Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Today I have a very special guest, look who it is you guys! Joey: Oh my gosh!
Ro: It’s Joey!
Joey: Hi there everyone!
Ro: I’m so excited!
Joey: I’ve been watching your channel for 12-1/2 billion years!
Ro: Oh my gosh!
Ro: I love your channel!
Joey: Oh stop it!
Ro: I’m like decked out in your stuff today.
Joey: I know!
Ro: You guys, this is my Crystal Wolf Accessories!
Joey: I walked in and I’m like, that necklace looks familiar!
Ro: Yeah, maybe this is like a clear quartz necklace or something!?
Joey: Yeah, maybe!
Ro: And then I’ve got the little bracelets.
Joey: Yup!
Ro: I loved them, I thought it was perfect for today, because there was a recipe
Ro: from the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook for Geode Cupcakes. Joey: Yes.
Ro: So they look all gem-y, and I thought it was perfect!
Joey: You sent me your book when it came out.
Ro: Yeah!
Joey: And I was flipping through it and I was like, huuhh! Whoa, what are those!?
Ro: Today we’re gonna be making that recipe with a twist.
Joey: Oh!
Ro: These cupcakes are gonna be chocolate vegan cupcakes. Joey: Delicious!
Ro: Because I had you in mind, and I’ve been getting a lot of requests to
Ro: make a vegan recipe. So today we’re gonna be making Geode Cupcakes!
Both: Let’s get started!
Ro: The things you will need, will be: 1-1/2 Cups of all purpose flour,
Ro: 1/2 a cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of coconut oil, 1 tablespoon of baking soda.
Joey: 1/2 a cup of coconut sugar, 1-1/2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1/4 cup of
Joey: light cocoa powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of sea salt, 1 teaspoon of vanilla
Joey: extract, and 1 cup of water!
Both: Now let’s put it all together!
Ro: The first thing that we’re gonna do, is in a big mixing bowl, we’re gonna
Ro: whisk together our dry ingredients. So we’re just gonna pour ‘em in, I’m
Ro: gonna pour in our flour. Joey you grab one, plop it in there!
Joey: Oh, OK, I think this is sugar.
Ro: Sugar, coconut sugar.
Joey: A little bit of salt.
Ro: Baking soda!
Joey: Light cocoa powder?
Ro: Mmmhmmm!
Joey: Is this what it is? Ro: Yeah!
Ro: Light cocoa powder. Joey: Have you ever tried this?
Ro: It smells really good, but it’s really dry! Joey: I want to try some!
Ro: You’re gonna need some water, it’s really dry!
Joey: OK, so we just whisk this up?
Ro: Yeah, whisk it up!
Joey: Oh yeah! Ro: There you go!
Joey: We’re now going to be adding our wet ingredients.
Joey: I guess we’ll start with the water, shall we?
Ro: Coconut oil.
Joey: Vanilla extract.
Ro: Mmmmhmmm, vinegar.
Ro: Alright Joey, whisk it up one more time!
Joey: Oh my gosh!
Joey: I am the whisk pro now!
Ro: And now we are gonna pour all of the wet ingredients
Ro: into the dry ingredients, Joey!
Joey: It’s like we’re making a potion!
Ro: Yes we are!
Ro: Alright, whisk together.
Joey: Oh it’s starting to fizz!
Ro: Vinegar and cocoa powder, that’s why that’s happening!
Joey: Oh, it smells so good!
Joey: The mixture is all mixed together.
Ro: Mmmmmmmm!
Joey: And now, we get to scoop it on into the tray!
Ro: I’ve lined them with little paper liners, and you’re gonna want to fill them
Ro: about 2/3 full.
Joey: I feel like this is the messy part, trying to get it
Joey: from the bowl, into the tray.
Ro: You can do it!
Ro: Plop it right in there!
Joey: Wow!
Ro: There you go!
Joey: No mess!
Joey: There’s no egg in there, we can try the batter!
Ro: Yeah we can!
Joey: Should we have a little lick?
Ro: Um, yes! Joey: OK! Ro: Let’s take a little taste!
Joey: Mmmmmm! Ro: Yeah.
Joey: No salmonella for us!
Joey: Now that our cupcakes are done and put in the tray.
Ro: Mmmmhmmm.
Joey: We can bake them at 350 for 18 minutes.
Ro: While our cupcakes are baking, we are gonna be decorating.
Joey: The fun part!
Ro: Yes! This is the funnest part!
Ro: The things you will need to decorate will be: Green Jolly Ranchers,
Ro: Blue Jolly Ranchers, Pink Jolly Ranchers, some purple sanding sugar.
Joey: Brown and white vegan fondant, vegan buttercream frosting,
Joey: 3 cups of sugar, 1 cup of water, and some purple food coloring.
Joey: The first thing that we’re going to do is prepare our Jolly Ranchers.
Joey: We have a rolling pin, what are we doing here?
Ro: We are gonna Hulk Smash these Jolly Ranchers!
Joey: Oh gosh! Ro: This is like, one of my favorite things.
Ro: Just scoop the whole thing of Jolly Ranchers in the bag.
Joey: I feel like you have a lot of aggression to get out, so I’m gonna let
Joey: you go first…
Ro: OK, are you ready for this?
Joey: I think you’re gonna have to go harder than that…
Joey: Oh there you go!
Ro: Wooooo!
Ro: OK, your turn.
Joey: Say your last words blue Jolly Ranchers!
Ro: Yeah!
Joey: Oh that’s fun!
Ro: And now we are gonna make a very cool sugar Geode!
Joey: So, we have all the stuff here to make the Geodes, what do we start with?
Ro: Start with the bowls, and we’re gonna line them with aluminum foil.
Ro: So Joey, hand that over, I’m gonna cut a couple squares.
Ro: Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo! Joey: OW!
Ro: Oh sorry, oh sorry! Joey: My finger! You cut it off!
Ro: Put it into the bowl, like that. And make it a little lumpy.
Ro: Like this, so there’s little lumps and crevices.
Ro: I’ll show you what to do with these in a little bit, but for now we’re just
Ro: gonna set them off to the side.
Ro: Joey, now we’re gonna work with fondant, have you worked with this before?
Joey: No, I never have but I always wanted to because it looked so smooth and
Joey: just like, so perfect.
Ro: Its kinda like feels like Play-Doh.
Joey: Play-Doh you can eat.
Ro: Wait, you can’t eat Play-Doh?
Joey: Uh-oh!
Ro: I’ve just put down a piece of wax paper so that the fondant doesn’t stick
Ro: to your surface, and we’re gonna roll it out.
Joey: Now we have these cookie cutters.
Ro: There’s one that’s slightly bigger,
Ro: and you’ll want that to be the brown one, and then the one that’s slightly
Ro: smaller, we’ll be cutting out 2 white and 2 brown.
Ro: Now we’re gonna layer them, put it on top.
Joey: Wow! Ro: Look at this!
Joey: Alright, so we brought our bowls back over to us, and now we get to place
Joey: the fondant into the bowls.
Ro: We’re just gonna pick it up, place it on top, slowly push it down.
Ro: And it’s OK if they don’t look perfect, because you want them to look like
Ro: you just pulled them out of the ground!
Joey: Also, like Hannah Montana once stated, nobody’s perfect!
Joey: So now, let’s take the sugar, water and food coloring over to the stove!
Ro: In a medium sized sauce pot, add the water and sugar, then turn the heat
Ro: to high and mix a few times.
Bring the mixture to a boil, allowing the
Ro: sugar to completely melt.
You want your mixture to be nice and clear.
Ro: Turn off your heat and stir in your food coloring, I’m using a few drops of
Ro: purple, but you can use any color you’d like.
Ro: Then take your sugar mixture back to the baking station.
Joey: So the geode mixture is hot off the stove now, and we’re gonna pour
Joey: it into our geode bowl.
Ro: I’ve just got a spoon, remember it’s hot,
Ro: so be careful.
Take a spoonful, and then just pour it right in the middle.
Ro: And here they are, and one thing to note, is there is enough geode mixture
Ro: to make more of them, if you’d like.
Joey: Um, so we have this really cute looking aluminum house for our geodes.
Ro: There’s a couple reasons why we make this. When your geode’s are drying,
Ro: you want to protect them, you don’t want anything to get in them.
Joey: Oh, like a fly.
Ro: And the second reason is the aluminum creates kind of a
Ro: condensation where the crystals can start to form a little easier.
Ro: So we’re gonna place them inside of the little house, go to bed little Geode!
Joey: And then in the morning we’re gonna eat ya!
Ro: And then we’re gonna tuck you in. Snug as a bug in a rug!
Joey: Right!
Ro: Then we’re gonna let it sit for 12 hours, this is a really long time so…
Joey: Girl, I gotta, I gotta go home!
Ro: I know…
Joey: I guess I’ll come back tomorrow.
Joey: Huh, well I’m back 12 hours later!
Ro: Mmmmhmmm!
Joey: This is crazy!
Ro: Yeah. Joey: You look the same… Did you shower?
Ro: Nope!
Joey: Me either!
Ro: Now we have, our geodes are ready. We’re gonna break them up a little bit.
Joey: Wow!
Ro: Take your sharp cutting knife, and you’re just gonna lightly
Ro: break up some of the crystal that’s formed. And then you’re gonna let the
Ro: liquid drain out. Now you’re gonna take a few lollipop sticks, but you can
Ro: use anything you have around the house. Place them over a smaller bowl
Ro: and then flip them upside-down to continue to drain.
Ro: Now we’re gonna let these sit for an additional 2 hours to drain.
Ro: And I know that this process takes a long time.
Joey: Yeah, girl… This is a long process!
Ro: If you think about how long it takes to make them naturally, this is the shortcut!
Joey: So these have sat for a couple hours, and now we get to cut off the excess.
Ro: Remove the bowl. Joey: Oh I’m nervous, what if I ruin it?
Ro: Take off the foil.
Ro: Now you’re just gonna take your sharp cutting knife, don’t get your fingers,
Ro: And we’re just gonna cut all the way around.
Ro: Alright, flip it over Joey, let’s take a look!
Joey: The big reveal!
Joey: Oh I’m nervous, what if she’s ugly!?
Ro: No she’s gonna be pretty!
Joey: Huuuhhh! It looks like an actual crystal.
Ro: We’re gonna cut them in 1/2, so that they fit on top of the cupcakes.
Ro: Ta-da!
Ro: These are fresh out of the oven, we’ve given them plenty of time to cool,
Ro: because we don’t want to ice them while they’re still warm,
Ro: or the icing will melt. Joey: Right.
Ro: So, we’re gonna take it, and we’re gonna pipe the outside, and then work
Ro: your way in like this.
Ro: For the purple one we’re gonna do a dip, right into our icing sugars.
Joey: Huhhhhh!
Ro: Da-da! Look at that! So pretty!
Joey: YEAH!
Joey: WOW!
Ro: And the rest of them, we’re gonna frost them and sprinkle them with
Ro: Jolly Ranchers.
Joey: Yes!
Joey: Whoa, these actually look like little shards of crystals!
Ro: We smashed them pretty good!
Ro: We did it! Joey: We've made it to the final step girl!
Joey: Now we have our halves of our geodes, do we just put them on these cupcakes?
Ro: Yes, I’m getting really excited and almost a little emotional,
Ro: because so many hours went into making these little ones. Joey: I know!
Ro: Here we go! Just stick it in there!
Joey: Girl you’ve taught me so much today!
Joey: Science, we learned about rocks,
Joey: we learned about cupcakes.
Ro: Pink lemons.
Joey: They don’t know about that!
Ro: Oh, they don’t! Joey: They don’t know that. Ro: Yeah, they don't know that.
Both: Ta-da!
Ro: Here are the Geode cupcakes that we made today!
Ro: A big thank you to you guys for suggesting a recipe from the Nerdy Nummies
Ro: Cookbook, and a big thank you to Joey for helping me bake today.
Joey: Ah!
Joey: Thanks for having me in your kitchen girl!
Ro: And he was the perfect guest, because he has a ton of cool stones and
Ro: crystals, again, I’m gonna put a link down below if you guys want to go
Ro: check these out because I absolutely love them, they are so cool!
Ro: And, I’m gonna put a link to all of your links.
Joey: Oh gosh, all the links!
Ro: Social medias.
Joey: Sure!
Ro: I’ll be taking lots of pictures and posting the recipe on RosannaPansino.com,
Ro: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and if you guys make these cupcakes,
Ro: please take a picture and you can tweet it to us!
Joey: Yeah!
Ro: I love seeing your baking creations, it just makes my day, it makes me happy.
Ro: And, if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, let me know,
Ro: leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen.
Ro: Alright, thanks you guys, bye-bye!
Joey: Bye!