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WW Recipe of the Day: 2-Ingredient Low Fat 7-Up Cupcakes
I’m a cupcake person. I love the little portions of deliciousness and I enjoy the anticipation of taking off the wrappers and that first bite of cake and icing.
Maybe it’s because I grew up with Hostess Creme-filled Cupcakes. I became an expert at pulling off the chocolate squiggle, eating around the creme and then getting that mouthful of cream. It taught me what I needed to know about cupcakes. They have to be delicious and fun.
Now decades later, I searched and searched for a guilt-free version of this delightful treat. Who knew that the tried and true Betty Crocker and her soda pop cupcakes would come through with flying colors.
By using one of her many cake mixes and substituting diet soda for the oil and egg, you get an incredibly delicious and fun alternative to the old-fashioned cake. I was shocked, happy and excited when we first tried this for a birthday celebration a few weeks ago. Now I’m sold!
How Many Calories and WW Points in these 2-Ingredient Soda Cupcakes?
According to my calculations, each plain cupcake (without icing) has 80 calories and 4 Points. The addition of my optional icing will add about 5 calories per cupcake.
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How to Make 2-Ingredient Cupcakes
Step 1: Gather and prepare all ingredients.
Step 2: Heat the oven to 350F degrees. Line a cupcake or muffin tin with paper liners.
Step 3: In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and soda.
Ladle or spoon into the prepared pan.
Step 4: Bake for 14 to 19 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Step 5: Remove to a wire rack and cool.
Step 6: For the optional icing: Mix together all the ingredients in a small bowl (affiliate link). When cupcakes are cool, lightly “butter” or spread each one with icing. (Alternatively use your favorite prepared icing – be sure to adjust the WW points accordingly.)
Step 7: Decorate with sprinkles, fruit, ground nuts or just serve plain.
Recipe Notes
I used a yellow cake mix to make this version of skinny soda pop cupcakes. White or lemon would also work well with the lemon/lime flavors of diet 7up.
Feel free to add 2 teaspoons of lemon zest, orange zest or substitute 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract for the vanilla.
Other cake mix soda & soda combinations I want to try include:
- chocolate cake mix and diet coke
- spice cake mix and diet ginger ale
- chocolate cake mix and diet cherry coke
- cherry chip cake mix and diet cherry 7up
Serving Suggestions
A good strong cup of coffee, or tea, is what I like with my cupcakes. However a glass of milk or a flute of champagne would be a lovely alternative.
How to Store Leftover Cupcakes
You’ll have plenty of cupcakes to store in a covered container for up to 2 days at room temperature. These also freeze beautifully. If you make and want to freeze these cupcakes, a good tip is to freeze them in a single layer first.
Once solidly frozen, you can place the cupcakes in plastic bags or layer them in a tupperware. This way you’ll avoid any cakes sticking together. Simply thaw and eat.
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Skinny 2-Ingredient 7-Up Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Betty Crocker Super Moist Cake Mix (15.25 ounces)
- 1 can (12 ounces) Diet 7-Up
Optional Icing:
- 1/4 cup Swerve confectioner's sugar
- 1 tablespoon Limoncello liquer , (or lemon juice)
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1/2 tablespoon low-fat milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350F degrees. Line cupcake or muffin tins with paper liners. (I was able to make 20 cupcakes.)
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and soda. It will bubble up but then settle down as you continue to stir it. With a spoon, ladle or ice cream scoop (affiliate link) divide the batter evenly among the cups.
- Bake for 14 to 19 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and cool the cupcakes in pan(s) for 10 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack (affiliate link) to cool completely, about 1 hour. Enjoy plain or top with optional icing.
Optional Icing:
- Mix together all the ingredients (confectioner's sugar, Limoncello, butter, milk and vanilla) in a small bowl (affiliate link).
- When cupcakes are cool, lightly "butter" or spread each one with icing. (Alternatively use your favorite prepared icing – be sure to adjust the WW points accordingly.) Decorate with sprinkles, fruit, ground nuts or just serve plain.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) If you make and want to freeze these cupcakes, a good tip is to freeze them in a single layer first. Once solidly frozen, you can place the cupcakes in plastic bags or layer them in a tupperware. This way you’ll avoid any cakes sticking together. Feel free to add 2 teaspoons of lemon zest, orange zest or substitute 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract for the vanilla.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Source: adapted from Betty Crocker
Here’s a video verifying how easy these soda can cupcakes are to make and tasty to eat:
A note about WW Points
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Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Hallie is a chef-teacher who eventually found her way to Provence, France, where she gave food and wine tours of the region.
In addition to writing more than a dozen cookbooks, she has also been teaching both professional and recreational cooking classes since 1978.
Hallie looks forward to sharing some of her favorite easy, healthy recipes with you here on Simple Nourished Living.
So I had wanted to make the cherry chocolate chip, but I couldn’t find it so I picked out a chocolate mix. You can’t find 15.25 ounces they come in 13.25 ounces for Betty Crocker. So I match that up with 12 ounces of diet Dr Pepper. I thought they would be similar to the pumpkin muffins as far as it wouldn’t run, but I was dead wrong I should’ve made more than 12 because these ran over and made a mess Doesn’t taste too bad, but you definitely taste the aftertaste of the diet soda. Want to try the cherry chocolate chip but I’ll just have to make more than 12 so it doesn’t run over thank you for the recipe I saw on points plus it’s only two points
The cupcakes are absolutely delicious! The icing however is not. It was very watery & chunky and I love lemon but the lemon juice was too much, it made it taste very sour. I ditched it for some fat free cool whip.