Recipe Lavender Heart Cookies
hey guys, it’s ro! i got some requests tomake something from the show shimmer and shine! for those of you who aren’tfamiliar with the show shimmer and shine, it is an animation seriesabout twin genies in training, named shimmer, and shine! mmmhmmm! they grant wishes for their friend leah whichoften leads to magical adventures and they have really cute pets named nahaland tala. hey you guys! cupcakes not ready yet, go overthere! because i love the show, i watched the wholefirst season, i decided to partner with nickelodeon, who supported and collaboratedwith me on this video,
in celebration of season 2 coming out on june15th. which is, a week away from my birthday! iwanted to make a baked good from the series and in season 1 shimmer, shine andleah make cupcakes for a bake sale, when i was watching the episode, it was socute you guys! i was like huuuuuhhhhhhhhh! i want to makethose cupcakes! so today, we are going to be making the cupcakesthat they made from the bake sale! let’s get started! the things you will need to make these cupcakeswill be: 1-1/3 cup of all purpose flour, 1/3 cup of water, 1/4 cup of oil, 1-1/3cup of granulated sugar,
2/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, 2/3 cupof firmly packed light brown sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup of sour cream, 2 teaspoons ofvanilla extract, 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder,1/2 a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, and pink siliconecupcake liners! then to decorate, the things you will needwill be: lots of vanilla buttercream frosting, i’ve put them into piping bagsand dyed them pink with a #829 tip at the end. purple, yellow, and teal sprinkles, brightpink and lavender fondant, a fondant rolling pin, small brush, smallteardrop cookie cutter and a #6 tip. the first thing that we’re gonna do in alarge mixing bowl is we are gonna whisk together our
dry ingredients. you’re gonna add your flour,cocoa powder, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking soda, baking powder,cinnamon and salty-salty! whisk together until it’s well combinedand then we're gonna set it off to the side. and now we’re gonna mix together our wetingredients in a smaller mixing bowl, starting with our eggs. you’re gonna addthe full egg into the bowl. then you’re gonna add your water, and yourvanilla extract. we’re gonna whisk this together first tomake adding the other 2 ingredients a little bit easier. once you’ve broken theyolks, now you’re gonna add your oil and sour cream! then, whisk together 1 more timeuntil well combined.
we’ve got our dry ingredients mixed togetherand our wet ingredients and now we’re gonna combine both of them. you’regonna pour all of your wet ingredients into your dry. then you’re gonna take yourhand mixer, i’m using an electric hand mixer. you can use a whisk and do this byhand, but i’m gonna be using a hand mixer to make it a little bit easier! because i’m not a genie and don’t havemagical powers…. mmmmmm! our chocolate cupcake batter is allready, it is almost time to bake. now we have to scoop our batter into our littlecupcake liners. over here i’ve got my cupcake tray, linedwith a bunch of these pink silicone
liners. sometimes i use paper but if i’musing a lighter color i like to use the ones that are foil lined, or silicone,because these are reusable, and on the inside, they even have a line thatshows you how full you should fill your cupcake. so, we’re gonna take a littleice cream scoop, which, this holds about an ounce and a third, and we’rejust gonna do a scoop and fill ‘em all up. our cupcake tray is filled,we’ve got a dozen cupcakes ready to bake. and this recipe makes twice that. it makesabout 24 cupcakes so as soon as these are done baking i can put in anotherbatch! now we’re gonna heat our oven to 325 andbake for about 18 to 20 minutes.
while our cupcakes are baking in the oven,we are gonna make some decorations. in the episode, the cupcakes that shimmer,shine and leah make are chocolate cupcakes, with pink frosting, topped witha pink flower! so over here we are gonna make our pink flowers.i have a piece of parchment paper, which i’ve taped down onto the work surface,so that the fondant doesn’t stick. and, i’ve rolled out our pink fondant andour lavender fondant, and now we’re gonna cut out some petals and make some fondantflowers. the first thing that you’re gonna do istake your little tear shaped cookie cutter… aw, so sad!
and we’re gonna cut out little flower petals,each flower is gonna need 6 petals! the petals are looking good, now we’re gonnacut out the center of our flower so they look just like the ones from the episode.i am using a #6 tip, but you can use any tip that you’d like becausewe are gonna be using the back end of the tip, to cut out a whole bunch of littlecircles. the shapes are cut out, time to assemble them,i’m gonna show you how to do it, each flower has 6 petals. so, we’rejust gonna start with the first one, layer the second one, and then the third one.it kind of looks like a little pinwheel, it will go all the way around.
i’ve layered the petals, i put a littlebit of pressure in the middle so that they’ll all stick together, then we’re gonna takeour little baking brush, and a little bit of water i’ve got here. i’m just gonnaplace a drip right in the middle. this is gonna act as an adhesive for our lavenderfondant to stick to our pink fondant. the next part is totally optional, you don’tneed to do it, you could just make a bunch of flowers just like this. and thenlet them sit out so that they will harden in this shape. but, i want my flowerto look like a blooming flower, i want them to kind of curve up. so, a reallyeasy trick, when you’re working with fondant, if you would like it to sitin a certain position, you can use
different objects that you have around yourhouse. i am using these little, small bowls. i’m gonna flip it upside down,then take my little fondant flower, and i'm gonna set him right on top, and his little petalswill mold to the side of the bowl. and i’m just gonna let it sit for a fewminutes. once your cupcakes have baked and completelycooled, now it is time to frost and decorate! i put them on top of a cookiesheet so that when we’re adding our sprinkles it will catch all of the extrasthat don’t stick to the frosting. and over here, i have our pink vanilla buttercreamfrosting in a plastic baggie with a star tip at the end. it kind of looksjagged like shark teeth.
now we’re gonna frost, i’m gonna be adding2 swirls on top of the cupcake because that’s what they look like in the episode,but if you want to have less frosting, just do 1 big swirl. i'm taking a pinchof my sprinkles right away and sprinkling them over the top so that they’llstick to the icing. then we’re gonna do this to the rest ofour cupcakes! final decoration step! we’re gonna add ourflower toppers to our cupcakes. we’re just gonna place it right in the middle,boom! now we’re gonna do this to the rest of ourcupcakes! ta-da!
here are the cupcakes we made today from shimmerand shine, episode: the sweetest thing. i love them because they are adorable, theylook just like the ones from the show! i hope you guys enjoyed this episode! i’llbe taking lots of pictures and posting them on facebook, tumblr, instagram and twitter,and if you guys make these cupcakes, please send me your photos, i love seeingyour baking creations! aw, it just makes my day! also, if you guys want to check out shimmerand shine, it will be airing the second season on nickelodeon in june, i’mvery excited about it! thanks again for watching you guys, bye-bye!
you know what you guys, i made these the normalway, but i’m wondering if i can make them the shimmer and shine way!?! boom-zahramay! huh! it worked! yum-yum-yum-yum-yum-yum-yum-yum! hawgh! om-nom-nom!
