2-Ingredient Soda Cake

a close up of a piece of chocolate and coke soda cake with chocolate frosting

This 2-ingredient soda cake is a simple and quick dessert recipe that combines cake mix and soda to create a moist and fluffy cake. Served with or without frosting, it tastes delicious!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 33

Cooling 30

Total Time 1 10

Servings slices

Calories 203kcal

Author Wanda Simone

Equipment

1 9" x 13" sheet pan, 2 8" or 9" cake pans or a bundt pan
parchment paper or non-stick cooking spray
Scissors to cut the parchment paper to fit the bottom of your cake pan.
measuring cups (optional) - only necessary if you're measuring soda from a larger bottle instead of using a 12-ounce can
mixing bowl
Whisk or Large Spoon
Rubber Spatula for scraping all the batter out of the bowl and into the cake pan.
Toothpick
wire cooling rack
Offset Spatula or Butter Knife (optional) to frost the cake

Ingredients

1 13.5 to 16 ounce box cake mix
1 12-ounce can soda (or 1½ cups)
1 16-ounce container frosting (optional)

Instructions

Pre-heat the oven to 350℉.
In a large bowl, combine the cake mix and soda with a whisk or large spoon. Stir until the batter is smooth and the foam from the soda has been incorporated.
1 13.5 to 16 ounce box cake mix, 1 12-ounce can soda
Pour the cake batter into a cake pan lined with parchment paper or sprayed with baking spray.
Bake for 30 to 33 minutes for a 9" x 13" pan or 8" rounds, 25 to 28 minutes for 9" rounds and 40 to 43 minutes for a bundt pan. Or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Cool for 5 minutes on a baking rack.
Then turn the cake over onto the cooling rack and slowly remove the parchment paper from the bottom.
Let it sit on the rack until it has cooled completely.
Just before serving, use an offset spatula or butter knife to frost the top of the cake.
1 16-ounce container frosting (optional)

Notes

Do not skip the step of lining or spraying the cake pan with non-stick cooking spray. Otherwise, the cake will be almost impossible to get out of the pan without breaking it.
Soda cakes are usually less crumbly if baked for the maximum amount of time specified on the cake mix package.
Remove the parchment paper while the cake is still warm. Otherwise it will be very difficult to remove without taking off pieces of cake.
Since soda cakes are more crumbly than traditional recipes, a softer frosting such as Cool Whip or whipped cream is easier to spread.

Suggested soda and cake mix combinations:

Dr Pepper cake: Dr. Pepper with chocolate cake mix
Coca Cola or Pepsi cake: Coke (or Pepsi) with chocolate cake mix
Mountain Dew cake: Mountain Dew and lemon cake mix
Cream soda cake: Cream soda and white cake mix
Grape soda cake: Grape soda with white cake mix
Cheerwine cake: Cheerwine with chocolate cake mix
7up cake: 7up (or sprite) with lemon cake mix
Orange creamsicle cake: white cake mix with orange soda.
Strawberry soda cake: Dr Pepper Strawberries and Cream (or Fanta strawberry) with strawberry cake mix.

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