Need a quick and easy dessert? Soda cake to the rescue.

All you need are 2 ingredients. Really, that easy. Well, that is if you count a cake mix as one ingredient-technically it’s not.

1 cake mix – I used a vanilla Fun da Middles and squeezed the chocolate throughout after I put it in the pan and covered it with more cake batter.

1 can of diet soda (I will try regular soda next time but for this time I used what was at hand – Diet Coke with Lime.)

Set your oven to the temperature your cake mix is suppose to cook at – 350 in this case.

Mix the cake mix and soda together the same as you would a normal cake.

Grease a pan and bake it.Mine took 30 minutes.

I made mine in a 9 x 13 and ended up with cake bars about an inch thick. The texture is different than a regular cake but it tastes really good. It even passed my husband’s fake sugar test – couldn’t taste it. If you want them thicker just use a smaller pan and bake a bit longer.

Good, simple, quick. Plus, if you stockpile, it’s very inexpensive to make – my cake mix was $0.50 or free and the can of soda approximately $0.17.