I want to move all the food to the other side of the fridge and put something
amazing in that side of the fridge!
That is so cool!
Welcome to how to cook that I'm Ann
Reardon and as you know over the last four weeks I spent some time in
hospital with my son James and when I came home LG had sent me a giant fridge 😊
Check this out ... when you knock on the door it lights up so you can see what's
inside and then when you open it it's got like this door in door thing going on
so you can open just the front section to get milk and stuff like that that you
use all the time so you don't let as much cold air out. And if you live in
Australia you'll know electricity costs a fortune here so that is a big deal,
it'll help keep the electric costs down. So thank you for sending me a
giant fridge LG. What I want to do with it is probably different to what
everyone else would want to do but I want to use this section here where
you knock-knock and you can see inside and while the kids are at school today I
want to move all the food to the other side of the fridge and put something
amazing in that side of the fridge so that when they go knock knock it's like
whoa magical ... that's what I'm going for :) Before we get to that though I wanted to
show you some things that some other people sent me. I have some letters here
one from Abby ... thank you Abby bless you thank you for your beautiful picture I
like the cupcake with the hearts on it that was really well done thank you for
that. I've got to find a spot to put all these letters up somewhere in the
kitchen. I've also got this lovely letter from Rachel thank you for that, that
nearly made me cry it was such an amazing letter and also for the recipe
from your mum. I appreciate that I'm going to try that one with Jedd over the
weekend, thank you for that. And I have another
letter here from Samantha ... she also drew some pictures we've got an ice cream
that she made and she drew here let me show you big How To Cook That cake and a
lovely letter from you too Samantha thank you and nearly forgot in the envelope
she sent ... are ready? A little Lego chef with long brown hair how cute is that
I'm gonna pop that one right up here, so there's two of me in the kitchen today 😃😊
All right so what I'm thinking of doing is maybe a tree on the back section that
goes up so I'll take the top shelf out the next shelf down you can kind of
wriggle back it's got this bit you can move back in case you've got anything
tall like a tree that you want to put in your fridge. So then I want the tree to go up
and right up to the top of the fridge and have nice branches and ... not a real
tree of course a chocolate tree ... that's what I'm talking about ... going all the way
through there and then we'll have some background I don't want to put chocolate
on the actual fridge so I'll probably use some glitter paper or something like that
for the background and then some fake grass to come down to make it look like
a hill. This vegetable section we could just cover it up but it would be cool if
we could turn that into some sort of a cave and put some gold coins so it's like this
extra thing you can find when you're looking in there and then maybe some
lollipops and maybe butterflies hanging down just I want it to look really
magical so I'm gonna have to just work with it
and keep going until it looks just perfect. Let's start with the tree ... to
support the branches it's gonna need a stand or they're just gonna snap off
under the weight of the chocolate. Then I'm just going to use some tempered
chocolate to glue the chocolate bars around the outside and use more
chocolate to fill in any gaps that you have between the bars and then add in
some extra chocolate bars for the roots so it looks like it's wider at the base
and sticking out a bit. You can use whatever chocolate bars you
like for this just go down the grocery aisle
choose your favorites put them all in the trolley and then you can use a
mixture as well they don't all have to be the same. Build it up around the
supports all the way up to the top. For the finer branches I'm going to use
chocolate coated pretzels ... just trim them down to make them branch shaped and
stick them on the end of your chocolate bars. Next we need to drizzle over some
melted chocolate over the whole thing working with just one section at a time
so that you can use a fork to drag it up the chocolate to give a bark like
texture and just a pattern all over the tree ... so now you can't tell that I've
used all different types of chocolate bars it just looks like one consistent
texture. Now so that our tree looks alive we need to add some leaves. I'm just
going to use some chocolate to add mint leaves and green cloud lollies (candy) all over
the top of the branches off the tree. Then to add some colour I'm going to use
some freckles just two of them joined back-to-back and stick those on. I know
we have these here in Australia I'm not sure if you have them in America (or other countries) but
they're just basically drops of chocolate with hundreds and thousands
all over them. That is a pretty spectacular looking chocolate tree ... way
too much chocolate for my kids, we're definitely going to have to invite some
friends over to share. So this piece here just if you're not quite getting
what's going on in my brain ... is going to be sitting as if it's the end of this
branch but it's going to be sitting like here on the shelf on the front door, the
door shelf that opens out. So this will be like the branches coming through the
platform of the cubby house sort of area of the treehouse platform. So that's the
plan ... now to put it in the fridge and see if we can make the rest of it work. I
might make the backdrop first and then we'll go from there. Now I'm going to use
some sparkly stuff for the back of the fridge as I said I don't want to put
frosting or chocolate onto the actual fridge because that'll be quite hard to
clean, so I'm just gonna prop this in and then cut out some clouds and stick those
on too just using some bluetack. For the cave part we need to crush up some Oreos
to make them look like dirt. If you don't have a food
processor just put them in a plastic bag and whack them with a rolling pin. Dump
that into the vegetable section ... spread it out, then put it back into the fridge
and add in some chocolate gold coins and I'm also putting battery-operated
little fairy lights in there so that you can see into the cave. Then I'm going to
add a sheet of fake grass coming down and over that making sure you've cut out
a little hole there so you can see into the cave. And now it's tree time! Super
carefully add it into place 💥 Uh oh! It's a littel bit too tall, we're losing a few leaves from the
top there but that's okay. I think it's gonna just squeeze in I
think that looks good. Now on to the treehouse platform ... the moving shelf
doesn't come out of the fridge but the top one does so I'm going to use that as
a template for making the size of the platform. Remember to leave a hole in it
for the tree branch to come through and now we're ready to add that into the
fridge, except it doesn't seem to quite fit. I wonder if it will squeeze in, the
silver bit must be a bit narrower ... there we go that will do. Now we can add some
lollipops growing like flowers and some fairy floss or cotton candy for clouds.
Oh and I forgot to make a ladder so I'll quickly do that just using two liquorice
straps and some chocolate fingers going across and we'll put that going up to
the treehouse platform. Now to make some chocolate butterflies these are really
easy to make if you haven't made them before I made a video on how to make
these with the super-fine wings about six years ago now. I'll link to that one at
the end and then I think we'll be ready to go. Phew that was a long day I am
finally done ... kids'll be home from school any minute now...
Knock-knock on the fridge...
Awww that's so cool!
It's a jungle ... it's like a whole forest ... whoa that looks incredible!
The chocolate tree is my favourite!
Oh there's fairy floss clouds.
That just looks awesome.
You can see the gold coins.
Do you want me to lift you up so that you can see up the top?
Are we going to keep this in the fridge?
Not forever, we're going to have to invite friends over to eat it.
If you've got a fridge like this make sure you make a scene in your
fridge and surprise your kids or the other people in your house and upload a photo
of it in the comment section on the website so I can see what you did with
your fridge. For more crazy sweet creations click here here or here and
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