Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Today I have a special guest, Drew! Drew: Hello. Ro: Hello! We met on tabletop.
Drew: We sure did. Ro: Yep, the episode hasn’t come out yet, but as soon as it does I
Ro: will put the links out there for you to see. And Drew is super fancy, he is
Ro: an actor from a SciFi series that I really like!
Ro: Do you want to say a little about it?
Drew: Yeah, I play Hal Mason in Falling Skies, we just, uh, completed our 3rd
Drew: season and uh we’re going back to shoot the 4th here in about, uh, I guess
Drew: it’s about 2 weeks now. Ro: Yeah, so cool! So cool! I love SciFi stuff
Ro: so I had to have him on! Plus he’s pretty cute, so I was like, really fun!
Ro: Alright, so today, I thought, what we would do, we missed Shark Week,
Ro: but I got so many requests to do something Shark related, and I’ve got Drew
Ro: here, who’s form SciFi world, so I thought, why not make Sharknado Cupcakes!?!
Drew: Da-na-na-nuh! Ro: Da-na-na-nuh!
Ro: Alright, let’s get started!
Ro: The things you will need, we’ll be making Blue Moon Beer Cupcakes. Drew: Mmmmm!
Ro: Mmmmm! My favorite! Blue Moon beer is my favorite, so the things you will need
Ro: will be: Flour, regular white sugar, butter, 3 eggs, baking powder, salt,
Ro: vanilla extract, Blue Moon beer, my favorite! Milk, and…
Drew: And when you have Blue Moon, you got to have an orange. Ro: Heck yeah!
Drew: A zester, a whisker? Ro: Mmmhmm, whisk. Drew: A whisk.
Ro: A whisker! Drew: A whisker! Ro: It’s called a whisker!
Drew: A beater, 2 giant mixing bowls, and of course, your cupcake tray.
Ro: Yeah, with little liners, we put these little paper liners in ‘em.
Ro: Alright, let’s put it all together!
Ro: Now you’re gonna take 1 of the big mixing bowls and we are gonna whisker
Ro: together our dry ingredients, a-ha-ha-ha! Drew: You’re a little whisker, a-ha-ha!
Ro: A-ha, I’m a little whisker!
Ro: OK, so you’re gonna take 2-1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt.
Drew: And then 2 teaspoons, what do we have here? Ro: Perfect! Drew: Baking soda?
Ro: Yeah baking… Powder! Drew: Baking powder. Ro: Baking powder!
Ro: Now, we will whisk these together! I’m gonna let you do the honors.
Drew: Alright, so I… Ro: I’m putting your muscles to work. Drew: Just all…
Ro: I’m just gonna relax over here.
Drew: I think we ought to drink some beers while we’re doing this.
Ro: Yay! we can have beer-nado!
Drew: Haha alright. Ro: Look, beer-nado!
Drew: Oh that’s gonna be exciting to pop open here in a little bit!
Ro: Oh, oops!
Ro: I didn’t think about that! Drew: It’s all good! It’ll make things more fun!
Drew: So you’re gonna take your next big mixing bowl, and we’re gonna use some
Drew: butter.. Ro: Butter! Drew: That’s 3/4 of a cup. Ro: Yeah, right on!
Ro: And 1-3/4 cup of sugar, oh there we go. Ro: And Drew is gonna beat these together
Ro: until everything’s… Yeah! Till it’s really light and fluffy!
Drew: Light and fluffy eh? Ro: Yeah we’re making butter sugar tornado right now!
Drew: My mom is about to be proud of me, alright!
Ro: Yeah, OK go! Drew: Just stick it in there? Ro: Yeah.
Ro: Just keep going! I’ll try to hold it in!
Drew: Oh geez, should I turn it down a bit? Ro: No that’s great, that’s great
Ro: Once your mixture is all light and fluffy, we’re gonna add eggs, and we’re
Ro: gonna add 3 eggs, 1 at a time, Drew’s gonna beat, I’m gonna crack!
Ro: Here we go, ready? Drew: Crack. Ro: Crack, beat. Drew: And….
Ro: Crack. Drew: And… Ro: Beat!
Ro: Amazing teamwork, crack and beat!
Drew: Pschhh! Yeah-ha-ha-ha! Ro: Oh sorry, I got egg yuckies on you!
Drew: Nothing to wrong with that, we’re cooking! Ro: I’m sorry!
Ro: Now we got our eggs all beat in, we’re gonna add vanilla and orange zest.
Ro: You’re gonna need 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and 1 teaspoon of orange zest.
Ro: And Drew’s gonna be doing the zesting, so you hold it down like a cheese grater
Ro: just like that. Drew: Yeah? This is my first time, maiden voyage!
Ro: You can do it! Perfect!
Ro: You can push a little harder. Drew: Is it supposed to…
Ro: Yeah, there you go. Drew: A little more elbow grease might go somewhere for us!
Ro: Yeah, use your alien fighting muscles! Drew: Oh yeah!
Drew: How’s that look? Ro: It’s great! Drew: That looks good too!
Ro: Did you know that the beach is this way?
Ro: I’m just gonna take a teaspoon of this, here we go. And put it in our mixture.
Ro: Now, last we are gonna be doing the milk and beer, and you’re gonna combine them
Ro: together. I’ve got here, I’ve measured 1/4 a cup of milk. And now Drew’s
Ro: gonna be opening the beer, my favorite beer. Drew: How’s it gonna be? We’ll see.
Ro: It’s a girly, it’s really girly, so it’s not even that functional.
Drew: Naw, it’s not girly, I enjoy a good Blue Moon.
Ro: Yeah! And we’re gonna be adding 1 cup of Blue Moon to the milk.
Drew: Let’s see here…
Ro: Oh it smells so good. Drew: That does smell nice.
Ro: Now we’re gonna take our butter mixture, ooh, butter and orange mixture, it
Ro: smells so good! And we’re gonna alternate dry ingredients with the beer-milk.
Ro: OK, so I’m gonna add a little bit of the dry, add a little bit, and now
Ro: you’re gonna beat. Are you ready? Drew: I’m ready, who am I beating?
Ro: OK, this! Drew: Oh man! Ro: Aliens, sharks and batter!
Drew: Ooop! I think it’s supposed to be slow too right? Ro: Yeah.
Drew: This thing doesn’t really have a slow mode...
Ro: It doesn’t know how to go slow, it’s like Chuck Norris.
Ro: Now we’ve got our batter, you’re gonna take your cupcake pan lined with your
Ro: little liners and we’re gonna scoop about 2 tablespoons of batter into each
Ro: cupcake tray. You can just scoop like this, it’s OK to get messy, just use
Ro: your finger, put it out, there you go, bewp, bewp! Just like that, and do it
Ro: to all the cupcake trays.
Ro: Once you got all your cupcakes filled, you’re gonna put them in the oven
Ro: at 350 and bake for 18 minutes. And while they’re baking, we’re gonna be doing
Ro: some decorating. While the cupcakes are in the oven we’re gonna be showing you
Ro: how to do some decorations. So, yes, Drew has the hot chocolate, we dyed it
Ro: gray by just adding a little bit of oil based black food coloring dye and then mixing
Ro: around. Then we heated it up in the microwave, you can also heat it up over the
Ro: stove if you like. And, we’re taking sugar cones, like ice cream cones, la-la!
Ro: Like so, I’ve already dipped some of them so you can see what they look like
Ro: over here. We’re just gonna put them on top of a piece of wax paper so that
Ro: they don’t stick to the surface. And Drew’s just gonna show you how to dip it.
Ro: So just take the cone. Drew: You hold above, and you lower.
Ro: Go right in, and then we kind of have to move it around the sides… Yeah.
Ro: You have to get all the sides… Drew: Mmmmm! Ro: I’ll let you do it, you got it!
Ro: He’s got it, he’s got it.
Drew: I was wondering who you got yours up so high over there, it’s the old tilt.
Ro: Yeah, it’s the tilt, gotta tilt the tornado. Perfect!
Ro: And then you let it drip, let the excess drip off a little bit, like so,
Ro: ah, perfect! Drew: Uh-oh. Ro: Oh there you go, there you go!
Drew: Alright, you ready? Here it comes! Ro: And then plop it down. Perfect!
Ro: And you’re just gonna make a bunch of these because we’re gonna flip it upside
Ro: down and stick them onto the cupcakes when they’re ready!
Ro: Cupcakes are fresh out of the oven. Drew: Oooh, and they’re warm.
Ro: Little warm, so we’re gonna let them sit right here and cool, and now we’re
Ro: gonna make the shark heads. I got this idea from a really cute cookbook that
Ro: I love, it’s my favorite cupcake decorating cookbook, let me show you.
Ro: Ah, I’ll put it… Drew: Oh I have that 1! Ro: Uh, Hello Cupcake!
Ro: I’ll put the links down below so that if you want to check out this idea it’s
Ro: so cool! But she makes shark head cupcakes, so we are gonna use the shark
Ro: head today. We are gonna be using Twinkies today and chocolate wafer cookies.
Ro: Alright, so the first thing that you’re gonna do is take your Twinkie,
Ro: And open it up, oh gosh, maybe I should do your way. Drew: I was gonna say,
Drew: wow you open Twinkies… Ro: Uh, I don’t know, uh, huge knife I guess.
Ro: And you’re gonna cut a little bit diagonal. And then this side you’re gonna
Ro: take your knife, and you’re gonna shave off, kind of the edging.
Ro: Now this is the tricky part, when chopping these cookies,
Ro: they’re kind of delicate, so it just matters, you just gotta hit straight down.
Ro: Line your knife up, cut it in half. Oh!
Ro: Now get your little guy, and then you’re gonna put in the fin facing this way.
Drew: Wow! Ro: And it will hold it into place.
Drew: Hey cutie. Ro: Hey what’s up?!
Drew: Oh yeah, mmmmmm! I’ll meet you in a tornado. Ro: Oooh, oooh!
Ro: Now you’re gonna take these and put them in the freezer, make as many as
Ro: you’d like, and we’re gonna let them sit in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
Ro: And then we’re going to dip them into frosting.
Drew: Could you make a hammerhead shark? Ro: Oh my god that’s amazing!
Drew: Da-nuh. Or it’s a flying fish. Ro: Da-nuh-da-nuh-da-nuh-da-nuh!
Drew: 1 or the other.
Ro: OK, now our little sharks are ready to be dipped, this is just buttercream
Ro: frosting that I’ve dyed with a little bit of black food coloring dye to look
Ro: light gray like the shark. And I just microwaved it for 30 seconds.
Ro: And it’s kind of liquid-y, this is a really cool alternative if you don’t want
Ro: to use chocolate too on the tornados. You can dip it twice, but double coat it.
Ro: Alright, Drew’s got the shark. Drew: Here’s the shark. Ro: OK, you’re gonna
Ro: flip him upside down. Drew: Alright… Ro: And you want to make sure they’ve sat
Ro: in the freezer for 10 minutes, because you want to make sure that they’ve cooled.
Ro: There you go, keep going, keep going, keep going… Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
Drew: Oh man! Ro: It’s a little bit messy, but we’re gonna paint waves at the bottom
Ro: of the cupcake, so it’s fine!
Ro: Now I’m gonna show you how to put the tornado onto the little cupcake.
Ro: You’re gonna take, here you go! Drew: OK. Ro: 1 of your little sugar cones.
Ro: I’m gonna take this 1, and then you’re just gonna bite off the tip,
Ro: a little snack! There you go!
Ro: And then you’re gonna stick it down in the center of the cupcake.
Ro: Now we got our tornados all ready, we are gonna add blue frosting, this is
Ro: just blue buttercream frosting that I dyed blue with a little bit of food
Ro: coloring dye. And a little weird tip, I’m not sure what type of tip this is.
Ro: And we’re gonna use this to make water. Then we’ve got this bad boy, it has
Ro: gray frosting mixed with a little bit of white frosting, and we’re gonna fill
Ro: that on the top of the tornado.
Ro: Woooooooooooooo!
Ro: Now that we’ve got all the frosting on, we’re gonna take little toothpicks and
Ro: we’re gonna distort the frosting up here to look like a windstorm or hurricane.
Ro: Oh yeah, oh yeah, look at that tornado!
Ro: Now that we got our tornados ready, I made these 3 little sharks out of fondant.
Ro: They’re so cute! Take a look! Er-doo-doo-doo!
Ro: Just a little bit of gray fondant with black. Drew: Schooooo!
Ro: Are you ready? Drew: He’s getting sucked in right now.
Ro: Here we go! And just kind of dip him in, so his little head’s gonna stick out.
Ro: It’s amazing! Drew: Nice! Dee-dee-dee-doo-da-loo-doo-doo!
Ro: Now that we got our little sharks dipped, now we are gonna make their mouth.
Ro: We've got Fruit by the Foot, this is an off-brand but you just need red
Ro: Fruit by the Foot. So I’m gonna cut this open. Drew’s doing detailed work
Ro: over there. Drew: I had to hit a knee for the detail. Ro: Yeah!
Ro: And you can either take a knife or baking scissors,
Ro: and you’re gonna cut the shape of their mouth.
Ro: OK, now we’re gonna add teeth, you’re gonna take your white frosting, gonna come
Ro: down here… Drew: Hmmm, see, you needed to get on a knee too! Ro: Yeah I did!
Ro: OK, now you’re just gonna go boop! Boop!
Ro: Ta-da! Here are our Sharknado Cupcakes! They turned out so cute!
Drew: Dan-da. Ro: Duh-dun. Drew: Duh-dun. Ro: Duh-dun.
Both: Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! Ro: Ah!
Ro: Drew’s is awesome, he’s super creative and has some decorating skills!
Drew: She came up with the whole idea… I would say you’re more creative.
Ro: Yeah, look at ‘dis 1! It’s so cool!
Ro: So for Sharknado or for next year’s Shark Week, you have some ideas.
Ro: Alright, I will put all of Drew’s links down below, on Twitter, Facebook and
Ro: Instagram, right? Drew: Well thank you.
Ro: Yeah, and I’ll put a link to his show so you can go check it out!
Ro: Yeah, thanks for coming! Drew: Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed, we had a blast!
Ro: Yeah we did! Drew: I’ll speak for all the guys out there, these are kinda fun!
Drew: You know we can do a little baking every now and then!
Ro: Yeah, especially when there’s beer involved. Drew: That always helps!
Ro: Yeah, a little Blue Moon! Yeah! If you guys have any other suggestions for any
Ro: other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know, leave me a comment down below and I
Ro: will do my best to make it happen!
Ro: OK, thanks you guys, bye-bye!
Drew: Take care!