Dessert - Cake and Icing

Cola Cake

• 2 cups un-sifted flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 sticks butter or margarine
• 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 1 cup of Cola
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ cups miniature marshmallows
• Icing

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour and sugar in a bowl. Set aside.

In a saucepan, combine butter or margarine, cocoa, and cola. Heat to boiling and pour over flour-sugar mixture.

Add buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, vanilla, and marshmallows. Beat together, mixing well. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan; bake 30-35 minutes.

Frost cake while still hot. Makes about 12 servings.

ICING

• ½ butter
• 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
• 6 Tablespoons Cola
• 1 pound powdered sugar
• 1 cup of pecans, chopped

Combine butter, cocoa, and cola in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Place powdered sugar in mixing bowl, add ingredients from the saucepan and beat well. Mix in pecans. Spread over hot cake.

Approximate values per serving: 626 calories, 27g fat, 92mg cholesterol, 5g protein, 97g carbohydrates, 1g fiber, 362 mg sodium, 38 percent calories from fat.