nana's no name cake

(2 ratings)
Recipe by
Deneece Gursky
Miami, FL

I remember Nana making this when I was a kid, just found the recipe in my recipe shoe box but there is no name on it : ( So it becomes the No Name Cake. The ingredients may seem a bit odd, but the cake is wonderful! Hope you all give it a try. I am planning on making it when I am no longer sick!!

(2 ratings)

Ingredients For nana's no name cake

  • 2 c flour
  • 2 c sugar
  • 1 1/2 c miniature marshmallows
  • 1/2 c butter
  • 1/2 c oil
  • 3 tablespoons hersheys cocoa
  • 1 c coke soda
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1/2 c buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • ICING
  • 1/2 c butter
  • 3 tablespoons hersheys cocoa
  • 16 oz bag powdered sugar
  • 5 or 6 tablespoons coke soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • TOPPING
  • chopped walnuts or pecans

How To Make nana's no name cake

  • 1
    Sift together flour and sugar in a large bowl. Toss in the miniature marshmallows.
  • 2
    Mix together butter, oil, coke and cocoa in a pan on stove. Bring just to a boil and then pour this over the flour sugar and marshmallow mixture and blend all together well.
  • 3
    mix baking powder in buttermilk until it is dissolved. Now add this, the vanilla and the eggs to the marshmallow mixture, and mix well.
  • 4
    Grease a 9x13 pan well and pour this mixture into it. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 to 45 minutes or until done.
  • 5
    Mix butter cocoa and coke in a pan on stove. Bring just to a boil.
  • 6
    Put powdered sugar in a bowl and then pour the icing mixture over it. Add the vanilla and blend.
  • 7
    Pour this over the cake while it is still warm. then sprinkle with walnuts

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