda in a hot oven will transform it from sodium bicarbonate into sodium carbonate, a stronger alkaline salt.

It's important not to use too much baking soda in recipes, as it can result in a metallic, soapy flavor. It is much more powerful than baking powder – you only need about 1/4 teaspoon baking soda per cup of flour to leaven baked goods.

Using too much baking soda or baking powder can really mess up a recipe, causing it to rise uncontrollably and taste terrible. But don't freak out if you accidentally poured too much baking soda in cookie dough or added too much baking powder to cake batter. Depending on the situation, you might be able to fix it.

Coca Cola cake originated in the South in the 1950s and quickly became the go to dessert for every celebration. It is unclear as to who created the recipe but that has not stopped it from becoming a Southern tradition. Coca Cola cake is a slight adaptation of the Texas Sheet Cake, another Southern classic.

The flavor of the soda will be most pronounced when you use a vanilla or yellow cake; the soda flavor is more subtle in a stronger-flavored cake such as chocolate. Here are a few suggestions: Vanilla cake + root beer = Root Beer Float Cake. Vanilla cake + orange soda = Orange Creamsicle Cake.

Historians have found newspaper articles to confirm that using cola in cake recipes originated in the Southern United States. The earliest reference to a Coca-Cola Cake recipe appears in 1950's Cookbooks and was brought to the forefront again in the 1990's.

Cake pops are the most delightful little treats, and are so so delicious! They're basically cake mixed with frosting, which is then rolled into little balls and coated with chocolate – YUM! Cake pops can seem intimidating at first, but I promise you they are one of the easiest things to make once you get a hang of it!