Hey guys it's Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today we're going to be doing something that's a little bit weird because
I got a lot of messages from my gamer-friends, they said "Ro we saw these weird cupcakes
on Reddit.
We want you to make them and try them out!" so I said okay you guys, I will make these.
They are either gonna be really delicious or gross.
I'll let you decide, let me know in the comments below whether you think these cupcakes are
going to be gross or delicious 'cuz I have no clue, I'm gonna try 'em today.
But today we are gonna be making Mountain Dew Dorito Cupcakes!
Let's get started!
The things you will need will be: lemon cake-mix, I'm using a box cake but you can use your
favorite lemon cake recipie.
You'll also need lemon pudding mix or your favorite lemon pudding recipie.
You'll need a 1/2 Cup of vegable oil.
You'll need 1 1/4 Cup of Mountain Dew.
You'll need 4 eggs and a bag of Doritos.
I'm using "Nacho Cheese Doritos" because that's what the picture had on Reddit.
Also, a cupcake tray with these little paper liners.
Let's put it all together!
First thing that we're gonna do is mix all of our ingredients together in our big mixing bowl.
You don't need a stand-mixer, you can just use a hand-electric mixer or do it manual
but I'm using a stand-mixer today.
So you're gonna add your cake mix- Oooh, that lemon smells so good!
Then we're gonna add our pudding mix.
Then we're gonna add our vegable oil.
Now the eggs, you're gonna add the full egg.
Last, but not least- Mountain Dew! I'd better taste-test it... Oooh, that's a lot of caffeine...okay!
Pour it in...
Now you're just gonna mix it together until everything is smooth and combined.
Now that we've got our batter all mixed up, we're gonna pour it into our cupcake trays,
you're gonna wanna fill them about 3/4ths the way full.
I like to use a tablespoon, I do 2 scoops tablespoon for each cupcake.
Once you've got your cupcake trays filled, you're gonna stick these in the oven at 350
and you're gonna bake them for about 16 minutes, just keeeep your eye on them- As soon as they
start to turn golden brown and you can stick a toothpick in and out without the batter
sticking to it, they are done!
While our cupcakes are baking, we are gonna make our Mountain Dew Cream Cheese Frosting,
I'm pretty excited about this!
The things that you'll need will be: 4 Cups of powdered sugar...
2 teaspoons of lemon zest so you'll need 1 fresh lemon and a lemon-zester...
1/4th Cup of butter- this is softened, it's at room temperature...
3 tablespoons of Mountain Dew...
8 ounces of cream cheese...
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract...
and a few drops of the food coloring "Electric Green" to make it look like Mountain Dew...
and you'll need a mixing bowl and a hand-mixer, let's put it all together!
First thing that we're gonna do is zest our lemon so it's really easy!
Just take your lemon, your zester- I'm putting it over a bowl, and just grate, grate, grate
like you're gratin' cheese!
Now that we've got our lemon zested, we are gonna combine'd all of these things in our
red mixing bowl!
We're gonna combine'd our butter, cream cheese, Mountain Dew, vanilla extract, little bit
of food coloring and the lemon.
Mix it all together until it's evenly combined and smooth and then we're gonna slowly add
our powdered sugar, just slowly add it to the mixture so it won't- Pffft! Cloud-smoke.
Alright our cupcakes just came out of the oven, make sure that they've had plenty of
time to cool before you frost your cupcake.
I just got this frosting-bag ready, I'm just using a decorative icing-bag, but you can
use a Ziploc Bag if you don't have one of these, it's no big deal...
And then I'm using a spike-tip at the end, but I put a little tape there so that the
frosting won't come out, and I'm just gonna stick it down in this cup.
Fold down the sides and then we're just gonna pour our frosting into the bag.
Ooooh , smells like lemon and Mountain Dewww!
Now tie the top of the bag with a little elastic tie or whatever you have handy.
Now we're gonna frost our cupcakes and then decorate with Doritos!
Um, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!
I've got my Nacho Cheese Doritos over here, I've separated them into two bowls.
Here we have Dorito-crumbs- I just crunched up a bunch of Doritos and then my hands were,
haha, super cheese'y so I ate 'em all... and then this bowl is full Doritos.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take the Dorito-crumbs, put them all the way around the outside of
the cupcake so right when you bite in you'll get your Dorito- first bite!
And then put a little Dorito on the top, but you can decorate them however you would like!
Ta-daaaaaahhhh! Here are our Mountain Dew Dorito Cupcakes that we made today!
I decorated them two ways:
1. Put Dorito-crumbs all the way around the outside and..
2. These one's in the back- stuck a big Dorito right in the middle!
Um, let me know what you guys think if you try these and you make these, send me pictures
and let me know: Do you think that these are disgusting or delicious?
I personally like when you combined sweet and salty treats, but this is sweet, salty,
AND sour so...- Uuuhhhp! I'm so excited to try these I....have no idea what to expect!
So...
Thank you to my gamer friends for suggesting these, I had a lot of fun making these!
I'll post pictures on my Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram so you can check 'em out
there and if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I'll do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Merp, merp!
And hereee we goooo!
Hmmmmm!
Taste like a lemon cupcake!
Little bit of...oh weird!
Lemon cupcake...Mountain Dew-Dorito aftertaste!
Kinda weird!
Hmmm!
I dunno what to think!