Diet Soda Cake

Vkoons3
Vkoons3 Posts: 122 Member
edited September 27 in Recipes
I made a chocolate cake last night for the first time usin the Diet soda recipe that I Have been hearing about. The cake tasted fantastic but it is super dense and looks more like brownies. Did I do something wrong or has anyone else had those results?

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  • Melis25Fit
    Melis25Fit Posts: 811 Member
    That's how it looks! :o)
  • angelquest
    angelquest Posts: 15
    Sounds good! Where can we find the recipe and nutrition info?
  • BeckyKSmith
    BeckyKSmith Posts: 212 Member
    Here is another recipe we love which is similar.....Jello Poke Cake

    Mix one can of diet sierra mist or any diet white soda (can even use diet orange soda) with a white cake mix and bake at 350.
    While still warm, poke holes all over cake. Mix up a small box of sugar free jello (use orange if you used the orange jello...we like cherry jello, then pour it on top of cake and let it soak in the holes. Then cover the top with fat free cool whip when cool...Keep refrigerated....super yummy!
  • ashleigh2311
    ashleigh2311 Posts: 105 Member
    Ive seen it around but never thought it would actually work. definitely going to give it a go! :)
  • gail2207
    gail2207 Posts: 133
    Is this like chocolate cola cake? I wanted to try with diet coke but I thought what the hell, it's going to be so high in calories and fat anyway! Love it though. And yes, mine was like brownies too. Soooo good.
  • ChunTingO
    ChunTingO Posts: 225 Member
    bump
  • suzyr78
    suzyr78 Posts: 16 Member
    What are the nutrition stats on the Jello Poke cake for logging in Fitness Pal?

    Sounds good :)
  • rissaface
    rissaface Posts: 129 Member
    Here is another recipe we love which is similar.....Jello Poke Cake

    Mix one can of diet sierra mist or any diet white soda (can even use diet orange soda) with a white cake mix and bake at 350.
    While still warm, poke holes all over cake. Mix up a small box of sugar free jello (use orange if you used the orange jello...we like cherry jello, then pour it on top of cake and let it soak in the holes. Then cover the top with fat free cool whip when cool...Keep refrigerated....super yummy!



    I will have to try this one......what is the nutritional info on this one? :happy:
  • Vkoons3
    Vkoons3 Posts: 122 Member
    Is this like chocolate cola cake? I wanted to try with diet coke but I thought what the hell, it's going to be so high in calories and fat anyway! Love it though. And yes, mine was like brownies too. Soooo good.

    I just used a can of Diet Coke with a chocolate cake mix and yes is was very good and not sure how it alters the nutrition facts I am guessing just using the nutrition facts on the box of the mix before baking since the diet soday has no calories or fat...I love to bake so I am hoping that I can come up with a better low fat low cal recipe on my own without using a mix.
  • gail2207
    gail2207 Posts: 133
    Oh awesome. This is the recipe I used:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolatecolacake_7614

    It's one of the best cakes i've ever had!
  • BeckyKSmith
    BeckyKSmith Posts: 212 Member
    You would have to enter it in the recipe builder. I think it is under 200 for a 12th of the pan.
  • soon2bmrsc
    soon2bmrsc Posts: 41
    mmmm jello cake sounds sooooo good! thanks for this!
  • bridgeville
    bridgeville Posts: 43
    jello poke cake sounds great
  • wirefly
    wirefly Posts: 1
    Hmm- I only make cakes with diet soda and they always come out like cake. I don't follow a recipe though; I just pour to the consistency of the batter (I'm new and didn't see the original recipe- but I just do boxed mix and soda). Everyone is always amazed and can't tell the difference.
  • hjollyrn
    hjollyrn Posts: 208 Member
    Here is another recipe we love which is similar.....Jello Poke Cake

    Mix one can of diet sierra mist or any diet white soda (can even use diet orange soda) with a white cake mix and bake at 350.
    While still warm, poke holes all over cake. Mix up a small box of sugar free jello (use orange if you used the orange jello...we like cherry jello, then pour it on top of cake and let it soak in the holes. Then cover the top with fat free cool whip when cool...Keep refrigerated....super yummy!

    This is super yummy! my husband even loved it!
  • awyler
    awyler Posts: 78
    Jelly Poke Cake is DELICIOUS!!!!
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    Yup! I do these for the kids bdays so we can still have cake! Frost it with a little Free coolwhip. It is a little more brownie like but still yum!
  • pannacottayum
    pannacottayum Posts: 96 Member
    had cheerwine pound cake once....yummmmm
  • otm25
    otm25 Posts: 106 Member
    Bump!
  • JNALTBK
    JNALTBK Posts: 136 Member
    Hmmm . ..interesting. Thanks.
  • lizzy2250
    lizzy2250 Posts: 4
    I used to make a fruit cobbler either with blueberries or black raspberries:

    1 box of white cake mix

    1 pkg of frozen fruit

    16 oz of diet sprite or diet sierra mist

    Spray a 9x13 cake pan with no stick cooking spray, spread the fruit on the bottom of the pan, pour the cake mix over the fruit, pour two cups of diet sprite over cake mix. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 for approximately 45 minutes, taking the aluminum foil off for the last 15 minutes, so the mixture can brown.

    You can also mix the cake mixture together to make it more like a cake then a cobbler
  • PantalaNagaPampa
    PantalaNagaPampa Posts: 1,031 Member
    OK, this sounds great, now I want to try it.
  • My600PdLife
    My600PdLife Posts: 57 Member
    My kids soooo loved this, We will make this again. :happy:
  • lauragoat
    lauragoat Posts: 197 Member
    bump for future
  • rtbogan0407
    rtbogan0407 Posts: 5 Member
    bump!!!
  • Huey2943
    Huey2943 Posts: 1
    I made a diet Soda cake today, first time I tried one and it was great ! My wife loved it too. I used a box of white cake mix and one 12 oz diet coke, mixed well, baked in a 8x8 pan at 350 degrees.
  • calig8tr
    calig8tr Posts: 4 Member
    Got the Diet Soda Cake idea from Hungry Girl...she has great suggestions and pairings. Used chocolate mix with coke zero and it was DELISH, but very soft and crumbly (fell apart); as long as you only care about taste and not looks, it was FABULOUS. Next tried HG's "favorite" pairing: Lemon cake mix with lemon-lime soda (I used sprite zero) and frosted with cool whip (cupcakes)...SO GOOD. BUT, my absolute favorite so far: Made a lemon with sprite zero cake yesterday (for a 4th of July party) and frosted with lite cool whip and "decorated" with blueberries and raspberries. This was an amazingly light and yummy dessert. Refreshing and satisfying....and SUPER easy! Now just trying to figure out the exact stats so I can enter in my food log.
  • Melbel85
    Melbel85 Posts: 240 Member
    I made a devils food cake with diet dr pepper. I thought I would be fancy and make a layered cake... bad idea! It tasted AWESOME but it falls apart easily.
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