{"id":30,"date":"2006-10-26T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T03:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2019-07-04T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T19:37:20","slug":"diet-coke-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/diet-coke-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"diet coke cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this idea a while ago &#8211; making a low fat cake from a packet of cake mix by replacing the usual added ingredients (water, eggs, oil) with\u00a0a can of diet <em>carbonated beverage of choice<\/em>. So tonight I tried it out for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 packet cake mix (I used Dr. Oetker Added Touch Chocolate Cake Mix)<\/li>\n<li>1 can diet cola (my preference is Diet Pepsi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Mix and bake\u00a0for the time and temperature\u00a0given on the cake mix packet. I used\u00a0half\u00a0the\u00a0packet of cake mix and half a can of Diet Pepsi (so I wouldn&#8217;t waste as much if the recipe was a disaster) and\u00a0it made 9 cupcakes (baked in a muffin pan\u00a0pre-greased with spray oil). I baked them for 20 mins at\u00a0350\u00b0F (180\u00b0C) et voila:<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"\/blog\/images\/dietcokecake.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"chocolate cake made from packet cake mix and diet cola\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/dietcokecake.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mmm, cake&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am pleasantly surprised:\u00a0it looks just like regular cake and\u00a0the texture is light and moist. The flavour is a little different\u00a0from a regular chocolate cake, but it is GOOD. And considering that\u00a0the finished cakes have 100 calories each and less than 1g of fat, it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>You can use any flavour of cake mix and any flavour of diet soda &#8211; I think lemon or golden cake with diet 7-up would work well. And if you iced them they&#8217;d be even better.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: quick, easy, good value, yummy, AND not too sinful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this idea a while ago &#8211; making a low fat cake from a packet of cake mix by replacing the usual added ingredients (water, eggs, oil) with\u00a0a can of diet carbonated beverage of choice. So tonight I tried it out for myself. Ingredients: 1 packet cake mix (I used Dr. Oetker Added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}