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OPI Nail Polish Bottle Cake:3-D Nail Polish Cake

January 10, 2015 by Jenn

We’re back!! We took a short break to recover from the excitement of 2014, and will be slowly getting back into the swing of things this month. To start off with our first video upload of 2015, I have a super fun 3D nail polish bottle cake to show you. I’ve recieved many requests for this type of a cake, so I’m happy to finally be able to bring it to life.

If you’ve been watching my YouTube channel for a while, you know that I always have my nails done. Some days are better than others, but they’re polished 99% of the time. Don’t check my old videos out though . . . I prove myself wrong in those. Teaming up with a fellow YouTuber for nail polish bottle cake was a must for me! One of the channels that I have been watching for quite sometime for nail art ideas, is IHaveACupcake! What a perfect name for a collaboration! Elizabeth has a fabulous channel full of beautiful nail art ideas. She explains everything so simply, that it makes me think I could actually do my nails myself! Make sure you check out her channel, subscribe to it, and you can also check her blog out here.

In Elizabeth’s video, she shows you how to make cupcake nail art and in mine, we show you how to make a carved nail polish bottle. You can follow the technique that I show you in the video to match your favourite nail polish brand. I just happen to have a lot of OPI bottles around, so I chose to go with that type of bottle. Customizing the nail polish bottle colour is totally up to you, and I went with purple as it’s my favourite colour.

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Fireworks New Year’s Cake

December 28, 2014 by Jenn

I think this year will be a great year for a NYE celebration! Paul and I had so many wonderful things happen to us in regards to YouTube in 2014 that we are super excited about what 2015 will be bringing us! We finished off a six month YouTube program in February with our third trip to YouTube Space LA, in the summer we took a two week working vacation to Vancouver Island and caught up with family and friends and filmed a fun video on the beach. October brought us to Toronto to take part in Buffer Festival, and that was a great experience to see how Canada’s YouTube branch does things. We celebrated 500K subscribers in the fall and hosted a giveaway that shut our blog down!! Lesson learned- we’ll have it ready for the 1M giveaway that we will be hitting sometime in early 2015. I can’t wait for that milestone! If you’re reading this, let me know in the comments what you think would be a gigantic way to celebrate it! We are very grateful for everything that has happened to us, and are so excited to plan 2015.

On to the cake for our New Years Eve celebration:

I purchased all of these New Year’s eve decorations at WalMart. Before Christmas had even happened, the stores were filled with NYE decorations and were pushing us onto the next celebration they could sell us stuff for. The candles and sparkles are available all year round, and I found those in the birthday section. The glitter ribbon I found in the crafting section, and it would be my guess that it is also available year round.

The fireworks are really easy to make and don’t require any templates. They are easy to freehand. The key to the fireworks is to make the centre the brightest, and to add the small dots and dashes around the outer rim. I practiced them a number of ways, and I found that those were the key to making it look most realistic.

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Christmas Cake with Snowman Macarons: Collab with Sugarcoder

December 20, 2014 by Jenn

Merry Christmas everyone! This is our last Christmas tutorial video for 2014, so I hope that you enjoy it.

For a special Christmas video this year, I joined up with my friend Miki who has the YouTube channel Sugarcoder. I was fortunate enough to have met Miki early this year, way back in February. She lives in San Francisco and flew to LA to meet Paul and I when we were filming at YouTube Space LA. She is one of the happiest and sweetest people I have met. She is always sending me presents . . . that’s not why I like her, but it speaks to her thoughtfulness.

Miki previously had a different YouTube channel (Miki’s Pantry) and recently started this new one as it was more true to the brand that she wanted to convey. I think that it was very brave of her to leave behind 60K subs to start all over again!

Making this cake is basically just assembling many prepared pieces. The links to everything you need to have prepared are in the recipe below, so make sure to check that out. I found that the candy canes were mostly broken inside their wrappers, so I opted to leave the wrappers on the candy canes in order to not have to deal with that issue. Just ensure that they are clean before placing them on to the cake.

Making macarons has always been a challenge for me, so when you head over to Miki’s channel, Sugarcoder, and try out her recipe, don’t get discouraged if you don’t succeed the first time. The first time I made french macarons, I failed four times until I got it right. Miki’s recipe is simple to follow, and she learned it first hand from a chef in San Francisco. Give it your best effort, and remember to keep practicing if you’re not successful the first time. Have fun!

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Penguins Of Madagascar Cake

November 19, 2014 by Jenn

My obsession with penguins started way back, long ago. Think 2005, Morgan Freeman, Antarctica, and you have the seed that planted and grew. March of the Penguins was the first time I had ever paid much attention to these birds-that-can’t-fly, but ever since, I have spent a month or so teaching and exploring about them in my kindergarten class. They are so fascinating!

When deciding which videos to make, I always try to make ones that have a level of interest to me as well as to the viewer. When I was looking at the up coming movie releases, and saw Penguins of Madagascar, I knew I had to do a cake for their solo movie debut!

They are the cutest penguins around, but surprisingly difficult to find in mini figurine form. I’ve linked to the ones I purchased on Amazon below in the list of ingredients, though I’m sure you could find them elsewhere if you look hard enough. Now, these penguins are obviously fictional, but you could easily replace them with a more realistic looking figurine if you wanted to just do a cake that focused on penguins, or even an iceberg.

The blue rock candy represents the ocean below the iceberg, while the penguins sit safely up on the glistening white iceberg. If you don’t have the blue rock candy available, or you want to make one giant iceberg, do away with the blue area, and cover the entire lower level in white/clear candies as well. I think that would look beautiful too.

The key to this cake is getting the glistening icy look by using the rock candies. You can make your own, or you can buy them in bulk like I did. They give the cake the shininess that most people associate with icebergs. Rock candy is also sold off the stick in chunks, so that is another option as well. And if all else fails, crush some suckers up!!

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How to Make a T-Shirt Shaped Rainbow Tie-Dye Cake

November 15, 2014 by Jenn

I used to run a home based bakery business (until my love of YouTube took over!) and during that time, my t-shirt shaped cake pan was one of my most used pans out of all of my shaped cake pans. I had so many of them that they were the first thing that I sold when I closed the business. I was SO happy to get rid of them.

I have a love/hate relationship with shaped cake pans- they are great as you don’t need to carve or structure the cake, but, they take up so much room! When I decided which ones to keep and which to sell, I kept the ones that I used for multiple projects, knowing that I would be able to use them in future videos, in multiple ways. This t-shirt pan can also be used for other cakes, which I’m sure I’ll be showing you at a later date.

Unfortunately as with all good things, they come to an end. Wilton has “discontinued” this cake pan, but I was able to find another similar cake pan on Amazon, and it you can get it here. It is basically the exact same cake pan, just with sharper, deeper sides. If you’re not up for purchasing a cake pan, you can always freehand carve a t-shirt out of a rectangle cake. That would save you a little bit of money, and a t-shirt is a pretty simple shape to make. Besides, we’ve all seen one so we should have a pretty good picture in our heads as to what one looks like!

I have wanted to make a cake into a tie-dye design for a while now, and when thinking up a reason, and a cake design, a t-shirt seemed like the natural way to go. When I think of tie-dye, I think t-shirts, peace, love and the 60’s! You can do this design on any cake- round, rectangle etc. To recreate it, start the piping gel spirals at the center of the cake, and work your way out, alternating colours as you want to.

Keeping your brush clean is the most onerous activity throughout the whole process. I would imagine having 100 brushes would make it a lot easier, but who has that many brushes? Washing the brush is important, as it helps to prevent the spreading of the colours where you don’t want them to be. You don’t HAVE to wash it, but your cake may end up being a lovely shade of brown if you don’t.

I hope you enjoy this project! Peace.

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Giant Cookie Cake with Leftover Halloween Candy

November 5, 2014 by Jenn

If you have a bunch of leftover candy from Halloween, this is the recipe for you! If you ate it all your Halloween candy, good news- it’s all on clearance at the local stores, so go and grab some more before it’s all gone! If you do not live where you participate in Halloween festivities, you can use any candy you want to! I’m solving all of the world’s problems this morning- finding solutions to a lack of candy. You’re welcome.

Some people (not naming names- ME) went out of town after purchasing Costco candy for all the trick-or-treators in the neighbourhood and have a ginormous bag of candy (that I don’t like) leftover- NEVER opened! Oops. If you’re like me, there is serious strategy to buying Halloween candy. I buy what you don’t like, and then you won’t eat it. Usually, that is a fail safe way ensure there is no snacking, BUT since I recieved so many requests for a new recipe on how to use up leftover candy, I had to go out and buy some. Had to. HAD to! Then I HAD to go out and buy more when we snacked our way through the chocolate candies. HAD TO PEOPLE!! YOU MADE ME!! I thank you for that. My pants don’t, but I do.

Making a giant cookie cake definitely saves time, rather than dishing out individual amount of dough to make smaller cookies. You can do this with this recipe, but the fun is in serving a slice to your family or friends. Triangular pieces are a change from the standard round cookie, as are chunks of candy! If you choose to roll these cookies into rounds, bake them for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown at 350F.

Whether you choose to make this the traditional way, or in it’s giant cookie form as seen in our tutorial, it’s a delicious, and fast way to use up any candy/chocolate you might have hanging around!

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Cherpumple: Triple Layer Pie in a Cake

November 1, 2014 by Jenn

What to call a pie in a cake?? A “pake”? A “cie”? Or what about “Cherappkin”? Appcherrkin? Pumpcherple? CHERPUMPLE!

I think I’m going to stick with “Pie in a cake”. It much easier to figure out what in the world I’m talking about!

This cake is admittedly time consuming since you have to bake three pies ahead of time, as well as prepare two types of cake batter. It’s definitely an investment in your life, but it is bound to impress anyone that looks at it. And most likely they’ll have to look at it twice to figure out what in the world they are looking at!

To make the investment of time shorter, using premade pies from a grocery store bakery work excellently, as does using box mixes for the cake batter. In the recipe below I have provided the link to all of our homemade versions of the pies, and cakes, if you are so inclinded for this big project.

Since the cake was such a big project, I went with an easy, light covering. Instead of using a heavy buttercream, I thought whipping cream would be best paired with the cakes/pies. After all, there is a lot going on in this cake, so the last thing it needed was another element to confuse the taste buds.

You can choose to go with any flavour of cake batter, as well as any type of pie when you’re making your own version of this. The hardest part of that will be trying to name it!

When you’re baking your pies, make sure that they are at least an inch (2 centimeters) smaller than your cake pan. This will ensure that there is just enough room for the cake batter to completely envelop the pie. You want to make sure that you spread the cake batter on the bottom, sides and top so that the batter prevents any of the pie from escaping while baking- especially in the fruit pies! Roughly, I wanted an inch (2cm) of cake batter underneath and on top of the pie to help prevent that from happening.

This “PAKE”, “CIE”, whatever you want to call it is super fun to make. I hope you have a blast !

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Monster High Doll Cake – How to Make

October 30, 2014 by Jenn

A Monster High doll cake has been something that has been high on the request list for a while now, so when the opportunity came to work with Monster High AND Chef Dominique Ansel, we jumped at the chance! Why wouldn’t we?

Monster High dolls embracing differences and celebrating what makes everyone unique. Each “ghoul” as the dolls are called, has a different monster lineage and live by the slogan “be yourself, be unique, be a monster.” For example, Draculaura, is the daughter of Dracula, and Frankie Stein, Frankenstein. I know the kids in my Kindergarten class LOVE these dolls.

Chef Dominique is the genius behind the Cronut (a croissant, donut combination) and the Milk and Cookie Shot! We have done our own takes of both of those recipes on our YouTube channel already, and loved making them! His newest creation is the Shocklette Monster for the Monster High brand. The Shocklette Monster treat is chocolate mousse, dipped in chocolate, encased in marshmallow! It sounds freaky fab!

You can follow Chef Dominque Ansel as he documents his progress on his Shocklette Monster treat over on his Instagram.

Since we were asked to join in and get in on the Monster High celebration as well, I decided to turn Draculaura, well her dress, into a cake! What’s great about this cake is that you don’t need anything special, besides a Monster High doll. A cake doll pan helps, but as you can see in my Barbie Cake video, you can also just use a tapered bowl to shape the dress.

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OPI Nail Polish Bottle Cake:3-D Nail Polish Cake

Fireworks New Year’s Cake

Christmas Cake with Snowman Macarons: Collab with Sugarcoder

Penguins Of Madagascar Cake

How to Make a T-Shirt Shaped Rainbow Tie-Dye Cake

Cherpumple: Triple Layer Pie in a Cake

Monster High Doll Cake – How to Make

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