hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make
this mountain Dew Code Red cake yes I said cake this is a cake this
was suggested by Byron Chandler so thank you so much firing for making a
suggestion I finally got around to making it and if you want to see how to
make this keep watching I'll show you step by step how to make it now the
first thing we need to do is start off by making our cake I'm using a cake box
mix but you can make your own homemade white cake mix if you'd like simple as
that I start off with a large bowl and to that I'm gonna add my cake box mix
next because it's a white cake we're gonna add four egg whites then 1/2 a cup
of vegetable oil and because this is Code Red Mountain Dew cake we're gonna
add 1 and 1/4 cups of code Red Mountain Dew to this because the Box calls for 1
or fourth cups of water and I'm just substituting the mountain dew for that
let's mix this up
and you can choose to leave it this color if you'd like I'm gonna make it a
little brighter of a red so what I've done is I'm using this gel based food
coloring and it is red red is what it's called hopefully it will help the color
turn a little more red all right so it's more of a pink than a red but that's
okay because when it bakes in the oven it usually gets a little darker for the
next step we are going to move on to our pan I just have a 13 by 9 inch baking
pan I'm gonna spray it with some cooking spray and then I'm going to put a little
bit of flour in here and kind of tap it around and whenever access just dump out
there we go now just take your batter and fill the pan
just spread it out nice and evenly now now just thinking in the oven for
anywhere between 35 to 38 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit now while our cake is
in the oven cooking or baking what we need to do is prepare our bottles start
with an empty Mountain Dew CodeRed bottle and the first thing we need to do
is remove this label so you have to be careful because it wants to rip so I'm
gonna use a blade but I'm gonna be very careful not to break it alright so once
you get that first part off it will come off nice and easy and then once you get
to the end be careful again it doesn't have to be perfect but you want it
mostly intact next what we're going to do is take a razor blade or a very sharp
knife and we're gonna cut this right down the middle
and now you should have two halves you have the bottom half in the top half at
this stage you want to make sure it's nice and clean and nice and dry and as
you may notice my cut is not perfect but don't worry about that because it'll be
covered up by the label so another thing we want to do is make it easier to get
our chocolate out of our mold here and we want to just cut a straight line
about here just straight down get it in
and put some tape across it to hold it in place
and we're gonna do the same thing with this so what I've done right now is
training out my napkins for a cookie sheet with some wax paper on it because
we're gonna go on to the next phase I've melted down some white candy melts in
the microwave if you're using chocolate you have to temper your chocolate first
but candy melts you don't you can just melt these down I'm gonna start with the
white and the first thing we're gonna do is on the top of the bottle usually
there's that part where the bottle isn't filled completely up with the mountain
Dew Code Red so I'm gonna go to about right here and
what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna pour some of this chocolate and I'm gonna try
to get it right in there in that area
all right so when you're happy with how you fill that just let that set up and
then we can melt down some red candy melts so I put my top portion in the
refrigerator just let it firm up a little quicker now we're gonna work with
the bottom portion and I have melted down some red candy melts if you can't
find red candy melts where you are you can just use the white ones and then
color it red but if you do that make sure you use gel base food coloring
water base will not work it will mess up your your whole chocolate so I'm just
going to pour a good amount of this in here
slosh it around make sure you come up the sides alright so when you think you
got it pretty good we're going to turn it upside down onto our wax paper so now
I pulled out the top part of my bottle and the white part has pretty much
firmed up what I'm going to do is fill this with the red candy melts again and
same process this is only our first coat we're going to do that again because I
want to make sure it's nice and thick so it doesn't collapse when we take it out
of the plastic all right so my cake is done baking I'm just gonna let it cool
down completely before we move on to the next step now that my cake is cooled
completely I'm just gonna pop it out turn it upside down came out easy
because we had that flower and spray cooking spray on there so now we're
gonna flip it back this time I'm gonna flip it onto a serving dish
now what we want to do is level this out so I have this cake leveler but you can
just cut it with a knife if you feel comfortable doing that now what I have
is this large cookie cutter it's a three-and-a-half inch in diameter and
I'm gonna cut out as many circles as I can using it this is actually gonna be
the cake that goes inside of our bottle all right so now what we're gonna do is
make our buttercream frosting I decide just to go with a regular buttercream
instead of anything special or outrageous and I'm keeping the color
white I'm not gonna I was thinking about making it red but I really want to show
the distinct layers in between the cake so start off with two sticks of butter
which is one cup make sure it's softened at room temperature mix this up a
teaspoon of vanilla extract and then we want to slowly mix in about three cups
of confectionery sugar or powdered sugar
all right so now we're moving on to the part that I'm most nervous about I don't
want to break these so I want to carefully cut that piece of tape that I
put on here there we go all right so now what we're gonna do is actually fill
these with cake so first thing I'm gonna do is take some of my buttercream
frosting this is just the white buttercream frosting I'm gonna put some
at the bottom here then want to take one of my little pucks and drop it in
when you get half of it done just set that aside we're going to move on to the
other half which is a little more difficult to do because we really can't
stand this one up alright so now what we got to do is join this I just melted
some red candy melts and we're gonna join these together
alright so now we'll put on our label
and our top
well now it's time for the taste test I'm gonna dig into this and see how it
tastes mmm
it's good put a little bit too much frosting cuz that's what I taste mostly
but it's really good it's a really fun cake to make well thanks everyone for
watching I hope you enjoyed watching me make this mountain Dew CodeRed cake and
thanks again for byron for suggesting I make this there's a lot of fun making it
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