- Hello, lovely people.
And welcome the very first Baking Bad
filmed in our new kitchen.
Or the bit of it that doesn't look like a building site.
Cause the rest of the house really does.
Don't worry, Claudia will actually be in this video,
she just finds intros, incredibly awkward.
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In honor that, we thought, hey, let's make candy,
also, apparently Claudia likes caramels, who knew?
Oh, for those of you who are American, Carmel's, why?
We're also going to be making
sugar free peppermint creams
so that I can also have something to enjoy.
And if you're also thinking, wow Jessica,
is that a true vintage 1950s dress
that you've decided to cook sugar near
without an apron?
Yeah, It is, and I share your same worry,
unfortunately despite owning eight aprons,
I can't find any of them.
Do you want more shots of the building site?
Because.
(seventies upbeat music)
See?
I told you she'd be here.
Looking real good today as well.
Okay, so we're gonna make caramels,
which is something that you actually apparently like to eat.
- I mean, I'm not really sure,
I don't really know what a caramel is.
(cymbal crash sound)
Is it like, a caramel?
- Wait, am I not saying the right word?
Is that what's happening?
Sometimes that happens,
It's a deaf thing. - I know like a fudge.
- Yeah.
- And toffee.
What's caramel?
Is it between a fudge, and a toffee?
- I've not been able to eat sugar in a decade and a half,
and I didn't eat much of it before then,
but I'm gonna say a caramel is like, the harder one?
- Okay.
That's a toffee.
I feel like we need to start to go like
(makes chewing sound).
- Oh, but not like hard hard?
- Not made of butter?
- It does have butter.
- Oh.
- Okay, let's get making.
Did you know, fun fact,
caramel was originally a way to wax?
- Oh right, okay, I did not.
- No yeah.
Apparently it was used by - And now.
- Harems in Arabia.
- Okay. - According to the internet.
- And now we eat it.
- Hopefully not, post waxing.
- No.
All right, let's see, what do we need?
Okay, can I just point out, we have USB plugs now.
- We found the spoons.
- And apron.
- There literally was a box up in the attic
called Baking stuff.
- In did genuinely look through every single box.
Okay, let's get that water heater up.
- But look how instant that water is heating up, so quick.
- We put our little
- Is that too much water?
- Bain-Marie's.
Something in the back of my mind
is trying to remind me that,
you're either meant to do this with a wooden spoon.
- What is molasses?
(jolly upbeat lifestyle music)
- This so fun.
- All right - I love baking with you.
- Well all we've done is melt some butter
and put some tar in it.
- I'm easily pleased.
- Three squares of chocolate.
- Hang on, half a cup of milk.
- Oh, okay. - (laughs)
All right,
would you like the milk chocolate, or the dark chocolate?
- Can we put like, one of each?
- Yeah, of course.
- [Claudia] It's hard to tell right,
that's a particularly big square.
- Okay, and then drop it in.
Oh wait.
What?
- And when boiling point is achieved, add the chocolate.
Oh, man.
This is not brown sugar either.
- Oh.
- One cup.
My god.
Where's the cups?
- That's a lot of sugar.
- I think that's the idea with candy.
- (laughs)
- It's okay.
The thing is called Baking Bad.
That's the whole point of the show.
- It's all melting.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's gonna be fine, everything's gonna be fine.
- Okay, molasses has got such an overpowering smell.
So I can only really put one cup in.
- (laughs)
(both yelp in surprise)
- It's all right, it's just steam darling.
- (laughs)
Is it boiling yet?
"When boiling point is reached, add the chocolate."
I mean, I see two bubbles, so it's coming.
- A bit of lemon.
- Oh.
- Limon.
Limoon. - A limoon.
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And now back to us, ruining everything.
That's a mockery of candy making.
- Okay, so it's not the best looking.
- Smells really gross.
It's just like literally, pure molasses,
with bits of melted chocolate in it.
- They don't really work with regular sugar very much.
- Cause brown sugar is quite different
to granulated white sugar.
Oh my god.
How does anyone do any baking?
- Especially sugar making.
(calls out in surprise)
Sink. Sink.
(laughs)
My knowledge of chemistry stops at the age of 12.
Let's put this aside,
and move on to peppermint creams,
made with artificial sugar,
because, that I know how to use.
So the caramels have decided
that they just don't like lesbians
or some such tosh,
and we decided we don't like them either,
so it's gone somewhere else to set,
and we're gonna make peppermints instead.
Also Claudia's had enough of my nonsense,
so she'll just be behind the camera.
We're gonna start with one egg wipe, egg wipe?
Egg white, which we will whip into stiff peaks,
using my beautiful, kitchey.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
Also, totally haven't mentioned this yet,
but we have a kitchen island.
I've always wanted one,
but I've never, ever, ever,
lived in a house that had a kitchen island,
and honestly, it is just as good as it looks in the movies.
It really is.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
Now, I have my beautiful whisked egg whites,
in their firm peaks.
Now I'm gonna sift in 500 grams of icing sugar,
although, it's not actual regular icing sugar,
it is, fake icing sugar.
So I can have it, it's very exciting, it's very exciting.
Get excited by really, anything I can eat.
Now, the recipe says to put in this icing sugar,
and a little drop of peppermint oil to taste,
and two teaspoons of lemon.
I'm not sure whether I should add them all in at once,
or a little bit at a time.
So I think we'll do a little bit at a time,
cause that doesn't hurt.
Apparently it should end up being the texture of pastry,
which I'm looking forward to.
As you might be able to tell
from all of this beautiful light flooding into the room,
we have a skylight, which is rather lovely,
look at the little lantern.
Unfortunately, however,
it's not probably fixed in place yet,
so there's a tarpaulin over the top,
and boy, does that tarpaulin act like,
that's a real greenhouse in here, goodness.
It's, particularly hot.
And let's have some peppermint oil.
How will I know how many kilograms are in?
Suddenly you're realizing I probably should have done this
with something a bit better
than this incredibly flappy spatula.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
- Once you put your hands on it.
- And then you squish it together?
- Yeah.
I remember making them.
And once you kind of get it in.
- Okay, I said I never made this before.
Oh, okay.
All right.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
- Make it into like a.
- Yeah, it should be the texture of pastry.
And we are going to divide it in two halves,
and put some food coloring in each half.
- Okay.
- This is one of the things
I am looking forward to most,
in the new kitchen.
- Oh, - Now add your little bit.
- we forgot that food coloring is kind of, liquidy.
- Well you only need to add a little bit,
we're just going for pastels here.
- Okay.
And just think, well,
in vintage times they wouldn't have had
very much food coloring, would they?
- Ah, they have would have had natural food coloring.
- Yeah, they wouldn't have been so vibrant.
- Yeah, they wouldn't necessarily be very vibrant.
They got food coloring from onion skins.
- At least you're gonna put that much in.
That's how much I've put in.
- [Jessica] I've gone a bit bolder.
We'll find out.
- Well, when we have kids,
you'll be able to bake with them all the time in here.
- I will.
On the island,
on the little Montessori standing thingys.
- See look,
I've put that tiny amount of green in,
and it's getting to a quite nice subtle green color,
like a peppermint color.
Yours is going to be luminous.
- Now we need to roll it out.
- Used to make peppermint cremes for my sister,
and her best friend from school.
- That's nice.
- Several, It wasn't just a one-off occasion either,
I remember it was a thing that we did.
- It was your thing, you were the peppermint cream girl.
- Yeah, then we'd take them to school.
- I swear, right,
every school has a peppermint cream girl.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
- Caught you red handed.
(both gasp in surprise)
What you been up to missy?
Oh, sorry, that was really quite hard.
- (laughs)
Oh, that's very cute.
Since you were green, I was going to have you be leaves.
- Well, my God Jesse, you're so.
- Demanding.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)
- It's weird cause mine looks like how it tastes,
green and pepperminty, and tiny.
Yours you'd expect to have
some kind of rose flavoring in it or something, you know?
- And now I'm gonna pop these in a cool place
for twelve hours, and attempt to clean up this mess.
Okay, so clearly I can't make caramel very well,
I actually have absolutely no idea what went wrong,
but, I'm sure i will be schooled in the comments.
To make up for it,
I sculpted the peppermint creams,
because at least that's something I can do.
So, yeah.
Let me know in the comments,
what you'd like us to make next.
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I'm so sorry you had to watch this.
But hey, at least you don't have to eat it.
I apologize to everyone,
we're now going to make, eat our candy.
(jolly upbeat seventies music)