Pinterest Recipe Day: Dr. Pepper Cupcakes

"Make these easy cupcakes with only TWO ingredients," Pinterest said. 

Yeah, right. . . . .a can of pop and a cake mix? really? 

okay. . .that kinda sounds intriguing. . . .I wonder if it works? how do they rise?. . . .

Soda Can Cupcakes via Cookies and Cups

• 1 box cake mix, any flavor
• 1 can room temperature soda, any flavor

1. Preheat your oven to 350°
2. Line muffin pan with liners.
3. In a medium bowl combine your soda and cake mix, stirring with a whisk until most of the lumps are gone.
4. Fill each liner 1/2-2/3 full of batter.
5. Bake for 18-20 minutes until cupcakes are springy and toothpicks comes out clean.
6. Let cool completely before frosting.
7. You can use any flavor combination you would like. Coke or Dr. Pepper would be great in a chocolate cake mix. Orange Soda, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Root Beer would all be fun to try too.

I love Dr. Pepper. and Lemon cake mix. . . .

So I tried it.

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ready to bake. after seriously 2 minutes. what?

Well they HAD to have frosting. . .so I started making a simple butter cream. . .until I looked in the pantry and the powdered sugar had somehow disappeared. (probably into Calli's makeshift muddy buddies.) great.

So I searched the internet for "frosting without powdered sugar" not thinking I'd actually have some luck!

Tasty Kitchen saved me! 

The Best Frosting I've Ever Tasted

• 5 Tablespoons Flour ***( I know, I know. my nose wrinkled at that too--but it's good! I promise!!)
• 1 cup Milk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)

In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. You want it to be very thick, thicker than cake mix, more like a brownie mix is. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (If I’m in a hurry, I place the saucepan over ice in the sink for about 10 minutes or so until the mixture cools.) It must be completely cool before you use it in the next step. Stir in vanilla.

While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. You don’t want any sugar graininess left. Then add the completely cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat the living daylights out of it. If it looks separated, you haven’t beaten it enough! Beat it until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.

**I also added a little bit of left over Dr. Pepper to the frosting too. fyi.

Look how cute!!!! :) and they. are. so. goooooood! yum!

Think of all the soda-cake mixtures you could come up with! Endless possibilities!