Hey guys, it's Ro welcome to another Nerdy nummies.
look who it is! We have a very special guest today. It's Mat!
I'm back!
MatPat. Yes, I'm so excited to be here Ro.
Yes
We are baking today something from the nerdy nummies cookbook, and I thought you were the perfect guest
because in celebration of Jurassic world
We are making a themed Dino treat and we also made a video over on your channel. We did we did around this subject.
We did a jurassic world theory together, Ro and I.
I-I was worried though
When you said you invited me on specifically for this episode because I thought you were gonna say I'm older than dirt
No, no, no. No, that's not it. We just both think dinosaurs are cool
Yes, and that's why I'm like yes, cuz look at this cake
This is a paleontologist's dream. That's true. Ro, impress everyone at home with a dinosaur fact. Oh, okay
I got an impressive one
Dinosaurs had feathers. They actually look probably more like birds. That's true
But I gotta say seeing a t-rex walking around with feathers would look really, really silly
I know just look like the biggest chicken you've ever seen
*Dinosaur/Chicken noises*
I love the Triceratops and when I try to imagine it with feathers
Yeah, Triceratops is your favorite dinosaur? I think I fell in love with those when that movie. What was it? Land before time?
Yes! With little foot? Ro: with little foot and Sarah. Mat: And he's got his little neath.
With the water that he can see his mother's face, and then the Sharptooth comes...
And it's really a huge chicken...this whole time.
It does. It loses something when it's got giant feathers.
This is one of my favorite days, we're making something Dino themed, Mat's hanging out, Today's gonna be good. Okay. Are you ready?
You gotta throw your finger up.
Both: Let's get started
Keep spinning. Yeah, you keep spinning. The things you'll need will be quarter cup vegetable oil 1 and 1/3 cup of all-purpose flour
2/3 cup of cocoa powder 1 and 1/3 cup of sugar 1 cup of sour cream and
1/3 cup water
2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
1 teaspoon baking powder one and a half teaspoons of baking soda half a teaspoon of salts and four large eggs
Both: Now, let's put it all together!
First thing that we're gonna do is mix together all of our dry ingredients
That we have in front of us. You pour in the flour then cinnamon baking powder baking soda double-handed, double-handed
Ah, I'll throw in the salt. ♪Salty, Salty♪
Then? Sugar, of course. Hmm
Cocoa powder, this is gonna make it a chocolate cake!
It would be weird if it made it a gingerbread cake.. And then lastly brown sugar then whisk together until well combined.
Matt, I'm gonna put you to work. So just stir but keep it down here,
don't go too fast or everything's gonna come out of the bowl
I thought I thought I was only here to to look pretty and make lame jokes on the side
I have to actually do cooking. If you can use host today
Yeah, I've gotta take cookie on a walk. I'll be back. That's gonna be a long walk. You got it, Matt, you can do it!
Next step, in a medium bowl whisk together all the wet ingredients
All right. All right, so here Matt you're gonna pour in the oil. I've got the water. ♪You've got the water♪
What if you did an entire episode of nerdy nummies...
...as a musical
*Ro realizes that's a good idea *She just dropped it. Her mind was so blown, she just let go the eggs and is gone. It's happening right? All the ideas. Right!
We need outfits. This could be the microphone. Whoa
Were gonna have to wash that one. All right, we'll add our eggs Matt. You're gonna add two. I'll add two. We're gonna add the whole egg.
All right, we're gonna do one handed egg...
You said to add the whole egg, so there it is! Minus the shell!! Ohh. No shells!
I'm gonna do, we're gonna do hardmode here. Okay Ready? We're gonna crack 'em. And twist one handed egg
crack, two eggs at a time. Okay.
Are you ready? Yep, okay. Just try to get the egg in the bowl you got this Matt ready?
I got this. One two, three and a crack and a twist. Yup. Yes. Yes. Yes
Zero shell in there. It's okay. It's only one. It's only one. Now, we scoop in the sour cream.
Now I know that you thought it a little weird, but it's gonna taste so good in the chocolate cake. I'm excited to taste test it,
I don't think I've ever had a cake with sour cream or at least not that II've known of. Oh it's so good. Ohhh
Ya! Last but not least a little vanilla extract. My personal favorite. Then once again Mat, will you'll mix it together, 'til it's well combined. I am SO ready!
Yes, can you imagine if these were a scrambled egg omelette? So at this point we have our dry ingredients we have our wet ingredients
time to mix them together and then,
see what happens. Pour that sour cream mixture into the dry. Okay, now we gotta whisk together *Mat looks at camera like model*
And I'm gonna go really slow because I don't want to spill anything. This is gonna be delicious
this mix is so well, so easy oopsies Ha-
Some recipes are a little bit more difficult to hand mix. So I prefer electric. But I hear that you've been working out, Ro?
Yeah, I have. So you got those guns. Look at those. Did you feel them? Feel how strong!
No! Ah this is so hard! I'm putting my whole body into this. Whaaaaaaa!
Oh! Oh my gosh! I've got some work to do. Yeah, I..I do have..a lot of..work to do, I think, is what we've just seen here.
My goal is to become the Rock.
Yeah? But little so like the pebble! Batter is ready, it's time to pour in our pan over here. We have two 8-inch round pans.
They are both greased and I put a piece of parchment paper at the bottom
So that they come out easy after they bake. It's a really good idea to do that
That is a really good idea. All right, now, we're just gonna eyeball it. Okay, go go go. Go go go go go
And tell me when
How deep should it be in the pan? I don't, ahhh.... that's good.
Great! Switch! Yeah, there we go, there we go! Well done!
So our cakes are all ready to be put in the oven, just preheat it to 325 and bake for
35 to 40 minutes. There we go. So while our cakes are baking we're gonna take the opportunity to make ourselves some dinosaur bones
That's right. You just so happened to have some lying around.
I found these cute little dinosaur fossil molds. These are so cute. These ones are made by Fred. I'll put a link down below
I found them online. I thought they were perfect. We are also holding some white melted chocolate
We put into piping bags. Would it be wrong of me right now to pipe this directly into my mouth?
Well, then we wouldn't have enough bones, for the cake.Yeah, but I would have a bunch of white Chocolate in my mouth
Mhhhhh... decisions
So fancy. Oh my gosh, okay. Okay, you can have a little bit, Mat, but now save some for the dinosaurs
Okay, fill 'em in while your chocolates still hot. It's really good. Fill in your mold
It's rare in my life that I'm presented with a bag of just melted chocolate. So I'm very excited about the prospect.
You're like 'Oh!'. This is gonna be my new desert of choice. Do you want some ice cream, you want some cake? No, I'll just take
Just take a bag of melted chocolate, it's fine!
Then give your tray a little tap, it will help get all the little air bubbles out of the chocolate mold
and smooth it out. Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!
Get those air bubbles out. Yes! Get those air bubbles out. Yes! Get those air bubbles out. Yes!
Newest dance craze. So this is the part that I've been really waiting for. We've got our graham crackers. We've got our Oreos, it's time to
crumb 'em, we are gonna crumb them together to look like dirt. I really gotta ask
Ro, what did you do with all the stuffing in those Oreos? Ate 'em
We're gonna be crumbing them one at a time. We'll start with Mat 'cause Mat, you're the guest. Oh, thank you. All right
So let's break these apart. We're using a food processor, but you can also use a blender. Here we go ready?
I am so ready!
Pull and you're just gonna pulse it, keep breaking it up.
Pulse! Pulse it! Oh, oh here's the pulse button. There you go. It's on this side. Pew pew pew pew.
It's really fun Mat, you wanna try it? I would love to pulse!
Okay, hit this button, go pew pew pew. Okay, pew pew pew..pew...peeeeww..pew pew pew
Oh that looks great! That's it!
Okay now, pour it in here, and I don't want the blades to fall out. Well..
They always do that!
Pshh, wishful thinking.
Let's grow some Oreos! Okay?
Im ready! Ready to pulse? Whoo!
Okay I'll hold it, wait, wait, pulse! Pulse, pulse, pulse.Pulse.Pulse. Pulse...Pulse
There we go, there we go. Bada bing bada boom!
Now, this is the most satisfying part of the recipe and I'm gonna let you do it.
Mixing them together to make it look like dirt. It's so fun!
I think...I can't be selfish. You have to do this, you're the guest. You worked for this.
Are you sure? I bet we -I bet we could find another spoon here.
No, no, no, you do it, you do it! It's two dirts becoming one. Here it is, here it is! Ohhh wow there it is.
All right, this is looking pretty darn good, so let's set this one off to the side
so as you can see our cakes have baked and have had plenty of time to cool. And I just stack them together with a
little bit of chocolate frosting in between and now we are going to frost and decorate,
the cake. All right. Now I'm gonna give you one of these
Okay. So I'm just gonna pipe an outline on the top of the cake like this. I'm gonna do half
Now, you do the other half. I got this..Follow the line, follow the line, follow the line, follow the line!
Yeah, yeah good pressure fill in the top you can be quite generous so don't feel like you're gonna mess up
It's fine and just do zigzags like this zigzag zigzag zigzag. Woow, now you do it, you do it! That's really good, okay.
It can get a little messy. That's okay
Now I'm taking
an Offset spatula and we're gonna smooth it out and to do so we're using a turntable if you don't have one of these
at home, that's okay. You can just move your hand, but this makes it a little bit easier.
Ugh I gotta move my hand? 'Cause look at this look you hold it in one place and then gently just apply a little pressure
Not too much to frost the sides of the cake apply even pressure
And work your way all the way around and then we'll do another layer. Just try to get the frosting to stick to the cake
Okay squeeze. Is this a good pace? Yeah, this is great! Here we go, okay,, I think that is the top of the cake there
I think we're pretty good. Right then, again taking the offset spatula place against the cake and then we're just gonna turn it and you can spin around a couple times, 'till it's as smooth as you want.
Ro! Everything looks so good these bones turned out so well! Everything's coming together
It's gonna be so cute! Time to decorate and it's super easy. Our cake is frosted.
We moved it to this little stand and I've got the picture from the book, okay?
All right
I'm gonna let you put the bones on I'm gonna let you do the honor
So just follow the book. Put the little head over here. Okay, you want the head over here.
Yeah, yeah. Okay
And then you gotta fit his little body on and what I really like is that if you want to reposition something you can do it!
It's okay because then we're just gonna put cookie crumbs all over the top. No one will know. It's so fun!
Oh my god. Can you imagine if you found bones like this in your backyard? I would love it
I would have a party. I also love this where like you have little bone fragments that came out
So it does kind of..Yeah, you can break them. Maybe you can stick them in the side
Okay, stick them anywhere on the sides of the cake
Oh, here we go. Got a little ribcage right here. Oh jeez
It's fine, five second rule. Boom, get in there
Alright, boom. Oh wait, you did this? I
I knew that! It's cookie time!
Cookie time! We're gonna make it rain cookie crumbs all over this cake now. I always,
make a mess
when I do this, and the reason is because, the sides of the cake, it's just hard to get it to stick
Are you ready ? I'm gonna bring this over to you. We just leave this here and just sprinkle on the top. Yeahhh
Aw, he's getting buried. Well, let's get the sides of the cake. Yeah, how do you?
Now, be fearless. Just take your spoon of cookie dirt and just...just fearless.
Okay, fearless fearless fearless. I
I just I also like that the cookie plate has a lip because it keeps all the cookies in there. Clearly
It's doing a good job of keeping all the cookie dust in there. So we'll continue doing this until it's completely covered
Ta daaa!
Here is the dinosaur fossil cake that we made today in celebration of at the new Jurassic world I am so excited for it
I hope you guys enjoyed the video and a big thank you to MatPat for helping me make this cake today
Hey this this was a blast. I had a great time
Thank you for letting me make a mess with my own kind of dirt crumbs here. So can we slice off a piece?
Yeah, yeah. Okay. Let's take a bite. Also, don't forget we made a video over on Mat's channel, again,
I'm gonna put a link down below. Go check it out, It's about Jurassic world as well.
And I'm also gonna be putting all the links down below if you guys are new to the channel go check out his YouTube channel,
Show him some love and subscribe. Thank you!
He is amazing. Ro is dropping all sorts of dinosaur knowledge on the other video, so.
Yeah, Dino facts Dino facts, dino facts. I'm gonna take a bunch of pictures and post the recipe on Rosannapansino.com,
facebook, Instagram and Twitter and this recipe is also in the nerdy nummies cookbook so you can find it there as well.
Yeah, you can find it everywhere. It's everywhere. Everywhere you want it-- you have no excuse not to make this cake.
Okay, ready? Yes, I'm so ready. Yeah, this is the chocolate cake with a little sour cream grab myself a little bone
Think you'll like it. I'll get a little bit of everything into this,
My God, that's so good! You may have made me a believer in sour cream desserts.
They're good. It's Brilliant. They're really good and Dino themed desserts just across the board
Bye! Bye!