When making ribs, I have to get the seal of approval from my husband as it is his favorite dish. There are 2 ways you can make Crock Pot Coca-Cola Baby Back Ribs and both versions are a hit in our household.
I mean you really can’t go wrong either way as the crock pot does all or most of the work for you. It just depends on how you like your ribs either caramelized or not and how much time you have to prepare them. And either way has the meat fallen off the bone and melt in your mouth. Yum! Yum!
More Delicious Crock Pot Recipes
- Slow Cooker Mississippi Pot Roast
- Slow Cooker Hearty Chili
- Crock Pot Italian Chicken
- Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup
Coca-Cola Baby Back Ribs Ingredients
1 Rack of Pork Baby Back Ribs
12 oz. Coca-Cola
1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1 18 oz. Bottle of Barbecue Sauce
Salt and Pepper to Taste
How to Make Coca-Cola Baby Back Ribs
Spray the inside of the crock pot with non-stick spray or use a liner.
In a bowl add brown sugar, salt and pepper and mix together. Season ribs on both sides with mixture.
Wrap ribs around the inside of the crock pot.
Mix BBQ sauce and Coke together in a bowl. Pour BBQ sauce and Coke mixture over ribs and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
How to Caramelize Ribs
If you like your ribs to be caramelized follow these easy instructions.
Spray the inside of the crock pot with non-stick spray or use a liner.
Season the ribs to taste with salt and pepper. Wrap ribs around the inside of the crock pot. Pour Coke over ribs and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
Carefully transfer the ribs to an oven safe pan lined with aluminum foil.
Brush BBQ sauce over the ribs using a basting brush and put under broiler until they become caramelized. (Be sure to keep checking it as it doesn’t take long to do)
Remove and Enjoy some fall off the bone delicious ribs!
Recipe
Crock Pot Coca-Cola Baby Back Ribs
Ingredients
- 1 Rack of Pork Baby Back Ribs
- 12 oz. Coca-Cola
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 18 oz. Bottle of Barbecue Sauce
- Salt and Pepper to Taste
Instructions
How to Make Coca-Cola Baby Back Ribs
- Spray the inside of the crock pot with non-stick spray or use a liner.
- In a bowl add brown sugar, salt and pepper and mix together. Season ribs on both sides with mixture.
- Wrap ribs around the inside of the crock pot.
- Mix BBQ sauce and Coke together in a bowl. Pour BBQ sauce and Coke mixture over ribs and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
How to Caramelize Ribs
- If you like your ribs to be caramelized follow these easy instructions.
- Spray the inside of the crock pot with non-stick spray or use a liner.
- Season the ribs to taste with salt and pepper. Wrap ribs around the inside of the crock pot. Pour Coke over ribs and cook on low for 8-10 hours.
- Carefully transfer the ribs to an oven safe pan lined with aluminum foil.
- Brush BBQ sauce over the ribs using a basting brush and put under broiler until they become caramelized. (Be sure to keep checking it as it doesn't take long to do)
- Remove and Enjoy some fall off the bone delicious ribs!
Nutrition Disclosure
Nutritional facts are estimates and are provided as a courtesy to the reader. Please utilize your own brand nutritional values to double check against our estimates. Nutritional values are calculated via a third party. Changing ingredients, amounts or cooking technique will alter the estimated nutritional calculations.
Deborah
Wish you would make your recipes printer friendly or a way to print recipes.
Alison
Good News, Deborah! We are now print friendly. Just click on the “print friendly” green icon at the end of the recipes. You can choose how you want to print it out such as deleting any text or pictures you want and don’t want. Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention and apologize for the inconvenience it caused.
Sherry Dee Ball
Don’t see it!
Alison
Sorry about that. I just saw the print function was off on this recipe. I just updated it so you can now print it. Thanks for letting me know.
Terry
Made these yesterday they were delicious ty for sharing….
Jennifer Foster
The green Print Friendly icon isn’t working
Diane Conway
Directions don’t mention the brown sugar.
Kim
What kind of barbecue sauce?
William Soul Jr
Jack Daniels #7
Kim
What flavor BBQ sauce I meant
Sandee
My personal favorite for sweet ribs is Sweet Baby Ray’s. If you like more of a bite to it, Jack Daniel’s BBQ Sauce (spicy). They’re both excellent! ?
Tanya
Do they go in oven for 8-10 or on hob? And when do you use the sugar?
Rebekah
Hey Alison! Trying to figure out when to use the brown sugar?? Don’t see that step in either sets of directions. Thanks!
Sue Stoffers
Personally I would mix the brown sugar with the other sauce ingredients. But really it shouldn’t matter whether you do it that way or just put the brown sugar on the meat. After cooking 8-10 hours it should all come together anyway.
Patricia
I made these over the weekend, and they were good, but it didn’t take ANYWHERE near the 8-10 hours in the crockpot on low. (I made two batches, each in it’s own crockpot). Both crocks had them cooked and ready in 4.5 hours! I’m so glad I checked mid-stream, or those poor ribs would have been dry as dust.
Trisha
Patricia,
The reason your ribs were done in half the time is because you used actual Baby Back Ribs and a 12 oz. Coca-Cola. In the pix posted for each step, one can clearly see that a 2 ltr. Bottle Coca-Cola was used for Original Pork Back Ribs, NOT Baby Back and why the cook time was twice as long. Regular Pork Back Ribs take twice as long to cook because the meat is thicker, less tender and the actual bones are harder than Baby Back Ribs. The brown sugar should have been mixed with the bbq sauce before adding the Coca-Cola.
The Sodium Bicarbonate & The Effervescence of the Carbon Dioxide in the Coca-Cola is what tenderizes the meat and pulls the natural juices from the bone marrow i to the meat.
The Caramel in the Coca-Cola and the Brown Sugar in the sauce mixture is what brings out the caramelization when broiling
Trisha
Greig McKellar
Pix? You mean the one at the beginning with reg pork back ribs in a baby back ribs recipe with the 4-6 cups jar of brown sugar and big bottle of Coke? So for a baby back ribs recipe the reg pork ribs take the full time as per the recipe and instead of the 12oz can use a full 2 ltr. A 2-3 lb rack is big enough for this recipe I take it to use or bigger? Then for that size rack to be done on low use 12 oz or 2 ltr Coke and check after 4-4 1/2 hrs?
As we’re not drinking it, should Coke-Pepsi-or cola make a difference here? Pepsi is sweeter right off the get-go so with all that brown sugar will this really make a difference?
Joanne
Where does the 1/4c of brown sugar come in?
Alison
I am not sure what you mean. If you are talking on where to get it, you can find brown sugar at the grocery store in the baking aisle and measure 1/4 cup. Hope that helps!
Sandee
Mix it on the BBQ sauce?
Denise
Where does it say 2 liter bottle of coke in the recipe?
Dave
This is a seriously messed up recipe. One that should be removed fixed and listed again.
Try this one, I am going to try it tomorrow.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/sweet-cola-ribs-recipe-1953650
Gina
I know where to find brown sugar in the grocery store. I also see it in your picture and see it listed in the ingredients. I CANNOT find it in either of your listed instructions. I am assuming this is what others are referring to also.
Joya
I’m confused! The recipe is called baby back ribs, it calls for baby back ribs, but Trisha wrote its Original Pork back ribs…which is it?
Mary Dodge
I agree with you. This is the most screwed up recipe I have ever read. The directions are not complete, i.e. brown sugar, and then the cooking time doesn’t match ingedients list. Yes, I could figure this out because I have cooked for over 58 yrs. but a lot of people don’t have that experience.
Susan Neff
Simple mix everything together then pour over! Pretty Simple. Just made it…….
Pam Brown
Do you put the Brown sugar in the crock pot
jerry jeffrey
No , just sprinkle over the top of the crock pot while cooking
Jennifer Foster
The printer icon doesn’t work
Alison
Jennifer try it again. It seems to be working now. Sorry about that.
Sandy
I will try this tomorrow with bone in pork chops… I will let y’all know the verdict…
Sandy
Alison, I am by no means trying to alter your recipe… it is just the only thing close I have is chops… it just sounded so good…
Michele
It clearly states where the brown sugar comes in….just read it carefully i guess….cause its there….this is a delicious recipe….it just takes someone that passed 2nd grade to follow the instructions right..
Wanda
Well I understood the recipe and if anyone knows how to cook, you will know where the brown sugar goes and know how long to cook either kind of ribs, ribs are done when they fall off the bone and lift tenderly with a fork, which this recipe is amazing. Thank you for sharing
Bob
I. Used the brown sugar with a little salt and pepper as a rub. Then let them sit for about an hour in the fridge. Then I baked them in the oven at 300 degrees for about 1 1/2 hrs covered. Then I uncovered them and slathered them with the bbq sauce, which I mixed with Dr. Pepper instead of Coca Cola, I didn’t have the coke on hand. Then I baked them for another 45 min. I removed them and slathered them again with bbq sauce. Then set to broil, and broiled them for 5 min. Came out great!
Alison
That sounds delicious!