- It's smilin' at you.
It's got a special horn!
- I worked so hard!
- It's also maybe gonna fall on the floor!
(cinematic music)
- Go put this in the cabinet, buddy.
(groans)
I'm sorry, asking you to do that one thing.
(slams)
Exactly.
Literally, one thing.
Hey everybody, and welcome to "Nailed It",
a little segment where we take the intermittent-
(mumbles)
- The intermittent what?
- The Internet's most beautiful, perfect crafts, DIYs,
and recipes, and just really rock 'em.
(laughter)
Just really, really nail it.
But today, I'm actually feeling very hopeful.
Baking is kind of my jam.
- It is.
- I can bake very well.
- Yeah.
- Decorating, we're working on it.
- Can I talk?
- Yes.
- Hello!
- There you go.
So Lola turns 11 soon and birthday cakes are a big deal,
so I'm thinking a unicorn cake.
- Ooh.
- We actually got the request to do Rosanna Pansino's
unicorn cake.
- Ta da!
- [Mom] Take a look at this thing.
It's a thing of beauty.
- [Dad] Yeah, that's amazing.
Do we have skills and resources for this?
- We have resources,
(bell)
skills-
- Not so much skills
- You are going to need a lot of things for this.
Three six-inch round cakes,
white buttercream frosting,
- Fosting?
- [Dad] ♪ Frosty the Snowman ♪
- Three, or four, different shades of icing,
black icing,
my edible gold color mist,
a fondant roller,
some fondant,
(girl laughs)
There are many other things she recommended
that I was too cheap to buy,
so we're gonna wing it.
Like cookie cutters, and such.
- [Dad] Is it okay if I do it?
- [Mom] Yes.
- [Dad] Here's the last one.
- [Mom] Oh.
- Charles!
- It was- oh buddy!
- [Dad] Three layers of frosting,
three pieces of cake, this is how we start.
- [Mom] Okay remember do it from the top
not from the middle.
Don't squeeze that hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Dad] Can I make an observation?
Mommy's in it to win it.
- [Mom] This one, I'm really hopeful.
- [Dad] You wanna nail it.
- [Mom] I definitely wanna nail it.
- [Dad] Hey, Charles, are you worried all this sugar
is going to mess up your two front teeth?
- Nope!
(growls)
- It's kinda drippin' already.
That's great.
- Okay then then that's like our gingerbread house.
- [Dad] Yeah, It's kinda lookin' sorta-
- Gingerbread house-y
- [Dad] Great, the word is great.
- But why is it leaning?
- Oh gosh, oh gosh.
- [Dad] Yeah, we've got a leaner.
Leaning to the side.
Got a leaner.
Lola, I need to talk to you.
- Okay.
- [Dad] I feel like maybe you've eaten some of the icing.
- Where?
- I'm gonna really nail this, guys,
wow, it is falling over.
- I have a plan.
We have some wooden-
- [Lola] A pencil!
- Not a pencil. We have some wooden-
- [Dad] Like the wooden chopsticks.
- We have wooden skewers in there.
- I'll go get one.
(soft music)
(dramatic music)
(children laugh)
- [Mom] You can go all over the top, Honey.
- That's what I, okay.
- [Mom] Then all down the side, the front here.
(bright music)
- [Mom] Good job.
- I'm doing better than you are, Daddy.
- [Mom] Our icing does not have the staying power of hers.
(bright music)
- [Dad] Look at this, the mane is looking great.
Just checking in.
The kids are getting along really well.
(mumbles under breath)
- [Mom] What was that?
Now we're going to put on the little eyes and lashes here.
She did use actual icing,
but I seriously just didn't feel like making black icing,
'cause it takes a lot of energy
to make 15 different colors of icing.
So I bought some cookie icing,
which I feel like is gonna do the same thing.
(screams)
I tested it, and it's way too gloopy.
I actually found in my baking stash,
Icing Writer, easy and fun!
(sneezes)
He didn't, that's not his fault.
- [Lola] I know that's not his fault.
(laughter)
- [Mom] The unicorn looks really sad, hold on.
- [Dad] Guys, it's okay.
It's going to be a goth unicorn. It's just like-
- [Lola] Crying
- [Dad] Shedding tears for humanity
- [Lola] It's mascara is running!
- [Dad] Our unicorn listens to Nine-Inch Nails.
- [Charles] He's bleeding!
- [Mom] Yeah.
- [Lola] Oh, that actually came off pretty well.
(rock music)
So now we go onto the fondant
ears and horn.
(cheery music)
Okay?
- [Dad] You guys hold it.
- [Mom] I'll hold it.
- A teardrop?
Like a drop of water?
- [Mom] No it'll be like a shape of, yeah,
like a ear.
- [Dad] I feel like I would have been a really phenomenal
Grey's Anatomy surgeon.
- [Mom] So you mean a fake surgeon?
- Yeah, not a real surgeon.
One who just breaks all the rules,
and doesn't play by them.
(upbeat techno music)
- [Dad] I know what to do.
I wanna make the corn horn
- [Mom] Okay no, but just do a big tube right now.
Pretty big.
- To be as big as a big poop.
- So like this?
- Yeah, looks like poop.
- [Mom] Yeah, but thinner.
It'll be like thicker on one side.
(Lola laughs)
- I don't wanna do this anymore.
I don't know why, this just feels wrong.
(laughter)
- I'll do it.
- You do it.
No, I don't want you doing it either!
- [Mom] And then once that
(laughter)
- Kinda like this?
Like that?
- [Dad] Alright, so this is big.
This is the unicorn's most famous
- Part
- [Dad] Aspect.
- [Mom] So you're gonna start like that and then
we're not flattening it.
We're rolling it.
Like this.
- [Dad] Buddy this is super important.
You're gonna do a great job.
- Ready? Can you roll it for me?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
(mumbles)
She did this thing
where she had this gold
dust stuff,
and she did this thing and she painted on the gold,
but they didn't have any gold at our craft store.
So I found this color food spray.
- Can I do it?
- That sounds like something else.
- It does sound like spraypaint.
It's food color spray
- Yeah
- Test it on
- It does not taste good.
You have to spray it from up here.
Yeah, get it from way up.
(family mumbles to each other)
- [Mom] It kinda smells. That's terrible.
- [Dad] It looks a little less like gold
and maybe a little more like
- [Lola] Poop.
- [Dad] I was gonna say pee.
- [Mom] So here's the ears.
I spray-painted those.
- [Dad] It makes me want hard-boiled eggs.
- [Mom] I know, doesn't it?
- Yeah let's have some!
- [Dad] Look at that!
Honey!
You know what,
I'm really psyched about the ears!
- [Dad] Okay.
- Right there.
- Stab it!
- No, don't stab it, honey.
- I won't.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- [Lola] Here.
- [Dad] Well I'm here to take a narwhal unicorn.
But, but,
- Fine, fine
- Stabby stabby
- I got it.
(cheers)
- Now we can taste it!
- Oh wow. It is falling over.
Look at this.
- [Lola] Oh god!
- [Dad] Okay the unicorn's falling over,
we gotta do a quick presentation.
- Okay hold on.
- [Dad] Oh no its eyes are falling. Eyes are falling.
- [Mom] Okay quick presentation.
Our unicorn's falling down so we're going to do
a super-speed presentation.
This unicorn has had a rough life.
- Yes.
- It broke up with its boyfriend and it cat's cat died.
- Yeah, so it started crying black tears,
but then, it felt better!
But it also had three
wooden stakes into its spine
because of serious scoliosis problems.
- But, as a metaphor for life, everybody, you know,
you do you, unicorn cake.
And who needs to be perfect?
(Dad sings)
(Charles laughs)
- [Dad] It's gonna fall over if we're not really careful.
We're gonna spend some time singin' a song.
It's smilin' at you.
It's got a special award.
It's also about to fall on the floor.
- Oh my gosh its mascara is running!
- Its eyes are fallin' out of its head!
Thanks so much for watching!
(screams)
Unicorn no Ruby!
What's happening to our unicorn?
- [Mom] Okay maybe, oh man.
- [Charles] Let's eat it!
- Our unicorn's taking a nap right now,
everybody needs to nap.
Thank you for watching Nailed It, what else should we try?
- Bye!
- I really did try.
- Yeah, we all tried so hard
and we spent like 10 dollars on this.
- We spent more than 10 bucks,
that was not a cheap undertaking
- Yeah.
- [Mom] Happy Birthday, Lola.
- Thank you!
(laughter)