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June 13, 2009 8:59 AM

How can I include Mountain Dew as an ingredient in baked goods?

I recently asked about making interesting and weird cookies and got a lot of awesome resources.

Well, the results are in, and the male masses have asked for Mountain Dew baked goods. I've found a recipe for Mt. Dew cake, but what else could I do? How would I go about simply adding Mt. Dew as an ingredient to baking recipes?

Bonus points for suggestions about frosting/icing and Mt. Dew ice cream.

posted by santojulieta to food & drink (15 comments total)

For frosting, you can probably adapt the coca-cola frosting recipe for this Coke Cake. No promises about flavour, though. Mix up a small bit and taste test it.
posted by Decimask at 9:03 AM on June 13

A general suggestion: Mountain Dew, once incorporated into a recipe, isn't going to give much of a visual cue. If you want to really bring the concept home, try coloring with green and yellow food coloring. For example, make the cake recipe, divide the batter in half, color half green and half yellow, then fold slightly for a marble effect.
posted by gimonca at 9:34 AM on June 13

I can offer this ice cream recipe adaptation, with no guarantees as to the 'Mountain Dewyness' of the result:

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups water
1 14-ounce can unsweetened 'coconut cream' (if you can't find this, you can substitute a can of unsweetened coconut milk)
1 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon vodka
1/2 cup Mountain Dew

Bring sugar and water together to a boil to dissolve the sugar and make a syrup. Combine with other ingredients, chill, then freeze in an ice cream freezer or machine.

The proportions there are correct, I've made this recipe before, but I have to add the caveat that I've never done this with Mountain Dew.

Bonus: safe for people who can't eat dairy.

Green and yellow colorings apply here, too--without them, it will probably be whitish or faintly yellowish.
posted by gimonca at 9:45 AM on June 13

Never tried this, but you might try boiling down the Mountain Dew to try to turn it back into a syrup, so you could get a stronger flavor without so much liquid. Then apply it to a recipe for maple syrup cake. I'd leave out the nuts.

Another thought (and one that kind of scares me) - use the syrup in place of corn syrup in a pecan pie type recipe.
posted by lakeroon at 9:52 AM on June 13

Take any standard icing recipe and replace water with Moutain Dew. Putting lemonade in icing is an old trick.
posted by fire&wings at 9:56 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]

Reducing Mountain Dew down to a syrup will concentrate the caffeine, which might be an issue if you're planning on giving the snacks to strangers. A 300 mg serving of caffeine might be a problem for kids and older people.
posted by crapmatic at 10:03 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]

Do you have any way of getting a hold of Mountain Dew fountain syrup? You know, those sticky bags of radioactive goo used in fountain drink dispensers?
posted by Juliet Banana at 10:05 AM on June 13

There are lots of recipes available for 7-up (cakes, cobblers, cookies, etc.) I don't see any reason you couldn't easily substitute "The Dew" for the 7-Up. If you google "7-up recipes" you'll come up with a boatload of them.
posted by caroljean63 at 10:24 AM on June 13

Pioneer Woman's Apple Dumplings contain Mountain Dew and they are delicious.
posted by almostmanda at 10:24 AM on June 13 [1 favorite]

Could you incorporate some Dew into a custard?

I haven't read the Coke cake recipe, but a Coke cookie/brownie with Dew frosting might be a hit. Or it could be terrible. Regardless, I'm curious! Let us know how this turns out.
posted by Turkey Glue at 10:50 AM on June 13

Not a recipe, but: I recently tried the Mountain Dew "Throwback" they're selling this summer (made with sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup) and, to me at least, it tasted a lot more Mountain Dew-y and somewhat less sweet, with not as much of an aftertaste. I would recommend, if possible, using that rather than the normal Mtn Dew in recipes.
posted by frobozz at 10:51 AM on June 13

Mark Bittman makes a 7-Up cake (includes a link to original recipe in Bon Appetit magazine).
posted by neroli at 12:54 PM on June 13

I made biscuits with Mt. Dew one time. I replaced the buttermilk with a slightly smaller amount of Mt. Dew. They were good biscuits, very light, but the Mt. Dew flavor was pretty subtle.
posted by Bruce H. at 1:00 PM on June 13

Here's a recipe for cherry Coke ice cream. I haven't made it, but it sounds like it would work. If you were to do it with Mountain Dew, you might try subbing in candied grapefruit peel for the maraschino cherries suggested. That actually sounds pretty good to me.
posted by neroli at 1:01 PM on June 13

Just a thought. Mountain Dew is a classic accompaniment for a certain kind of brownie.
posted by fourcheesemac at 5:38 AM on June 14