Mountain Dew Doritos Cupcakes & Cake Pops♥
♥Mini bite sized Dorito/Mountain Dew Cupcakes.
I like these because you get the flavor in your mouth all in one pop.
1/2 Cup Mountain Dew for dipping your cupcakes after they bake in a bowl to the side.
5 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar
1 Tablespoon lime juice
Optional Ingredients:
♥Americolor Gel Paste in Electric Green, Leaf Green, Electric Yellow
Method:
♥Before baking..zest your tablespoon of lime zest into a small bowl.
♥In a small bowl to the side, whisk the 1/2 Cup Mountain Dew and Granulated Sugar together. After you bake the cupcakes, you can dip your cupcakes in this mixture to saturate them in the Mountain Dew flavor ♥
♥Some like to add a Dorito only as a cupcake garnish, others like to crumble up and add the Doritos to batter so there are Doritos in the cupcake. If you are going to add Doritos to the batter….Stuff Doritos inside of a large Freezer Size Ziploc bag. Roll the rolling pin over the full Ziploc bag. This will crumble the chips into little pieces, and now they are ready to bake inside of a cupcake.
7. Optional, for colored batter like pictured above: See my “Fantasy Rainbow Cupcake Tutorial” if you want to layer different colors of green or other color batters inside the cupcake.
♥Little Red or Yellow Heart Candies (they match the colors in the Mountain Dew logo)!
♥If you want to decorate like my rainbow swirls above, my “Fantasy Vanilla Almond Rainbow” tutorial will show you how!
♥Baking Sheet Lined with Parchment Paper
♥Candy Melts
♥Candy Color (in any color you wish. For Mountain Dew I like to use a dab of green candy color in the white candy melts, that gives it the light green color above).
♥Cake Pop and/or “Sucker” Sticks
♥Cake Pop stand or thick floral foam for cake pops to stand on while they are drying
♥Crumbled up Doritos in a small bowl. I call them “Doritos Sprinkles” (see technique on crumbling in recipe above).
2. In a large bowl, mix cake crumbs and small dabs of buttercream frosting until cake is a sticky “play dough” consistency. (sticky enough to form into a ball).
3. Start rolling your cake balls-I roll them into 1″ to 1 1/2″ cake balls.
4. Refrigerate until firm enough to dip into melted candy melts.
5. While cake pops are in the fridge, melt candy melts in a deep microwave proof bowl (on the “defrost” mode until smooth and melted or in 15 second increments until melted. Watch closely-if you over microwave, candy melts will burn).
6. Add any candy color desired to your melted candy melts.
7. Once your cake pops are firm enough for dipping, remove from refrigerator.
8. Use your melted candy melts as “glue.” One at a time, dip the top part of each cake pop stick in candy melts, and stick 1/2 way down into each cake ball. Let dry for a few minutes. This will secure the cake pop stick into the cake ball. And..as magical as it is..you have a cake pop now instead of a lonely cake ball♥
9. Dip each cake pop upside down into the bowl of melted candy melts. Do not graze the side of the bowl or push the cake pop down into the bottom of the bowl (cake pops are soft and delicate, they will fall off the stick if pushed up against the bowl. Twirl the cake pop gracefully in a circle in the “pool” of melted candy.
10. Hang the cake pop upside down and lightly shake until the excess candy melts stop dripping off of the cake pop.
11. Stick the cake pop right side up on stand or in foam to let dry.
12. Sprinkle on the crumbled Doritos if you want to add Doritos.
♥Color each bowl of candy melts a different color (using candy colors of your choice).
♥Select one color as your base and add a tablespoon full of each color to your base.
♥”Twirl” and “Swirl” the colors you just added to your base with a toothpick. Don’t overmix or your colors will all blend together and get muddy. The goal is for your candy melts to look “marbled” inside the bowl.