Coca-Cola Cake

1 cup Coca-Cola

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 cup butter or margarine, softened

1 3/4 cups sugar

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

2 t. vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1 t. baking soda

1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

Coca-Cola Frosting:

• 1/2  cup  butter or margarine
• 1/3  cup  Coca-Cola
• 3  T.  cocoa
• 1  (16-ounce) package powdered sugar
• 1 T.  vanilla extract

Garnish: 3/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted

Combine Coca-Cola and buttermilk; set aside.

Beat butter at low speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar; beat until blended. Add egg and vanilla; beat at low speed until blended.

Combine flour, cocoa, and soda. Add to butter mixture alternately with cola mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended.

Stir in marshmallows. Pour batter into a greased and floured 13- x 9-inch pan. Bake at 350° for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven; cool 10 minutes. Pour Coca-Cola Frosting over warm cake; garnish, if desired.

Sweet Potato Souffle

Sweet Potato Soufflé

4-5 good quality sweet potatoes

2 eggs

1/2 cup half and half

1-2 tablespoons flour

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon rum extract

Peel and cube the sweet potatoes.

Add to a pot of boiling water and boil for approximately 20-30 minutes or until tender.

While the potatoes are boiling, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

When potatoes are done, drain and mash (either by hand or in an electric mixer).

Add half and half, vanilla and rum extract, eggs, flour, and spices, mix with electric mixer until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a soufflé dish or casserole dish and top with streusel mix, then top with 1/4 cup walnuts (pecans are good too)

Bake for about 1 hour

Streusel Mix

1 stick melted salted butter

3/4 cup dark brown sugar

1/3 cup flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix together until crumbly, then top sweet potatoes with this and then top with nuts.

Note: no marshmallows on this, down here

in the South , using them on sweet potatoes constitutes blasphemy