Hardly as impressive as Meatcake, this strangely light recipe is sort of a miracle of science taught to me by my friend Samm. The concept is simple: Replace the eggs and oil in a standard box cake mix with a can of diet soda; ANY diet soda.
To be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure I believed her, but I decided tonight to give it a go. To make this lovely and fluffy cake, I combined:
- 1 can of Diet Sunkist
- 1 box white cake mix
- 2 egg whites (for fluffiness)
And that’s it. Seriously. I beat it ’til it wasn’t too lumpy, tossed it in the oven for 25 minutes at 350º and ended up with a light, fluffy and tasty cake. I frosted it with some lemon frosting in a tub that I got for 99¢ in the scratch & dent cart at my local grocer (they always seem to have some type of frosting). I can only DREEEEEAM of all the new combinations I shall make for my new favorite shortcut dessert. I imagine there are some pretty fantastic things that one can do with a can of Diet Dr. Pepper…
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Samm
December 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
See….I told you!
I’m going to try your version! Oh! I think I’ll try the diet orange Sunkist with a Vanilla cake mix. Mmmmm. My boss said that her mom has done that too and you can use regular soda as well. But why bother when diet works just fine? She also said her mom puts soda in pancake batter. Now THAT I’m unsure of!