Hey guys, it's Ro. Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies, today I have a very special guest. Look, you guys it's Lauren!
Lauren: Hi guys, oh my gosh. I'm so excited to be here.
Ro: I am so excited, this is the first time that we've baked together.
She's the queen of DIY, I am going to be putting her links down below
go check it out, subscribe. Show her some love. She's super creative.
You basically can do anything with anything
Lauren: Well um... Just, like, not in the cooking realm.
Ro: oooohh Lauren: I stay in the scissors and glue gun realm, this is your world
Ro: I don't know about you, but when the unicorn frappuccino
came out at starbucks i was a little bit obsessed.
And I thought that would be the perfect thing for us to make because the vibrant colors really reminded me of you
Lauren: Oh my god. Ro: It's like ombre.
It's like the most IG worthy thing that's ever come out ever
Ro: So today we are gonna be making a Unicorn Frappuccino Cake.
Get this, it even is gonna taste like the Starbucks drink itself
Lauren: OOOO GURL U FANCYYY
Ro: Alright, you ready. Lauren: I'm ready. Both: Let's get started
Ro: The things you'll need to make this sour mango cake recipe
will be 1 cup of butter, quarter cup of milk, 1 cup of sugar, 1 and
3/4 cup of all-purpose flour, 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, 3 eggs, and some
dehydrated mangoes. Lauren: and for the sweet and sour soak you will need 1/2 a cup of lemon juice 1/2 a cup of lime juice
1/2 a cup of water and 1/2 a cup of sugar
Both: Now let's put it all together!
Ro: The first step to making a cake is to blend up our dried mango.
Dump all of the mango in there Lauren, and then we can have a little we can have a little taste. Lauren: Oh girl
Ro: I'm gonna have you do the honors. Hey. Here's the button right here. Okay, then just pulse it like that. Tap it, keep tapping. Yeah
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Yeah, yeah
You ready Lauren: yeah, I'm ready, I'm like okay, that's like dang near perfect. We need the corners in here we need all the Mango...
And pour it in...
Oooooooooooh
Lauren: Now we've got our mango powder and it's time to whisk together our dry ingredients
Ro: That's right Lauren. Pour in this flour I'm gonna have you pour. I trust you, you can do this
You got this girl. Add your baking powder and salt whisk together. Lauren: Is there a proper whisking method?
Just trying to keep it in the bowl. Lauren: Next up is creaming together our butter and our sugar
Ro: Yes, scoop in the butter. You can use a little spatula. You want the butter..Oh, ya'll, it's the cutest stinkin'
spatula in the world. Pour in all the sugar, Lauren, I'm gonna have you do this.
Lauren: Oh, No
Ro: Yeah, you got this girl. Lauren: I'm stressed, I'm stressed. Okay. Ro: I have faith
Using an electric hand mixer
Mix together your butter and sugar for a couple minutes on a medium speed until it's light and fluffy
Lauren: I feel like this is the baking class I never got in high school
Ro: I know our baking class in high school wasn't very good. We had one Home Ec class. Lauren: Yeahh
Ro: And it was like here's a book. Here's some flour and eggs and stuff.. make a pie.
Lauren: This looks super fluffy
Ro: Yeahh!
Lauren: It looks like snow, like delicious baking snow
Ro: Yeah, with butter. Next we're gonna add our eggs, one at a time, mixing in between each addition
I'll start the first egg. Add the whole egg. Boop! Oh, sorry girl. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh
Lauren: I've been hit!. Ro: No! No, Lauren! LAuren! I got you, girllllll! Give it a crack, go for it. Don't worry about the shells
Lauren: You know I haven't cooked a the meal in like months. Ro: *GASP* What was the last thing you cooked, do you remember?
Lauren: A frozen meal. Ro: Mmmm..pizza?
Lauren: No, like, uh, like a whole foods frozen meal
*Laughs* Ro: Ohhhhh, those are good, though
Lauren: Yeah, they're good, they're really good. We've got our milk, our butter mixture, and our dry ingredients, and we're gonna put them all together
Yes, this is gonna make the most delicious batter
I'm so excited. Add a little dry
Mix it up. Add a little wet, mix it up. Add a little dry, mix it up.
Wet, mix it up. Dry, mix it up. Our cake batter is a ready and we're gonna divide it evenly between these milkshake cups
We've lined the milkshake cups with a piece of parchment paper and greased them
And you also want to make sure it overhangs. Also put a little circle of parchment paper
covering the bottom. These little ice cream scoops get some batter. Lauren: Ooh, this is fluffy
Mmm. Wow this smells good
Mmmmmm
Ro: This should be a candle
Lauren: This should be a candle! Ro: Really. And then just fill it up. Just keep scooping until all the batter is gone.
Give them a little shake.
Haa! Cause' they're milkshakes. Lauren: Batter is in the cup, and they are ready to bake. That's right and today
We're gonna be using a slow bake method. Heat your oven to
300 degrees and bake for about an hour and 45 minutes
Lauren: While those are baking, we're gonna make our sweet and sour soak. Ro: That's right. This is fancy
This is the first time on nerdy nummies that we have ever soaked a cake, so I'm gonna show you how to do it
It's super easy, okay, girl
We just pour all of this into the sauce pot. So add your water
lemon juice, lime juice
And sugar into the sauce pot, then whisk together till well combined, and take it over to the stove. Bring your mixture to a boil
Stirring occasionally, just make sure all your sugar has dissolved
Then turn off the heat and set it off to the side to cool. Lauren: Our cake is done baking! It's so pretty!
Ro: It is so cute. Lauren: And we also gave it plenty of time to cool, and now it's time to make it cute
And yeah, do all the the Ro magical things that happen in cake building. Ro: We're gonna cut the cake, soak it and, stack it
I've leveled the top and the bottom turn the cake on its side and cut it into thirds. Doesn't need to look perfect
We're just doing it so we can soak each piece evenly
I just poured the sweet and sour soak into a squeeze bottle. Squeeze it! Let that cake, like a sponge, absorb that flavor
Ooooooooh
Once soaked, flip them over, and soak the other side
Lauren: We're done soaking them, and now we're gonna go ahead and assemble them in the correct order.
Ro: Yes. We want it to look like the cup
We have a little cake plate and with a little bit of frosting place it down
And then it will stick on there pipe an outline all the way around and then do some zigzags in the middle.
Lauren: Oh no. Ro: That's okay. Lauren: Oh, no. Ro: Don't worry. Don't worry
It will spread out hit the medium piece back on and then one more layer
Lauren: Now this is starting to look like a super cute cake so we're gonna freeze it for half an hour
We took our cake out of the freezer and girl what is next?
Ro: Next we frost but before we frost our cake we got put in a little bit of structure. I like to use straws.
Lauren: Is that a boba straw? Ro: Yeah!
Lauren: Yeahhhh!
Stick it right in the middle of the cake and I'm gonna let you do it use your muscles girl
Just push down. Go. Go. Go. Go go perfect. Lauren. Have you ever ombred a cake.
Lauren: Girl I have barely made a cake out of like a box.
Ro: Okay! I'm so excited that we're doing this then
start at the bottom with the purple buttercream icing I've just put into a piping bag. Turn the turntable
and then pipe frosting onto the cake about 1/3 of the way.
Lauren: Next up is the pink. Ro: That's right. Okay!
Now, Lauren. Just match what I did..UGH. Fill all the way to the top
Lauren: I feel like I need to like get into a, like, brace yourself. Yeah legs in position
Okay, like bend the knees or something. Get in the icing position, here we go, here we go. Ready? Yeah
Lauren: OHHHHHHGOOOOOOd
Ro: You're doing great you're doing great. It doesn't need to look perfect because after you get the frosting onto the cake
We're gonna smooth it out with a spatula. Pipe on the top around in a circle Lauren
Just like you did for the in-between slices then smooth it out now
Lauren: Now we're gonna add the blue that you see on the side of the drink
And I think it's the sour that was a sour right and that's right
Ro: That's what I remember yeah, I've got the cutest little look at this little baby, baby, baby offset spatula
and it has a triangle.
It basically looks like the smallest pie server in the world like if we made a little mini pie and you were like
here's a slice for you or like a little hamster pie like *GASP* *giggles* I love those videos. Lauren: Me too!
Ro: Obsessed.
Gently press it into the cake to make the line where you want to pipe of the blue take the blue buttercream icing in
A piping bag with a number 10 tip at the end for a little bit more control fill in a cavity that we've created
Use your spatula and smooth it out
Lauren: Our cake is frosted,
And we're ready, and we've got icing that looks like whipped cream. Ro: Yeah, that's right
We've got some white buttercream icing in a piping bag with this is called a star tip
I'm gonna start on the outside and worked my way in and then we'll build another layer the Unicorn Frappuccino drink
Also has the iconic straw and some sprinkles on top we have pink and purple sanding sugar
Sprinkle a little bit on top Lauren go for it. Just take a pinch okay here. We go. Oh, yes. It's so pretty
I love it Lauren you open that straw up. Cut it down to size to be a little smaller go for it girl place it
Anywhere you want. Oh my gosh oh my gosh *GASP*
It looks so good!
I've also gone a little extra and I made a fondant Starbucks logo. Do you want the honor?
Would you like to stick it on the cake?
Lauren: Oh my gosh, are you ready for the reveal?
TADAAAAA!
and here is the unicorn Frappuccino cake that we made today, and the recipe is delicious
It is a sour mango cake recipe. A huge thank you to Lauren. Oh my God Lauren thank you for coming over
Thank you for my onesie, you guys! Lauren made this unicorn onesie, and she gave it to me today
And I'm in love with it and you're so matching!
I'm matching! I match the
the drink. Again, I'll be putting all of her links down below, so if you're new to the channel
Please go check her out show her some love and subscribe also
I'll be posting lots of pictures and the recipe I'm Rosanna pansino.com
Instagram Facebook and Twitter, so you can check it out there
And if you make this cake please take a picture and send it to me. I love seeing your baking creations
It just makes me happy. It makes my day. I don't know if you feel that way whenever you make something
About DIYs if they went in their crafts, and you're like, totally yes
And if you guys have any other ideas for Ro for nerdy nummies leave them in the comments down below. Thanks again
Bye you guys, byeee. So is this the part of the video where we get to try our cake now?
Yeah, we got a little bit out back, so it's still pretty in the front, but now mmm
let's have a taste and I wonder huh, I know it's similar to the drink, but how some similar
Honestly better than the drink. Our first sour cake recipe it was a win
Bye bye! YEahhh! bye guys!