Coca Cola Sheet Cake
This moist and rich coca cola cake is a tried and true favorite to many people! The extra sweetness from the cola and the airiness texture from the carbonation…. paired with the hot sticky icing that partially fuses into the cake, makes it irresistible.
This recipe turns that all time favorite coca cola cake into a SHEET CAKE, simple to make and large enough to make for gatherings and parties.
You can find the perfect sheet cake pan HERE! It’s our favorite. 😉
We Six Sisters love the ease and simplicity to sheet cake recipes… simple to make and easy to transport and serve, but packed full of rich flavor and yumminess. Be sure to check out our other Sheet Cake Recipes!
(AKA, this S’mores Bars Dessert that makes a whole sheet pan full!)
Pour the warm icing over the hot cake and let it sit for a while. The icing will crust over nicely and ooze itself into the cake a bit, making it even more moist and rich.
Coca Cola Sheet Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 t. baking soda
- 1 t. cinnamon
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1 c. butter
- 1/4 c. baking cocoa
- 1 c. Coca Cola
- 1/2 c. buttermilk (or 1 T. vinegar, then top off with milk to 1/2 c.)
- 1 t. vanilla
- 2 eggs
Frosting
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1/4 c. baking cocoa
- 1/3 c. Coca Cola
- 4 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Light grease and flour a 12x18 sheet cake pan.
For the Cake
- Mix all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- In a saucepan, bring the butter, cocoa, cola, and buttermilk to a boil, then add vanilla
- Add the boiled mixture to the dry mixture.
- While mixing, add 2 eggs and beat until batter is smooth.
- Bake at 350° for 20-25 min.
Frosting
- Place butter, cocoa and cola in a saucepan and heat until boiling.
- Add the powdered sugar and stir until smooth.
- Pour over warm cake and let cool until the frosting crusts.
Looking for more great Sheet Cake recipes?
This Maple Pecan Sheet Cake is fabulous!
The Best Peanut Butter Sheet Cake
And one of our summer faves, a sheet cake pan of S’mores Bars.
Making this right now with gluten free 1 for 1 baking mix. Fingers crossed 🤞
I made this for a church fellowship, and it turned out great! Followed the recipe and everyone loved it!
Your Coca Cola cake recipe turned out to be a disaster. I was too lazy to look up the one I had made many times on Pinterest and yours popped up when I did a Google search. I thought there was too much cocoa in this recipe but when I put it in the oven and it started to over flow the sheet pan while cooking and was burning in the bottom of my oven, I knew something was wrong. I went to Pinterest to compare recipes and some the measurements are entirely different. I made this cake for a potluck today at work and it looks horrible. I learned a lesson today in cooking, always use your tried and true recipes. You ladies are not clever but crazy wrong.
Susan, you may have measured something wrong or used too small of a pan (what pan did you use?). I’ve made this a couple dozen times and it’s been perfect every time.
I’ve made this recipe for a crowd several times and it has always worked out perfectly! Is it possible you used a 10×15 sheet pan? I’ve actually experienced the opposite of your tragedy lol…making a recipe for a “sheet pan”, assuming it meant 12×18 but was actually intended for 10×15 so not even enough batter to spread out enough! 🤷♀️ My theory is that whatever one’s mother called a sheet pan is what one considers to be a sheet pan 😜
I made this for the teens at our church and it was amazing!! Big hit with everyone here! 😀