Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today we are gonna be making something that has been heavily requested for
such a long time! We are gonna be making a Volcano Cake! A science cake!
And we’re gonna be using dry ice today, so that when we make the volcano, actual
smoke will be coming out of the top. I’m so excited to do this!
Plus my little friends, they’re finally gonna have a little home!
Yes!
Alright, let’s get started!
The things you will need, will be: Pretzel sticks, frosting, I have vanilla
buttercream and chocolate frosting. 1 water bottle, and what I did on the top
of this as you can see, I cut off the top of the water bottle, because this will
be the tube for our volcano which we put the dry ice in. You’ll also need graham
crackers, cherry jello mix, 1 12 inch chocolate cake, you can use any recipe
you’d like, and you’ll need 4 6 inch chocolate cakes. I used this pan, little
6 inch round pan. And last but not least you will need dry ice, you keep dry ice in
a cooler, not in the freezer like you would think, that’s what I thought.
But no, you keep it in a cooler, and here it is. Oh! It’s kinda sch-moky!
It’s gonna get super smoky when we add liquid to it.
When it reacts with H2O. Alright! Let’s put this all together!
The first thing you’re gonna do is take your 4 6 inch round cakes and your
water bottle, and I’m putting this water bottle in the middle. It can be any
shape or size, doesn’t matter, or it can be a plastic cup! That’s fine too!
And I’m just gonna cut out the shape like so!
Haha that’s kinda creepy, I’ll stop now!
Once you got all the centers cut out of the 4 cakes, what you’re gonna do is
frost them in-between, stack them, and then put the water bottle
right down the middle.
Now you’re gonna put on a little muffin cake top, eragh! Like so!
Perfect, alright, now you’re gonna put this huge monster of cake pile into the
freezer and freeze for about 20 minutes.
While the volcano cake is in the freezer, we’re gonna go do a bunch of other things.
Prep baking!
OK, so the first thing that I did is you’re gonna take graham crackers, just a
basic graham cracker, and I threw these in the blender, if you don’t have a blender
you can hand crumble them so that they will look like this. Kind of makes them
look like sand. I did this when I made the Game of Thrones cake.
The chest of the dragon eggs!
Then you’re gonna take green fondant, and if you don’t have fondant you can use
leaf candy, or any other sticky gummy candy, kinda like airheads or whatever
you got. Some Tootsie Rolls candy comes in different colors, I got this little
mold at Michaels, it’s from Wilton, I’ve used it a bunch, it’s really really handy,
and I’m using the smallest leaf that I could find, and I’m just pressing the fondant
in there and then you’re just gonna cut out the shape of the leaf with a little
knife or a toothpick or whatever you’ve got handy.
And what we’re gonna end up doing, is taking a pretzel stick, which is going to
be the tree trunk. And then we’re gonna put all the little
fondant leaves up on the top. Then stick them all together up here.
Alright, we just took the cake out of the freezer, and now you’re
gonna take your sharpest knives and we’re just gonna start carving the shape
of the volcano!
Just finished carving my volcano shape, and now I’m gonna take this, it’s basically
like a big flipper, and we’re gonna stick it under our volcano cake, pick it up,
and then transfer it onto our big round circle 12 inch cake.
OK here we go, hooo!
Got it!
Easy does it! Easy does it! Easy does it! Easy does it!
YES!
I’m positioning the volcano towards the back of the cake so that theres a little
bit of room in the front because I’m gonna make my little trees there, and other
stuff. Perfect! Now we’re just gonna frost a bunch of chocolate frosting
all up the volcano!
And now I am going to frost the sand, to make, on the bottom, on the base of the
cake, because I’m gonna make this look like Volcano Island! It’s like
Jurassic Park, only, the whole thing’s a volcano!
I’m just gonna spread the sand colored frosting all along the base of the cake.
And then I’m gonna sprinkle on our graham cracker crumbs to make it look
like real sand!
I just finished putting all the graham cracker on to make it look like a beach on
Volcano Island, and now I’ve got blue frosting, it’s actually 2-toned,
I put a little bit of light blue and a little bit of dark blue, and green frosting.
And I’m gonna make the ocean for Volcano Island, and then I’m gonna put little
grass everywhere!
The last decoration that I made last night was this little teeny dino!
I just had to, he was so cute! My dinos were too big to fit on this Volcano Island,
so I made this little guy out of fondant!
I’m just gonna stick him right here, oh he’s so cute!
Oh yeah, he’s just hanging out. Perfect!
And now it’s time for dry ice!
So here is the test experiment, here is us using dry ice, and the Jello
water mixture I made, and it’s making all these weird, uh, gas filled pockets, and
I think it’s because the sugar wasn’t completely dissolved, and I think that if
you do use Jello, you are gonna have to boil 2 cups of water and then add the mixture
to make sure that the sugar has completely dissolved, because if you don’t, this
is what’s going to happen!
So instead, I’m just going to be adding water, gonna make it easy, because
the smoke is what we want. And I thought it would be bubbling a little bit
of red, but instead, this is happening!
I am so excited, this is the part that I’ve been looking forward to!
I just carefully put in a bunch of dry ice, into the water bottle, through the top.
Just be very careful when you’re handling dry ice, you want to gloves, and I like
to use tongs or pliers, just do not touch the dry ice because it is -109 degrees,
so it’s very, very cold, it reminds me of liquid nitrogen!
OK, I’ve got the water, remember, we’re not using Jello because it did that weird
effect that I don’t know what that was.
I’m just gonna pour water, very carefully, here we go!
Into Volcano Island!
Oh it's amazing!
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Oh Dino, don't get too close to the Volcano!
I’m gonna add a little bit more, because it’s just so cool!
Wha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Oh my gosh this is so cool! Thanks you guys for suggesting it, I had so much fun
making this cake, because it had to do with science!
So if you guys have any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please
let me know, leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
OK, bye-bye!
Why don’t I do this for every single drink that I drink?
Just like, oh, yes!
Agh, pfft, pfft!
Maybe that’s why!