Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today I want to make
gravity-defying crystals from Fortnite ... yes I'm still playing the game. On the
map where the meteorites hit there are lots of divots with gravity-defying
crystals (hop rocks) in them and if you use one of them at like to do huge bounds as you jump.
I'd love to try that in real life well as long as you don't hurt yourself when
you fall back down of course. If you missed my fortnight treasure chest cake
I'll link you to that at the end but today I want to make crystals and I want
to make them glow like they do in the game. A quick search on Google for foods
that glow under black light brings up this long list so it's off to the shops we go.
First on the list was pineapple juice it said that that glowed with a
blue that'll be cool. Next was something water there are so many waters was it
sparkling water soda water? I think it was tonic water that one says it has
quinine in it and I'm pretty sure quinine is supposed to glow so we'll get
that. Maybe I should get a tin of actual pineapple just in case the juice isn't
real pineapple juice and honey apparently glows yellow I'd like to see
that. And it also said some energy drinks if they contain vitamin b2 let's check
the ingredients this one has riboflavin, that's vitamin b2. Riboflavin is
destroyed by heat though so it's not going to help me make crystals but I'd
still like to see it glow. That should do it...
that's enough stuff to experiment with let's pay for all of that and then home we go.
You'll also need a backlight and you can get these globes from most hardware
stores now so they're not hard to find so let's test out the ingredients. This
is soda water hmm ... it doesn't glow but I didn't think that
one would glow so we're all good. Let's try the pineapple juice yeah that
doesn't glow either! Let's put the backlight right up against it ...
no it definitely is not glowing. Let me try the pineapple juice from the tin
that's not glowing either who wrote this article?
none of these are glowing! Let's swap for the energy drink with vitamin b2 in it
nope that's not even slightly glowing this is terrible. Not even the honey glows
that is such a disappointing list. If I chuck 🇳🇿a piece of white paper behind it
you can see the backlight is definitely on and working because the white paper
is reflecting that backlight so you can see it looks like it's glowing but none
of these things are glowing so very disappointing. We've got one left to try
and that's the tonic water ... yay it glows! So you can't buy anything else it's
got to be tonic water. Okay let's figure out how to make this into crystals.
Firstly I'm going to pour the tonic water into a pan I love how it glows and
then add lots of sugar. Wash down the sides of the pan and let the water
bubble away now it's gonna take a while to get this up to the right temperature
to make hard candy. To check if it's ready I just take a spoonful and drizzle
it into some cold tap water ... see how it just sinks to the bottom at the moment
and it's still really soft when you put it on your spoon ... that's how it's going
to set when it cools down. So you know by looking at this it's not ready. Wait a
few minutes more and now see it looks a bit different it's starting to hold its
shape ... it's thicker if we feel it it is thicker but it's not crack hard it's not
that firm yet. Now normally as soon as it starts to go slightly caramel coloured it
will set rock-hard in the water instantly but this is not set which is
unusual. I think there might be something in the tonic water
it's interfering with the candy making. I'll leave it a couple of minutes more
if I leave it any longer this sugar is going to taste so burnt it's already
looking a really dark brown which is not what I wanted and it's still not set.
After I leave that to cool completely it is still flexible it's not rock-hard
like it should be and to top it off it doesn't even glow anymore oh man nothing
is working today! 😳 Let's try using gelatin to make crystals
instead ... so we'll need sugar water tonic water gelatin sheets and more water to
dissolve it in and I'll put all these recipe quantities on the
howtocookthat.net website for you and there's a link to that below. I get lots
of questions about why sometimes I use gelatin powder and other times I use the
sheets? Both of them do exactly the same thing but the sheets have less flavour
and they set clearer than the powder does so in something like this that I
want the crystals to be clear ... crystal clear 😂... so I'm going to use this sheets.
put the sugar and the water into a bowl and microwave that until the sugar is
completely dissolved then take your gelatin sheets and squeeze out as much
water as you can and add those into the hot sugary water. Give that a stir around
and you could add the flavoring here or coloring if you wanted to but I want
mine to be clear then you want to leave that bowl to cool to room temperature.
Then add in the tonic water hmm I should have let that go flat first look at all
those bubbles nevermind I'll just tip it through a
sieve to get rid of most of the bubbles and the rest should settle. So that can
now go into the fridge to set. Now I'm just going to bake some cupcakes to put
them on and make some crushed Oreos for the dirt. Cut a meteorite sized hole in
the centre of each cupcake then add in some warmed chocolate buttercream and
spread it up around the edges and then dip that into your crushed Oreo dirt and
they're ready for the crystals. Lift your sweet tonic water jelly out of the tin
and use a sharp knife to cut yourself a
strip. Now carefully cutting towards the counter cut the corner edge off and you
need to do that on each side then cut that piece in half because it's a bit
too long and cut one end into a point so that it looks like this. Then you can add
those to the cupcakes or you could make one big cake and spread them all around.
They look pretty good but they look even better with the lights off and the black light on.
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chocolate creations. Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday 💕