Hey guys it’s Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
I got so many requests from you guys to make a recipe from the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook,
and I thought that is a really fun idea!
I would love to share a recipe with you guys, and I was thinking, hmmm, which recipe should
we do?
And my mom just made me this apron, it is adorable, it’s got microchips, little electrical
pathways, basically it’s like a little circuitboard and I thought oooooh!
We gotta do a recipe from the Tech and Web chapter, today, let’s make a Motherboard Cake!
Most electronics have some type of motherboard or circuitboard and I just find them very
fascinating.
Right here on this page I drew a simple graphic of a motherboard layout, and we’ve got some
of the basic parts.
So if you’ve never built your own computer before, it’s kind of nice to see some of
the basic pieces that make a motherboard.
Also this is a perfect recipe if you have any friends or family who are techies or they
just love technology like me, it’s a really fun birthday idea.
Oh!
Also, shout out to my mom, Mama Mia, not only did she make the apron that I’m wearing
today, but, she made this apron, my little 8-bit heart apron that I’m wearing on the
cover.
Mama Mia, I love you, thanks for making my aprons!
Alright, enough mushy stuff Mom!
Today, we are gonna be making a Motherboard Cake from the Nerdy Nummies Cookbook, let’s
get started!
Let’s get started, let’s get it started!
The things you will need, will be: The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook…
Eh?
I’m just kidding!
I’m just gonna teach you how to do it, you don’t need that!
2 cups of all purpose flour, 1-1/2 cups of sugar, 5 egg whites, 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons
of milk, 1/2 a cup of salted butter, 1/4 cup of shortening, 2 teaspoons of baking powder,
1/4 teaspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and a 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract.
Just to let you guys know, these are the ingredients to make a single layered cake, so if you just
want to make a 1 layered cake, this is what you’ll need, but today, I think I’m gonna
do a double layered cake like I do in the book, so you’re gonna need to times the
ingredients by 2.
The first thing that we’re gonna do, in a medium bowl, whisk together our dry ingredients…
Yep!
Flour, baking powder, and salt.
Mix together until it’s well combined and then I’m gonna set this off to the side.
Then in a large mixing bowl we are gonna cream together our sugar, our butter and shortening.
Using a hand mixer we’re gonna mix it up until it’s light and fluffy.
This should take about 3-5 minutes.
Once our butter mixture is light and fluffy we’re gonna beat in the vanilla and almond
extract.
Oh yeah this smells so good!
Now we’re gonna mix in our egg whites, 1 at a time, we’ve got 5 eggs, so you’re
gonna add an egg, mix it up, add an egg, mix it up, add an egg…
Mix it up!
Add an egg, mix it up!
Add an egg, mix it up, boom!
Or if you’ve got all of your egg whites already together like I do, just eyeball it.
Next we’re gonna alternate adding our dry and wet ingredients to the big bowl, starting
and ending with dry.
So we will add 1/2 of our dry, mix it up, add our milk, mix it up, add the second half
of our dry and then mix it up!
Our batter is ready and now we’re gonna pour it into the pan, I have a 9x13 inch pan
and I’ve already cut a piece of parchment paper and lined it at the bottom, and greased
the pan.
Just gotta pour it in here…
High pour!
I don’t think this is an official technique, but I like to do it.
You pull it, you get it up high, and you just pour it in.
I like to take a spatula and just smooth it out so it bakes evenly.
Now we’re gonna put this in the oven at 350 degrees and bake for about 35-40 minutes.
Once your cakes have baked and had plenty of time to cool, now we are gonna assemble
them and frost them.
Over here, I have let my cakes cool and I have leveled off the tops, so that they were
flat.
And then I’m just gonna pick them up, transfer them over here to my cake board.
Now’s the time where you want to place them onto your final serving plate, if that is a big
plate or a cake stand, or a cake board like I’ve got right here.
Just transfer it onto it’s final destination place right now.
On top of our first layer of cake we’re just gonna put a little bit of butter cream.
I just put it into a plastic baggie and just cut the end, I don’t need a lot of control here.
I’m using an offset spatula to just smooth it out.
Then we’re gonna pick up the second cake and place it right on top.
This looks like a cake sandwich, look at that!
Now we’re gonna frost the entire cake, the top and the sides with a thin layer called
the crumb coat.
Crumb coat is all finished, now I’m gonna pop this in the fridge for about 30 minutes to chill.
Our cake has chilled and now we’re gonna frost on our final layer of frosting.
You just want to use enough to cover up the cake.
What I really like about this cake is it’s so customize-able, I’m doing just a white
cake with green frosting but you can make it any type of cake that you’d like.
Alright, our cake is all frosted, I smoothed everything out, and now it is time for my
favorite part, it is time to decorate!
Here are all the candies that I’m going to be using to decorate.
We’ve got: Hershey’s Candy, some Kit-Kats, Twix, a couple Reeses Peanut Butter Chocolate
Bars, a mini chocolate Peppermint Patty, a Ghirardelli chocolate, and some Kit-Kat Minis.
That covers it for the chocolate, then let’s move over to the fruity chews.
A bunch of JujuBees, I’m using all of the green ones, then I’ve got square shaped
Starburst Minis in yellow and pink, some rectangular Jolly Rancher Chews, we’ve got red, blue
and green.
And last but not least, we’ve got a little bit of Rainbow Sour Rope.
You can use whatever candies you’d like, these are just the ones that I’ve picked
out to represent the basic components of a Motherboard.
I’m gonna be starting with the Twix, these are gonna be representing the graphic card slots.
My Motherboard is fancy so I’m gonna have 3 graphic card slots, you know if you play
a lot of video games you like to have a lot of graphics cards.
I left a little space here because, I wanted to put my little battery there, so I’m using
the little mini York Peppermint Patty.
Then I’m gonna be adding these mini Kit-Kats to be little plugs all over the motherboard.
Take our Hershey’s, this is gonna be our processor mount, I’m gonna flip it upside
down so it’s nice and smooth and I’m gonna place it right out here.
Our Ghirardelli square is our actual processor, so it goes on top, boom!
For our RAM slots, Kit-Kats work perfectly, I’m gonna put 4 of them in.
This sour rainbow candy is gonna be the ribbon connector between our North and South bridge.
So I’m just folding it over, like this, and then just gently putting it down.
Our Reeeses are the right shape and size for our North and South Bridge.
Our pink and yellow Starburst minis and our green fruit chews are gonna be microchips,
so I’m gonna place those all over here.
The last green chew, I’m gonna cut it in 1/2 to represent 2 USB plugs.
The red chew is another microchip.
Our last fruit chews are blue, and they will make great saddle plugs.
I’m gonna use this little tool, gonna make a couple little grooves by pressing down gently.
The last candy that we’re gonna be adding are these little green JujuBees, these are
gonna be the computer's capacitors, computers have a lot of these, so I’m just gonna put
them everywhere.
I’m gonna get a little crazy with it.
But, structured crazy…
I’m one of those people that like a pretty looking motherboard.
I would love that job, to design motherboards, make them look pretty, I would do that.
One more JujuBee!
We’ve got all of our candy components placed, now I’m gonna take a little bag of buttercream
frosting, with a number 2 tip at the end, and I’m just gonna pipe some details all
over.
These are gonna be the electrical pathways, just making it look more like a motherboard
and connecting all of our parts.
This is looking so cool!
We are ready for our final decorating step, I’ve got some green buttercream frosting
with a #4B tip at the end, I’m gonna use this to pipe a border all the way around the
bottom of the cake.
This is totally optional, I just like to do it because it makes it look like a traditional
cake, it gives it a good looking finish!
Ta-da!
Here is the Motherboard Cake that we made today!
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting something from The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook!
This was really fun!
I love this cake for so many reasons, 1, super customizable, you can use any candies you'd
like, you can make any kind of cake you'd like.
And, it’s super easy, there’s not a lot of decorating involved, just positioning candies,
and we’re not using any fondant, just buttercream frosting.
I’ll be posting the recipe and lots of pictures on RosannaPansino.com, Facebook, Instagram
and Twitter!
And if you guys make this cake, please take a photo and send it to me, I love seeing your
baking creations, it just makes me happy, it makes my day!
And, if you guys have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies, let me know,
leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!