For this recipe instead of the traditional egg/milk/oil you add to the cake mix she has added diet Sprite! This is for a 1 point cake mix for the much used "Weight Watchers" program. If you aren't on the program, or just really don't care to lose weight, feel free to use the asked for ingredients on the box. Honestly it tastes really good with diet Sprite and the texture comes out the same.
This cake is suitable for many occasions:
- A child’s birthday
- Your mom’s birthday
- Coming out to your conservative parents
- If you’re a lesbian, they’ll be thrilled that you won’t be forgoing your feminine kitchen duties.
- If you’re the kind of gay dude who makes cakes for your parents, they were probably on to you anyway.
- Coming out to your conservative parents on your mother’s birthday
- Your friend’s jam band CD release party
That’s all. Notice the lack of fat in here? Mmmmmm . . . chemicals. Though I don’t need to defend my method thanks to the double-dub (WW) aspect, even when I make a “real” cake I usually use box mix because let’s face it: Betty’s been doing it way longer than I have, and has pretty much perfected the art.
1. Pour 2-12 oz cans of soda into the
No eggs, no oil, no water, no sweat.
2. Measure out 60 ozs cake mix because I have 6 different colors
(30 oz. if you are using only 1 box of cake)
2. It worked out to
Add one color to each divided cake mix.
As you can see the gel pigment dye is really colorful, you can also use regular liquid food coloring but you will not get this vibrant result!
The first color you drop into the pan, use about 2/3 of the mix for that colour. Otherwise, the top (last) colour will really dominate. I used a heaping 1 cup of each colour. (1/4 cup if you're using only 1 box.)
Drop the colors, one by one, into the middle of the pan, in neat little gobs. Remember the cake is going to be sliced in the side there, so mixing it around on top isn’t going to make your slices any more psychedelic (trust me, I did the three-dimensional thinking for you already).
When you’re three colors in, start doing the reverse with the other pan. Since I’m going in rainbow order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, I got from red to yellow in the first pan, then purple, blue, green in the second. This is so that your two pans are equal if your measurements aren’t exact (and they’re not likely to be).
Now finish up.
Cook according to the box’s baking instructions and do your dishes while you wait!
Such lovely dishes!
Now for the frosting: 1 box of fat free sugar free pudding mix to one 8 oz fat-free/sugar-free/light whipped topping. (2 boxes of pudding if your using 2 boxes of cake and 2 8 oz tubs or 1 16 oz tub)
Obviously this is optional, more for the fat-free/low-fat version if you still are holding on to that 1 point per slice cake! If not then use any frosting you darn well please!
If you used above recipe for the frosting, it might be a little tough to spread, so treat it like a butter cream (or so I'm told I've never used butter cream lol). Putting gobs all over, then smoothing in worked well for me.
My attempt at frosting, it’s so pretty-looking?
Here’s what this particular cake looked like with only 1 box. See how it’s tiny and too rounded it kind of is? It’s a mistake I’ll only make once.
Here’s what this cake looks like with 2 boxes. And a better froster-er!
Easily put:
Sunny Day Rainbow Cake
2 boxes white cake mix
24 oz of clear diet soda (2 cans, ginger ale and sprite work well)
Gel food colouring
16 oz whipped topping
2 oz instant fat-free sugar-free pudding mix (2 smallish boxes)
The Dieting
Mix the cake mix with the soda according to regular instructions on box. It will be lumpy afterward. Again, you can use any white cake recipe you want, this is just how I do it.
The Rainbowing
Measure the total volume (by my estimate, 64 oz), then divide by 6 and measure into separate bowls. There are 8 oz in a cup, so 64/6 = 10 to 11 oz, or 1 cup + 2 tbsp.
Stir color into each bowl with its own spoon. For the first color into the pan, measure out 2/3 to 3/4 of your mix (in this case about 1 c) as close to the middle as you can. Drop in your first three colors, then work on the other pan with the last three colors. So if you’re doing rainbow order, the first pan should have red, then orange, then yellow, and now the purple, blue and green go into the second pan. As a recap, this is so both layers are roughly the same size.
Bake the cake for however long the box tells you to bake it. Check it when the box says to, but usually it’ll need an extra 5 or 10 minutes or maybe more because of the density of the soda method. Just keep baking, checking back every 5 minutes or so until a toothpick to the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before moving to a wire rack.
Then there you go! A sexy cake if I do say so myself :) Eat up and don't forget to share!
