Baking with Sophie & Jess! - Chocolate Orange Soda Cupcakes ♥

Hey guys!
I hope you are all doing well!
Today's post is going to be about some cupcakes that me and Jess made on Monday.

 Last time she was making cupcakes she was looking on the internet for other random things that people make cake out of and we found something called a soda cake. If you are unfamiliar with what soda is, it is the american equivalent to pop or a fizzy drink. We saw some different ones that people has done and decided that none of them seemed like they would taste good until we got to one where someone had used an orange fizzy drink.
Jess said she wanted to try and make one so that's what we did!

There are only three ingredients you are going to need for this recipe:
A box chocolate cake mix (Me and Jess used Betty Crocker devil chocolate cake)
Can of pop (Me and Jess used Orange Fanta)
Betty Crocker Devil Chocolate Fudge Icing (You can also make your own icing if you wish)

1. The first thing you need to do is preheat the oven to the temperature that is stated on the back on the box. We were using a gas oven so we put it on gas mark 4.

2. Empty your cake mixture into a bowl and add your can of soda

3. Mix well until you can see that both of the wet and dry ingredients have come together and that there are no lumps

DO NOT PUT ANY OF THE EGG, WATER OR OIL THAT IS STATED ON THE BACK ON THE BOX TO USE ELSE YOU WILL WRECK YOUR CAKE!
The soda as all the elements that the cakes need to help bake them!

4. Place into two circle cake trays if you are making a huge cake or if you are doing cupcakes place then into some paper cases. We got about 22 cakes from this batch but you could get round 24

5. Place into the oven and watch them rise!
If you are unsure if your cakes are cooked all the way through stick a fork, toothpick or skewer into the centre of the cake and if the utensil comes out clean the cake is ready!

6.Leave on the side to cool down for a while. You don't want to be placing icing on hot cake else it will just melt and look a mess!

7.Add you chosen icing, Either store brought or home made. At this point you can either spread the icing on or if you want them look professional like jess did you can use a piping bag and a nozzle and make one hell of  beautiful pattern on the top!

8. (Optional) You can now add your decorations to the top of your cake/cupcakes. Me and jess went with small edible golden balls as you can see from the picture below

9. Make a cup of tea or hot beverage of your choice and...

 10. ENJOY!

I hope you guys liked this post, I thought it was something different and my friend Jess makes the best cupcakes and cakes so I thought I would share with you how we made one of the cakes
These turned out really good even thought we were a bit sceptical that they would turn out rubbish. The only hiccup we has it that by the time was up that the box recommended the bottoms were still squishy and not a cake texture. However we just put them in for a bit longer and they were okay once that had cooled! You can't really taste a lot of orange from this cake which is what I was expecting but they still taste good!
This is how I got my cupcakes home. I strapped them into my car seat with the seat belt and took them on a little drive :)

I hope you are having a good week!
Take Care
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