Coca-Cola Carrot Cake

Yield: 16 servings

CAKE
2 cup  flour, sifted
1 ts baking soda
1/2 ts salt
2 tb cocoa
3    eggs
1 1/2 cup  sugar
1/2 cup  vegetable oil
3/4 cup  Coca-Cola
1 1/2 ts vanilla
2 1/4 cup  raw carrots, grated
1 cup  nuts, chopped
1 cup  coconut, flaked

COCA COLA SYRUP
3/4 cup  sugar
2 ts cocoa
6 tb Coca-Cola
6 tb butter
1 tb light corn syrup
1/2 ts vanilla

Cake: Mix all the dry ingredients together. Beat the eggs well; add sugar,
oil,  3/4 cup cola, and vanilla and beat well. Stir in the dry
ingredients until  smooth, then add the carrots, nuts and coconut.
Mix well. Bake in a greased  and lightly floured 13 x 9 pan in a
preheated 350~F oven for 40-50 minutes,  until cake tests done.
Remove from oven and prick hot cake all over with a  fork, then pour
the cola syrup slowly, evenly over the top. Serve warm or  room
temperature with lightly sweetened-vanilla flavored whipped cream.

Coca-Cola Syrup: Combine sugar, cocoa, cola, butter and corn syrup in
 saucepan; bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.
Boil,  stirring, until thick and syrupy, about 5 minutes. Add vanilla
extract.  Remove from heat and pour, hot, over hot cake.