Easy $5 Soda Cake Desserts + Gift Suggestion!

I make soda cakes for just under $5
Old-fashioned cookbooks are filled with soda-meets-cake-mix recipes that were highly fashionable at the time.

Ingredients:

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

Combine cake mix and cola in a large bowl. Use a hand whisk to mix ingredients until light and smooth, about 3 minutes. Pour batter into prepared baking dish.

Bake cake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Allow cake to cool before cutting.

Favorite Frostings + Whipped Topping Frosting

- lemon cake with Sprite and lemon pudding in cool whip frosting.
- strawberry cake with Fanta red pop and vanilla pudding in cool whip
- cola and a chocolate cake mix…top with cool whip and Marschino Cherries??? Choc/cherry cake? * You can also do chocolate cake with DR. PEPPER - pineapple cake with pineapple soda and added about 1/2 cup of drained, crushed pineapple to it. I used vanilla icing and put a little bit of pineapple ice cream topping on top.

Note: I just did a recipe using cherry pie filling for the bottom, mix 12 ounces of cherry cola with a chocolate fudge cake mix n spread on cherry pie filling, it was delicious.

Variations:

- Fanta Orange + Vanilla cake mix - Coca Cola + Chocolate Cake Mix - Sprite + Yellow Cake Mix - Dr. Pepper + Red Velvet Cake Mix - A&W Cream Soda + Vanilla Cake Mix - Barq's Root Beer + Spice Cake Mix - Canada Dry Ginger Ale + Carrot Cake Mix - Mountain Dew + Lemon Cake Mix - Fanta Strawberry + Strawberry Cake Mix - Sierra Mist + Butter Pecan Cake Mix - Pibb Xtra + Devil's Food Cake Simply stir together the soda and cake mix and follow the mix's baking instructions for the size of the pan and cook time. The end result will be a delightfully light and fluffy cake with minimal effort, which we view as a win-win.

Gift Suggestion:

Take the box of cake mix, a can of soda and a can of icing in a throw away foil pan with some birthday plates to local shelters and pantries So children can have a birthday cake (even when there's no oil or eggs available)
They love it!