CULTURETECHLENSCoca-Cola cake
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Combined Graph record U-01100 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0700. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Coca-Cola cake is a Southern chocolate cake with Coca-Cola in the batter (a popular form adds miniature marshmallows and pecans); the first published recipe dates to a 1952 Charleston Gazette contest, and Cracker Barrel's Double Fudge Coca-Cola Cake (1997; permanent menu 2009) took it nationwide — matching stored cola, chocolate, and Southern origin_note.
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Coca-Cola cake is a Southern chocolate cake with Coca-Cola in the batter (a popular form adds miniature marshmallows and pecans); the first published recipe dates to a 1952 Charleston Gazette contest, and Cracker Barrel's Double Fudge Coca-Cola Cake (1997; permanent menu 2009) took it nationwide — matching stored cola, chocolate, and Southern origin_note.
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- Work type: dish
- Category: desserts
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- https://www.thedailymeal.com/1342057/how-southern-coca-cola-cake-became-nationwide/ (verification source · master store)
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Coca-Cola cake is a Southern chocolate cake with Coca-Cola in the batter (a popular form adds miniature marshmallows and pecans); the first published recipe dates to a 1952 Charleston Gazette contest, and Cracker Barrel's Double Fudge Coca-Cola Cake (1997; permanent menu 2009) took it nationwide — matching stored cola, chocolate, and Southern origin_note.
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