- It is time to get artsy with food.
So grab some ice cream and settle
in for the ultimate guide to an ad home
sundae you can make with whatever other snacks
you have in the pantry.
Here to guide us through is the founder of one
of the most creative dessert spots in the country.
It's Christina Tosi from Milk Bar.
All right.
Hey, Christina.
How you doing?
- Hi, girl.
I'm great.
How are you?
- I'm good, you're,
wherever you're at is adorable.
I love those-- (laughing)
That looks so cool.
Is that your kitchen?
- Yeah, it's like just a cozy little home bugs.
- Oh my gosh, I love it.
I love your cozy home vibes.
Well, okay, for those that for those people
who don't know, how did you come up with milk bar?
- You know, I grew up in Ohio and in the suburbs,
and I was just like raised by a mom and grandmas
and aunts that love to bake and like this love
for home baking this love for sharing baked goods
but I kind of always really loved to go
into the pantry and do these sort of like twists
And turns out a chocolate chip cookie
or whenever I was making something I would like
follow the recipe and then veer off the recipe path
and do my own thing.
And so I became a professional pastry chef.
And I was like, you know, one day I want to open a bakery.
That's like my riff on baked goods.
It's basically like a quirky American style bakery
that exists in the world to help like reminds them
that they each have their own individuality
and personality and creativity in their brains,
and to have a place to sort of showcase mine
and defeat people.
- It's such a cool, cool concept.
So tell us about this Sundae you're making.
- Okay, so this Sundae, I call it make a little
mess Sundae, because one you got to name the noun
as of now, we're all in quarantine.
We are all like, no one's gonna stop indulging.
But I also fully appreciate that we only have
what we have in our cupboards when we are jonesing
for ice cream or a sundae.
And so this is sort of it's the sundae you make
when you don't necessarily have the flavor of ice cream
that you might want or when your imagination
is like a little bit more, a little bit more,
a little bit more.
And it's like permission to make a little mess.
So it's super simple.
It's cutting board by,
I always take a cutting board into spatulas.
And by the way, this is my life.
They don't match.
We all we all.
- Oh do my sock, so you're good.
(laughing)
- You grab whatever ice cream they had at the store
when you were like well,
I'm pretty sure I eat ice cream before I check out.
Okay so mine is salty and sweet.
It's a riff on this cookie that we make at the bakery
and that we just launched.
- Ooh.
- Whole Foods and on Amazon online called
the compost cookie.
It's like the cookie you make when you don't have any
of one single ingredient to make that flavor cookie.
You just go into the pantry and pull it all out
and you go all of you in the cookie dough now.
That's what this cookie is about.
- Ooh, my God.
- I'm about that cookie.
Okay, what's next?
- So this is my Nick a little mess sundae,
you grab a cutting board.
I'm gonna start with three scoops of ice cream.
If you are with me,
I will go more but three would be my moment my afternoon.
So I scoop three scoops of whatever ice cream I have
on the cutting board.
- I also I also want your metabolism
because you're so thin.
How do you do that?
(laughing)
- It is, I'm telling you like we always joke
that like when you get a job at milk bar,
it's like you get signed up to a crazy gym that is like,
you have to carry like 50 pound bags of flour
and sugar and sprinkles.
(laughing)
- But you also.
Yeah, exactly.
It's a little it's a little bit of both.
So we take these cookies.
- A cookie is like.
- I take these cookies so basically like,
and our cookies are like soft, big.
They're fuzzy in the center.
- Oh my god, I wish you're with me right now.
Okay.
- I throw them on the cutting board.
I want like a little bit more salty sweet.so.
- Yeah.
- And we grab a few more pretzels,
maybe some potato chips.
- This is the greatest food demonstrations my dear.
- At the moment, my friend.
And then I also have some caramel sauce because.
- Oh my God.
- I'm already there.
We're already there.
Right?
- So then, and I mean, like, honestly,
we could just take this whole cutting board
to the TV room and eat it.
(laughing)
- But we're ladies Kelly, we're ladies.
- Sometimes.
- We basically play a little game where you crush up
on your cutting board,
your pretzels and your potato chips and your bits
of compost cookie.
And then you do a little fold.
So you're basically like taking a basic ice cream flavor,
and you're folding and sauces and textures,
and bits of cookie and whatever is in like
your wildest imagination.
For an ice cream Sundae.
- My mouth is like, So watering right now.
- And it is totally make a little mess.
And then you grab, like whatever your sundae cup is.
You go back to your scoop and you go Okay, cool.
We're gonna scoop that back in to whatever
gigantic Sundae cup we want because we're all
just trying to figure out how to stay positive and happy.
- Dude, that was amazing.
I want those cookies too,
you can get them on Whole Foods and Amazon
- Yeah, you can get them
on Amazon and Whole Foods for right now
and then in the fall some more stores, but yeah
that's it girl.
Here we go.
- Well, congratulations on all your success.
- Thank you.
- Girl like way to take something that you love
and you're passionate about it and and make
it a lucrative business like, Wow, congratulations.
So cool.
- Thank you.
You're a huge inspiration.
And it's like, I'm just I feel like you're preaching.
You're preaching to the choir over here.
You know what I mean?
- Aah.
- If you do what you love,
you'll never work a day in your life.
- Totally Agreed.
Agreed.
Well, Christina, she host a daily baking club
on her Instagram every day at two Eastern
with more easy and fun recipes.
Y'all gotta check it out.
I know I am and I'm gonna definitely go make a sundae.