- [Cameraman] Congratulations!
- [Woman] Ooh!
- Apparently I said a word, and I have to sip.
- The cutest 'lil hat ever.
(intense mystical music)
- Hey guys I'm Lauren. - And I'm Lena.
- [Lauren] And today we're making
- [Together] Sorting Hat cupcakes!
- [Lauren] These cupcakes are inspired by the magical hat
that sorts Hogwarts students into their houses.
Each cupcake is stuffed with a buttercream
dyed the color of one of the four houses.
Gryffindor, Slytherin,
Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.
You don't know which house you're in until you bite into it!
And to make things more interesting,
we'll be playing a Secret Word Drinking Game.
There's a lost of words that are off-limits,
and if we say one of those words we have to drink.
- I'd be delighted, sir.
- Splendid!
- We're gonna start with boxed cake mix,
- Ta-da!
- You don't really need us to tell you
how to make boxed cake mix,
everything is on the back of the box, obviously.
But first we're just gonna add cake mix right to the bowl.
- And I'm adding water.
- Hydrate. - Veggie oil,
- Great and I'll crack some eggs.
- Cool!
- [Lauren] Alright so Harry Potter,
how into it are you?
- I was really into it when I was a kid.
My dad used to read me the books and do all the voices.
- I weirdly, I read the books one through three
and I think I've seen the last movie but I'm not,
I'm not sure.
- I don't think I have either.
(laughing)
- But people are obsessed,
I mean, I thought Harry Potter was over,
and apparently there's a movie coming out soon.
I think the premise is that they're all grown up:
Harry, Ron, Hermione.
- [Lena] Ooh!
- Apparently I said a word, and I have to sip.
Cheers!
- [Lena] So now we're gonna put the batter
into the cupcake liners.
- And our favorite way to scoop batter into muffin tins
to avoid some mess is to use an ice cream scoop,
a big ice cream scoop.
- [Lena] Oh yeah, the new movie.
I haven't heard anything about what it's about, have you?
- Yeah, so they're all grown up.
- Ooh, nice-- - And
they have kids, I think!
So I think Hermione, am I pronouncing that correctly?
- Hermione. - Hermione.
- Yeah.
- I think she's with Ron.
(groans)
- Fudge! Gosh darn it.
(laughing)
I can't remember who Harry ends up with.
- I wish we could like, phone a friend for that--
(phone ringing) - Oh hey guys!
- So we're a little bit confused.
We don't remember who Ron ends up with.
(buzzer) Er, no.
- Ha--
(bleep) (laughing)
- Sorry.
Um, I need--
- [Lindsey] Do you wanna call me back?
- No no no no, stay on the line.
- [Lindsey] Okay.
- Who does Harry end up with in like the future?
- [Lindsey] Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister.
- Oh, okay. - Okay.
- And does Hermione end up with someone that we would know?
- [Lindsey] Yes, Ron Weasley. (laughs)
- Ooh.
- Right!
(laughing) - What's going on?
- Alright.
Thanks!
- I'm so confused.
Okay.
- Cupcakes are going into the oven,
350.
For however long the box says.
Alright while the cupcakes are in the oven
we're gonna make the sorting hats, Sorting Hats!
- The sorting hats!
I'm gonna melt some chocolate.
- Right here we just have some Oreos, we--
- Oh, Lauren's getting, I feel bad!
- As I was saying--
- Sandwich cookies. - Sandwich cookies.
(laughing)
- We took out the middles,
you can do whatever you want with the middles,
we won't judge you,
and we only want the cookie part.
And then the third ingredient are Hershey Kisses!
- You can do this a couple of different ways,
but I think the easiest way to do it is just to spread
a little bit of chocolate on the bottom of a Hershey's Kiss,
and then you put the kiss right in the center.
The cutest 'lil hat ever.
Which house do you think you would be in?
- It's tough because I don't really know
each house very well.
Hufflepuff.
I don't--
- Oh, man.
- [Cameraman] Enjoy!
- I personally think that Gryffindor is a little overrated,
- Yeah they feel a little goody-two-shoes,
know what I mean? - Exactly.
So I think I would be,
or I'd like to think I would be in Ravenclaw.
- Like they're smart, but they're not too goody-two-shoes-y,
But I feel like I am actually probably a Hufflepuff
Oh, yeah.
- I'm sorry.
- Just like a classic blank would be!
- Hats are mainly done,
I'm gonna put this stuff away,
and I think it's time to move on to the buttercream.
- Yes.
- You need to soften the butter,
number one mistake is
if the butter is too hard.
And this is going to be flavored like butterscotch kind of,
- Lauren's just knocked out all the secret words
and then I come through and get to say them right.
Entertainment Weekly has their
list of celebs that they've sorted, which,
how did they get the technology to sort--
- [Lauren] Butter is being whipped first.
- Emma Roberts.
- She reminds me, actually, a lot of Emma Watson.
- And she was in Gryffindor. - Yeah.
- That seems like a solid choice, right?
- I'd say Gryffindor.
(both gasp)
- S-word - She was Belle, wasn't--
Oh no, that was Emma Watson.
- Oh, yeah. Well see, that goes to show!
Alright. - Alright.
That looks pretty nice and creamy,
it's lighter in color,
and we're going to add the sugar,
- Tons. - Powdered sugar,
tons of it, gradually.
If you don't add it gradually,
it's gonna get everywhere.
- Britney Spears
- That's an interesting one.
- It depends which music video.
Ya know, I'm like imagining
her like MTV Video Awards performance of Slave 4 U
where she has the snake.
- Which is very-- - So...
- That's-- - Slyth'.
- I was actually-- - Ooh!
(groans) - She's with me.
(laughs)
- So when it gets a little bit hard to stir,
that is probably a good time to add your heavy cream,
and that will help it become super creamy.
And we also are going to add
this lovely flavoring
that is reminiscent of Butterbeer.
- You can do about a tablespoon or two,
depending how much...
flav' you want.
- Drake...
I would say--
- Hopefully my house!
Oh wait, I wore my Drake socks!
Gotta be Huff'.
- We like Huff'.
- So this is looking nice and smooth,
- Beautiful.
- So at this point,
we wanna portion out some of the buttercream
so we can dye it into the house colors.
- Basically,
each cupcake is filled with a different color buttercream,
and each color represents one of the houses.
So we're going to dye, what would you say,
about a quarter of the buttercream?
- Yeah you don't really need that much in the middle.
Alright, so I'm going to start filling the piping bag
with our buttercream,
this is a really easy tip for getting
all your buttercream in without a huge mess,
just to use a glass.
- And while she's doing that,
I'm going to scoop out
little wells from each of the cupcakes using a melon baller.
If you don't have a melon baller at home,
you can use a teaspoon, same deal.
It doesn't need to be huge,
you just wanna put a little bit of the colored,
dyed frosting in the center of each one.
So you want to do a different color in each one,
and we like to use a little cookie scoop,
so we don't have to get our hands too dirty,
you just gotta scoop it right in to the middle.
Eventually, our director is going to mix these up for us
so we don't remember which one's in which.
- So we can get sorted,
and find out if our predictions are true!
Wait, what was your prediction again?
Or did you--
- I think I said I wanted to be a Ravenclaw,
- Oh yeah.
- Obviously I don't feel that strong for the other ones.
- Now it's time to frost and add our gold sprinkles.
- [Lauren] And our recommendation is to add the sprinkles
pretty much right away,
otherwise they won't stick on the buttercream,
we've learned the hard way.
- The good thing is, if your piping's a little messy,
like mine just was, you're covering it with the hat anyway!
I do remember being so obsessed
with the first movie when it came out.
I got it on VHS, and--
- That's something you don't hear every day.
- Yeah.
- Back when we grew up--
- I used to have to rewind!
So we're just finishing up decorating.
- So fun to not know what your house is gonna be,
and hope for a house,
and then be so disappointed
if you don't get the house you want.
- Yeah I happen to think they're a pretty high concept,
between the hat and the filling.
- That's it!
- [Lena] Look at how cute they are.
- Sorting Hat cupcakes.
- [Lauren] Okay should we find out which house we're in?
- [Lena] Yeah, let's do it!
- No peeking.
- Cheers? - Cheers.
- Good luck!
Awh, look what I have!
- I'm with Drake!
- She got to be with Drake.
I guess I'm a little more of a goody-two-shoes
than I thought.
- Alright, this was really fun--
- Yeah!
- I think that's it for this time,
if you like what you saw,
like and subscribe--
- And comment below if you have any ideas for us,
because maybe we'll try 'em out!
- Woo!
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