{"id":17585,"date":"2015-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeful-davinci.104-238-165-7.plesk.page\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2023-06-26T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T17:11:24","slug":"vanilla-coca-cola-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2015\/09\/vanilla-coca-cola-birthday-cake.html","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Coca-Cola Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A friend had a birthday, and I realized it had been way too long since a layer cake happened in my kitchen. Given my southern roots, I\u2019ve been dying to put my own spin on a southern classic, a nostalgic recipe from my childhood: the coke cake. Usually it\u2019s a chocolate cake, but I never understood that as it never really ended up tasting like cola. Which would seem the whole point, aside from the texture the effervescence &\u00a0syrup lend to the final crumb. I know you\u2019re probably thinking that coke is a far cry from local, but for a Chattanoogan that isn\u2019t really the case. Fact: the\u00a0first Coca-Cola bottling plant in the world was right here in my hometown. As such I grew up on things like coke basted ham (my mom\u2019s specialty which also requires French\u2019s mustard, no fancy stuff allowed) on every holiday spread and, what you see here, coke cake. This rendition takes that traditional cake in a more vanilla spice direction\u2026so that it actually tastes like it\u2019s namesake.<\/p>\n

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With a coke Italian meringue buttercream, the omission of the cocoa (which, as I said, I always found superfluous & overpowering), and with the exclusive use of coke as the liquid in the batter, I think I finally got what I was after. At first when I was developing this recipe I went half and half coke and buttermilk, but again it just didn\u2019t come through. The addition of some nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla are designed to accentuate those spicy, mysterious flavors that end up being more than a sum of their parts. I will forever, as a cook, be fascinated by the amalgamation of flavors in coke. This cake is about making room in your culinary room for nostalgia & the fact that feast day foods can be an indulgence. It\u2019s about the fact that food is memory as much as anything, and while some food memories do well to be rewritten, there\u2019s nothing wrong with revisiting the emotions flavors of the past invoke. Moderation in all things.<\/p>\n

For some nostalgic, vintage inspired coke accessories<\/a>\u00a0to go with your cake, you can visit their store here<\/a>. A thank you to them for partnering with me on this post to bring one of my favorite food memories to you guys. All opinions and recipes, as always, are my own.<\/p>\n

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