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Kermit the Frog Cake / Muppets Cake using Green Velvet Cake

March 16, 2014 by Jenn

I don’t often get sick, but when I do, I get SICK.  Being a Kindergarten teacher, I have had my fair share of minor colds and coughs, but this year, a doozy of one hit my class, and inevitably, me.  I ended up on pneumonia antibiotics and was given an inhaler to feel better, both of which worked and I am so happy to be back in the land of the vertical!  While I was in bed, I had lots of time to plan ideas for future videos, so I have tons of ideas to turn into fabulous cakes and desserts!  Just as soon as I stop coughing.    

The idea for this Kermit the Frog cake came from my desire to use my giant cupcake mold, and the fact that the new Muppets movie is coming out at the end of the month!  I’ve had a metal giant cupcake mold for years, but I recently got this new silicone one, and highly recommend it.  When using the metal one, I would generously coat it with non-stick spray, and the top portion would always stick and never come out in one piece.  I haven’t had this problem with the silicone mold once.  Each time both pieces of the cupcake pop out easily.  If you’ve ever had a cake stick to the pans and break when coming out, you know how annoying it can be. 

 Kermit takes a leading role for the new movie, Muppets Most Wanted, and according to the movie synapse, there is a Kermit the Frog look-alike and a jewel heist involved.  It sounds like a great one to take the kids to and obviously if there are two Kermit’s, you must make a Kermit cake! 

 

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Leprechaun Hat Cupcakes for Saint Patrick’s Day

March 4, 2014 by Jenn

We just got another monumental dump of snow, like a foot of it.  How can that be?  It’s MARCH?!  I’ve been trying to think up of fun spring things to make and it’s so hard when I don’t remember what grass looks like.  I think we need to move.  Somewhere southern.  I need a Leprechaun to grant me my wish to move.

Leprechauns, according to Irish folklore, are a fairy type creature in the form of an old man, usually up to mischievous acts.  According to Wikipedia, “Leprechauns spend all their time busily making shoes, and store away all their coins in a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If ever captured by a human, the Leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for their release.”  Listen Leprechaun, I need sun.  I need heat.  I need real Vitamin D!   Get me that, please! 

I’d like to announce now that I have Irish in my blood, so don’t attack me with a righteous claim that I am being stereotypical, or somehow making fun of Irish traditions.  Because I know I am.  And I can.  I’m one of you. 

Besides, do you really think that I would go chasing after a little green fairy man in order to beg for the snow to disappear? 

Yes, yes, I would.

 

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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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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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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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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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How to Make a Heart Shaped Cake / Valentine’s Day Cake

January 25, 2014 by Jenn

 

For this cake you don’t need to have a special pan.  Though that would have been funny . . . “Here’s how you make a heart shaped cake.  Take you heart shaped cake pan….”  Annnnnnnnnd….CUT!  Video done.  

I have a sad sense of humour.  

But seriously, this is a really easy way to make a heart shaped cake without the special pan.  Collecting all of the awesome shaped pans is a storage nightmare.  I recently just sold over 20 shaped character pans because seriously, when am I going to use those and they take up SO much room!  I saved a couple of my favourites though to make a couple videos with. 

The strawberries on top of this cake add a beautiful pop of red to the cake, and I love the white/red contrasting colours.  You could use any fruit though and I think it would still look beautiful.  It would also make for a great wedding cake and you could theme the fruit with the colours of the wedding party!  The possibilities are endless.

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Rainbow Ice Cream Cake Recipe: How to Make a Rainbow Ice Cream Cake

January 18, 2014 by Jenn

 

I’ve wanted to make an ice cream cake for a while now, as I dream about the cookie crumb filling that Dairy Queen layers in their ice cream cakes!  I’m drooling, just thinking about it.  I found the perfect imitation of it, and it is so simple- just Oreos and fudge/ganache.  It provides a crunchy base for this bright vanilla ice cream cake.

I’m not a huge fan of vanilla ice cream, but I swear I can taste rainbows when I bite into this one.  It’s like a magical explosion in your mouth.  With that explosion from the colour, and they the overwhelming delight with the cookie crust, this cake not only looks amazing, it tastes fabulous!  If you’re not a fan of vanilla like me, you could replace the vanilla ice cream with pretty much any light flavoured ice cream that would work to dye.

The only difficulty when assembling this cake is getting your ice cream to be the perfect consistency in order for it not to be a melted mess, but soft enough to be able to mix the colouring into it.  I brought the ice cream out about half an hour before I wanted to make the first layer, and just left it out while I did each layer. It was kind of a sloppy mess at the end, but it worked!

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