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Hey guys, it's Ro welcome to another nerdy nummies today, we have a very special guest it's Zach, Zach King you guys. I'm so excited
We met a couple years ago, and I'm just so happy that we're baking together, finally. We're baking I'm kind of scared. Don't worry
I'll guide you through it will be easy I barely bake at home at all, but he makes awesome
Videos so I think that's even cooler. I'm gonna put links down below to everything all his social medias. Go show him some love
Subscribe and follow and all of those things. Today
we are gonna be making a
penguin cake for the holidays. Which is
incredible because I've actually made a video about a penguin before I turn my tuxedo into a penguin and *Poof* I
Gotta and put a link down to that too. It is so cool and speaking of magic, Zach came out with this book
I'm gonna brag about him and embarrass him just a little bit because it is the coolest book I have ever got it's Zach King
my magical life
And you download this little app and you look at the images throughout the book and they come to life
I have never seen this ever in my life, and you blew me away. It looks coolest thing
I spent way too many hours looking at all the photos, so you did a good job so today
We're gonna be making a peppermint cake cuz I thought that, that was a very
Holiday themed flavor and we're gonna make it look like a cute little penguin, ooh fun!
Yeah
Let's get started the things you will need will be 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour,
1 cup of cake flour, 2 and 1/2 cups of whole milk,
3/4 cup of oil, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of peppermint extract
1 in a quarter teaspoon of salt, 2 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, and 3 eggs.
But we'll only be using the whites, and now let's put it all together!
Nice job. Thank you. That's pretty good. That was that was good, first step to making this cake is whisking together
The dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl Zach. I'm gonna have you do this. You can't mess this up
This is easy-peasy alright
So add your flours doesn't matter which order the sugar, salt and baking powder is there a wrong way to whisk? well
why don't you have a KitchenAid here? Zach
I didn't need a KitchenAid today
Cause I got you here, so you are the KitchenAid today step two whisk together all of your wet ingredients
But remember we just want the egg whites. oh the egg whites.
Yes, so I get a little nervous cracking eggs because the last time I cracked an egg a little baby chick popped out. jiggle the
Yolk back and forth letting the egg white drip to the bottom
You're making that way easier than it looks, so on this side. Oh oh
oh, it's yay cool, so
There you go jiggle jiggle jiggle, Zach perfect love it. Nice, he can bake.
There's the oil going in. Hey beautiful pour boom and I'm gonna have you add the extracts as well
But let me just take a sniff first
Okay, it smells so good together. They should be best friends
Then and in your whole milk, this is heavy. Zach, You got a whisk it up again
Cuz you're the guest you've been a great KitchenAid nice nice nice nice nice, so how do I know when this is done? Yeah?
You just mix her a little under a minute. That's all so we've got our wet ingredients
We've got our dry ingredients and are we just mixing them together now? Yep, step Three is
Combine, so just pour all of the wet into the dry cause it's the bigger bowl. There you go there You go, nice Zach
*Bloop* Great, yes, yes *ding* whisk again, but be careful Zach cuz this is a full bowl, it's like right to the rim
This is a lot of cake batter work it in there Zach. You didn't know that this was gonna be a workout did you?
I don't know it was just your whisker today. Oh wow he's gonna be the biggest whisk taker today....Oh
I'm trying to make a pun out it, I got you huh ,so we've got our batter here ,and what are those ball pans?
Yeah That's a sphere ball Pan, they come with a little
Silicone liner that goes at the end and that will hold your pan in place Zach. You can do this.
pour this in here. Yeah, just pour about half in here and half in here. Oh, that's good. Zach That's good. Okay, okay here Zach
That was really good. Thank you
Thats a great pour. That is the first time I've ever done them
Just make sure before you put them in the oven that they are very level
So we gotta look down here make sure that they're flat because we don't want em to tip
That looks pretty good. So pre-heat your oven to 325 and they'll sit in there for about an hour and a half
Yes, we're gonna slow bake these cakes so the cakes are baked and we've let them cool for plenty of time
And you know how do we assemble them?
It's really easy the first thing that you want to do is just cut a little bit off the bottom of one of them
So it will sit like this
Ooh that looks great, and also level off the top so its nice and flat and then in front of you,
You've got a turntable have you ever used one of these with baking?
Yeah, just like that
All right, so now. Just pipe a little bit of icing on the top
And I'm gonna show you how you do it so pipe a little layer all the way around
Oh, that's good doo-doo-doo-doo boom! and then fill it in like this
I have a little offset spatula, and we're just gonna spin it to flat all right now Zach. I'm gonna
Have you place on the top of the cake alright?
Just try to line it up the best you
Can you can always wiggle it around so don't be afraid if you off set it a little bit
Yeah press it down a little bit oh
Wow, okay or a lot of it. That's okay next thing we do is frost the entire thing
I like to start at the bottom and just slowly work your way up to the top
Let me see how you're doing it baking is a skill huh this is tough.
Oh yeah, squeeze out just a little bit more. Oh well I messed it up. Don't look at that
Have you ever made a Death Star before? *gasp*
Yes! I have used this ball cake to make so many cool things the Death Star was one of my favorite
So now I'm guessing we're spinning this thing to make it all smooth?
It doesn't need to look perfect because we just want the entire cake frosted we're gonna put fondant over it
It's gonna act as the glue for our fondant, so we're gonna put this in the fridge to chill for about 30 minutes
Yeah, so our cake is chill and it's sitting on a plate over here. We've got our fondant ready to be rolled out
Yes, I put a baking mat down so our fondant won't stick to the surface all right. I'm gonna push
This little guy out of the way, and then Zach. I'm gonna have you use a fondant rolling pin
Just gently roll it out about a quarter-inch thick. I'll show you how to transfer fondant
So you take your rolling pin, and you just put it here at the end, and then you start to roll it *bloop* up
I think you can do this. Okay. You just go for it. Just go for it. Just gently you can over-roll it
Just gentle gentle. I'll bring in this one, and then start to flop it on top
That's genius there you go. There you go
That's magic right there. All right, then we smooth it out. This is kind of silly and just gently
Press it down to the end so right now. It kind of looks like it ghost. Yeah, it does this could be a snapchat
Gently pull it down and then press in because if you pull too fast. It's gonna tear. I'm definitely did that
That's okay. We can fix tears. Once you've got it wrapped cut off the excess the closest you can get to the base.
Cut cut cut cut cut and then peel off the excess so this is covered and trimmed now
We're rolling out the black fondant and going to about a quarter inch thick yes. That is looking good
Once you've rolled out the black fondant. You're gonna be using one of these
Looks like a genie bottle doesn't it okay Zach hold
It, I'll hold it here, and then you got to do some type of like ,if I go like this
Okay, you know what? I wish what a peppermint
wait for it
Penguin cake ,cool. Well. We're making one so that works out okay great. I leave this silly looking template in Photoshop
I will put a link down below
You just print out two of them tape them together overlay it like so and cut it out
So then we pull up the excess yeah take off the excess oh
Did you hear that guys this is great before we transfer the fondant to the cake.
I'm gonna put a little bit of royal icing this is gonna act like glue
Hi Zach, okay, and then I'll let you write something. I'm gonna draw a little penguin oh
Just to ,Penguins have wings right? Yeah.They got little ones cuz they swim with them, you pick up one side
I'll pick up the other place it onto the cake nice
Look at that ,you guys, you gotta see this boom
Now gently Zach gentle fingers gentle gentle. We just gently press it to the cake
So we've got the black fondant right on here. It kinda looks like he's got a helmet or start of Darth Vader
I don't know, yeah, and now we're rolling out this orange fondant. Yes
We're gonna be using the orange fondant to make a little beak and feet and why is there saran wrap on this?
Oh, this is a really cool technique
Okay, so you put a piece of saran wrap over your fondant?
And then get the smaller football shaped cookie cutter
And then go for it Zach press down we have the plastic around it
It really smoothes the edges ooh, and I love this technique look. How cool that is now
We're gonna add some detail so we're making a little smile cuz it's a happy
This is gonna be a happy penguin like happy feet okay Zach. We're gonna re-roll this. I'll tell you when to stop okay
Let me see ,let me see keep going keep going keep going. Yeah, let's make it bigger
We want to get two feet whoo so again
We'll be using a little piece of plastic wrap and the larger football cookie cutter cut that in half that little football in half
Right down the middle that's gonna be our two feet. Yes cool
All right, so one for you one for me taking this circle cookie cutter
And we're gonna cut off the back you can use any cookie cutter you have around the house
I'm using a small diamond cookie cutter. So you're just gonna cut out two grooves, so these little penguin feet go right there
Oh, that's so cute .Now we're gonna attach the beak. Yeah, can't forget about the beak. We need a cute one
I'm just taking a little bit of royal icing putting it on the back
Just gonna stick it right on here about halfway on the black. Halfway on the white. Final touches
We've got our black fondant rolled out
We've got a little circle cookie cutter for the eyes and this teardrop shape before the little wings cut out two of those
And now we're gonna do the eyes yeah, two eyeballs, there
You go put a little royal icing on the back they hang off
Just a little bit at the end, but that's okay, and it makes it really look like a little wing
That's cute, then the eyeballs. Yeah, we're gotta make these even. Okay? Okay? Where are you going? Here? Okay ill go the same.
Perfect. BOOM!
There's our little peppermint penguin
Tada!!!
Here is the peppermint penguin cake that we've made today and it is totally adorable. Oh look at you
A big, thank you to Zach. Zach, thank you for helping me bake today. Thank you of course now
I know how to bake. I'll be posting a bunch of cute pictures and the recipe on rosannapansino.com, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
So you can check it out there, and if you guys make this cake for the holidays
Please take a picture and send it to me
Let's have everyone comment below
What his name should be because you don't want to cute little penguin sitting here and not have a name for him maybe
little waddles, sir waddlesworth maybe
little
little P.P. for
Peppermint Penguin and Zach you did a really good job baking
This is our first time baking together and this project. I would say is intermediate and now that I know the ingredients and the steps
I might be able to whip up a little bit of my own creation here
You ready for it
Tada! we have two cute penguins. Magic! All right. Thanks you guys bye-bye!