~ Amma's Coca-Cola Cake~

So, I am reading this book called "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, who are awesome writers and also enjoy cooking.  One of the writers' favorite recipe is Amma's Coca-Cola Cake.  This has quickly become one of my favorite cakes, because I love chocolate.  So whenever I get this NEED for chocolate, I go straight to my kitchen and start making this simply scrumptious cake.  It's really easy and has a consistency of a chocolate bread pudding, smothered in a gooey chocolate sauce.  It's absolutely fabulous for any PMS craving and the ingredients are probably already in your kitchen.  

Here is the recipe:

INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE:

2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 sticks butter
3 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 cup Coca-Cola
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3 eggs

DIRECTIONS:

1. Sift together flour and sugar and set aside.
2. Melt butter, cocoa, Coca-Cola in a saucepan. Bring to boil and remove from heat.
3. Add flour, sugar, buttermilk, baking soda, vanilla, and eggs. Beat with a mixer. Pour into greased 9×13 inch pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.

ICING:

1 stick butter
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
6 tablespoons Coca-Cola
1 lb. box powdered sugar
1 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup mini-marshmallows

DIRECTIONS:

1. Boil butter, cocoa, and Coca-Cola. Remove from heat.
2. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and marshmallows. Stir until melted.
3. Pour over hot cake.

* Be sure to pour icing on while cake is hot.