Easy 2-Ingredient 7-Up Cupcakes

Name: Easy 2-Ingredient 7-Up Cupcakes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 1 box Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme Cake Mix; 12 ounce can of 7-Up

by Mary @ Home is Where the Boat Is

24 Servings

25 min

Satisfy your sweet tooth with an easy formula and cupcake recipe when you’re too busy to bake or for the lazy days of summer!

My name is Mary and I’m a lazy baker. I’m happy to use a short cut for a cake or cupcakes, especially during the lazy days of summer!

Easy 2-Ingredient Cupcakes couldn’t be easier, made with a 12 ounce can of soda and a boxed cake mix! A handy formula to know when eggs and oil are valuable commodities during a pandemic and with fewer shopping trips.

I used a Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme Cake Mix and a can of 7-Up for additional lemon flavor. For less mess and easy scooping which makes for uniform cupcake size, use an ice cream or batter scoop.

Just cake mix and a can of lemon-lime soda. . . no oil, eggs or water needed for these cupcakes. You can use a diet soda or flavored carbonated water to save additional calories, reducing the fat and sugar in these cupcakes if you prefer. Top with homemade frosting of your choice and no one will be the wiser!

You can satisfy your sweet tooth with endless combinations of cake mix and soda or flavored carbonated water when you’re too busy to bake or ingredients are in short supply.

Use a chocolate cake mix + cola, root beer, or cherry cola
White or yellow cake mix + lemon-lime soda, ginger ale, or flavored carbonated water
Spice cake or Carrot cake mix + ginger ale
Red Velvet cake mix + cola or cherry cola

Easy 2-Ingredient 7-Up Cupcakes

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Recipe details

Yield 24 Servings
Time spent: Prep time: 5 Minutes Cook time: 20 Minutes Total time: 25 min

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Follow the directions on the box for mixing (minus the other ingredients).
Blend cake mix and can of soda in a large bowl at low speed until moistened (about 30 seconds). Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Use a ice cream scoop to scoop batter or pour batter in muffin tin lined with cupcake papers, filling batter 2/3 full and bake immediately.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 18 – 23 minutes or until cupcakes test done with a toothpick. Remove cupcakes to wire rack to cool completely before frosting with your favorite recipe.

Tips

You can satisfy your sweet tooth with endless combinations of cake mix and soda or flavored carbonated water when you’re too busy to bake or ingredients are in short supply. Use a chocolate cake mix + cola, root beer, or cherry cola White or yellow cake mix + lemon-lime soda, ginger ale, or flavored carbonated water Spice cake or Carrot cake mix + ginger ale Red Velvet cake mix + cola or cherry cola Spice cake or Carrot cake mix + ginger ale Red Velvet cake mix + cola or cherry cola

Comments

Gayle on Aug 21, 2020

These cakes are so yummmmy!!!!!!!

16 Reply
Cris on Aug 21, 2020

Can you use Diet soda?

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- Angela on Aug 22, 2020
  
  Yes
  
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- Jud13360020 on Mar 07, 2021
  
  CAN A REGULAR SODA BE USED INSTEAD OF DIET SODA ?
  
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- Lisa Davis on Mar 07, 2021
  
  Doesn’t really seem necessary to use diet since you will only get about 1/2 ounce of soda per cupcake
  
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- PB on Mar 08, 2021
  
  Hmmmm. Really? Would diet soda make it diet dessert?
  
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- Rita on Mar 08, 2021
  
  Yes if you use a sugar free cake mix.
  
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- Shelby mcdaniel on Mar 08, 2021
  
  I've used diet soda because it was what I had on hand and it worked very well.....diet orange soda with white cake mix and diet ginger ale with spice cake mix and crushed pineapple (in the mix). The combinations are nearly endless. Next I think I'll try creme soda in a french vanilla cake mix with chopped peaches in the mix for a sort of peaches n' cream flavor. FYI...Betty Crocker makes a great Super Moist french vanilla mix.
  
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- KIM on Mar 08, 2021
  
  Your combinations sound yummy. During the holidays there is a cranberry favored ginger ale that might be good with the lemon cake mix.
  
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- Pete on Mar 08, 2021
  
  Go read the original post again. You’ll find the answer to your question
  
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- Bonnie Brasel on Mar 07, 2022
  
  The article states diet or Reg!!!
  
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- Wanda on Mar 15, 2023
  
  In todays know all times why would anyone, yes even diabetics, be buying diet soda or artificial anything, they are truly poison in their ingredients. If you are used to that taste and addicted to it 🥲you will only feel terrible while you withdraw from it you are not doing yourself or your kids anything close to healthy eating like that. Deserts & and real food do a body good just not if you eat 3 lbs if it at a setting. Even real sodas have high fructose sugar…it too isn’t real….soda. Am be bought that has real sugar in it if difficult in your area tell your market you’ll be ordering or shipping else where until they stock it. I found coke a cola made with sugar, yes I had to look for it in other places but kept asking at my standard market and they started carrying it…guess what the have a hard time keeping up with the demand. I’m sorry people feel they can’t be healthy eating real food or is it they don’t want to prepare it. Let’s pass the “word” use & cook real…S fresh as possible & local and we’ll be there. Why have manufactures now gotten to where they charge more for leaving ingredients out. So what if they have to recalibrate their automated machines. If a fast food restaurant has to hand pack their burgers to guarantee the quality of meat and their other offerings and charge a little more to & hire a few more so be it.
  
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- Quigley Prepka on Jul 18, 2023
  
  I wouldn't use diet soda as the sweeteners will break down with the baking heat and give the cup cakes a foul taste. The same may be true for some of the flavored seltzers if they have chemical sweeteners in them. Reguar sodas have sugar in them and you can use the "store brand" ones also. I have store brand Pineapple soda and will try using that since I think it would be great.
  
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