We’ve all seen one of these pins at one time or another. Add a random ingredient to a box of cake mix and magically you have a delicious cake. I’ve seen everything from pumpkin puree (which is amazing) to Diet Coke (which I refuse to try) to this one featuring Greek yogurt.
Ingredients:
1 box cake mix (Just the mix, not all the ingredients they tell you to add to it.)
1 container of plain Greek yogurt
1 cup water
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine cake mix with yogurt in a large bowl and add 1 cup water. Whisk thoroughly and transfer to a baking pan sprayed with nonstick spray; bake in the oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Refer to cake-mix box for pan size and approximate bake time.
I decided to make cupcakes instead of a cake and they turned out absolutely perfect. The texture of these cupcakes is amazing. they are so velvety and smooth. I just love when I find delicious recipes that are so easy to make.
And if you are wondering what frosting I used to top these off, click here for Day 38 – Your New Favorite Frosting!
Source:
Hungry Girl
Ok Kirsh….I’ve been waiting all day for the frosting recipe….I bought the cake mix and the yogurt this morning. Haha I fulled up facebook while at the grocery store this morning in hopes that you posted the recipe. I wont frost these until I hear from you
HA! Don’t worry…here it comes!
Nice! And btw – the diet coke with chocolate cake mix IS really good – it comes out super moist and flavorful. I have no idea why. But it works! Cream soda in vanilla cake works too.
Woah…you had me at cream soda. Now THAT I would try!
I also used club soda for boxed banana bread, muffins, or cake mixes that you don’t want to add any extra flavoring too.. They come out great!
This has been a specialty for dieters. I first saw this idea from Weight Watchers. The diet soda works well; the only drawback is the cake doesn’t rise as well as using the oil and eggs. But if it fits into your plan, you don’t feel deprived from having some cake
What size is the container of yogurt? Way to protein-up a cupcake!! GENIUS
Sherri, I used a 6 oz container and it was perfect.
This sounds good. The pumpkin with spice cake makes wonderful muffins.
Yes! That’s exactly the combination that I used for the pumpkin too. Yum!
Do you bake at 350 degrees, regardless of the temperature recommendation on the box?
Hmmm good question! I would go with the recommendation on the box.
Went with the box recommendation because I left the comment while making the cake! It turned out great!
Great!!
I made these cupcakes this past weekend, but used cherry chip cake mix! Family loved them!
Oh yum!!
i think you should give up your refusal to try the diet pop added to cake mix because i make it all the time and it’s delicious!! these yogurt cupcakes smell wonderful in the oven right now
I hope they tasted wonderful too!
Yes, I think everyone is wearing me down on that one. I might have to give in and try it!
I continue to see these recipes for cake mix with greek yogurt. My only problem is: WHAT SIZE yogurt container? I went in one grocery store and found 4 sizes. I think too much or too little will make a huge difference!
It’s just the small container. I think different brands actually vary by an ounce or two, but the one I used was 6 oz.
I found one with 1 cup of yogurt and no water.
We’ll see how my cake turns out, I wanted to use the strawberry yogurt and even with a cup of water it was TOTALLY dry, I added an extra yogurt AND more water and it still was hard to get out of the bowl into my pan…we’ll see what happens
Oh no! What kind of mix did you use? These always come out so nice and moist for me. You might need to adjust the baking time from the box. Pull them out as soon as a toothpick comes out clean.
It came out a bit dense, but my bro said it was really good!
He said it tastes like Chocolate w/ Strawberry Yogurt 
Duncan Hines Chocolate came mix