Coca Cola Chocolate Cake

So it turns out 6 day weeks suck. Early mornings suck more. I'm not cut out for the real world. It has made me generally lazy, haphazard with ingredients, impatient with baking times and liberal with colourful things. Wouldn't have described myself as match fit this week. I did manage to make one though even if it wasn't my best effort.


I actually made this cake on Tuesday. Again - I'm not cut out for the real world. Used the fun table cloth again. Its just so fun.

Recipe courtesy of Nigella. She is such a chocolate goddess.


200g plain flour

250g sugar

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 large egg

125 mls buttermilk (I didn't have this so just used normal milk - no idea if that is actually a legitimate alternative, but the cake didn't seem to complain.)

125g butter

2 Tbsp cocoa powder

175mls Coca Cola

Put the Coke, the cocoa and butter in a pan and gently heat until melted. Sift dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and add to butter/coke mix. Whisk in milk and egg. Pour into 20cmish tin and bake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Actually I left it in for 50 minutes and it still wasn't quite cooked, but this could also have been because of some very questionable measuring on my part. It was a weeee bit gooey in the middle but I was assured by the willing eaters that this was not a problem. Lucky. For the icing I used less than a 1/4 cup of coke and a Tbsp of cocoa and then lots of icing sugar. You can't really taste the Coke in the cake or the icing, but it does make it taste curiously delicious. The eaters said they wouldn't have guessed that curious flavour was coke. It was very yummy even if it was a bit gooey. And the pretty colourful things on top helped too I think; courtesy of mum. What a lovely care package that was.

Also, a strange coincidence has been brought to my attention.

There are TWO other cake bloggers in the blogosphere that are also called Niki. They even spell it the same! No one spells it the same as me! My parents are weirdos! Its kind of freaky. There's this one: http://xthecakemakerx.blogspot.com/ and this one: http://nikibakescakes.com/.

Agghh!