2 Ingredient Chocolate Coke Cake
Okay so one of the two ingredients is cake mix, but this is still pretty amazing. Who knew that Coca Cola had so many uses? Mix it with chocolate cake mix, and you get this very fluffy and fudgy chocolate cake. So easy and so good.
I’ve made two ingredient chocolate cake before with pumpkin puree. It was fudgy but also dense and a little too plain for me and not something I particularly loved. But this cake I would make again.
I got the idea from a recipe for Dr. Pepper brownies I saw on The Novice Chef. I wanted to make it but with coke because I don’t like Dr. Pepper. I was all set to make it, when I realized I was out of boxed brownie mix. Eeek. So then I thought, what if I tried using cake mix instead?
I re-read The Novice Chef’s post for clues. She described the brownie texture and being cakey and fudgy so I figured it should work with cake mix. Also she mentioned that her mom used to make a cake with just diet coke and cake mix. And that made me want to make it with Coke and cake mix only.
After I made this, I did some more research and found out there is a popular Weight Watchers’ recipe that uses diet coke and cake mix. I don’t know if it tastes the same with diet coke, but I am really happy with the regular coke cake.
My only issue is that because you don’t use any eggs, there’s no binding agent. So the cake fell apart easily. Great for eating on your own, not as great for serving. Next time I might try adding an egg, or baking it into cupcake liners so I don’t have to deal with cutting the cake which is messy because so many crumbs fall off.
I would definitely make this again and am thrilled to find a new use for cake mix and for coke.
Two ingredient Chocolate Coke Cake
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 45 mins
Ingredients:
1 box of chocolate cake mix
1 (12 oz) can of coca colaDirections:
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Pour cake mix and can of coke into a large bowl and mix until there are no lumps in the batter. It may be easier to use a mixer because it took me a while to get out all the lumps with a hand whisk.
2. Line a 9 x 13 inch pan with parchment paper. Pour batter into pan. Bake for approximately 35 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Cool before cutting. Cake crumbs do fall apart easily so cut carefully with a sharp knife. You can also bake into individual cupcake liners to make it less messy.
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Iris — May 21, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
Hahaha this sounds awesome! Minimal mess/clean up and a great excuse to horde it all to yourself.
Kirbie replied: — May 21st, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
It’s kind of dangerous…hehe
RP — May 21, 2012 @ 4:29 pm
Looks delicious and so easy! Could you taste the coke flavor in the cake?
Kirbie replied: — May 22nd, 2012 @ 8:27 am
No I didn’t taste the coke flavor in the cake at all.
torviewtoronto — May 21, 2012 @ 6:55 pm
delicious looking cake
Kirbie replied: — May 22nd, 2012 @ 8:28 am
It was delicious!
Karen — January 23, 2013 @ 4:07 pm
I was looking for mug cakes and stumbled on this. I has a yellow cake and orange soda. Was great together. Just a subtle orange taste. Also had no frosting so sprinkled granulated sugar on top before baking. So easy and my guys really liked it. Said I could make it again! Thanks for posting my idea starter.
Kirbie replied: — January 24th, 2013 @ 9:37 am
Nice! What an interesting combination too.