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I heard this at Weight Watchers. Delicious cake idea. If you don't want to eat all the fatty, doughy cakes out there, try this light recipe and people will be licking their fingers off!

Take a prepackaged cake mix (from any grocery store, Betty Crocker, etc) and instead of using the ingredients listed on the back like eggs or oil, mix it with a can of diet coke. Works best with a chocolate or fudge mix. For whiter mixes like lemon powder or vanilla, mix in a can of diet 7up. Yum!

I just made Diet Coke Cake for a gathering and got lots of compliments on it before I told everyone how I made it. It was so easy. FANTASTIC idea... I got to be evil and low-cal* all at once!

*lower cal than normally-prepared boxed cake

I'm still confused.  My stupid mix only takes water adn one egg.  Should I have gotten a mix that wanted more stuff added? cause, honestly, I'm having a hard time seeing how 1/12 of one egg is really gonna save me a lot of calories :(

If you look on the nutritional information, the box should have just the mix vs. prepared.  Those are the calories you are saving, since the Diet Coke doesn't really add any caloric value (except sodium) whereas the eggs and oil add fat, cholesterol, etc. 

Your mix sounds like brownie mix, which reqires a smaller volume of stuff added than cake mixes, though all the brownie mixes I've known (and it's tough to beat a plate of brownies cost-wise for a pot-luck, so I've known a lot) still have oil and eggs added.  The one box I've got at home has 110 calories from the mix vs. 170 as prepared (1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 2 eggs) and 15 calories from fat in the mix vs. 70 for the prepared brownies.  Both are for a serving (1/20 pkg). 

Does that help? 

This is CRAZY! It totally comes out more moist than using eggs and oil!!  I used cherry flovored cake mix with diet cherry vanilla coke and it was awsome! I thought the color of the soda and the pink cake would conflict but it didn't make a difference in the color of the finished cake at all...everyone thought I was a nut for baking it this way until they tasted it!!!

okay, my kids and i are trying this today... i figured i could make 24 cupcakes out of the box, and we are looking at 85 cals per cupcake... if we make the more likely 18, it will be 113 cals per cupcake... my kids are so excited to see how this works, it is our "experiment of the day"... will let you know what THEY think of the finished product!

Nutra sweet breaks down into poisons when heated abobe 98F.

Never bake with ay product containing nutra sweet.

How so Dr. Nick?

Dr. Nick are you telling us not to make the diet coke cake? 

Also, for those that do not want to use the diet coke because of nurtasweet.  I often subsitute fat free vanilla yogurt for the oil.  And I only use egg whites.  Its pretty good.  You can also use fat free plain yogurt.

I just did this with a Betty Crocker chocolate chunk brownie mix (with the "mix-only" calories at 130 for 20 brownies) using Diet Pepsi (aspartame). Saves about 50 calories per brownie!

Also, I found nothing to coroborate the idea that aspartame or nutrasweet is harmful if cooked. In fact, the Nutrasweet website has this article about cooking with aspartame. I would love to see more info about this.

Best regards,

---Kayvan

So has anyone found a mix which DOESNT work with these diet drinks? I saw that blueberry works, but has anyone tried it with fresh fruit?
Do you have to use cooking mix? Surely someone could concoct their own to make it even healthier (cupcake mix would prolly use fuller fat ingredients). The diet drink just replaces the oil/eggs right? Oh, if only i had a kitchen!!!

Ksylvan,

Good Article, thankyou.  BTW welcome to CC

WHHHHY did I have to read this post today - when food shopping day is on SUNDAY!  (I just did it all last night)

-mouth salivates at idea of moist low-cal cake-

Do you know if there is a low_cal AND low_carb version?

Thanks

hey everyone! This is one of my favorite recipes are let me tell you can enjoy it with frosting. All you do is take one whole container of light or fat free cool-whip and mix in one package of any flavor instant pudding ( be sure to mix well because it will have a grainy texture) and whola you have a low-fat and low-calorie frosting that is oh so yummy!! Also I would like to add my own creations of the delightful cake. My favorite is using a pop by faygo it's diet chocolate cream pie, the pop by itself is gross but if you mix with chocolate fudge cake and for the frosting use chocolate pudding ladies you are a chocohaolic this is gonna be your new recipe I couldn't believe the taste oh so light. Another favoeite is spice cake with diet dr pepper and vanilla pudding tastes like carrot cake. Anyway you can use any diet pop and any pudding and any cake mix, only diet pop works and I usuallly bake for about 20 minutes.  enjoy and please share your new creations!

How annoying - all my shop's cake mixes now have the nutritionaly info for the PREPARED mix - including the milk, butter and eggs.
*sigh* So i have to guess how much i save. :(

Also, if the coke replaces the milk/butter/eggs, then couldn't you just adapt this theory to a normal cake mix? I'm not game enough to try tho :(
 So it would be

• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 10 oz, diet soda
  

Minus the called for

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup milk

Anyone game or tried this?

Hey, tried it with pepsi light. Its... oddly bland. Might have to try with diet coke. Might have been the cheap cake mix.

Does anyone know the ingredients in a cake mix? Or a recipe for one? Where I live they don't sell any.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/darkchocola tecakemix.htm

This is chocolate cake mix from one of my favorite websites.  Check out her other recipes while you're there.  She has a whole section on dieting.

Does diet coke work only for commercialy prepared cake mixes? Would it be possible to substitute it for the eggs, milk and oils needed to bake other types of bread at home?

I don't think it will work on anything but cake mixes.  I think the acidity in the coke reacts with the baking soda in the cake mix to make it light.