Pepsi Cola Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 pound butter
2 tablespoons cocoa, unsweetened
1 cup Pepsi Cola
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 large eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch pan.

Combine flour and sugar in large bowl. Melt butter. Add cocoa and Pepsi Cola. Pour over flour and sugar mixture, and stir until well blended. Add buttermilk, beaten eggs, baking soda and vanilla extract. Mix well. Stir in marshmallows. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 40 minutes.

Remove cake from oven and frost while still warm.

Frosting
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
2/3 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup milk
2/3 cup chopped peanuts

Cream butter, sugar and peanut butter. Add milk and stir well. Add nuts. Spread over warm cake. Place frosted cake under broiler about 4 inches from heat source. Broil just a few seconds or until the frosting starts to bubble. DO NOT scorch! Let cool at least 30 minutes before serving.

Orange Mountain Dew Cake

1 (18.25 ounce) box orange cake mix
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 small box coconut pudding mix (not instant)
4 eggs
1 (10 ounce) Mountain Dew? drink (cold)

Mix together cake mix and pudding mix. Add oil; mix well. Add one egg at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour in cold drink. Beat well for 2 or 3 minutes. Pour into three layer pans. Bake in preheated 325 degree F oven for 30 to 35 minutes.

Topping
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 large can crushed pineapple
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 cup flaked coconut

Mix sugar and cornstarch together. Add pineapple. Cook over medium heat until thick. Remove from heat. Add butter and coconut. Mix until butter is melted. Spread between cake layers, on top and sides.

Mountain Dew Cake

1 (18.25 ounce) box orange supreme cake mix
1 small box coconut cream pudding and pie
    filling (not instant)
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 bottle Mountain Dew?
4 eggs

Mix all ingredients and bake in a 13 x 9-inch pan at 350 degrees F for 30 to 40 minutes. You may also bake in three layers, if desired.

Icing
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup butter
1 large can crushed pineapple
1 cup coconut

Cook sugar, flour, butter and pineapple until thick. Add coconut when icing is cooled, then spread on cake.

Dr. Pepper Cake

1/2 cup Crisco?
1/2 cup butter or margarine
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup Dr. Pepper?
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Put the Crisco?, butter or margarine, cocoa and Dr. Pepper? in a pan and bring to a boil.

In a large bowl, mix the sugar, flour and marshmallows; pour the Dr. Pepper? mixture in and beat at high speed until marshmallows melt.

In a bowl, mix the eggs, buttermilk and baking soda; add to batter. Pour into 13 x 9-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes.

Frosting
6 tablespoons Dr. Pepper?
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup nuts, chopped
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 pound confectioners? sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Bring Dr. Pepper?, butter or margarine and cocoa to boil and pour over confectioners’ sugar; mix well. Add nuts and vanilla extract. Frost cake.

Coca-Cola Carrot Cake

Cake
2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup Coca-Cola?
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 1/4 cups raw carrots, grated
3 eggs
1 cup nuts, chopped
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup coconut, flaked

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the eggs well; add sugar, oil, Coca-Cola? and vanilla extract and beat well. Stir in the dry ingredients until smooth, then add the carrots, nuts and coconut. Mix well. Bake in a greased and lightly floured 13 x 9-inch pan in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 40 to 50 minutes, until cake tests done.

Remove from oven and prick hot cake all over with a fork, then pour the Coca-Cola? Syrup slowly and evenly over the top. Serve warm or room temperature with lightly sweetened-vanilla flavored whipped cream.

Coca-Cola? Syrup
3/4 cup granulated sugar
6 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons cocoa
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
6 tablespoons Coca-Cola?
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Combine sugar, cocoa, Coca-Cola?, butter and corn syrup in a saucepan; bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil, stirring, until thick and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla extract. Remove from heat and immediately pour over hot cake.

Coca-Cola Cake

2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup Coca-Cola?
2/3 cup butter or margarine
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows

Stir flour, sugar and baking soda, then set aside.

Bring Coca-Cola?, butter and cocoa powder to a boil over medium heat. Add hot mixture to flour mixture. Stir just until combined. Add remaining ingredients, except marshmallows. Stir until combined. Gently stir in marshmallows. They will float to the top. Pour into a greased and floured 13 x 9-inch pan. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F.

Transfer cake to a wire rack. Immediately spread Cocoa Topping over cake. Thoroughly cool cake on rack.

Cocoa Topping
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 cup Coca-Cola?
2 1/2 cups sifted confectioners? sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts

Bring butter, cocoa powder and Coca-Cola? to boiling. Add remaining ingredients.

7-Up Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
5 large eggs
3 cups granulated sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
1 cup 7-Up? or other lemon-lime soda

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan.

Combine flour and salt in a bowl.

Combine remaining ingredients except soda in a large mixer bowl; beat at medium speed until light and fluffy, scraping sides occasionally, for 5 minutes.

Reduce speed to low; add dry ingredients and soda, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Bake 1 1/2 hours or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert onto wire rack, remove pan and cool completely.

Makes 16 servings.