- So here is how it looks.
So I'm very intrigued to see how this one is.
Yeah, it looks good.
Mine definitely does not look as neat
as the one in the Tik Tok.
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Hi, I'm Ayesha, I'm a video producer at BuzzFeed UK
and today I'm going to be testing out
some vegan Tik Tok recipes and hacks.
I don't know about you,
but my Tik Tok is inundated with recipes and food content.
I feel like all the recipes I've chosen,
look like they taste really good,
easy, vegan meals that don't take very much time to make
it is like definitely a win in my book.
If you look on Tik Tok,
I see so many like hack style recipes,
where it's just like things that using ingredients
in ways that you'd never really think to use them.
One is a two ingredient mud cake.
One is a three ingredient vegan pancake,
then I'm gonna turn that into pancake cereal,
which I'm sure you've seen all over your feed.
Two ingredient pasta
and I would say like a chocolate spread,
Nutella sandwich in a toaster.
I'm feeling really positive and hopeful about them
I feel like they all look really delicious.
I really wanted to just kind of test them out
and see whether they're good.
Welcome to my kitchen.
So it's about lunchtime,
so I'm ready to start cooking some things, I'm very hungry.
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So the first thing I'm gonna make
is a two ingredient Alfredo,
it is just pasta, pasta water, salt and hummus.
Hopefully it tastes good, so let's try this one out.
Okay, here's my pan of water, it says heavily salt it,
so that's what I'm gonna do.
The key thing is that you have to cook it
for two minutes less than the instructions state,
so you have to make sure it's still al dente.
So I'm gonna leave that to cook for eight minutes.
So now I'm going to turn this off
and what I'm gonna do is reserve some of the pasta water
and now is the exciting part.
So basically you wanna add in your hummus
and you also wanna add in the pasta water
and you wanna add an equal amount of hummus to pasta water,
so get that in there.
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Okay, so I'm not really sure
what is supposed to happen to this one,
it hasn't really come together as a sauce yet,
maybe I put in too much water,
like right now, it's too watery.
I'm actually just gonna add in some more, because why not?
Add another spoon.
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Okay, so now it's time to serve it up.
So here is how it looks, as you can see,
it looks like a pretty good bowl of pasta.
I'm excited to eat this one.
Oh, my God.
What?
It's creamy, it's filling, it's satisfying.
Oh, my God, this is so good.
I love this, like I'm not kidding,
I feel like I could eat this in two seconds,
if I put my mind to it, mm.
So next I'm gonna try three ingredient pancakes.
So it's made with just oats, banana
and any non-dairy milk of your choice.
The first thing that we're gonna do
is pop this into a blender for a few seconds,
so that it turns into oat flour.
And now we need to add in three-quarters of a cup
of any non-dairy milk of your choice,
I'm using oat milk.
Add that in there.
Then you need to add in one large, ripe banana.
Okay, so that's gonna go in, break it up.
And then the final step, this is optional,
but you can add in vanilla extract or cinnamon
or whatever other flavor that you want,
so I have some vanilla extract here,
I'm just gonna add in a tiny, tiny bit.
So here we have the pancake butter,
that blended together in like seconds.
So now all that's left to do is make the pancakes.
Put the pan over a low heat
and add in some oil or some vegan butter
and then get ready to fry.
Okay, so now we just need to wait for it to cook
and then once it starts to bubble on the top,
that's when you know it's time to flip it over.
Really nervous about this one,
I feel like I'm gonna mess this one up,
so fingers crossed.
Okay, I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try.
It looks good.
Okay, I think this is done, it is ready,
I'm just gonna serve it with some maple syrup
and some fruit.
There we have my vegan pancake, yeah, it looks good.
Again, it was just really easy,
everything just basically goes in the blender
and then you just put it in the pan and that's it.
Mm, it tastes really good,
I didn't even use that ripened banana,
but the sweetness totally comes through.
It tastes good.
You can do whatever with yours,
so I just want to show you what the inside looks like,
I've actually eaten most of it already,
but yeah, really, really good.
No beating the batter, nothing complicated to do,
just put it all in the blender, put it in the pan
and then you have really, really good pancakes.
So while we're on the topic of pancakes,
I'm gonna try something that I know you've seen
all over your Tik Tok feed, it is of course pancake cereal.
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So what this is is just loads and loads of mini pancakes
and you put it in a bowl, you can have it with maple syrup,
you can make it into a cereal and have it with milk.
I have a little squeezy box here,
I'm just gonna put the batter in that,
the pancake batter I've just made,
put it into here, put it in the pan
and then hopefully have some pancake cereal.
Okay, so here we have a bottle of pancake batter
and now what I'm gonna do is squeeze it out into a pan
and make loads of little mini pancakes.
So that's what I'm gonna do with this cute little bottle.
I'm just gonna heat up my pan again.
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This is what they look like when they're cooking in the pan,
as you can see, they're almost ready to flip,
because they've all got the little bubbles on top.
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Okay, so the pancake cereal is ready
and it looks so good and so cute.
So there's two ways to try it,
there's the one where you put in the syrup
and have it like pancakes
and then you can also make it into cereal,
I'm gonna do both, let's do this.
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I have not seen cereal that looks like this,
but I'm very intrigued to try it, here we go.
Hm, I think if you're gonna have this as a cereal,
you need to make sure that both sides
are like really crispy and cooked,
because mine are kind of like soft pancakes,
so then it's a bit of a weird texture with the milk,
my pancakes are really soggy.
Okay, so they taste just like the other ones, but smaller.
Does it make it taste different?
No, is it a really cute way to present your breakfast?
Yes, definitely.
Okay, so this is a Nutella sandwich pocket toastie thing.
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Nutella of course is not vegan,
so I have some vegan chocolate hazelnut spread.
In the Tik Tok, they open it and then it all oozes out, so.
Also check out the bread I got,
it's actually specifically made for toasties.
That's all you need, two slices of the bread
and what you want to do is cut the crusts off the bread.
So then the next thing you wanna do
is just put some of the spread on top.
I'm gonna be quite generous with this,
because I want it to ooze out.
So here is the bread
and you can see it's got the Nutella on it,
then you just wanna pop the other one on top
and then what you wanna do is get a fork
and you kind of wanna crimp the edges together.
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Just checking if that's all together,
mine definitely does not look as neat
as the one in the Tik Tok.
Well, I mean, this is what it is,
so we're gonna put it in the toaster now
and see how this turns out.
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Ah, ah, ah, ah.
Okay.
I didn't know how long to toast it for,
I just kind of guessed, but it feels warm.
Ooh!
Look at that, now that looks good.
I broke that really terribly, but it is melty.
It's a nice idea, I think it's a cute take on toast,
just shakes things up a bit,
makes it a little bit different,
adds a little bit more excitement to your breakfast
or whenever you're having this.
Okay, so this recipe is a two ingredient mud cake.
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It is literally just Oreos
or any kind of sandwich cookie that you want
and milk and that is literally it.
Let's give this one a try.
So all you need for this one is a mug,
some plant-based milk
and some sandwich cookies of your choice, I'm using Oreos.
So you just get some Oreos, it doesn't say how many,
so I'm just gonna guess.
Put them in there.
Pour in some milk.
Then you get a spoon and you kind of mash it up
and mix it all together.
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Cool, okay, so it's all coming together,
it basically looks exactly like cake batter, which is great
and now we just need to put it in the microwave.
It actually looks like a cake now or like a wet cake.
Arjay, do you wanna come here?
Okay, so I'm actually gonna get my brother to try this one,
he is a big fan of all things chocolate.
- I'll try a little bit of it.
It feels like I shouldn't be eating this,
but it tastes so good. - What do you mean
it feels like you shouldn't be eating it?
- It doesn't feel healthy.
It's a bit less sweet than I thought it would taste.
- Okay. - But that's a good thing,
you don't always want it too sweet, do you?
- Does it taste like a cake?
- No. - What does it taste like?
- Like malt and brownies, yeah,
I mean, I would have it again.
- There you go then.
- Thanks.
- So I'd say that the two ingredient mud cake
is a big success,
it seems like my brother is enjoying it.
It's vegan, it's really easy,
it took me all of about five minutes, if that,
so definitely recommend trying it out.
Okay, so now I'm back in my bedroom, I am extremely full.
I could do with a nap right now.
I liked every recipe, I liked every hack,
Tik Tok recipes definitely are onto something here
and I can see why they're so popular,
I can see why they've got so many views
and why so many people are enjoying them.
Looked great, smelled great, tasted great
and I just cannot complain.
So thank you so much and see you next time.
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