Hey guys, it's Ro, welcome to another episode of Nerdy Nummies.
I got so many requests from you guys to make something Star Trek related
and, I've been watching a lot of Voyager. So I thought hmmm, let's make something Borg related!
So today we're going to be making lemon lime vanilla Borg Cube cake.
Let's get started!
The things you will need to make this cake will be 3 cake pans.
These cake pans are square,
they're 6 inch by 2 inch tall.
You'll need two boxes of lemon cake mix, because I'm doubling the recipe.
If you have a favorite lemon cake recipe just use that, just remembered to double it.
You'll be adding 6 ounces of lime jello mix, 8 eggs, 2 and 2/3 cup of vegetable oil,
and a cup of freshly squeezed orange juice.
You also need a big mixing bowl and a hand mixer.
Let's put it all together!
The first thing your gonna do is take your big mixing bowl and you're gonna
add your cake mix.
Oh no!
The next thing you're gonna do is spill it all over the counter!
Next, you're gonna add your jello. Now you're gonna take a whisk and whisk together our dry ingredients.
Now you're gonna add your vegetable oil. Now you're gonna add your eggs and you're going to
add the whole egg.
Lastly you're gonna add your fresh orange juice. Now you're gonna take your mixer and
you're gonna mix the batter
all together until everything's evenly combined. Once your batter is all mixed, we are
gonna grease our pans.
You can either use butter or, I'm using a baking spray,
that's fine too just spray all the corners so that your cake doesn't stick.
Now you're gonna divide the batter into the 3 pans
and you're gonna fill it to be about three-fourths full.
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Now our cakes are ready to bake, you're gonna set your oven to 350 and
you're gonna bake these for 20 minutes and then I reduce the heat to 300 and I baked
for an additional 15 minutes. Just make sure that the center is cooked by
taking a little toothpick, pressing it all the way in and taking it out. If nothing is on the toothpick, it's ready!
Once your cakes have baked, make sure they've had plenty of time to cool. I've just
left them here on this drying rack and now we are ready to assemble the cake
I've got this, you can use any cake plate you'd like. But I took a little round cake plate
which is made out of cardboard and I just cut it into a square
And I am just putting out on top in this little turntable to make it easier to
decorate. So the first thing your gonna do is take the first layer of the cake
pick any one of the three that you want. And then you're just gonna put it on top of your cake plate.
In this bag, I've got vanilla frosting that I've dyed a dark grey to look like the Borg ship colors
and I'm gonna take a little scissor, snip the tip. Then we're gonna put a layer of
vanilla frosting in between our lemon lime cake.
Then I'm gonna take a spatula and spread it smooth. Now you're gonna take your next cake
and place it right on top. Then you're gonna take your frosting again, put another
frosting layer
Then you're gonna take your last cake and what I like to do, is flip it upside down so that the top
won't be a crumby to frost
Erooop!
And, down. Now you'e gonna take your frosting and you're gonna frost the rest of the cake
After you've frosted the cake, we are going to decorate and add the details with some
more frosting. So what I've done is, I got two plastic bags
and I added some number 1 tips at the end so we'd have a little bit more control.
But, we've got vanilla green and some more grey. And now what you're gonna do
is just draw a bunch of little lines to look like the
outside the Borg cube ship. Now that we've got the dark grey frosting all
the little details on the cake. We're gonna be adding two new colors the green
that we talked about
and a lighter gray and just feel free to decorate your Borg cake however you'd like.
You just wanna make little geometric patterns and shapes and lines,
whatever you fancy!
Ta-da!
Here in the Borg cube cake, thanks you guys for suggesting something Star Trek
related I absolutely love this series!
And, I have to give a special thanks to my friend Greg he's over here,
ta-da! Special guest! Greg Aronowitz for helping turn me into 7 of 9. He made all these
awesome prosthetics. Greg has worked on over 300 movies and TV shows, he just does
everything. He is amazing! I'm gonna put all of his links down below, so you can go check it out!
His YouTube channel is BarnYardFX, and there's a lot of like
behind-the-scenes videos of
him doing special effects makeups and props and everything
Ro: And! We have a surprise. Greg: I actually made a video of
Greg: creating these prosthetics for Ro, so you can see step-by-step how I did it and then
Greg: you can make your own for when you make
Greg: one of these cakes. Ro: Yeah, it's pretty cool, I will put a link down below
Ro: to the behind-the-scenes video of that as well and
Ro: big thank you again Greg! Greg: Thanks for having me! Ro: This is awesome, I...
Ro: Made my dreams come true! Greg: Can we assimilate the cake?
Ro: Yeah we can assim-u-late that into my stomach! Greg: Resistance is futile.
Ro: Yeah it is! Alright, thanks you guys. Bye-bye
Ro: Hey Guys, I am here with my friend Greg Aronowitz
Ro: I'll put his links down below. And today he's gonna help me become
Ro: a little bit more like 7 of 9. As you guys know, this is behind the scenes video because
Ro: we made a Borg Cube cake and I wanted to look like 7 of 9, I though that
Ro: would be really cool. And what better guy to call to come help me do that,
Ro: than Greg? Greg: To assimilate you? Ro: Yes, to assimilate me with special effects makeup!
Ro: So, I'm so excited! So what do we do first? Greg: well we are going to glue
Greg: some appliances that I made onto your face. So, unlike
Greg: real Borg where they would, you know, take your bio matter and
Greg: strip it out and put in mechanics and stuff
Ro: Lasers in my eye? Greg: Yeah! We're just gonna fake it and glue some stuff on there, so
Greg: these are some pieces that I sculpted. Ro: Whoa, those are awesome!
Ro: I love it! Greg: This would be, like that.
Ro: Oh that's awesome. Greg: Yeah it's a silver acrylic with a black wash.
Greg: I'll show you how I did it in my video. Ro: OK cool! Greg: Alright, so we're going to use telesis,
Greg: which is a medical adhesive, it was developed put, like, large bandages on, so
Greg: it's the stuff that's basically on a band-aid. But,
Greg: it's in a bottle. Ro: I shouldn't laugh right now, that would be really bad!
Ro:It's so light weight, I don't even feel that one. Greg: Then, this is the hand piece.
Greg: This made a completely different way. It's just
Greg: like craft foam, that you can get, you know, like at Michaels or Joanns.
Greg: And I found a picture online, of Jeri Ryan, like holding her hand up.
Greg: So, we just took the picture, sized it over the picture I had of your hand,
Greg: with the ruler, to get it the right size. Printed that out,
Greg: laid on top of the craft foam, cut that out
Greg: And, uh just glued that on to make it look like the original and then just sprayed the whole thing silver
Ro: It looks amazing! Greg: Lets, roll up your sleeve a little bit. Ro: Oh my gosh, ok
Ro: Let's roll the sleeve up
Greg: I was going to make one of these, and then I realized my friends at Roddenberry Productions
Greg: actually make, like, exact replicas of all the props in the show
Greg: to sell. Ro: Ohhhhh! Greg: so this is an exact replica of 7 of 9's...
Ro: Oh my gosh! Greg: Insignia. Ro: Alright, oh my gosh! I'm a Starfleet Officer!
Ro: And Ta-da! I am now officially 7 of 9, thanks to Greg. This is,
Ro: amazing! I am really Starfleet officer now.
Greg: Yeah well, they were super easy to make, so hopefully your fans can check out
Greg: how I made them and make their own and make the cake and it will be like this
Greg: whole assimilation thing. Ro: I love it. Oh, and you said assimilation!
Greg: Yeah. Ro: Join the collective, a collective thing? Greg: Resistance is futile.
Ro: Big thanks again to Greg for coming and doing this special effects makeup. It is
Ro: amazing, I absolutely love it and I think it just will make Nerdy Nummies that much funner.
Ro: Thank you. Greg: Thank you! It was a pleasure. Ro: Alright, bye guys!
Greg: Oh wait! Ro: Oh yeah! Live long.
Greg: And prosper.