- Hi, I'm Rie.
I'm a Tasty producer
and welcome back to Make It Fancy.
Today I've been challenged to take a common food
and make it fancy.
Let's take a look at the rules.
You must completely use the food given.
You can only add to the food.
You can buy whatever ingredients you wish.
Once you begin cooking you must complete
upgraded dish in 30 minutes.
Let's see what it is this time.
It's a Twinkie.
I actually never had a Twinkie before.
I feel like I have a lot of things
I've never tried before this show.
The first time I saw a Twinkie
was when I watch this zombie movie called,
"Zombieland".
It's very oily.
It has a nice golden brown.
I see cream inside.
It's not bad.
It's actually very good.
And I don't like myself liking that.
It's sweet.
You have to put something to cut the sweetness.
The cream it's soft and the cake it's soft,
so I want something crunchy in there.
I got some good ideas and I'm excited to make it.
(laughs)
- [Producer] Rie, it's your own dance!
- Make it fancy.
Right, here's what I got.
Bittersweet chocolate.
White chocolate.
Pistachios.
Sprinkles.
Dried cranberries.
Freeze-dried raspberries and cacao nibs.
And from the pantry I got brandy and sea salt.
One more thing.
I got more Twinkies.
Let's get started.
Woo!
Make it fancy.
(playful music)
Let's set the timer for 30 minutes
and 30 minutes starts now.
So first I'm going to start roasting pistachio.
I just want it to give a nice,
toasty flavor and what I'm doing,
I'm going to chop some cranberries.
- [Producer] Where's your lady?
At the spa?
(laughs)
- The people who just start watching from this episode
I call my knife my lady and spa means sharpening knife,
'cause you know it's
a nice spa treatment for my lady knives.
My ladies are in spa right now.
Put it in a bowl.
If we are roasting nuts on
the stove top just keep moving the pan,
so it doesn't get burn.
Just checking timer.
It is 28 minutes.
Right, now I'm going to open Twinkies.
My favorite treats while zombie apocalypse.
I hope zombie apocalypse won't happen in the future,
but if it does I'll at least know how to make Twinkie fancy.
Once you start smelling like nice,
toasty nut smell and it's nice and crunchy,
it's ready.
So you want to put it in a pan and just set aside.
I chose cacao nibs,
because it's bitter and the Twinkie it's super sweet,
so I want to balance it out
and also cacao nibs it's very crunchy.
So I think it kind of gives a nice crunch.
- [Producer] What does it feel like?
- It's nice.
(laughs)
So I'm adding brandy
because I like deserts with a little bit booze in it.
In Japanese we say (speaks in foreign language)
which translates to adult flavor.
So I don't wanna mush too much.
It's still fluffy.
It's a good point,
'cause I'm gonna shape it.
Let's check the timer.
21 minutes left.
It tastes great.
I think brandy helped
and I feel like it needs a little bit more cacao nibs
and cranberries.
I think nobody can tell this is Twinkie.
Secret weapon.
Ice cream disher,
so you can shape it evenly.
Round shape.
This is done.
We have 17:44.
Now I'm going to use white chocolate
and bittersweet chocolate and melt them in a microwave.
Chocolate is nice and melty.
I'm going to use this stick,
so I'm dipping chocolate into this cake ball,
so when you dip in chocolate it doesn't fall off.
It's kinda become a stopper.
So I'm doing some with white chocolate
and some with dark chocolate.
I have this baby one.
I'm gonna just use this for tasting.
So I'm surprised Twinkies,
it's holding this shape nicely.
I'm happy so far.
So let's check the timer.
12 minutes.
Right, now I'm going to put them in the freezer
until I prepare for my decoration.
While it's freezing
I'm going to grind pistachios in a processor.
I don't wanna make it too powdery.
I want to make a little bit like pebbles.
I have freeze-dried raspberry.
I'm gonna just crush them until like a pebble,
same as pistachio.
It's fun.
I have about eight minutes.
Twinkie cake balls are out from freezer.
It's not completely frozen,
it's nice and cold.
The first one it's going in dark chocolate.
I'm using spoon
so the bottom part also covered with chocolate.
It's runny so I just wanted to make sure completely covered
and this goes into sprinkle.
Cute.
I only have four minutes left.
I'm gonna move onto white chocolate.
White chocolate one I'm coating as thin as possible,
so it doesn't over power the flavor,
because white chocolate is a little bit sweeter.
Cute!
Like I said anything round is so cute.
So I have 30 seconds left.
I'm going to make baby one for myself.
I like sea salt.
And I'm done!
(enchanting playful music)
Welcome, Ryan for Twinkie wonderland.
- Twinkie wonderland?
Awesome!
- [Producer] Do they resemble Twinkies to you?
- Does this resemble a Twinkie?
(laughs)
Is your question?
This does not resemble a Twinkie.
Growing up I didn't really have many Twinkies.
I think my first encounter
was during some sort of school lunch trade
or something like that.
Some white child gave me their Twinkie.
- And then you gave some Asian--
- And I gave them some Asian food.
- Cheers.
- This is delicious.
- Yes.
- Little bit of hip action?
- Yeah.
- Make it fancy. - Make it fancy.
- I'm gonna have this one,
'cause it kinda looks like Hot Cheetos.
Do I...
- Oh my God.
(laughs)
- It's so good!
- Okay, good.
(laughs)
- You made it fancy!
It tastes so good!
- Make it fancy. - Make it fancy.
- The first Make it Fancy,
I choked on the first bite
and they cut it out of the episode.
(coughs)
- Do you want a water?
I not have water.
I have a little bit water left if you want.
(coughs loudly)
Do you like Twinkie?
Do you grown up eating Twinkie?
- I like a Twinkie.
My parents never got me snacks,
so I'd always be that kid staring at your snack at recess,
you know?
Where I'm from the cool kids got the Twinkies.
(mumbles) okay, okay.
- Do you wanna put it on a plate?
(laughs)
- I like the pistachio with the Twinkie.
♪ Rie made this Twinkie fancy ♪
- Make it fancy. - Make it fancy.
- Thank you for watching.
If you make it please take me on Instagram.
If you want me to make something fancy,
comment below and don't forget the dance.
Make it fancy.
(playful lighthearted music)