This 3-Ingredient Chocolate Orange Cake Is Made In A Slow Cooker (And One Ingredient Is Fanta?!)
Someone has come up with a seriously easy chocolate orange cake you bake in the slow cooker. Not just that, but it only requires three ingredients. And, if that isn’t impressive enough, one of the ingredients is Fanta! What a time to be alive.
The woman behind this mind-blowing recipe shared it to a slow cooker Facebook group over the weekend and people were seriously impressed. I mean, who wouldn’t be?
The base ingredients for the cake batter are simple: one box of Betty Crocker’s Devil’s Food Cake Mix, 300ml of Fanta (that’s two mini-bar cans or just under one regular sized can) and a few drops of orange essence.
She then poured the batter into a lined cake tin which she placed inside her slow cooker. We reckon you could cut out this stage and simply pour it into your lined slow cooker, but this would come out with an oval-shaped cake.
Set your slow cooker to high, making sure to trap a clean tea towel between your slow cooker and its lid to catch excess moisture, and check the cake after an hour and a half. If all goes to plan, you should have a light-as-air, chocolate orange sponge. Positively dreamy.
The pioneering baker then decorated the chocolate cake using Cadbury’s buttercream, orange Matchmakers and a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (it had to be done), but you could drizzle yours with melted chocolate or even leave it plain for a simpler treat.
So, let’s get down to the fact that brought us all here. That’s right: you can substitute the oil and eggs in Betty Crocker cake mixes with a can of fizzy drink. This was originally discovered a couple of years ago by Facebook’s vegan community when trying to find alternatives to add cake mix to get a fully accidentally vegan cake. The fizz in the drink results in a cake so light, airy and DELICIOUS that the rest of us caught wind pretty soon after.
Obviously, Fanta works best in this recipe because it adds orange flavour, but you can use any can of fizzy drink as a substitute for the wet ingredients in cake mix. Cola works well in a chocolate cake batter, cream soda adds some extra vanilla flavour to a red velvet sponge, or try Lilt in carrot cake for a citrus zing. Or, you could even sub out the fizzy pop entirely for a can of pre-mixed gin and tonic! Our 2-Ingredient Pink Gin Cake is so. Darn. Good.
Love all things chocolate orange? Then prepare to lose your cool over this no-bake Terry's Chocolate Orange Cheesecake. Heck yeah.
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