What do you do when you have leftover orange soda?
I don’t like to drink so much food colouring and don’t particularly like orange soda, so rather than drink it, I leave it in the fridge hoping someone else will dispose of it for me. However–no such luck. I feel bad just pouring it down the drain so I came up with the idea to use it in a recipe.
So, tada!!
Orange Soda Cupcakes
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar [I never thought about this before, but the soda has sugar in it too, so the cupcakes are sweeter than usual. I might try reducing the sugar to 3/4 cup if I made these again.]
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup cooking oil
- 1 cup orange soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Mix the first 4 ingredients together. [I use a whisk to get rid of any lumps.]
- In a separate bowl, beat egg, then add oil, orange soda, and vanilla and stir.
- Stir wet ingredients into dry mixture until blended. [Don't over mix.] Mixture will be fairly thin/pourable.
- Pour or spoon into greased or paper-cup-lined muffin tins, about 3/4 full.
- Bake for 15-20 min. @ 350F.
- Turn out of muffin tins to cool, being sure to put cupcakes bottom side down, since the tops can be sticky.
- Frost as desired. I think a cream cheese frosting (even orange cream cheese frosting) would be really nice. Chocolate frosting would also work with the orange flavour.
So . . . not iced, and not very exciting looking. The batter was quite orange, but now that it's baked, the cupcakes are just a golden yellow inside and out.
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