Hollywood Delights

Story

In the movie Despicable Me there is a scene where Gru and his family go to a Mexican party and Gru eats a Guacamole Hat. The hat is really creative and has a fun concept, so we decided to bring you the recipe for it. The recipe is a bit hard to do, as a little crack in the hat can destroy the whole thing, but here's how it's made!

Nacho ingredients

3 cups fine cornmeal

3 cups wheat flour

2 cups warm water (approximately)

1 tbsp of salt

2 tbsp of smoked paprika

Guacamole Ingredients

1 large ripe avocado

1 chili pepper

1/2 red onion

1 tomato (without skin and seed)

2 tbsp of fresh coriander

Juice of 1 lime

1/2 tbsp of salt

How to make

Mix the wheat flour, fine cornmeal, smoked paprika and salt in a bowl

Add oil, water and mix with your hands until it's no longer sticky

Take a round tin and inside it place a round bowl facing down (to shape the hat)

Cover this entire hat with aluminum foil

Open the dough on a table with the help of a rolling pin and place it over the greased hat-shaped mold

Place in the oven for 90 minutes at 320°F

The Story

Butterbeer is a recipe that appears in the third Harry Potter movie. It's a sweet drink that, despite what the name sugests, does not contain alcohol. Other than most of the delights in our blog, butterbeer can actually be officially bought on the Harry Potter section of Universal Studios, as well of some other Harry Potter foods. So come with us through the magical world of buttery goodness, and make this really simple recipe!

Ingredients

300 ml apple cider

3 Tablespoons of salted butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 scoops of melted vanilla ice cream

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp powdered cloves

2 tsp cinnamon

How to prepare

Mix butter, sugar and spices in a large bowl.

Add the ice cream and freeze.

Heat up the cider in a saucepan for 3 minutes (use low heat to prevent boiling).

The Story

Everyone who has ever whatched Brave always wanted to eat Scottish Dumplings, a sweet that apeared in thePixar movie Brave. During the movie, Merida's brothers appear stealing these cookies from the castle cook. The boys seem to love the snack, eating as many as they can. Today we are making these joy-covered delights!

Ingredients

1 and 1/2 packet dried yeast

1 pinch salt

2 eggs

150ml milk

40g butter

150g icing sugar

18 cherries

500g wheat flour

1/4 cup sugar

more milk for the icing

How to prepare

First, heat the milk up with the butter.

In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, and baking powder.

Make a nest in the center and add the eggs and the warm milk and butter.

Mix in the eggs and milk and kneed the dough for 10 minutes

Cover the dough and let rest for 30 minutes

Divide into 18 balls and put in a greesed baking tin and let rest for another 30 minutes

Bake in 356°F for 10-15 minutes

In a bowl, add in the icing sugar and add in milk until it's at a thick consistency

Dip the balls in the icing and put a cherry on top

The Story

Bibbles are a British popcorn-like snack that appears in the Nickelodeon shows "Victorious" and "Sam and Cat". They first appear on season 3 episode 10 of Victorious. During the episode, cat learns about the sweet in the office of a music label manager and quikly becomes addicted to it. She later buys a huge sack of it and has to be handcuffed to a man to keep her away from bibbles. In "Sam and Cat" we find out she is banned from the bibble store near her house. It is only natural that, considering her addiction to it, people would want to try bibble, so that's what we're making today!

Ingredients

4 tbsp of popcorn kernels

4 tbsp of sugar

4 tbsp of oil

4 tbsp of water

How to prepare

Put the corn in a pan with oil and leave it uncovered until it starts to pop.

When it is popping cover and stir a little so it doesn't burn.

When you realize that it has popped, turn off the heat and transfer it to a bowl.

How to color

Separate the popcorn into four containers.

Take red, blue, green and yellow food coloring. Pour the food coloring over the popcorn, one of each color in each container.

When finished, mix all the containers into one.

The Story

Probably everyone who has seen The Princess and the Frog got a craving for the Beignets that Tiana served to the customers in the store she worked in. Beignets are actually a real recipe that originated in France, but quickly spread around the globe. One place that particularly took a liking to it is Louisiana, where the movie is set. The recipe was adapted there and is now loved by the people in New Orleans. In order to fulfill that desire to taste Tiana's Beignets, read the step by step instructions below!

Ingredients

1 cup of milk

4 cups wheat flour

2 teaspoons chemical yeast

½ teaspoon nutmeg (optional)

1 egg

Frying oil

1 lemon

⅓ cup granulated sugar

½ teaspoon of baking soda

⅓ of a cup of water

1 teaspoon vanilla essence (optional)

Icing sugar

How to prepare

Mix the Lemon + Milk and let it rest for 10 minutes

Mix all dry ingredients

Add the egg, water and vanilla essence + the lemon and milk mixture we made at the beginning

Mix until it becomes a homogeneous dough

Sprinkle flour on a surface so the dough doesn't stick and open the dough, about 1 cm high.

Cut into rectangles or whatever shape you want, any shape works!

Fry in oil until golden! CAUTION: they fry very quickly, so I advise you to fry them 1 at a time.

Once fried, roll them in icing sugar to taste.

The Story:

Everyone who has ever watched iCarly always wanted to eat Canadian Fat Cakes, a sweet that appeared on season 4 episode 24. In the episode, Carly, Sam and Freddy win an award and get to visit Fat Cake Headquarters, in Canada. During the entire episode, Sam rants about how the Canadian version of the sweet is better, because it contains "Cane Fat" instead of "Corn Fat". But today, we are making fat cakes using "Milk Fat", or just "butter".

Ingredients:

For the cake:

24 muffin/cupcake baking tins

2 cups of wheat flour

75 grams of butter

2 cups of sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp of vanilla essence

2 tsp of baking soda

1/3 cup of cocoa powder

1 cup of milk

For the Frosting:

 1 cup of heavy whipping cream

 3 tbsp of sugar

 Shreded coconut

 Red food coloring

How to prepare Cake

Preheat the oven to 350°F and greese the baking tins.

In a large bowl, beat the sugar and the butter until light and fluffy.

Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well, and add the vanilla.

In another bowl, sift in the flour, baking soda, the salt and the cocoa. Add half of this mixture to the butter and sugar and beat well.

Add in the milk and the other half of the mixture. Beat well.

Frosting

Add in the cold whipping cream, the sugar and the food coloring and beat on medium-high speed on an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes. Be careful not to overmix, as that causes the cream to split.

Reserve the whipped cream for the next step.

Finishing Touches

Put the cakes upside down and, using a small knife, cut the bottom of each cake and cut out it's inside, that's where we'll put the filling later. Make sure to save the bottoms but can eat the part you cut out if you want ;).

Fill the cakes in with the frosting using a piping bag and put the bottoms in again. Cover each cake with the frosting.

Sprinkle in the coconut, and make sure every part of the cake is covered.