 We're doing our first ever challenge on the house we like and of course because you know us. It's all about food Okay, we get a special delivery today from edible arrangements, which is great Strawberries and stuff before and yes part of the challenge This is great because I know I always receive edible arrangements from your parents Yes, remember if they by the way and when Adam and I first started dating You actually sent me one as well for my birthday. I did first of all I just have to say we're in love for this challenge because these are some of my favorite Ingredients strawberries bananas and hello chocolate. I just want to say thank you so much to edible arrangements for This this all these amazing goodies and for sponsoring this episode of the house life All right, so here are the roles we have to use all the ingredients sent to us to make something savory or sweet And it's up to us Depending on how much of each ingredient we want to use and we can use as many other ingredients from pantry and fridge as we want So after we make it All of us have to try it And then ask ourselves Is it edible? And most importantly, is it delicious? Do the kids count? I don't know that's kind of hard. It's crazy, but I don't eat the Strawberries and the bananas Yeah All right, so what are you thinking because I know you always like to watch like Chopped and your nickname from me is dad chopped like you know how to do this in my head I know what I want because I'm thinking dessert. I'm thinking more something, you know Taking the strawberries and chocolate and making some sort of syrup or kind of drizzle Um, the chocolate obviously can be used for cake or what are you thinking? Well, I mean if we're gonna be really like Quick if you want to do a quick recipe We just blend it all up And I bet you it would taste fantastic. No, you just add a little bit of um protein power in there Some whipped cream some ice So this will be an edible shape. Yes an edible shape We're not gonna do that, but we're not gonna do that because the housleys don't do it easy Okay, this is what I'm thinking if we're gonna use just use first. I gotta just try a little bit Yeah, because because on chop you keep eating. This is just my my take on it It's all about putting the flavors together. Okay. That was good. That was good. Oh, this is chocolate Oreo. Is that what you said? Oh, wow I'm a brownie straw That have to be the chemical bribe the chemistry to I'm gummy And I don't like walnuts. My berries. These are good. They're bomb. All right. So I think I have it This is what I think we should do. Well, I'm gonna bake the cake I'm gonna add the brownies in the cake. I'm gonna bake a vanilla cake add chunks of the brownie In the cake, I just hope it doesn't overcook because it's already good. I got an idea. Wait, wait, can I finish my idea? Well, I have to help you Okay, I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I want to do the strawberries. Okay, and do a strawberry drizzle over that cake Brilliant. So you're gonna blend this. Mm-hmm make a strawberry. How about a strawberry banana? Oh, we're gonna put it in the sides. That would seem like a kind of a cool little cake with strawberry drizzle Oh my gosh, it's strawberry connected to yes brilliant and then what I'll do is I will Yes, if we have some I'm going to Crush these and add the crumbled Oreo cookies on top of the cake. Yeah, of course, we're gonna have chocolate icing Yeah, well, I like how he says wet corn. Let's just start the oven And uh 375 right now Can I have something first? What? So we could do this Crazy hard or we could do a little more simple. Like we have like doing everything from scratch might take forever I'm not talking about that. We're gonna whatever's in our pantry. We're gonna use. Yes. Okay. I'm gonna get the same thing So strawberries, uh, do you need so you want these? I want these and the leaves Okay, I got them. Awesome sauce. The rest is yours. All right. Okay. Here we go So I'm gonna get some yellow cake right here I need some icing. Let's see. Yes, it's mara baking. You can see I am very very organized All right, so we have these two ingredients right here I'm getting my ingredients because they're simple. I know we have pudding I'm really happy that we chose to do a cake because I always keep Cake and icing on hand I've had this honestly I've had this kind of stuff in my pantry ever since I've laid the wall It's like this is what we do always have to have Yellow cake mix and chocolate icing. You never know when you're gonna have to do a fun little celebration The ingredients that we need for this is should be very very very easy Water, vegetable oil, three eggs, let's do this Okay, mind simple, chopped bananas And then I'll put together the pudding. Everybody has pudding in there Just about everybody I know has something. We have a great play-by-play commentator What do you see on tv where they show them halfway through? He's wearing a tie I think we both people really like chocolate. We do. We do. You can cut that off so I don't I like dark chocolate more. Adam is more of a milk chocolate guy, but I'm not There's our Commentator in the background So for this normally you have banana pudding. We don't have banana pudding We have vanilla pudding. It's perfect because I can actually make it a little bit more the way I want it I know people make banana pudding a lot of times they'll add Uh like wafers to it. We're not gonna add wafers. We're gonna do just the pudding and the bananas I love to bake because I'm very type A and the key to baking says who's being very precise Who says you're type who would say such a thing? What I've done is I've added I've added the egg cake Mix the oil The water And I have to do the egg To bake is The love of cake The love of sweets like I definitely have I definitely have a sweet tooth. You know, that's when you start learning you know Well, we already knew how to cook but that's when you really start applying what you learned And uh, I just started with baking and I just love it Araya likes it too So we added all of our ingredients I'm going to move this over here because we're a bad combination of the scents I also have a sweet tooth We're not going to get dessert tonight and then we get there once we get dessert Yep, but I like having that Oh, this is already on okay. All right Here we go have it on one right now I'm supposed to mix mix mix mix Here we go making the cake batter What? I've never actually seen you make a cake Oh my gosh, you guys The 16 years together Instant or from scratch No, we made cupcakes together. We did we want the cupcake or But we did never actually made a cake together. I never seen her make a cake So fun fact I was single for a valentine's day And you know my sister was all booed up And I was like, you know, I'm not going to sit around and like Do nothing All my friends were calling it black friday and uh Because that year uh valentine's day was on a friday I said you know, I'm going to bake the cake and I'm going to share the love And I baked I baked a cake for my mom. I put myself in a frame I baked the cake went over to her house and was like happy valentine's day mom. I love you The way my siblings rolled their eyes and called me a brown nose Oh she K a versus me like that K a Kissed It was all about love There was no kiss a and at all The difference between baking the cake and baking cornbread You want to make sure that the batter is very very smooth when you're baking a cake Whereas cornbread you don't want it to be Really smooth Adam Cowley Are you sure? Okay, if you get sick I'm not taking you to the ER Baby, can you pronounce some of the cake names? This is one this is a nine-inch round. It's perfect I actually was never a baker. I always made everything from Instant boxes, but then we did the cupcake wars. I had to learn how to bake cupcakes and I actually loved it I was in charge of the Decorating portion and try to teach myself how to decorate But then I had to teach myself how to bake because Tamara was working that week late So I actually like to bake. I never thought I would but it's something I don't do very often I don't look at dinner. I do I love the I love the accuracy portion of the kitchen go to the organizer That's it. So you know for me Mm-hmm. I do it the old school way Butter butter, baby. Oh, she's doing that Romer do I'm gonna take and make pudding So the pudding Is one package of pudding to the instant one I have made pudding from scratch before believe it or not Um, but I'm doing the instant one just vanilla. I'm gonna add the bananas to it. We got from the pack Part of this challenge and I think it's calls for three cups of milk Okay, so what I did you guys I just melted some butter And I am buttering the heck out of this pan Right here like I want to make the cake into rounds Oh, I'm cutting you mean like cutting things. Yes, I do. I think the kids want us to do this Yeah, I I saw it We'll look we'll see what we have. We should have it and that is the beauty of having an organized kitchen This is what I like to do. All right. So now we're gonna pour the batter in here Look at that Yeah She's doing that I've made the pudding and I'm not going to Layer In the pudding tomorrow tell you I like to be different and I know she likes You know food. I know she likes, you know chocolate and so When I sent her a couple times I sent her out of low arrangements one time it was just she was in that A big health kick thing Where she was literally not eating anything sweet. I sent her one of just the fruit And I sent her one of the chocolate covered strawberries And my parents my favorite world my parents sent us one every year and they One year mistakenly sent two to me Instead of my brother. So they felt guilty. So they sent two to my brother And so my parents sent two so we had 24 chocolate covered strawberries My brother got 24 chocolate covered strawberries and it was tamarind All right, so what I'm gonna do This is vanilla again Nice Okay, I'll take a layer of bananas in here I think you have go you gotta hurry because all right. So now cement. I am just gonna cut You don't do it quickly. It's gonna set. You're gonna be stuck pieces up like so like goopy mess Okay, I'm just going to put the pieces Just gonna drop them in the batter like so I don't want to see it You know, I think it's really cool like seeing the pieces pop out of the cake. I love surprises. I know people who don't But I love it I'm pretty good to give a surprise on it. You always Always my 40th anniversary 40th anniversary 40th um My 40th birthday was a big huge surprise and it was pretty freaking awesome. We surprised at the airport too after your movie That's everything to do is this just like totally throw her up Why do you like doing that? Is it because I'm so expressive? Yeah, I don't make you happy Imagine that I like making my way I definitely want them in there I don't want the tops To over bake. Yes, because these are already pretty much done Right They shouldn't Dessert was definitely a treat in our household You can see here we go You can maybe put a little bit too much batter It should be half, but I should be fine. Um but Oh, that is good That is like my Taipei personality going a little crazy. Okay, so we get to put this in the oven. It should be Good So dessert in our house was also a treat But I grew up in small grocery stores. So I think I older though After I work I bring home ice cream. So then dessert became more of a Probably had more than I should have so the bananas are in the vanilla pudding That's awesome. This goes in the fridge because I'm all about presentation. I want to kind of uh Spread a little bit of the banana pudding kind of like on the plate Then cut a kind of like cylinder Piece of cake put that on top of the banana pudding And then crumble No, no, I don't know that's pretty gonna be that I think it'd be a little more set up Well, no, I just want it I don't want the banana pudding to be like banana pudding because I want to make it into one Nepal roll You're gonna want to spread it. Yes as a base. Yes as a base As a base base base What I'm going to do is I'm now going to crumble these cookies That'll really cool fun way of doing that While you do your Drizzle some drizzle again Strawberries you're slicing in half I've washed them I'm taking a couple of the chocolate strawberries to give a little bit of chocolate in there as well You don't need to be washed clearly then we're even washed Handland made and then we're going to blend these up and see what happens The chocolate covered strawberries. Strawberries. I'm extracting strawberries for a drizzle The kitchen together made some pretty amazing things. I will say. Oh, that's cool. Yeah It's kind of like our marriage. He was doing there I visually have an idea of my head of how I want this to look and I just want them a little bit small This obviously is out the chocolate cake you know with it Okay, you just mean ideas. That'll taste together. Okay Strawberry Oh, yeah, there. Let's see. Let's see Well, let's see whenever he throws The spoon down that is a quiz line of him dropping the mic Spoon dropping amazing. It's been lovely working with you My spoon dropped and I am leaving. No, I'm gonna My head didn't hurt your elbow as much as your elbow hurt my head Thank you. Yeah, we can hear you alone because I am notorious for opening up. She checks things with you often. Yes, that's why you have a light So let's turn on the other light. It's done. We do things different. She's great about measuring She's amazing at that organizing done great with the cleanup And the one great tip I can give you is to clean up as you go because if you don't do it that way you do it the other way You end up having like a massive mess that you have to finish when you're done And that's no fun And that's an atom truth bomb Yeah, but then I'm gonna add the tamarra truth bomb either way. I'm one that ends up cleaning up. That is not true That is very worse truth bomb. That is a patently false That is not so well. I'm gonna start as adam says cleaning up so we have about 15 more minutes until the Cake is done. We have to let that cool a little bit just a little bit before we start putting the icing. I remember one time I was single and alone and And I just wanted to bake a cake and I didn't wait. I'm okay. I didn't wait and what happens is the icing just melts And then it just doesn't look pretty so I'm going to clean up my mess And uh, then I'm gonna look and see if we have any really cool baking stencils that I can use for our cake because Presentation is huge We both love to cook You want help with the dishes I like to cook. Oh, well you like to cook, but you don't like to be the dishes. This is really jiggly Well, Ben, does that tell you? But we should be close because we only have a minute. No, for a second She keeps opening Oh, wow, look at that. Oh, perfect No, it's chocolate. Babe, can you hold that? Wait, we can't Look at that moistness It did it did come apart that's fine But I want you guys to see something really quickly. Look at the brownie in there. That looks amazing It cooked perfectly. We're just gonna let this cool You good? We're gonna cut these out anyway. Yes, I'm gonna cut them out. I'm gonna cut it out That's what I was thinking too. Are you sure? I'm gonna try You gotta put the icing stuff on it first. Oh, no, you wouldn't cut it out. Okay. Yes, okay I'm gonna bad spot first. Let's see if it works Did you see how, but look at that moistness. This is perfect. It works actually well. Look, look, we can use that Let's spread a little bit of your Let's let's do another one. Wouldn't we do it because I want it to be perfect I like that one. Huh? Yeah That's perfect. It has the design that I wanted So it looks great I think we killed this challenge Just saying we could have done we could have done an easy like protein shake Right, and I bet you it would have tasted bomb. It would have but there's the challenge. There's the challenge Acceptance challenge accepted and let's fabulous Okay, so we have the banana pudding the vanilla pudding with the bananas in it We have the strawberries that tamaris has sliced up We have the cake with the chocolate frosting and then the crumbled oreos you put over the top Yes, and then we have the brownie within the cake mix. Okay, ready? Let's go make sure you get a little bit of that It's something good. Let's see. Oh, is it good mom? Is it edible? Yes, is it delicious. It's valuable. You guys, this is amazing. That is bomb. That's the bomb.com Aiden, do you want to try? That's good. Do you want me to hand you the piece? All right, mama seat that Let me think about it. We have a success The challenge. All right She looks super I think that's a success That's more she does normally a chocolate. He does normally eat banana. You put the two together and they liked it That is amazing because in in in the beginning remember we were a little hesitant about if they were going to like these ingredients together They loved it. So that tells us we killed it Those are judges that matter right there. So do you want to see us do more of these Challenges let us know in the comments down below and thanks to edible arrangements for sponsoring this delicious episode And don't forget to subscribe to