Easy low sugar, low fat cupcake recipe!

Mix 1 box cake mix that contains Splenda (any flavor you wish, I like chocolate) with 1 can of diet soda (I use Diet Rite cherry cola), you don't mix any of the other ingredients in, just the cake and soda. Then put in cupcake wrappers and bake according to box.  I put 1 dollop of SF cool whip on each one.  They taste awesome and are nice and dense but rise nicely!

I have used white cake with diet orange soda and white cake with diet red pop and both turned out awesome, the possibilities are endless!

I haven't seen a cake mix with Splenda.  Where are they with the regular cakes? or with the diabetic and diet foods?  who makes them?  I'll  have to try to find them.

 Thanks for the great recipe ideas, now if I can only find a splenda cake mix!

I found them in the regular cake section.  I THINK they are Duncan Hines.  You have to kind of look for them because I think they only have two kinds, chocolate and white. 

Pillsbury makes them and my local stores only carry the chocolate and yellow varieties.  Hope the other flavours will be making an appearance here befre long!  http://www.pillsburybaking.com/products/product_detail8.aspx

My favourite way to use this mix is to take one drained package of silken tofu, the mix, half a cup of water and whatever baking extract compliments it.  Mix really well till smooth and make either a 9 x 13 pan or 12 cupcakes.  It is higher in protein, moist and dense.  When I make the yellow variety and add vanilla extract it tastes a lot like those little grease-laden cakes my mom used to always buy for strawberry shortcakes.  So much healthier!

Molly

can i ask a dumb question??? what exactly is tofu???

It is one of many products made from soybeans.  In this case a 'curd' sort of like a cheese that comes packaged in water to keep it fresh and it comes in a variety of firmnesses.  Silken is the softest and you can use it to beef up protein in a lot of dishes.  I just made myself a white sauce for a gravy base with it and was very pleased.  (Boy, was I a gravy-hound in pre-op days!)  You can also add it to protein shakes, puddings, even sub. it for cottage cheese or ricotta.

You can also get it in firm and extra firm that would be better for saute and use in stir-fry-type dishes.  It is very bland tasting and will take on the flavour of whatever you spice it with but I don't enjoy the firm types much myself.

Molly

ty so much I wasnt sure now i do know for sure.. ty again.. lyn

I think I made these cupcakes when doing Weigh****chers.  I had totally forgotten about them.  Thanks for the reminder.  Christy