Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies! Today I am gonna be making
a character who has been requested forever! I am gonna be making Totoro!
He’s so cute, for those of you who don’t know, it’s from a Japanese Animation movie.
He’s one of the really cute fluffy characters. He’s so fluffy!
I also couldn’t get enough of French Macarons! So today, I am gonna be making
A French Macaron Totoro!
To-to-ro, To-to-ro!
The things you will need, will be: a sifter, 3 eggs, 2 cups of powdered sugar,
1 cup of almond flour, regular sugar, 1/4 a cup, and I have a little 1/4 a cup
measurer, black food coloring, parchment paper, cookie sheets, a whisk, a spatula
and 3 mixing bowls!
The first thing that we’re gonna do to make these cookies is use our sifter.
We’re gonna sift the 1 cup of almond flour, so I’m just gonna scoop it in little,
little portions, put it in the sifter, too-too-too-too-too!
So you’ll get these leftover, and you’ll just throw them off to the side, because
we don’t need ‘em! And just keep mixing little portions until it’s all sifted.
Once you're done sifting the almond flour, you’re gonna sift the 2 cups of confectioners sugar,
or powdered sugar. Scoop it in there, and sift, sift, sift, so we get a nice smooth
mixture! Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo!
Once you’ve sifted your almond flour and confectioners sugar, we’re gonna whisk
it together until it’s evenly combined.
OK, I’m just gonna set this bowl off to the side, and before we beat together
our eggs for our meringue, you’re gonna take 2 sheets of parchment paper, I cut
them to fit the cookie tray. And what I did is I traced little Totoro shapes.
So that they would all be even. When I was doing the Kirby’s beforehand, they weren’t,
a lot of them weren’t the same sizes. So this will make sure that they’re all
the same size. I just traced 1 circle and little ears.
And then for the little soot spirits, what I’m gonna do, is you can just take anything you have in
the kitchen with a round edge and putting it down on the parchment paper.
Then take a pencil, and just trace it, so that all my little macarons will be
the same size.
Once you’re done with these you can just stack ‘em and set them off to the side.
And now we’re going to mix our eggs and make them fluffy!
Now you’re gonna take 3 eggs, and we’re just using the egg white, so you’re gonna
crack ‘em open, and just pour the egg white into the bowl, kind of jiggle the yolk
back and forth, do that to all 3 of them.
This is my favorite part! It’s where we beat the egg whites for 8 minutes.
And it’s so cool because egg proteins are amazing, you would never think they would get
so fluffy. And you’re gonna gradually add the regular sugar, the 1/4 cup,
during the 8 minutes.
Brewm, brewm!
Ta-da here it is! Here is our egg white meringue all fluffed, it’s so fluffy!
Now, we are gonna take another big bowl, and we are gonna divide the meringue
between the 2 bowls because we're gonna dye our cookies 2 different colors.
So I’m just gonna eyeball it, taking a must-spatula, about 1/2 the meringue.
Now you’re gonna take black food coloring dye, and we’re gonna add a little bit
over here to make them gray, for gray Totoro!
A little squirt, and I really wanted a dark gray, so I put in a lot of food coloring.
And then you’re just gonna mix it, and remember you want to make it about 2 shades
darker, because when they bake, they lighten up a little bit.
Then over here, we’re gonna add A LOT OF BLACK! Because we want these to be
black macarons!
Now you’re gonna take your flour mixture and you’re gonna slowly add it to each
of our bowls. And fold it, gently fold it in.
I’ve in my own experience noticed that 50 folds will be the perfect amount.
2, 3…
Once you’re done folding your batters, we’re gonna pour them into these 3 plastic
bags, this bag has a large tip on the bottom, this bag has a small tip, and this bag
has a medium tip. The medium is for the black, and the large and small are for
the gray. So now we’re just gonna scoop the batter into here.
And then you can just take a hair tie, and tie the bag!
And now you’re gonna scoop the gray batter into these 2 bags.
Take the gray batter with the large tip, and first we’re just gonna fill in all the ooooh!
There we go! And just try to eyeball it, try to match the little circle that you
drew with the pencil. Then you take the gray batter with the small tip, I think
this is a number 3, and you just draw the little ears.
And the batter is still wet, so they connect really well, you don’t have to worry
about your little ears falling off or anything.
Now you’re gonna take these little guys and set them off to the side.
Get your other tray, with the circles, and the black batter, and just fill ‘em in!
Once you got all your shapes you’re just gonna tap the tray on the table like this!
To get out all the little air bubbles.
Now you’re gonna let the cookies sit for about 30 minutes, now is a good time to
preheat your oven to 300 degrees! And after 30 minutes, put these cookies in and
bake for 20 minutes.
Once your cookies are all done baking, make sure that they’ve had plenty of time to
cool, these cookies cool off very quickly, and you’ll know that they’re done
when you just pick them up off the parchment paper and they don’t stick at all, they
should come right off!
Before we put the cream filling in the middle, we’re gonna match ‘em up and we’re
gonna decorate the top of them. So I’m just gonna move them over here, back to the baking
sheet, because we’re gonna put sprinkles all over them!
First thing we’re gonna do is take black cookie frosting,
and frost the tops of them. Oooh! Pfft!
Oh man, don’t tell my dentist I did that!
Then you're just gonna frost the top, and then you’re gonna take 2 little eyeball candies,
I got these at just the cooking store, they also have them at Michael’s.
And you’re gonna put them wherever you want, bew! Oh they’re so cute!
And then take black sprinkles, and make it rain!
I make it rain! I make it rain! I make it rain!
Look at our little black sprites! Eeeee! They’re so cute!
Now we’re gonna decorate the gray Totoro!
We’re gonna start with white cookie icing. I put the white cookie icing in this
little bag with the number 2 tip, and the first thing we’re gonna do is draw
his little belly. His little belly fur by just making a circle, and then you're gonna fill it in.
Once you got his belly you’re gonna make his little eyeballs, and you're gonna draw a little mouth.
Alright, time to give him a little bit definition. What you’re gonna do is take
a toothpick, and I’m gonna flatten out the top of his smile, and kind of pull off
to the sides, his little smile, to make him look more happy!
Now with black frosting, I’ve added a number 1 tip, the smallest tip that they have,
we’re gonna make his little eyeballs his little nose and his whiskers.
Now you’re gonna take gray cookie icing. I got this color by combining black
and white, and then I’ve put a number 2 tip on the top, and we’re just gonna draw
the little marks that are on his coat.
Once you got your cookies all frosted, we are gonna do the last decorating touch!
I’ve got green fondant, the fondant I’m using is the brand Duff, I really like this
fondant, it’s one of my favorites! And I’m using this mold, I believe it’s
a wilton cake mold, I’ll put a link down below if I can find it. And it has a bunch
of leafs and trees, and we’re gonna find the smallest leaf in this pattern,
right up at the top, push a little bit of green fondant into the corner, and
then peel it up, like so, and I just put it on a piece of wax paper.
Then you’re gonna take a little cutter tool, or a knife, whatever you want to use.
And cut out the leaf, because little Totoro, he likes to have a leaf on his head!
For an umbrella!
Now that they’re all decorated, we’re gonna take the buttercream and put him
in between the cookies, ah! And then they’re all done!
I just put my buttercream frosting into a plastic bag, if you don’t have buttercream
you can use ganache, you can use Jam, whatever you would like.
I’m just gonna put a little bit in the middle, like that, and then press down the top.
Ta-da!
We finished all of the little cookies, they’re so cute! I just love making French
Macarons! So I loved the excuse to make these again!
And we have the little soot spirits in the back, and we have all of our little
Totoros in the front, they’re so cute!
I just love ‘em, look at him, he’s so cute!
Hello!
If you guys have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Also, in other news, my girlfriend Mary who has an amazing Tumblr, it’s called
Simple Disney Things, I’ll put a link down below so you can go check her out.
She designed a new Tumblr for me, and it has a ton of Nerdy Nummies pictures,
and a lot of other things, so if you want to go check it out, I will put that
link down below, so you can go check out my Tumblr page!
It was in sad shape before. Mmmm… Until Mary came along!
So, go check it out, show it some love, and I will see you guys later.
OK, bye-bye!
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo! Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
Magic for everyone!