The Blonde Diaries

One of the most famous recipes when you are on Weight Watchers is the diet coke cake. I have heard people talk about it at meetings and on online message boards for years now but have been too chicken to try it. I just couldn’t believe that you could make a cake with just a box of mix and diet soda. It just didn’t seem real or too tasty to me.

Well, my new coworker has tried it before and was talking about it a few weeks ago. It sounded so simple and easy to make and she swore that it tasted like real cake. I figure since she seems to be very similar to me that she was most likely telling the truth and I would give it a try. I hit up Kroger and found the new Reduced Sugar cake mix and brought home a diet coke plus from work to make my cake. And the ingredients sat for 2 weeks on the counter. Call me a chicken, call me skeptical, just know that I wasn’t sure even after buying the ingredients if the cake was worth the trouble.

But after more Googling (hello how do you ice this cake??), and mentioning it to my mother, I finally made the cake Monday night. Boy was the cake good, quick, and easy. It even looked like real cake when it was all said and done. I ended up using the entire 12 oz Diet Coke Plus and a box of the Reduced Sugar Devil’s Food Cake mix and followed the cooking directions. It came out really moist and without any real flavor differences. I also “iced” it with fat free cool whip. I would totally make this cake again but next time I want to try yellow cake mix, diet orange soda, and cool whip with fat free chocolate pudding mix for the icing. Yumm!

So there you have it. If you haven’t made the diet coke cake you should totally make it and give it a try. You can even make them into cupcakes if cake isn’t your thing. I think it comes out to 3 WW points per serving if you follow the serving size directions but I made smaller pieces to cut my points per day down.

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