For someone who hasn’t had cake in a while, this was some good stuff. It’s made with no oil and no eggs, but it’s just as good as any “normal” cake and it looks really cool to boot. There was quite a bit of work to this cake, but I think the pictures tell the story. It was definitely worth it.
Diet Rainbow Cake
Ingredients
2 boxes white cake mix 24 oz of clear diet soda (2 cans, ginger ale and sprite work well) gel food coloring 16 oz whipped topping 2 oz instant fat-free sugar-free pudding mix (2 smallish boxes)
Preparation
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.
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 as instructed on the box. Check it when the box says to, but usually it’ll need an extra 5 or 10 minutes 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.
Meanwhile, make your frosting. Just mix the pudding mix in with the whipped topping for a few minutes. Dye if you’re into that.
Frost your fat-free cake with your fat-free whipped frosting. Eat.