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posted by Emily Bites in All Recipes, Cupcakes, Desserts
I’m not a big cake person but I’ve always heard from people trying to lighten up their diets that you can make really delicious cake using cake mix and diet soda. My mom ended up making some and it really did taste moist and delicious, so I decided to try it myself, as cupcakes. They turned out pretty well!
I decided to top them with frosting (who eats cupcakes without frosting?) and I found a yummy looking cream cheese frosting recipe on the Skinny Taste site. The frosting turned out pretty good, but I opted to replace the sugar in the recipe with Splenda to lighten it up even more and in the future I would just use the sugar or a blend of the two. The frosting definitely had that Splenda aftertaste to it. Otherwise the frosting was good, so I look forward to trying it again without the sugar substitute.
Yield: 24 cupcakes
Ingredients:
Diet co*ke Cupcakes:
- 1 box of cake mix – it can be any flavor, I used chocolate
- 1 can of diet soda – I used Diet co*ke but again, it can be any flavor
- 2 egg whites
Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 8 oz 1/3 fat cream cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
MyWW SmartPoints per (1 cupcake) serving: (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Green: 5 SmartPoints/ Blue: 5 SmartPoints/ Purple: 5 SmartPoints
Weight Watchers Points Plus:
3 per cupcake (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
frosting adapted fromskinnytaste.com
posted on December 28, 2010
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14 comments on “Diet co*ke Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting”
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Michelle — January 14, 2011 @ 12:30 am Reply
I have made diet soda cupcakes several times, but that frosting takes them to a whole new level! Even my diet-phobe husband liked them (!!!). I did a little write up on my blog if you want to check it out
http://vabeachhousewife.blogspot.com/2011/01/diet-soda-cupcakes-and-frosting.html
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emilybites — January 14, 2011 @ 12:47 am Reply
Thanks for the shout out, Michelle! I’m following you now too. Glad you loved them!
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Jessica — February 5, 2012 @ 11:47 pm Reply
See Also10 Healthy pumpkin recipesI made them gluten free this weekend and they turned out great!
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Cobie — February 11, 2012 @ 2:20 am Reply
Can you make these with co*ke Zero or should it be Diet co*ke??
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emilybites — February 12, 2012 @ 3:39 am
Can you believe I’ve never even tried co*ke Zero? I should get some. I’m sure it would be fine to use that instead. Hope you like the cupcakes!
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Cobie — February 12, 2012 @ 6:23 pm Reply
Thanks Emily.. greatly appreciate you responding.. Im going to try it tomorrow with the co*ke zero just to see.. Love your blog.. I have made about 6 different things on here in the past couple of days.. to eat right away & to freeze for later.. 🙂
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emilybites — February 13, 2012 @ 3:52 am
Thanks, Cobie! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the recipes! Hope the cupcakes turn out awesome. 🙂
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Anonymous — November 26, 2012 @ 9:33 pm Reply
if you used pepsi max (There NOTHING in it but 25mg of sodium )that it would bring the points down at all?
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Karen Burd — March 4, 2013 @ 12:23 am Reply
So, they’re 1 WW ppl using the powdered sugar? Or 1 ppl with the splenda? And you used standard cupcake pans?
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Julie — March 22, 2016 @ 7:07 pm Reply
Hi There….how many smart points are these each with the frosting does anyone know? Thanks
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