[Gemma]: Hi Bold Bakers!
I’m really excited for this episode!
As you can see I've got my husband Kevin here.
[Kevin]: Hi everybody!
[Gemma]: And we are celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary.
[Kevin]: And we’re gonna show you how to make an incredible date night dessert fondue.
[Gemma]: And I'm gonna tell you a story that I never told you before.
I am gonna tell you the story of how myself and Kevin met.
[Kevin]: So you guys know that we created Bigger Bolder Baking together online, but
what you didn't know is we actually met online, on Match.com.
[Gemma]: So six years ago I was living in San Francisco.
Dates were thin on the ground for me, guys weren't beating down my door, so friends suggested
that I try Match.com, so I set up a profile, I went on a few dates, met some nice guys,
and then soon after, I met Kevin.
[Kevin]: And what Gem didn't mention is she actually reached out to me and I'm all the
luckier for it.
[Gemma]: But why not?
I'm a girl that knows what she likes.
[Kevin]: So we even found some of our original messages on Match.com back and forth and made
this picture out of it as well.
[Gemma]: I remember that picture actually, it was Ireland wasn't it?
[Kevin]: Yeah, absolutely.
[Gemma]: So here's the great news.
Match.com have offered all of you a seven-day free trial and I strongly suggest you try
it out if you're dating.
All you have to do is go to Match.com/Gemma and you will get your seven-day free trial.
And just so you know, this is worldwide, so you can use it anywhere.
[Kevin]: We’re happy to be a success story from Match and we think you guys can have
a lot of success with it too.
[Gemma]: Yeah, so go online, check it out, I know you won’t be disappointed.
[Kevin]: Should we get started on our Fondue?
[Gemma]: Yeah, we’re gonna start out by making our butterscotch sauce.
In a heavy bottom saucepan, add in your butter, brown sugar, and cream.
Then turn the heat on and let all these ingredients melt.
Once it comes to a simmer, let it bubble away for around three to four minutes.
So while that's bubbling away, we have some lovely, delicious accoutrements to go with
our fondue.
So here I have some pound cake, and all I'm gonna do is just slice it nice and thick,
gotta make sure there's nice, big pieces so they stick on the skewer, and then go ahead
and cut it the opposite way into nice, big chunks.
Now Kevin, while I'm doing this, what have you got going on over there?
[Kevin]: Alright so, I have a wide array of things to dip in our fondue as well.
The cool thing is that you can really use anything that you want, these are some of
my favorite things, like fruit, just a wide variety of just beautiful, colorful fresh,
amazing fruit here, we have some marshmallows, marshmallows are pretty amazing.
[Gemma]: Oh, look at these guys!
I voted for these.
[Kevin]: Remember, no eating the props.
[Gemma]: It’s my show!
[Kevin]: And then all you do is you take one of your skewers and again, you can use toothpicks,
you can use some of those longer skewers, and then you put your fruit on them.
So you guys get to enjoy Gemma's recipes through Bigger Bolder Baking, but I get to actually
enjoy them every single day.
[Gemma]: Sorry about that.
[Kevin]: I know.
[Gemma]: So I don't think it’s gonna be a shock to anybody out there that I am a feeder.
I love to feed people.
I love to make them stuff, I love to watch them eat.
I used to carry gingerbread in my handbag when I first met Kevin and I’d have it in
a little Ziploc bag, and everywhere we went, I used to take out a little Ziploc bag and
feed him, until one day he said to me, ‘you have to stop, you have to stop.’
[Kevin]: Okay so you just want to keep building your skewers here, again, mix and match, with
a variety of your different fruit, again, just make it as colorful and as beautiful
as you can, because, you know, it’s date night.
[Gemma]: Nice, I'm gonna check on the butterscotch sauce.
So this is bubbling away, I'm just gonna whisk it to bring it together, it’s a lovely golden
brown, this is exactly what I want.
So into this I'm going to add in a pinch of salt, and if you have it, a little bit of
vanilla extract for extra flavor.
And then just whisk it all together.
[Kevin]: That smells amazing.
[Gemma]: This is gonna be so yummy.
Okay, so we have all of our accouterments, we have our sauce, now let’s bring in our
platter and start to build our dessert.
[Kevin]: Alright!
[Gemma]: So now here is our dish, as you'll notice you don't need a traditional fondue
set to make this dessert, you can use any kind of bowl, or little ramekin, anything
you have to put in your sauce.
[Kevin]: Make it easy, it’s supposed to be date night, it’s supposed to be fun.
[Gemma]: So what we're gonna do is just go ahead and start to bring together our platter.
[Kevin]: So Gem, we had a lot of great dates that first year.
[Gemma]: Yeah, we got engaged after our first year, so it was a little bit of a whirlwind,
wasn't it?
[Kevin]: It was, it was.
[Gemma]: One trip we did actually a few months only into dating, myself and Kevin.
Kevin took me to Hawaii, to Maui, which was awesome.
That was a lot of fun.
[Kevin]: That was actually only after three months!
That was pretty fast wasn't it?
[Gemma]: You must've really liked me!
[Kevin]: Haha!
Sure did.
[Gemma]: And then we went to Disneyland, you took me on a surprise trip to Disneyland.
Do you remember that?
[Kevin]: Yeah, funny enough, I think that I made a first year video, of all of our adventures
from that year and I think that actually might have been my first video.
[Gemma]: Maybe we’ll show a little bit of that video, yeah.
[Kevin]: Yeah, maybe.
[Gemma]: I remember that, that was very sweet.
On our one-year anniversary, Kevin proposed to me.
[Kevin]: That’s right.
It was in Mill Valley, which is north of San Francisco, and that's where we ended up getting
married, in Mill Valley.
It was pretty fun, we had karaoke, actually, at the event, so we didn't just want to do
a band, we didn't want to just do dancing, so we had karaoke for people to perform.
[Gemma]: Myself and Kevin love karaoke, and we’d never seen anybody or heard anybody
do it at a wedding before, but people still talk about or karaoke wedding.
They say it was one of the best they ever went to.
[Kevin]: Exactly and of course, the food was great too.
Gemma originally was going to cater the entire day, but I'm glad I talked you out of that
one.
So one of the most common questions we get asked is how do we have both a successful
marriage and a business together.
[Gemma]: That’s a great question, and I think doing what we do, Kevin brings his expertise,
I bring mine, and they're two very different skill sets, so we make it work really well
together.
[Kevin]: Alright, this is all laid out, so let’s bring in the sauce.
[Gemma]: This is the star of the show, Kevin.
And also, just in case you're wondering, this makes awesome ice cream sauce.
[Kevin]: Exactly, and it’s way better than just traditional chocolate fondue.
So different.
[Gemma]: What’s your accoutrements of choice?
[Kevin]: I would say a marshmallow.
[Gemma]: I’m gonna go with a donut hole.
Haha!
[Kevin]: Right on.
Go big and bold!
[Gemma]: I’m glad you didn't go with the fruit first, Kevin.
[Kevin]: For sure, cheers!
[Gemma]: Cheers!
Get a good dunk in there, while it’s still nice and warm.
Oh my gosh.
[Kevin]: You can taste the vanilla and the salt and everything in there.
[Gemma]: Oh, a little bit of salt.
[Kevin]: That is such a good sauce.
[Gemma]: Oh, yummy.
Mm.
Why don't you do a happy dance, Kevin?
That's what we do on Bigger Bolder Baking.
[Kevin]: I’m gonna leave all the dancing to you.
[Gemma]: So I want you to head over to Match.com/Gemma and take advantage of your seven day free
trial, you've got nothing to lose.
[Kevin]: And you have the opportunity your perfect match, like I did with Gem.
[Gemma]: Aw, that's lovely.
Yes you did.
Thank you so much for watching, head over to Match.com right now, and I’ll see you
back here really soon, for more Bigger Bolder Baking.
[Kevin]: Bye guys!
[Gemma]: Bye!
That was fun Kevin, we should do this more often.
[Kevin]: For sure!
We are happy…
[Gemma]: We’re happy.
[Laughs]