- Hey, everyone, it's Barry here.
Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen.
I hope you are well.
Now not so long ago, I did a Coca-Cola bottle
that was not a Coca-Cola bottle.
It had a cheesecake inside.
It was deceptive looking,
and I've had many, many request since then
to try a milk bottle pinata alternative.
You know what a pinata thing is, right?
Boston's gonna play here,
but you're the donkey, all right?
Imagine that he's covered in all bright paper and mache
and stuff like that, and you beat him with a stick.
We don't do that.
We don't do that,
but you hit the thing and then sweets come out,
and it's all very cool.
Well, there's some of the one we get here in the UK
are normally just cheaper and made with just cardboard
that's completely sealed inside,
so you got kids whacking it.
True story, I've been to many kids' parties,
and you're just whacking it,
and it's never gonna break.
I think it should be papier mache.
We get through a lot of milk here in the house,
and we do have a milk carton just over there.
Whoo.
Got one of these, which I'm gonna dry out.
I'm gonna get a bit of kitchen towel right up in there,
and lots and lots of M&Ms.
(clattering)
Yeah, I might've bought too much,
but they did say I could take them back.
We've also got some decent white chocolate,
because as we know, once you melt chocolate,
and it has a good set,
it is like a brick.
(smacking)
Ooh.
I gave it a wash, and I also had it upside down for a bit,
and there's still fluid coming out, as you can see.
Lush.
We'll stuff some kitchen towel in here.
And then I'll just find some generic music to download,
and we'll dance.
(upbeat music)
All right, despite the bad dad dancing there,
it has made the kitchen towel quite moist, so it has got,
it's got quite a lot of the moisture out of it.
Here it is.
All right,
a little bit of adhesive for the label.
We need to keep that for later.
(clacking)
Let's melt it the lazy way, in the microwave.
30 second blasts, stir in between.
It's like salt (mumbling).
(clanking)
(beeping)
Oh, yes, white chocolate river achieved.
Nice and smooth, baby.
Wow.
All right, so I've just transferred it to a jug
to make it easier to pour into our milk bottle carcass.
Out of this whole quest, folks,
this is gonna be the step
that's gonna be the most thyme.
I've only got oregano, but food pun intentional.
Consuming, because once we get it in here,
which we're doing right now, oh yeah.
(squeaking)
You see it filling up there?
Whoo-hoo.
We need to keep it moving,
so I've put my lid on.
You can actually see the fill line.
Look at that.
Hi, I'm fill line.
If you know someone called fill line,
that's awesome.
Look, we're just moving it around.
We wanna make sure that, oh no.
What's happening?
It's popped open down the bottom.
I have a bamboo skewer.
This is looking beautiful.
I'm loving it.
I'm kind of looking and caressing for it,
like it's a newborn baby.
I can feel the chocolate working its way all around it.
It's quite heavy in there,
but you wanna coat every single bit,
so make sure it sits at the bottom.
Turn it over, and make sure it runs to the top,
to the lid, because we want the cap to sit
on it at the end.
Make sure you give the handle some love, yeah?
For the final set, I'm gonna put it
so the handle side is downward,
so that the gravity actually will fill that handle up.
It'll actually have a little bit of strength behind it.
I don't think I'm gonna have the confidence
to pick it up, but it's all good.
Can you see that?
I'm not quite happy with it.
I think that would stand out.
It's very weak chocolate.
I'm moving it around, and getting the odd spot.
There's a couple down on the bottom, as well.
But I've been moving it so much.
Basically, I've got some more melted chocolate.
So hopefully, this bit there, look,
if I go like this?
(humming)
It will settle and hit that point like that.
I've just gotta keep my eye on it.
And the cool thing is you can
actually look inside if you want,
and if you see any light peeping through,
kind of like a little window, you seal it.
(cow mooing)
I've just taken my lid off the milk, boom,
and this is actually rock solid now.
(thumping repeatedly)
This is the scary bit.
For those of you that have seen the mini food playlist,
you'll know that I have
quite a sharp carving knife set here.
So I'm just gonna slowly work my way around it.
This quite scary.
Ooh.
Okay.
(clattering)
I've got one piece off. (laughing)
(clattering)
I think the best place to cut it
is where I'm gonna put the sticker.
Oh, it's coming off, look at this.
You get the idea.
Oh!
Brilliant.
Now this is getting quite warm in here,
so I'm gonna do this in batches,
put it back in the fridge.
I don't want it to melt.
One way to save time if you can be bothered
is to actually carve the plastic off
whilst it's in the fridge,
so it stays cool, too.
Oh-ho-ho.
Getting the ring bit off is the hardest bit.
Yes!
Whoa-ho!
Oosh!
Getting there. (laughing)
It's really tempting just to grab it,
but it is still gonna be delicate for now.
Let's get the M&Ms in there.
(plastic rustling)
(clinking)
I'm basically doing this one at a time.
(clinking)
I've put it on a chopping board, as well,
so I can move it.
I was just realising that hang on a sec.
It's gonna get stuck to my worktop.
So in these go, right to the brim.
(clinking)
Ah-ha-ha-ha.
That is it.
Yes.
For reference, I only used
about three and a half bags of M&Ms.
So I've got eight just out there, doing nothing.
(laughing)
Yes.
That look blooming amazing!
Right, it now needs to go in the fridge
for a good hour, at least,
to firm up properly.
(cow mooing)
I've got myself some willing volunteers.
- Hello!
- Hello.
- Are you ready to smash this up?
- Yes. - Yeah.
(clapping)
- You thought it was an actual carton of milk, Millie,
now didn't you?
- Yeah, and then I thought it was a birthday cake,
because it was my birthday coming up.
- Uh, it's Mummy.
- You're birthday's in like.
- January.
- January, yeah.
I didn't have to check my wrist.
(thumping repeatedly)
You gotta hit it harder than that.
(thumping repeatedly)
There's me talking about the cardboard pinata,
at the start of this video.
Oh my gosh.
(giggling)
(thumping repeatedly)
Go, go. - Go, go, go.
(screaming)
(thumping)
Ooh.
- Mm.
Yummy!
- Mummy used to play hockey.
Not too hard.
(thumping and clattering)
Oh my gosh.
(giggling)
- Boston's not even eating any.
- Wow, my baby.
My precious.
(thumping and clattering)
(giggling)
I think we get the gist of it.
Are you on for some milk?
Oh.
- Boston's not even bothering about it.
(thumping and clattering)
- Ah!
- Oh no, I'm sorry. (giggling)
(thumping)
- Oh my God.
- Milk bottle chocolate.
- Mm, that's pretty good.
(laughing)
All right, so that was actually really, really fun.
Make sure you get a nice, strong set on that chocolate.
You actually need very little M&Ms,
but I hope that was worthwhile.
A lot of you guys wanted to see that.
I'm gonna leave these guys to forage,
and I'll see you next time.
Bye!
- [Girls] Bye!
- Bye! (laughing)