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Pot of Gold Cake Pops for Saint Patricks Day

March 1, 2014 by Jenn

Happy March! Now that it is officially March, I can start thinking all things St Patrick’s Day! And all things Spring, but that is WAY too much to ask here in Canada. So I’ll stick to Leprechauns and Pot’s of Gold. I think that every kid has once thought that if they could just get to the end of that rainbow, there would be a gleaming pot of gold at the end of it. I’m still trying to find it, aren’t you? I think I’ll have better odds if I take up playing the lottery. Aren’t your odds of winning the lottery less than they are of being struck by lightning? I guess that means that my odds of finding a pot of gold are even slimmer than the lottery. Besides, playing the lottery is a lot less work! It’s mountainous around these ‘ere parts. It’s me and the lottery now.

Since now that I’ve given up trying to find the end of the rainbow, I’ll just have to stick with making a pot of gold!! Making these cake pops is pretty standard, but with a little twist of putting them upside down, voila, you have the rim of the pot!! Genius, I know. Since it takes the royal icing rainbow so long to dry, you might want to start with those a day early. If you can’t find black melting chocolate, you can also use brown. I tried brown in my practice versions, and it looked great too! Also, when it comes to the yellow sugar pearls, you can use any small round sprinkle/candy for the “gold”, or even just regular yellow/gold sanding sugar.

Have fun, and good luck searching.

I’m off to buy a lottery ticket.

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Filed Under: Cake Pops, Holiday Baking, Tutorials, Videos Tagged With: cake pop, gold, lucky, pot of gold, pot of gold cake pop, rainbow, saint patrick, Saint Patrick's Day, saint patricks day cake pop, st patrick's day, St Patricks, st patricks day cake pops

Baking Bloopers Part 3

February 26, 2014 by Jenn

O.k., my ego is being burst with the recent string of Blooper videos we’ve been posting. I think Paul is having WAY too much fun digging through our old footage to find ways that I embarrassed myself. I do it so naturally, it’s sad. He’s given himself some air time too, which I appreciate, as it lets the viewers know that he’s there, and that I’m not the only screw up in this show! If you can’t laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at? Me, I guess!

Enjoy!

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Rainbow Fruit Kebob with a Watermelon Grill

February 22, 2014 by Jenn

While we were in LA last week, we shot a video with Don Monopoli from The Learning Station, who is a very talented children’s entertainer. You’re probably thinking, how can a food based channel and a kids music channel doing a collab together? You put a Kindergarten teacher into the mix!

I first discovered The Learning Station a number of years ago while looking for fun songs to sing and dance to in my class. I had a couple of CD’s and subscribed to their channel when they started up on YouTube, so when I found out that Don was going to be in the same program we were in LA, I knew we had to do a collab. The kids in my class LOVE watching The Learning Station videos and LOVE dancing to the songs. They wave at Don every time the intro plays and let out a big “HI DON!” and wave to him excitedly. One of the girls really likes him as she thinks he’s “handsome”! If you have young kids, this is the BEST channel to subscribe to! Together with his wife Laurie, Don has created award winning songs, CD’s and travels all around doing live performances!

For our videos together, we decided to do a Rainbow Fruit Kebob on our channel and the Fruit and Veggie Hokey Pokey on Don’s channel. Since we were in LA, I wanted to use the fresh fruit that is available all year round there. It’s a nice healthy change from the regular treats on our channel, but I definitely won’t be sticking with it, sorry for those of you who are more health conscious!

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Filed Under: No Bake Desserts, Tutorials, Videos Tagged With: fruit kabob, fruit skewers, rainbow, rainbow fruit kebob

Dessert Fruit Pizza

February 16, 2014 by Jenn

The only thing that could possibly make pizza better than the greatest food it already is, is turning it into a dessert!! This pizza is not the ordinary kind; it has a shortbread crust, cream cheese and cinnamon sauce, and is topped with tons of fresh fruit!

We filmed this video while we were down in LA last week and it was quite the battle. We were all set up to go when a security guard pulled up and asked if we had a permit for filming where we were. We, said yes, YouTube knows we’re shooting here, and she said that it was not YouTube’s property that we were standing on. We were literally five meters from the YouTube parking lot in some bushy area. So, rather than attempt to fill out a form, pay a fee and wait for permission, we packed up and moved all of our stuff onto YouTube property. The parking lot to be exact. You have to love LA and it’s over abundance of requiring filming permits everywhere! The security guard was just doing her job, but the property line was so close, it seemed absolutely ridiculous at the time. So there we are in the parking lot, trying to have it not look like we were surround by asphalt and cars, and the wind starts blowing. If you’ve ever been outside and tried to talk on the phone when the wind is blowing, you’ll know that it’s next to impossible for the person on the other end to hear you. All they hear is “shsshshshshshshhshsh”. The same goes with microphones when you’re filming! So the wind was causing problems with the sound, and the wind also stirred something up that had my eyes burning and watering, nose running, and skin itching! It was ridiculous! In every shot I’m sniffing, I look like I’m scowling (but really I just can’t use my eyes) and I want to scratch my skin off. It sucked! Somehow we managed to shoot a video through all of this, and Paul did his magic and turned it into something watch-able. It took him DAYS to edit. I felt so bad, and so guilty!

The positive aspect to this shoot was that I got to work together with Maangchi! She is a legendary Korean chef and has a YouTube channel of the same name- Maangchi. She is the sweetest and spunkiest person you will ever meet! Make sure you check it out, subscribe to her and check out the random costumes/accessories she wears in her videos . . . she’s an inspiration to me to be more relaxed with my videos and to have more FUN. Earlier in the day, before the security guard incident, we shot a video for her channel called Kimchi Stew and she showed me the ins and outs of how to make it, which is a backpacking type meal in Korea. It was so good. Like, so good. I hadn’t ever had Korean food before as I don’t count the one time I have tried kimchi as “Korean food”. The stew was spicy, hearty and crunchy, which is unlike any stew I had ever had in Canada before . . . and it had fish in it.

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Filed Under: Backpack Baking, Other Baked Goodies, Tutorials, Videos Tagged With: Backpack Baking, dessert, dessert pizza, fruit pizza, pizza

BLOOPERS Part 2- Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio

February 14, 2014 by Jenn

I like to maintain that the quality of the product that you get to watch on our YouTube channel is the quality with which I live my life. Hahahahaha . . . I doubt I’m fooling anyone. Since I know that I am FAR from perfect, I thought that sharing with you some of our bloopers from the last year or so would be good for your soul. Laughing is good for your soul. Laughing AT me is very good for your soul.

What I personally love about watching these clips is that I don’t remember doing any of them! Except the snake one by the lake. Snakes seriously gross me out. I am super embarrassed that Paul put those two hand-held GoPro shots in at the end of the video as I didn’t have any makeup on, and if you can’t guess the second reason, then that makes me happy! It’s (THEY’RE) kind of obvious!

So settle in, and have a laugh at me. I can take it.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake: Reeses Cake

February 8, 2014 by Jenn

This cake is a chocolate peanut butter lovers dream. If you need more convincing than that, feel free to keep on reading, but if you’re sold, just skip to the recipe and video!

Peanut butter is something that I cannot live without. I have it for breakfast, I have it for a snack with celery, I have it on my frozen yogurt. I love it. If I suddenly woke up one day with a peanut allergy. I would be crushed! My school is a peanut free facility, and thankfully for parents there are lots of peanut-free peanut butters. Um, what? Peanut butter sans peanuts. I’m glad I’m not five and having to eat that! I can’t imagine that it tastes very good . . . maybe I’ll just have to ask one of my kids if I can have a bite of their sandwich and try it. Hahahahahaha. I wouldn’t, don’t worry.

I can remember loving Reece’s Peanut Butter cups as a child but now, I don’t really care for them because I’ve had many peanut butter and chocolate themed desserts that are better. We’re talking buckeyes, mousse cups, fudge, cookies, brownies, pies! So many choices. When I set out to make this recipe, I wanted it to be completely over the top, encompassing all of my favourite aspects of each of these peanut butter chocolate recipes. I wanted the peanut butter flavour to be light, fluffy, inside and outside of the cake. I wanted it to be dripping chocolate! I wanted it to be pretty and I wanted it to be tasty. I definitely achieved my goals with this cake!

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Filed Under: Cakes Tagged With: chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter cake, chocolate peanut butter ganache, ganache, Mousse, peanut butter, peanut butter cup cake, peanut butter cups, peanut butter ganache, peanut butter mousse, reece's, reece's cake, reece's peanut butter cup cake, reece's peanut butter cups, Reeses Cake

How to Make a Pink Zebra Cake

February 4, 2014 by Jenn

It is sunny and warm in LA!! We are in LA again for a week of filming and workshops at YouTube Space LA, and it has been so nice to escape the dreary winter weather we’d been having up in Canada. It feels like paradise right now . . . short sleeves, bare legs . . . American Target. Life is good! All I need now is a sprinkle covered cupcake and it would be complete. As I alluded to last post, it’s not all happiness right now, my friend on-screen and off, Beth from the YouTube channel CookingandCrafting, is going through some very challenging times with a sick family member. If you know Beth you will know how close she is with her family. They need your help. If you can donate any amount, please consider sending it to her brother Scott to help him on his road to recovery. The link to the medical fundraiser is here- http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/help-scott-get-better-/133503.

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Filed Under: Cakes Tagged With: black, black and white cake, black cake, black white pink cake, cake, fondant cake, how to make, how to make zebra cake, jungle, jungle cake, pink, pink cake, pink zebra cake, striped cake, surprise cake, Vanilla Cake, white, white cake, zebra cake

How to Make Banana Split Cupcakes

February 1, 2014 by Jenn

So we’re on our way again to LA to visit YouTube Space LA tomorrow and we’ll finally be able to announce the program that we’ve been working with YouTube on for the last 6 months! Keeping a secret for that long has been hard. It’s not exactly a secret that we’ve been in LA . . . you can tell by the random places/kitchen’s we were filming in in August and November (expect some more soon too!) What we’ve had to keep secret is exactly what (other than videos) we’ve been doing there. When we’re officially allowed to announce it, I’ll be sure to let you know what we got to work on! I’ve got a little black cloud hanging over me though as my program bestie isn’t going to be able to make it as she has an incredibly sick family member. But, it’s looking as though he is over the worst part and is on the road to healthy.

On to the cupcakes . . .

The idea for these cupcakes came to me while I was shopping in our local grocery store . . . the Superstore. Canada is so original in it’s naming of stores. I knew I had a delicious banana cupcake recipe, and a ton of ripe bananas ready to be smashed into something delicious, so I grabbed these long baking trays. . . they’re meant for baking breads and gift giving. If you’re looking for your own and can’t find any by looking for banana split stuff, try searching for “food tray” or “hot dog tray”.

In the video, I left the cupcake wrappers on the cupcakes as I put them into the tray. Honestly, I was sure about whether to remove them or not. I think if I was to go back and actually eat the banana split, having the wrappers on the cupcakes might eating it a little bit difficult . . . but then if you were sharing it, you might want the wrappers so your cupcake doesn’t touch the other person’s spoon?!?!? I just don’t know!!

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Filed Under: Cupcakes Tagged With: banana, banana cupcakes, banana dessert, banana split, banana split cupcakes, chocolate ganache, cupcakes, ganache, maraschino cherry, sprinkles

Pot of Gold Cake Pops for Saint Patricks Day

Baking Bloopers Part 3

Rainbow Fruit Kebob with a Watermelon Grill

Dessert Fruit Pizza

BLOOPERS Part 2- Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake: Reeses Cake

How to Make a Pink Zebra Cake

How to Make Banana Split Cupcakes

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