Red Creaming Soda Cake

[alias_sqbr]

Mix:
1 packet cake mix (eg Greens vanilla cake)
about 2/3 can soft drink eg red creaming soda (enough to make a batter)(*)

Bake as directed.
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It's a bit flat and crumbly and the red creaming soda flavour is rather fake but it's fairly nice, relatively low fat, and dairy free (in fact, vegan!) And ABSURDLY easy.

I encountered the "use a can of soda in cake mix" idea shortly after going off dairy but couldn't find any dairy free cake mixes to try it with until now (not sure how I missed that Greens are).

I haven't been able to drink soft drink since I got reflux but the raising agents counteract the acid and it doesn't seem to disagree with me too much (I intend to freeze most of the cake and eat it over time) So, yay! *ponders the possibilities*

(*)Recipes I found online call for a full can, but looking at the weights given Australian cake mixes seem to be smaller than American ones

Comments

[vegetus.livejournal.com]

You've found packet cake that doesn't have powdered egg/milk?

[alias_sqbr]

Yes! I kept seeing people saying "most packet cakes don't have dairy or egg" and thinking "O rly?" but was bored and decided to check the ones in the deli I was passing and..lo! The vanilla-ish Greens one all seemed to be free of them, I didn't check the others.

Not that Greens is likely available in England, now that I think about it. You''l have to make one when next in Australia :)

[vegetus.livejournal.com]

Actually have seen Green's brand mixes in the shops here (not as many as you get in Oz of course). Will have to go check them out. Thanks for that!

[alias_sqbr]

Huzzah!

We non-dairy types have to look out for each other, even if our motivations are different :)

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I saw some in my supermarket changing the prices! In the healthfood section.

[alias_sqbr]

For a moment I thought "Who was changing the prices? The cake? The cake was..?? Oh wait I get it."

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Oh man just thinking about that kind of cake has made me feel slightly queasy.

I should totally try a coke zero cake though.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

If you got an O-ring tin you could make a coke zero zero cake.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

[alias_sqbr]

Which should then be decorated with Oreos Cheerios. (Or Oreos. Oreos are less punnish but would probably taste better)

[alias_sqbr]

My tummy is saying "That's less queasy making? o.O" :)

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I feel kinda yuk when I think about the 'red' things from my childhood. Red cordial and red creaming soda is blerg.

[alias_sqbr]

One of the funny things about my intolerances is the things lots of people have problems with that I don't, and red colouring/flavouring is one of them. Caffiene and fake sugar do bother me, though, thus the ick at coke zero :)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

The House o'Squid is going to try this with a gluten-free mix! Hurrah!

[alias_sqbr]

Are gluten free cakes prone to crumbliness? This was crumbly due to lack of egg, I can see one without egg or gluten being VERY crumbly. A recipe I saw suggested adding a eggwhite for binding which might work.

Or you could just have a crumbly but tasty and easy cake :)

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

I second the addition of eggwhite. Or any other liquid, in the recipe, really.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think that this would be greatly improved by using 'proper' (brown/vanilla) creaming soda instead of that awful red stuff.

I'm somewhat tempted to try it, and not just because it gives me an excuse to buy/drink a 1.25l bottle of the good stuff.

};9

[alias_sqbr]

Oh, if my deli sold it I would have used it. My selection was pretty limited.

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the downside of the proper cream soda, it's only available at Coles, or across the border.

*shoves incipient rant back into it's cage*

[deathwombat.livejournal.com]

Seems like a good idea, I was thinking about cakes a lot today as saw a show about them on Foxtel today and I know several people who are getting married soon and I'd like to bake them some celebratory cakes.

But I do have one question: Do you let your fizzy drink of choice go flat before using it?

[alias_sqbr]

Well, I don't know if it works with flat drinks but mine was fizzy.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Can you taste the fizziness in the cake? Carbonated drinks do not agree with my stomach, so I'm wondering how I'd go with food involving them.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I... somehow managed to forget about the paragraph in your post that answers this.

gg me.

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. But yes: doesn't taste fizzy. It does taste a little like a soluble aspirin, what with the acid + bicarb mix.