Ro: Hey guys it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Ro: Today I have a very special guest, Kurt!
Kurt: What is up guys!?!
Ro: Kurt is awesome, he has an awesome music channel, and he writes music,
Ro: composes music, plays like, every instrument. Since I’ve known you you’re
Ro: like, oh I can play piano and harp and guitar and, like, everything.
Ro: He’s pretty boss sauce! Kurt: I try, I’m not good a cooking though, so…
Kurt: Uh, gotta rely on her though. Ro: He’s pretty cute though, you’re welcome!
Ro: So today we are gonna be making a chess cake, and I thought to invite him because
Ro: what is your experience with chess?
Kurt: I played chess competitively for a really long time. Ro: Nerd!
Kurt: A lot of people… Definitely, definitely a nerd! Uh, a lot of people don’t know
Kurt: I was a chess master at the age of 15 and, uh, but then I stopped playing
Kurt: when I got into college and wanted to do more music and now that’s what I’m doin!
Ro: Awesome, it’s time to bake! Both: Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew!
Ro: What you’ll need is: Pam Baking spray, a square baking pan,
Ro: this is a 12 inch by 12 inch, 1 pink spatula, 2 cups of water, 2 sticks of butter.
Kurt: And what you’ll also need is a nest of Dinosaur eggs, and if you can’t find
Kurt: those, then maybe 6 normal eggs will work for you as well!
Ro: Maybe they will, maybe they will. Kurt: Ah-da-da-da-da-da-da!
Kurt: 2 butter box cakes, and a big bowl to throw it all in.
Ro: Big bowl! Let’s put it all together! Kurt: Let’s do it! Ro: Yeah!
Ro: OK, now we’re gonna put everything together, starting with the 2 box cakes.
Kurt: Alright. Ro: And box cakes, they just save a lot of time, because they’re
Ro: already pre-mixed flour, sugar and baking soda, but you can use your favorite
Ro: cake recipe if you don’t want to use a box cake.
Kurt; I think even I can do this. Ro: Yeah you can! Dump it in there!
Kurt: I got it! Ro: Dump it in there! Oh, yeah, here.
Kurt: Ahm-nam-nam-nam. Ro: Ahm-nam-nam-nam.
Ro: Next you’re gonna add 2 cups of water, wahhhhhp! And then 6 eggs.
Kurt: No! Not my eggs! Ro: It’s OK honey, we’ll make some more!
Ro: OK, I’m gonna teach you a pro egg crack, are you ready for this?
Kurt: Sweet, I’m ready!
Ro: OK, just a 1 handed crack, you’re gonna crack, twist.
Kurt: What? What is this magic? Ro: Can you do that? OK, your turn. Crack, twist.
Kurt: OK… Ro: With your hand.
Kurt: Are you sure you want me to do this over this bowl. Ro: Yeah, yeah!
Ro: Crack, twist… Whoa! That was pretty good for your first one!
Kurt: That was not good!
Ro: Now you’re gonna add 2/3 of butter, so we’re gonna cut right here.
Ro: And I'll let you put that in there. Kurt: Awesome. Ro: Minus the paper… Pro tip.
Kurt: I figured, I figured as much.
Ro: You’re like a genius, I probably don’t need to tell you that.
Kurt: Paper probably doesn’t taste as good.
Ro: You’re a math major huh? Kurt: I was. Ro: This will come in handy when we’re
Ro: making all the chess pieces, I’m gonna make you do the math on it.
Kurt: Awesome, I’m ready. Ro: I’m just gonna sit back, let you do the work.
Ro: Perfect, I love having guests! Here you go! Bake that!
Ro: Last step is greasing this big pan. Remember this is a 12x12 but you can
Ro: also use a 10x10 if you'd like. Alright, here’s the pam baking spray, open that
Ro: up just like hairspray and spray it in there. I’m gonna hide behind it a little
Ro: bit because I don’t want to, you know. Kurt: Defend yourself!
Ro: OK, oh-ho-ho!
Ro: Now it’s time to mix it all up!
Ro: Now we’re gonna pour all of the batter once it’s all mixed into the pan.
Ro: OK, you grab the bowl. Kurt: Let’s do it! Ro: And I’ll get the pink spatula.
Kurt: Does it not work if it isn’t pink? Ro: It does not work if your spatula
Ro: isn’t pink. Kurt: Didn’t know that.
Ro: Now we’re just gonna flatten it like this. And then I’m gonna have you pick it
Ro: up and kinda go like this… Pound it on the table, just…
Kurt: Like actually hit it on the table? Ro: No, yeah, actually hit it.
Ro: That lets it settle, brings all the air bubbles up. And now, we’re gonna
Ro: throw this in the oven. We’re gonna put it in the oven at 350 and bake
Ro: for about 40 minutes.
Ro: While the cake is baking, we are gonna make all the little decoration pieces
Ro: for the chess cake, with chocolate. Yum-yum-yum-yum-yum!
Ro: To decorate, we’re gonna be using these candy molds, they’re chess candy molds,
Ro: I’ll put a link down below so you can buy these online if you’d like.
Ro: They were really hard to find, I went to like 4 different cake stores
Ro: to buy these things. Kurt: They look awesome!
Ro: You’ll also need this square candy mold, and these are an inch and a 1/2 squares
Ro: And they’ll fit perfectly on top of the 12x12 cake.
Ro: So Kurt, math question. Kurt; Mmmhmm, yeah. Ro: Ready? How many squares
Ro: Are we gonna need for our chess board?
Kurt: Well, you’re gonna need 64 squares for your chess board, 32 black and 32 white.
Ro: You passed. Kurt: Awesome, great! Ro: He’s smart, he passes.
Kurt: I’m glad I get your approval.
Ro: OK, and you’ll also need dark and white chocolate, so right here we have white
Ro: candy melts and dark chocolate candy melts, and we put them in these
Ro: microwaveable safe plastic swerk bottle… Plastic squirt bottles!
Kurt: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah! Ro: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!
Ro: I cannot talk today! And you’re just gonna microwave these and then we’re gonna
Ro: squirt them into all the trays.
Kurt: I made more eggs. Ro: Oh my gosh they smell so good!
Kurt: They look different this time. Both: Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom!
Kurt: Oh! Dom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom! Ro: Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom!
Ro: Oooooooh! Ohp! Kurt: Ohhhh no!
Ro: Pfft! Both: Hahahaha! Ro: Pfft!
Ro: We’re super mature!
Ro: When we play chess, I want to play the white and you play the dark.
Kurt: Sounds good. Ro: Are you gonna play me? On our cake?
Kurt: I’ll play you blindfolded. Ro: Blindfolded? Kurt: Yeah I’ll play blindfolded.
Ro: You heard it, we’re gonna play chess blindfolded… He’s gonna be blindfolded.
Ro: First we’re gonna make the chocolate squares, and I’ll show you how to do 1
Ro: and then I’ll let you do it. Kurt: Awesome.
Ro: OK, so we melted our chocolate and you’re just gonna go, like, around the corners and then
Ro: go zig-zag. And then we’ll fill him in later with a toothpick. So just go
Ro: around the corners, zig-zag!
Ro: With these little square molds, you don’t want to fill them all the way to
Ro: the top, it’s actually better to under fill them because they’ll lay flatter
Ro: on the cake. So that’s why we’re leaving some space.
Ro: So, when you’re looking at this, how there’s little holes everywhere.
Kurt: Mmmhmm. Ro: That’s fine! Because what we’re gonna do is take a little
Ro: toothpick. You grab 1 and I’ll grab 1. Kurt: Awesome.
Kurt: Ro’s gonna fix all my mistakes. Ro: And you just push it in the corner and
Ro: tap, tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
Ro: Now we’re gonna put these in the freezer for about 10 minutes and we’re gonna
Ro: make all of our little chess pieces. Kurt: Let’s do it! Ro: Yeah!
Ro: Now you’re gonna take your melted chocolates, and they’re in these
Ro: microwaveable safe squeeze bottles and you’re just gonna fill in the chess pieces
Ro: and again you’re gonna want to under fill them just a little bit. And then
Ro: we’ll stick them together after they come out of the freezer.
Ro: Kurt those look so good. Kurt: Thank you! Ro: Look it, they’re perfectly
Ro: Flat, that’s how you want them to look, really really flat, because after…
Ro: We’re gonna make 2 of the white, 2 of the dark, and then stick them together
Ro: with a little bit of hot chocolate. So we’re gonna put these in the freezer again
Ro: for 10 minutes.
Ro: Once your chess pieces are all done in the freezer, what you’re gonna do is
Ro: just take a flat piece of anything, it can be cardboard, a plate, whatever.
Ro: Flip ‘em over and just kinda tap ‘em out. Most of ‘em should just come
Ro: out easy. Oh that was perfect! Oh 1 more, 1 more!
Kurt: This 1 does not want to go. Ro: Oh yeah!
Ro: And then you’re gonna take your squirt bottle, then you’re just gonna
Ro: squeeze on a little bit of hot chocolate onto each side.
Kurt: Glue them together with chocolate. Ro: Yeah, glue them together with chocolate!
Kurt: How much should I put on? Ro: That’s good! Kurt: That’s good?
Ro: Just a little bit. Kurt: On both sides? Ro: Yeah! And then you’re just gonna
Ro: put them together. Oh they’re gonna make out! And then just hold them into
Ro: place for about 10 seconds. And there you have it! Chess pieces.
Ro: And then you’re gonna do this to all of your little chess pieces.
Kurt: 1 down. Ro: 1 down! How many more to go? Kurt: 31.
Ro: 31 more to go, I knew that. Kurt: You got that 1. Ro: I knew that.
Ro: Here are all of our pieces, they’re all made, we made all of the chess
Ro: pieces, and all of our little squares. And Kurt found out something really funny.
Kurt: I’m pretty sure this dinosaur was made the same way we made these chess pieces.
Ro: Awww! Kurt: There’s a huge line running down the middle, it was most definitely
Kurt: assembled from 2 halves. Ro: Look at this, they probably just glued him
Ro: together with chocolate.
Ro: Now we’re gonna put it all together and... Kurt: Play Chess! Ro: play some chess, where I will win!
Kurt: I don’t think so…
Ro: Once your cake comes out of the oven, make sure it’s had plenty of time to cool,
Ro: and what we did is we leveled off the cake using a cake leveler, and
Ro: we just took a little bit off the top, you don’t need to do a lot.
Ro: And then I took a huge bag of dark chocolate, put it in this zip lock bag, just
Ro: put any kind of a tip on it because we’re just using it to distribute,
Ro: and here we go! Kurt’s gonna help turn it, but I’m just gonna put it on the top
Ro: of the cake, and then we’ll smooth it all out.
Ro: Then you’re just gonna take a big mustache-uler and lightly smoothen like this.
Kurt: Is that the technical name for it? Ro: Yeah that’s the technical name for it!
Ro: So the reason we put so much frosting on the top of the cake is because we want
Ro: a lot of room to play with. Kurt: And because we really like frosting!
Ro: And because it’s really, really good!
Ro: When we’re placing all the squares on top, it will help us determine how deep
Ro: we want to push in every little square. So, just having a little bit of excess wiggle
Ro: room is really helpful.
Ro: Once your cake is all done and it’s all frosted, we’re gonna put it into the
Ro: freezer to let it chill for about 10 minutes, and then we’re gonna put
Ro: all of our little pieces on!
Ro: We just took the cake out of the freezer and it’s nice and chilled,
Ro: and we’re gonna take this weird triangular, rigid, looks like teeth or something
Ro: like Domo Kun’s teeth. And we’re just gonna run it along all the sides
Ro: of the cake to give it a little texture look.
Kurt: Cake looks amazing. Ro: Yes! Kurt: We’re gonna put the squares on the board.
Ro: Mmmhmmm. Kurt: And they alternate. Ro: Should I just start in a corner?
Kurt: Why not?
Ro: Line it up…
Ro: Da-dew! Kurt: Psssh! Ro: We just finished putting all the little chocolate
Ro: squares on the cake, and it looks awesome! It looks like marbled!
Kurt: It looks… Are you ready for some chess? Ro: Oh yeah.
Kurt: It’s ready for some chess playing. Ro: It’s ready!
Ro: But before we play, I just need to put a little more frosting around the edges to
Ro: do a little fancy edging, and then put all the little chess pieces on top!
Ro: Ta-da! We got all of our fancy edging all around the cake so it looks
Ro: super cool. Kurt: Elite cake skills. Ro: And now Kurt’s gonna teach me, yeah,
Ro: yeah! How to put all these little pieces on. And what were you saying about
Ro: the corner, if we’re facing each other this way, you want to play each other.
Kurt: Yeah, so when you set up the board, make sure the white square is in the
Kurt: lower right. Ro: Right square… OK. Kurt; You don’t want to set up like this
Kurt: where you have a black square in the lower right, so just always the white
Kurt: square in the lower right. And then you set it up pawns all here and then in
Kurt: the corner you got your rooks, your knights, your bishops, and your queen
Kurt: and king, and the queen always goes on her color, so if you’re playing white
Kurt: queen goes on the white square, if you’re playing black, queen goes on
Kurt: a black square. Ro: Huh, really!?! So she would go right here, on a white
Ro: square? Kurt: Yeah, that’s right. Ro: Perfect! OK. Kurt: Let’s do it!
Ro: Now we’re gonna put on all these little pieces!
Ro: Ta-da! Our cake turned out, it looks so cool! I love it!
Kurt: It looks awesome, the pieces look really good! Ro: Yeah, they turned out
Ro: so good! I cannot wait to play, so after this video at the end credits, we
Ro: are gonna play a game of chess.
Ro: And thank you Kurt for being here on Nerdy Nummies!
Kurt: Thanks so much for having me! I’m glad I didn’t ruin it too much!
Ro: No, you did a good job! I’ll put his links down below so you can go check
Ro: out his music and subscribe, it is amazing! And, if you have any other ideas
Ro: for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know, leave me a comment down below
Ro: and I will do my best to make it happen!
Ro: OK, bye-bye you guys! Kurt: Bye!
Ro: Are you ready? Kurt: Yes! Ro: It’s ON!
Ro: OK, we are about to do speed chess we got the champ right here,
Ro: And I’m gonna blindfold him with my fancy scarf that I got at the gap, OK, so…
Kurt: Gonna play blindfolded. Ro: Are you ready? Kurt: Yeah, let’s do it!
Ro: Can you see? Kurt: Nope. Ro: Is it over your eyes? Kurt: It is.
Ro: And Jared is gonna be moving the pieces for him. Go, go go!
Ro: And I’ll go on this side.
Ro: OK, do I go first or do you go first? Kurt: Uh, white always goes first in chess.
Kurt: So, you got it. Ro: Ladies go first! OK, ready, set, go!
Jared: Pawn to A4. Kurt: Cool, pawn on E7 to E5.
Jared: E7 to E5...
Jared: So, uh. Ro: B… 3 Jared: B2 to B3, pawn.
Kurt: Bishop on F8 to C5
Ro: This feels like Wizard’s Chess!
Jared: Alright, so pawn from D2 to D3… Oh no sorry, C1 to C2... C2 to C3, sorry.
Kurt: All good, all good. Mmmmm, queen on D8 to F6.
Jared: Uh, so Pawn from H2 to H3.
Kurt: Hmmm, well, let’s see, Queen on F6 takes F2. Jared: Takes F2
Kurt: Checkmate...
Jared: Yep, alright.
Ro: Is that checkmate? Jared: Yeah, that’s checkmate. Kurt: It is.
Ro: Oh my gosh, Kurt come look at this.
Background: Did we set it up right at least? Jared: Yeah.
Kurt: Oh, OK, that’s checkmate too, but I was saying queen takes, but yeah.
Jared: Oh well either way. Kurt: It doesn’t actually matter which pieces you take
Kurt: but… Hah! Ro: Welp, there it is, speed chess! Hahaha!
Jared: So you could have checkmated her with 2 different moves! Ro: Yeah!
Ro: Kurt like, annihilated me! Oh my god, Kurt, you beat me in 4 moves… 4!
Kurt: Yup. Ro: He’s amazing! And super smart. Don’t play chess with him.
Kurt: No, what’s even more amazing is that this actually looks like a real chess set!
Kurt: And it’s all chocolate! Well I can make the cakes, you can play the game,
Ro: good god! Oh yeah, well, I make my own rules! And, checkmate!
Kurt: Until I eat it!
Ro: OK, I’m gonna play until I beat you. Kurt: we’re gonna be here awhile.
Ro: OK, ready?
Ro: Can he go here? Kurt: Bishop’s defending it actually.
Background: Yeah you can't do that Ro.
Ro: Oh I can’t do that? I can’t do that, I can’t do that! OK, here!
Ro: That’s my… That’s my… Kurt: It was, it was your queen.
Ro: Haha, I got a horsey!
Background: Uh oh, the Queen's on the move! Oh, this isn't good!
Ro: Can I?
Background: No, only diagonally, move your pawn up 1, maybe that will do something... Nope.
Kurt: Check, no you’re in check.
Ro: Ohhhh!
Background: No you're not done, you're not over yet!
Ro: Oh no, I can't do that either!
Kurt: Check.
Ro:: Oh no I just delayed it!
Background: Move your king up 1!
Ro: Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,hmm!
Kurt: Oh, ohp! The fallen king!
Kurt: Hmmm, let’s see, I’ll just do this. It’s really easy to drop pieces
Kurt: off the edge of the board.
Kurt: Check. Ro: Gah!
Background: Well at least kill the queen, at least kill the queen, yes!
Background: And you lose to him anyway
Ro: Oh I lost to a pawn!
Ro: That was amazing!
Ro: Alright, good game. Kurt: Good game.
Ro: You, I can’t do this anymore! Kurt: Goog game.