Categories: Cupcakes- Muffins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 large sugars
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cup cola soft drink
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup bourbon
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• Bourbon-and-Cola Glaze:
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 Tbsp. cola soft drink
• 2 1/2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa
• 1 Tbsp. bourbon
• 2 cups plus 2 Tbsp. powdered sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar; bet until blended.
2. Stir together cola, buttermilk, and bourbon in a small bowl. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients in another bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with cola mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition, stopping to scrape bowl as needed. Pour batter into Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks, and cool 30 minutes. Drizzle warm Bourbon-and-Cola Glaze over cakes.
3. Batter can be poured into `1 greased and floured 15-cup Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

4. Bourbon-and-Cola Glaze:

5. Cook first 3 ingredients in a 2-quart saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until butter melts. Remove from heat; stir in bourbon. Beat in powdered sugar at medium speed with an electric mixture until smooth.

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