How to Make a Chocolate Coca Cola Bottle Cake Recipe

 

Cake ingredients

250g self raising flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
300g golden caster sugar
3 tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs
250g butter
175ml Coca Cola
1 tsp vanilla extract
75ml milk

Chocolate bottle ingredients

Bottle of Coca-Cola
150g white chocolate
300g milk chocolate

Icing ingredients

200g icing sugar
100g Butter
2 tbsp Coca Cola
2 tbsp cocoa powder

Make the Cake

  • Remove the label from the Coca-Cola bottle
  • Mark the level of the Coca-Cola on the bottle
  • Preheat oven 180 F / 160 C
  • Put 250g of butter into a pan and melt over a low heat
  • Add 175ml of Coca Cola into the pan and stir
  • Sift 250g of self raising flour into the bowl
  • Add 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda into the bowl
  • Add 3 tbsp of cocoa powder into the bowl
  • Add 300g of golden caster sugar into the bowl
  • Stir in 2 eggs
  • Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract and mix the ingredients
  • Add milk to the pan and stir
  • Whisk the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients
  • Pour the mixture into a prepared tin
  • Bake  for 40 mins at 180 F / 160 C
  • Leave the cake to cool

Make the Icing

  • Sift 200g of icing sugar into a bowl
  • Put 100g of butter into a pan and melt over a low heat
  • Add 2 tbsp of Coca-Cola
  • Add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and stir
  • Add the mixture to the icing sugar
  • Whisk until smooth

Make the chocolate bottle

Cut the Coca-Cola bottle in half

Melt 150g of white chocolate in a microwave
Pour the melted white chocolate into the inverted top of the bottle
Rotate the white chocolate around the bottle, coating the inside iup to the mark
Leave the white chocolate to set
Add more white chocolate to create a thicker layer
Leave the white chocolate to set

  • Melt 300g of milk chocolate in a microwave
  • Pour the melted milk chocolate into the base of the bottle
  • Rotate the milk chocolate around the base to cover the inside
  • Leave the chocolate to set

Pour the milk chocolate into the top of the bottle
Rotate the milk chocolate around the top and coat the rest of the inside
Leave the milk chocolate to set

Assemble the cake

Fill the top and bottom of the bottle with alternate layers of cake and icing

Freeze for about 20 minutes to make it easier to remove the plastic bottle top and bottom
Cut away the plastic top and bottom and remove the top and bottom chocolate cakes

Spread a layer of icing on the mating surfaces
Join the two halves of the cake

Wrap the Coca-Cola label around the middle of the cake
Place the Coca-Cola lid on top

You can now enjoy your 3D Coca-Cola bottle cake. To slice use a hot knife.

Enjoy!