Coca-Cola Cupcakes

While I was doing an online shop on a cake decorating website I came across a pot of Coca-Cola flavoured sugar and added it to my basket. I had seen recipes for Coca-Cola cake before so thought this would taste nice on top. I've tried a Nigella recipe for a Coca-Cola cake before but this time used one from United Cakes of America, which I adapted slightly.

You need:

2 cups plain flour

3 tbsp. cocoa powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup Coca-Cola

1/4 cup milk

1 1/2 sticks butter

2 cups caster sugar

2 eggs

butter and icing sugar to make buttercream

To decorate, cola-flavoured sugar crystals



Cream the butter and the sugar

Add the eggs, flour and salt and mix well

I decided to use Coke Zero, which seemed to work fine in this recipe.

Add the Coca-Cola and milk and mix well

The mixture will be quite runny; carefully pour into cupcake cases

Cook for around 12 minutes at 180C until a skewer comes out clean

I decided to make plain buttercream then add the cola-flavoured sugar on top, so I creamed butter and sugar, spread buttercream on top of the cupcakes and dipped each one in the cola sugar.

The cola sugar made the cakes look grey which was a bit strange, but they tasted good - the cake definitely had a Coke flavour though it was quite subtle, and the cola sugar on top was like eating fizzy cola bottles!

I'm sending this to Alphabakes, the challenge I co-host with Ros of The More Than Occasional Baker as the letter this month is C. I wonder if anyone else will use Coca-Cola as their ingredient?