Cooking With Val: Wedding Pancakes!

[Music]hi guys welcome to vows kitchen kneadsand today I want to make a specialdessert I called it weddingbig cakes reason why : wedding big cakesis because I stacked them up like awedding cake and they’re white fluffyand sweet that’s a wedding to me so hereare the ingredients that you will needalright so we’re going to begin withmaking our candied pecans for somecrunch in texture I’ve got a little bitof this brown sugar I’m gonna add alittle touch of water mix it inwe’re gonna break it in he’s goingaround a little bit on my silicone padthat’s it buddy going all of them I’mgonna keep an eye on them they’reprobably going to take about five sixminutes I have the oven set to 350degreesokay we’re going to begin by making ourmeringue and I got these three eggs Imean we just need the egg whites fromthree of them in this balland for the third one let me bring myflower and the last egg yolk will goright into the flower okay I’m going tobegin by whisking my meringue and I havea video that I just madeyesterday I did a review on thisBreville the immersion blender Iencourage you guys to check that videoout and we’ll start with low speed andI’m gonna look for some other reallysoft peaksonce it starts bubbling and I’ll seethat air can corporated I’m gonna add mysugar my vinegar into it alright sowe’re almost thereoh we are I’m gonna add my vinegar yesthis is what you’re looking for in justyour whipped egg whites and I’m going toadd my sugar it’s just a little touch ofvinegar one tablespoonyou’re not gonna if you’re not a fan ofa vinegar you will not taste it in thisrecipe a very little amount okay and Idid make a mistake by not adding mysecond egg yolk into the flour so it’schewing here what I have in here is theself rising flour don’t go running to astore and buying self-rising flourbecause right now it’s quarantine time alot of stores are out of flour might notfind it you might have the ingredientsat home to make a self rising flour justlook up some recipes online there’splenty of them great so everything goesin here we got the milk oil a little bitof vanilla and I’m the reserved songstart incorporating everything in herethey exceeded and I’ll show you guyswhat it’s supposed to look like in abouta minute okay my flour is mixed let mecheck on my pecans let them sit there inthe pool okay so with the flour I didn’thave to add a little more milk to it soyou’re looking for you guys gonna put asticky consistency basically like areally really sticky dough ballokay and your egg whites mixing it inpudding and this process because I’mgonna work slow just to be gentle withit it’s gonna take a few minutes okay soI have everything incorporated pick itup a little better so let’s go over tothe stove and start cooking it okay sowhat I did the pan is warming up gettinghot I took a little bit of thisclarified butter and kind of rub mymolds on the inside so our mixturedoesn’t stick to it and now I just put alittle butter in the panI’m gonna set it to medium heatleave my molds outwhat I’m gonna do is I’m gonna add hotwater to the pan like this on your handslike rubber ate it up it will cook forabout a minute to a minute and 20seconds on the initial bottom side andthen we’ll flip them overonce you see it stopokay it’s been about a minute let’scheck if you’ll cooked firm transfers onticket plate all right guys so let’smake our whipped cream and I’m gonna putour cream in this bowl start with lowspeed right so once I start seeing it’sforming up I’m gonna add my powderedsugar a little bit of vanilla and justmix it all right so let’s startassembling a little bit of this maplesyrupwe’ll go over second layerat this point begins they’re gonna goour berriesokay so over the top I’m gonna go withthat lethal syrupwell what time just a little touch let’sgive it a little powdered sugar allright I’m going to just get it a littlebit of chocolate syrup and we’ve gotthis beautiful flower from our tree inthe front of our house that can go righthere and side sprig of mint okay guys sowe’re done assembling our pancakes thosebeautiful wedding big cakes I promisedyou and I’m gonna just go get my wife tosample these and to tell you guys whatshe thinks of them all right guys I gotmy wife here and she’s gonna be helpingme with tasting this cake let me cutinto itit’s painful breaking itmake sure you get everything on yourfork get a little cream don’t peek yeahthis is not your traditional pancakethat is so fluffy so soft the butteryyou only cut one piece free mmm it’sdeliciousguys I had a lot of fun making this formy wife and for you nice please like andsubscribe and I will happily make a lotmore videos