Baking with soda...?

I'm hearing great things about making cakes, pancakes, ect. with diet soda. I want to try it, but I don't know if it's good. Can anybody offer opinions or advice, like how much soda to use or if I should just stick to what the box says? I've also heard applesauce and pumpkin puree works...but mostly I just want to know if Coke zero will!

I made cupcakes with diet coke and they came out really good! Everyone was surprised.

There are only two ingredients - a cake mix and a can of soda.  Mix until moistened and bake at 350 F for about 30 minutes, depending on what size pan you use.

I'm not a fan of these cakes however.  I feel that they are much too sweet because there is sugar in the cake mix and artificial sweetener in the soda - double sweet. 

If I'm going to do a cake mix cake, I use either a can of pumpkin or applesauce and it comes out fine, without the fat from the oil or the cholesterol from the eggs.  It's still too high in sugar, but you have to live a little once in a while.

My new favorite - gingerbread mx and pumpkin.

Original Post by clairelaine:

There are only two ingredients - a cake mix and a can of soda.  Mix until moistened and bake at 350 F for about 30 minutes, depending on what size pan you use.

I'm not a fan of these cakes however.  I feel that they are much too sweet because there is sugar in the cake mix and artificial sweetener in the soda - double sweet. 

If I'm going to do a cake mix cake, I use either a can of pumpkin or applesauce and it comes out fine, without the fat from the oil or the cholesterol from the eggs.  It's still too high in sugar, but you have to live a little once in a while.

My new favorite - gingerbread mx and pumpkin.

So you just throw in a can of pumpkin puree and none of the eggs, oil, or water?  I want to try this with spice cake mix...

what is the pancake and soda recipe

dont know about coke zero but i use  12oz diet coke in a chocolate cake recipe and layered it with lite cool whip and fat free pudding and it was excellent-mine wasnt too sweet and i'm not a sweets fan. even my boyfriend ate it and never knew the difference. 

i've done this a couple of times and found that a 12 oz can made it a little wet,still very tasty, but awfully messy especially if you have kids. i cut back to 10 oz the next time and it was not quite as sticky, but still not quite what i'd prefer. i'll try it again some time and use 8 oz. one thing to keep in mind is that i live in Houston, TX where the humidity is pretty high most of the time. if you live somewhere drier it might work just fine with a full can.

good luck!

yep i live i Colorado, higher than denver so that probably why it was ok for me

Yum! can't wait to try the diet coke and cake mix combo. I also heard that you can make a cake using cake mix and pureed black beans from the can. S'posed to taste good, not too sweet.

Anyone try that?

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I think it makes cakes too sweet.  You have all the sugar in the cake mix, then on top of that all the artificial sweetner in the fizzy drink.  The only calories you save are from fat, which is ok, but to me the loss of flavor is worse.

1 can pumpkin + spice cake mix + 1 c water + raisins, choc chips, nuts, or whatever you like = pure deliciousness

ooooo, i'm going to try the spice cake/ pumkin one

I just made diet coke dark chocolate cupcakes this weekend!! I was delighfully suprised with the outcome. They were even better then making them the original way! You cant even taste the coke in it. The only bad thing was there kind of crumbly so wait till they cool before taking them out(if you make cupcakes) And i used 1 and 1/2 cups of diet soda and it worked perfectly. Im eating a cupcake right now actually haha, i would definately reccomend trying them!!!

Thanks everyone for your input! I think I'll make some brownies later tonight and I'll let you know how it goes! I'll be using No Pudge! brownies...I think in mint?

Good luck with the mint brownies, those sound fantastic!

On a related note--I wonder if soda water/fizzy water would work in place of a sweetened soda.  Has anyone tried this?  Is it just the carbonation that is the critical ingredient?

On a related note--I wonder if soda water/fizzy water would work in place of a sweetened soda.  Has anyone tried this?  Is it just the carbonation that is the critical ingredient?

Hmm...anybody want to try it? The next time I make something with a mix, I'll try carbonated water. Who knows, maybe it's the chemicals in soda that make it work.

As for my brownies, I used coke zero, and they turned out pretty good. They were really mushy, but I don't know if that's how all No Pudge brownies turn out, or if it was the use of soda instead of what the box called for- which was vanilla yogurt, actually.

Original Post by wouldyouliketosupersize:

On a related note--I wonder if soda water/fizzy water would work in place of a sweetened soda.  Has anyone tried this?  Is it just the carbonation that is the critical ingredient?

Hmm...anybody want to try it? The next time I make something with a mix, I'll try carbonated water. Who knows, maybe it's the chemicals in soda that make it work.

As for my brownies, I used coke zero, and they turned out pretty good. They were really mushy, but I don't know if that's how all No Pudge brownies turn out, or if it was the use of soda instead of what the box called for- which was vanilla yogurt, actually.

For the mushy in the middle, you're just not cooking them long enough. The first time I made diet coke cupcakes, they came out mushy, but they firm up if you keep checking them. Check with a toothpick like anything else :)

I was also thinking about the carbonated water and if it works. I've NO idea, but I have a box of banana cake mix that I completely want to try tonight! I can't imagin what I can mix with it. I want to try and find diet cream soda, but thats nearly impossible for just 1 can. Man!

Also a tip: To frost, you can whip up some "frosting" by taking a few cups of fat free cool whip (which is on sale everywhere right now) and folding in your favorite whatever. Be careful with this. "Folding" is the only way you can do it without deflating the whip. People use sugar free pudding mix, and last time I used my PB2 peanut butter (powdered) with devils food cake for some "recees" cupcakes. DELICIOUS! I'm just doing vanilla pudding whip on my banana cake for banana cream pie cupcakes this time around. It only takes a few tablespoons of powdered whatever to whip up a batch. I hear extracts also work.

mmm..

Hey!  I tried making cake mix with plain old carbonated water, and it worked!  Well...I made cookies with the cake mix but the principal is similar :P  The cookies were still very sweet (practically too sweet, eek, so sugary), so I can only imagine they would have been unbearably so if I had used diet coke or something.  Anyway...success!

has anyone ever tried to make cornbread with pop?  i think a reular clear soda would be to sweet, but maybe just a corbonated water?  anyone?