hey everyone it's James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make these
Mountain Dew donuts and just as a bonus I'm already going to make this giant
Mountain Dew donut now this has been a request video so thank you so much to
all the people who requested I make this and if you want to see how to make it
keep watching I'll show you step by step how to make this the first thing we need
to do is start with a large bowl and we're gonna make it using a cake box mix
so these Donuts are gonna be made using this cake box mix but we're not going to
follow the directions on the back of this box we're gonna add our own little
ingredients so the first thing to do is start off with the whole bag of the cake
box mix now it doesn't matter if you use the white cake box like I'm using or
yellow it really doesn't matter here next we're gonna add 1 large egg this is
the 1 large whole egg the box calls for 3 eggs but we're only going to use one
we're only gonna use 1/4 cup of oil and
the Box calls for one cup of water but we're going to use one cup of Mountain
Dew soda now you just want to mix this up until it's all well combined
all right so after that's been mixed up really well we're gonna take this and
put this into a piping bag all right so we're just gonna set our batter aside at
the moment now those of you have been watching my channel for a while know
that there's a very easy way to fill a piping bag now if you just took get
stuff out and try to fill it like this it's gonna get all messy take a cup or
glass sit it down stick your piping bag in and form this around your piping bag
you may have to let the air out of it a little bit but now you have a nice
sturdy thing to work with and it just makes life a whole lot easier so we're
gonna fill this up here to pour some into it a little bit at a time
it's about half of our mixture in this piping bag now you can just pull it out
and see no mess alright so what we're going to be using to make our donut
shape is this donut pan it comes like this and it's really easy to work with
you don't have to cut stuff out we're just gonna spray this with some cooking
spray first then we're going to take our batter and I'm gonna cut off a rather
large spot right here for this cut it off about here and we're just gonna fill
it up and you want it about half full
after its full you just take this and tap it down and it'll even out a bit now
just take these put these in the oven at 350 degrees for anywhere between 12 and
14 minutes to make the frosting that's gonna go on our donuts what I have here
is a medium bowl and to that I have two tablespoons of melted butter 1/3 a cup
of Mountain Dew soda and I have one and a half cups of powdered sugar but I'm
only gonna add a little bit at a time about half and then the other half and
we just want to whisk this up really good
when that's mixed in really good we can start adding more now if you find
your icing is not thick and it's real runny you can add more powdered sugar
just do a little bit at a time because right when you get towards the end a
little bit goes a long way all right so when you get it where it's a little bit
runny that's okay because we're gonna be dipping our donuts in it and you want it
to be not too runny where it runs off the donut but where it'll eventually
crust over and just be perfect and because these are mountain do donuts
what I'm gonna do right now is color the icing green now our donuts themselves
are sort of yellowish so green and yellow are the colors we associate with
Mountain Dew this is optional it's just for aesthetic purposes so I'm gonna put
a little green food color in here and just set your icing aside and we'll wait
for our doors to finish up all right our donuts are out of the oven they're done
baking I stuck a toothpick through just to make sure it came out clean just to
be sure they cooked well it has about 12 and 1/2 minutes and they
look amazing I'm gonna let these cool down before we
dip them into our icy and because I have a lot of batter leftover and I don't
want to go to waste I'm gonna try to see if I can make a
giant mountain Dew donut who's with me you want to watch okay so I got
springform pans the same kind of pan I use to do like cheesecakes and stuff and
then I have this silicone funnel which is good for getting into hot
temperatures and it won't melt I'm gonna use that as my middle part of the
doughnut and hopefully it'll stay in place and that'll be the the round part
if not oh well we try so we're just gonna spray this with some cooking spray
and pour our batter in and see how it does see if we can kind of spread it
around a little I'm just gonna use my spatula to spread it around because I
don't want the funnel to move
take this put this in the oven since it's already preheated and see how long
it a so probably take a little longer than the others now I forgot to mention
if you want to get a hold of one of these baking pans I'll put a link in the
description below where you can get a hold of one I've let my donuts cool down
and now we're going to just dip them into our frosting and I just like to
grab ahold of them at like the good side here and give it a good firm grip and
we're just gonna dip them in our frosting covering the top of them let it
drip for a minute and put it on a cooling rack and just do that with all
these donuts alright so now you can see all my donuts are dipped on this one I
actually dipped the wrong side you can tell it's a little darker on the top
than the others but it's still gonna taste amazing it doesn't matter
so now just let these things cool down completely and then you can enjoy all
right so our big donut here took about 20 minutes in the oven to bake it's all
good ready to go I am gonna let this cool down completely before I try to
take it out of the pan and remove our little centerpiece now our giant donut
has had time to cool down what I want to do is actually take a knife I'm gonna go
around the edges which that should come off pretty good and clean but I'm really
worried about the middle parts and I'm just gonna kind of squeeze us in so that
we can keep that perfect middle shape like it or not
broke up a little bit but that's okay
now I was going to dip this donut just like we did the other ones but I found
it's too soft and flimsy so I'm gonna actually pour the frosting on top are
the icing on top so here goes nothing we're going to pour our icing on there
only gonna pour a little bit on each spot and we can spread it around
all right so that is our giant donut now we'll have to eat that with a fork and
knife because it's just too flimsy it's almost like a cake but it was fun making
it but now it's time for the taste test I'm gonna try out one of these Mountain
Dew donuts and tell you how it tastes
it's good you can really taste the mountain doing this this isn't like some
of the other recipes I have that you can only taste a little bit of Mountain Dew
know you can really taste the Mountain Dew I think it's coming mostly from the
frosting well thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me
make these mountains do donuts as well as my bonus giant mountain Dew donut
there's a lot of fun making this and I really appreciate you watching now if
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