Gluten free cola cake
Everyone loves cola, whether it's Coca-Cola® or Pepsi® or a supermarket one, so why not add it to a cake. An acquired taste for some but it did prove a hit when I made it.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- For the cake
- 250g gluten free or self-raising flour
- 45g cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 150g caster sugar or light brown soft sugar
- 150g butter, salted or unsalted
- 200ml cola, any type
- 150ml buttermilk or milk
- 2 medium eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- For the icing
- 100g chocolate
- 45ml cola, any type
- 45ml buttermilk or milk
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:40min ›
Extra time:15min cooling ›
Ready in:1hr10min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease or line a 20cm round cake tin.
- Sift together the flour, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and stir in the sugar.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and add 200ml of cola to the melted butter and mix well. Remove from heat.
- In a jug lightly whisk together the 150ml buttermilk, eggs and vanilla.
- Whisk the cola mixture into the dry ingredients and then whisk in the buttermilk mixture. Mix thoroughly to ensure all ingredients are fully incorporated. Pour into the prepared cake tin.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the surface is firm and a skewer comes out clean, about 35 minutes.
- Leave to cool in the tin for at least 15 minutes, then turn out the cake to finish cooling on a rack. Once fully cool, add your topping or serve as is.
- Over a low heat melt the chocolate with the 45ml cola in a saucepan. Once melted, remove from heat and stir in the 45ml buttermilk. Then apply topping to the cake and leave to set. Then serve.
For the icing:
Serving suggestion
Serve plain or coat with your favourite topping. Toppings could be frosting, icing, ganache, melted chocolate....the choice is yours.
Make it healthier
For a diet friendly option you can use diet cola. Swap out the sugar for a diet substitute, swap the buttermilk for skimmed (non-fat) milk.
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Love these! sooo easy and a lovely change from flourless cakes. Thank you so much for sharing. - 01 Apr 2013
I love cola and chocolate so that's why I made this cake ☺ I don't have a gluten allergy, so I used self raising flour. I also used semi skimmed milk, margarine, light brown sugar and Pepsi Max. It's a very rich chocolate cake with a beautifully moist texture! I was a little obsessive when eating on try to analyse the cola element!... I'd say if you think about it, it's there, but it just compliments the cake overall. I don't think non cola fans should be put off or would dislike it. I iced it following the recipe and really like the icing. I'm not a fan of using icing sugar, so was happy with the icing. I used a square 8x8 inch cake tin. It worked well giving a nice deep cake, appropriate for a single layer cake. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves rich chocolate cake 😊 - 14 May 2016