Coca Cola Cake

Moist, Fudgy, Delicious...........This cake is a favorite in the south and of mine, since that is where my dad is from! And all growing up whenever we would visit my grandparents in Alabama, my grandma would make us this wonderful cake. She is now 95 years old. I have to tell you a little bit about her, she is not only an amazing cook, but TOTALLY skinny and beautiful~ and has been her whole life. And she puts the food away! In fact, she (and my grandpa when he was alive) ALWAYS eats dessert after lunch and dinner. Every time. Whenever I visit, she has a freezer/fridge full of goodies she has baked. And did I inherit this fabulous super revved up metabolism? No I did not. And that is not fair, so I will be talking to the Big Man In Charge~You Know Who~someday when I meet Him in the hereafter. I need an explanation as to why, when that gene set was TOTALLY available to me, I did not receive it.
Ok so 3 summers ago we took all of our 6 children to Alabama to meet/see their great grandma while we still had the chance and had an awesome trip. And here are a couple of photos to show you my beautiful grandma. The first is of my daughter Annie, who is named after her. So here are the 2 Annies:
And the next is of my 6 kiddos eating ice cream with her on her front porch one evening, this photo is priceless:

So when our family visited, we were all sitting around the table one day after lunch and eating, of course, dessert. It was brownie ice cream sundaes, yum. My dad was with us on this trip and everyone had licked their bowls clean except for him, he had left half his brownies and ice cream because he was full. So my grandma has eaten all of hers too, a big brownie with ice cream and looks at my dad, noticing he isn't finishing his, and says "Bobby, give me some of that." She's totally serious, grabs his bowl and FINISHES HIS BROWNIES WITH ICE CREAM TOO. No joke. She was like 92 at the time. And she's a beanpole. You hear about people's metabolism slowing down with age. Not hers. Again, how is this fair? I only ate like 1/2 half a brownie and a tiny scoop of ice cream. Sigh.

This is my very favorite dessert recipe from my grandma, the frosting is the best, it tastes exactly like fudge!!

Coca Cola Cake
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2 cups All Purpose Flour
2 cups Sugar
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
1 cup Coca Cola
2 Eggs
1/2 cup Buttermilk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 cups Mini Marshmallows

Heat oven to 350. Spray a 10x15 sheet cake pan with cooking spray or grease it. In a mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and baking soda. Over a stove in a medium saucepan, melt the butter. Add coca cola, and whisk in cocoa powder til smooth over low heat. Remove from heat and add oil. Stir in buttermilk and vanilla. Whisk in egg with a wire whisk or beat into coca cola mixture with a fork til smooth. Stir wet ingredients from saucepan into dry flour/sugar mixture with a wooden spoon and mix until smooth, scraping flour from the bottom of your mixing bowl. Stir in marshmallows. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350 for about 25 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean, with maybe 1 or 2 moist crumbs on it.

When cake is finished make this heavenly, fudgy, non-diety frosting:
Coca Cola Frosting:
1/2 cup Butter
6 Tablespoons Coca Cola
5 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Vanilla
16 ounces Powdered Sugar
3/4 cup Pecans, chopped

In medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Add coca cola and stir. Whisk in cocoa powder, increase heat to medium and bring to a boil. As soon as mixture boils, remove from heat and stir in vanilla, powdered sugar and pecans. Pour this delicious warm frosting over warm cake. :
Just let your cake rest/cool once it comes out of the oven for at least 10-15 minutes before frosting, but your cake can still be warm when you frost it.