Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro, welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Today I have a very special guest, it’s Mark! Mark: It’s me!
Ro: We made a video together, I’ll be putting a link down below
Ro: so go check it out. Also, I’m a big fan of Mark, and his channel: Markiplier.
Mark: Thank you.
Ro: You play games!
Mark: Yes.
Ro: Do funny skits.
Mark: Yes.
Ro: You got a cute dog.
Mark: Uh-huh.
Ro: And you do rock climbing.
Mark: Occasionally.
Ro: I’ve seen your pictures and they’re pretty awesome.
Mark: Rock climbing, weight lifting, hot yoga, ballet, I play trumpet professionally,
Mark: I’m an excellent singer, I’m extremely handsome, I have many skills,
Mark: everyone says I’m cool when they meet me.
Mark: I’ve forgotten a lot of great things about me, write it down in the comments below.
Ro: New years is coming up, I’ve had so many good memories on YouTube and
Ro: to celebrate, YouTube gives creator awards, they give play buttons in different
Ro: colors, there’s silver, gold and diamond.
Ro: Mark was the perfect guest because he actually has a Diamond Play Button.
Mark: I carry it with me at all times.
Ro: Mmmhmmm.
Mark: I sleep with it next to my bed.
Mark: I have a presenter here, his name is not
Mark: important, don’t worry about that. Ro: Huh!
Mark: I am the only YouTuber in the world that has a Diamond Play Button,
Mark: I brought it out of the Natural History Museum just for today’s
Mark: occasion so that we can commemorate these incredible cupcakes.
Ro: It’s so shiny! I’m so excited… Mark: Don’t, don’t touch it.
Ro: Can I just hover pet it?
Mark: No.
Ro: Oh….
Mark: Just look at it.
Ro: Just look at it.
Mark: Ah, don’t even look at it. Ro: Don’t look at it.
Mark: I think that might tarnish it in some way.
Ro: OK we won’t even look at it!
Background: Punch in on it, OK.
Mark: NO! No don’t! NO!
Ro: So to celebrate milestones and good memories, we are gonna be making
Ro: YouTube Play Button Cupcakes.
Both: Let’s get started!
Ro: Before we start baking, Mark, I got you something.
Mark: Cool, is it a Diamond Play Button?
Ro: No I don’t have one of those…
Mark: Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah!
Ro: Last time we baked you got a little messy and Mark you may be a messier
Ro: baker than me. Mark: Uh-huh.
Ro: Which is actually really hard to achieve.
Ro: Alright, here you go.
Mark: Oh thanks!
Ro: That… Well that was my size. But I can, I can wear…
Mark: Oh my heads too big!
Mark: There you go. Ro: There we go!
Mark: Did I mess up my hair?
Ro: YouTube gave me these!
Mark: YouTube doesn’t give me anything, oh wait!
Ro: Oh wait!
Mark: Except a Diamond Play Button!
Ro: The recipe that we’re gonna be making today is a champagne cupcake and a
Ro: champagne frosting recipe.
Ro: And if you would like to make a non-spirited version of this, instead of
Ro: using champagne you can use sparkling cider.
Ro: The things you will need to make the cupcakes will be: 3 cups of all purpose flour,
Ro: 2 cups of sugar, 3/4 cup of butter, 6 eggs, we’re only gonna be using the whites.
Ro: 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda,
Ro: 3/4 teaspoon of salt, 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder.
Ro: And, of course, champagne.
Ro: Mark’s gonna tell you what you need for the frosting.
Mark: Oh, wait, I can guess.
Mark: Don’t…
Mark: 4 cups of cocaine…
Ro: Powdered sugar….
Mark: Oh…
Mark: 4 cups of powdered sugar, 12 tablespoons of butter….
Mark: No, OK, never mind then.
Mark: 3 sticks of butter, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, a pinch of salt.
Mark: And, and of course even more champagne.
Both: Now let’s put it all together!
Ro: Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee!
Mark: I don’t remember this part…
Mark: I can’t stop!
Mark: I wanna stop!
Ro: Do you dance for new years? Mark: I, I don’t celebrate new years.
Ro: What!? Mark: When I was a kid we celebrated new years by letting me out
Mark: of the dungeon cage for a few hours of sunlight before I had to go back.
Mark: I was just hoping and praying that the next year I’d be allowed into the
Mark: upstairs cage which actually has a window, but… That never happened….
Ro: That didn’t happen?
Ro: Let’s get started! Mark: Yeah let’s get started…
Ro: The first thing that we’re gonna do to make our cupcakes is in a medium
Ro: bowl, we’re gonna whisk together our flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Ro: Mark did a great job whisking last time… Mark: Yeah.
Ro: So I’m gonna ask you to do that again. Mark: Yeah!
Mark: Start now? Ro: Start whisking.
Ro: Yeah, start, start!
Mark: There’s nothing in here, why am I starting now?
Ro: Baking Powder… It just helps it.
Ro: And salt!
Ro: Perfect!
Ro: Mark that’s good! Looks good!
Mark: Now that I did that completely perfectly with no flaws, what do we do next?
Ro: Next we are gonna cream together our butter and sugar, so in a large mixing
Ro: bowl I’m just gonna pour in our sugar and butter.
Ro: And we’re just gonna mix
Ro: it together until it’s well combined.
Ro: You’ve got an electric hand mixer over there.
Mark: I don’t like it!
Ro: There you go, there you go!
Mark: It’s stuck!
Ro: OK…. Mark: This doesn’t work at all!
Mark: This is what they used to do in the old days, the rustic countryside.
Ro: They did that?
Mark: Yeah, it’s all the same!
Mark: I hope you got a lot of SD cards for those cameras over there,
Mark: because this is gonna be awhile.
Mark: This is how they used to do it in the REALLY old days!
Mark: You think they had metal back in their caves when they were making YouTube Cupcakes!?
Ro: They probably just used sticks and feet and stuff!
Ro: It is starting to look well combined you guys…
Mark: I did it!
Ro: Look at this!
Mark: I beat the machine!
Mark: I did it!
Ro: I’m like really impressed!
Mark: I did it!
Mark: This is what your mixture should look like, and in fact, the machine was
Mark: so intimidated by my ability at being awesome, that it broke in half!
Ro: We gave Mark our strongest whisk…
Mark: I’m gonna break it!
Ro: I don’t know what it’s made out of, some type of strong metal.
Mark: Stainless steel? Pfft!
Mark: OK… What? Are we doing?
Mark: This… I don’t know what comes next!
Ro: We are gonna be adding our eggs to our butter mixture, I’m gonna be adding
Ro: them 2 at a time, and just a reminder, it’s just gonna be the egg whites.
Ro: Do you know how to crack an egg?
Mark: Pfft!
Ro: Here, I’m gonna have you do it over this bowl Mark…
Mark: Buh, what!?
I’m…
Ro: Because I’m not so sure about it, so…
Mark: You’re gonna be shocked and amazed!
Ro: OK, let me see those egg cracking skills.
Ro: OK…
Ro: Oh, he’s using the jiggle technique!
Ro: I underestimated you.
Mark: Thanks!
Ro: I’m gonna let you do another one.
Mark: Really? Ro: Yeah, you do it.
Mark: Wow, this is a mistake.
Ro: And then mix together.
Mark: For this particular mix I’m gonna channel cavemen of yore.
Mark: Who both needed food and fire, so they had a very effective technique…
Ro: I’ll turn the bowl. Mark: Thank you.
Ro: You do that, you do that.
Ro: Go Mark go!
Ro: Go mark go!
Mark: I’m going!
Ro: This looks great, keep going! Keep going!
Mark: This is literally as go as I can go!
Mark: Put in special effects fire!
Mark: It’ll look good!
Mark: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Ro: Mark’s mixing together on a low speed while add the final eggs.
Mark: We put the Mark on a low setting.
Ro: My hand mixer has 5 speeds, Mark has 10!
Mark: No I only have 2, low and then, geez Mark stop!
Mark: For the love of God stop!
Ro: Ready for the second Mark speed?
Mark: Absolutely!
Ro: Ding!
Ro: Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Ro: Just mix like this!
Mark: Ugh!
Mark: OK, that was easy, what’s next?
Ro: We’re gonna add our vanilla and mix together until well combined.
Mark: I'm gonna do this real gentle.
Ro: If you’re using a hand mixer, mix on a low speed…
Ro: If you’ve got a Markiplier, put it on speed 1.
Mark: You can buy your own Markiplier today for only 59 payments of $69.69.
Ro: Now we’re gonna pop open our bubbly, we need 2 cups of champagne for this recipe,
Ro: but we’ll need some more for our frosting and I may need a little glass to drink, so...
Ro: Are you ready?
Mark: You first.
Ro: Cheers!
Ro: OK, I’m really bad at this, but I love it, it’s so much fun!
Ro: And give it a thumb…
Ro: Pop…
Ro: AHHHH!
Ro: Oh no! Oh no, Mark!
Mark: You saw my mixing ability before.
Ro: Oh no!
Mark: Just wait till you see it…
Mark: In 3D!
Ro: OK… Oh, oh, um….
Ro: Don’t AHHHHH!
Mark: Yay!
Ro: Don’t AHHHHHHHHH!
Mark: Can the mike pick up my heartbeat?
Mark: Now that we’re not dead…
Mark: What do we do next?
Ro: We are gonna be combining our dry and champagne ingredients into our large mixing bowl,
Ro: 3 parts dry, 2 parts champagne.
What that means is, add the dry, mix it up.
Ro: Add champagne, mix it up.
Ro: Add dry, mix it up.
Ro: Add champagne, mix it up.
Ro: And dry, mix it up.
Ro: This is making my day!
Ro: Now we are gonna scoop our batter into our cupcake tray.
Ro: Over here we have got a
Ro: cupcake tray, lined with a bunch of paper cupcake liners.
Ro: We’re gonna scoop a heaping to fill the tray about 2/3 full.
Ro: This recipe makes about 3 dozen cupcakes.
Mark: I, I don’t have a lot of friends, so kinda like 4 is good for me.
Mark: 3 for me and 1 for Chica.
Ro: That’s really sweet of you!
Mark: What about the part where I don’t have any friends?
Ro: Oh sorry Mark, if you want to come over for new years…
Mark: I’d rather be alone in my cage!
Mark: Just leave me to my life! Ro: OK, OK!
Ro: It’s a sensitive subject.
Ro: Because it’s fun, we do board game nights.
Ro: And, we play Harry Potter Clue.
Ro: And we play Monopoly.
Mark: Sounds terrible, I don’t want any part of that…
Mark: The cupcakes are ready, you put them in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes!
Ro: That’s right!
Mark: Areghhhh, or was it 22!?
Mark: I don’t remember!
Ro: It’s 20, and while they’re baking, we’re gonna be making
Ro: some delicious homemade frosting.
Ro: In our large bowl, we are gonna be mixing our powdered sugar and butter.
Ro: And we’re gonna cream together until it’s nice and smooth.
Mark: It’s horrifying! I can…
Ro: Mark! You don’t want to use an electric mixer?
Mark: Alright fine….
Ro: There we go!
Mark: Oh!
Ro: That’s it, perfect!
Ro: And then spin the bowl Mark, spin the bowl, spin the bowl.
Mark: Oh that’s so convenient!
I could have been doing this the whole time.
Mark: Who has to clean this up, is it me?
Ro: It’s me.
Mark: Yay!
Mark: Why didn’t you make me use this from the beginning?
Mark: This was amazing!
Ro: Well, because you’re so good at mixing.
Ro: I just wanted to enjoy it a little bit.
Mark: You didn’t even give me the option last time.
Ro: Just a little bit.
Mark: No, you literally did not hand me an electric mixer last time.
Ro: You’ve got an electric hand mixer over there.
Mark: I don’t like it…
Ro: Now we’re gonna add our champagne, vanilla extract and salt to our mixture.
Ro: We’re just gonna be adding a 1/4 cup of champagne.
Ro: I’ll do the eyeballing.
Ro: Pour it in.
Mark: Yaaaayyyy!
Mark: Alright is it done yet?
Ro: …. Yeah.
Ro: Now we’re gonna set this off to the side.
Mark: Alright, so we set our frosting aside, and we have fondant,
Mark: which I’m very familiar with.
Ro: Over here I’ve just got some white marshmallow fondant and I put down a piece
Ro: of wax paper, so it won’t stick to our surface.
Ro: And a bunch of other tools, we are gonna be making little YouTube play buttons.
Ro: Take this little roller, roll it out about 1/2 an inch thick.
Ro: Perfect!
Mark: Oh, no imperfections here!
Ro: Once you’ve got your fondant rolled out we are gonna cut out little squares.
Ro: Push it down, give it a little jiggle, pop ‘em out.
Mark: I get to do it too?
Mark: Ah!
Ro: Now we’re gonna pinch them into rectangle shapes.
Mark: Just like grandma used to do when she was making her Play Button Cupcakes!
Mark: Everyone at home, bust our your Diamond Play button cupcakes and make sure
Mark: they’re exactly, appropriately the right size.
Both: Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm…
Mark: And if you don’t have a play button at home…
Mark: Huh, cry about it!
Ro: Now we’re gonna roll some of our excess fondant thinner, about 1/4 inch.
Ro: Now we’re gonna take a little diamond cookie cutter and we’re just gonna
Ro: cut a bunch of shapes and cut it in 1/2 so they look like little play buttons.
Mark: Do you trust me with a knife?
Ro: What could go wrong!?
Ro: To decorate the diamond ones we’re gonna be using a diamond luster dust, it shines
Ro: rainbow. And then some very small, teeny edible diamonds.
Ro: Then for our other 2 play buttons we have gold and silver leaf.
Ro: Take a little fondant rectangle, a small painting brush, dip it into water.
Ro: Paint the top, it’s gonna kind of act as an adhesive.
Mark: OK my technique, is I’m just gonna kind of drop this in there,
Mark: and then wrap it around, because I am the smartest!
Mark: Get up on there!
Ro: There you go! There you go!
Mark: Get up on there… Uh-oh… Oh no!
Mark: Ta-da!
Ro: Mark, that’s great!
Ro: Uh-oh, it’s windy! It’s windy! There we go!
Ro: And then, smooth it down.
Mark: Yeah that’s a lot better than mine!
Mark: OK, now that we got the basics done, we gotta do the play, clicky
Mark: button thing…
Ro: Just a dab.
Mark: Did somebody say dab?
Mark: I did it, and I did it first, which means I’m the best!
Mark: Put up a big logo!
Ro: Mark wins! He finished first.
Mark: Let me hold it.
Mark: What!?
Ro: Mark you won!
Mark: Ah, whatever that says is totally true!
Mark: I don’t know what it is, but, I like that!
Mark: That thing there, hmmm, me likey!
Mark: It’s time for this bad boy, this big mama-jama!
Mark: It’s mine, and I earned it!
Ro: To decorate…
Mark: Tyler, polish that!
Mark: You come onto set with that glove off?
Mark: AW!
Mark: No, put the glove on!
Mark: …. Good!
Ro: Looks really good.
Mark: Not yet it doesn’t.
Ro: No, it doesn’t yet!
Mark: All the sides too!
Ro: Sides….
Mark: You may leave!
Ro: Thanks for helping!
Mark: You forgot to say I love you before you leave!
Tyler: I love you!
Ro: To decorate our Diamond Play Buttons we’re gonna dip it in a little
Ro: bit of water, paint the top of the fondant.
Ro: Then, with a dry little
Ro: paint brush, dip it into our luster dust, and paint the top and sides.
Ro: Bling-bling-bling!
Ro: Then to decorate our play button, we’re gonna attach these little edible
Ro: diamonds, using a little bit of water. Just remember they are made out
Ro: of sugar, so you don’t want to use too much water.
Ro: Once you get all your diamonds on there, again, you’re just gonna take
Ro: a little bit of luster dust, and sprinkle them over the top of the edible diamonds.
Mark: Our cupcakes are done, and they’re cool!
Ro: Yeah!
Mark: That’s important for frosting!
Ro: Mmmhmm.
Mark: Because if you do it hot they will just melt.
Ro: They’ll melt!
Ro: Now we’re gonna assemble them.
Here I’ve piped our champagne frosting
Ro: into a plastic baggie with a tip at the end for a little bit more control.
Ro: And then in front of me we’ve got sanding sugars, gold, white and silver.
Ro: Take a cupcake, place the frosting bag in the middle and don’t move
Ro: the bag, just like this.
Ro: Pressure, pressure, pressure, until it’s nice
Ro: and tall… Nice!
Mark: Nailed it!
Ro: So just dip in any bowl you’d like, I like to go around the edges, and
Ro: the top.
Final decoration step, we are gonna place our fondant play buttons
Ro: on top of the cupcakes.
Mark: We don’t squoosh them do we?
Ro: You can squish them a little if you want.
Mark: There we go!
Ro: Yep!
Mark: You’re gonna be cleaning it Tyler!
Tyler: I love you!
Mark: Ahm… That’s really good!
Both: Ta-da!
Ro: Here are the YouTube Play Button Cupcakes that we made today!
Ro: A big thank you to Mark for helping me make these today!
Mark: You’re welcome!
Mark: And a big thank you to my own personal Diamond Play Button.
Ro: We arranged them to look like a play button, that was Mark’s idea!
Mark: That was my idea!
Ro: I hope you guys enjoyed the video, I’ll be taking pictures and posting
Ro: the recipe on RosannaPansino.com, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
Ro: And if you guys make these cupcakes, please take a picture and send it to me,
Ro: I love seeing your baking creations, it just makes me happy, makes my day!
Ro: Tweet them to Mark too!
Mark: Yes, do that!
Mark: They’re legitimately delicious.
Ro: And if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies.
Ro: Nerdy Nummies. Mark: Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen.
Ro: Also, I will be posting Mark’s link, singular.
Mark: 1 link!
Ro: 1 link.
Mark: Just 1.
Ro: Just the YouTube down below.
Ro: And, I’m gonna be posting another link of the video we did together.
Mark: Oh OK, that’s OK.
Ro: On his channel.
Ro: Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Mark: AND SUBSCRIBE! OK...