Dirty Coke Cake – our favorite drink in cake form! Homemade buttermilk chocolate cake and fudge frosting spiked with coconut and lime. SO good! Great for a potluck and tailgate party! A CRAZY delicious cake recipe!
Have you ever heard of a Dirty Diet Coke? It’s a thing, you know!?! In case you aren’t’ familiar with the wonderful Dirty DIet Coke, it is a Diet Coke with coconut syrup and lime. I heard about it from my friends that live in Utah. Swig N’ Sweets is famous for their Dirty Diet Cokes (and their cookies are dang good too!). I love Diet Coke, and a Dirty Diet Coke is a fun way to jazz up my favorite beverage.
Coca-Cola Cake is one of our favorite desserts. Chocolate cake made with Coke – so good! I was thinking of desserts for our Memorial Day cookout and thought why not make a Dirty Diet Coke Cake!?!?! OMG! Y’all, this is SO good!!! We both ate WAY too much of this cake. Chocolate cake and Diet Coke – I can’t think of many things better in this world!
I used coconut extract in the cake. I didn’t think most people would have coconut syrup in their pantry, so I used the extract. It worked great. I used fresh lime juice and zested the limes. Perfect!!
You can make this cake a day in advance and store it in an air-tight container until you are ready to serve. I hope y’all enjoy it as much as we did!!
Dirty Diet Coke Cake
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-½ cups small marshmallows
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 cup Diet Coke
- 1 Tbsp coconut extract
- 3 Tbsp lime juice
- zest of one lime
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup butter
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 6 Tbsp Diet Coke
- 1 (1-pound) box powdered sugar
- 2 Tbsp lime juice
- 1-½ tsp coconut extract
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350º F. Grease and flour a 9×13-inch pan. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift sugar and flour. Add marshmallows.
- In saucepan, mix butter, oil, cocoa, and Diet Coke. Bring to a boil and pour over dry ingredients; blend well.
- Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk just before adding to batter along with eggs, lime juice and coconut extract, mixing well.
- Pour into prepared pan and BAKE 35 to 45 minutes. Remove from oven and frost immediately.
- To make frosting, combine butter, cocoa and Diet Coke in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and pour over confectioners’ sugar, blending well. Add lime juice and coconut extract. Spread over hot cake.
- When cool, cut into squares and serve.
Do you have to use diet soda? Could I use a regular Coke?
Regular Coke will work fine. Enjoy!