I’ve decided to start making some of my recipes I’ve previously had on my blog that were full of fat, lighter. Yay! Better than Sex cake was really easy to make lighter. The only thing I had trouble with was the toffee candy on top. There’s no way to make that lighter, but is there? Ever heard of Skinny Cow candy? It is heavenly. They have different flavored candy bars and chocolate covered caramel, I believe their called turtles for only 110 calories. They’re so good too. They had this one candy bar that almost reminded me of a Nutter Butter. I was walking down the candy aisle trying to find something to put on top of the cake and saw these. It’s been a while since I’ve had them and I thought they would make a great topping for the cake and they did. Thank goodness.
The one thing I didn’t like about the full fat better than sex cake, was that it was really sweet. This version cuts back on the sweetness. Is it better than sex? That is up for you to decide. 🙂 I tried making the cool whip frosting orange for Halloween. It turned out more like a peach color.
Servings: 24 (cut 4X6)
Weight Watchers – Better than Sex Cake
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25 oz) box of chocolate cake mix
- 1 (12oz) can of diet soda (any flavor will do)
- 1 8oz container of cool whip fat free
- 1 (3oz) box of instant vanilla pudding (sugar free)
- 2 cups of 1% milk
- 4 Skinny Cow Heavenly Crisp Peanut Butter Bars, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a bowl combine the chocolate cake mix and can of diet soda until that is well combined. Pour into a 8X13 in baking dish and bake in the oven until a tooth pick comes out clean. 30-35 minutes.
- While the cake is cooking make the frosting. Whisk together the instant pudding and milk in a bowl. Then fold in the thawed cool whip.
- Chop the Skinny Cow Peanut Butter Bars.
- Once the cake has cooled, top with the frosting and the chopped candy bars.
Notes
Freestyle Smart Points: 5
Cut in 24 servings
You can make this dairy free by using 1 1/4 cups of Unsweetened Almond Milk.
Any flavor of diet soda will work and it will not make the cake taste like that.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 131
- Sugar: 13
- Fat: 3
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Carbohydrates: 22
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 3
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with WW in any way. I am just a member who creates recipes based on their points system. This recipe is based on WW Freestyle program, and SmartPoints are the value system the company bases their foods on. Some recipes will have older points system values listed in them.
So, don’t use the eggs/oil/water that box calls for? Only the mix and the diet soda???
Yes, that is correct.
Can I get this recipe???? Thanks so much!
How do you get the recipe?
Sorry the recipe somehow got deleted, but I added it back in there!
any kind of diet soda?
Yah you can use any kind you want. 🙂
I have made the cake part and was amazed on all I needed was a can of soda
However I was wondering if I could put it together the day before or will cake goes too soaky
My Oh My! Made this today and it is amazing! I forgot the Skinny Cow when I went shopping, so I finely grated some dark
chocolate I already had. I put everything into the WW recipe builder, calculated for 10 pieces in a 9×13 dish, and each piece is only
5 Smart Points! Yep! 5sp!!! Thank you for this recipe! AMAZING!
Only 5 Smart Points? Thanks for updating me on that!
I tried this recipe. I didn’t like it. Unfortunately, I made them for part of a friends birthday dinner. The frosting was good , but the cake was too dry and stuck to the cup cake paper. I t was a real mess. I recommend trying them out on your self first.
I’ve never tested this recipe using cupcakes. I’ve only made it in a cake pan before. The diet soda should have made the cake really moist so I don’t know how they ended up dry. Sorry to hear.
Delicious no guilt cake recipe… you had me at sex!
I checked the points and it’s definitely not 5 or 6. More like 9 or 10. Maybe it friends on the mix you use?
Jeremy that’s the old points system. There’s more than 1.
My cake is only 1/4 an inch thick????anyone have any idea what could have caused that.
Stupid question, but diet soda…like diet soda water?
Think a can of diet coke.
You can get a sugar free cake mix and the points will be much lower. Pillsbury sells a devil’s food sugar free cake mix. The entire cake is 12 sp for the mix only. So you could conceivably have one quarter of the cake for 3 sp plus whatever the coolwhip, pudding and candy adds. Or use fresh fruit instead of candy and you will save even more points.
Hi Nancy Thanks for the tip. The one thing I like about Weight Watchers is even though something is higher in points you can still have the room for it to make it work out in your day.
The pudding I found is in 1.5 oz boxes. Do you really use 2 boxes?
Do you have the update points for the Freestyle pts? It is like 11 or 12 for a piece of boxed cake now. Just curious if you know the total new pts. I don’t pay for the app any longer, but still try to follow the plan.
Freestyle points are still smart points. Should be in the notes section.
Hi! Making this cake now… I ditto Kathie… is it 2 1.5 oz boxes of pudding? I couldn’t find 3 oz boxes. Thanks in advance!
Where I live, I can find 3 oz box of pudding mix. Sizes may vary depending on where you live.
LOVE this recipe! Thank you for posting. To be fair I have not made it yet but will this weekend. I have made similar cake mixes using diet soda (other WW recipes) and I am super excited to try this one!!! I especially am excited to try the frosting.
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Could I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk instead of the 1% milk?
Yes.
Only if the cake is sugar free will this be a good recipe! Buy the sugar free cake and do the rest, it will be a great dessert. Remember you can have desserts in moderation
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My stomach cannot handle sugar-free substitutes and that is why I choose to use a regular cake mix.
I can not find the Skinny Cow bars anywhere, what’s a good substitute??
Not sure, haven’t made this cake in a while and I haven’t been looking. If you find one let me know.
So you only use 8oz of cool whip (1 cup)…not the entire tub? Mine comes in a 1 litre tub. Also my pudding comes in dry packets of 32 g. Im in Canada. So Im thinking of using a 32 g package of pudding with one cup of milk. But not sure how much cool whip to add. Thanks!
Yes for the cool whip. You will have to look up conversion from grams to ounces on google.
a can of soda is 12 oz. Not 8. When I used 8 oz of soda, the cake mix was too thick. Added 4 more oz and it worked out fine. Maybe this is why some of your cakes were dry?? Not sure.
Strange. Not sure why I had 8 oz on there. Thanks.