S'more Mug Cake Recipe and Q&A (Bold Baking LIVE)

good morning bold Bakers we are live streaming today as this Thursday's episode I thought it'd be really fun to do a live stream and we're also going to do a q a in this live stream so you can ask me in real time any questions that you like about me about baking about my YouTube channel Kevin and Waffles anything you like send in your comments also in this video I'm going to be doing a recipe for my mug meals book now a lot of you know that I have a mug meals book out for the holidays and I'm going to be showing you an exclusive recipe it's a s'more mug cake that's in that book I'm going to be sharing that exclusively with you today now I want you to stay tuned to the end of this video because I also have a special surprise and for the best comment that comes in I'm going to be giving whatever one I pick to be the best I'm going to be giving you a free ebook so you have one just in time for Christmas time or the holidays whatever you celebrate so Gemma so many people tuning in right now they're excited they've been waiting a long long time oh thank you saying happy Holidays happy holidays you never know when you do a lot of people are queuing up to get into so much 8 31 right now so if you're watching this right now we are live streaming which is really fun because I love to live stream Gemma let's start off with a few things especially for folks that are newer here so first of all where are we who are you okay where are you from and where are you right now so we are in Los Angeles California even though by the looks of that weather it is miserable it's just like Ireland it is lashing rain here in Los Angeles which is kind of crazy because it never rains ever so um but we are in Los Angeles I'm from Ireland I'm a professionally trained Chef so that's why we are making all these great recipes here on my channel and I don't know about I know that yesterday was the first day of winter however all Los Angeles weather is always the same so I have no idea what's going on right now but I like it I like it because I'm not going home to Ireland for the holidays so I like a bit of rain thank you everybody for all the great comments coming in I see that they're coming in there and just let me know any comments you have at all and Kevin will read them out to me all right Gemma um some questions about uh how did you get started in baking um so uh my mom was fantastic cook Anna Baker and ever since I was really really young I had I had really good food my mom made amazing things so um I think a lot of that was my inspiration from my mom she had loads of cookbooks I used to love to read them so it's very it all kind of started at home for me I was just obsessed with like baked goods and reading cookbooks and all that stuff so from a very very young age we get started on the recipe Kevin are we waiting for more no absolutely let's talk more to um to the fans out there I think um so there is a lot of questions Jim about how you come up with your recipes so um awesome dude actually asks how much time do you spend creating and testing new recipes um I spent all of my time doing recipes two channel is my full-time job we do this 24 7 and never turns off so I'm always researching new recipes developing recipes a lot of the inspiration though comes from you guys I read through the requests that you send me I am like put a nice little finish on them and I fine-tune them and I kind of um I think what will work best for the channel what will work best for you guys and my International audience and then from all of those things I come up with my recipes but um it all starts from you all right keep all your suggestions coming in all the time for bold baking Basics and for bigger Bolder baking because um I really really love that all right Jim What's um what are let's see some of uh your favorite things that you like to bake I and I love meringue and Pavlova I think a lot of you might know that already I love absolutely one of my favorite desserts and I also love to make ice cream my no machine uh two ingredient ice cream that's really really fun too because you can make one ice cream and make a million flavors but I think I I think well like why like most must-have would be like Mariah or Pavlova that's great that's growing up in Ireland my mom used to make them a lot all right does everybody want to see the s'more mug cake recipe yeah I want to show you some more mug cake recipe it is absolutely delicious it's really really soft chocolatey mug cake with graham crackers marshmallows it's really really good so again we're gonna we're gonna pop over to the secondary camera here and we have the special up close and personal camera here as well all right keep all your comments and your questions coming in Kevin will ask them um shout them at me when I'm making my mug cake they're all fantastic keep them coming can you see me here Kevin yep will I go ahead absolutely okey-dokey as per usual we're gonna start out in a microwave little mug I had this pretty funky mug that I got in Santa Barbara a while ago in a thrift store I absolutely love that's my special one so into our microwavable mug I'm going to add in my dry ingredients now this recipe can be found on my website but I'm going to give you more information about this later so into our book we are going to put in some flour this is just regular all-purpose flour and you go we're going to add in some brown sugar brown sugar gives you kind of a nice caramelly kind of a sugary flavor and you go there brown sugar so Jim let me ask you what do you do if you don't have brown sugar you can make brown sugar by in my bowl baking Basics videos I showed you how you can make brown sugar by mixing molasses or treacle in with white sugar and if you really don't have molasses or treacle you can always just use white sugar and then here we're going to add in some cocoa powder now as always I have no like use unsweetened cocoa powder because the sweetened stuff is just not great and don't use hot chocolate powder don't even think about just here we go Ingles are cocoa powder and they just want to mix all those ingredients together with the fork I like to mix my dry up first now like I said the recipe for this can be found on biggerbolderbaking.com so it just mix those ingredients together now you'll notice that this mug cake does not have an egg so it's really really great lots of requests for eggless recipes out there I always take them into consideration so this little mug cake has no egg now into our dry ingredients we're going to add our wet ingredients so here I have some water in your water and then have a little bit of flavorless oil now this can be a canola oil a vegetable oil even coconut oil we just don't use olive oil olive oil can be um can taste too strong we don't use olive oil and baking unless you're making an olive oil cake it sew this together and then I'm just going to add in a little bit of vanilla extract this is my homemade vanilla extract I love this it smells it doesn't look as dark as um store-bought vanilla extract but it smells and tastes just as strong so a tiny bit of vanilla extract in there in you go now you can see this is a really easy mug cake to make give those guys a bit of a mixy mix so a lot of you know that I have over Kevin is it like over 50 or 16 mug recipes 60 plus mug recipes in my mug meals book I have um 30 recipes and 10 of them are all brand new and this is actually one of them so it is well worthwhile buying that for Christmas and also there is no shipping and handling so if you need something last minute for a gift you can order that online it is um available worldwide and you get it straight away so just keep that in mind you don't have to head to the shops you don't have to leave your house you've got a present right there Jim so let me ask you a question um Anna Maria asks why don't you put measurements in your recipes like in the videos and themselves that's a really good question and because we we have we have on the website they're all there laid out for you really pretty there's lots of extra notes about the recipes and also you can print off the recipes from the website so it is much easier and cleaner to put them on our website also I convert all of my recipes to cups into grams and to ounces and we can't flush all of that on the screen it's just too much so for all of my recipes I'm also for like extra hidden recipes that I don't put on YouTube head over to my website because there are tons of recipes over there is that good enough that's a good one Jeff and so here you go let me show you our little mug cake there he is can you see him Kev yep [Music] all mixed up ready to go Kevin I'm going to pass this over to you and you're gonna miss the microwave all right sounds good thank you all right one minute so yeah Mom let's let's um actually we'll get back to some questions um let's see so Kevin just simply one one simple one um what is uh self-rising flour self-raising flour is that's from Sealy all-purpose flour or a plain regular baking flour that has um baking powder added to it so it's just plain flour that has a raising agent added to it um you can make self-raising flour if you can't buy because you can't buy it in other countries you I have a recipe on um as part of board baking Basics I have a recipe of how you can make your own self-raising flour it's really really easy chairman you're actually getting a lot of questions um Dash GS the great do your recipes ever fail yes yes they do we don't show that on camera but um like it is it gets really hot and early on some days I've had cakes that have melted that have literally Fallen apart and remember I made a cupcake bouquet around oh two years ago or something uh it was so hot in L.A that cupcakes melted off oh my gosh like we yeah like I make mistakes there's no doubt about it and actually if you follow me on my Facebook page sometimes I post a lot of fun pictures of mistakes that I've made there so definitely Gemma Stafford Gemma Stafford's bigger Bolder making on Facebook go check that out like my page Gemma simply rejoiced asks what do you do in your leisure time but I did my leisure time I work I look up recipes I test recipes and I'm constantly thinking about food and I like food is a huge part of of of who I am I I didn't I studied it in school I live it every day with my job so a lot of my what I do my spare time were also have food and also I have my doggy waffles and um we go for walks outside myself and having a waffles a lot and we get out and about in Los Angeles Allison Woods asks do you play any sports okay so I used to play basketball in school because I'm almost six foot tall a lot of you some people know that and some people don't but I'm almost six foot tall so I am was good at sports like that and hockey and in Ireland I used to play renders which I was really good at and I used to and do horse riding as well but now all I do is I do spinning and um I do walking and stuff every single day I have to go walking Sports I do now um let's see so um what's your favorite Christmas dessert holidays are coming up here we're days away what's your favorite Christmas dessert that's from Mona uh Eleanor in Ireland we have um our own traditional Christmas dessert so like this oh my gosh Miss pies so I would say um my favorite Christmas dessert would be Christmas pudding which is kind of like what people consider figgy pudding where it's like all steamed with raisins and Brandy and all that sort of stuff I love that I'm not gonna be having any this year because I'm not going to go home to Ireland but um I probably couldn't get my hands on some mince pies all right Patrick lamb asks make a bold baking Basics videos of making homemade vanilla extracts I did I did my video go back and watch us search on the website or on YouTube Patrick yeah go on to my well that's a good thing guys is is search if you if you want something from Gemma either ask or just search for it I bet I bet we've done it I bet we have to but we but we still love all of your uh requests keep all your questions coming in I'm going to be giving away while our mug cake is cooking Gemma long time viewer mini time commenter Byron Chandler says hello say hi to Byron thank you for all the lovely comments as always your great supportion of the channel uh here's a good one what's your favorite ingredient are my favorite ingredients vanilla extract you have to think about extracts like seasonings like you have to think about them like salt to Savory vanilla extract and other extracts they are like salt to baking they bring out all the lovely flavors they marry stuff together so I would say actually if I had to um if I were to pick one ingredient for baking it would be vanilla extract that's great um let's see bluish greenish ask a question um and it's lost here as far as the questions are coming in so fast thank you all so much um we will try to answer as many as we can here keep keep them going so if if I haven't answered question just ask it again and we'll we'll absolutely uh try to get to stuff so stay tuned as well as well gonna be making appearance if I can get them to get on bed if he's bad because everybody loves waffles we have to show waffles Jim what's the best part of working at home best part about working at home is that you can wear your slippers to work like I'm doing right now we can't quite pan down to see that that's what I'm wearing right now but that's uh that that's a good one um cool Jim do you want to uh let's see uh yeah let's check on them okay here so has has everyone noticed this like super retro mug you guys like this guy can you see him there yeah yeah a little bit closer to the camera so a little roller skates see any roller skaters out there gorgeous I was in a kind of a consignment store in Santa Barbara and I got this little these little mugs there was only two of them and I think they're absolutely fantastic I'm gonna add those to my collection Jim here's a good question from Carrie Redman how are you and your cameraman related so some people are asking who who Kevin is or who his voice is and maybe I'll make an appearance but after waffles because he's the star of the show yes I hear you let's have a little look here at the mud cabin can you see this guy let's see we're gonna go close up look at that nice and chocolatey I mean chocolatey he's firm on the top but he's actually still really soft so you know that he's perfectly cooked he's still warm this is fantastic so this is a s'more mug cake for those of you who are just tuning in we are live streaming we are doing a q a and we are making an exclusive recipe for my mug meals book it is a s'more mug cake so we've just made our mug cake now and the recipe can be found on my website but we have to finish them off because he's only a chocolate cake right now he has to be a s'more Jim a real quick um and we'll finish it off but um uh healthy of any size says my daughter makes a lot of your recipe she's 14 years old and quite good she gets very upset when she makes something that doesn't quite come out any any advice for her um yeah I like that's when I test the recipes I try and make sure that 100 like I have successful recipes so you don't fail so I would say if it's mug recipes I have tips about how you can make successful mug recipes actually in the ebook and generally um on the recipes on the website like just how not to overcook them and if you like watch the videos and listen for all the tips and read the website posts you really shouldn't have any problems but if she has specific problems message me or like um write another comments or something because um in all the videos I cover so much so you have successful mug cakes all right that helps Let's uh let's finish this guy off so here I have some graham crackers Kevin because a s'more is made up of chocolate and graham crackers and marshmallow so here I have some graham crackers they're smushed up that's the technical term I'm going to sprinkle them on top of the mug cake it's kind of a little bit backwards you have the chocolate and then the cookie on top I'm gonna smush those around and then I have some marshmallows I'm gonna pop some marshmallows on top put them there okay Kevin I'm going to give this to you again okay all right I've got a um so here is our mug cake he's gonna go into the microwave one more time and we're just gonna put him in there for around 25 seconds and we just let them Marshall all right Jim let me grab that and at the same time um just a recap them for folks who are joining us maybe who are new um how did you start your YouTube channel Jim I started my YouTube channel around we're almost heading up on three years in February um we were heading up on three years in February is uh myself and Kevin wanted to um like we saw that on YouTube like there was definitely like lots of great baking channels but we thought that we could really make a difference by um like sharing what I know because I'm a fresh professionally trained Chef so sharing um all of my skills everything I've learned over the year and creating easy recipes with like over-the-top techniques I'm sorry over the top results so um we just started our little under three years ago who started putting up videos and and how you how we got Starships simply is we just started we just started putting recipes out there hoping that we could create this amazing community that we have created and so I would say if you're thinking of starting a YouTube channel just do it that's like you would say just do it and Jim you kind of talked about a little bit but what is bold baking bold baking very simply as easy recipes at game changing recipes with over the top results with my techniques and with my recipes they really shouldn't find them very hard I think that I try to make them as simple as possible but make the results as big as possible [Applause] [Music] Kevin are we ready there let's go perfect coming in let's switch cameras here do you see how the marshmallows puff up when they go into the microwave look at us squishy so you just want to put the marshmallows back into the microwave for around 25 seconds or so because then they get really nice and soft can you see that Kevin yeah it's right there no I use big marshmallows you can also use small marshmallow that's totally fine and this recipe can be found on my website biggerbolderbaking.com but also um my channel yeah let's do it and here's one's waffles and it's in the description box now and the link is in the description box but I have put this recipe on my website and I've also put kind of um an ebook sampler so you can see and the table of contents of what is in the ebook along with the mug along with the s'more cake mug recipe so it's on my website biggerbolderbaking.com if you go down onto the post you scroll down and there's a downloadable PDF so if you're interested in buying my ebook you can see the whole table of contents everything that is in there in case you want to buy it if you like what you see then you can click a buy Button as well but um for this recipe like I said go on to my uh my website all right um Jim from Cheryl Edwin what are your uh baking tips for someone who's a beginner in baking um I would say what are baking tips I would say definitely check out my bold baking Basics um Series where there's a lot of that is the fundamentals of baking and I would start like I with my recipes I think you can restart anywhere maybe like not with yeasted doughs but with um my ice creams with my cookies everything I've done with mug cakes mug cakes are a great gateway to baking they're a little bit of something that you can make easily with very little risk and they turn out great so I would say maybe start with mug cakes that's great Gemma any advice for Anna K is asking about advice for someone who wants to become a baker like what what would you suggest advice friend who wants to become a baker I would say as get stuck in and practice practice practice because lots of times when I was doing baking as a young kid you don't always get it right at the first time but you just keep on going and improve on your skills all right Jen do you wanna you wanna have some breakfast uh mug cake so what what time remind people what time it is here if you're actually watching live right now it is at uh we are live here we're doing a cute oh my gosh Kevin we're doing a q a look at that we're doing a q a and we're making an exclusive mug cake a s'more mug cake live can you see it again absolutely a little bit closer feel free to go a little bit closer to the camera do you guys want to see it you see up close and personal yeah oh there we go that's wow that's that's super cool is it too hot all right give that a try um all right so um oh what does it taste like Jim go ahead marshmallow by myself I don't see it do you guys see it's martial art um so here's a good question from Patricia B why do you set fire to Christmas pudding because you pour alcohol over it and it's just it has to you do it because it's traditional you pour brandy or whiskey over you set it on fire oh it's yummy yummy yummy yummy I love to wish I had gone for Christmas this year and that's a really great question let's see um Jack e rib 3 asks if you were a cake or cookie or any kind of sweet creation what would you be because who does not love fun fatty cake it's like so pretty it's bright and colorful it's covered in sprinkles I would say a fun fashion cake Kevin can you still I just want to make sure that everybody can see them okay we'll go back in you guys can see that so this little bouquet is well worth making it is really really easy just like Kevin says it's only a few ingredients tastes delicious and like I said the recipe the recipe can be found on biggerpolderbaking.com and you also get to check out all the other recipes that are in my um my mug ebook for the holidays and remember no shipping it's available worldwide um it's well worth getting it as a Christmas present for somebody too cool Elia says Gemma I'm a kid and I love your recipes my whole family loves your recipes that's very nice Emily Reynolds asks how old is waffles which is a good time for maybe a waffles appearance you guys want to see our dog waffles waffles is four he's almost four as Nikon waffles correct me um he is me he's a police interior of your Lhasa Apso mix now you're going to excuse me for a second come here to me come here to me here we go this is the main man can you see him it's a main man there's waffleso mix thank you thank you waffles um he is a rescue we got him here in La he was found on the streets roaming around he didn't even look like this dog right now he was Skin and Bones he had no hair oh he was miserable but now he's very very happy but um he uh he definitely is he rules the house doesn't he Kevin he does he does yeah he sure does he's a big man he is and someone asked if waffles yeah like Steve waffles waffles likes to eat everything yes I have a question do people think that waffles should have his own Instagram account because I do I think he should have his own Instagram account and oh yeah he stopped that did you hear that oh you're so bold oh you're so bold oh man okay goodbye everybody oh all right Gemma um some some little uh lightning around here Rob asks what's your least favorite dessert sorbet or a fruit plate that's a good one don't order food places in my company because I won't be sharing my dessert with you that's great um that's a really good question uh loose uh Lucia um asks can you do pancakes without eggs are you can you make I haven't done that I'm sure you can I haven't done that I haven't got a recipe first either cool Cheryl Edwin asks um what are some of your goals in 2017 like what do you what do you want to do I think that's a great a question that might be the the winner of the ebook question Kevin do you think that's a good one I I kind of like the set fire to Christmas pudding maybe they'll both win oh yeah um so possibly 2017. great question a big of old cookbook um I'm gonna be working on a cookbook in the new year um it's going to take up a huge amount of time they are a lot of work but I'm really really excited to get started it is definitely a personal goal for me we've had a lot of requests from the audience so 2017 a cookbook and then also um 2017 I would like to um be doing like more TV appearances we do so I'm here in La we've been on the doctors a few times so I definitely think definitely more TV as well and then I think just making the channel bigger and better cool um Jesse tube asks do you have any kids nope you just saw him waffles um who are um Amanda Huggins asks who is your baking like favorite Bakers out there favorite Baker I don't know if it is as much as a baker but I love Nigella Lawson in England than America but um yeah I'd say like most most like popular well-known uh celebrity chefs I would say like Nigella Lawson okay that's great um let's see uh cooking with Kate says Hi um thanks so much for for um for tuning in everybody um let's see uh how long have we been married Gemma you've been married uh just over four years just over four years that's great a lot of fans in Nigella here as well yeah it does the best um let's see it makes great Christmas shows if you've ever seen her Christmas shows they're fantastic I love them all right Jim you kind of talked earlier Mark Behringer asked about your your biggest baking mistake um biggest baking mistake but like uh how do you recover how do you recover is the question um I make it again there we go that's great um let's see uh the Glorious Panda asks is it possible to make waffles without a waffle tray so is a very good question I tried it I tried it probably three times didn't I Kevin yeah it can't be done if you want to get that crisscross one thing you can do is cook waffles off in a skillet with the kind of jackity edges but you're not going to be able to turn it around and get the crisscross I tried it so many times because I wanted to do it as part of my bowl baking Basics and I didn't have any success yeah here's a good question for the audience is um uh you know gemma's working on a cookbook what do you guys want to see what's something interesting um that you'd like to see we really love your you know your input and definitely want to make you part of that that Journey yeah version about with Gemma and um whatever whatever you think so keep them all coming all the great suggestions and here's a good opportunity actually and because we only do two YouTube videos a week every single day of the week I'm on social media so make sure you um follow Gemma Stafford's bigger Bolder baking on Facebook Gemma underscore Stafford on Instagram make sure it's not a fan page make sure it's my real um authorized page and I'm not so much on Twitter but I would say Instagram and Facebook I'm huge on and I'm there every single day so make sure you follow me to see you like me out and about to see more with Kevin and Waffles all behind the scenes stuff and also I'm always on Instagram live um as well so so that's a good one to follow me on ketchup asks um about do you cater in the Los Angeles area no I never I catered in San Francisco area and not in the Los Angeles area that's great um let's see uh Sean Char is asking uh to bake with me bake against Kevin oh that we would have a cook-off oh I think that could be that could be a conversation that could be possible who wants to see Kevin in this year's Valentine's episodes oh yeah that was a good one last year I thought that was really good Emily C asks uh what is your lipstick and nail polish Clinique um and on is it IPO or what's that not IP you know that make IPO or something it's this guy and then this is Clinique my makeup is mostly Clinique or Mac all right Lakota asks a good question if you had to admit one tool from your kitchen what would it be and why from South Africa I was going to show my haircut this is live um if you were to get rid of like one Appliance from the kitchen what would it be awesome maker because I hardly ever use it yeah because like that's why I tried to make waffles when I waffles machines I wanted you to be able to make waffles without a machine but um I hardly ever use my Waffle machine ever that's great um just kind of rounding out again Jim um cupcake princess asks how did you know like you were passionate about baking zest so there was no other way around it I had to launched it when I was young I wanted to be a teacher or I wanted to be a chef and I feel like now at this point in my career I'm a little bit of both but um there were the only two things I wanted to do that's great um all right Jim do you want to do a recap just a little recap so this is gonna be the end of our live stream um in this live stream for those of you just tuning in it's 902 right now in Los Angeles we made uh we did a live q a got some great comments we made a s'more mug cake I'm sure you can still see that a s'more mug cake it's absolutely delicious the recipe for this mug cake this is an exclusive recipe from my milk meals ebook for the holidays it can be found on biggerbolderbaking.com it is a downloadable PDF and there's also a table of contents of what is in my mug meals book in case you want to buy my milk meals book as a Christmas present for the holidays whatever you want to do with it but um it is there you can just one click away and you can buy it um and Jim let's um let's award our best comments I think what do you think I think we had them I think it was it was Cheryl um I said the Brandy from 2017. oh yeah and then if I set the Brandy on fire yeah and that was Patricia I believe so we'll get your guys information and uh we will email you a free ebook for the holidays and what's coming up next Monday Kevin well Jim um maybe you can tell them a little bit about um some best ofs yeah yeah I think things like that um next Monday is um best of 2017 2016. so um some of the best moments best recipes there's going to be um a little bit of waffles in there a little bit of Kevin so and that's Monday so check that out and then the following week is bloopers under a lot of bloopers from my show so I definitely you don't want to miss that I'd say um cool how many um you want to just uh do one thing and then uh and then I'll just keep going okay and uh well well so you I almost had my Christmas jumper on we are I'm still celebrating Christmas in Los Angeles I'm not going home to Ireland but I really hope you have no matter what holiday you celebrate have a wonderful time with your friends and family um and Kevin is coming over here now you're gonna get waffles on the way no probably not I've had these movies I know exactly yeah not sure if I'm on camera or not but uh here here he comes here he comes guys yeah why not oh thanks for all of your comments just to remember uh remember with live um all of the comments um actually disappear after a little while so feel free to go back to um the video when it's made available and ask more comments um you know that uh you know you guys are so important to us Gemma loves getting your comments loves answering your comments um everywhere we really appreciate everything we hope you have a great holiday whatever you celebrate or if you don't that's okay just have a great couple weeks here and um we really appreciate it we're gonna have an amazing 2017. thank you guys Kevin says thank you for everything all right bye guys now I'm going to go over James because this is truly us too have a wonderful Christmas and um holiday season and um stay tuned for Monday Thursday we're still here all over the holidays make sure you tune in watch and also don't forget to subscribe and share our videos share them with people who you know who love baking um and uh all that stuff okay goodbye bye waffles