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Hey guys, it's Ro, welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Look who's right here! It's my friend Jordan!
Jordan: Yeah! Excited to be here!
Jordan: I love Harry Potter.
I know!
You guys know Jordan,
We have baked together before - but! If you are new to the channel,
I'm gonna be putting all those links down below, go subscribe!
I got so many requests from you guys to make something Harry Potter themed...
Today, we are gonna be making a Butterbeer cake,
and the recipe that we're making is a butterscotch cake recipe, frosted with cream soda
Eeee! *claps*
Let's get started!
The things you will need to make our butterscotch cake will be:
2 and 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour,
1 and 3/4 cup of brown sugar,
1 cup of unsalted butter,
1 cup of buttermilk,
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
1 and 1/2 teaspoons of butterscotch extract,
1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt,
3/4 teaspoon of baking soda,
3/4 teaspoon of baking powder,
and 3 eggs.
Jordan: And then, for the cream soda frosting, you'll need:
1 pound of butter at room temperature,
5 eggs - we'll only be using the whites -
1 cup of sugar,
1 teaspoon of salt,
1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract,
and 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of cream soda flavor.
Now, let's put it all together!
First step to making your cake is whisking together the dry ingredients!
Pour in the flour,
salt,
baking powder,
and baking soda.
Whisk together until well combined and set off to the side.
Before we cream together our butter and sugar,
I have a really good Harry Potter joke.
Jordan: Okay
Why did Professor Snape stand in the middle of the road? [drumroll]
'Cuz you never know what side he's on.
[cymbal crash] Jordan: Ahhhhhh
(Ro's inner thoughts) I guess it wasn't that great of a joke
(Ro's inner thoughts) I really liked it, in my head,
but then when I said out loud it wasn't the best delivery.
Jordan: It was good.
Okay, thanks.
'Cuz I feel like I delivered it worse than that owl that can't see good in the movie.
Jordan: And now we'll cream together our butter and brown sugar.
Jordan: Wait how do we do...
Oh, you push up this part like that, (Jordan: Oh ok)
and - oh, is it plugged in - ?
No. It's not plugged in.
That's the wrong way.
Oops!
Start mixing on the lowest speed and mix together until it's light and fluffy.
It smells just like a Harry Potter butterbeer would smell like
Jordan: You can get 'em at the grocery store, too.
[Suspenseful music for a second]
Jordan: You can. what oh, I didn't that's called flying Auburn. Um not the grocery store. I go to they don't have a flying culture
So sorry to hear that
Uh-oh
Next we're gonna add our eggs one at a time mixing in between each one
( Sound of water running) I'm very impressed. Three eggs, no shells (Jordan- All right!) I don't even do that!
It's looking pretty good so far, we're gonna add our vanilla extract and butterscotch extract mix it up one more time
Alright, so our butter mixture is done.
Now, i'll be adding our dry ingredients and our buttermilk.
Alternate adding the two - three parts dry, two parts butter milk. so our batter is ready but,
Before we can add to our pans we got to taste test it that's like the most important part. Just a little one
I'm just doing a little pinky, gonna taste it
Is pinky the proper etiquette? You could do a finger too cuz I'm definitely getting more than that there. We go already
Mmm. I want to freeze this that's real good. I mean and then eat it like ice cream
We have three six inch round greased cake pans. Oh my have you old of all German works out a lot?
He's got muscles. Oh yeah, Bob Jordan. Oh
You're gonna lose - baby. Here's nerve-wracking. This is a slippery glass. It's very messy. Yeah. Oh, sorry
Okay, okay here here. Oh
Oh, sorry. I'm sorry now using a spatula
Celestin the batter Jordans taste testing today
Yeah, I gotta keep testing. It is a very important part of baking mm-hmm
What would your Patronus look like, what animal? It would be definitely. Oh, it's probably be a wombat
Someone who launches out like a tiger a majestic stallion you just a wombat appears
Aspecto patronum
Is that a spell our cakes are ready to make you preheat your oven to
325 degrees Fahrenheit Celsius would be a little bit toasty there and then bake them for 45 minutes
We're making a Swiss buttercream-style frosting that is going to taste like cream soda
Awesome, I love
This icing is a little fancy Jordan. I thought you were ready. We've baked together. and now time to level up you thought
I was ready, but you decide yeah, crack all of the eggs into the big bowl, but no yolks jiggle-jiggle
Yeah, this is the jiggle method where you jiggle the yolk back and forth Oh fancy?
It was just a little bit, it's be okay, this is high risk here
What if I what if I try my own jiggle method with my palm of my hand a meringue?
Really, you can't have any yolks in there. It won't whip right. This is a technique
You have it really is so we did an absolutely perfect flawless job
And I think in the egg whites no yolks whatsoever not even an atom in front of them
Yeah, and now we're gonna add our sugar already whisked together
And then we're gonna take it over to the stove place a pot of water on the stove and turn the heat to medium
Place your mixing bowl on the pot and whisk the egg whites and sugar until the sugar is dissolved
You'll know it's ready when it's smooth to the touch
I usually whisk for about five minutes once the sugar has fully dissolved. Take your bowl back to your baking station
Here's the mixing bowl. We just took it off the stove
We'd put it on our mixing stand and now we're gonna mix things up a little bit yeah on a high speed
Mix your egg whites until it's bright white nice and fluffy
careful
Are you Jordan check this out
That's really cool from a liquid to a solid. Thank you protein strands
All right, let's make this a buttercream Jordan's gonna be adding the butter slowly
Chunk by chunk one time while this is mixing at a medium speed
You'll know when to stop mixing when your bowl is room temperature
It will be just barely warm to the touch because you don't want to melt your butter
Beautiful, that's what you want like fluffy
It smells like butter so now we're gonna add our salt our vanilla and our cream soda
This is gonna make it nice and flavor II mix together til well
Combined and a you know it would take a little taste for me. Yeah, this is just straight-up frosting
This is gonna go on the cake mmm
This is the fanciest frosting I've ever made. I'm honored to have been a part of it
I'm Jordan before we eat all of this. We've got to divide it in half half of it
We'll just scoop into piping bags, and then the other half
I'm gonna dye it a light mustard color few few drops of yellow and a drop of brown
Okay, one more when were then taking it away
And now we're gonna make the handle for our mug out of fondant
This is because the cake we're making is gonna look like a mug of butter beer just roll the fondant
Into a log then shape it into a C or a U shape
this is a buffer if you don't have one of these you could just
Take two wooden skewers and place them into each end of the handle you want the sharp end to be sticking out. We are now
ready for the big moment
Assembling our cake. I popped them out of the pans. I leveled them between each cake there's a little cake plate to keep them separate
So they won't stick together this is where you'll want to pick your final serving tray. I'm gonna be using look at this
That's like a coaster. It's supposed to look like a coaster. Take your first layer with the cake plate
I like to leave the cake plate at the bottom
Just in
Case you need to move it so this is the color that we dyed half of the frosting pipe a circle all the way around
outlining the cake gonna draw a circle fill in the middle Oh
Jordan
using an offset spatula
Smooth it out put the next one on top mhm next layer when you're stacking the last layer of cake flip the cake upside
Down so the bottom is the top now we're gonna pop this in the fridge
We're gonna let chill for about 30 minutes while I DJ turntable
Here we go after your cake has chilled in the fridge frost the entire thing Jordan's gonna slowly
In the turntable and I'm gonna pipe icing on the side of the cake
Starting at the bottom and work my way up the cake once you've got the frosting on the side of the cake smooth it out
Using a larger offset spatula once you get the side
Smooth go back to the top and see this little lip pull it towards you now that our
Frosting is all nice and smoothed out. We have to add the swipes to make it look like a mug
It's just a super light drag all the way up
Yes
We've got our texture all the way around now quickly smooth
The top doesn't need to look perfect because we're gonna cover the top with white
icing so now we have the other half of our frosting that we didn't die in piping bags with tips at the end 809 and
2a and then Jordan what tip do you have a 12 start with the largest tip which is the
809 pipe large shells on the top of your cake there's also a reason. I'm not doing this
now switch to your smaller tip the to a
Filling in all the cracks and holes piping smaller shelves and then for the final step
I'll use the 12 to do little tiny circles because that's the only thing I'm good at its gonna look like bubbles our butterbeer cake
Is just about done
We just have one more step place the fondant handle on the side of the mug final decoration step
final decoration step. Don't mess up, Jordan, don't mess up.
There we go a nice handle in there tada
Here is the butterbeer cake that we made today inspired by Harry Potter
I am so excited because this is the first time on nerdy nummies that we've ever made a
Butterscotch cake recipe with a cream soda icing the combination will taste exactly like butter bear you don't remember
A big thank you to you guys for suggesting something Harry Potter themed and a big
Thank you to my friend Jordan. Probably bake today, and helping especially with all the shells
You did really good with everything else, but the shells were a little iffy though
I'll be posting the recipe and a bunch of pictures along Rosina pansino comm
Facebook Instagram and Twitter you can check it out there
And if you guys make this cake please take a picture and send it to me. I love seeing your baking creations
It just makes me happy. It makes my day if you guys have any other ideas for any other nerdy nummies, please
Let me know leave a comment down below, and I will do my best to make it happen alright. Thanks again you guys bye-bye
Now we get to try a slice. I'm gonna get a big big helping of icing
