Hey guys, it’s Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I got so many requests from you guys to make something Shopkins Themed, and,
season 4 is almost out, so I thought, what should I make?
I have this huge, giant cupcake tray that we used before, and one of my favorite
little Shopkins is from Season 1, she’s a limited edition.
She’s Cupcake Queen, and I love her!
I thought, let’s make this a cake!
And, we’re gonna be making this a recipe that we’ve never made before,
we’re gonna be making an apple cake, because, look right here, she has a little apple wand.
It’s so cute!
So today we’re gonna be making a Cupcake Queen Cake, let’s get started!
The things you will need, will be: 3-3/4 cup of all purpose flour,
2 cups of dark brown sugar, 1-1/2 cups of melted butter, 4 eggs, 3 teaspoons of
baking powder, 1-1/2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of baking soda,
1-1/2 teaspoons of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice,
and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
You will also need 4 large apples, I’m using
granny smiths, a vegetable peeler, some non-stick baking spray, a grater, I’m
using a cheese grater.
And a jumbo cupcake cake pan.
Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do is we're gonna combine all our dry ingredients into
a big mixing bowl, and then whisk it all together.
We’re gonna add our flour,
brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, salty-salty!
And baking soda.
And then whisk together until it’s well combined.
In a smaller bowl, we are going to whisk together our wet ingredients, starting
with our eggs.
The whites and yolks.
Oh!
We’re gonna give our eggs a quick whisk before we add our butter, and vanilla.
Then whisk together one more time.
Now we’ve got our dry ingredients, our wet ingredients, and we are going to
combine them.
You’re gonna pour your wet ingredients into the big bowl with your dry ingredients.
Now, we’re gonna mix it together, it’s gonna get very thick.
Now we’re gonna peel our apples, I’ve got a little vegetable peeler here.
And you just peel the outside.
Just be careful, don’t get your fingers.
Now you’re just gonna push your peels to the side, we don’t want those in the cake!
Now this is a cheese grater, and you’re gonna want the largest grate.
So you’re, take your apple, and you just grate it, like a piece of cheese.
Hmmm-hmmm-hmmm, hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm!
Just be careful when you’re getting towards the center of the apple because
you don’t want any of the core in there, or the seeds.
This is about what 1/2 of an apple looks like, and then we’re just gonna do this
to the rest of our apples.
I’ve got all the apples grated, I put them in this bowl, and now we are gonna
add our lemon juice.
So you’re just gonna pour this all over, and it’s because
apples oxidize after they’ve been cut.
You can see right here, some are
already turning brown, so I gotta hurry!
Keep them fresh looking!
Then I’m just gonna take my little spatula, I’m gonna mix them around.
Alright, now we’re gonna add our apples to our cake batter.
Then you’re gonna take
a spatula and fold them in, work them together.
Because we’re using a pan that has lots of ridges and grooves, you really want
to grease your pan, you want it to be greased well.
So we’re gonna spray a lot!
When you’re filling up the cake pan, you can fill it almost full.
I would say 80%, because this cake batter doesn’t rise too much,
it’s a very thick, dense cake.
Now, we are ready to bake, you’re gonna set your
oven to 325 degrees.
Which is a little bit less than normal, we usually
put it at 350, but we are gonna do a slow bake.
So we reduce the heat a little bit,
at 325, and we are gonna bake for an hour and 15 minutes.
But just keep your eye
on it, every oven is a little bit different.
You can put a little skewer
into your cake, and if you pull it out and nothing sticks to it, it’s done!
While our cake’s baking, we are gonna begin to prepare our decorations.
These are the things that I have to decorate, the first is fondant.
I made some marshmallow fondant, I’ve dyed it different colors.
I’ve dyed it pink, yellow, blue, a lighter blue, black and I left some white.
Then I have 3 different sized cookie cutters, a small, medium and large.
A little tip for decoration inside the eyeballs, this is a #199, it has jagged
edges, will look like a little star.
A lollipop stick which I have cut in 1/2.
A fondant mold, we will be using the little leaf, some buttercream icing which
I’ve dyed yellow, blue and brown.
I put them all in plastic baggies to make them
a little bit easier to work with.
This tip is a #2A tip and this on the
brown is a #1! #1!
Then for candies, I have mini gum balls, pink and yellow.
And, Mike and Ikes, pink and yellow.
And lastly, this part is optional, but I have
some Luster and Pearl Dust, for some little details.
The first decoration that we’re gonna make are, Cupcake Queen’s Eyeballs!
To make these, I’m gonna start with the black fondant.
Here, I just put down a piece of wax paper so that the fondant doesn’t stick
to the surface, and I’ll take a little bit of powdered sugar.
Now we’re gonna roll it out, nice and flat.
Now we’re gonna take the biggest cookie cutter, and I’m gonna cut out 2.
And, the smallest cookie cutter, I’m gonna cut out 2 of these.
Then I’m gonna take the middle sized cookie cutter, place it right there, right
in the middle, and cut it out, so that we’re left with a ring, like that.
So we've got 2 rings, and 2 smaller circles, and now I’m gonna get 6 little balls
of fondant, boop-boop-boop, I’m gonna roll them, and press them flat,
for the eyelashes.
That’s it for the black fondant, now we’re gonna do the light blue!
Roll it out, you’ll want it to be the same thickness as the black fondant.
Take the medium sized cutter, I’m gonna cut out 2.
Then using the edge of
your medium cutter, you’re gonna make little crescent moon shapes.
We’re gonna cut them out, so just a little bit of space, like that,
and press down.
Now we’re gonna take a little bit of pink fondant,
not all of it, just a little bit!
Use the medium sized cookie cutter that we’ve been using and cut out 2 circles.
Now we’re gonna combine our pink and blue fondant, to make little eyeballs.
Now we’re gonna take our black eyeball ring and we’re gonna place it over our
colorful little eyeball, look at that.
Now we’re gonna attach the eyelashes, oooh!
Woo-woo-woo!
And the pupils!
To do this, I’m just gonna be using a little bit of water.
When you’re working with fondant, just a little bit of water can work as an adhesive.
Her lashes look like this….
There’s 2’s on the bottom, 1’s on the top.
Last piece of fondant that we’re using to make the eyeballs is a little bit of white.
So I just need a little bit, right here.
Now we’re gonna take that #199 tip that I was talking about, that’s all jagged.
And we’re gonna cut out 2 little pieces.
Take a little dab of water, place it right on top, and then stick ‘em on there!
Then this part is totally optional, but I am gonna be using our pearl dust to
add a little bit of highlight onto the eye.
You’re gonna take a little baking brush, and I’m gonna brush a little bit right here,
and onto the pink, and onto the blue!
Eyeballs complete!
Now we’re gonna be making some accessories, I love this because working with
fondant reminds me of like, arts and crafts, you’re like molding cute little
clay molds.
We’re gonna take some of this pink fondant, we’ve got a lot of it.
She’s got a lot of pink accessories…..
Like someone I know!
The first accessories that I’m gonna make is her apple wand!
Alright, I’m gonna roll this out.
Here’s where I’m taking that lollipop stick that I cut in 1/2.
And I'm gonna roll it in the fondant, just like this.
I roll it up once.
I’m gonna use this little flat tool, or you can use a small knife, to cut off
the excess fondant, you roll it up like a little burrito!
There’s the base of our apple wand!
Now we’re gonna make our little apple, You’re gonna take a little bit of pink
fondant, you’re gonna roll it in a little ball.
We’re gonna take a little bit
of blue fondant and pop them into 1 of the small leaf molds.
We're gonna cut off the excess fondant and use the excess to make our little stem.
Now we’re gonna put it all together, here we go!
Gonna put the little apple staff into our apple.
Now we’re gonna attach the
little leaf in the stem, so I’m just gonna make some little indents in the top.
Gonna make it look like a little apple.
Dip it in a little bit of water, give it some extra sticky-ness, stick it right at the top.
There we go!
Then this part is totally optional, but I have the sparkly luster dust, and our
little baking brush, and I’m just gonna put a little bit all over the apple,
and on the blue parts.
Boom!
Apple wand!
Now using the pink fondant, I’m gonna make her little shoes and her bow accessory,
I’m just gonna eyeball it.
The last accessory that we’re gonna make is her crown,
which happens to be her favorite accessory.
You’re gonna take a little bit of
yellow fondant, we’re gonna roll it out.
And now we’re gonna cut out a triangle
shape to look like her crown, I am just eyeballing it.
I’m using a sharp cutting knife, just be careful!
And then to make her crown set in a curve shape, I’m using just something I had
around the house, this is just a canister, but whatever you have, you can use
a glass, a mug.
You’re just gonna pick up your piece of fondant, place it at
the base, all the way around.
And if you let it sit like this for a little while it will harden in this shape,
and that is what we want!
Da-dew!
All of our little decorations are done, we’ve got eyeballs and accessories!
Now, time to assemble this cake.
Our cake is baked and had plenty of time to cool.
You want to make sure that the
cake is cooled before you start frosting, so that the heat doesn’t melt the frosting.
Also, I leveled the cake, I made it nice and flat, by cutting it
with a serrated knife.
Alright, so now you’re gonna take your yellow, buttercream
frosting, I’ve got it in a little plastic baggie, with a circular tip, just to
make it a little bit easier.
We’re just gonna frost the top, now, take your spatula
we’re just gonna smooth it out.
Now that we’ve iced the top, we’re gonna ice
the sides, and then use your spatula to smooth it out.
The next step is we’re gonna put on the top of our cupcake cake.
Here we go, this is her hair!
Now we’re gonna frost all the way around to look like her hair!
Now I’m gonna use the spatula to smooth out the frosting to look more like her hair.
This part is totally optional, but…
I want to be a little fancy!
And now, this is my favorite part, it’s time to decorate!
We’ve got all of our fondant accessories that we made, and our candies!
And now we’re gonna put it all over this little cupcake, to make her look like
Cupcake Queen!
The first decoration that I’m gonna add are her eyes, I’m gonna place these on
first, because I get a good sense of where everything else goes!
And then her little arms, which we’re gonna be frosting yellow.
Her little shoes, crown, bow, bunch of little mini gum balls, pink and yellow.
And a bunch of Mike and Ikes to look like the sprinkles!
And then, lastly, I’m using a little bit of brown frosting to make her
eyebrows, nose and smile.
Ta-da!
Here is the Shopkins Cupcake Queen Cake that we made today!
She is so cute!
A big thank you to you all for suggesting something
Shopkins, this is the first time I’ve ever made something Shopkins!
And, it is the first time that we’ve ever made a homemade apple cake before,
on Nerdy Nummies!
So that was pretty cool!
I’ll be taking lots of pictures of this cute cake, and putting them on
Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!
And if you guys make this cake, please take a picture and send it to me,
I love seeing your baking creations, I get a big kick out of it!
Makes my day!
And if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again, bye-bye!