In our attempts to cut down on calories we have adopted a new way of making cakes. Well, new for us. I'm pretty sure other people have been doing this for a while. I haven't done the math yet to see how much (if any) we are saving by doing them this way, but I have yet to have a 'bad' cake.
Cake Mix of your choice
2 boxes Fat Free/Sugar Free Pudding mix of your choice
12oz. can of diet soda of your choice
Cool Whip, sugar free or fat free
Tonights cake is a dark chocolate cake mix with chocolate pudding and Cherry Cola Diet Rite. Mix the cake mix, one of the pudding mixes and an entire 12oz can of pop. Cook per cake mix instructions. I have a bundt pan so that's what we use.
In the meantime, or right before you eat your cake, mix the Cool Whip with the other pudding mix and 1/2 to 1 cup of milk (less milk equals thicker icing). Just keep in mind the thicker the icing the harder it is to spread on your cake... If you don't want to refrigerate the uneaten portion of your cake, then just icing the pieces you are eating and put the rest of the Cool Whip in the fridge for later. Obviously if you don't refrigerate your Cool Whip it'll melt and be a real mess.
For a previous version I used a lemon cake mix, lemon pudding (I couldn't find fat free) and a can of Tangerine Diet Rite. If you remember the orange flavored Hostess Cupcakes (they were actually yellow) this is exactly what that cake tasted like. I had also made a Dr Pepper Cake using this recipe which was also fantastic.
Enjoy.
