Hey guys, it’s Ro!
Today we are gonna be making some DIY Fathers Day gifts.
I’m very close with my Dad, Papa Pizza, you may remember him, he came to help
me bake on an episode of Nerdy Nummies, and we made some Olaf treats together.
I'm gonna be making gifts based on things that my dad loves, for example, my
dad loves grilling, so the first thing that we’re gonna be making are these
barbecue grill themed cupcakes.
To make these treats you’ll need a chocolate cake recipe, I’m using a
Nerdy Nummies original recipe, but you can use whatever recipe is
your favorite. The ingredients are: 4 eggs, 1-1/3 cups of all purpose flour,
1-1/3 cups of sugar, 2/3 cup of brown sugar, 1 cup of sour cream,
2/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/3 cup of water, 1/4 cup of vegetable
oil, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 1/2 a teaspoon of ground cinnamon,
1/2 a teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1-1/2 teaspoon
of baking soda.
Then to decorate you’ll need some candies. Mike and Ike’s, Dots, orange sugar
sprinkles, toothpicks, gray frosting with a number 3 tip. Food decorating pens,
and some Werthers chewy caramels.
The tools you’ll need will be: 1 large mixing bowl, a medium mixing bowl,
electric hand mixer, whisk, rubber spatula, a cupcake tray, I’m using a
non-stick by Wilton and black cupcake liners.
In a big mixing bowl, we are gonna whisk together our dry ingredients,
minus the sugars, we’ll come back for those in a minute.
So add your cocoa powder, flour, salt, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder!
Now those are whisked together, we’re gonna add our sugars and whisk again!
Now that the dry ingredients are all mixed together, we are gonna set this
off to the side, and we’re gonna mix together our wet ingredients.
In a medium sized bowl you’re gonna combine your water, 4 eggs, and vanilla
extract and whisk together until everything is evenly combined.
Then add your sour cream and vegetable oil and mix one more time!
Now we’ve got our dry and wet ingredients and now we’re gonna make a little
well in the middle of our dry ingredients, I like to pretend I’m a little
ground hog, you just make a little hole.
Neep-neep-neep-neep-neep-neep-neep!
And then we’re gonna pour our wet ingredients in the middle of the well.
Now you’re gonna mix together on a medium speed until everything is
well combined.
Once your batter is all mixed together, we’re gonna scoop our batter
about 2/3 full into our little cupcake trays.
And heat your oven to 350 and bake for 18 minutes.
Once your cupcakes have baked and they’ve had plenty of time to cool,
we are gonna decorate!
The first thing you’re gonna do is take your orange sugar sprinkles and
we’re gonna sprinkle them on top of the cupcake. No frosting needed!
These are gonna look like the charcoal embers.
Now take your gray frosting, I’ve just dyed some vanilla buttercream frosting
gray with a little bit of black food coloring dye, I put it into a plastic
bag with a number 3 tip at the end, and you’re just gonna frost on lines
to look like the barbecue grill.
Now we’re gonna make some cute little food out of candy to put on the grill.
The first thing I’m gonna make are little hotdogs, we’ve got our
Mike and Ike’s, and I’ve separated all the red ones. Then I’m gonna take
the black edible food pen and just draw a little lines to make it look like
a grilled hotdog. Now we’re gonna make some little meat patties, you’re
gonna take some caramel chews and unwrap them. And you can shape them
to look like a T-bone steak or a chicken wing, or a chicken thigh,
whatever you like. And then you’re just gonna take your black edible pen
again and draw little grill lines on it. Then we’re just gonna place it on top!
Now last but not least, we’re gonna make some candy kabobs, I love kabobs,
they’re delicious!
So you’re gonna take your little toothpick, and, you’re gonna eyeball it.
It’s a little bit too long, so you’re just gonna break it, boop!
Then you’re gonna take little dots and a sharp cutting knife and you’re
going to cut them into little chunks and put them onto your toothpick.
And there you have it! The Barbecue Grill Themed Cupcakes!
To go with the cupcakes, I wanted to give my dad a grill spatula set,
for when he actually does grill. I really like giving gifts that
are simple and useful, and then you can customize them with a personal
card or a funny little tag.
The things you will need, will be: A thoughtful gift of your choosing, I
picked a barbecue tool set, you’ll also need, some craft paper, pens,
ribbon, a pair of scissors and a hole punch to make a custom tag.
Now we’re gonna make a silly custom tag. My family loves telling corny
jokes, and using puns, so this card is really gonna reflect that!
I’ve just got some tan crafts paper here, and then I’ve printed off a tag
size online. I made a template down below in photoshop, so I’ll put a link
to that if you’re interested in using something this size.
So then you’re just gonna take your scissors, and then cut these tags out.
Then you’re gonna take your hole puncher, and line it up with the hole
right here. Then, with your fine tip markers, you’re gonna write a little
personalized message.
And here’s where you can have fun with it. Like if you got your dad a
tool set you could say, to the biggest tool I know!
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
To the Best Flippin’ Dad!
Eh? Do you get it? Flipping? You flip on the grill!
There we go we got our little tag, and now we’re gonna spruce up our gift,
I know that my dad really wanted one of these and he’s not going to return it,
so I’m gonna get rid of this wrapping and I’m gonna make my own!
Sometimes a little bit of re-packaging goes a long way, I really like to re-package
gifts, just to make them look super cute! This part is totally optional, but it’s
just something that I love to do to give it a little personal touch.
Da-dew! There you have it, a very simple and useful gift with a very funny tag!
The next Father’s Day gift idea we are gonna make is Dad’s Stache Jar!
My dad has such an awesome mustache! He’s had a mustache since he was in
7th grade, I don’t even know what he looks like without it.
So I had to make him a jar to stash, ah-ah-ah, get it!?
His favorite candies.
The things you will need, will be: Some of Dad’s favorite candies, a glass jar,
chalkboard sticker labels, and some white opaque markers.
The first thing that you’re gonna do is find a clean jar, I’ve re-used a
candle jar, so I get these candles all the time from Michael’s, and when I’m
done using them, I pour some boiling water into them, and I wash them out,
takes all the wax out of there. And then, da-da! You can re-use the jar!
Now you’re gonna take your 2 white opaque markers, these are my 2 personal
favorite for drawing on chalkboard paper, this one is a paint pen, by Sharpie.
And then this one is an opaque marker pen, by recollections.
And they’re both fine tip, and they both work really well!
So first I’m gonna draw a little mustache, and then on the top we’re gonna write
Dad and on the bottom write Stache! Dad’s Stache!
Once you’ve finished decorating your label, you’re gonna peel it off and stick
it on the side of the jar.
Now for the yummy part, you’re gonna open the top and stuff it full of candy.
My dad loves chocolate, so I got a ton of different chocolate candies that
I know he’ll like.
And if your dad doesn’t have a sweet tooth, that’s OK, you can fill his stash jar
with any of his favorite snacks, whether its peanuts or pretzels, whatever.
I’m actually gonna hide a little hidden gift in his stash jar.
I found this online, it’s a guitar pick. My dad loves music, he plays
almost every instrument, ever, his favorite are the strings though.
He’s got a ukulele, mandolin, and guitar, and he’s got old picks.
So I found this online, it’s so cute, it’s a guitar pick with a heart in
the middle and it says couldn’t have picked a better dad! Awwww!
This was such a cute idea, and when I find a cute idea, I love to share it,
so I’m just gonna stash this in here, doo-doo-doo!
And it will be a little hidden surprise.
I’ve taken the red ribbon from the last gift, I just wanted to add a little
bit of extra flair, this part is totally optional, don’t need to.
You’re just gonna cut a piece of ribbon and tie it around the top with a bow.
And there you have it, a very simple, customizable, Dad’s Stache Jar!
Finally, we are gonna be making some bacon sugar cookies!
These do not have bacon in them, but they do look like little bacon strips!
The things you will need, will be: Some sugar cookie dough, you can use your
favorite sugar cookie recipe, I’m using my official Nerdy Nummies sugar
cookie recipe, I’ll put a link down below if you want to use this one.
You’ll also need a hand mixer, a cookie pan, parchment paper, wooden skewers
and some red food coloring.
The first thing you’re gonna do is separate your sugar cookie dough into
3 bowls evenly, and we’re gonna dye one pink, one red and one we’re
gonna leave normal.
The cool thing about this is you only need one color, so to make pink we’re
just gonna use one drop of red.
You can mix by hand, but I like using a hand mixer, then mix it up!
We’ve got our pink color and now we are gonna mix our red.
Put a bunch of drops of red and mix it up until you get a deep red color.
Now that we’ve colored our dough, we are gonna wrap each one, individually
in some cling wrap, so you’re just gonna take a spoon and scoop it in there.
And fold it up tight.
We’re gonna do this to the rest of our doughs, and pop them in the
fridge for 30 minutes to chill.
After your cookie dough has chilled. we are now going to layer it on top
of a piece of parchment paper, to look like bacon when we cut into it.
Starting with red on the bottom.
So you’re gonna unwrap your red cookie dough, the dough it a little bit
sticky, so we can just take a little pinch of flour, in your hands, move it
around, boop-boop-boop!
This is the fun part, now we’re gonna make peaks and valleys with our bottom
layer, so just karate chop! There we go! There’s a valley!
Now for the middle layer, we are going to alternate using the tan normal dough and pink
dough on top of the red.
Now we’re gonna add the third layer which is the regular colored dough,
we’re gonna add a really thin layer all across the top.
Now I’m just gonna move this to a cookie sheet and pop it in the freezer for
about 20 minutes to chill, and then we’re gonna cut some slices!
While our cookie dough is in the freezer, we are gonna prep our baking pan.
Over here I’ve got a sheet of parchment paper, cut to fit the size of the pan,
and you’re gonna take your wooden skewers and you’re gonna place them
underneath the parchment paper, so that when we lay the cookie bacon strips
on top, it will create waves in the cookie, so they will look just like bacon!
Pretty cute!
After your cookie dough has chilled in the freezer, you’re gonna take a
sharp cutting knife and cut little cookie strips, and place them on top
of your baking sheet.
Once you got all your bacon sugar cookies on your cookie sheet, you’re gonna
set your oven to 375 and bake for about 7 to 9 minutes, the thicker the
cookie dough, the longer they’ll need to bake. And you’ll want to keep your
eye on ‘em, so they won’t brown.
I’ve spaced them about an inch and a half apart, so that when they expand,
they won’t touch each other. And I’m gonna make a few more batches!
Once your cookies have baked, you’re gonna take them out of the oven and
you’re gonna leave them on the pan, you’re not gonna move them to a drying
rack, you’re gonna leave them right here, because you want them to keep
the wave shape. Oh look at that! It looks like a little strip of bacon!
Da-da! Here are all the DIY Father’s Day Gift Ideas that we made today!
We made Barbecue Grill Themed Cupcakes, and to go with that we have a
Barbecue Tool set, with a cute little funny, custom card. Dad’s Stache Jar,
filled with his favorite candies, and, some Bacon Sugar Cookies!
I’ll be posting lots of pictures of all of these gift ideas on
Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and if you guys make make any
of these creations, please take a photo and send it to me, I love to
re-blog them and re-post them. I just love seeing your baking creations!
Or if you make any other fun Father’s day gift ideas, I would love to
see ‘em! If you want to learn more about the different types of bakeware
that I used today, I teamed up with Wilton and I made a video over on their
channel. I’ll put a link down below if you want to go check it out.
I talk about what types of bakeware are best for certain types of treats.
Alright, thanks for watching! Happy Father’s Day!
Bye-bye!