The Perfect "Diet" Cake!

E: "I'm making a soda pop cake for tonight."
H: "What the heck is a soda pop cake? I want that!"
E: "Are you kidding me? You've never heard of soda pop cake? You have to try it! I have to put it on the blog!"

My friend had never heard of soda pop cake- can you believe it? Probably, because the more people I ask, the more people I realize have not heard about soda pop cake! It's the most simple cake (especially for people like yours truly who seriously CANNOT BAKE), and it's calorie friendly(ish). Most of the time, the people I serve it to don't even know it's diet-friendly. It tastes like a very light angel food cake version of your favorite boxed cake mix.

The recipe couldn't be more simple:

1 store-bought cake mix
1 can of diet soda (for white/light cake mixes, I use diet Sprite or Sprite Zero, and for chocolate cakes I use Diet Coke or Diet Dr. Pepper. I can't wait to experiment with diet cream soda and diet root beer!)

Mix, and pop it into an oven following the directions on the box. I usually stick to 350 for about 20 minutes; these cakes tend to bake up a little quicker because they have less fat weighing them down.

I serve mine with Cool Whip Free and fruit when I feel like being healthy and buttercream frosting when I don't feel like it!