“You know, now that I think of it, I always wanted to be a baker!”
Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies! Today I have a special
Ro: guest, Dyrus!
Dyrus: Why hello there.
Ro: Thank you for being here, I’m so excited that he’s here, for those of you who
Ro: don’t know, Dyrus is a pro gamer for League of Legends. He plays for TSM.
Ro: If you can't read, Team SoloMid, awww. So, do you have any baking experience?
Dyrus: Um, I almost burnt down our gaming house once… Ro: That’s OK.
Dyrus: When I put it in the microwave for 40 minutes.
Ro: You put a meal in the microwave for 40 minutes?
Dyrus: It was an accident…
Ro: Today we are gonna be making Lulu cupcakes. I got so many requests for these,
Ro: and I thought, who better to come help me than dis guy! Yeah!
Dyrus: Yay! Ro: Let’s get started!
Ro: The things you will need, will be: 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/4 a teaspoon
Ro: of salt, 2 cups of all purpose, just regular flour, 1 cup of butter, which is
Ro: 2 sh-ticks of butter, 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1-1/2 cups of sugar,
Ro: just regular sugar. 1/4 cup of whole milk and 1/2 a cup of fresh blueberry
Ro: puree. This puree actually took like 40 minutes, it’s really, really cool, I’ll show you
Ro: guys how to do it, it’s so yummy! It’s 1/2 a cup, that’s all you need.
Dyrus: You will also need 2 eggs, they kind of look like dinosaur eggs, I’ve never seen
Dyrus: those eggs before, but, those are 2 eggs, and this is apparently called a sifter.
Ro: Yeah a sifter! Dyrus: It looks like a silver cup. And we need a bowl, well
Dyrus: it’s actually 2 bowls. Ro: Yeah 2 bowls. Dyrus: I didn’t know that.
Dyrus: And then we have the cupcake tray and these little things, that, uh,
Dyrus: I’ve never, the only thing that I’ve ever seen in the ingredients are
Dyrus: these because all I’m doing is eating them.
Ro: A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Yeah, cupcake liners! They’re really really handy,
Ro; so you can hold the cupcake and om-nom-nom-nom-nom!
Ro: Alright, let’s put it all together!
Ro: To make blueberry puree, you’re gonna take 1 pound of fresh blueberries,
Ro: and pour them into a medium sized saucepan and bring them to a boil.
Ro: I like to stir them with a big wooden spoon so that the berries won’t burn,
Ro: As the berries heat up on the stove they turn into a liquid form and that’s
Ro: what we want! Once the blueberries begin to boil, reduce the heat to low and
Ro: then let them simmer for about 40 minutes.
Ro: Now pour the blueberry mixture into a blender and blend for a few seconds.
Ro: Once blended, pour through a sieve into a bowl to make smooth strained
Ro: blueberry puree, and measure 1/2 a cup for the recipe.
Ro: I’m also super excited because I finally, finally after years of baking,
Ro: finally got a Kitchenaid, so, this is the first time I’m ever using it,
Ro: but I figured we could figure it out together… Right? I’ll go get it.
Dyrus: Great… Ro: Hahahaha!
Ro: It’s so heavy!
Ro: The first thing that you want to do is cream your butter and your sugar.
Ro: So we’ve gotta get these in the bowl, that’s our goal.
Ro: OK, do you want to try and open that? Or…
Ro: OH! Dyrus: OK. Ro: Lift it up, alright we did it!
Ro: This is, we’re off to a good start, alright. Dyrus: Already leveled up.
Ro: I’ll let you pour in the sugar. Dyrus: All of it? Ro: All the sugar.
Dyrus: Really? Ro: Just pour it all in. Dyrus: Wow.
Ro: Then we’re gonna add our butter, and you gotta unwrap it. This is soft butter
Ro: you want to leave it out to be room temperature so it’s nice and soft,
Dyrus: Which speed? Ro: You’re just gonna whip it together until everything is
Ro: light and fluffy and… This speed is from 2-10, I’m gonna pick, let’s do 6!
Dyrus: OK… Ro: Let’s see what happens!
Ro: You can do it, I have faith, this is gonna work.
Ro: Whoa-ah-ohhhhh! OK, maybe not 6, maybe 4, 4 is a good one!
Ro: 4…
Ro: Whoa, check that out prefect!
Ro: Our butter and sugar is nice and light and fluffy, and now we’re gonna
Ro: add eggs, 1 at a time.
Ro: Do yo know how to do a 1 handed egg crack? Dyrus: No…
Ro: Oh my gosh, OK, I’ll do the first 1, and then Dyrus is gonna do the second 1.
Ro: So we’re gonna add these 1 at a time, so this is how you do it, you hold it in
Ro: your hand and you hit and twist. Hit, twist!
Dyrus: So you hit, and then twist? Ro: Yeah, hit, crack, and then twist
Ro: with your hand… Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
Dyrus: Don’t worry… Ro: If a little bit of shell falls in it’s OK, we’re gonna
Ro: blend it, no one will be able to notice.
Dyrus: So now that this is mixed, we’ll start sifting our flower. I still don’t
Dyrus: know what this is, and what sifting means, but I’m about to find out.
Ro: Yeah, I’m gonna teach you. So, in 1 of your extra bowls, we’re gonna sift
Ro: all of our flour, so hold this over the bowl, OK, and I’m gonna scoop this
Ro: in there. This is just to make sure everything is really finely grated,
Ro: there’s no chunks. And then you’re gonna take this little wheel, and
Ro: spin it around, it’s a little noisy.
Ro: Boom! Now you’re gonna put in your other dry ingredients like baking powder and salt!
Dyrus: And now that we have our mountain of powdery looking salt, we are now going
Dyrus: to mix this. Ro: There you go, mix it all together.
Dyrus: I’m not sure if I’m doing this right… Ro: That’s good whisking!
Ro: Alright, in our second bowl we are going to mix together all the wet
Ro: ingredients. We’re gonna start with our whole milk.
Ro: Mewp!
Ro: Then you’re gonna pour in the blueberry, fresh blueberry puree. Dyrus: Wow…
Ro: Puree! Pur… Yes!
Ro: Now vanilla extract.
Ro: We’re about to combined our wet and dry ingredients, so let’s put our
Ro: thinking caps on! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Ro: This is not Lulu’s bittersweet skin, that would have been absolutely perfect,
Ro: but I thought this would… It’s Lulu’s cupcakes right, so this still
Ro: kind of works right? Dyrus: You’ll have your own special skin.
Ro: Yeah I have my own skin.
Ro: Alright, let’s put these together! First, let’s start with putting a little bit of wet.
Ro: Here we go, meeeee!
Ro: Alright, then mix it up! Put it on speed 4.
Ro: Then you’re just gonna alternate and add the dry ingredients, and keep
Ro: going back and forth until all of your mixtures are gone.
Ro: We’ve got our batter all mixed together, it’s all evenly combined,
Ro: it smells so good! That looks great! OK, what you’re gonna do is take a
Ro: tablespoon scoop, this is what I like to do, and you’re gonna do 2 scoops in
Ro: every cupcake tray. And you can just use your finger, just wash your hands
Ro: you want it to be 2/3 full.
Ro: Once you got your cupcake trays all filled, you’re gonna heat your oven
Ro: to 350 and you're gonna bake these for about 18 minutes.
Ro: OK, while our cupcakes are in the oven baking, we’re gonna be makeing a made from scratch
Ro: blackberry buttercream frosting. Dyrus: Wow. Ro: Yum-yum-yum-yum!
Ro: Because it should be like a light pink color, that’s what I’m going for.
Ro: So, OK, the first thing that we’re gonna do is zest our lemon.
Ro: I’m gonna let you do this, it’s kind of like a cheese grater, you’re gonna
Ro: take the lemon and then kinda grade lightly.
Ro: Yeah nice! That’s looking good! Now, while he’s doing that, I’m gonna show
Ro: you guys how to make a little bit of blackberry puree over in the kitchen.
Ro: To make quick blackberry puree you’re gonna take 8 ounces of fresh blackberries
Ro: and microwave them for 30 seconds, this will make them warm and soft.
Ro: Then pour them into a sieve with a large spoon and mash them up and let
Ro: the liquid drain through into the bowl. Measure out a 1/4 a cup of the
Ro: strained blackberry puree for the recipe.
Ro: So now we got our puree. Dyrus: And we got a little bit of lemon zest here,
Dyrus: with a little bit of Ro’s right thumb, a very rare ingredient found
Dyrus: across the lands. I do not recommend putting a little bit of Ro’s
Dyrus: right thumb into the lemon zest.
Ro: First blood!
Ro: Yeah, whoopsies! Oh well, cheers! We got all of our ingredients, and now
Ro: we’re gonna beat together 1 cup of butter in a mixing bowl.
Ro: Once your butter is whipped together, we’re gonna add the lemon zest.
Ro: Go for it! And blackberry puree. Merp, for color!
Ro: Last but not least, you’re gonna take 5 cups of powdered sugar, and gradually
Ro: add them to our mixture as we mix. Alright, let’s get started. You start
Ro: mixing, and I’ll add. Dyrus: OK. Ro: OK.
Dyrus: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
Ro: Boom! Our frosting is all done, we’re just gonna take this and put it in
Ro: a plastic bag with a big tip, and now, it’s time to decorate!
Dyrus: Yay! Ro: Yay!
Ro: Our cupcakes are fresh out of the oven, yum, yum, yum! They’ve cooled
Ro: a little bit so they’re ready to decorate. We are gonna decorate these
Ro: things. I’m gonna teach you how to frost a cupcake. Dyrus: Wonderful…
Ro: The tip I’m using on the bag is 807, it’s just a big, round, smooth tip.
Ro: OK, so this is the technique, are you ready? Dyrus: Yeah.
Ro: OK, I’m training you right now, we’re gonna start on the outside, and you
Ro: just squeeze gently, and you go all the way around, kind of outlining the
Ro: cupcake. Dyrus: Wow. Ro: And then you come in, roooooooo, boom!
Dyrus: It looks like a real cupcake.
Ro: If it looks funny, it’s fine, because when Lulu turns people into cupcakes they
Ro: look terrified, so, uh, anything you do is gonna look great.
Ro: Nice. Right on! Look at that! Dyrus: Not bad if I say so myself!
Ro: That is not bad, his first cupcake that he ever frosted. Look at that.
Ro: Now to make the little eyes, I got this little pack of flat eyeballs from
Ro: Wilton, this was just at the grocery store, but instead of using the big
Ro: eyeball side we’re gonna flip them over and put them on the cupcake with
Ro: The white side showing. Because in the game they have little eyeballs like this.
Ro: Little eyeballs, so we’re gonna draw it on with a little bit of black frosting.
Ro: Ta-da, let’s see these little faces, we’re gonna turn them around.
Ro: A-ha-ha-ha-ha! Dyrus: A little bit of this guy wanted a piece of the other guy,
Dyrus: so they kind of, uh… Ro: Here I’ll help ya.
Ro: OK, so we’re gonna take a little bit of sprinkles, these are just multicolored
Ro: rainbow sprinkles, and we’re just gonna take a little pinch, and sprinkle
Ro: a few in the back.
Ro: Are you ready for the last and final step to decorate?
Dyrus: Yeah… Ro: We’re almost there! We’re gonna add the cherry on the top,
Ro: these candy red maraschino cherries.
Ro: So you can pick whichever one you’d like, I just picked a few out
Ro: so they’re ready and easy, and we’re just gonna stick it right in the middle!
Ro: And just push it down, boop, boop, boop!
Ro: Ta-da!
Ro: Here are our Lulu cupcakes, they’re so good! Thanks for the suggestions you
Ro: guys, I loved making these, oooooh! Thank you Dyrus for being here, I had so
Ro: much fun! Did you like it? Your first baking experience?
Dyrus: Yes it was wonderful, I didn’t burn down the house or anything like that,
Dyrus: so it was definitely a big upgrade and… It was fun. Ro: You did good!
Dyrus: Yeah it was great. Ro: He was safer than I was today, I’m the one that hurt
Ro: myself. Do you have a favorite cupcake that you made?
Ro: I think my favorite is this guy, I like this guy.
Dyrus: These 2. Ro: 1 of these guys? Oh man, I think it’s this, this is my favorite.
Ro: He makes me giggle!
Ro: Again, I’ll put all of Dyrus’ links down below so you can go check him out.
Ro: The new season of League starts around January, so I’ll be watching some
Ro: E-Sports. And, if you have any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies,
Ro: please let me know, leave a comment down below and I will do my best
Ro: to make it happen. OK, thanks you guys, bye-bye!