Thursday 24 October 2013

Coca-Cola Cupcakes




While I was doing an online shop on a cake decorating website I came across a pot of Coca-Cola flavoured sugar and added it to my basket. I had seen recipes for Coca-Cola cake before so thought this would taste nice on top. I've tried a Nigella recipe for a Coca-Cola cake before but this time used one from United Cakes of America, which I adapted slightly.


You need:
2 cups plain flour
3 tbsp. cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup Coca-Cola
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2 sticks butter
2 cups caster sugar
2 eggs
butter and icing sugar to make buttercream
To decorate, cola-flavoured sugar crystals


Cream the butter and the sugar


Add the eggs, flour and salt and mix well


I decided to use Coke Zero, which seemed to work fine in this recipe.


Add the Coca-Cola and milk and mix well


The mixture will be quite runny; carefully pour into cupcake cases


Cook for around 12 minutes at 180C until a skewer comes out clean


I decided to make plain buttercream then add the cola-flavoured sugar on top, so I creamed butter and sugar, spread buttercream on top of the cupcakes and dipped each one in the cola sugar.


The cola sugar made the cakes look grey which was a bit strange, but they tasted good - the cake definitely had a Coke flavour though it was quite subtle, and the cola sugar on top was like eating fizzy cola bottles!

I'm sending this to Alphabakes, the challenge I co-host with Ros of The More Than Occasional Baker as the letter this month is C. I wonder if anyone else will use Coca-Cola as their ingredient?




3 comments:

  1. oooh, do they taste like cola bottles? They look like such fun and quite halloweeny too!... fab stuff!

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  2. Ohh wow! I've never even thought of Coca-Cola cupcakes....Yum x

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  3. Great use of C! I've never seen cola sugar but I'm not a fan of cola so probably wasn't looking! Thanks for entering AlphaBakes.

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