Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we're cooking in the
mini kitchen ... but I'm filming in virtual reality which means that you can look
all around by yourself! You can either do that in the YouTube app by tilting your
phone or in a VR headset or on a computer by clicking on the arrows in
the top left corner to look around. We're also going to be decorating this bedroom
and we have this new bathroom that we're going to be decorating too so I'll
bring you back into the kitchen and we'll get started with the baking
first. What we're going to be doing is making a mini pavlova so the first thing
we need to do is take our mini eggs and then carefully break the eggs open and let
the egg whites drop into the bowl and then you just keep swapping your egg
yolk between your shells until all that white is out. This can be hard to do with
the normal sized egg but it is so fiddly with a mini egg ... then you can put your
yolk into the separate bowl and continue to do that with the rest of your eggs.
Put those leftover egg yolks in the fridge and you can use them in a
different recipe we don't need them for this one. Now we're going to get those
egg shells and just pop those into the cute little bin. Then we need to weigh
out our sugar so I'll get the scales and put those there. We don't need this bowl
anymore so let's put that over by the sink and grab the sugar ... it's important
when you're baking to weigh out your ingredients, some recipes are more
finicky than others for example macarons need to be exact. Other ones are not so
bad if you're a little bit different with your measures but generally with
baking if you weigh out your ingredients you're more likely to succeed. Add this
sugar in with the egg whites and put the scale back over there because we
don't need that one now and we don't have much room. Oh I nearly dropped the
bowl ... little things are very fiddly to handle with big hands.
and then I've got a little bit here of cream of tartar just add that in as well
a little bit of acid just helps to stabilize the egg whites so you get a
nice stiff meringue. Then what you want to do is just whip that up and keep
whipping until the egg white froths right up and thickens to make stiff peaks like
this. Pop those over in the sink and then we need to grab a baking tray ...oops!
make sure you line your tray with baking paper so that the pavlova doesn't stick
to it, then grab a spoon and put your meringue onto your tray. Now you can
spread this out however you like, normally if I'm making a pav it's not
this mini of course but I like to spread it out into a circle shape. It might
actually be easier to use a spatula to do this and to spread it out a little
bit more. That's looking better beautiful ... Can you see that there? I'll lift it up
for you. We've got a little Pav ready to bake. So
now we need to light the oven, this is something that I really can't do with
miniature matches because obviously I would burn my fingers and then we use
that to light the oven.
Then put the miniature pav into the oven to bake and while that's baking we can
come over and work on the bedroom. Let's start by moving in the bigger pieces of
furniture like the bed and then we can make everything else fit around that.
Everybody asks me where I get my miniatures from I buy some stuff and I
make some stuff so for example I bought this bed and then ripped off all the
bedding because I didn't like it and hand stitched all the little pillows and
sheets and then I actually thought it would be nicer if I put a quilt on top
of it and this pleated fabric that looks like a quilt is cut off a pretty
pillowcase that I found in the second-hand store. I also think we're
gonna need some sort of window dressing a curtain would be nice right there just
drawn to one side. I think that's gonna look good making sure it's straight I
think that is you tell me if it's straight or not. some bedside tables
would definitely be good next to the bed, you need somewhere to put your books and
stuff and then we probably need something on them actually because they
look a bit plain ... how about a lamp just on that one? That looks lovely but it
makes the wall look a bit plain so let me just add in a make it a great week
print onto the wall at the bedhead and I think a blanket box is always very
handy to store all your linen especially if there's no linen cupboard in the
house like this one doesn't have. So if we open that up then we can just put a
towel in there just like that and close it back over. how about we add in a
dressing table right over here on that blank wall ... hmm that's gonna need
something on it too isn't it. How about a couple of vases just on one side
and then some mini perfume bottles on the other side. Now this little bassinet
I saw this at the miniature shop and I really liked it because it's so cute so
I thought let's just add that in there as well. I think that that looks pretty good
for our bedroom I think that looks finished what do you think?
and I'm just gonna move this dolls house here ... it even opens and closes how cute
is that? imagine having three in it just small enough to put inside there. Alright
let's check on our Pav ... open up the oven and pull it out, there we go that is
looking good! Look at that put that there and close up the oven. Now we need to
blow that out that's going to be a little bit tricky because I can't get my
head in now that there's a roof on this mini kitchen. Make sure you do look up at
the roof because it took me quite a while to make all those lights up there
and all the cornices as well around the edge and let's put these dirty dishes
over by the sink so that we've got a bit more room. We're going to need to wait a
couple of minutes for our pavlova to cool and then we're gonna need a platter
to put it on. Let's see if this is cool enough now yep everything cools down
very quickly when it's mini if it was a big Pav you'd need to wait at least an
hour or two for this to cool down. Now I can move those out of the way over there
and we need a bowl for the cream and the cream is in the fridge of course so
let's grab that out and close the fridge and then pour the cream into the bowl.
Grab a whisk and whip it up until it's whipped. I used to always use
electric mixers for this but nowadays I'm doing a lot of hand whisking
especially if it's only a small amount because it actually whips up pretty
quickly. Before you know you've got it whipped and it's good to go. Tip that
cream onto the meringue and spread it out you do need to make sure that the
pavlova is cold before you do this or the cream will just melt and drip off.
Now before we add the fruit we might just go and make the bathroom ... first
things first let's add in a bath. now I think we're a bit too close to the
camera here so I'm gonna move back and you're just gonna have to look to your
right to see the bathroom. I'll add in a sink and a toilet and if
you're having a bath you'll of course need a towel on a rack and why not have
a mirror on the wall add that in and a bathmat and that's it for our
bathroom that's done. let's move the bowl off the counter in the kitchen
and the jug and now we need some fruit to put on top of our pavlova. I've
already chopped mine up in the fridge and let's just put that leftover cream
back into the fridge there. Open the lid of the fruit and then use a spoon to add
your fruit on top. I'm using strawberry blueberry and raspberry. I really like
the sort of acidity of the raspberry because that kind of contrasts with the
super sweetness of the meringue so it gives a nice balance there but you can
use whatever you like. put your leftover fruit in the fridge or in the freezer if
you want to use it for smoothies and we have our finished pavlova. Thanks for
joining me in the mini kitchen today. I hope you enjoyed looking around in VR. To
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Friday 💕