Mountain Dew Cupcakes With Frosting
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- Ready In:
- 57mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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24
ingredients
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CAKE
- 510.29 g box lemon cake mix
- 96.38 g box lemon pudding mix
- 4 eggs
- 295.73 ml Mountain Dew soda
- 118.29 ml vegetable oil
- 0.19-0.32 ml yellow food coloring
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FROSTING
- 946.36 ml confectioners' sugar
- 236.59 ml salted butter (room temp)
- 29.57 ml Mountain Dew soda
- 7.39 ml lemon juice
- 7.39 ml lime juice
- 0.19-0.32 ml neon green food coloring
directions
- Mix cake mix, pudding and eggs well.
- Add in your oil to the batter and mix for 2 minutes.
- Slowly pour in your mountain dew soda and mix for another minute.
- Add to cupcake liners and bake at 350 degrees F for 13-17 minutes (or until toothpick inserted comes out clean).
- Allow time to cool before frosting.
- To make frosting, beat your butter well till smooth, slowly add in 1 cup at a time of confectioners sugar and your lemon juice & mountain dew.
- Add all of your sugar and check for thickness of the frosting. If it is too thick add a teaspoon at a time of mountain dew till you reach the correct consistency to pipe or frost your cupcakes.
Reviews
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As a Beginner baker who usually has lots of problems this recipe was super easy to follow, however I will say that they are not very "mountain dew" flavoured. It's more of a Lemon Lime flavour which to most people is kinda mountain dew-ish, but did not pass my panel of experts :P. The other thing I would say is for me I didn't like the instruction to "Add to cupcake liners" in regards to filling the batter into the tins, the batter rises quite a bit so I would suggest half full or 3/4 at most. I also don't like traditional icing so I used a packaged cream cheese frosting instead and added the mountain dew and Lemon/Lime juice. It turned out much stronger in the Soda flavour than the cupcakes I found. But I had more than half leftover. I think this Recipe would be great for kids because the steps are super simple and it doesn't take long to make. I've tried 3 other recipes which were from scratch, none of which worked out so I definitely say this is a winner on taste, and simplicity!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
PSU_Lioness
Coal Township, Pennsylvania
Founding member of 'Zaar from way back in 2005 when this site was in its heyday. I didn't really start trying to cook until I was in my 20's, but Recipe Zaar really helped build my love for food and showed me the beauty of culinary experimentation. I'm still here as of 2024 so I hope you enjoy the recipes that I've managed to compile over the last two decades. Thanks for stopping by!