In this recipe, a tasty side dish is created by softly pan-frying zucchini, bell pepper, onion, and corn with olive oil, butter, and Monterey Jack cheese.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 1 (9×13-inch) cake |
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon flour, for coating
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package lemon cake mix
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
- 10 fluid ounces Mountain Dew
- 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- ¼ cup butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Mix together cake mix, oil, beaten eggs, and Mountain Dew in a large bowl until well combined. Pour into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Allow cake to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Combine pineapple with juice, sugar, and cornstarch in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, until thick. Remove from heat. Stir in coconut and butter. Spread evenly over cooled cake.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 285 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 36 g |
| Cholesterol | 42 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 248 mg |
| Sugars | 27 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was easy and yummy!
This was amazing! Honestly I’ve made a lot of Mountain Dew cakes and this one is the best! I did only use 2/3 cup sugar in the topping bc I used pineapples in heavy syrup.
I use Diet Mountain Dew. Awesome cake! So yummy!
I made this today and made some changes due to what I had on hand and because I needed to make it sugar free. I used a sugar free yellow cake mix and sugar free vanilla pudding with diet Mountain Dew. I baked it in a bunt pan and left off the topping and jus sprinkled it with a little powdered sugar after it was cooled. It was fantastic!!! Very moist and so easy…… Will be great with a cup of coffee for breakfast .
I used pistachio pudding, French vanilla cake mix, and Mt. Dew, and it was sooooo good! I also added one tsp almond flavoring. Everyone loved it!
It was super moist and wow. I used the lemon cake mix and lemon pudding as it was all I had on hand. It turned out super yummy. The frosting was my hunnys favorite part, he said it was amazing. I will be making this again as it was so easy and really delivered on taste.
I wasn’t really impressed with this. It was just ok. The frosting was good though.
I have made this recipe for my husband a couple of times now, since he loves Mt. Dew. To summarize, you use lemon cake mix and then follow the directions on the box, using mountain dew in place of the water called for on the box. I always use cream cheese frosting instead of the one listed here. A couple of years ago, all popular cake mixes started adding pudding to their mix, to make them more moist. So if you also add pudding, it is so over moist that mine fell into crumbs. The end flavor is definitely good, but we really can’t taste the Mountain Dew (just extra sweet lemon cake with a little zing to it). One day I hope to create a better recipe to replace this, so that it tastes more like the soda.
very good. Husband loved and so did daughters fiancee
I loved this – Refrigerated the cake w/topping, and it was fantastic
Yummy! VERY moist. I think next time I’ll cut back on the oil a bit. I only added 1/2 cup sugar to the pineapple topping and it was PERFECT. 1 cup would have been way too sweet.
Very good after a day in the fridge. I did use applesauce instead of oil in the cake mix. And I also added some Mtn Dew in with the pineapple and juice before adding cornstarch to give it somw extra Dew flavor. My family really liked this cake and so did I.
really quick to make. huge hit at a large dinner i took it to. it disappeared and had multiple requests for the recipe. NOTE: cake cook time for me was around 45 minutes.
I have made this twice in the past 2 weeks and it is always a crowd pleaser.
I am giving this 4 stars because I like it better without the coconut in the topping. I did half with and half without. The cake itself is ok, but the topping without the coconut is amazing. My oldest looked at it and didn’t want anything to do with trying it. Once he did he was the one to eat half of it.
Really good cake…but I dont think I will use coconut on top next time. Over all a very yummy cake!
This cake is moist & delicious! I like to use orange cake mix instead of lemon. 🙂
Made this for a luncheon and it disappeared. It was very easy to assemble and bake, which is great when a dessert is needed in a hurry.
I made this cake today for a picnic and it was AWESOME! The whole cake was gone, people who don’t even like coconut or lemon loved this cake, and I had three recipe requests. It was very moist like other reviewers said. I followed the directions, but only did 2/3 cup of sugar in the topping. Will make again!!!!
The cake is sooo moist and delicious!!! However the topping is wayy too sweet. I didn’t even add a whole cup of sugar; a little more than 2/3 of a cup. I didn’t add any coconut because I didn’t have any.
Made this last night for our friends. My friend and I are Mountain Dew lovers and I had to make the cake once I saw the recipe. It came out great but did not taste like Mountain Dew. The cake was nicely done not too moist and not dry. The topping was very good as well. This was not too sweet as some others wrote. All in all a great recipe.