Chocolate Cola Cake

I love chocolate cake. I love making it and eating it. Just the perfect comfort food I think.

 Years ago I found a recipe which incorporates cola into the cake batter which makes for a moist and light cake. I cannot recall where I saw this recipe, but I have made it a few times and this is how I make it. Chocolate Cola Cake really is scrummy and very easy to make.

Serves 12

Ingredients

250g unsalted butter

200ml cola drink

250g self raising flour

50g cocoa powder

250g caster sugar

2 eggs, beaten

200ml milk

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

Pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC fan

Grease and line an 8 inch losse bottomed cake tin

Place the butter and cola in a saucepan and heat gently until the butter is melted

Mean while place all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl and pour in the beaten egg, milk and vanilla essence. 

Once the cola and butter have melted, add to the other ingredients and mix well at a gentle pace for a couple of minutes

Pour into the tin and cook in the oven for approx 45-55 minutes until cooked all the way through

Leave to cool completely before removing from the tin

You can serve the cake like this and it is tasty enough ,however, if you fancy being really indulgent why not add a 

 Chocolate Cola Topping

To make this you will need

3 tbsp cola

1 tbsp full fat cream cheese

2 tbsp chocolate spread

few marshmallows

Method

Add the marshallows to the sauce and mix well - dont worry about lumps it is nice to have the gooey soft texture when you eat it with the cake

Once cooled and removed from the tin, simply pour the sauce over the cake and enjoy mmmmmmmm :)

The cake is light, soft and moist with a crunchy top. The sauce makes it a bit like a warm chocolate fudge cake when the frosting has become a sauce. It is delicious. Really very yummy indeed!