Mountain Dew & Engine Coolant

My dear friend has been fixing the cooling system on my car, free of charge. He's been trying to teach me a little about cars during the process, and I've picked up a thing or two.


First off, I now know how to jack my car. Step one, success.


Second, if one of your coolant hoses decides to disconnect itself, your car is going to do funny things. (Like start spewing smoke everywhere as it burns coolant off) Thank you, handsome stranger, for assisting me in the pouring rain. I owe you a cupcake, whoever you are.

Third, coolant is corrosive and kinda looks radioactive like mountain dew. Whatever you do, don't drink it. (thank you, captain obvious. Glad you informed me of that, sir! I was starting to get rather thirsty!)

Fourth, the clamps that come on cars when you buy them are a pain in the bum. After we spent far too long trying to take the clamps off, we had a few choice words for whoever invented those things. Basically, he should go drink coolant.

Since my mechanic doesn't charge me, I pay him in food. He might be cursing GM, but at least he's well fed!

So, I was pinning the other day and stumbled upon this recipe...

As I said earlier, coolant reminds me of mountain dew. Of course, I had to try them.

And guess what! They're tasty! Although, I DID make a couple tweaks to the frosting. I went a little light on the lemon juice and REALLY heavy on the mountain dew so that you could taste the flavor a bit more. AND I used throwback mountain dew, since that strange mechanic of mine prefers REAL sugar to high fructose corn syrup.

And they're good! If you like lemon cake, you'll like them.

Next step, turning them into cake pops. :)