Hello, and welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today I’m gonna be making Dr. Mario Cupcakes! I was inspired because I was in
a web series that TGS made, and I played Nurse Joy! I’ll put a link down below
so you can go check it out! It was so much fun,
I was like, I gotta make cupcakes! So, let’s get started!
I’ve got my cupcake tray, and I’m gonna line it with these red cupcake liners.
Because it will look so medical, mmmm!
So bloody!
Before I made the batter for the cupcakes, using a white box cake, I made
this red cake, by adding red food coloring. And the reason I did that is
because I really want to, when you cut into the cupcake, to see a red cross
in the cupcake. I was like, oh! I saw someone do that with a heart and I was
like, why not do a red cross?
So what we're gonna do is take a square cookie cutter... And... Push it in.
I stuck this red cake in the freezer for a little bit so that it would stay firm
and my shapes will stay together.
Like so.
Boop!
And then you take the smaller cookie cutter, smaller little square,
and you just cut out the corners.
You can use anything that you have handy, I did not have a cross cookie cutter,
so I’m doing this to improvise. You might be able to find a plus sign like
in a numbers set, but I couldn't find it. But anyways, that’s what it will look like, this little cross!
We’re gonna make a bunch of these, 1 for each of the cupcakes.
Now we’re going to assemble these cupcakes, what you’re gonna do is take a
scoop of the white batter, put it into the cupcake tray... Like so.
And then you’re gonna take 1 of the crosses, berp!
And stick it straight down!
And remember which way your crosses are facing so that when you cut the cupcake,
you’ll see the cross in there.
And you’re just gonna do this for all of the cupcakes.
And just remember, after you put your cross in, you’ll take 1 more scoop of
batter, and you’ll put it all around it, even on top of it!
And do this with all of the cupcakes.
Now you’re gonna put these in the oven, you’re gonna cook ‘em just like regular
cupcakes. So we're gonna preheat the oven to 350 and bake for 18-20 minutes.
Mmmm!
Ding! They’re done!
Now, it’s time to decorate.
We’re gonna be making, first, Dr. Mario’s face and the 3 little sprites.
So for the sprites I have yellow frosting, blue frosting, red frosting,
and then for Dr. Mario I made this skin color, I made this all with food coloring.
We’re gonna microwave all 4 of these so that the frosting gets liquid-y.
And then we’re going to dip the cupcake in.
We are also going to be making pills out of Jelly Beans. Yellow jelly bean,
the blue jelly bean, and the red jelly bean.
We’re gonna cut them in 1/2 and then put the different colors together.
For the red sprite, der-da! We’re gonna make his little ears and then he
has horns, so, for his ears we’re gonna take small marshmallows,
and we’re just gonna grab a marhsmallow, 1 of these little guys, and we’re
gonna take baking scissors and cut them diagonal.
So it will go just like that and it will look like little ears!
Then you’re gonna take a toothpick, put it into the side, and put it on the top.
And do the same for the other side.
Now for the blue sprite, we’re just gonna dip him and then afterwards cut out his little
eyebrows out of an airhead, a blue airhead!
So just straight down, pick your flattest cupcake for his face, because the
eyebrows are really big!
Bring it up, let it drip, then you can smooth it out with a spatula.
Now for Dr. Mario, you’re gonna take your cupcake, and you’re gonna make his
little ears on the side, with, again, 2 small marshmallows.
So you’ll take a toothpick, stick it on the side, then kind of figure out where
you want his little ear to be… I’ll put him here!
Because in the game, Dr. Mario, his ears stick out so much!
He has big ears! Just stick it right in there!
And now we’re gonna dip it into skin colored frosting.
While those cupcakes are cooling, we’re gonna make the rest of them with just
white frosting, ba-da!
Just frost the top of the white cupcake.
I’m gonna smoothen it out with a spatula, but I just, I just put it in a
bag to get it out kind of even.
After you’re done smoothing out all the cupcakes, all the frosting on top,
we’re gonna dip them into white sugar, so it will make it look really cool!
See, like this. Just dip them in, kind of reminds me of what they do on, like,
martini glasses. So they look like this. Oooh, pretty!
Now for the fun part, we’re gonna decorate all the tops of these white
cupcakes, starting with the pills!
So what you’re gonna want to do I like this, because it’s fun! You’re gonna
take the yellow jelly beans, the blue jelly beans and the red jelly beans,
and you’re gonna cut them in 1/2 and pair them together in any combo you want.
Because in the game they come in all of these color combos.
And then you’re just gonna stick a few on top of the cupcake. Merp, let’s get going!
Now I’m gonna decorate 2 more white cupcakes with things that I made that
were pre-made out of fondant.
Um, here we are! Little stethoscope! I used black fondant and gray fondant.
And I’m just gonna delicately pick it up. Eeee!
And place it onto the cupcake.
And press down lightly.
If you don’t have fondant, you can just use, um, frosting, black frosting
or gray frosting using food coloring. I just decided to do this to save a
little time and I thought it would be cute!
So there we go! And for then for the next one, I made, out of fondant, just black.
It says, doctor, but the R has the R-X, er-her-her! Like in the Dr. Mario logo.
So I’m just gonna place these on the cupcake...
Doctor!
The last white cupcake that I’m gonna be decorating,
I’m gonna be using the cherry airhead.
This is the 1 that’s red, and we're gonna make a medical cross.
Take baking scissors…
Just gonna cut a little design! And I’m just kind of eyeballing it,
if it’s not perfect, that’s fine, because um, airheads and Laffy Taffy, whatever
moldable candy you’re using, they’re moldable,
so you can adjust them as you go.
So I’ve got my basic cross, and then I’m just going to kinda mold it a little bit to move
it around and make it more even, then just stick it right on the cupcake.
All the little sprites have their basic color, but now we’re gonna
start adding details to their face.
Here I have a moon shaped cookie cutter, and I’m just going to cut out merp!
Into the Laffy Taffy… I shake my Laffy Taffy’s, I shake my Laffy Taffy.
God that was an old song! I’m so old!
OK, here we go!
Got our little moon. And the sprite’s eyebrowa, we’re just gonna shape it now.
I’m gonna use my scissor a little bit here.
Cut a little triangle.
2 more little triangles on each side. And they’re pretty shallow.
Then I’m gonna stick this on top… Bing!
Now I’m gonna decorate the faces with this black frosting, I’m using a really small
tip, and here we go little sprites!
Der-dew! Dr. Mario Cupcakes!
They turned out so cute! I love it!
I did the Dr. ergh, and then Mario! Eeee!
They’re so cool, and, we even cut one open, so we cut one of the pill cupcakes
open so you could see what it would look like inside. And there it is!
There’s our red cross, so it actually works!
This was really fun! You can also do this with other shapes, like hearts
for Valentines Day or whatever you’d like! Mmmm!
OK, so if you have any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please
leave me a comment below and I will do my best to make it happen.
Thanks for watching you guys, bye-bye!