Luckily, you don’t need either of those things to make a cake from a boxed mix. You just need a can of Coke. Actually, with the exception of diet soda, any carbonated beverage will do.

If you want to transform a boxed cake mix into something light, airy, and delicate, all you need is a 12-ounce can of soda ...

What can you add instead? A can of soda. While that may sound like an odd combination, depression-era cake mix manufacturers created their mixes with simplicity and economization at heart.

All it entails is one box of cake mix and one 12-ounce can of soda. Ok, so mixing soda with cake is not exactly a brand-new concept. In fact, blending soda in with cake recipes has been popular ...

My favorite hack (or as I like to think of it, sorcery) is to mix a 12-ounce can of soda with a standard cake mix. I omit the eggs and oil in this case. The carbonation in soda causes its fizz ...

In my experience, a combination of baking soda, baking powder and vinegar can ensure a cake’s puffiness, while a slightly larger volume of fat, like butter or oil, helps with the richness and ...