Coca-Cola Cake with Chocolate-Ricotta Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups marshmallow
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup margarine
3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup coca cola
1/3 cup plain yogurt
1/6 cup milk
1 tsp baking soda
2 egg yolks

Chocolate-Ricotta Cheese Frosting:

250 g ricotta cheese, softened
3 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Method:

Grease a cake pan (26 cm in diameter).

Preheat oven to 180 °C.

In a bowl, mix sugar, flour, marshmallow and salt, set aside.

In a sauce pan, bring oil, margarine, cocoa and coca-cola to boil.

Remove from heat, pour into the dry mixture and beat well to dissolve the sugar, marshmallow and salt.

In another bowl, mix yogurt and milk, stir-in baking soda and lastly egg yolks, mix well and add into the cake batter.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.


To Make Frosting:

In a large bowl, beat all ingredients until smooth and spread consistency.

Prepare in advance, keep in refrigerator and frost the cooled cake later.