Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummeis!
Ro: Today, I have a very special guest, it’s Jake! Jake: Hello!
Ro: You guys know Jake, we’ve baked together before! Jake: We have!
Ro: He has a channel Vsauce 3, I’m gonna be putting his links down below
Ro: so you can go check it out and say hi, and, you are a huge
Ro: Nightmare Before Christmas fan. Jake: I am! I’m very excited!
Ro: I had to have him on today because, I love Jack Skellington
Ro: and I got so many requests from you guys to do something
Ro: Nightmare Before Christmas or Jack Skellington themed, and Halloween
Ro: is so close. Jake: Mmmhmm! Ro: It’s like in a few days.
Jake: I know I’m so excited! Ro: It’s 4 days away? It’s this Saturday,
Ro: so today we are gonna be making a Nightmare Before Christmas,
Ro: Jack Skellington Cheese Ball!
Both: Let’s get started, let’s get started!
Ro: To make our cheese ball, the things you’ll need will be:
Ro: 2 sticks of cream cheese, I’m using a reduced fat cream cheese, and they
Ro: are each 8 ounces. 16 ounces of sharp white cheddar cheese,
Ro: 1 sh-tick of butter, which is 1/2 a cup, 1 packet of ranch dressing mix,
Ro: I love ranch, this will be our seasoning, ooooh! And 1 clove of garlic.
Ro: You will also need… That’s you…
Jake: Some tools! Like, a cheese grater. Ro: Mmmhmmm.
Jake: A tiny little cutting board, a tiny little knife,
Jake: and then a mixing bowl and, a hand mixer. Ro: That’s right!
Ro: Now let’s put it all together!
Ro: The first thing that we’re gonna do is mince the garlic and shred
Ro: the cheese, I’m gonna have Jake shredding over here because he’s a
Ro: skateboarder, he knows how to shred, so I figured shredding cheese…
Jake: Yeah I got it. Ro: You can handle this. Jake: I’ll shred it!
Jake: Um...
Ro: Jake, let me teach you, oh my gosh! OK, Jake, come here, hold this…
Jake: Yes Ma’am. Ro: Hold this here, now give me your other hand. Jake: Yep.
Ro: OK, so we go all the way down. Jake: But I’m gonna break it in half!
Ro: All the way down! Jake: I’m too strong! Ro: All the way down!
Ro: There you go, you, now you keep shredding. Jake: OK….
Jake: OK, so I don’t know about you, but when I was a young lad growing up,
Jake: I was actually couldn’t see the movie because my parents thought
Jake: it would be too scary! Ro: A young lad named Jake growing up.
Jake: Growing up on Wilkenshire!
Jake: But then Jake saw it at his friend’s house and it was fantastic!
Ro: Rebel! Rebel! Rebel! Jake: And my parents were just finding out this
Jake: now, I’m so sorry that I lied to you all these years!
Ro: You just want to chop up the garlic really fine because these will
Ro: be the chunks inside the cheese ball. And you don’t want to bite in
Ro: and be like, whoa!
Jake: I have pretty much shredded all this cheese. Ro: Mmmhmm.
Ro: The big reveal. Both: Aaaaahhhhh!
Jake: Oh, it was for a little bit, The Leaning Tower of Cheese-a! Ro: Perfect!
Jake: Now that we have our cheese shredded and our garlic minced, we
Jake: are going to mix it all together! Ro: Yeah, we’re gonna mix it all
Ro: together, and Jake, don’t forget, you have to set a little bit of your
Ro: cheese aside into this bowl. Jake: Yes. Ro: Because we are gonna put a
Ro: little bit on the top to kind of decorate our cheese ball.
Ro: So just take a handful, put it over here, set it aside, perfect!
Ro: And then, I’m gonna add the butter, and you’re gonna want to make sure
Ro: your butter has set out at room temperature.
Ro: Come on butter! Jake: Oh! You can do it butter! We believe in you butter!
Jake: Yes! Ro: Yes! We’ve done it! Jake: Your mother and I are proud of you!
Ro: Oh I love cream cheese! And the garlic, oooooh!
Jake: Here we go. Ro: Mix it up! Jake: Hiyah! Oh!
Ro: That looks mixed, now let’s add our flavoring!
Ro: It’s got a little seasoning in there and that’s OK!
Ro: It’s gonna have a seasoned face. Jake: A well seasoned face!
Ro: Now we’re gonna wrap it up with some cling wrap, so I’m gonna move this
Ro: over here. Jake: OK.
Jake: I cannot guarantee that this will turn out well! Ro: Oh no!
Jake: I’m too strong, no! Ro: OK, I’ll hold it. I’ll hold it.
Ro: Boom, boom, boom! Jake: In your face! Ro: And now, you’re gonna scoop
Ro: all of your dip over here.
Ro: Is it not cutting? Oh maybe the blades broken!
Jake: You know what I have. Ro: We need scissors.
Jake: Pocket scissors! Yes! Pocket scissors come in handy once again!
Jake: Everyone made fun of me, Jake why do you need pocket scissors?
Jake: Who’s laughing now?!?! Ro: Noboby!
Ro: Jake carries around baking scissors with him, all the time.
Jake: You never know, and it impresses the ladies, like oh you have
Jake: baking scissors? Ro: You just got a point in the handsome department.
Jake: Wow, so I guess it goes up to 101, out of 100, who knew!?!?
Ro: Just wrapped up our cheese ball in the cling wrap, and we’re gonna
Ro: pop it in the fridge for a few hours, and while it is chilling in the,
Ro: fridge, we can watch Nightmare Before Christmas, we can watch a movie.
Ro: And, we are going to get started making some homemade tortilla chips.
Ro: While our cheese ball is chilling in the fridge we are going to be making
Ro: some homemade tortilla chips, and if you guys are in a hurry and you don’t
Ro: have time to make these, you can just buy the dark blue tortilla chips
Ro: from the store. But we are gonna be making them from scratch because
Ro: we are gonna be making them a little bit darker. Jake: Oooh!
Ro: We’re gonna be making them black vs blue so that they will match the
Ro: Jack Skellington! Ooooh!
Ro: So, the things you will need, will be: 2 cups of corn flour, 1 cup of
Ro: water, but it varies, because when you’re mixing in the corn mixture,
Ro: sometimes it will absorb a little bit more water from the air, but it’s
Ro: roughly about a cup of water. And, a little bit of black food coloring
Ro: dye. You will also need some tools over here.
Jake: My time? Ro: Yeah! Jake: My time to shine? Ro: Yeah! Jake: OK!
Jake: You’ll need a giant mixing bowl, hand mixer again. Ro: Uh-huh!
Jake: But wait there’s more! Circular cookie cutter, and, ice cream scoop!
Jake: And! Plastic Ziplock Bag! And! plate!
Ro: That’s right! Now let’s put it all together!
Ro: Now we’re just gonna mix everything together in this big mixing bowl,
Ro: Will you mix? Jake: I will! Ro: Alright, deal! OK, gonna pour this in.
Ro: Dig-uh-dig-uh-dig-uh-doo! And, our water. Jake: Can I mix?
Ro: Yeah, you can start mixing. Jake: Yeah! Ro: And while he’s mixing,
Ro: I’m gonna be adding a few drops of black food coloring dye.
Ro: You can add as many as you’d like to your desired color.
Ro: And now we’re gonna make tortilla chips, out of them, so do you have
Ro: those baking scissors, handy? Jake: Ah-hem! My pocket scissors?
Ro: Yes, your pocket. Jake: Indeed I do, always prepared!
Ro: Ah! Yes! OK, now let me show you how to do this, are you ready?
Jake: OK, yes, yes. Ro: This is cool, so we’re gonna take a big ziplock
Ro: bag, and we’re gonna cut off the top, then you’re gonna cut off both
Ro: the sides. So this is what we want!
Ro: Take the ice cream scoop. Jake: Yes! Ro: And then put a scoop right on top.
Ro: And now we’re gonna fold over a piece of plastic. And then you’re gonna
Ro: take a plate and squish it flat.
Ro: Just finished making all of our tortilla patties, and over here we put
Ro: a piece of wax paper in between each one so that they won’t stick
Ro: together, and now we’re gonna take ‘em over to the stove!
Ro: Turn the stove onto medium-high heat, spray a little cooking spray
Ro: into a small frying pan. Then place a tortilla into the middle of the pan,
Ro: cook for about 30 seconds, and then flip. And then cook for another
Ro: 30 seconds. Then you’re gonna remove the tortilla from the pan and
Ro: do this to the rest of your tortillas.
Jake: Now that we’ve cooked our tortillas, we are going to cut them, into chips.
Ro: Yep! Into little triangle chips! Over here I’ve got a triangle shaped
Ro: cookie cutter, and you can just cut them into fours, just using a sharp
Ro: knife, but, I want to make them look like a true tortilla chip, so…
Ro: This is what we’re gonna do, we’re just gonna take one of our cooked tortillas,
Ro: and, using a cookie cutter, woop! Cut out our little triangle shape.
Ro: And then I’m gonna place it over here onto our baking sheet.
Ro: Once we have all of our cut out tortilla chips on the baking sheet,
Ro: we are going to lightly baste them with a little bit of oil and
Ro: sprinkle them with a pinch of salt.
Ro: Now we’ve got a bunch of our chips on our pan and we are going to do this
Ro: to the rest of our tortillas, but, we are gonna keep one aside and
Ro: we’re gonna cut two circles with a cookie cutter for Jack’s eyes.
Ro: You’re gonna bake these in the oven at 350 degrees for about 7-10 minutes
Ro: until they are crispy.
Jake: Now our chips are in the oven and we are going to decorate our
Jake: cheese ball! Ro: That’s right! Our cheese ball has chilled and I just
Ro: took it out of the fridge, and what I’m doing right now is I’m just
Ro: kind of shaping it. Because the cheese ball is a little bit sticky.
Jake: Mmmm. Ro: You’ll want to shape it while it’s still wrapped in cling
Ro: wrap, so I’m just making it into a round ball.
Ro: Giving it a little extra shape.
Ro: You’re gonna take the shredded cheese from earlier, and we’re just gonna
Ro: lightly press it onto he top. Yeah he’s got a bald spot.
Jake: Aw, it’s OK Jack! Ro: It’s OK, you’re a skeleton.
Jake: Yeah, you shouldn’t even have hair in the first place!
Ro: Just finished putting all of the cheese on top of our cheese ball,
Ro: double cheese! And now we are gonna add our final decoration steps.
Ro: We are gonna cut out circles out of the tortilla that we left off to the side.
Ro: This one we cooked over the stove, but we did not bake.
Ro: And so Jake you’re gonna take that circle cookie cutter and cut out
Ro: two circles for Jack’s eyes. And then we’re gonna cut out little
Ro: Pieces for his nose and his mouth.
Ro: Our Jack Skellington Cheese ball is all decorated and ready to go!
Jake: And our chips, fresh out of the oven, fully baked. Ro: Om-nom-nom-nom!
Jake: they’ve had time to cool off.
Ro: And now we’re just gonna fill the plate with a bunch of fresh chips.
Both: Ta-da!
Ro: Here is our Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington themed
Ro: Cheese Ball that we made today! And our homemade tortilla chips.
Jake: Look at ‘em!
Ro: We’ll be posting lots of pictures of this little cheese ball on
Ro: Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter! And if you guys make this,
Ro: or any other Halloween themed cheese ball, please take a picture
Ro: and send it to me! I love to see them, I love to see your baking creations.
Ro: And you can tweet ‘em to the both of us. Jake: Yeah let’s do it!
Ro: We would love to check ‘em out. Jake: We have a little party!
Ro: Yeah! A baking halloween party! Jake: Yeah, yeah! Cheese ball party!
Ro: And if you have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies,
Ro: please let me know, leave me a comment down below and I will do my best
Ro: to make it happen!
Ro: Thanks again you guys and, Happy Halloween! Jake: Happy Halloween!
Ro: Bye-bye!
Ro: Scariest ghost impression on three. 1, 2, 3…
Ro: Bbbbbbbbbbb!
Jake: Oh sorry. Ro: Hey you left me hanging!
Ro: Oooooooooh! Jake: Jake it’s your mother!
Jake: I don’t want her to bother me when she’s dead!