- Hey guys, how's it going, Merry Christmas!
Today, I like to save my, well I guess the most
difficult baking videos for the actual holiday.
For Halloween I made this really cool gravestone cake,
so I thought for Christmas I'm gonna try
I'm gonna bust out some of my fondant skills.
I wanted to make a peppermint cake.
Now, here's some inspiration.
There's this little one!
They've got like little gingerbreads on it and some stuff
and then this is like some peppermint.
So basically what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna combine both of these cakes.
I don't really know what's gonna happen.
'Cause, as you guys know,
nobody ever knows what to expect in this kitchen.
Maybe it'll all work out great?
Maybe it won't?
I'm going to try my best.
I pre-baked the cakes because
you guys have seen me make cakes before,
like we all know what goes into that.
Actually, Jenna made these cakes.
I can't even say that I made 'em.
We've got two cakes, so for this
you're gonna want to make one basic white cake,
and honestly, this is a box cake
so we just kind of dumped this into the mixer.
Did what you do to make a cake.
And then Jenna put so much red food coloring in this.
We used gel food coloring and then
we used some other red food coloring
'cause it was not turning red.
Basically what I'm saying is if you have an allergy to
red dye, do not eat this because you will die.
And actually, I don't think anyone should eat this
'cause there's a really great chance
that you're not gonna be with us any longer.
First thing's first, ooh,
I need my cake pan, my cake mat.
Okay, we've got that.
So okay, no wait!
This is all wrong, I've gotta prep my icing first!
Oh gosh!
♪ Have yourself a Merry little Christmas ♪
So what we're gonna do, is I learned
this little trick from my friend, Man About Cake.
He taught me that some of this pre-made icing that you get,
all you gotta do is dump it in here, add some butter,
and then it'll make it much easier to spread.
So what we're also gonna do is
I'm gonna add a little bit of peppermint extract to it,
so it'll be a nice peppermint flavor.
Is this expired?
I can't find an expiration date,
so let's just hope for the best.
We've got our spatula.
(laughs)
Okay, I catch the spatula when I flip it
like 14 times in the air,
but yet when I'm holding it like a normal person.
This is the life that we live, blessed.
Now I'm not really sure how much peppermint extract.
I feel like for me, you can never have enough peppermint.
Heavenly.
Okay, let's just dump some of this in.
Every time I do one of these cooking videos,
at the end of the day I've got the biggest stomachache.
Because I wanna eat everything that I'm makin'.
♪ I've got the boots with the fur ♪
♪ The whole club's lookin' at her ♪
♪ She hits the floor ♪
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
Oh no!
My butter!
I'm so used to not ever having the butter be soft,
I left this out overnight!
No, look at it!
I'm already takin' this sweater off
'cause I'm sweating!
So that's goin'.
That smells so good, I wish you guys could smell it.
It smells like freaking Santa Claus Lane.
Turn it up to 11!
(dog barks)
A little more mint.
Oh God, ow!
Gosh, it's in my eye!
Can you see it?
It's burning my skin, it's burning my skin.
Can you see?
Oh shoot!
Oh God my face!
Okay well, my face is still burning,
but I'm not sure what to do about it,
like it kinda feels like I'm getting
like a chemical peel or something.
I have never had one before but I imagine
this is what it feels like, and it is not a good feel.
Done enough because I think I stopped caring.
Once there's pain involved, that's when I'm like,
it's time to stop.
Oh my God my face is still burning!
I feel so minty, like just picture and imagine
that you put in a piece of gum and your mouth feels minty.
That's what my face feels like.
Ugh, I'm so uncomfortable.
Sweater is constricting on my body,
my pants are too tight.
God, I need out of my skin.
(tools clanging)
Alright, we've got our cake and I'm so upset
because normally when I do this I'm able to really
do a great job of evenly cutting these cakes.
But I can't find my cake leveler,
so I'm not sure what to do.
I'm gonna have to do it by hand.
So let's just hope, for the best!
I think so far I'm doing a pretty good job leveling!
This was gonna be a four layer cake,
but I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able
to cut this in half again.
So this is gonna be our nice little, you know,
icing to hold together.
I got these, I saw them on Amazon
and I was like, yeah, I'll get 'em.
They are peppermint, I guess little chips.
So I'm gonna sprinkle those in the middle
and hopefully nobody cracks a tooth
when they're expecting like a nice, soft cake.
I guess as Post Malone would say,
candy flakes with the peppermint on top.
♪ Candy flakes with the peppermint on top ♪
Oh God, I gotta stop.
Oh my God!
This smells like what my face feels like.
Oh my god I'm having such a Merry Christmas.
Since this is no longer gonna be a four layer cake,
we can just plop it right on top!
I can probably put my headband back on.
This will help me focus.
(jazzy music)
So I'm gonna put this in the fridge,
I think the icing looks pretty good.
I may put another coat of icing depending upon
if I feel lazy or not,
but if you do this I would recommend putting another layer.
I might skip that!
I'm gonna put this in the fridge.
Oh I don't have room in here, what am I thinking?
Oh I have some vegetables!
Why would I have vegetables when I could have cake?
This is the best little mat ever.
Thank you Man About Cake,
I basically owe anything good that I do
in my kitchen to him and Ro because,
they're just the best.
I just got this, it's a new toy!
It's a fondant roller!
I mean would you guys even imagine
like not long ago I didn't even know how to use fondant.
And now I have a fondant roller?
Who am I?
We've got two colors, we've got a nice white
and we've got a nice red and now we're gonna roll out.
Alexa, play Rollout!
♪ "Rollout" by Ludacris ♪
Alexa!
♪ Rollout, drop that ♪
Stop playing!
♪ So much money, you can't stop that ♪
Stop playing, I don't know how to make it stop!
Red fondant.
No more Rollout jokes from here on in, I promise.
Actually, I can't promise that.
So I need to roll this out big enough
to cover the entire cake.
And I'm concerned, because the last time I did this
I almost went into cardiac arrest because I'm so out of
shape that rolling out this fondant, I was exhausted.
(jazzy music)
Alright, I think this is big enough and if it's not,
at this point I don't care because I'm tired!
Okay, get ready for this.
Are you ready for the flip?
'Cause I don't know what's gonna happen.
Oh, actually this is not that bad.
I think this is hopefully gonna be big enough.
It's not!
Shoot!
It's okay, it's okay!
Because I'm covering the bottom anyway.
I hate baking!
It's like a love hate, like I really have fun doing this
and then I do things like this and I get very upset.
This was supposed to be real smooth,
this was supposed to be smooth and beautiful!
This is the point where my expectations were super high,
and now, the expectations, I have none.
Everything that I thought I was gonna do,
I feel like I'm not doing anymore.
I'm gonna add some decorations to it,
I also have some lights.
They're obviously not edible, so don't be silly.
(jazzy music)
- It looks like a ghost.
- It's not supposed to be a ghost, it's supposed
to be a Christmas cake!
- [both] Ooh, spooky!
- I think I'm gonna swap this out for this little guy.
We'll put you on, wait a minute.
Ahhh!
I dented it!
It's not gonna be straight.
So since I dropped this, it's not sanitary
and it's probably not gonna be straight.
Wow!
That's so cool!
You're a big guy.
You're supposed to like put stuff on here to make this stick
but I've stopped caring, so we're gonna just do basically
all I care about is this one section.
- It looks good on one side.
- [Justine] That's all we need, doesn't matter.
This isn't gonna stick on here because I didn't put
anything on it to make it stick,
so why would it stick?
That doesn't even look straight!
I guess I'll just put them over top.
I'm not worrying about this backside,
this doesn't exist in my world.
Shove that in there.
This used to be something that I had really high hopes for,
I had a lot of dreams.
When in doubt, just buy pre-made
decorative stuff from Wilton, and call it a day.
This looks like something out of Mario Odyssey
like one of the things that he jumps around,
like one of the um, I forget what it even was,
but it looks like something from the game.
Oh God!
Once one thing goes wrong, I lose all hope.
So one ho, equal ho ho ho!
Put a little Christmas tree right here!
Merry...
(laughs)
Honestly I'm so upset, like I swear to you this,
I had all intentions of making this beautiful.
Now it all just looks like trash.
I wanted to make all custom fondant creations on this!
But it's okay, you gotta make due with what you've got,
and this is what I've got right now.
Merry Christmas.
These are so great, I bought them at Target.
I went to the store the other day, like actual store.
I usually buy everything online and I couldn't believe it.
There's a lot of stuff at the analog store.
These are incredible.
This workspace has been contaminated.
So we're gonna put this around the cake.
Since I don't care about the back,
I'm just gonna put the battery pack back there.
Gonna wrap this around my little cake.
Oh shoot, stop it.
This is the coolest cake ever, actually.
I mean these Christmas lights definitely elevated it.
I haven't seen Stranger Things, but I feel like this is,
don't they have lights or something
that you can talk to another world?
Or another dimension, I'm not sure.
(calming symphonic music)
Well I hope that you guys enjoyed that slow-mo montage,
I sure did.
Did you?
- I didn't see it yet, but I'm sure I did!
- Look at their different colored hats.
- Oh my goodness!
(dogs barking)
Oh God it's cake time!
- Geez don't startle me when I've got a knife, puppy!
Oh wow, there's a lot of fondant on this.
- Is there icing on the inside?
- Oh, wait till you see what's on the inside.
- Oh well, yeah, I made that cake!
- You did!
- Nice!
- Okay here you go, here's your slice.
Eat up.
- It looks like it says hi Christy.
Look, this little guy flick.
- Go ahead.
- [Both] Oh!
- So I hit Nick, ow!
- Ready, should we take a bite?
- You take one first, cause I made it, I'm worried.
Is this peppermint icing?
- Mm-hmm.
Oh God, it's real crunchy.
- Why is it crunchy?
- Whoa!
- It doesn't taste good.
- It's edible.
Wait, it doesn't taste good?
- I dunno what it tastes like, chemicals?
- What!
- I mean I'm obviously still gonna eat it.
- I think it tastes good, you're delirious.
I thought it tastes real good.
- No it's not bad, I just feel like there's
so much red dye in that top cake.
- Okay, well thanks for being in my video.
- It looks--
- Subpar.
- Lovely.
- Okay, lovely, I'll take it.
Hope you guys have a great Christmas, happy holidays.
Whatever it is that you celebrate
I hope that you are enjoying it.
- I celebrate cake.
- Slap it, slap that cake!
- I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
- I've lost my mind, this took way too long to do,
I'll see you later, bye!
(violin music)