Hey guys, it's Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies! Today I have 2 very special, talented guests. It's Lindsey and Mark!
L&M: Wassup
R: You know Lindsey, we've baked together, we friends, we've been in each other's videos, but Mark is very new he's never baked with us before so welcome. SKir Skirt
M: First timer, think you
R: I am so excited to have you guys, I'm gonna put all of their links down below
so if you're not following them go follow, go show them some love
I am so excited because they are working on a new project, tell us about it. You're on the new season of what??
L: Dancing with the Stars!
Mark is challenged with the task of teaching me how to dance a new dance every single week
R: This is #TeamStark right here, yeah, that's house Stark
L: She knows, you're a true fan, I like this. R: I know what's up
L: And Ro came and watched us this week. It was so fun
R: I got to watch them live they are amazing and if you guys want to support them
I'm gonna be putting links to all of the information down below.
You can watch every Monday, and you can call in and vote or you can vote online.
What are we gonna be making today Lindsey?
L: We are going to be making a disco ball cake to look like a mirror ball trophy from Dancing with the Stars
R: I am so excited about this guys!
All: Let's get started!
R: The things you'll need to make this cake will be 2 cups and 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour, 2 cups of sugar,
1 cup of cake flour, 2 and a half cups of whole milk,
M: 3/4 cup of oil, 3 eggs,
and we'll just be using the egg whites, 1 teaspoon of almond extract, 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
2 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 and a quarter teaspoons of salt.
All: Now let's put it all together!
R: That was, that was, I brought that
L: I learned that from Mark
R: First step to making your cake, mix together our dry
ingredients in a large mixing bowl
Lindsey I'ma have you pour in the flour, cake flour, perfect perfect. Mark, will you pour in the sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Whisk together until well combined. L: Okay, whisking is this whisking? R: Yeah, just big circles,
big circles, and try to keep the ingredients in the bowl. It's a good tip. I make messes all the time
All right that looks pretty good! L: I feel like everything should be a dance move to stay in theme. R: oh, yeah, can you teach me an eight-count?
L: Absolutely! Mark can do that no problem. R: One two three four five six seven eight!
M: Oh there you go, yeah, wow
Okay our next step is gonna be mixing up our wet ingredients,
and we're gonna be starting with the egg whites. R: So what I like to do is the jiggle method. I'm gonna give each of you
an egg. L: Oh this is precious. R: We got this
Crack the egg,
they're gonna
let the egg white
drop into the bowl and just jiggle the yolk back and forth and then bring the yolk over here. Go for it,
just go for it. You got it. If the yolk falls in you can always fish it out. That's okay! We got a spoon!
L: No I got it I got it! M: She got it she got it! R: Oh okay you got it
Okay
L: Very precise yes. R: Yes. I'm very proud you guys yes, okay, let's go wash our hands
Now, add your oil and your milk. Nice pour
That was a good one and your extracts we have vanilla and almond ooh. This the double poor guys
You want to whisk again? Yes so much control you guys that is you're a
Talented violin years of practice is this it right you hold on all right. That's beautiful positioning is this too much
Cause you're reeling up never enough for the maturation
Give me you gotta make that violin face, which is kind of like
Your violin face leave mark has a guitar. I have a horrible guitar face. What's your guitar piano?
Violin bass guitar bass. I need a baking face
Right so we have our dry ingredients and our wet ingredients
Yes pour all of the wet ingredients into the dry mix together one more time
Lindsay you're gonna. Just mix it up. You were the official mixing it up all the day well. Thanks
muscles yeah
Use these muscles mark where you got him for what dance moves should I do to get a six-pack you know?
There's a move in the Samba called Lewis no way
You should do it. You just step side and bounce back and bounce it's called a Samba whisk
That's it dad done. So you're whisking while whisking
Here I have a baking sheet lined with a piece of parchment paper with the pans on top, so if there's any spillage in the
Oven it's okay
This is our ball pan from the row baking line, and you place them on top of these little silicone liners
So if you leave Eliza's it so take it away, just eyeball it. That's the technique. I like to use just pour in the back
You got it lady. You got it pink recipe was perfectly developed to fit for this pan
So just make it as even as possible Wow Lindsey that effort look at that every dry cavity look at that
That's called flexibility good well
Before we bake these we should make sure they're completely flat
So they don't spill out while we bake just on just a little bit
We're gonna put them in the oven now at
325 degrees for an hour and a half so our cakes have baked and they've had plenty of time to cool
So what's next?
I leveled them so any excess off the top and on one of the cakes whatever one you want to be the bottom
Just cut a little off so the cake will sit flat in front of mark. We got a
Turntable which makes icing a little bit easier, and I've got a little cake plate. I've cut it to be small
I'm gonna stick this right in the middle, and this is to make it easier to move your cake Lindsey
I'm gonna hand this to you. All right
And then just place it right on top of our little circle cake plate boom in a piping bag
I have some buttercream icing with a number 1 a - so just ice the top ok
I'm gonna trust you. Just put a little icing and then we'll smooth it out with a spatula
When the I love her so much
Marks you're gonna hold it flat like this and then just spin away oh
I'm so tense right now look how smooth. This is this is great. Don't worry about marks mistakes
Yeah easy peasy worrying about your mistakes
We have dancers laughing I'm gonna pay for that comment boom
That and now I'm about to frost the outside of the cake and we're help it out. This is hopefully teamwork
It doesn't need to look perfect because we give them and cover the cake with
Square so it looks like a disco ball
I
Just might look so terrible doesn't look bad. Yeah, that's really sweet ro I
Have to take a picture
My debauchery you know it's good
So once you get all the icing on the cake use your spatula to smooth it out
And you can keep doing this and go around a bunch of times until you get it nice and smooth
This is calming to watch you do that
This is therapeutic you guys ever fall down a rabbit hole on Instagram watching food videos my wife can just watch Food Network
That's all we really shit at home like
Love in front of Lindsay. There is a piece of rolled out white fondant
I place down a little piece of wax paper so that it won't stick to your work surface
And we are going to spray it with silver color mist and we got to shake it first okay. Now. We can use our damp
Thank you go for it
Cover it all over then while it's still wet we're gonna add a little bit of edible disco
Dust when you guys came out of that little cocoon your butterfly costume. I was like oh
Nice job mark you were working hard you were weird, and yeah, you did a great job
And now we are going to cut out these little half-inch cookie cutter squares
These are like the smallest square cookie cutters that they think I own
and if you don't have these you can use a sharp cutting knife these will be the
Mirrored tiles all the way around the disco ball we transferred our cake onto our cake display to look like a mirror ball trophy
Now this is really neat you can display the cake on many different things
You can just leave it on a plate or a cake tray
But I took a candle pillar and painted it so it would look like the trophy
So do we get to use these little squares now? Oh yeah, now it's time for my favorite part
It is time to decorate take some fondant squares
And I like to start in the middle and place them all over the cake for the final decoration step
This is totally optional because you can just leave it as a disco ball
It will still look like a mirror ball trophy
But I've cut out of white fondant the letters Dancing with the Stars
You can cut these letters out using simple letter cookie cutters
And I'm painting them gold with some edible gold dust mixed with a couple drops of almond extract
Once your gold letters are done use a little bit of icing and place them on the cake to say Dancing with the Stars
Here is the disco ball mirror ball trophy cake that we made today in honor of Dancing with the Stars a big
Thank you to Lindsey and Mark. Thank you guys for being here and helping me bake this. This is so special. Oh, it's beautiful
It turned out so cute you guys and again
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my girl
All right, thanks so much, and if you guys have any other ideas for any other nerdy never you
Please 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