Coca-Cola’s combination of corn syrup and flavoring make it useful in a number of cooking applications. If you’re out of barbecue sauce when you need it, you can make a decent one by mixing equal parts Coke and Heinz ketchup.
It’s that “can do” attitude that has made this country great! AmeriCAN! 
Something like that recipe was making the rounds in Weight Watchers a while ago (minus the chocolate chips). You can bake it in a regular oven, too, apparently. People were reporting experiments with various combinations of cake mix and soda (e.g., Sprite and yellow cake, Cherry Coke and chocolate cake). Some people also did it as cupcakes to help limit portion size. I never tried it myself, not being a cake fan, but it was very popular.
They do sell them here, but not in regular candy bar racks. If you can find them at all, they will be in gourmet shops or specialty shops. If you run into one, do try it. They’re nummy.
I buy chocolate flake bars at our local Judaica store-- Elite brand Flakey bars.
Yum, yum and yum.
I need to try this recipe!
Damn you. I knew there was no way I’d make it to the end of the replies without someone stealing that joke from me.
Am I the only one thinking that $3 ($3.50) for a cake is probably a little on the expensive side? Basic cakes from scratch use just flour, sugar eggs, milk and a leavening, right? You could probably buy a pound of sugar, flour, a dozen eggs and a half gallon of milk for $12 and make 12+ cakes.
In case I have a moment of weakness and try to make this, what size bowl works well?
Huh. I just tried it. I think it might be okay if I douse it in some kind of sauce.
I’m not impressed.
We made one last night for a birthday cake and left out the chocolate, used a chocolate flavoured cake mix and a can of coke and served it hot with icecream - it was a hit! Sorry to hear you don’t like it. 
Only if you’re the size of a GI Joe! :eek:
Seriously - there’s nothing y’all wouldn’t do for your country.
Australian Coke doesn’t have corn syrup.
I was going to start a thread on “five minute ‘cup’ cake” that I stumbled upon the other day: recipe here. I had to try it. No cake flour, though, so I used regular, and nuked it 3 and a half minutes. (Our microwave is only 700 watts.) It was okay–spongy in texture, a little oily, and didn’t rise much.
I tried again a few days later with about a half teaspoon or so of baking soda added in, and one more teaspoon of cocoa, and nuked three minutes. Success! Very much more like a real chocolate cake, much lighter, and resulted in two cute servings. I gobbled down one serving and had the second one with coffee at work today.
I’m intrigued but have no microwave, which seems to be kind of the point of these recipes.
However I have made a super-simple one-dish chocolate cake several times. Just mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder (or soda, can’t remember offhand) and salt in a (nonstick) pan. Add oil, vanilla, vinegar and water. Mix, bake, and you have a lovely little moist chocolate cake, and it’s vegan to boot (though that doesn’t really matter to me). All it needs is a dust of powdered sugar.
Baking time is the real trick though. Let it go a little too long and it gets dry and nasty real fast.
1/2 a beer, 1 package of sweet corn muffin mix, 4 thawed hot dogs, 6 minutes in a 1300w Microwave.
Result- not bad but I should have either not put the hot dogs in or not used SWEET mix. Non-sweetened cornbread mix would have been a better taste match with the dogs.
Is this a whoosh? I always thought a merkin was a pubic hair wig. According to Wikipedia, it was used by prostitutes who would shave their pubic hair to prevent lice. Don’t you usually shave or get a Brazillian wax anytime you are wearing a string bikini? Seems like a waste of time and hair.