- Hey guys, I'm Jerry James Stone,
and this video is brought to you by Farin'UP.
I'm super excited cuz we're gonna
show you how to make pancake art.
I have pancake artist extraordinaire, Jasmine Rozenable.
Did I say it right?
- Rozenable!
- Roz, I still can't do it!
(laughing) But, that's okay.
We're gonna film a lot today, so it's okay.
(bouncy music)
She's with Get Caked, you're gonna show us
how to get started in making pancake art.
- Yes!
- What's step one?
- Step one, you gotta make sure
you have all your tools set up.
So, first thing you need, you need some bottles,
you need some towels, squeeze writer bottles,
and then you're ready to go.
Next thing we gotta do is make some of our
Farin'UP batter and afterwards,
we take these bottles, drop some food coloring in em.
Go ahead and take one of these for me.
- Okay. - Put your finger on top.
- Okay.
- And we gotta give em a good shake.
So we shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
Make sure the color's --
- It's like a Taylor Swift song.
- Yeah, shake it up, there you go.
Constantly shaking and then when you're done,
and you have the batter completely mixed through,
what you want to do is take your small bottle
and then you start squeezing on the inside.
Now this is gonna be the easiest way
to make sure that you fill these
small bottles without making a mess.
- Now, how much batter do you need for like,
a regular, what's a, I don't even
a regular pancake art, is, but like?
- One pancake?
Is that what you mean? - Yeah, like one pancake.
That seems reasonable.
One pancake. - Yeah, one pancake.
Honestly, you would just need one packet.
- [Jerry] That's it?
- [Jasmine] One packet of Farin'UP batter.
- [Jerry] Okay, okay, great.
- And then, after that, what you would wanna do is,
pick your favorite cartoon character,
or a picture that you're familiar with.
And then, basically just take your time,
sketch it out on paper at first,
and then after that you wanna take it to the griddle.
- Alright.
- Mmm-hmm.
- What's your favorite thing to draw?
- My favorite thing to draw, has to be Disney characters.
- Nice!
- It's a heavy hitter, I know,
I also, I mean I live next to Disneyland.
So, that's a big thing for me too, of course.
But I love to draw Disney characters.
- We're also gonna make a Louis right?
We're gonna do this guy?
- We're gonna do that guy.
So, Louis has actually traveled the world
to find the best ingredients for us.
And we actually use exclusively
their pancake batter for all of our pancake art.
- I like the little pour thing, that makes it easy.
Cuz flour is sooo messy.
Right? - Ya.
- And especially when you're kinda dealing with this,
if you're doing mass amounts of batter to make--
- Exactly. - drawings, like that's a lot
of flour that you have to deal with.
- Yeah, have you ever had to mix a pancake or
you know take it outta the box,
you cut the top off and you don't wanna use it all.
- Right.
- That's what that's for.
- Oh hey, I didn't even think about that.
- Yeah, exactly, yeah. (laughing)
That's what that's for.
- Smart Farin'UP!
- Mmm-hmm.
So, once you have all that done
you want to make sure that you have
a non-stick griddle, that's actually
the most important piece.
- Okay.
- A non-stick griddle, and then
you kinda just have a little bit of fun after that.
- [Jerry] Just jump into the drawing?
- You just jump into the drawing, ya.
- Now, someone wanting to get started with this,
what's the easiest way for them to get started?
- The easiest way, is like I said,
you want to draw it on paper first.
As soon as you have it drawn on paper,
you wanna have that paper set out right next to you.
Following that, turn the griddle on warm.
Let it cook for a little bit, get seasoned.
So that way when you lay down that pancake batter,
what's gonna happen is, it's gonna stay perfect.
It's gonna keep the lines, it's gonna hold
everything real nice and tight for you.
And it's not gonna run.
- Now the first pancake, when you're making
pancakes for like a crowd--
- Mmm-hmm - is always the worst one.
Right, it never looks that great.
Does yours look, does the first one even look good?
- I gotta be honest, it's very nerve-racking, okay?
(laughing)
So, sometimes what happens is one time,
I had myself and my apprentice with me,
and we were both on our first flip,
and both of us, we messed up the entire pancake.
And I'm talking about crowds of
people are watching us, so you hear and you feel,
you know, the pressure any time you make a pancake.
But, again, we practice as much as we can.
So, at the end of the day, when we
go out in front of crowds, we like to have fun.
It's usually easy, but people do
give us a curve ball every so often.
(laughing)
They try to challenge us, which is even better,
because we like challenges here.
- Awesome, awesome.
Okay, so how long does it take you to actually
draw a pancake, like on average?
- [Jessica] Whenever we do have that
person that wants to challenge us,
it can take anywhere between 20 minutes to
I dunno, even 30 minutes sometimes, but again
it really just depends on the details of the pancake itself.
- [Jerry] What's the weirdest thing you've ever drawn?
- I can't say,
(laughing) without getting in trouble.
But we've gotten some pretty weird things.
One of the main things that I always tell people is,
"Look, I will draw you any pancake
that you would like me to draw you,
so long that I don't get in trouble for drawing it."
- [Jerry] Those videos will be coming to our XTube channel.
(laughing)
- So what I typically do whenever I start with pancake
art, and what I always recommend for
people to start with is, the face.
You wanna always start with the eyes,
because then you could always proportion it out afterwards.
If you start with the head, you might
have too big of a head, that doesn't fit everything.
But it's always nice to start inwards,
and then work your way outwards,
if you guys are trying pancake art at home.
- [Jerry] Now what's the temperature
that you have on the grill here?
- Right now, I keep the temperature on warm.
And again, I do recommend that for everybody
that's giving pancake art a try.
And the reason why I keep it on warm is because
it actually holds all of the pancake batter
in a pretty stiff motion for me.
So I say, think of your bottles as giant Crayola crayons.
Whenever you draw with the Crayola crayon,
it doesn't actually run, so you keeping the batter
and the griddle on warm will actually work best for you.
- [Jerry] Awesome, so we're using the
Farin'UP pancake mix here for this,
and you're drawing their logo, which is Louis.
How many times have drawn this guy?
- Oh, we've drawn this guy a lot.
We actually ran to a convention with him before, so,
Louis is actually very famous among us pancake artists.
- [Jerry] And this part has a pretty interesting story too,
it's been around for a very long time, right?
It's been since 1704, I believe that's correct?
- [Jasmine] That is correct, ya, and I didn't
know this at first, but they're
actually an 11th generation family now.
- [Jerry] And the oldest run mill in Luxembourg?
- [Jasmine] The oldest run mill.
- [Jerry] That's pretty chill.
- [Jasmine] It is pretty chill, Jerry.
(both laughing)
- [Jerry] You make it look so easy.
- [Jasmine] It's honestly taken so long.
Before I've actually gotten to this point,
so before I used to, I honestly used to burn pancakes.
I don't like to talk about it much,
but I used to have a tough time
with making pancakes, just as anybody would
when you guys learn a new skill.
But I always tell people, if you practice,
if you stick with it, I guarantee
things are gonna get easier.
But again, you gotta get through that
first uphill climb, when it comes to trying any new skill.
- [Jerry] I dunno, I feel like every face
I would do, would end up looking like the guy from Mask.
- [Jasmine] Ha, the same guy every time?
- [Jerry] Every single time.
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And Louis is super nice because
he is a cartoon itself, so it's not like
I have to turn him into a cartoon,
as if I was doing a face, or anything like that.
So, whenever I think of doing pancake art
I also think about, what's your art style?
What's easier for you to draw?
Are you good at cats, are you good at faces?
And then, once you have that, you know
you're starting art style, you start looking
for pictures that actually suit your style best.
- [Jerry] Nice.
- [Jasmine] And then what I mean is just,
I happen to like cartoons a lot.
So, I always go for cartoon characters.
And again, I know somebody that likes cats.
Jack happens to love doing dogs.
But I like cartoons.
- [Jerry] That's so cool!
- [Jasmine] Mmm-hmm.
- [Jerry] I mean it even looks good,
without all the details, I know the flip
is gonna look better but, even that looks pretty cool.
- Yeah, and I always tell people
honestly, this is the hardest part.
Having to wait for the pancake is now the hardest part.
- [Jerry] And what's the key?
You wanna see all the bubbles.
- [Jasmine] There ya go.
- [Jerry] Evenly across the surface, right?
- Ah huh, so just like any other pancake,
cooks the same exact way.
What you want to look for is, again like Jerry said,
it's gonna bubble evenly across,
but at some point, you'll be
to start lifting up the edges.
And you'll see what I mean by lifting up the edges slowly,
cuz you can't just get under it like a regular pancake.
You have to give it time, and I always tell people,
"Pancake Art 101, low and slow is the way to go."
- [Jerry] That applies to a lot of things.
- [Jasmine] It really does, it does.
So now you can see it's starting to bubble,
some parts of the griddle, the way that the heat is set up,
sometimes one side will cook a little bit faster
than the other, and that's perfectly fine.
So after I'm done, and everything's on warm,
after I've completely filled my outlines,
after I've done a little outline
from the original picture itself.
All I need to do is crank it up to 200 or 250,
anywhere between there is the soft spot,
and now we just wait.
So now that it's bubbling, what I wanna do,
is I wanna take a non-stick spatula,
and I just gotta get around the edges.
And the reason why is because like I said,
it's not a regular pancake, you really have
to go low and slow with this stuff.
So if you pick it up all at once,
odds are it's probably gonna rip.
But if you see this, where you're going around the edges
eventually the pancake will slide on its own.
And once it slides on its own is
when you know that it's ready to be flipped.
- [Jerry] Okay.
- [Jasmine] Mmm-hmm.
- [Jerry] It's making me really nervous.
I just wanna point that out.
(Jasmine laughing)
- [Jasmine] So, see how it's kinda sliding on its own?
It's not stuck to the same spot anymore?
- [Jerry] Ya.
- It lets me know we're ready to flip.
- [Jerry] Okay.
- Are you ready for this?
- [Jerry] Ya, sorta, maybe.
- Yeah--
- [Jerry] Let's do it, I'm glad that you're doing it.
- Well you know, the next one I'm
gonna have you flip, okay? - Uh oh.
- Alright, so I always say, on the count of three, right?
- [Both] One, two, three!
- [Jerry] Aw, awesome!
That looks sooo cool!
- And that's Louis, and he's actually
from our pancake batter mix.
- [Jerry] That is so cool.
I knew it was gonna be good, but it
looks really, really good.
- Ya, and I always tell people,
take a whiff, it's part of the experience.
If you smell it--
(Jerry sniffing)
- Ahh, this pancake. - Yeah.
- It's like butter. - It's very pancake-y.
- Butter or maple syrup. - Yeah, mmm-hmm.
- I wouldn't want to eat it though, this looks too nice.
I mean I'm gonna eat it, but I wouldn't want to.
- [Jasmine] It's actually a big challenge
that we go through, convincing people
to eat the pancakes that we made for them.
Because a lot of people just take them home.
A lot of people wanna show their friends,
but I always say, "Look, it's not gonna be hot
when you get home." (laughing)
It's not gonna be as tasty when you get home,
as it would be if you ate it right now.
- Awesome.
You make it look so simple.
- Well, to be honest, it's been a long time
since I've been doing pancake art.
- How long? - But that's really
all it takes.
It's been two years.
Two whole years. - That doesn't seem very long.
I was-- - Well, you gotta account,
I had to teach myself how to draw,
and then do pancake art at the same time.
So all in all, it was a process
to learn it and really get good at it.
But that's all it takes.
- So, someone wants to dive in.
You guys know now how to make
pancake art, you've seen her do it.
You wanna try it, how do they get this stuff to get started?
Like what's, where do they go?
- [Jasmine] Easiest way to get it,
we're actually offering a pancake art kit.
- Awesome.
- Ya.
- I'll see you guys next time.
- See you guys.
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