Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today, I got so many requests for another roll cake, you guys really liked the
1 from last week, so today, I’m gonna be making another roll cake!
But, today I’m gonna be making it a chocolate ro cake…
I said Ro cake, tee-hee! Hahahaha!
But, I am gonna be making it a chocolate recipe roll cake so that you’ll
have 2 different options, you can either do last week’s vanilla or this week’s chocolate.
And, it’s gonna be themed… If you can guess any, Pika Pika! Pikachu!
Alright, so let’s get started!
1st you’re gonna take 7 tablespoons of butter, I’ve left it out, so that it’s
nice and soft, it’s room temperature, and just put it in the bowl.
Boop!
Then you’re gonna take 3/4 cup of powdered sugar, and put it in the bowl as well.
And then you’re gonna mix it up, blend it together until it’s nice and creamy.
Now you’re gonna take 3 egg whites and add them to your mixture, and slowly
add 1 cup of flour while it’s mixing.
Once your batter is all mixed together, and it’s smooth and creamy, now
we are going to separate it into 4 different bowls, we’re gonna put a lot in 1,
we’re gonna dye it yellow. We’re gonna dye a little bit red, a little bit black.
And in this bowl we’re just gonna save a little bit of white for Pikachu’s eyeballs.
Now that we’ve got our decoration batters dyed, yellow, red, black and white,
we are gonna put them in these little plastic baggies.
You can put them in just a regular zip-lock bag and snip the tip, but because
my design is so small, these little tips are very accurate for our details.
We’ve got all of our decoration batter dyed into these little baggies and I’m
just gonna set them over here. And then to decorate, what we’re gonna need is:
I’m using a 15x10” pan, then I’m using this Pikachu design, I created this in
photoshop and I’ll put a link down below in the description of the PDF,
so that if you like this one, uh, you can use this one as well.
And if you want to use your own, that’s totally fine!
So I just cut it so that it would fit inside of the pan, and then I’m just
gonna tape it down, 1 at the top, 1 at the bottom.
And then I’m just gonna take this piece of parchment paper and place it
on top and tape this down as well. The first color that you’re gonna use is white,
just the normal batter, we’re gonna make Pikachu’s little eyeballs.
And after you’re done, you’re gonna throw this tray into the freezer for 5 minutes,
and then we’ll decorate with black and red.
Now that you’ve got all your black, white and red details done, you’re gonna
pop this in the freezer again for 10 minutes this time, and then we’re gonna fill
in Pikachu with yellow.
While our Pikachus are in the freezer, we’re all done with the decoration batter,
and now we are gonna make the roll cake batter!
To make it easy, I’ve got 2 bowls that are different colors.
This is going to be our egg white bowl, and this is going to be our egg yolk bowl.
So, to begin, the first thing that you’re going to need to do, I did this last
time when we made roll cakes, is you’re going to take 4 eggs and crack them,
and put them all in 1 bowl, and them I’m gonna use the water bottle technique
to separate them. Schmidt taught me how to do this!
So you’re gonna crack ‘em, get ‘em all in there,
then you’re gonna take a water bottle, put it on top of the egg yolk,
and then it just sucks it right in there, and you just shoot out the egg white!
Then you just go bloop!
Now that we’ve got our egg whites and our egg yolks separated, we are gonna start
by making our egg white mixture.
So you’re gonna pour your 4 egg whites into the red bowl, and then 1/4 cup of sugar,
just regular sugar.
And then 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar, this helps the egg whites stay fluffy!
Then you’re gonna beat your egg whites for about 5 minutes, until they form
stiff peaks. Stiff peaks are when your, you dip in your beaters, you take them out and
the batter will stick up like a little mountain.
There we go!
There’s our peak, that’s what a little peak looks like.
And now we’re ready to make our egg yolk mixture!
So now you’re gonna take your 4 egg yolks and put them in this silver bowl,
and you’re gonna take 1/4 cup of regular sugar, and then you’re gonna mix them
together until it’s nice and creamy and yellow.
Now we’re gonna fold in our whites to our yolks, using a spatula.
Just take a big scoop, plop it in there! And fold from the bottom, there we go!
And plop another scoop in there, fold from the bottom.
Now what you’re gonna do is you're gonna add 4 tablespoons of melted butter, so I
took 4 tablespoons, put it in the microwave, let it melt, and then I let it sit out,
because you don’t want to pour it in when it’s hot butter. You just want to,
after it’s melted let it sit out so it will turn room temperature, but it’s in
a liquid form, so you’re gonna pour that in.
And now, because we are gonna make our batter chocolate, you’re gonna add 1/4
cup of cocoa powder.
This is just the Hershey’s Unsweetened Cocoa Powder. Oh look at that!
Look at all that chocolate! Yum!
And then you’re gonna add 1/2 a cup of regular flour.
Now we’re just gonna gently fold this in until everything is combined.
Now our yummy chocolate roll cake batter is ready to bake!
So I took the tray out of the freezer and now I’m just gonna pour the batter
all over the little Piakchus. Then you’re just gonna smooth out the batter.
Now you’re gonna heat your oven to 375, we’re gonna bake this cake for 7 minutes.
This cake bakes really fast, so just keep your eye on it, you don’t want to burn it.
And before we put it in we’re just gonna tap down.
To get out little bubbles and make sure the batter goes in all the little grooves!
Let’s bake!
I just took the cake out of the oven and I’m taking a big cutting knife and
cutting around the edges, so that the cake will come out easy.
Easy Peasy!
And I forgot… To take out the little paper underneath, but that’s OK.
Now you’re gonna take a piece of parchment paper, put it on top.
And, I’m taking another cookie sheet and putting it on top, there we go.
And I’m gonna put back on my oven mitts, because your bottom pan is still hot.
And we’re gonna flip it over!
Coordination!
1, 2, 3…
PIKA!
Now you’re just gonna slowly peel of the parchment paper, just be really careful,
you don’t want to hurt your design.
Now you’re gonna take a piece of parchment paper again, put it on top, very careful!
And you can take your cookie sheet, it’s not hot anymore, and flip it 1 more time.
And now what you’re gonna do is cut off the excess at the bottom.
And, our design starts on this side, so we’re gonna start rolling on the
bottom and roll up towards the design.
After your cake is done cooling, I’ve unrolled it, with the design on the bottom,
and I’ve just got some whipped cream frosting, just regular whipped cream frosting.
And then I’ve got some fresh strawberries, I cut these up, and now we’re gonna
fill in our cake.
Just gonna fill in, go back and forth.
So I’m gonna take this must-patula, and I’m just gonna smooth out our frosting
a little bit, then I’m just gonna take fresh strawberries, that I’ve cut into
little pieces, and I’m just gonna put them in a line.
Oh this is so good, I love chocolate strawberries and whipped cream,
yum-yum-yum-yum-yum!
I can’t wait!
OK, now you’re just gonna roll, you’re gonna start at the end with out the design,
and the designs up here we’re gonna roll up towards Pikachu!
Ta-da!
Here is our Pikachu themed chocolate roll cake, it turned out so good!
It is amazing! Thanks you guys for suggesting doing another roll cake,
I really wanted to do a chocolate one, so we got to do that, I love roll cakes
because they’re so customizable, if you don’t want to do Pikachu and you want
to do, like, a little Pokeball, or it’s your friend’s birthday you can just decorate
and write Happy Birthday on these roll cakes, they’re so cool!
If you have any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies let me know!
Leave me a comment down below and I’ll do my best to make it happen.
And also you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr and Instagram,
because I’ll post lots of pictures of this cute little Pikachu cake.
And, if you make any fan baking creations, send them to me on Facebook and
Tumblr and Twitter because I like to post ‘em and I like to see what you guys make!
I get a big kick out of it.
Alright, thanks again you guys!
Bye-bye!