hey everyone its James from fun foods and today I'm gonna show you how to make
these Mountain Dew cupcakes now they have Mountain Dew in the cupcake and
Mountain Dew in the frosting so keep watching I'll show you step by step how
to make these the first thing we're going to do is start off with a large
bowl and to that I'm gonna add a cake mix and I'm using this Pillsbury brand
it's not a sponsor it's just my favorite white cake mix brand I'm just gonna add
that cake mix into the large bowl next you want to add a half a cup of
vegetable oil and you're going to add four egg whites these are just the
whites from the egg now of course if you're not doing a white cake mix you
want to yellow cake you can use the whole egg and but just use three of them
in this particular cake mix calls for 1 and 1/4 cup of water but we're making
Mountain Dew pancakes so we're gonna substitute that water for what else
mountain Dew so I have 1 1/4 cups of Mountain Dew in here just pour that in
there and we're going to mix this up for a couple minutes on medium speed
now after a couple minutes your cupcake mix should look fine but at this stage
it's completely optional I'm going to add some yellow food coloring the reason
why is because I want to use green food coloring for my frosting so I'll use
yellow for the actual cupcakes again this step is purely optional and just
for aesthetic purposes now I like to use the gel base food coloring because it
gives it a brighter color you can use the water base if you'd like it'll work
now just mix it in the food coloring
and there we go that is gonna be our cupcake mix cupcake batter so next we're
just gonna put these on cupcake liners and then put them in the oven now I'm
just gonna fill our cupcake liners and again I'm just using an ice cream scoop
so I don't make a big mess you just want to fill these cupcakes to about half
full now that our cupcakes are in the oven baking what we're gonna do is turn
our attention to the frosting and to make this this is going to be an extra
step more than normal frosting because this is Mountain Dew cupcakes and only
the best for Mountain Dew right so we can't just go to the store and buy
Mountain Dew flavoring they don't really sell it that way so what we're going to
do is I have a small pot here and I'm going to add two cups of Mountain Dew
soda to this small pot now we're just gonna bring this pot over to stove and
we're gonna boil it for just five minutes what we're trying to do is
remove as much water out of this soda as possible so we're left with a more
concentrated flavor and now you see our Mountain Dew is starting to boil so
we'll set our timer for five minutes exactly now after five minutes of
boiling we can turn off the heat and we just want to let this sit here and cool
down a bit before we move on to the next step all right so our cupcakes were in
the oven at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes what I'm gonna do right now is
check the cupcakes just to make sure they cooked properly
we're just gonna take a toothpick stick it in if I pull it out and it's clean
then they've cooked now just let these sit and cool down before we move on to
the next step for our next step in the frosting start with a large bowl and to
that I'm gonna add one cup or two sticks of softened butter just make sure the
butter is softened at room temperature and beat this butter until it's nice and
smooth
all right so once the butter is nice and smooth I mixed it or I beat it for about
two minutes we want to add a little air to it by beating it like that next what
we're gonna do is I'm gonna add just a half a teaspoon of vanilla extract to
this and I'm adding two tablespoons of our concentrated Mountain Dew that we
just heated up over the stove mix that in there
should only take a minute or so now what I have in this bowl is two cups of
confectioners sugar or powdered sugar or icing sugar whatever you want to call it
it's two cups and we're gonna slowly add it to our butter and here we go
so after thats mixed in really good just take a rubber rubber spatula and
scrape down the sides you see we have this perfect frosting
texture if you find that it's a little too runny you can always add more
confectionery sugar or powdered sugar but if it's too dry you can just add
either some milk or water either way works great or maybe even Mountain Dew
so since these are Mountain Dew cupcakes now this step is purely optional of
course I'm gonna dye these green so I just have some gel base food coloring
and I'm gonna put a little bit in here
and we can mix this up
there we go that is our frosting now the fun part is we get to decorate our
Mountain Dew cupcakes next step is we're going to decorate our cupcakes but
before we do that we gotta use put this in a piping bag
of course you don't have to use a piping bag it just makes it easier so one of
the tricks I do is take a piping bag turn it inside out into a cup just so
you're not fumbling around with it to try to figure out how to get the icing
in there or the frosting in there without making a big mess and I take a
big scoop and wolla
and now just pull your bag through and push it down
twisting now I have a very large tip on this this is a Wilton 1m tip and it's a
very large like a star tight tip it's a good idea to practice just a minute on
something else there we go also gets the air out of the bag now
just take your cupcake and you can decorate any way you like I'm going to
start in the middle big wide rosy turn that's one way of
doing it next let's start in the outside and kind of work our way in and just do
the rest of them just like that or any old way you'd like and that is your
Mountain Dew cupcakes well now it's time for the taste test I'm gonna give this a
shot and see how my Mountain Dew cupcakes taste it's good I don't have an
overwhelming Mountain Dew flavor in the frosting I
have a slight hint of the Mountain Dew flavor in the cupcake itself so I would
say the cupcake tasted more like Mountain Dew than the frosting put the
frosting did taste like just a regular buttercream frosting well thanks
everyone for watching I hope you enjoy it watch me make these Mountain Dew
cupcakes there's a lot of fun making these I hope
you get a chance to make them for yourself it doesn't have an overwhelming
Mountain Dew taste to it but it does have a good taste to it so I
do encourage you to make them for yourself and if you figure out a way to
add more Mountain Dew flavor to it please let me know I'm always happy to
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