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- Hi, I'm Alicia Wolding.
I'm the executive pastry chef at Dough.
Cake and pop culture?
Not sure which one I like more
but in this show, we combine both.
Welcome to Meme Cakes!
- Chris Pratt has had a big week.
Jurassic World is out.
He just took home an MTV--(laughs)
MTV Movie and Video...
He won the MTV Video and TV Awards.
You don't win the whole thing.
He just won an MTV Movie and TV award
and he's celebrating his 39th birthday.
(party horn sound)
What better way to celebrate a birthday
than with a Jurassic-sized cake?
(dinosaur roaring)
Hopefully he'll come by and blow out the candles.
To start, we're gonna need to make a pancake batter
and a waffle batter.
So I'm gonna start with the pancake batter
but both items are going to have the same ingredients.
Just different amounts.
So we're gonna have flour, milk, some eggs, sugar,
and I have my leavening agents too that you can't see.
I have oil and a little bit of vanilla.
We're gonna start with our dry ingredients
and I'm just gonna throw this in, whisk it up.
You don't need to go crazy.
Just incorporate it.
Now we'll start incorporating some of our wet ingredients.
So first I'm gonna crack an egg.
I always crack an egg on a flat surface.
You get a way more even crack.
Don't whisk it in totally.
Just want to get the yolk broken.
Now I'm gonna pour in my oil, my vanilla.
And now I'm going to start slowly incorporating our milk.
So pouring in about half of the amount,
I'm going to whisk that in first.
I made kind of a thick batter
before I thin it out with the rest of the milk.
You want to whisk carefully because if you start going fast,
you're gonna get flour all over the place.
There we go.
Almost chunk-free so I can add the rest of the milk.
Looking delicious!
So now that my griddle's preheated,
I am actually going to pour this pancake batter
into what I use to measure the milk
so it's easier to pour into the griddle.
So now we're gonna make all the pancakes
for our pancake stack.
Spray the griddle.
I'm gonna pour a big pancake.
Apparently, Chris Pratt was homeless for a while
living in Hawaii waiting on tables when he was discovered.
So basically there is hope for all of us.
(whispers) Yes!
(applause)
So same ingredients, same process, just different amounts.
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Making sure to not spill milk over the bowl.
(whooshing sound)
Woo, that's close.
Now we are going to have our waffle iron sprayed.
(rhythmic, jazz music)
Now let that go and now we wait.
(timer ticking)
My favorite thing about Chris Pratt
is definitely his goofy sense of humor.
Well yeah, then there's also Chris Pratt's
devilishly good looks.
(ding sound)
(timer dings)
Gorgeous!
(Record scratch)
Not gorgeous.
(laughs)
That's okay. As Julia Child always says,
you can always put it back together
when you're alone in the kitchen.
Who's to know?
(laughing)
(popping sound)
Now that we have our waffles made,
we just gonna get cleaned up so we can get decorating.
(snaps) Let's do this.
Start by putting our waffles onto the base.
And we're just gonna layer it waffles, pancakes,
waffles, pancakes.
And we have our cake.
(applause)
Now I'm going to start skewering our dino chicken nuggets
and we're just going to carefully skewer this through it.
So we don't totally poke through it
but enough to make sure that it is on there.
(applause)
And now this is the fun part.
I'm gonna start by putting on some dollops
(popping sounds)
Chris Pratt makes some pretty great faces
so I pick this one.
I figured it matched his goofy humor.
So now I'm just gonna cut a circle around his face
big enough to fit on top of the pancake nicely.
And anyone can use edible imaging at home.
You just need a brand new printer
and editable sugar sheet and edible ink.
That works for me.
So now that we have a nice, beautiful shape,
I'm gonna grab my paintbrush, a little bit of water
with the pancake damp on top,
and I'm actually gonna wet the back of it just a little bit.
Making it nice and smooth.
Try not to touch it too much.
Just around the edges to make it stick.
Beautiful.
Now for the fun part.
Putting in the dino chicken nuggets.
We're just piercing very carefully
through all of the pancakes and waffles,
taking care to push them in very delicately.
Hypes of grass.
And it can be haphazard.
Have fun with it.
It is supposed to be a Jurassic theme.
Can't be skimpy on the maple syrup.
(magical sound effect)
There it is.
Our Jurassic Birthday Cake with Chris Pratt.
("Ring of Glory" by James Brett)
All we need is him to come by and blow these candles out.
(blows)
(claps)
(party horn sound)
I hope you had as much fun as I did.
Let me know below in the comments
what cake you'd like to see next.