Celebration Mug Cake Recipe & Giveaway (1 Million Subscriber Celebration)

I think we're live hi wallpapers we are Live on YouTube this is kind of hard to believe because it's like only my second time doing a live feed and we are here this morning to celebrate 1 million subscribers it's kind of crazy I can barely believe us to see that one in front of uh all those numbers on YouTube but that's where we are and you got me here so huge huge thank you so this video this live stream is a celebration of uh bigger Bolder baking and review and getting us to this point so um I'm not sure if who's tuning in Kevin is behind the camera and he's going to let me know if people are tuning in and everything is okay just so you know we lost our internet here this morning so typical when we went to do a live stream so um fingers crossed nothing happens so um we're going to keep on going until we stop so um just for all of you tuning in right now this video this live stream is a celebration it is half eight here on Thursday the 13th of October which is always my um launch time is half eight so that's why we decided to do our live stream now um in this video we are going to be making I should stop saying video in this live stream we are going to be making a mug cake and I'm going to be telling you about a huge giveaway that is open universally to everybody so stay tuned I'm going to give you more information about that at the end of this video that competition involves this celebration mug cake that we're going to be making it is sprinkles and festive and kind of crazy and possibly one of the biggest mug cakes we've made yet so Kevin are people tuning in people are tuning in it's going fast Jim um so you uh wow with people from Malaysia hi everybody thank you so much for tuning in tell us your name where you're from say hi and Uruguay good morning Uruguay not sure what time it is there and um and also questions are great grace questions you have send us in some questions and just a reminder we are live streaming right now it is half eight it's 8 31. um so I can talk to you one-on-one right now so come and send in your questions say hi your name um we have gotten to a million subscribers in two and a half years we've got to a million subscribers around 180 videos we have for those of you who have been here from the start we have gone from zero to a hundred Everything Has Changed um but definitely I feel like correct me if I'm wrong our desserts have gotten bigger and Bolder and um I hope you enjoy them and also always keep your comments coming in about what you want to see on bigger Bolder baking because I always try and make what I can I'm gonna tell you a little bit the mug cake that we're going to make it is oopsie Daisy what's that there's another computer came on and I'm sorry the end that's what happens with your live stream this kind of stuff happens so um the mug cake that we're making is for those of you who are vegetarian or vegan it is egg free and it can be dairy free as well if you want to be you can use a nut milk so when we make the mug cake Kevin or we take a few more questions say hi to people yeah let's uh let's let's see who's out there right now thank you everybody for tuning in and for waiting for our live stream I know a lot of you are on your way to school or you're going to work whatever it is so thank you for tuning in and also remember if you don't catch this live the video will go to YouTube afterwards and also remember um the giveaway is not in this video but I'm going to tell you how you can enter so if you watch the video later you're always in with a chance to win because our giveaway goes on for 30 days so don't worry about that Gemma let's answer a good one okay good one which is making all these desserts um we work out a lot myself and Kevin I work out probably five days a week I go spinning I do a lot of exercise and also I'm a strong believer in everything in moderation and I'm going to let you in on a little secret eating does not make you fat okay just remember that so enjoy food eat what you want in moderation and um keep a balanced lifestyle which we try and do here it doesn't always work um hi everybody and more people there Kev great yeah people still coming in Lebanon India oh wow hi India we got a huge amount of requests from India we love all your requests for yogurt naan bread some really nice recipes Jimmy here's a good one what's your favorite mug recipe I take a mug recipe is I think one of them is the molten lava cake that's a really good one what should we make recently Kevin that I said oh the donut in a mug that's really good um Kevin what should I make recently that I said was my new favorite one um I can't remember modern lava cake and donut in a mug we made one recently that's my new favorite sticky topping pudding in a mug is really good the one that we're going to make today is celebration cake in a mug this is delicious I made it just the other day it is egg free it can also be dairy free and if you want you can change out the flour for gluten-free flour so I'm going to cover all my bases with this mug cake will I start to go ahead Kevin yes we get going okay one second so so you know Gemma you've got a little screen right above you here and hopefully everybody can okay you can see it up above and be able to go through the recipe with you oh do you have the recipe here Kevin uh no the actual video sorry sorry the close-up of that oh yeah yeah here okay hi everybody um okay so I'm not gonna call out to the rest of the ingredients the recipe in the mug because um it's on the website so if you're looking for this recipe and it is on biggerbulgerbaking.com who's going to go through it like I always do so in our little mug microwavable mug we're going to add in some flour this is all-purpose flour if you want you can make it gluten-free all-purpose flour that is up to you all of our baking starts out with flour and you go into my mug so we're going to add a little bit of sugar so when it comes to sugar in my recipes and feel free you can substitute it for coconut sugar different types of sugars that you like I know that nowadays everybody is eating different diets but I try and make my recipes open to everybody okay that's sugar next we're going to add in our baking powder and we go with the baking powder thank you everybody for tuning in I see that a lot of people are tuning in right now and sending comments and stuff like that greetings from Ecuador hi Ecuador Wheels oh whales Malaysia anybody from Ireland we're gonna stir all the dry ingredients together now remember this recipe is on biggerbolderbaking.com it's a fan of your yeasted doughs yeah I love they're my favorite some of my favorite recipes are the doughs do you want to make a new one special bread series and might live on the website I don't think we have anything coming up right now but I've been looking at sourdoughs and different loaves of bread like that so we're probably going to do something like that in the near future but it's a great idea and I love bread making into our dry ingredients we are going to add in some milk and you go there milk lovely and remember this can be replaced for a dairy-free milk like any kind of knot or soy milk that's ground too and a little bit of oil now flavorless oil and by flavorless oil I always mean pretty much anything that is not olive oil so just remember when I say that that's what that means and then and coconut oil is a good one too and then we are going to add in some sprinkles because this is a celebration mug cake in with the sprinkles look at that I need as much sprinkles as you like now I'm going to show you this this is part of our giveaway today it is a thanks a million wooden spoon can you see this Kevin is it there yeah close-up right right about there there thanks a million wood spoon we made these um specifically for our one million celebration they are so super cute it says thanks a million in Ireland we have a famous saying and it says gourav Mila mahogwif which means a thousand thank yous so we got that printed not an Irish but in English thanks a million on the wooden spoon and then down here gemma's bigger Bolder baking they are so super cute I absolutely love them and we have them we just have as a 25 to give away Kevin yeah so it's a very parchment giveaway 25 so if you get one you're going to be one of a few that have them and I absolutely love them so this is a perfect little wooden spoon to mix up my cakes see how tiny he is so give your mug cake a good mix up there Gemma for people who don't know how did you get started baking so um my mom was an incredible cook my mom's incredible Baker and cook so um at home in Ireland's and she would let me bake and I would um I would always watch her and she had lots of cookbooks and I would read them and so from a very young age I was like fascinated I love food and I wanted to make what my mom made um so just from a very young age and then for those of you who are new to bigger Bolder baking and I'm a professionally trained Chef so I've been working as a pastry chef for a very very long time and it's been my my always been my career and now I managed I was lucky enough to take my passion and turn it into my job of making videos for you guys there we go that's mixed all together put my spoon over here Kevin I'm going to hand you this and you can pop it in the microwave that's good thank you look can you actually give me a little look there is your mug cake can you see it lovely egg-free mug cake recipe on biggerbolderbaking.com Kevin's going to pop that in the microwave and it will take around I think it takes around a minute minutes 20 something like that all those all that information is on the website Kevin I'll take some questions while you're doing the microwave so general what is bold baking full baking I'm gonna take my coffee bold baking is game changing recipes we do not do things by halves here we do things that are over the top that are easy that are simple recipes that yield you amazing results and actually there's a good question what um are your most favorite bigger Bolder baking recipes because like I have a few that are near and dear to my heart but um everything people resonate with different things like are your favorites the mug cakes are ice cream um I love ice cream I love the Ben and Jerry's ice cream video because I love Ben and Jerry's so things like that so let me know what your favorite bacon bowls recipes are uh would you go I went to Bali Malu cookery School in Cork in Ireland it is a very very famous cooking school and it is really a magical place it's in the country in Cork and there's a farm there and she grows a lot of her own vegetables and like they they have their own animals and dairy and so I was very very fortunate so if you want to look that up it's called Bali Malu cookery school it's an amazing amazing place I also went to school um I studied professional cookery in in Dublin in a in a college called Carl Brewer Street that's an Irish word and um is uh so that's where I also so I kind of studied twice just to make sure I knew what I was doing and Gemma where where do you live now I live in not so Sunny Santa Monica in Los Angeles so Santa Monica is a city in Los Angeles and it is right by the water so we get the best of both worlds we get the sun we get the beach we got a lovely Breeze where it's pretty pretty beautiful here okay oh I know a good one and you get this a lot is um can you make mug cakes also in an oven yes you can absolutely and pretty much all of them you can make in the oven and I I usually and I give the instructions on my website but it is 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for um it all mug cakes depends so just keep an eye on it but roughly like eight to 12 minutes in and around there a lot depends on your oven your mug all that sort of stuff which you absolutely can so Rose Estrada asks what's a traditional sweet food from Ireland oh gosh we're big uh that's a great question we're big on comfort food because a lot of the year if the weather's not great it's cold it's rainy so things like um apple crumble are huge my mom um used to make things like professionals Pavlova even though I know it's not Irish but um Pavlova we're big ons one of my favorite desserts Gemma what about a cookbook do you have any aspirations of a cookie yes um I'm planning a cookbook and hopefully we will have something out in 2017 but um for this site of the year we're going to have something we have some really exciting news coming up around Thanksgiving time of that we're releasing some things so um stay stay I keep a very close eye because there's going to be lots to come it's great well yeah there's a cookbook for sure many uh any like really uh let's see um coffee favorite things for you to bake like what's what's your most favorite my favorite thing to make is breads I like I love to make bread and I'll tell you why because a dough would almost speak to you you can tell by looking at a dough if it's happy if it's sad if it's growing if it's going to make a beautiful loaf it would almost talk to you it's a living thing and you can watch it you can have this lovely long slow process watching it from start to finish and so that's one of my most favorite things that's great um Gemma Christmas is coming up my favorite time my absolute favorite time of year yeah what do you like what do you what do you do what do you like about holiday baking um I love I love with the facts I love baking because at this time of year because of the weather because it gets dark and it gets chilly and it's just it reminds me very much of Ireland but um bacon what I like to bake is a lot I like a lot of baking around the holidays and we've got some really fun holiday recipes coming up and um one thing I like is a lot of like like I said like comfort food that I grew up on like apple pies and things like that hot chocolate homemade hot chocolate we have some fantastic we've already scheduled out all of our videos until um the new year so we've got some really good things coming a gingerbread actually here there's a good one what's one of my favorite bigger Bolder baking episodes one that I think could have gotten a little bit more love than it did which was a gingerbread pudding in a crock pot hands down one of my favorite desserts from last year on bigger Bolder baking all together if you haven't tried it try it it's absolutely amazing what are some recommendations for people who actually want to be professional Bakers or get into the culinary arts um well as long as you're passionate about it it's half the battle so you know that's a huge thing if you decide that it's something you want to do just so you know I've worked in kitchens for over 10 years in um Mission star kitchens in bakeries and anywhere that would have me and it's tough it's not easy but um if you're passionate about yourself it makes it a lot easier but just remember that it's working um if you go to college you're going to have to work in a kitchen at some stage and uh it it uh it toughens you up that's for sure because we want to change check on the mug cake yeah absolutely oh I can smell it oh look look so pretty wait a second now you're gonna have to wait to see what this looks like thanks Kevin oh my gosh this way just a little bit over you oh me you can step a little bit over some screen in your head right now all right guys can you can you guys see that can you see that you can take a little bit closer to the camera there yeah how good does that look I'm gonna push it you can always tell when it's done when it's firm on top but it's still lovely and soft foreign what do people think do you like it thumbs up and remember actually also um sharing on YouTube is a big thing so if you like this recipe if you want to tell your friends about bigger Bolder baking because the more people to know the better and share our videos from YouTube share them on Facebook um and just uh spread the word about bold baking because that's what we're trying to do what do you think Kevin okay so I'm going to we've gotten decorated yeah I have some frosting here this is um buttercream frosting that I colored with my um all natural food dye it goes a beautiful pink this food diet is made from beets but don't worry you can't taste it and that recipe is actually on my website all natural food dyes and also all natural extracts and that's it Jonah gonna do Kevin I'm going to put a few more sprinkles on top because you can never have a few enough sprinkles look at that how pretty is that um recipe and more photos are on my website also what you think Kevin it's looking good I'm gonna get a spoon um so a little bit about so I talk about the competition now yeah so competition I'm going to have some more cake in a minute so about the competition competition is open to everybody and we have some great prizes okay tell them what they are Kevin yeah absolutely yeah this is the announcement so because we're big on mug cakes and also recently we partnered with Panasonic to bring you more mug cake videos which was fantastic they gave us five microwaves to give away and they're really fantastic because um they cook really evenly and they're great for really great for everything but they um yield you like this little mug cake here great little mug cakes so and they're not that big so they're perfect for dorms for any kitchens for offices whatever you like but I have five um microwaves to give away and my little spoon is dirty now but and we also have 25 of these exclusive special edition Wooden Spoons to give away thanks a million with bigger Bulger baking on them I'm going to keep one for myself I have to and um how you're going to win over here a little bit I'm going to pop up on screen okay what the entry looks like right here so um how you can enter is really simple I want you to go to my website bigger Bolder baking and which you already know about and um there's an entry form there on the post for the mug cake you can enter on that post and all you have to do is very simple is go through my recipe remake the mug cake any which way you like if you want to put different color frosting on top if you want to put sprinkles on the outside rather than the inside remake the mug cake and then submit your photo and everybody that submits a photo of the mug cake will be enters to win the prizes I think are fantastic so um I really really hope that you try it I think regardless you have to try and make this mug cake because it's really really delicious it tastes just like birthday cake if you've ever had um like Funfetti cake birthday cake was that it Kevin yeah I think uh I think you've got it so go over to my website the entry form is there make one of these mug cakes and send us in your pictures because we really want to see them and that will enter you in the drawer to win should I eat some rotation oh man I'm gonna show you I invite you to know that I'm having mug cake for my breakfast can you see this Kevin oh not yet there we go how great does that look Kevin there's any more comments from people yeah absolutely let's uh let's jump over and see oh yummy that is so yummy um let's see I'm gonna just start having a few folks out so uh Courtney Willingham um really loves the channel thank you very much Courtney um let's see thank you for tuning in everybody yeah so uh Rachel uh says hi Rachel do you recommend any cooking schools for kids in Ireland cooking school and that's the only one I can remember that's the only one but there are other ones there now but since I've left but um ballymalu cooking school is you're the the one and only place to go yeah let's see and um Jim um just one thing about the contest is that it is open to everybody around the world it's open to everybody around the world and the contest runs for 30 days but the faster you make your mug cake the better because then you'll be entered to win great um let's see thank you everybody tuning in for our live stream um is there any more questions yeah Joshua ask her asks uh hi Joshua do you have any favorite Halloween recipes um do you have any favorite Halloween recipes um in well I've traditional I am Irish Halloween recipes um something called Barn BRAC which is it sounds really boring but it's really delicious um it's a fruit cake and you hide a coin or a ring in it it's really lovely I want to make it soon I'm going to put it up on the website that's great Elliot who's joined us over on Facebook hi Ellie if I know Elias yeah hi hi Elias thank you for tuning in everybody thank you for tuning in always the amount of support to get a channel like ours to a million subscribers is just really it's unbelievable and um it all comes down to community it comes down to bold Bakers it comes down to the community that you guys have helped me build over the last two and a half years so really round for Applause for you guys um um when did you win uh let's see um Kevin is the modulator yeah yeah so uh there's been requests to see uh waffles waffles there's been requests so my main man who is waffles waffles is my terrier Lhasa Apso mix and uh is he all there waffles come here to me come here man um will they pick them up oh absolutely here he is he gets really shy about the camera but look at that little cake is it nice um this is waffles he is three years old Kevin he is a wheat and terrier Lhasa Apso mix and um he is our mascot and our biggest fan I think but he gets really camera shy that's him hey Bobby's tuned in hi Bobby from flame city um I actually want to say thank you to Bobby because Bobby is um helping us we have a few influencer friends out there that are helping us to uh celebrate Kevin hope my sound is okay because I picked up waffles um helping us celebrate our one million Milestone so uh Bobby from flave City you might know him if you don't go check out his channel and Jen from cookies cupcakes and cardio Lindsay Ann from Lindsay Ann bakes I got my little list in case I forget foreign and I'm sure you all know him and verdika from hot chocolate hits and I've got a little list here in case I forget Emmanuela from Passion for baking amazing baked goods on Instagram and Bianca Chia from Lux Sports so thank you so much sorry sorry sorry so um Bianca Chia from sport oh shoot and from sportlocks sorry and then um oh the folks of hungry Diaries as well sorry I had to write a list for myself because I kept on forgetting I um I have some great friends out there that are helping us celebrate and they're sharing my mug cake and they're reposting so I really really appreciate it thank you everybody any more questions Kevin before we go yeah Kevin so um how do you go about picking what um uh recipes yeah that's a really good question I'll tell you what I do I've got a little kind of a math that I do and it is um I take your requests and I put them through a big and bold filter for one for better word so say if somebody suggests um Oreo cheesecake I will put it through a filter of um you know does it is it best to be no baked is it um does it have any special equipment that people can't use and does it like um what is ingredients are available to everybody so I put it through a little filter and then I try and put out something at the end that is available too because we have such a universal audience something that is available for everybody like or people lots of people can find Oreos nowadays I try and make stuff with no machine because not everybody has food processors and kitchenaids and all that sorts of stuff so I try and make it easy on everybody so that's how I choose my recipes but first and foremost the inspiration comes from you guys those requests that you send me I write them all down so keep your requests coming always because they make a huge difference and once this channel is built on I think Kevin is coming to say hi so Gemma you're at the start of the show but when you look at the chat there are a lot of requests to see me because a lot of a lot of people ask uh who is Mr Kevin so uh I am Mr Kevin behind the camera do you want to get waffles um waffles is here hey man join the party he's put on he's put on a few pounds exactly um so this is Kevin Kevin is my husband and he produces bigger Bolder baking so when I say um like this is very much a team at first even though I'm in front of the camera Kevin does everything to make this show beautiful and he does all the editing and um we uh it's a team effort isn't it Kevin absolutely so um I would like to say a huge big thank you to all the Bold Bakers out there everybody for tuning in to our live stream thank you very much everybody for being a part of the community in general thank you um thanks so much for getting us to a million subscribers I can still barely believe it but um pretty amazing and um let's keep the both baking Community growing yeah share uh share bigger Bolder baking with your friends people who you know love to bake and hopefully that we'll have um they'll find recipes that they like on bigger Bolder baking and especially coming into the holidays yeah holidays so and share this share the competition with them because everybody is and once they make the mug cake they're in with a chance to win the microwaves so um so share so keep on sharing share the love all right share the love and thanks a million everybody for live stream for tuning into my live stream and I'll see you uh next I'll show you Monday see you Monday for Bowl bacon Basics bye