I once heard that you could make quick and easy cupcakes on the cheap by using just cake mix and soda or flavored water. I had a hard time wrapping my head around the lack of eggs and such at the time. Now that I’m getting more comfortable experimenting with recipes, I decided to try something different.
Cranberry Apple Cupcake Recipe
Ingredients used:
- Duncan Hine’s white cake mix
- Old Orchard Cranberry Naturals – Cranberry Apple
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
- Pour white cake mix into a medium bowl
- Add 12 ounces (1-1/2 c) Cranberry Apple juice and mix until well blended
- Put cupcake liners in tin or grease well; pour mix in
- Bake for about 25 minutes. Cool and frost (cream cheese frosting was yuuuum) if desired
Makes 14-24 cupcakes depending on how much mix you use in each one.
You may want to tweak this a bit. I found the cupcakes to be a little too soft and crumbly.. and sticky. Maybe less juice should be used.?
Darcy is the founder of “Life With Darcy and Brian,” where she combines her love for education, board games, and crafting to create engaging learning experiences for kids. Her creative projects and writing have been featured in outlets like The Toy Insider, CafeMom, Mom.com, Parents.com, Country Living, and The Pioneer Woman.
Carolyn Ann Colley (Griffith, Smith)
Monday 23rd of January 2012
This sounds great. Thanks for the recipes.
Carolsue
Monday 16th of January 2012
Yummy! These look really good -- and easy enough that even I should be able to make them! :) Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net
dv8
Sunday 15th of January 2012
Heh. Premade cake mix counts as one ingredient.
Darcy
Sunday 15th of January 2012
Sure does just like chocolate chips do or noodles... or pumpkin spice...
Tammy Dalton
Wednesday 11th of January 2012
You can also make two ingredient cakes by using any cake mix and add a diet soda flavor. I have used a Chocolate fudge cake mix with a can of diet orange soda. The cake was moist and delicious!! You can use your imagination and have awesome combinations!! Have fun with it!! :0)
Angela Michels
Tuesday 10th of January 2012
This sounds delicious! I bet it would be great with some dried cranberries or raisins in them too. :) Angela Michels lilsweeper76 at yahoo dot com