Million Layer Bars vs. Candy Grill Cupcakes vs. Recipe Tutorial Gameday Snack Showdown

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We've rounded up some of our favorite chefs from the Tastemade Community and challenged them to serve up their best game day dishes. In this episode, Claire Thomas of The Kitchy Kitchen faces off against Ashley Adams from Feast of Fiction to see whose gameday dessert is the true champion.
WATCH HOW TO MAKE Million Layer Bars vs Candy Grill Cupcakes | Gameday Snack Showdown Ep. 3
CANDY GRILL CUPCAKES:
INGREDIENTS:
CUPCAKES:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup Pepsi
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 cup of mini marshmallows
FROSTING:
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa
- 6 tablespoons of Pepsi
- 1 box of confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
DESIGN:
- red metallic cupcake liners
- red and orange starbursts
- tootsie rolls
- white wilton candy melts
- a piece of wax paper
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line a 12 cup muffin pan with *metallic red cupcake liners.
In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda)
In a separate bowl or large glass measuring cup, add buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract and beat together.
In a saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa powder and pepsi medium low heat until combined. Add the marshmallows, stir until melted.
Make a dip in the dry ingredients and add the contents of the saucepan, stir well. (with a wooden spoon) add the buttermilk mixture and stir well to combine.
Divide among muffin cups, bake for 16-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
While they are baking, create the grill and candy burgers and hot dogs. Melt 1/2 a bag of candy melts in a bowl or measuring cup for 30 seconds or until completely melted. Transfer into a plastic piping bag that is prepared with a #3 icing tip
Set aside to dry, when dry spray with edible spray in Silver.
Using tootsie rolls, create a candy hamburger with an orange starburst as the cheese. Using red starbursts,create hot dogs. (
As the cupcakes are cooling, prepare the glaze.
In a saucepan, combine butter, pepsi, cinnamon and cocoa powder. Stir over low heat until the butter has melted.
Remove from heat and add vanilla extract and confectioner's sugar. Mix well. Pour over cupcakes
We've rounded up some of our favorite chefs from the Tastemade Community and challenged them to serve up their best game day dishes. In this episode, Claire Thomas of The Kitchy Kitchen faces off against Ashley Adams from Feast of Fiction to see whose gameday dessert is the true champion.
INGREDIENTS:
CUPCAKES:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup Pepsi
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 cup of mini marshmallows
FROSTING:
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa
- 6 tablespoons of Pepsi
- 1 box of confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
DESIGN:
- red metallic cupcake liners
- red and orange starbursts
- tootsie rolls
- white wilton candy melts
- a piece of wax paper
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line a 12 cup muffin pan with *metallic red cupcake liners.
In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda)
In a separate bowl or large glass measuring cup, add buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract and beat together.
In a saucepan, melt the butter, cocoa powder and pepsi medium low heat until combined. Add the marshmallows, stir until melted.
Make a dip in the dry ingredients and add the contents of the saucepan, stir well. (with a wooden spoon) add the buttermilk mixture and stir well to combine.
Divide among muffin cups, bake for 16-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
While they are baking, create the grill and candy burgers and hot dogs. Melt 1/2 a bag of candy melts in a bowl or measuring cup for 30 seconds or until completely melted. Transfer into a plastic piping bag that is prepared with a #3 icing tip
Set aside to dry, when dry spray with edible spray in Silver.
Using tootsie rolls, create a candy hamburger with an orange starburst as the cheese. Using red starbursts,create hot dogs. (
As the cupcakes are cooling, prepare the glaze.
In a saucepan, combine butter, pepsi, cinnamon and cocoa powder. Stir over low heat until the butter has melted.
Remove from heat and add vanilla extract and confectioner's sugar. Mix well. Pour over cupcakes
0:00
welcomed it eighteen studios we are bringing them in our favorite chefs to
0:04
Los Angeles
0:04
to check out some of their favorite game day did today we watching go head to
0:08
head while they bring
0:09
their favorite game dated there'd lady if blood sugar SP get I like to plant
0:16
crops and pick
0:17
that chemist reggie I'm bringing my A game with chocolate cupcakes
0:22
you're gonna want to mix your dry ingredients for sale one and a half cups
0:26
all-purpose flour one cat a brain related shit air
0:29
a fourth a teaspoon as baking soda and a fourth a teaspoon of salt
0:33
make sure it evenly incorporated then are buying milk mixture
0:38
which is buttermilk eg and axed
0:41
risk it all to get there this flexfit I am so excited to be sharing my million
0:46
layer bars with you guys today all my favorite snacks
0:49
one delicious salty sweet savory crunching Hwy
0:52
thing so first things first to get my cross county I am doing a
0:56
graham cracker practice our craft any going into a food processor
1:00
set now I'm going add
1:04
hap hap up white checker and and 1 stick butter plus a tablespace and I was gonna
1:09
basically bring this together
1:10
in the food processor until want to go basically wanted to have the texture
1:15
what sandwiches what you can see right here and now gonna at my desk now
1:19
to my prepared pan I've reset and I've also added parchment paper
1:23
this makes it so much easier to get your bars outs
1:26
and you just want this to be like a quarter-inch thick now moving on
1:30
QR chocolate mixture in a saucepan
1:33
I'm gonna at just happened but Act three tables and
1:36
cocoa powder and then we are going to at higher mini marshmallows
1:40
I think it's gonna be epic I'm not my chocolate slowly
1:43
over boiling water so I don't have to worry about burning it well this is good
1:47
I'm a slut that
1:48
chill out for a little bad now it's time to get to the layers but
1:51
Trickett I crash everything down to get to the compacted a cop
1:55
up chopped pecans and I have a cop a butterscotch
1:58
shift snacks I have my regular chocolate chip so this is a couple chocolate chip
2:02
a couple half my rolled gold many pretzels next I'm going to pour
2:06
about Cup a salted caramel sauce I'm gonna be smashing up
2:10
Cup and a half sharp red lace potato chips that what is happening over here
2:14
record all the way across the room John coming out the other one help you out
2:17
i think is a great
2:21
3015 then yes you to replace
2:24
and wait for the final product you never know some people
2:28
have an opinion about potato chips and chocolate mine is it good this adds so
2:32
much flavor
2:33
after you have completely melted your mini marshmallows
2:36
me take a content and pour it into larger right mixture
2:40
well also poor the buttermilk mixture and and stare that
2:44
and one everything's all combined for pink in our cupcakes and fill them
2:47
about halfway up now these babies are ready to go on the other end next
2:52
up is the chocolate which is completely melted
2:55
it looks gorgeous finish it with the toasted coconut and then the
2:58
very last moment is the sweetened condensed milk it sort of the glue that
3:02
holds the stars together
3:03
basically I just went through my cupboard and Justin this motion
3:07
hand then big tit right and I love making my cupcakes
3:11
Jackson blows a whistle late
3:14
are you ready for the pep to she's
3:19
I have no idea way I'm getting myself here under this napkin
3:27
me have sick injury your challenges to arrange these in the order and the
3:31
colors and the rainbow
3:33
Patrick in and then she blindfold chess
3:36
Ashley you're gonna take red orange yellow Claire you're gonna think blue
3:40
green and violet first ingredient is a
3:43
it says she does so this is orange Pariser take up to an hour to spot
3:47
alright your second ingredient 20 bank a billion-dollar
3:51
yeah huh this one I'm had a really light flavor so it's up to you to be bright
3:55
green connecting gradient I'll thank you
3:58
possibly Bay lil so tobacco's right after G
4:01
the next ingredient might be a little more challenging your initial reaction
4:06
a rather yeah it's gonna be read South I don't you actually
4:09
my real challenge was where to put it but okay got it
4:13
credit card or it was hard I was wearing a blindfold
4:17
alright the next ingredient is at all in the gutter all
4:22
nap refund way brain air Kalamata I guess it's purple saara
4:26
pilot yeah all right sir final ingredient alaska yellow
4:30
yeah please don't be eleven hyman oh yeah
4:34
i think im at but can she get in the right spots
4:37
alright take your Bible love with the idea okay I'm OK
4:41
have done a fantastic job rather ok it's great
4:45
we got our Rainbow together
4:47
it was great actually really can t your
4:50
almost ending our challenger fun to get to taste their wonderful gameday desert
4:54
have some candy melts that I popped in the microwave i transfer it to
4:58
a piping so here I have a stencil that well
5:02
be my diagram for the girls I'm making didn't take that long to dry but because
5:06
I am in a time crunch
5:08
I'm gonna drown in the freezer for two or three minute
5:11
here I have assorted candies and molding the chocolate candy and two
5:16
hamburgers and I'm molding orange into Chi
5:19
a coupled with that let animal him to read
5:22
into hot up okay it smells amazing I cannot wait to see how that turned out
5:28
this is where the parchment comes in handy so much because
5:32
look at this track but
5:37
barred these are hardened really nice place another
5:41
had our stuff for edible spree okay
5:44
I'm gonna pop it back in the freezer to dry for a minute I'm ready to tackle my
5:47
cupcakes
5:48
oh yeah they look great and while Nicole I'm going to start
5:52
on the frosting in a saucepan on and me DM
5:55
low heat 3 tablespoons of butter 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
6:00
4 tablespoons a Pepsi an ass and cinnamon sticks here
6:04
integrate them remove it from the heat man at my confectioners sugar
6:08
and vanilla extract mix it all up
6:11
and then they're ready to be assembled
6:14
cupcake wrappers to emulate a barbecue crown
6:17
just to make a little crater and I'll put my frosting and
6:21
the crater Adam like a rail top
6:24
and top it off with the candy hamburger and candy hot died
6:28
and I went above and beyond maybe it's cool little
6:32
stands that that this barbecue grill
6:35
of and left Ruth this really jacket
6:38
and intense so I do not need to you giant pieces are these parts
6:42
a lot of flavor really delicious and a little goes a long way
6:47
like you can see all the layers I'm so excited about this
6:50
these look amazing I'm in a plea for Sat may get some really nice
6:54
centerpiece s I really hope you like them they're one of my favorite recipe
6:58
I'm ready to present these to the judge
7:02
it is time to taste and pick a favorite and lending his expert Palin to
7:07
today is the wonderful Sean Thomas obtain me
7:10
flight are you ready for this I was born ready tax
7:13
their common enemy Judge John ladies lieutenant
7:16
he's both look delectable opioid actually is
7:22
literally building a barbecue
7:25
out a cupcake I'm going for presentation taste
7:29
and originality slash creativity I'm gonna start with yours
7:32
million lehrer but ask basically every snack
7:35
that I have laying around the house I basically put it
7:38
into desert shot has a poker face
7:41
I wasn't sure what he thought at first ok lock bar
7:46
I I love the fact that it's sweet and
7:50
savory at the same time illnesses like a seven layer dip that you have a lead on
7:53
that
7:54
like the desert relative job well done tell me about this one
7:58
exact chocolate cupcakes that are made to look like barbeque she actually
8:03
real marks on of while I know that he likes what it look like I can tell that
8:08
is our pumpkin spice is something similar to an S&M
8:11
yeah it again palette there but it's really really good wearing
8:14
something differently and never had him tough decision I i'm having a very tough
8:18
decision
8:18
both these desserts game they were the and the one that was
8:22
just says lightly better your million there
8:29
okay I was happy that he really dug it
8:34
really neat incall experience and we have
8:37
grounder pastry cream today but the real winner is all good
8:41
because you now have two amazing dessert recipes in the morning cutie
8:44
and BP a penny party be sure to check out the rest are episode take
8:48
black make sure you tune in turn up at the halftime show Breitbart
welcomed it eighteen studios we are bringing them in our favorite chefs to
0:04
Los Angeles
0:04
to check out some of their favorite game day did today we watching go head to
0:08
head while they bring
0:09
their favorite game dated there'd lady if blood sugar SP get I like to plant
0:16
crops and pick
0:17
that chemist reggie I'm bringing my A game with chocolate cupcakes
0:22
you're gonna want to mix your dry ingredients for sale one and a half cups
0:26
all-purpose flour one cat a brain related shit air
0:29
a fourth a teaspoon as baking soda and a fourth a teaspoon of salt
0:33
make sure it evenly incorporated then are buying milk mixture
0:38
which is buttermilk eg and axed
0:41
risk it all to get there this flexfit I am so excited to be sharing my million
0:46
layer bars with you guys today all my favorite snacks
0:49
one delicious salty sweet savory crunching Hwy
0:52
thing so first things first to get my cross county I am doing a
0:56
graham cracker practice our craft any going into a food processor
1:00
set now I'm going add
1:04
hap hap up white checker and and 1 stick butter plus a tablespace and I was gonna
1:09
basically bring this together
1:10
in the food processor until want to go basically wanted to have the texture
1:15
what sandwiches what you can see right here and now gonna at my desk now
1:19
to my prepared pan I've reset and I've also added parchment paper
1:23
this makes it so much easier to get your bars outs
1:26
and you just want this to be like a quarter-inch thick now moving on
1:30
QR chocolate mixture in a saucepan
1:33
I'm gonna at just happened but Act three tables and
1:36
cocoa powder and then we are going to at higher mini marshmallows
1:40
I think it's gonna be epic I'm not my chocolate slowly
1:43
over boiling water so I don't have to worry about burning it well this is good
1:47
I'm a slut that
1:48
chill out for a little bad now it's time to get to the layers but
1:51
Trickett I crash everything down to get to the compacted a cop
1:55
up chopped pecans and I have a cop a butterscotch
1:58
shift snacks I have my regular chocolate chip so this is a couple chocolate chip
2:02
a couple half my rolled gold many pretzels next I'm going to pour
2:06
about Cup a salted caramel sauce I'm gonna be smashing up
2:10
Cup and a half sharp red lace potato chips that what is happening over here
2:14
record all the way across the room John coming out the other one help you out
2:17
i think is a great
2:21
3015 then yes you to replace
2:24
and wait for the final product you never know some people
2:28
have an opinion about potato chips and chocolate mine is it good this adds so
2:32
much flavor
2:33
after you have completely melted your mini marshmallows
2:36
me take a content and pour it into larger right mixture
2:40
well also poor the buttermilk mixture and and stare that
2:44
and one everything's all combined for pink in our cupcakes and fill them
2:47
about halfway up now these babies are ready to go on the other end next
2:52
up is the chocolate which is completely melted
2:55
it looks gorgeous finish it with the toasted coconut and then the
2:58
very last moment is the sweetened condensed milk it sort of the glue that
3:02
holds the stars together
3:03
basically I just went through my cupboard and Justin this motion
3:07
hand then big tit right and I love making my cupcakes
3:11
Jackson blows a whistle late
3:14
are you ready for the pep to she's
3:19
I have no idea way I'm getting myself here under this napkin
3:27
me have sick injury your challenges to arrange these in the order and the
3:31
colors and the rainbow
3:33
Patrick in and then she blindfold chess
3:36
Ashley you're gonna take red orange yellow Claire you're gonna think blue
3:40
green and violet first ingredient is a
3:43
it says she does so this is orange Pariser take up to an hour to spot
3:47
alright your second ingredient 20 bank a billion-dollar
3:51
yeah huh this one I'm had a really light flavor so it's up to you to be bright
3:55
green connecting gradient I'll thank you
3:58
possibly Bay lil so tobacco's right after G
4:01
the next ingredient might be a little more challenging your initial reaction
4:06
a rather yeah it's gonna be read South I don't you actually
4:09
my real challenge was where to put it but okay got it
4:13
credit card or it was hard I was wearing a blindfold
4:17
alright the next ingredient is at all in the gutter all
4:22
nap refund way brain air Kalamata I guess it's purple saara
4:26
pilot yeah all right sir final ingredient alaska yellow
4:30
yeah please don't be eleven hyman oh yeah
4:34
i think im at but can she get in the right spots
4:37
alright take your Bible love with the idea okay I'm OK
4:41
have done a fantastic job rather ok it's great
4:45
we got our Rainbow together
4:47
it was great actually really can t your
4:50
almost ending our challenger fun to get to taste their wonderful gameday desert
4:54
have some candy melts that I popped in the microwave i transfer it to
4:58
a piping so here I have a stencil that well
5:02
be my diagram for the girls I'm making didn't take that long to dry but because
5:06
I am in a time crunch
5:08
I'm gonna drown in the freezer for two or three minute
5:11
here I have assorted candies and molding the chocolate candy and two
5:16
hamburgers and I'm molding orange into Chi
5:19
a coupled with that let animal him to read
5:22
into hot up okay it smells amazing I cannot wait to see how that turned out
5:28
this is where the parchment comes in handy so much because
5:32
look at this track but
5:37
barred these are hardened really nice place another
5:41
had our stuff for edible spree okay
5:44
I'm gonna pop it back in the freezer to dry for a minute I'm ready to tackle my
5:47
cupcakes
5:48
oh yeah they look great and while Nicole I'm going to start
5:52
on the frosting in a saucepan on and me DM
5:55
low heat 3 tablespoons of butter 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
6:00
4 tablespoons a Pepsi an ass and cinnamon sticks here
6:04
integrate them remove it from the heat man at my confectioners sugar
6:08
and vanilla extract mix it all up
6:11
and then they're ready to be assembled
6:14
cupcake wrappers to emulate a barbecue crown
6:17
just to make a little crater and I'll put my frosting and
6:21
the crater Adam like a rail top
6:24
and top it off with the candy hamburger and candy hot died
6:28
and I went above and beyond maybe it's cool little
6:32
stands that that this barbecue grill
6:35
of and left Ruth this really jacket
6:38
and intense so I do not need to you giant pieces are these parts
6:42
a lot of flavor really delicious and a little goes a long way
6:47
like you can see all the layers I'm so excited about this
6:50
these look amazing I'm in a plea for Sat may get some really nice
6:54
centerpiece s I really hope you like them they're one of my favorite recipe
6:58
I'm ready to present these to the judge
7:02
it is time to taste and pick a favorite and lending his expert Palin to
7:07
today is the wonderful Sean Thomas obtain me
7:10
flight are you ready for this I was born ready tax
7:13
their common enemy Judge John ladies lieutenant
7:16
he's both look delectable opioid actually is
7:22
literally building a barbecue
7:25
out a cupcake I'm going for presentation taste
7:29
and originality slash creativity I'm gonna start with yours
7:32
million lehrer but ask basically every snack
7:35
that I have laying around the house I basically put it
7:38
into desert shot has a poker face
7:41
I wasn't sure what he thought at first ok lock bar
7:46
I I love the fact that it's sweet and
7:50
savory at the same time illnesses like a seven layer dip that you have a lead on
7:53
that
7:54
like the desert relative job well done tell me about this one
7:58
exact chocolate cupcakes that are made to look like barbeque she actually
8:03
real marks on of while I know that he likes what it look like I can tell that
8:08
is our pumpkin spice is something similar to an S&M
8:11
yeah it again palette there but it's really really good wearing
8:14
something differently and never had him tough decision I i'm having a very tough
8:18
decision
8:18
both these desserts game they were the and the one that was
8:22
just says lightly better your million there
8:29
okay I was happy that he really dug it
8:34
really neat incall experience and we have
8:37
grounder pastry cream today but the real winner is all good
8:41
because you now have two amazing dessert recipes in the morning cutie
8:44
and BP a penny party be sure to check out the rest are episode take
8:48
black make sure you tune in turn up at the halftime show Breitbart