Cowboy Day – Pepsi Cola Cake with Broiled Peanut Butter Frosting

Yippee Ky Yay Cake Lovers, number 5 is alive!!!!  This weekend, courtesy of the nicest man on the Internet,  Greg Swenson, we are celebrating Cowboy Day with a Cookalong.  I have chosen to bake a cake (because every celebration needs one) from Greg’s book, Recipes for Rebels:  In The Kitchen with James Dean – and oh (cow)boy, what a cake it is.  Pepsi Cola Cake with Broiled Peanut Butter Frosting.

You might be wondering what is the connection between a cake made from Pepsi and Cowboys? Well, hear me out here. It is a little like one of those puzzles you used to do at school where you change one letter at a time to turn one word into another…

But here me out:

James Dean played a cowboy in the film Giant
James Dean’s first paid acting job was in a Pepsi Commercial
Pepsi is a key ingredient in this cake.

Cowboy to cake in less steps than it will take you to go from bath to tubs!

Good lord, just look at that face!!!  If that is not a textbook definition of impossibly handsome, I do not know what is.

Something that is most definitely not impossibly handsome is the Pepsi-Cola Cake.  It is a massive brute of a thing (might one say a Giant?) that erupted like a volcano in my oven.  It reminded me of the ads we used to have for Picnic bars – deliciously ugly.

I mean, ok, it doesn’t look quite as much like a pooh as a Picnic bar but at the point of removal from the oven, it did not look good.

But as the picnic ad states that’s what wrappers are for. And the wrapping on the Pepsi-cola cake is some divine Peanut Butter frosting.

I mean it’s still not the prettiest cake in the world. But, do not let it’s somewhat less than gorgeous faced fool you.  Remember the delicious part of deliciously ugly?  Well this cake has a ton of delicious!  The cake itself is moist and fudgy, a little like a brownie.  The slight slatiness in the  peanut butter frosting is a perfect accompaniment to the sweetness of the cake.  Beware though the Pepsi Cake is not just rich.  It is filthy rich!!!

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I have a sweet tooth and even I would recommend cutting what you think is a normal-sized slice of cake then cutting that in two.  And bada bing bada boom that’s elevenses and afternoon tea sorted!!!!

Pepsi Cola Cake – Recipe

So, the recipe for this cake made me laugh.  I love the way they ask for non-sweetened cocoa powder.  I mean, when you already have 2 cups of sugar and a cup of Pepsi in your cake I guess you have to draw the line somewhere.

Here’s the recipe!

This was so much fun!  I loved cooking this cake and being able to take part in the world wide cookalong to celebrate Cowboy Day 2021!  Thank you Greg for organising and inviting me to contribute!

Have a great week everyone!!!!