- Hi, this is Amanda Castillo.
And on this episode of the EATKINDLY With Me series,
we'll be going way back to 2020
and making viral TikTok recipes vegan.
I don't know about you guys
but I've become an avid TikTok user this past year.
And the recipe trends are where it's at.
We are going to be remaking some past favorites.
Mini pancake cereal, Dalgona coffee, banana bread,
chocolate bombs, and the one-pan egg sandwich.
But of course we're going to be making them all
with a vegan twist.
So with all that being said, let's hop right in.
I was thinking it could be kind of fun to start
from the easiest and then work our way to the hardest.
So the easiest TikTok recipe
that I think I'm going to show you guys today
is the Dalgona coffee.
A lot of people make their Dalgona coffee in a stand mixer.
In my opinion, I feel like that's just
like a lot of washing for one cup of coffee.
My hack to make this a lot faster
is to have one of these bad boys.
This is just, I believe, a milk frother.
Two tablespoons of instant coffee,
two tablespoons of your sugar,
and then two tablespoons of hot water.
And then let's get mixing.
So put this inside first,
I like to do it from a tilt cause it's easier to blend.
And then start it.
You could also do this by hand
if you don't have an electric mixer
or one of these frother contraptions.
With one of these, I feel like it normally takes
around two to five minutes.
Okay. So I'm going to stop here.
It's definitely a little bit darker
than what a lot of other people will do
when they make Dalgona coffee but I think this is perfect.
Add my milk.
Be sure you only want to add up to like maybe 3/4.
Just go ahead and add this on top.
Wow. Look at that texture.
And then bam, there we go.
Mm mm, this is definitely worth it
and I recommend giving it a try.
So the next thing is the mini pancake cereal.
I think this went crazy like in April of 2020
and it was invented by this girl named Sydney Melhoff.
With the pancake recipe,
I decided to use one that I use all the time.
Absolutely love it.
So first you're going to be combining
one cup of all purpose flour,
one tablespoon of baking powder
and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a bowl.
Once that's all combined,
in a separate bowl you are going to combine
one cup of plant milk,
two tablespoons of agave or maple syrup,
one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar,
and one teaspoon of vanilla.
Then you're going to pour
that liquid mixture into the dry mixture.
So yeah, mix that until it's smooth
and then let it rest for five minutes.
So once your batter is all ready,
go ahead and add that into a piping bag.
Grab a large cup and then put your piping bag inside.
And that makes it an easy way to fill it up
without getting super messy.
Once your bag is all filled, snip the bottom
and then time to make mini pancakes.
I highly recommend cooking your pancakes
on medium to medium-low heat.
If it's strictly on medium,
my pancakes would cook way too fast
and sometimes they would get a little black.
Pipe those pancakes as quickly as you can
all over a large sized pan.
The larger, the better,
because then you have a lot more surface area to work with.
I honestly let it cook for a minute or less.
Like they cook very, very fast since they're so tiny.
And then I just went ahead and flipped them.
Just know that making this, very, very time-consuming.
I think it took me like 20 minutes
or 15 to make all the pancakes.
Once all your mini pancakes are cooked,
go ahead and add it to a bowl.
I top mine with butter, mainly just for like the aesthetic,
like the appearance of it.
Personally, I don't think you need butter
when it comes to cereal, but it makes it look nice.
Then top it with maple syrup,
something that I highly recommend.
And go ahead and add milk.
I'm going to be brutally honest here.
I think this is a bit over-hyped.
It looks super cute so I think this is honestly pretty cool
if you want to shoot a cool photo for Instagram
or share it on your TikTok.
I think this is a little over-hyped but it's super cute. Mm.
All right, next, we have the famous TikTok banana bread.
I think the person that was behind this recipe
is a TikTok account called Cooking with Shereen.
So she shared her banana bread recipe on TikTok
and it got over 21 million views, four million likes.
Honestly, hearing that now, it seems pretty crazy
cause I feel like every mother, every grandmother,
every family has their banana bread recipe.
So in a large bowl
you are going to sift flour in baking soda,
add salt and then whisk everything to combine
and then set aside.
And then in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment,
you are going to cream the butter and brown sugar
over medium speed until combined,
and then add all the five tablespoons of aquafaba
and then I mixed again.
And you will notice that since it's aquafaba
and it's not an egg,
your mixture may look a little separated.
It may look a little weird
with the butter and the aquafaba and stuff,
but ignore the texture, keep on going.
Then add the bananas and vanilla
and continue mixing on medium-high speed until combined.
Once that's all mixed, go ahead
and add the dry ingredients in three to four batches,
slowly mixing at a time until combined,
scraping down the sides as needed,
and then pour the mixture into a prepared loaf pan.
So then I added it to a 350 degree oven
for 50 to 60 minutes.
Let it cool for about two hours
or actually I let it cool overnight.
So let's just dig in.
This is probably the best banana bread I have ever made.
So flavorful, moist, like are you kidding me? Wow.
So next recipe we are going to try
is the one pan egg sandwich.
For my egg substitute, I'm going to be using JUST Egg.
For the cheese, I'm going to be using
the Violife cheddar slices.
Dave's Killer Bread, the 21 whole grains and seeds.
I'm going to be adding some chopped chives
throughout the egg, feel like it'll be really good.
Also I'm a fan of spinach
so I'm also going to be adding spinach.
I would recommend cooking this on medium heat.
I'm going to slather some Earth Balance
right here on the bottom.
Go ahead and add the egg all throughout.
Right away, we're going to add our bread.
So I'm going to add two slices of Dave's Killer
and I'm going to be adding them
like with the butts touching.
(laughs) That sounded really inappropriate.
Flip it right away so we coat both sides.
And then just let that cook.
Go ahead and chop some chives
and you can add that right on top.
And I'm going to be adding some garlic salt
and black pepper.
So I'm just like slowly going around the edge
so it doesn't stick.
Okay. Honestly, I think this is ready to flip.
I'm so scared. Okay.
Last time I kind of just shook it around
and then flipped it.
Ah! Ooh, that was stressful.
Okay, so now let's go ahead and add our cheese.
I didn't really need to fold the eggs in
because it doesn't really go around the pan that much.
There's not that much extra egg on the outside.
So I just kind of smoosh it into the border.
After the cheese, go ahead and add any veggies.
Let that cook for, you know, a minute.
Lift up this bread, close up that sandwich.
Flip that over.
You don't want it to cook too much on one side.
So as soon as you close that sandwich,
you can let it cook for a little, 10 seconds,
but then flip it over to the next side.
Add our sandwich on here.
Wow. And then go ahead and top it with some more chives.
Okay. Let's give this a bite, shall we?
Mm. Wow.
I've outdone myself again.
1000% would make this again.
Highly recommend you guys make it too.
All right, everyone. We are four recipes down.
The last one. (grunts) Oh my gosh.
This is what I've been the most nervous about
and it's the chocolate bombs.
It's basically a sphere of chocolate
filled with like hot cocoa powder,
marshmallows, sprinkles sometimes.
And then you just add it to like a glass of warm milk
and then bam, you have hot cocoa.
It's shiny, right?
So when you see shiny chocolate,
it's usually because it's tempered.
And when it comes to tempering chocolate
you have to get it at a perfect temperature.
First, we are going to be using 12 ounces
of our semi-sweet chocolate
and adding that to a microwave safe bowl.
We're going to be microwaving this
for 30 seconds the first time.
And then from there, microwave it at 15 second intervals.
That is super important
because you don't want this to get too hot.
So microwave for 30 seconds.
So after the first 30 seconds, take out your chocolate chips
and just move them around the bowl.
I know it's not going to be melted yet
and this may seem like it's like a waste of time,
but the residual heat from all the chocolate chips
is what's going to melt everything.
So just keep on mixing and make sure
that everything is at an even temperature.
Microwave it for another 15.
So yeah, just be patient with your chocolate,
give it the time and love that it deserves.
So I'm just going to keep on mixing it around
until it's fully melted.
Yeah, you don't want this to fully melt
when it's in the microwave,
you want it to melt while you're stirring.
Scoop a little bit of this chocolate into each mound
and then use a brush to brush it out.
And also you want to be doing a thin layer
so you don't need that much chocolate.
Go all the way up to that border
and make sure that everything is very well-coated.
Now that they're all covered, we're going to go ahead
and pop this in the fridge for five minutes.
I'm going to go ahead and repeat
another layer on this thing.
We're just going to do two layers so don't get stressed.
It's just two.
All right guys, I am working fast
because this chocolate is starting to harden a little bit.
I'm just going to check the temperature, see where it's at.
This is right above 84
and you don't want your chocolate to get underneath that
because then you'll have to re-temper it.
And I'm going to pop this back in the microwave
just for a little bit, maybe like five seconds.
All right. This looks really good.
So I'm going to pop this in for five minutes.
All right, and then here are our first shells.
I'm going to be grabbing this long jar
and I'm going to put a piping bag right inside,
just how we did for the pancakes.
And this'll be perfect to fill right inside.
We are going to be using this chocolate
to kind of glue both halves of the sphere together.
But look how beautiful!
Wow! Oh, wow.
I like to kind of pull this apart
so the chocolate kind of peels off from the mold first.
And I'll do it for all of them
so they're all a little bit unstuck.
This is definitely the scariest part.
And then the fun part, we are going to be grabbing
our hot chocolate mix.
So go ahead and add one to two tablespoons of this
into the circle.
Of course, the amount that you're going to add
is going to depend on how big your spheres are.
Good amount of marshmallows.
Feel like if you had like some fun, like colorful sprinkles,
that could be fun to add in.
Okay and now the actual stressful part,
we are going to be taking this chocolate right here.
You don't want this hole to be that big,
but you also don't want it that small.
I would say this is like a centimeter big.
So I'm going to carefully pipe around the edge.
(upbeat music)
Now I'm going to add the sphere right on top.
If you see any gaps, just go ahead and go around
and fill that with chocolate.
And I'm just going to kind of twist this around.
All right, onto the next.
So I'm just going to add a thick border all around
and then I'm going to be using one of these small brushes
to spread around the chocolate.
Again, as long as these close, that's all that matters.
Not too shabby. She's kind of cute.
I have finished the chocolate bombs
and they turned out so cute.
And I'm actually very glad I went with the sprinkles
because like, look at it.
It just looks like such a cool border around.
It kind of looks like a galaxy and a Wonder Ball.
So now all we have to do is try it out and see if it works.
All right now, I'm just going to go with some Oatly
because I'm running low on that Califia.
That should be enough. Okay, cool.
I'm going to microwave this
for like a minute to two minutes.
And let's go ahead and add this bad boy in.
And it's a little too big.
So if you have like a wider mug, this would be perfect
but I'm just going to go ahead and break it.
Wait, it's kind of fun.
(gasps)
Oh wow. Wait, that's so cool.
Okay. (gasps) Give it a good mix.
Oh, okay, I can already tell
this is going to be so chocolatey.
Okay. Let's give it a try.
Oh my gosh.
That one sip gave me the sugar I needed
for the rest of the week, but it's so good.
All right, guys, well here you have it.
A chocolate bomb hot chocolate.
This is pretty cool.
This hot chocolate is really, really good,
especially if you use like high quality chocolate
and high quality hot cocoa powder,
like it's going to be phenomenal.
So I think it's worth the hype.
Would I make it again?
Honestly, I probably would,
if I was going to host friends and I wanted them to try it.
Pretty glad I tried it.
Well there you guys have it.
Five vegan TikTok recipes that went viral
and are super cool, fun to make.
This is Amanda for LIVEKINDLY.
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