Cue JAWS music…
When deciding what to take for our Jimmy Buffett tailgating experience, I of course thought of making cupcakes! I made the Margarita cupcakes but also wanted something more traditional… I saw a picture of some beach and shark cupcakes and thought they were really cute and very fitting.
As usual, when I make more than 1 kind of recipe, I make one from scratch and one from a box. I made the margarita cupcakes from scratch and used the WW Diet Coke method on these babies.
Diet Coke Cupcakes – 2 WW pts
1 box cake mix – I used Devil’s Food
1 can of diet coke – any variety will do – I used Diet Dr Pepper
1 egg white (to help hold it all together)
Follow directions on box for cake or cupcakes except use only ingredients listed above.
I used store bought frosting that and dyed it blue.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
So i just made this over the weekend, in a rush, in like 2-3 hrs, for a party.
It won the best dessert!
It wasn’t that difficult,though i think it was a bit expensive, because i didn’t have things like peppermint extract and such.
Instead of crushed candy canes i put crushed peppermint bark chocolates.
thanks for the awesome recipe!!!
beantownbaker — December 18th, 2013 @ 1:03 pm
Congrats on winning! How exciting. Glad you enjoyed the recipe. It’s one of my favorites.