hey dudes I'm Hilah and today on Hilah
cooking we're getting crafty and we're
making marzipan fruits that's fruits
made out of candy that you can eat if
you want to hey here's a joke what's
Willy Wonka's favorite planet marzipan
what's Elon Musk's favorite candy
electric cars a pan wait what was the
original title of David Bowie's hit song
life on Mars a pan which one of those do
you like best okay some of you
old-timers might remember actually did a
silent video I'm Hilah talking about
marzipan fruits right after chef baby
was born and Chris was doing like the
first 30 days of yoga series and I
didn't have help with videos so I made
like a silent video and it was cool um
but a lot of people were like there's no
talking anyway so I'm gonna talk a lot
what's new okay this is marzipan it's
basically just ground-up almonds with
sugar and that you can also this brand
also makes something called almond paste
that's often right next to the marzipan
I don't know what that is
I mean asides from almond paste but I
don't know if they're exchangeable or
interchangeable so just get the marzipan
okay I'm gonna start making my little
dies I find it easier to rather than try
to work a drop of green dye into this
big blob of marzipan to dilute the food
coloring a little bit first so I've got
a little bit of water in each of these
dishes like a quarter teaspoon of green
and then I'm gonna do orange here so
that's one two three four five six I can
count six drops of yellow and two drops
of red should make a pretty nice orange
and then if you plan on eating these I
do recommend starting with some new
paint brushes that have never been used
by a child
art project but whatever a lot of people
don't even want to eat him but it's fun
to know that you could eat them right so
let's get my gram I'm doing Green pairs
of course pairs come in many colors but
I'm gonna do green pairs orange oranges
and yellow oh wait no I was gonna do
green apples okay let's start with
apples green apples yellow pears orange
oranges good good thing I caught that
and then just sort of need it any this
will stay in your hand so get over it if
it starts to get sticky you can add a
little powdered sugar or corn starch
just so it's not like going up on your
hands cuz when you add the food coloring
it does start to get a little bit
stickier another thing is try not to do
this if it's really humid like this time
of year and a lot of places in the u.s.
at least we have our heaters on so the
air is really dry so it's not really a
problem but if you're trying to do this
like in the summertime and you live in
Florida or something they might just
stay sticky forever so I do recommend
storing them in the refrigerator okay so
this is good enough look good enough gal
that's what they call me it's it's
enough mixed cut my English today is I'm
very poor but it's starting to get a
little sticky so there's my little I'll
just add a little pile of that there
okay okay so start with rolling it into
a ball this is totally like when you
used to play with play-doh and your kid
and then just sort of grab like the top
half of it and start to roll it like a
doobie roll it like a doobie if you
don't know what a doobie is get off of
this channel I'm just kidding so you
just want to narrow the top of it so
that it's shaped like a pear or a
teardrop or something like that isn't
that adorable and I don't worry too much
about making them perfect because
obviously pears don't all look alike so
I like to sometimes bend the top over a
little bit oh I did it up it's supposed
to make green apples okay that doesn't
matter because there's green apples and
green pears and yellow
pears so let's just I'll just show you
how to make an apple real quick how's
that pretty much all of these starts
with the ball and then for the Apple
almost do the reverse of what we did
with the pear so you want to taper the
bottom just a tiny bit not as much we're
making like an alien head it should also
be fun and then I'm gonna tap the bottom
of my Apple on my cutting board surface
just to get it a little bit flat okay
and doesn't totally look at like an
apple now but I'll show you when we put
our little stem in the top it'll get
more Apple II shaped okay great
somehow I did a better job of this video
when I had like just had a baby and I
was doing it by myself at the table but
also the first time I made them oh this
is kind of a good story no I don't know
it's not really that good to me but uh
so I had this boyfriend when I was in
high school who was a terrible person
but I mean who among us had a good high
school boyfriend that's what I'd like to
know but this person was particularly
heinous but anyway for his birthday one
year I made this elaborate and cake that
was covered in marzipan fruits like of
all different like I think I made like
grapes and guava and like watermelon
slices I spent like all day making this
amazing cake and this was like in the
90s before you had like phone cameras
and this is before we had cell
phones I had a pager I didn't even have
a pager yet I just used pay phones
anyway I presented this beautiful cake
and I guess he like liked it and stuff
but then I was like oh wait I want to
take a photo of this cake because I was
so proud of it like with a film camera
and this laughed at me and then
I never got the picture can you believe
that
anyway I think that's very rude okay I'm
gonna make banana I haven't made of
banana since I was in high school making
that cake for that terrible person but I
think it was something like this this
seems about right huh blunted end and
then sort of have a fat little stem at
the top that later on we can paint with
some green ones it dries a little bit
okay cool but me Anna okay I'm gonna
make one yellow pear because I do think
that the yellow pears look
very cute see ya the yellow pears look
better than the green pears IMH oh okay
so I'm gonna make some oranges
you just really roll it into a ball but
then I have a cool cool cool trick to
show you do you have you have one of
these box graders and you use this
sometimes and you use this sometimes and
maybe use this one but like who the
even uses this what is this for I have
no idea but it makes a really nice
little stippling pattern for your citrus
your marzipan citrus so oh my gosh I
don't know if you can really see this
but it's like so cute it looks so
realistic now people are gonna flip
their butts okay sorry I'm kind of
excited this is actually quite fun so I
hope that you try it
okay so lemon again I'll start with a
ball and then let's taper the two ends
okay this is the thing you do the big
weird grater thing first and then you
flip it around and do the little one
okay now make some red apples yeah
really should have taken my rings off
what's your favorite kind of Apple you
know I used to hate McIntosh I just
think they were so gross and mealy until
I took a trip to Maine and had McIntosh
apples like I was like just picked off
the tree and I couldn't believe it they
were so good have you ever had that
they're so sweet and like crunchy I
think they just really don't travel well
so it's a shame that we insist on
traveling them when they don't want to
so there's the start of a Macintosh okay
all right now we're gonna add some stems
and do some painting with the food
coloring so for a lot of the stems I'm
gonna use whole cloves and I'll show you
a trick so for the apples you want to
stick the round like the bud in bud end
into the Apple first and that'll create
a sort of little like divot so like a
natural little oh yeah
totally realistic I don't worry about if
you've got a little like powdered sugar
on there and it's fine we'll paint over
it
in just a minute oh my god see it looks
like I don't know I mean I just feel
like this is amazing how natural it
looks and it's really not very much work
and a lot of people are like oh but I
want to edible stem but guess what
cloves are totally edible and I like it
I like a little crunchy clove in there I
don't know what to tell you okay for the
oranges we're gonna do something a very
cool and you want to break off the
little bud of your cloves so that you
end up with just a little four pointy
things sticking off there and then you
press it in so there's a little star and
is poking out and then look how
realistic that looks isn't that nuts for
the pears I do a little caraway seed
because they have a little tiny little
skinny stem so tiny ass little caraway
seed right in there just like that it's
so realistic okay for the lemon well
hang on do lemons have stems yeah okay
they kind of pest in sometimes right oh
my god oh okay let's give the banana a
little butt stem right like that little
like brown end oh yeah
just peaking out just poking it peeking
out okay now we're gonna paint and we
just want to like dab a little bit of
pink around the stem of the pear to make
it look a little ripe sometimes a little
bit of orange looks nice this is just
like honestly your chance to go creative
on Christmas or Hanukkah okay I'm gonna
add an extra dab of yellow just to coat
it a little bit and sometimes the ones
the marzipan fruits that you find like
it fancy candy shops and stuff that are
like imported a lot of times have some
sort of shiny glaze on them and honestly
I don't know how they do that I think
it's corn syrup I have never tried it I
don't really find it necessary because I
feel like they look more realistic if
they're not super shiny
and they kind of tend to dry out and
then I think maybe they last longer I
don't know I'm not a food scientist just
tell me what I think
all right so that little beautiful pear
look how gorgeous it is for the oranges
I am just going to do a nice thick coat
of orange and you'll notice that's when
your texture really starts to pop out
more okay banana banana so I'm gonna do
some yellow a wash they call it in water
color world and then I'm gonna dab a
tiny bit of green and hopefully it's not
too much this could be really jacking
myself up here no it's okay let's do our
lemon okay ah okay
last ones are my apples so for the
Macintosh let's just go
extra red and then a touch of yellow
yeah that's nice very subtle and you can
do multiple layers too again just like
watercolor you can go back after it
dries and add more colors if you want
okay I think for the green apples I
actually painted them yellow cuz the
food coloring green is kind of a bluish
green which is not actually the color of
a granny smith apple a figure I also
want to do a little bit of a pink blush
oh my god maybe I overdid that one a
little bit it's okay
what are their fruits should I make I'm
going crazy fruit crazy I'm just kidding
I'm not gonna do any more right now but
maybe this would be a fun thing to
revisit for like a community video and I
could just goof around and make some
more fruits so I don't know um let me
know what you think about that okay
thanks for watching Oh should I eat one
mmm tastes like green what the caraway
seed is actually nice in there like I
said the instructions and all the
measurements the stuff from my website
at Hilah cooking calm see you later
adios amigos
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