Feb 9, 2016

Coca-Cola Cake Donuts

Coca-Cola Cake Donuts are rich, chocolaty, baked donuts with a cake-like texture. The delicious icing sets-up nicely and puts the flavor of these donuts over the top! Did I mention they are easy to make too?! Score!
Coca-Cola Cake Donuts | by Life Tastes Good are rich, chocolaty, baked donuts with a cake-like texture. The delicious icing sets-up nicely and puts the flavor of these donuts over the top! Did I mention they are easy to make too?! Score! #LTGrecipes

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I've actually never had the famous Cracker Barrel Coca-Cola Cake, but years ago, after a friend gave me her recipe, I used to make a homemade Coca-Cola Cake that was AH-MAZING!. It was a basic chocolate cake using Coca-Cola for the liquid and then iced with a sweet, chocolaty, Coca-Cola icing that has a very distinct flavor and really made the cake outstanding. Don LOVED it! I don't know why it's been years since I made it, and I really don't know why Don, out-of-the-blue, asked me to make it again recently, but I'm glad he did. 
Coca-Cola Cake Donuts | by Life Tastes Good are rich, chocolaty, baked donuts with a cake-like texture. The delicious icing sets-up nicely and puts the flavor of these donuts over the top! Did I mention they are easy to make too?! Score! #LTGrecipes
Of course, I wanted to indulge him, but I really didn't want to make a ginormous sheet cake for just the two of us, so I turned to google and found a recipe by The 350 Degree Oven on the Coca-Cola site for these donuts. I did change up the technique just a bit to yield the texture I prefer in a baked donut, but this recipe is very simple to make. It is much like making muffins, however, you will need a Donut Pan to get the shape just right.
Coca-Cola Cake Donuts | by Life Tastes Good are rich, chocolaty, baked donuts with a cake-like texture. The delicious icing sets-up nicely and puts the flavor of these donuts over the top! Did I mention they are easy to make too?! Score! #LTGrecipes


Coca-Cola Cake Donuts

Life Tastes Good
Published 02/09/2016
Coca-Cola Cake Donuts

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup Coca-Cola
  • 2 tablespoons canola oil
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 tablespoons Coca-Cola
  • 1 1/2 to 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Grease the Donut Pan generously. I use unsalted butter and make sure to get it all over.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Whisk to mix well and aerate.
  3. In a separate mixing bowl, combine 2 eggs, 2/3 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup Coca-Cola, and 2 tablespoons canola oil. Whisk to mix well.
  4. Form a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into the well. Gently fold the ingredients together until just combined. Set this mixture aside for about 15 minutes while the oven preheats. This will allow the baking powder to activate and help to make the donuts have a fluffier, lighter texture that I prefer.
  5. Preheat the oven to 325°F while the batter is resting. When the oven is preheated, carefully scoop the mixture into the prepared Donut Pan, filling 3/4 of each donut cup.
  6. Bake 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven until the top of the donut bounces back when lightly pressed. Remove from oven and allow to cool 5 minutes in pan. Gently loosen donuts from pan and invert onto cooling rack to cool completely.
  7. Clean out the pan to make the rest of the batter in the same manner.
  8. While the donuts are cooling, prepare the icing by melting 1/4 cup unsalted butter and combine with 3 tablespoons Coca-Cola. Mix in 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1/2 teaspoon salt until smooth.
  9. When the donuts are cooled, dip each in the icing and set back on the cooling rack to dry. Enjoy!
Yield: 12 donuts
Prep Time: 20 mins.
Cook time: 10 mins.
Total time: 30 mins.

Tags: Easy Recipe, Coca-Cola Cake Donuts, Coca-Cola, Chocolate, Cake, Donuts, Chocolate Donuts, Baked, Glaze, Glazed Donuts

4 comments:

  1. These look like an awesome breakfast or dessert! Love a good doughnut!

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  2. Good donuts, but the recipe for the glaze is flawed, do not add the salt!!

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    1. Hi Jo, So glad you liked the donuts. The salt in the glaze helps to bring out the full flavors of the chocolate and reduce any bitterness. I don't recommend omitting it all together, but if you are sensitive to it, you might try adding a little at a time until it is to your liking. I hope that helps! Have a super weekend ~Marion

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