- Hi, I'm Rie.
Today, a friend will be challenging me
to take a popular food and make it fancy.
Today's friend is Alix.
Let's see what she wants me to make fancy today.
- Hey, Rie, it's Alix.
So today I'm gonna challenge you to make one of my favorite
sweet treats fancy and that is Skittles.
They're cute, they're colorful, they are sweet and sour.
If there's anyone who can do this, it's you.
I believe in you and I can't wait to see what you make.
Good luck.
- Skittles, I think I had one of their varieties.
If Alix is a candy, I think she will be Skittles.
It's very colorful, bold flavor.
They have grape, lemon, green apple, strawberry, orange.
They say that but they usually don't taste like that.
Let's try green.
Oh, it's a little chewy.
I thought it was hard candy.
It's not bad.
Grape tastes a little like cough syrup.
I like chewy texture.
I like the harder shell.
I like the flavor of green and the yellow.
I think it's gonna be fun to play around with.
Alix is one of my best friends,
so I'm excited to make it fancy.
(bright music)
All right, here's what I got.
Raspberries, kumquats,
strawberries, lemons,
eggs, butter,
heavy cream, milk, and buttermilk.
From the pantry I got powdered sugar,
condensed milk, vanilla extract,
food coloring, salt,
baking soda, flour,
sugar, and vodka.
All right, let's get started.
(packet rattling)
Skittles, it's upside down. (Producer laughs)
Make it fancy, Skittles.
(gentle music)
So first I'm going to separate Skittles by color.
I feel like I've seen Alix doing this
for "I Draw, You Cook."
but I don't remember which candy she used.
Right, so I separated Skittles by color.
Add 1/4 cup of water,
1/4 cup of the Skittle.
I'm going to melt.
This kind of gives me the phobia.
I think anything round is cute
but if something all together makes me uncomfortable.
Yeah, it's very artificial smell.
The Skittles completely melted,
so I'm going to put it in a bowl, clean the pan,
do the same thing with green and purple.
2 1/2 cup of heavy cream
and one can of condensed milk.
Start with lower speed because it is very liquidy.
Once it's a little bit thicker,
go full blast until thick like this.
Yeah, this is easy ice cream recipe.
Divide it into three bowls.
- [Producer] Where do you think Skittles were invented?
- Skittles is made by Mars, so I think it's England.
- [Producer] You are correct.
(Rie laughs)
It seems like American candy somehow.
- [Producer] Do you have a guess
as to when they were invented?
- 1973?
- [Producer] 1974.
- I always miss like one year. (laughs)
Add two tablespoon each melted Skittles.
And a Skittle is so bright,
if you mix together with like white cream
the color kind of disappear,
so I'm gonna use a little bit of food color,
same thing with green and purple.
I think Alix would like it because she likes light color
and she likes Skittles and she likes ice cream.
Put this ice cream into cake pan
but I line cake pan with plastic wrap
so when you take it out it's easier.
You also want to use a little bit oil underneath it.
I tend to like a little bit muted color than loud color.
It's easy on the eyes.
Freeze this at least six hours, preferably overnight.
We have a tub freezer.
I'm going to put in a tub freezer
so I can shortcut the time.
While it's freezing
I'm going to use more Skittles with alcohol.
I have vodka, use one cup.
One cup is a lot of vodka.
(Everyone laughs)
Add 1/2 cup of skittles.
I'm using yellow lemon flavor for this.
Bring it to simmer.
Skittle infused vodka.
I like using brandy or rum for pastry,
but this is some special thing (laughs) for Alix.
Once Skittles are starting to break down,
cover, remove from the heat,
let it dissolve completely.
Let it sit until it comes down to room temperature.
It takes about 30 minutes.
I have one stick butter room temperature,
1 1/2 cup of sugar,
cream this together. (mixer whirring)
Okay.
Add in the room temperature egg one by one
because butter is room temperature,
so if you put cold egg it will separate.
And make sure everything is incorporate
before adding another egg.
Okay, pressing is incorporated.
So 2 1/2 cup of flour,
half teaspoon of salt,
one teaspoon of baking soda,
just mix well.
Lemon,
And I'm going to just use whole lemon.
1/2 cup of buttermilk, lemon juice in here.
I'm squeezing over my hand so I can catch seeds.
- [Producer] Did you notice
if there were more yellow Skittles than all the other ones?
Apparently that's a thing.
- Oh, I always notice like the color balance
is very inconsistent.
I have 1/2 cup of Skittles vodka,
and mix with buttermilk and lemon juice.
Next I'm gonna add wet and dry ingredients,
alternate starting with dry.
So the reason why we alternate, if you put dry ingredients
and wet ingredients all together, you tend to over mix it.
And I'm adding one teaspoon of vanilla.
(mixer whirring)
I have two eight inch cake mold
lined with parchment paper and glazed.
Divide cake batter into two pans.
I just wanted to make it flat. (pan tapping)
Bake this at 350 for 25 minutes to 30 minutes
and do the toothpick test,
and when toothpick comes out clean it's ready.
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Okay, so I'm going to make buttercream frosting.
I have six sticks of unsalted,
room temperature butter.
A lot of butter and powdered sugar,
that's why you don't eat birthday cake every day.
So I'm going to use 48 ounce powdered sugar.
And you want to add powdered sugar little by little,
(mixer whirring)
scraping sides, and the blade once in a while.
I think Skittles is something you would eat
without thinking anything, like go to movie theater,
watching and eat like popcorn.
Right, so I used up all the sugar.
(mixer whirring)
The bottom is a little bit crumbly
so I'm going to add a little bit of milk
to make it smoother.
But make sure milk is room temperature
because butter is room temperature.
If you use cold milk, it will curdle.
And I'm adding three teaspoons
of vanilla extract for flavor.
(mixer whirring)
It looks nice and smells, so time to move on.
We use all five colors
and this is the last one, 1/4 cup of red Skittles.
You wanna process until it become very fine,
almost like a sand.
We use the little mesh thing.
Just wanna use the fine powder.
Look like crystal.
Add one tablespoon Skittle powder.
I think it's a little bit muted red
so I'm going to use food color to help the color pop.
- [Producer] Rie, do you remember the first time
you met Alix?
- Yes, I started working for Tasty
three months earlier than Alix
and Alix joined as an intern.
She was very outgoing
and it's kind of like opposite personality to me,
so I was a little bit scared of her, (laughs)
but we, you know, get to know each other well,
and now, you know, we are very close friend.
So don't judge people from their first impression,
is what I learned.
All right, I think this is good.
And I'm gonna paint the other,
other cream one with yellow.
Okay, yellow is done.
Last one is orange.
I think I like this color better
because it's a little bit muted with white butter cream.
So looks good.
So I divided buttercream into three bowls
and I kept a little bit for crumb coat.
I have baked and cooled the cake
and crumb coat vanilla buttercream frosting.
Put the serrated knife in half way,
cutting it until it is two even layers.
We are making four layers total.
And this is the ice cream we made earlier.
And second layer with orange.
Third layer, easy to handle, it's super frozen.
Last one.
So this is a little bit uneven
but I can use buttercream to make it even.
So I'm going to start crumb coat
so I can frost cake better.
We work fast because this is ice cream cake,
so you don't want it to melt.
Crumb coat, it's like a primer when you're painting wall.
So it doesn't need to be perfect,
and I'm going to freeze this for an hour.
One hour later.
So we have tinted buttercream,
and I'm going to decorate cake.
Start with yellow and adjust pipe,
kind of going for two thick ring
around the cake and orange and pink.
Put leftover frosting and you use bowl scraper
and scrape.
I have hot water in a bowl.
Make it warm.
So it's butter, so it kind of melts
with the hot temperature.
All right.
Sides look good.
Spread the gap.
When you decorate cake, I like to use little spatula
so you can control more.
So top's looking good, sides are looking great,
but we still have more step left, because it's Alix.
I put in a nice cake stand, but I think the bottom
is a little bit uneven.
So I'm going to use leftover buttercream and pipe
and hide some imperfection.
And I have some fruit samplers.
I'm going to decorate.
So decoration is freestyle.
You can use any fruits you have.
I have strawberries, raspberries, and kumquat.
So the decoration is mimicking the Skittles flavor
and we are done.
(gentle music)
Rainbow Skittles sherbet cake,
very fancy.
But we have to see what Alix thinks.
Let's call her up.
(whimsical music)
Alix.
- Hi, Rie! - Hi.
Welcome back to "Make It Fancy."
I sent you a mini version.
- You sent me what?
- Mini version.
- [Alix] I can't hear you.
I think I'm gonna call you back.
- Oh, okay.
- [Producer] Rie, so what happened?
- We are waiting, Alix is calling us back.
I think just like her wifi is not working well.
- Hello! (laughs) - Oh my god!
- Alix,
I missed you.
(Alix squeals) (Rie laughs)
- It looks so good. - Oh yeah.
Because of Buzzfeed role on the stage
we have to keep the distance apart
but I'm so glad to see you. - Especially out loud,
and you can still hear me from eight being by. (laughs)
- What do you think?
- It's beautiful.
It looks like a sunset.
- Almost look like you.
- (laughs) Why?
- It's like a colorful.
- I was thinking, I think it's been a couple of years.
We gotta update your dance.
- Okay, so can you choreograph?
- Make it fancy, (Rie laughs)
make it fancy.
Make it fancy.
- I can't do that.
- Wait can you tell,
ooh that was great. (Rie laughs)
All right, what do you got for me?
- Skittles sherbet cake.
You have a way of eating a cake-
- Oh I do know, I wanna go in the middle.
Wait, do I get the whole thing?
- I'm not gonna cut it.
- Wow, this is a dream come true.
- Alix always eat her cake from the middle.
- The middle is better.
Are you upset that I'm doing this?
- No.
- Wow, is it like ice cream cake?
(Rie laughs) - Oh.
People are gonna come after me for doing this to your cake
but oh well, she told me I could.
Ooh, it's so good.
Congratulations for making me a good cake.
- (laughs) Thank you.
♪ I asked for Skittles ♪
♪ She solved the riddle ♪
♪ The cake wasn't little ♪
♪ I ate the middle ♪
♪ Surprise Rie ♪
♪ She made it fancy ♪
(Rie cheers)
- You are so talented.
Alright, so we have one last thing to do.
- I know what it is.
- It's our tradition.
- [Both] Make it fancy.
(Rie laughs)
(whimsical music)