Two Ingredient Cupcakes With Cheater Frosting
Two Ingredient Cupcakes With Cheater Frosting are such an awesome secret – I feel like I am giving you all a huge gift. This is my favorite go to recipe in a pinch when the kids want a baked snack. How can you beat a two ingredient cake? I always buy cake mixes when there is a great sale – frostings too. Then there are so many great things you can make with cake mixes – and definitely not just cakes. Don’t let the fact that it is a cake mix limit your imagination!
This recipe can be made with any flavor cake and any flavor soda. You can use diet sodas but I worry about heating up those artificial sweeteners – so sugary soda it is. No one in the house really drinks ginger ale but when my daughter was sick a while ago we did purchase some. Naturally she drank one and we still have a bunch.
Cake Ingredients:
Cake Mix – any flavor
Soda – any flavor – For a lighter cupcake use 12 ounces (what I used), for a more normal density cake use 8 ounces
Frosting Ingredients:
Can of Frosting – any flavor
Powdered Sugar
Mix together and bake as a cake or cupcakes based on the cake box directions. Easy as can be.
For the frosting mix some powdered sugar with a can of frosting. Add approximately a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar at a time until you have it at the desired consistency. If you don’t add the powdered sugar you will find it difficult to give it a decorative frosting. Then frost.
I would like to thank Wholeness Home for providing a cake decorating kit to me for this purpose.
This particular cake decorating kit comes with 31 nozzles and 6 different tips. I can now create Rosettes, Stars, Drop Flowers, Zig-Zags, Dots, Words, the possibilities are endless and it is easy as can be.
I simply fill the canister with frosting and press the button to decorate my cake, cupcakes, cookies etc… Once I am done I take it apart and it is easy to clean – which is very important since I don’t have a dishwasher. And the end result is so easy that my 9 year old daughter can create these gorgeous cupcakes:
- Cake Ingredients:
- Cake Mix – any flavor
- Soda – any flavor
- Frosting Ingredients:
- Can of Frosting – any flavor
- Powdered Sugar
- Mix together and bake as a cake or cupcakes based on the cake box directions. Easy as can be.
- For the frosting mix some powdered sugar with a can of frosting. Add approximately a ¼ cup of powdered sugar at a time until you have it at the desired consistency. If you don’t add the powdered sugar you will find it difficult to give it a decorative frosting. Then frost.
Sounds simple enough. I am going to have to try this!
I’m all about simple. This is good.
Interesting! Not really into baking but this looks simple. Thanks for sharing.
Ella
How fun and easy-peasy are these? My daughter wants to decorate cupcakes at her birthday party, so I’m going to try this. Thanks for sharing.
These sound easy to make and look delicious! Thanks for the recipes!
That’s really neat! How much soda do you use though?
For a lighter cupcake use 12 ounces (what I used), for a more normal density cake use 8 ounces. Thank You
I am so going to have to try this for my little ones birthday, my oldest has already got her heart set on a cinnaroll cake fun fun 🙂 Thanks for the great recipe.
I am so going to try this! I never make cakes or cupcakes from scratch and rarely make frosting from scratch either. The mixes and ready-made frosting it just too good. I’ve never had a frosting decorator like this but it looks easy one too. Thanks!!
This sounds interesting indeed. I am going to get a strawberry cake mix and I am going to use cream soda pop/soda. We have a pop/soda called Fago which is only available here in MI I think. They have the best cream soda pop/soda. Thanks for sharing.