- Maybe my bitterness over Lara Jean's life choices
comes in the fact that I've never
had boys chasing me quite in the same way.
But I swear to God, if Jordan Fisher was chasing me,
I would not be running away,
I'll be staying right where I was,
ignoring the world around me
and letting him love me like he should.
Hi, it's Michael here.
Welcome back to my kitchen for a wee bit of baking.
Now, to celebrate the release of "All the Boys Three",
we are going to be making some vegan chocolate butter,
no, chocolate, oh, we're going to cut this together.
It's going to work. (beep)
We are going to be making some vegan chocolate
peanut butter cupcakes, which Lara Jean
makes in the second film for John Ambrose,
who is the boy she should be with,
none of this Noah Santino nonsense.
(beep)
To start with, we're gonna make some jam,
which is actually really easy
even though I don't tend to make it.
My mum makes it, so what's the point?
So, we've got a saucepan out
and it's super simple.
It's just equal quantities of raspberries
and equal quantities of jam sugar.
So I'm putting in 200 grams of raspberries
and 200 grams of jam sugar.
And then pop just like a wee bit of lemon juice in there.
I don't know if that does anything.
It tastes nice though.
And a wee bit of vanilla as well.
Lovely, delicious.
And then we just mash that up together
with like a fork or something.
Hang on.
Oh.
(drawer banging)
Fucks sake.
There we go.
Got one. (beep)
Mash that altogether a wee bit.
And then we're gonna pop that over the hob
on a low to medium heat, (banging)
slowly bringing it up to the boil.
The seagulls are back.
Fucking seagulls.
(beep)
Okay, so you want to keep an eye on that.
You don't want it to burn.
The reason we're not putting it on to a high temperature,
is so the sugar doesn't catch on the bottom.
But basically, you're going to make it,
swirl together until it kind of forms a liquid.
It's just start boiling.
And then we're going to boil
until it hits a certain temperature, which I can't remember.
I'm gonna have to read my notes.
So, this may be vegan, but it's genuinely delicious,
I promise.
For all you meat-eaters out there, it is genuinely fine.
It's actually, I don't think that you can tell,
which is what vegan baking should be.
(beep)
So, Lara Jean seems to be a stress baker, can relate,
but I promise this one's gonna be fine.
It's genuinely as simple as putting things in a bowl
and putting that into the oven.
I promise it will be okay.
If Lara Jean can do it, you can.
Look at her life choices.
Still bitter about the John Ambrose thing.
Don't mind me.
(beep)
With jam, we're gonna bring it to 105 degrees Celsius
and that's 220 degrees Fahrenheit.
I've got a wee thermometer I did not steal
from the "Bake Off" tent, but you can get thermometers
in most shops or online.
But if you don't want to get a thermometer,
although it is easier,
you just need to put a plate into the freezer.
And basically, once the jam,
if you put like a wee bit of the jam
onto the frozen plate, if it rolls down, it's not ready,
but if it kind of stays in place, it is ready.
Just get a thermometer.
(beep)
That sounded quite professional, didn't it?
Like I knew what I was doing.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Maybe my bitterness over Lara Jean's life choices
comes in the fact that I've never
had boys chasing me quite in the same way.
But that's, I swear to God, if Jordan Fisher was chasing me,
I would not be running away,
I'll be staying right where I was,
ignoring the world around me
and letting him love me like he should.
What is with her?
But yeah, no, it probably comes from jealousy
to be honest, very single,
feel free to put your email addresses,
email addresses?
Phone numbers?
WhatsApp?
Tinder?
Grindr?
What do people use now?
Hinge?
Don't know what that is.
(beep)
It's annoyingly slow this process,
but it is worth it.
I can't take my words.
I mean, this is the hardest part of the recipe
and it's literally just standing, waiting.
So, I mean, I think you're going to be okay.
Okay, we must be nearly there.
Hang on.
Annoyingly, you can't just cheat it, you have to wait.
But it is worth getting a jar ready.
Mine says, "Strawberries" on it.
That's irrelevant.
And you can sterilize your jars as well.
If you pop them into the oven at like a medium temperature
for about 15 minutes, it sterilizes them.
My jam is playing hard to get,
it's been like two degrees under what I need it to be
for about five minutes.
But it's pissing me off, that's what I'll tell you.
There you are, don't know what you can do about that.
(beep)
So the jam is teasing me.
It's two degrees off, which is very infuriating,
but not stressful because baking
is definitely therapeutic and never, never challenging.
And it's a really good way of processing your emotions.
No, genuinely, baking is a good way
of processing your emotions.
It's frustrating, but it's been lovely.
I mean, it's saved my skin over the past 15 years,
that it's been.
When are we getting out of lockdown?
I'm actually tired of being in this kitchen.
Wouldn't it be nice for me to be in someone else's kitchen?
That'd be lovely.
I think we might be done.
Are we done?
I need to carry this.
(beep)
Maybe I should try baking for boys
and maybe they'll love me then.
Message that in the comment below with your email addresses.
(laughs) Will you love me if I bake for you?
Please love me.
It's not even a joke now.
Love me. (laughs)
Maybe, 'cause I was about to say to give these to people,
but I can't give these to people,
because we're all in lockdown.
Isn't this great?
Isn't this a lovely moment we're sharing together? (laughs)
You watching me have a breakdown
over some fucking jam.
It's coming out now, I don't care.
I don't care, I'm done.
(beep)
It's very boily, I don't know if you can see that.
Oh!
I need to pour it straight into the jar
without burning yourself.
We have medics on speed dial.
Let's just go with it.
I should've put it into a jug.
My jugs are made of plastic.
Careful.
They may have melted.
No silicone here.
Right?
Oh, have I nailed this?
God, I'm good.
I should go on a tele show.
(beep) Right, jam done.
Pop the, ah, hot!
Pop the lid on that.
And then you keep that wherever you want,
ignore the bit where it says strawberry.
Just keep that in the cupboard
for however long you keep jam for.
I don't know.
That can live there.
Next step, cake.
Don't know what this is.
(beep) Okay,
now it's time for the cake,
which is honestly the most simple cake
I have ever made in my entire life.
And I actually choose it even though it's vegan.
So I mean, who is the real winner here?
Not me.
Right.
So, we start off with 190 grams of plain flour.
And I've been asked to be sexy with this.
And I'm not quite sure how to be sexy with flour,
so I'm just going to hope that the edit makes this work.
(Michael laughs)
Oh!
How can you make flour sexy?
Who knows?
Now we need to try and make a 100 grams
of caster sugar sexy.
(Michael laughs)
Oh, didn't even come out.
There you are, that's sexy.
That sexy thing. (laughs)
Shouldn't be spanking ramekins.
And then you also need to add a 100 grams
of light brown sugar.
If you even listening to what I'm saying,
congratulations.
That's not sexy.
And then 40 grams of cocoa powder.
That color is certainly not sexy.
And then you're going to sift all that together.
If you miss what I was saying,
because you were distracted by how sexual
I was just then, that is 190 grams of plain flour,
a 100 grams of caster sugar,
100 grams of light brown sugar, and 40 grams of cocoa.
And you don't want to like mash the lumps in.
Ugh.
(beep)
I'm not a very sexy person.
This is why I'm single.
Lara Jean doesn't have to be sexy.
She just had to be stressed.
And she had two boys after her.
Nonsense.
Is that sexy?
(laughs) The things I do for money, hey.
Not that, not that, I don't do that.
I support that obviously, but we're in a lockdown.
Right. (laughs)
We need to put some bicarbonate soda and some salt in.
Both these containers look the same.
I'm gonna have to take...
Oh.
That's bicarb.
Oh, gross.
Oh, it's really horrible.
She's a spitter.
One teaspoon of bicarb.
Oh, that was horrible.
Don't do that at home.
About half a teaspoon of salt.
I shouldn't keep my salt in these tubs,
it's my own fault.
All that is in one bowl, pop it to the side,
along with your dignity and get a second bowl.
Into this bowl, we're gonna add
240 milliliters of cold water.
85 mil of oil.
I'm not going to be sexy.
I'm just going to pour it in.
And then you also need one teaspoon of lemon juice.
So this is really important,
as the lemon juice is what's going to make it rise later on.
Could you make a teaspoon with this?
Yes, it's working.
Give the wet ingredients a wee mix.
Pour them into the dry ingredients.
And then you just stir it until it comes together.
I told you it was easy.
Oh, sorry, I'm uncomfortable.
There we go.
Better for me, better for you.
Now, this batter is delicious raw,
and it can be eaten raw, because there's nothing bad in it.
Leave your dirty comments to yourselves, please.
(beep) And that's it.
Now I'm going to transfer this into a jug,
because it's easier, but you can just use a spoon.
But I find pouring the batter into cupcake cases
is a lot less messy.
Top tip there, you're welcome.
Saw that on Google.
Honestly, it's so good.
So you want to get the cupcake case, tray?
Cupcake something.
Cupcake holder.
Cupcake tray, cupcake tray, we're gonna go with tray,
and pop 12 little muffin cases into it.
I am making easy cupcakes
look incredibly difficult. (laughs)
Lara Jean told me this wouldn't be stressful.
Fucking idiot.
Right. (beep)
We want to fill each of these two-thirds full.
I find that very hard to judge by eye,
so I'm gonna let you figure it out on your own.
You have to do some things by yourself.
I can't do it all for you.
Oh, seagulls having a fight outside.
If anyone's got any seagull deterrent
they can let me know.
That'd be lovely.
Oh, this looks so good.
Oh, they're arguing.
If you could just like ignore the lumps in this batter,
that would be really great.
Thanks so much.
Have you ever wondered what they're saying
when they talk to each other?
Or is that just me?
Subject for another video perhaps.
I like to imagine they're bitching
about someone they really hate.
(beep)
He also calls Lara Jean, Covey,
but I feel like it must be, Covey.
Like surely it's Covey.
No?
Seagulls agree.
So I have overfilled and there's not gonna be enough
for the last two cupcake cases, but that's okay.
That's okay.
We're surviving a lockdown, it's gonna be okay.
I'm actually just going to stop.
There is probably enough in there to do the last two,
but I'm just gonna eat it raw.
Later. (beep)
The oven need to be on at 180 degrees,
which is in Britain, Celsius or 350 degrees Fahrenheit,
or Gas Mark 4, if you're from the past.
So we're gonna bake these for about 15 minutes.
And we need to do a bit of cooling.
We need to do a bit of...
Oh, we have to do a bit of washing up.
Oh, shit!
My recipe's fallen out of the window.
I'll be back in a minute.
(beep) Everything is fine.
It's all fine.
It survived. (laughs)
Oh, God, I can't live on my own, it's too hard.
Everything's hard, okay?
Everything's hard for me. (laughs)
(beep)
Next up, we are making icing
and this is where the peanut butter comes in.
And now this is going to be vegan,
but it's easily made non-vegan
for all you dairy queens out there.
We're going to use non-dairy butter and non-dairy milk.
But it's up to you.
You do you, who am I to judge?
So, into one bowl, we're gonna pop 375 grams of icing sugar.
Oh, there we go.
Always a nice clean job.
And then we are going to add 95 grams of butter,
non-dairy or otherwise, if I can find a spoon.
And then we're gonna add 140 grams of peanut butter,
make sure it's smooth, nothing crunchy.
Although there's some bits,
there's some toast crumbs in my butter from earlier,
so I mean, well, it adds a bit of crunch.
Do you know what I mean?
Unless, that bread isn't vegan, is bread vegan?
Oh, I dunno.
We love a nut butter in this house.
You can use any flavor of nuts you like,
Flavor of nuts? Type of nuts? Well there's protein in it.
Is that sexy?
Oh, fuck sake.
Busy being sexy.
(beep)
Why am I single?
He asks.
A mouthful of nut butter causing nut chaos in the kitchen.
My mouth is like glued together now.
You having a nice time? (laughs)
(beep)
Now, you can go straight in with your beaters,
but I don't like it going all over my face,
so I just mix.
So I just mix it in first before.
So we're gonna add a tablespoon full of almond milk.
Again, you can use dairy milk if you want.
Then slowly, don't add too much,
but I add a wee bit extra,
because I like my icing to be a wee bit slacker.
Just so I can pipe it.
Doesn't look very appetizing, does it?
I promise it'll get better.
It gets better everyone.
It gets better kids.
Not for Lara Jean, 'cause she chose Peter.
Peter who calls her Covy, not Covey,
I'm not letting go of that.
Covey-19, absolutely not.
And then we go with a beater.
Now, you can do this by hand.
Oh!
(beep)
Now, you can do this by hand,
just pick your strong arm, we've all got one.
I'm doing it with a electric whisk.
I think, if I can make it turn on.
There we go.
Now that is a bit stiff for my liking,
so I'm going to add some more almond milk to loosen it up.
And there we go, that's my icing done.
So now what we need to do,
is wait for the cakes to finish, we'll cool them,
and then we'll ice them.
May as well have a sit down.
(beep)
Right, so the cupcakes are pretty much done.
It's been between 15 and 17 minutes.
I'm lying, it's been a bit longer 'cause I overfilled them.
But you know they're ready when they spring back
from the touch, and these do, so let's go.
There we go.
So another technique of testing them,
is if you get a skewer and insert,
insert is such a good word, isn't it?
Oh.
Right into the center.
And it should come out clean.
There's a joke in there somewhere,
but I'm not going to make it.
You can do it yourselves.
Insert, come out clean.
(beep)
You have to wait for them to cool,
once they're cool, we're gonna ice them.
(beep)
So now we just need to ice the cakes.
So get your jam from earlier.
It should be cool, mine's still a wee bit warm,
but it is solid, so we're going to go with it
and see what happens.
You'll need your cooled cupcakes,
and you will need your peanut butter icing.
So, start off with, get a knife
and just scoop out the center of the cupcake.
These are a nice little bakers perk.
With these, what do you do with a empty hole?
You fill it.
So you get your jam, and pop just a wee teaspoon of jam
into the hole that you've just made there.
Oh.
Look at us making our own jam, such professionals.
I mean, you can buy it.
Most people would.
To be fair, I normally would,
but you can sort of do whatever you want with this.
I am going to show you a couple of techniques for icing.
So you can just get a spoon and dollop it on the top,
and kind of spread it out a bit
with your fingers or with a knife.
Oh.
And you can leave it like that.
Or you can pop some chocolate sprinkles onto a plate,
like this, turn the cupcake upside down
and just roll in them
Lovely, number one.
Or if you're feeling fancy, you need to get a piping bag
and you can pop a nozzle in the end.
I've gone for a star nozzle,
or you can just snip a hole in the end,
so it kind of makes a, well, it makes a hole.
And then just fill up the bag.
Oh.
Looked a bit like diarrhea.
He says, licking his fingers. (laughs)
(beep)
You can do whatever patterns you like,
you might want to do like a swirl.
So start in the middle and take it out.
Then you have your very own turd emoji,
or you can just do little splodges here and there.
Oh, that's quite pleasing.
I quite like that one.
And that's it really.
So now you have got a chocolate peanut butter cup cake
with a bit of jam inside
and it's all vegan and it still tastes nice.
So, win, win.
Can I eat this now?
(beep)
I'm gonna call you, what would I call you?
This is John Ambrose,
because he should have been chosen and he wasn't.
And just like with John Ambrose,
I want to take a massive bite. (laughs)
Tastes good, but I made a mess.