Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I got, so, so, so many requests from you guys to do something Gravity Falls
related, and I am very excited to be doing this episode because I personally
love cartoons and anything animation related!
So today, we am going to be making something we’ve never made on Nerdy Nummies
before, we are gonna be making a hat cake, Dipper’s Hat!
Alright, let’s get started!
We are gonna be making a blue velvet cake from scratch! I am so excited, and all
the ingredients laid out here is for a double recipe, so be warned, this is for
a double recipe because we are gonna be making 2 cakes.
The things you will need, will be: 4 cups of regular sugar, 5 cups of flour,
2 cups of buttermilk, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon
of vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1 teaspoon
of baking soda and 4 sh-ticks of butter!
You’ll also need some blue food coloring, to make our velvet cake blue velvet cake!
And, a mixing bowl, hand mixer, a hand whisk and we’ve got 2 pans for our cake,
1 is a regular, round 8 inch pan, and the second is a glass pyrex bowl.
Tip my hat to ya! Let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do is mix together our salt and flour,
dump in our salt, take your whisk, and mix it up.
And now we’re gonna set this aside and mix up our wet ingredients!
Now in a big mixing bowl, we’re gonna cream together our butter and sugar.
And you just want to make sure that your butter is room temperature so that it is
very soft, easy to cream. Our butter is all mixed up, and now we’re gonna add
our eggs, this is an important step. So you’re gonna add 1 egg, and then mix,
1 egg and then mix.
Now we’re gonna add our cocoa powder and mix it up again!
There’s a lot of mixing in this recipe! When you’re making stuff from scratch,
you mix a lot!
Instead of Sir Mix-A-Lot, I’m Miss Mix-A-Lot!
Now we are gonna alternate adding our dry ingredients and our buttermilk into
our creamed bowl! And this is why you’re gonna want to use a big mixing bowl
because it’s gonna be a lot! It’s gonna be full!
So we’re gonna start with our flour, and then mix it up.
Then, add the buttermilk, just keep alternating until all the ingredients are mixed
together! This bowl is getting so heavy! It’s almost full! Alright, next we are
gonna add a little bit of vanilla extract, ooooh!
And we’re gonna mix it up again!
This is 1 of my favorite parts, it just… It’s like, kinda science-y, I don’t know why
it’s my favorite part, but it is.
So in a little glass bowl, we’re gonna combine our vinegar and baking soda
and it’s gonna have a chemical reaction and we’re gonna keep stirring it
until the chemical reaction has died down.
Vinegar, and then here we go baking powder!
Oh so cool!
Then I’m just using this little spatula, it’s a little, look at it, like a
let’s get started! It’s a little finger spatula! We’re just gonna use
this to mix it up. Now we’re gonna add this and mix it up.
Last step is to make our blue velvet cake blue! So you can use any type of food
coloring that you like, I have liquid or gel. I’ve noticed that gel is much more
effective with the cake batter, but you can do whatever you’d like.
Look at that! Blue Velvet Cake!
I’m blue, am-ma-ne-nam-a-dye-om-a-nee-nom-a-ni-am-a…
That is an old song, I apologize!
OK, now we’re gonna grease our pans, so I’ve got a little bit of butter here,
well this is a lot of butter. But we’re just gonna grease all the way around the
pan, and you’re gonna grease the bowl all the way around.
Huh, here we go, here’s where we need our muscles!
We're gonna pour in, a bunch of batter, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
I like to fill them about 75% full, and if I accidentally fill a little too much, that’s
OK, when they bake, and they go a little bit high, I just cut off the top!
We are gonna bake these cakes at different heats for different time lengths.
I have a double oven, so this is very easy, and if you don’t have a double oven,
just bake them separately.
The first cake you’ll want to bake at 350 for about 25 minutes, and the second
cake, because it’s deeper, I do this thing called a slow bake, where I reduce
the heat to about 320, 315, and I bake 40-50 minutes.
After your cakes are done baking, make sure they’ve had plenty of time to cool,
and then we are going to frost and stack them.
I’ve placed the regular round cake onto a cake sheet, and I’ve placed it towards
the back you’ll see, so that there’s plenty of room in the front for the
bill of the hat. And then over here I have some buttercream frosting, that
I’ve just put into a plastic baggie to make it a little bit easier.
Take your baking scissors, snip the tip, and then we’re gonna frost.
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
Then take your spatula, spread it around, and then, oh my gosh!
Here’s our little bowl cake! It’s so cute! So you’re gonna flip it over, stick
it right on top!
It’s not perfect, but that’s OK!
Then you’re gonna take a sharp cutting knife and shape your cake to look more
like a hat.Alright, ta-da!
I’ve got my shape all carved out, I did a little flatter in the front, it looks a little
messy, but don’t worry, we’re gonna be covering it with frosting right now!
So right now, take the rest of your buttercream frosting, just frost the entire
cake. I’m just trying to make it as smooth as I can so that when we put the
fondant on, it will look right!
Once your cake is all frosted, I’m just gonna set this in the freezer for about 30 minutes to chill, and while it’s
chilling, let’s roll out some fondant!
While our cake is chilling, we are gonna decorate with some fondant, we’ve got
white fondant and blue fondant, and then here I’ve got some wax paper laid out,
so that it won’t stick to the table. And a little bit of powdered sugar to put over
our fingers so the fondant won’t stick.
And then here I’ve traced a bill of the hat… Pretty nice!
And then this is the bowl that we cooked the cake in, so when you line it up,
that looks about right!
And you can vary it however you’d like, so I’m gonna set this off to the side.
And, I’m gonna stick this little bill underneath our piece of wax paper.
And I’m gonna get our blue fondant, and roll it to the size of the bill.
And just remember when you’re rolling it out, you can always cut it smaller if
it’s too big!
Just rolled out the fondant to be as large as the bill, and then I just cut
out the bill shape, doo-doo-doo! And i’m just gonna place it right on top,
and then cut out my shape.
I just put the little bill we made off to the side, and now you’re gonna take the
rest of your blue fondant and we’re gonna roll it all out evenly.
This is the part that I have known to have some issue with, so if you mess
up, it’s OK!
Alright, so you’re just gonna take the end of the fondant right here,
and lightly roll it over your rolling pin…
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
Then lift it up, transfer it over to your cake, and then unroll it.
Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop!
You’re gonna pull your fondant down just a little bit, slowly, pressing it down
against the sides of the cake. The fondant is now laid all the way around the cake.
And, you can either use a sharp cutting knife, or I’ve got this little rolly thing,
it looks like a mini pizza slicer!
And we’re just gonna cut off the excess fondant all the way around at the bottom.
Now that we’ve got our hat cake covered with blue fondant, I’m gonna set it off
to the side and we’re gonna roll out the white fondant to decorate the front
of the hat.
Got our white fondant rolled out and now you’re gonna take the same shape,
that we used for the bill, and I’ve just traced a line that’s a little bit
more narrow, and comes to a point right here at the top.
So you’re just gonna take some scissors, cut it out.
Now using the mini pizza cutter tool, we’re gonna cut out our shape.
Now we’re gonna take our little white shape, put it right here on the front
of the cake.
Oooooh! Look at our little hat in the making! Now we’re gonna put the bill at the
front of the cake. So you’re gonna take your fondant, and you’re gonna place
it in front.
Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.
Hahahaha! That was Mighty Ducks, you guys have probably not seen that movie
but it was good!
Again, use your mini pizza cutter, cut off the excess.
Now that we’ve got our basics, I’m gonna use the same tool, the mini pizza cutter.
And instead of using the smooth side, I’m gonna be using the jagged side to make
the seams on the hat. I’m gonna start here, right in the middle, and I’m gonna
leave a little bit of spacing on the side, and just roll all the way down.
Now for the final decorations, I’ve rolled out a little bit of blue fondant for
the button on the top of the hat. And then I’ve rolled flat another little piece of
blue fondant and, I cut out this little pine tree, right for the middle!
And trace it out, cut it out.
A lot of the fondant has set, so to get fondant to stick to fondant, especially
little details, all you need is a little paintbrush, and I’ve got a little
thing of water over here, and you’re just gonna put a drop, you don’t need much.
Just a little drop, and that will act as a glue.
Help fondant stick to fondant!
Da-daaaa!
Here is the Gravity Falls Dipper’s Hat Cake that we made today. I hope you guys
liked it, I had so much fun making this! Look, it looks just like a hat!
And I absolutely love this cartoon, so thank you, thank you, thank you for
suggesting it! This was like, so much fun!
I’ll be posting lots of photos on Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter!
And if you guys make this cake or any other hat cake, please send me your photos,
I love to re-blog them and post them, I just get a big kick out of seeing your
baking creations. It, like, makes my day!
And, if you have any suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again, bye-bye!