Diet Coke Cake

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 made a Devils Food Cake with diet coke last night and had to come online to tell you how much I love you!!!!!  I didn't believe it could be true, but it was.  It is way fluffier and lighter and satisfied my desire for sweets.  I couldn't be happier.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Someone asked the calories for the entire cake and mine was 370.  The piece I had was 57 and I enjoyed every minute of it!

Original Post by beacher39:

Someone asked the calories for the entire cake and mine was 370.  The piece I had was 57 and I enjoyed every minute of it!

That can't be right.  Here's the info for a whole box of chocolate cake mix

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/item.php?ite m_id=18099&size=2

2243 calories for the whole box of mix.  Divided by 12 = 186 a piece.  Divided by 18 = 124

Has anyone tried this with the reduced sugar cake mixes from Pillsbury?

Original Post by karefreeman:

Has anyone tried this with the reduced sugar cake mixes from Pillsbury?

I haven't seen those - must look for them.  One reason I don't make diet coke cake is that you get all the sugar in the cake mix.  The only thing you take out is the fat and eggs.  I never could see much advantage to making it.  The other reason is that it's way too sweet - you still have all the sugar, and then diet soda on top of that - double sweet.

is this for real?

how would it taste good, tho? i don't get it..

how much diet coke would you put to how much mix??

1 regular box cake to 1 regular can of diet cola or sprite or whatever.

Clairellaine, they make the icing too.  Both still have some sugar but only about half.

I made the cupcakes using the reduced sugar cake mix and a can of Chocolate Cherry Diet Dr. Pepper.  Without any additions 24 cupcakes came to 80 calories each.  I put dried fuit in mine though which brings the calories up to 97.5 each. I have to say they are delicious!  This would be great with cool whip and fresh fruit. You could even make cakes like 'little debbie' and fill them with cool whip.

I want to try with club soda toooo, but im waiting on maria's report!

could you make low calorie cookies with a cookie mix and diet soda?

Original Post by karefreeman:

Has anyone tried this with the reduced sugar cake mixes from Pillsbury?

I have! I made it with egg beaters instead of eggs and applesauce instead of oil.  That only adds like 10 calories per slice and it was really good! I've never tried diet coke though. Sounds weird but I might have to test it out sometime.

how many points in a piece of this cake?

I made one today! Oh it tasted just like it was made without diet coke!

It was Betty Crocker's Super Moist Double Fudge Chocolate Cake mix. Does that mean the entire cake is 170 calories or does it mean the cake is cut into 12 pieces and each piece is 170 calories?

 

God I should read the entire thread, Claire answered my question.

The cake was awesome. <3

Okay, ready for another dumb question I didn't see answered in this thread? Do you think it would work just as well with Caffeine Free Diet Coke? I don't see why not, but then again I never would have thought this whole idea would work, so what do I know?

For anyone living in the uk, Asda's own brand diet coke doesnt have aspartame in it...I think it would be Walmart in the usa (but dont know if ingredients are the same!)

I have avoided aspartame since reading about the drug trial results carried out before it was licenced...very scary reading!!!

I'm about to try this Diet Coke cake, but I don't know if I'm supposed to still use an electric mixer as the recipe recommends or if I should mix by hand. Any thoughts? Thanks.

whatever you do, do not make brownies with this :(

Okay, I just made a Duncan Hines Spice Cake using a can of Caffeine Free Diet Coke. I haven't tasted it yet, but it looks great, and it came out of the pan more cleanly that any other cake mix I've made the conventional way. I used Cool-Whip Lite between layers and to "frost" it,and we'll probably have some for dessert tonight.

One thing I'n a little concerned about it how to store the cake (assuming we don't finish it tonight ). Since it's frosted with Cool Whip, I imagine it has to stay in the 'fridge, no? In fact, it's in the refrigerator now while we await dinner. Is that going to cause any problems?

After having a piece for desert tonight, the review is...good, but not great. Maybe I cooked it a tad too long. I also used slightly less than the full can of soda, because the batter seemed wet enough. The end result was a little drier than I expected, and more dense. But that may be because I'm keeping it in the 'fridge because of the Cool Whip topping. I'll see how the kids like it.

I'll probably attempt it again, just to see if it comes out any differently.