This Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake is so good. Crazy good. I love this Coca Cola Cake recipe, and I think you and your family will too!
Not only is this cake delicious, but there are a couple of other reasons why I love making it. First, it’s made in a jelly roll pan or a cookie sheet that has sides (on all sides). As you can imagine, this means that it makes a lot of cake. This makes it perfect when you need to feed a lot of people – whether for a holiday gather, a potluck, or even individually wrapped pieces for a bake sale. Bonus!
Another reason that I think this Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake is the tops is because it gets better a day or two after you bake it. Sure, you can eat it right away, but it will become even more moist the next day. Since I’m often making it for gatherings, it’s so nice to have something that can be made ahead of time.
We also love making this cake, cutting it up, wrapping the individual pieces, and then freezing them to thaw just a few at a time.
Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake Recipe
Want a printable version of this recipe? I’ll share the recipe and directions here, but if you prefer to grab a printable version, just scroll down to the very end of the post (after suggested other posts you might enjoy) where you will see the recipe appear again and you can click on the print button in that box.
Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake Ingredients
Ingredients for Cake:
- 1 cup Coca Cola
- 1/2 cup vegetable/canola oil
- 1 stick butter (= 1/2 cup of butter)
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 cups sugar (white)
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (careful – this is not added in with the other dry ingredients)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ingredients for Frosting:
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons cream, milk, or buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 3/4 cups (3.75 cups) confectioners (powdered) sugar
Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake Directions
Instructions for Making the Cake:
1. In a sauce pan, bring oil, butter and cocoa powder to a boil.
2. Move to a mixing bowl after items in step one have come to a boil.
3. Mix the sugar, flour, and salt. Pour them into the mixture that you just put in the bowl. Beat well.
4. Add in Coca Cola. Blend well.
5. Add eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, and vanilla. Beat well.
6. Pour into a greased and floured sheet cake pan. (I use an approximately 15-inch cookie sheet that has one inch sides. A jelly roll pan is also a great option.)
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes. Plan to frosting the cake shortly after taking the cake out of the oven.
Instructions for Making the Frosting:
Important: You should start making the frosting a few minutes before the cake comes out of the oven or just after taking it out of the oven, as you will pour the frosting on the cake when it is still hot/warm.
1. In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa powder, and milk. Heat until butter melts.
2. Beat in the remaining ingredients, and pour/spread on the hot cake.
3. All cake to cool before cutting. Store in the refrigerator. (We all prefer to eat the cake cold/cool.)
Enjoy!
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Double Fudge Coca Cola Cake Printable Recipe
- 1 cup Coca Cola
- ½ cup oil
- 1 stick butter
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 cups sugar (white)
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (careful - this is not added in with the other dry ingredients)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons cream, milk, or buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ - 1 cup pecans, chopped (optional - I don't use them)
- 3¾ cups (3.75 cups) confectioners (powdered) sugar
- In a sauce pan, bring oil, butter and cocoa powder to a boil.
- Move to a mixing bowl after items in step one have come to a boil.
- Mix the sugar, flour, and salt. Pour them into the mixture that you just put in the bowl. Beat well.
- Add in Coca Cola. Blend well.
- Add eggs, buttermilk, baking soda, and vanilla. Beat well.
- Pour into a greased and floured sheet cake pan. (I used a 15-inch cookie sheet that had one inch sides. A jelly roll pan is also a great option.)
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes. Plan to frosting the cake shortly after taking the cake out of the oven.
- Very shortly before the cake is done or immediately after taking it out of the oven, start making the cake's froting.
- In a saucepan, combine the butter, cocoa powder, and milk. Heat until butter melts.
- Beat in the remaining ingredients, and pour/spread on the hot cake.
- Cool cake before cutting.
Enjoy!
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This post was originally published on February 2, 2010. It was most recently updated in August 2017.
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Looks yummy! I will have to try it! It is calorie and fat free, right??!!
I absolutely adore this cake. I have never made it but eaten it plenty!! So glad you linked!! Thanks!!
My grandmother and great aunt used to make this cake. It is the best!!! Thanks for linking your post to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday.
That looks super delicious!
I've made this before and it really is delicious!
if it's anything like Cracker Barrel's cocola cake then it's sinfully good! LOL
Helen
We have to try this! I know my daughters and I will love it, but my husband and sons aren't quite the chocoholics we are. We also posted a "Love Cake" recipe for St. Valentine's Day at http://www.mysticalrosedeisgn.com 🙂
This cake sounds like a winner. I'm going to try it. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Oh my goodness that looks good. So moist it looks like fudge. YUM!
WOW…this cake looks AMAZING!!
I found you through Liz's blog…and now, of course, i'm a stalker, ummm, i mean, follower. 🙂
This sounds VERY interesting.
Do you taste the coca cola? I can't quite wrap my brain around putting that soda in a cake. But, hey, my husband likes coca cola, so maybe I'll try it.
Thanks,
~Nicole
Nicole — No, you don't taste the Coca Cola at all.
anything with coca cola has to be good
Thanks so much I will have to make this. Susan
This is a GREAT recipe and I’m so glad you posted it. I have now made it SEVERAL times always with great reviews. I have also paired it with a peanut butter frosting with excellent results. The “Keith” of your Keith and Amanda friends is my husbands first cousin. Your friends are GREAT people!!! I am posting my version of this recipe (I just can’t ever leave a recipe alone) on my blog today. Thanks again for sharing this recipe… it has become a stand by for me whenever I am baking for a large crowd.
I’m so glad that you like the recipe, Heather (and have changed it up to make it faster for when you make it). It is a really awesome recipe for a crowd. It’s also great to cut it up, wrap pieces individually in Saran Wrap, and then freeze them.
Agreed — Keith and Amanda ARE great people! 🙂 They are a real blessing in our lives. The whole family is just wonderful, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve instructed my children that one of them has to marry into the family somehow. LOL
Is your husband a first cousin on Marty’s side or Sam’s side?
The cake was a hit again! Keith is my husband’s cousin on Marty’s side. I actually know Becky better, but Amanda and I were in a Bible study together the year she was pregnant with the twins!
We’re friends with Becky and Nathan as well. (Caroline is one of Molly’s best friends.)
Now…let’s see if I can further map out the family. LOL Does this mean that your husband is first cousins with Angie, Amie, & Tony? What about Scott, Paul, and Bob Jr.?
You are a BLESSED woman to be friends with both Becky and Amanda!! Yes, Chris is cousins with Angie, Amie and Tony (and many many more)! LOL! Not with Scott, Paul or Bob Jr.. You probably know a lot of them from your church……
I make something very similar to this, only with De Pepper!!! Everyone dies for it!