- Hi, I'm Rie.
I'm a Tasty producer.
Today I've been challenged to take a common food
and make it fancy.
Here's the rules.
You must use the food given.
You can only add to the food.
You can buy whatever ingredients you wish.
Let's see what's inside.
Drumrolls!
(thudding sounds)
Dun.
Jell-O.
I've never had Jell-O before.
I've heard of Jell-O shot.
I've never had a Jell-O shot, even though
I use alcohol for my cooking all the time.
It seems like it takes more than four hours to set,
so I'm glad we don't have time limit this time.
In general, I don't like artificial color in my food.
Artificial raspberry flavor is a little bit
off-putting for me, so I want to add something fancy.
I got a few ideas.
I could be tricky, but I'm excited to make it fancy!
Guess what I got.
Heavy cream.
Graham crackers.
Rose water.
Raspberries.
Cream cheese.
Butter.
Sour cream.
And lemon.
From the pantry, I got vanilla extract.
Powdered sugar.
Granulated sugar.
Gelatin.
And water.
All right, let's get started.
Make it fancy!
So first I'm going to melt butter.
It's five tablespoon.
So usually butter has this measurement
on the wrapping paper.
Props to the person who invented this.
- [Producer] Where's your lady?
- [Rie] My lady is at the spa. (laughs)
- [Producer] She's on vacation.
- Well, if you're making pastry,
you don't need to use knife that much.
That's my excuse.
Okay, I'm gonna go to microwave
and just melt this completely.
Right, so butter is melted.
I'm going to process graham cracker in a food processor,
so if you don't have food processor at home,
you can put graham cracker in a Ziploc bag
and you can just pound it with some rolling pin.
I have nine graham crackers.
(whirring sounds)
Okay, you just want to grind until very fine.
Transfer this into a bowl.
Combine with melted butter.
Mix until well combined.
I'm going to put graham cracker mixture
into the springform pan.
Just pressing down this graham cracker mixture.
Okay.
Now I'm going to chill this in the refrigerator.
Next step, I'm going to whip heavy cream.
Use one and a quarter cup.
Whip cream by hand, so I can control the softness
I want to go for.
You gain muscles and you can get good result.
It looks good.
It's stiff peak.
I'm going to put it in the refrigerator.
So Jell-O has gelatin, but I couldn't figure out
how much gelatin is in the Jell-O box,
so I'm going to use gelatin to make sure stabilize.
It's one tablespoon and three tablespoon of cold water,
and leave it for five to six minutes,
and while we are waiting, mix cream cheese.
24 ounce cream cheese, room temperature,
and a half cup of sugar.
Mix until smooth.
If you don't have electric mixer,
just use regular whisk.
So cream cheese looks good, so I'm adding
two tablespoon of powdered sugar,
quarter cup of sour cream, and this is also
room temperature so they mix well,
and two teaspoon of lemon juice,
and one teaspoon of vanilla.
So just mix everything well together,
and now I'm going to add a tablespoon of heavy cream.
Right now it's very stiff, so I'm going
to heat it in a microwave.
So this is nice and melted.
So if you see lumps, don't use that.
Strain it into the cream cheese mix
and mix well, combine.
Add whip cream into this cream cheese mixture.
It's look like well incorporated.
Jell-O time.
(exclaims)
- [Producer] Oh, is everything okay?
(coughs)
- Pungent.
Very strong artificial smell.
Eight tablespoon.
I have no idea how much sugar and how much gelatin
and artificial powder in that,
so we have to just roll with it.
One tablespoon of rose water.
Personally, I love floral flavor.
Two tablespoon of regular water.
Super red.
It's almost look like blood.
I like rose and raspberry combination.
I think it works pretty well.
If you add too much rose water,
sometimes dessert tastes like salt,
but if you can kinda balance it out,
I feel like floral flavor in a dessert
is very nice and fancy.
I'm going to divide this cream cheese mixture
into five different portions.
It's quarter cup, and half cup,
and one cup, and one and a quarter cup,
and leftover, but we're gonna use it.
I'm adding one teaspoon, two and a half teaspoon,
and then I'm adding three, and lastly,
seven teaspoon of raspberry Jell-O mixture,
and then, we're gonna mix it.
So I'm adding different amounts
because I want to make different shade of pink.
So I feel like this dessert is a lot of steps.
It is not easy to be fancy.
Okay, so I got four shade of pink and a white base.
So now I'm going to put each cream cheese mixture
into a different piping bag, and after you put
in a piping bag, use your hand and kinda squeeze
so it doesn't have air bubble,
and I'm gonna go get my cake with the graham crust.
I'm gonna pipe the base mixture.
I'm starting with the outer edge.
I'm piping lighter color in the outside
and piping darker color toward to the inside,
and I'm going to spread with spatula.
So what you want to do is make a gradation
of different pinks almost look like a ripple,
and it almost looks like a boob.
(producer laughs)
Ripple nipple.
And make sure, clean the side of the pan
before you put it in the refrigerator.
So next I'm going to make raspberry sauce.
Put one pint of raspberry, which is like 200 grams,
and 50 gram of sugar, and half lemon.
Squeezing over mesh sieve so the seed doesn't get into it,
and heat it up until raspberry dissolves.
Okay, so raspberry is dissolved,
and the sauce is thick, so it's ready.
I'm going to strain it because it has a lot of seeds,
but you kinda wanna have a smooth sauce
instead of chunky sauce.
Put in the refrigerator so I can serve with the dessert.
Okay, so the cake has to chill overnight.
I hope it sets well and we will see tomorrow.
Okay, so this is chilled overnight.
I hope this is set, and let's take out the mold.
I am running off the spatula along the cake.
Nice.
It's set, which is good.
When you are cutting cake, if you dip in hot water,
it helps, 'cause gelatin is become a little bit loose.
Nice.
Look at all these colors!
So raspberry sauce.
Use drops, and let me get chopsticks,
so it's kinda look like heart.
That's cute, and I'm done!
It's really good!
I think I made Jell-O fancy.
Welcome, Kevin, for our Make It Fancy episode!
- Thank you for having me, I'm very excited.
- Can you guess what it is and what I made fancy?
- So it looks like a cheesecake.
- Mm-hmm.
- But it looks like kind of like a cherry cheesecake.
It's very red, so I would almost maybe it's like Kool-Aid?
Did you use Kool-Aid?
- [Producer] You are dangerously close!
- So close! - Did I get it?
- Do you wanna go on more?
It's warmer, warmer. - So it's close to Kool-Aid.
Is it Jell-O?
- (gasps) Yes!
- I got it, yes!
- I don't have anything for you,
but you can eat the cheesecake.
- Oh my god, okay, all right.
That's really good.
- Yay!
- That's really good!
It does have kind of like that little bit of squishiness
from the Jell-O.
Wow, great work.
- Did I make Jell-O fancy?
- You made Jell-O real fancy.
- Yes!
Cheers. - Cheers.
- [Together] Make it fancy!
- Well, I'm very happy to be here.
I've heard you've been calling me out
and mentioning me in some of your recent episodes.
- I wish Alvin make it big for me.
(laughter)
So season two, I'm gonna challenge you
to make me a giant marshmallow.
- I'll think about it.
- Oh, a big bite.
- Mm, good.
- Good?
Guess what I made fancy.
- Raspberry jam?
- I made this cake with Jell-O.
- Oh!
Nice.
- Thank you!
- Makes sense, 'cause is it a no-bake cheesecake?
- No-bake cheesecake.
- Mm. - Yay!
I got thumbs up!
- Well, looks like there's only one last thing left to do.
- Yes.
- Make it fancy! - Make it, oh, (beep).
I went the wrong way, I went the wrong way!
(groans) (beep)
- [Together] Make it fancy!
- Thank you for watching.
I hope you make at home.
If you do, please tag me on Instagram,
and don't forget the dance, make it fancy!
(light, cheerful music)