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!

Okay so I thought this sounded pretty darn interesting and had to give it a go. I bought pillsburry devils food cake. I mixed the entire package with twelve ounces diet coke and one egg white and whisked it all together. Then I put a tablespoon of the batter into a mini muffin pan sprayed with nonstick pam. It ended up making 60 mini muffins at 32 calories each! I let them bake at 350 for twenty minutes and they came out oh so moist and perfectly delicious. I can pack three for less than 100 calories and they are totally enough! This is awesome, now I wonder if it would work with pancake mix..... or cookies? anyone?

I discovered another benefit of the Diet Coke Cake. When you lick the bowl after mixing it, you don't have to worry about salmonella poisoning from raw egg!

Today I made a Duncan Hines butter cake mix with a can of seltzer and it came out very well -- extremely light and moist.  It was a little short on flavor by itself (I think I would add some vanilla or almond extract next time), but great with chocolate frosting. 

I saved 80 calories per serving by using this tip, but I actually think the convenience aspect is even more of a benefit, as I always have cans of seltzer in the house but I don't always have butter and eggs.  Great tip!

does anyone know how many weight watchers points a piece of this cake is?

I made one this weekend and it was ok.  Very light and moist but like a pp said, it didn't have much flavor.  I used a Ducan Hines chocolate cake mix and Coke Zero.  I also didn't use any kind of frosting.  I will definitely try it again with different flavors.  Maybe a chocolate cake with diet orange soda.  When I make a regular cake I usually skip the frosting and serve the cake warm.  But next time I will try the Cool Whip frosting idea to bump up the flavor.

What is the result of this cake if you use Coke Zero?

Original Post by victoriaann256:

What is the result of this cake if you use Coke Zero?

 I only made it with Coke sero and Sprite Zero, never with Diet :p

It works, but I add an egg white because I heard it gives a better texture. I once added 2 and it was so fluffy i thought I was eating air.

This recipe is so useful (and cheap) when you don't have any eggs or milk, but nothing beats a Brownie chocolate cheesecake.

Ok ..now you'll have to give me the recipe for Brownie Chocolate Cheesecake!  Thanks for replying.

I made this cake using Pillsbury Orange cake mix.  I used 8 oz of diet 7-up and one egg white.  It was kinda dry.  What did I do wrong?

Original Post by victoriaann256:

I made this cake using Pillsbury Orange cake mix.  I used 8 oz of diet 7-up and one egg white.  It was kinda dry.  What did I do wrong?

Because you only used 8oz. Normally, I think it's 10oz. (Well that's what I used and it was very moist)

Thanks for the reply.  I saw some of the posts stating they used 8oz. I'll try 10oz next time.  Thanks!!

The original recipe says 1 can of diet Coke.  Isn't that 12 ounces?

1 can is 12 ounces. When I made it, I made it with 1 can, and a whole mix without any egg. It worked perfectly. But you have to let the pop get flat and it works better. Worked really good with cake, but when I tried it with brownies, it was a little too moist and tasted like coke haha. Usually the coke taste goes away though. 

Hum...

So now we have 2 versions:

1. 10oz + 1 egg white
2. 12oz

Mystery...:p

I tried this recipe - Diet cherry 7-up with vanilla cake - very yummy. Diet coke with splenda with chocolate cake - not so yummy.