Dr Pepper Cake Recipe – Glen And Friends Cooking – How To Make Dr Pepper Cake
This is the easiest Dr Pepper chocolate cake recipe you’ll ever make. The dense, moist, rich, chocolate flavour is accompanied by a simple chocolate icing. We based this Dr. Pepper cake recipe on our buttermilk chocolate cake recipe, and it’s a real winner. We used Dr. Pepper in this cake, but any soda pop could be used in this soda pop cake recipe.
Ingredients:
250 mL (1 cup) Dr Pepper / Coke / Pepsi / Root Beer
250 mL (1 cup) white sugar
125 mL (Ā½ cup) brown sugar
115g (4 ounces) bittersweet chocolate 70%
115g (125 mL / Ā½ cup) butter
500 mL (280g / 2 cups) all-purpose flour
10 mL (2 tsp) baking soda
5 mL (1 tsp) baking powder
5 mL (1 tsp) coarse salt
250 mL (1 cup) buttermilk
2 eggs
5 mL (1 tsp) pure vanilla extract
15 mL (1 Tbsp) chocolate liqueur (optional)
Icing:
115g (4 ounces) bittersweet chocolate 70%
250 mL (1 cup) butter
Pinch salt
60 mL (Ā¼ cup) Dr Pepper
5 mL (1 tsp) pure vanilla extract
15 mL (1 Tbsp) chocolate liqueur (Optional)
4 cups powdered sugar – approximate
Method:
Preheat the oven to 190ĀŗC (375Ā°F).
Put the pop, sugars, chocolate, and butter in a saucepan.
Stir over medium heat until fully melted and blended.
Remove from the heat and let cool slightly.
Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, stir together the buttermilk, vanilla, and chocolate liqueur.
Grease, flour and line 2 – 9″ cake pans with parchment.
Whisk the milk mixture and eggs into the slightly cooled chocolate mixture.
Whisk in the dry ingredients, in 2-3 additions.
Divide the batter between the pans and bake about 30 to 35 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
Let the cakes cool completely, then remove from the pans and cool on a rack.
Meanwhile, make the icing.
Using your preferred method – melt the chocolate, then let cool almost to room temperature.
Cream the butter, and add in about Ā¼ of the icing sugar.
Whisk in the melted chocolate, vanilla, liqueur and salt.
Slowly whisk in just enough icing sugar to stiffen and attain desired sweetness.
Ice as a layer cake.
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47 Comments
That frosting looks amazing. Now I want cake. š
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Frosting and icing are interchangeable for my brain when others say it living in Mid- Michigan. When I say it, the buttercream type is frosting, the generally white, thinner, firmer stuff that sets up a bit when it gets cold that you'd put on a bunt cake or cinnamon rolls is icing š
My one grandmother always said icing is boiled, frosting is whipped.
I'd call it icing sugar, but I'd call the mixture a butter cream. Just water and icing sugar, icing, add butter, butter cream or butter icing, frosting to me is cream or cream cheese mixture with icing sugar, piped into ice cream looking shapes.
7 ip pamvakrs!
For me, icing is thinner and frosting is thicker.
So it's really just chocolate cake. Why is it impossible to make a cake which is solely flavored by and tastes like Coke or Dr. Pepper? Has anyone tried to use the syrup and make a cake which tastes exactly like these sodas?
In my opinion an icing is more of a thin glaze, and frosting is thicker with more butter/fat
I use frosting and icing interchangeably. It just depends on my thought processes on that day. From a friend in West Virginia.
Icing for donuts, frosting for cakes. Appreciate all the comments below. Glen, you are great!!!! Look forward to your videos.
Nice guys
I just got done tonight making a soda pop cake. And I did something horribly wrong. It turned out more like a dense baked pudding. I'm so glad you're showing your method. Btw- I really enjoy frostingš„°š„°š„°
That looks amazing but I do prefer a thicker icing/frosting on my cake
As a Texan, Iām very happy to see you do this Glen. Long live the Dr Pep!
Icing, frosting? I don't know. Whatever it's called on the little tub I buy at the store. š
Frosting
Vanilla coke might be an idea???
Icing in the UK but we are slowly Americanising everything
Icing if it's more of a glaze, frosting if it's kinda yummy & buttercream! CA roots with an endlessly cooking mom.
p.s. Right around 1974-5 Mom started making a Beet Cake–chocolate with loads of beets. My sister and I were quite alarmed as neither of us had, up until that point, eaten a beet (I think both my parents had eaten a few too many when they were kids). However, Mom was never afraid to try something new. (Plus, it had a very delicious chocolate buttercream frosting.) We went camping with that beauty queen along, and that's when I lost my fear of beets. Fantastic cake! I think the beets are mashed or grated, and add to the moisture, tenderness, and sweetness, like a harlequin carrot cake with none of those spices…just chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. Mm-mm! Yummy
I usually call it frosting, but I also use the phrase, "the icing on the cake."
Icing Va.
Where I live icing is what goes on Krispy Kreme doughnuts, frosting is what goes on wedding cakes
Washington state. Frosting
Loves this Canadian man calling it pop!!
Please do a full on dr pepper cake. Love your work!!
I ice my cakes with frosting!
Made this recipe recently. Very good! Excellent cake body and flavor. Frosting also a home run! Two thumbs up!
In New Zealand i grew up to ā Ice a cakeā only in the last 10 years with imported products on our food chain shelves have we become a custom to using the term ā frostingā cake looks great by the way!!
Jason
Frosting, pop but I'm a neighbor southeast Michigan here!
we call it icing here in Tasmania, Australia
I would normally say, "frosting." When I think of icing, I think of "royal icing" on cookies. I would call "icing sugar" either powered sugar or confectioners sugar. In any event, please do not call me late for a piece of that yummy cake.
My mother told me the origin behind the Coca-Cola cake was a way to stretch your sugar during rationing. Sugar was hard to come by. But, Coca-Cola was easy to get. My Mom's recipe had marshmallows in it. Again she said marshmallows were easy to get.. Back in the day Coca-Cola was made with cane sugar and she said much sweeter.
I like that you call it pop. I do too. Most people down here call it soda or soda pop. The cake looks delicious.
they don't sell buttermilk where I am in Australia, so when American recipes call for it I usually use milk and apple cider vinegar – it adds a different flavour, but a nice one. White vinegar is too plain.
Reed's Ginger Beer cake.
I use frosting and icing interchangeably.
dr. pepper, 7up, and orange crush are what i most commonly see in the south. however the icing is a glaze on the cakes, primarily cooked in a bundt cake pan.
Add some peanut butter! Yummy
Carbonated drinks contain Carbonic Acid.
This in theory adds to the acidity and thus helps the cake rise.
Coke is lime based. Pepsi is vanilla based.
Found a few recipes for chocolate sauerkraut cake. Trying to get enough nerve to make it. Lol
I love orange and chocolate. I had found a Greek restaurant that made a chocolate cake with Grand Marnier. It was awesome.
Icing! I am from Ohio
Glen, I envy you so much because when you say "it's Dr. Pepper cake", Julie says "oh, of course". My family would all say "what the hell are you talking about".
I like making the Hershey hot water cake with soda instead of boiling water (minus some of the sugar in the recipe)
Try this with the new Strawberry-Cream Dr Pepper.
It's a Dr. Pepper cake, that also tastes like chocolate covered strawberries at the same time. They don't overpower each other.
SO GOOD.