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Yield: 16 servings
2 cup flour, sifted 1 ts baking soda 1/2 ts salt 2 tb cocoa 3 eggs 1 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup vegetable oil 3/4 cup coca-cola 1 1/2 ts vanilla 2 1/4 cup raw carrots, grated 1 cup nuts, chopped 1 cup coconut, flaked
3/4 cup sugar 2 ts cocoa 6 tb coca-cola 6 tb butter 1 tb light corn syrup 1/2 ts vanilla
Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the eggs well, add sugar, oil, 3/4 cup cola, and vanilla 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 pan in a preheated 350~F oven for 40-50 minutes, until cake tests done. Remove from oven and prick hot cake all over with a fork, then pour the cola syrup slowly, evenly over the top.
Serve warm or room temperature with lightly sweetened-vanilla flavored whipped cream.
Combine sugar, cocoa, cola, butter and corn syrup in 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 pour, hot, over hot cake.
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