 Is it recording now? Hello everybody and welcome back to my channel. I have a special guest today, Miss Kristin from Boston, even though we're wearing our Fargo, our matching Fargo shirts. And we're not in Fargo. We're not. No, we are in Minnesota. Kristin's here for a few days, so I figured we would do a drunk bake with me because clearly we have to do that. And I think we should take shot first. Oh my gosh. I know. It's a drunk bake with me. I have a Justin Timberlake chocolate. Ain't nobody got time for that. Send help. Send help. She said drunk bake with me. Cheers. This is going to taste horrible. Just hold your breath and swallow. Preheat the oven for baking. That is nasty. Preheat the oven. Preheat yourself. My esophagus. The favorite mom was laughing at it. Yeah. She's laughing. She's here for the end result. Mom's on camera. She is going to be taste testing a little bit later. She might join us if things are too out of hand. What are we drinking today? We are enjoying a Bella Sarah Moscato 2014 vintage. What a great year. Ooh. This is like solidifying it with the same person. Basically, yeah. I mean, Fargo, Fargo. But like we are moving in the exact same way. Oh God. When I edit this, it's going to be crazy. All right. So today we are making Georgetown Cupcake Red Velvet from William Saloma. Wow. Were you drinking before this? Saloma Red Velvet Cupcake. We are going to make that and we have all the accoutrements here. So is this like a store Georgetown Cupcake? Yes. I believe it's like a bakery and they have like a specific kind of mix. Okay. Cool. So anyway, we need to follow the directions on it. But here's what we have with us today. We got Keri Gold, Keri Irish Butter. Unsalted. It's the best butter on the planet. That's what I heard. That's what she told me. I was like, I don't know. I love that Irish butter. We got some Philadelphia Cream Cheese because we're going to make the frosting as well. We've got some Wilton things. So we have the roses and leaves and then Kristin picked out some bows and then that's for like the little topper. Yeah. They had a heart on here, but I didn't really want a heart. It sounded like you said you had a heart on there. A heart on the jaw. Yeah. To make the shiny frosting. And then we got some Wilton bag. It's number 32. Some pure vanilla extract. A market pantry. You can buy it at your local Tarja. Tarja boutique. This also I got from Target and it's just like a muffin cupcake tin Don't tell favorite daughter Emily, but my muffin tins are rose gold. I love you. That's one thing that's different between us. I adore rose gold. Yeah, we got the liners. We got the liners. Yeah. They are gold, not rose gold like nasty people do. So the story of Georgetown Cupcake began back in 2008 when the Washington D.C. Bake Shop was founded by the sister team of Catherine, not pronouncing that, and Sophie La Montaigne, best selling authors of the cupcake diaries. So here you go. There's a little history on the back of the can if you need. Oh, I have the Whippy thingies. Whippy thingies. So I, so the directions always call, like if you ever get like a package mix that always calls for either milk or water. I always use heavy whipping cream. So I substitute everything I make from a box with like if it calls for milk or water, we go straight for the heavy whipping cream. Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog. Oh gosh, not again. It's time for ears. We all say cheers. I need the things in here. Whoop whoop whoop. It's going to be, I guess, so creamy. Okay, why don't you throw that in the microwave for about just kind of squishy, but not super squishy. Why don't you throw that in the microwave for about 15 minutes? Okay. Seconds. That's, that's good mushy butter. Oh yeah, look at the mush. Okay, look at the mush. It's sealed for our protection. That's what she said. It is what she said. Oh, it's even sealed again. So there's, well, there's the sugar mix, which I'm, I'm guessing is this guy. Do you have mixer? I do. I didn't throw that away. Can you crack an egg one handed? No, I'm not cool like that. Oh, oh, many shells. Oh, so many shells. No, don't give him a shell. Like no. Okay. Conclusion is Joel does not eat shells. No. Guess what color they are, everybody? White. I was really surprised that she wanted to make red velvet cupcakes. The only reason I didn't think of my mom likes them. Yeah, they are my favorite. So. Yay. Well, I can turn it. Don't beat your mixer like that. That's a joke. Just beat it. Let's whip it. Whip it good. We did not follow the directions. We're gross and shared terms. I'm okay. Same person. Doesn't matter. Pretty good, right? Yeah. Now we divide it into the cupcakes. So let's get these guys in here. We've gotten some. You didn't know that was going to happen? No, because in the pan, we did not make a mess. We did, but it's not, you can't see it, so it's okay. My favorite and slash least favorite thing about baking is trying to then get the mix into the things. Oh, I like that. Cleanly. Oh, I like it. Okay. So you spoon, I actually ice cream scoop. Oh, but you can spoon. I'm a spooner. Spoons. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. We're down here now. Two spoons. You need a double spoon. You need a double spoon. I know. I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, it's homegirl. It didn't look like that much. But it does. It's like a lot. But they're pretty dense though, right? Like, it's kind of a lot. You need more in this one? Yeah, I know. But I'm just trying to like consistently. I'm consistently inconsistent. Okay, like let's just, oh shoot. These are really good. Yeah, these are good. It's a good cupcake. Do you want a beer, mama? No, I don't want a beer. I want to lick. She wants to lick. Yeah, lick the beater. A beater. What do you call this in Minnesota? Oh, I thought you said you want a beer. No, a beater. That's what I thought you said a beer and I was like, a beater. I don't even think I have beer. It's good. I know, right? Imagine what it's going to be like when it's all baked up. Okay, screw baking. We're just gonna eat the mix. No. Watch your language on the YouTube. I can bleep it out. Oh, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. I've got the power of editing in my hand. We're busy. Give me the bowl. She's busy. Hold on. Mama wants the bowl. Mama wants the bowl. Mama gets the bowl. Into the oven they go. 23 minutes? 21 to 23 minutes. Well, okay, so there's another thing that I do, the cake and cupcakes before I put them in the oven. I give them a little bake. Something about air bubbles. I've been told, but I do that to cake mixes too. Yeah, I do it to every baked good I've been told. I would not be doing that because I don't know these things. My tongue's red. Yeah, we're good. So we're going to do some Q&A because I asked you guys, I think there's going to be an outfit change. Hang on a moment. Let's take a quick intermission and drink some more. First question is where and how did you meet? Answer this because she's got a surprise for everybody. Close your eyes. Everybody close your eyes. I fell in love with these dogs when I was a young gal. Sheba dogs. My father was born in Japan and so I have always had a love affair with Japan which means I have a love affair with Japan's dogs. So I got some shebas. She went online. She's got some Doyle dogs. I have a Doyle dog. His name is Miso. Looks like Doyle. Looks like that. And then I have a cream sheba named Saki who has a lot of medical issues. So I went online trying to find help for my shebas issues and I found this lovely forum of sheba people. It was all basically all the Japanese dog breeds but I was in the sheba group and there was a guy on there that had two shebas that were, you know, he used to take really nice pictures and look at his pictures and then we go. Yeah, great. And then somehow this was like almost 10 years ago so it's very hard to recall. Yes, it was a long time ago. 10 years. We met on the internet 10 years ago. Yes, we did. Short story. Okay. More wine. More wine. So this guy was like, yeah, I have another friend who has a sheba and somehow or other like Emily and I friended each other on Facebook. We did. And talked about our dogs. Because they're about the same age. And this is back before Facebook was like extra creepy. Right. It's really creepy now when everyone has their like Facebook profile. I'm sure if I friended her today she'd be like, uh, no. Like, who is this and what is happening? Crazy lady in a sheba costume. I'm really hot. I gotta take this off. All right, to be continued. Yeah, look, it's gonna take. Oh god. We met on Facebook about almost 10 years ago. Yep. And we bonded over our shebas. Yeah. And we talked on and off. We liked each other's posts. Yes. We kind of talked like here and there. And then like once James was born, her son, we just talked a lot more. I felt like as soon as he was born. Yeah. So my son was born. James is adopted. And he was born with a neonatal abstinence syndrome, which means he was in her natural habitat looking for something. Oh, yeah. She runs on diet. So neonatal abstinence, which means he was born with drug exposure. So he was in the hospital for 37 days with drawing from opiates. So we were in the hospital for 16 hours a day for 37 days with him. And I talked to Emily a lot in that time. Yeah. Because babies sleep and babies who are withdrawing from drugs sleep a lot more. So I had a lot of time to just sit and watch them sleep and hold them while I'm sleeping. Yeah. And wasn't it that like you couldn't do certain things like diaper changes and some feet? Like you could do something. Well, I didn't do most of it, but the nurses had to like come and record everything. So the nurses had to come in like every three hours to get a weight. Yeah. And to see how much he had eaten and to take his temperature, to check his vitals, to give him his medication. So there was like a lot of waiting around kind of stuff for her at least. So we talked a lot then. And then we've just been friends ever since. And if you watched the channel, she came to Boston. I did. I will link them down below. He was the cameraman for a little while that we get. He was. Yeah. But two summers ago. Yeah, it was two years ago. Yeah, two summers ago. And then so this is the first time to Minnesota and that was my first time to Boston. Yeah. So yeah, if you check out the Boston vlog, which of course is linked down below, you'll see some cool Boston crap. Like yeah, my father-in-law puts lobster to sleep. It does. Yeah, it was fun. That was really fun. And also lobster, Emily trying to pick a lobster, which is where you take the lobster meat out of the shell. That was epic. Hysterical. So that's basically how we met. And we've just been friends ever since. And it turns out we're exactly the same person. Yeah, it's kind of freaky. Now we're friends for life. And I came over here. Woop woop. Oh no, here's what's happening. I found out that I have two daughters that are exactly the same. Basically. Who would have known? What do east coasters think of Minnesota? Listen, Phil. That was a question from my brother. Listen, Phil, you're not here this weekend. He's here next weekend. Yeah, but I'm not here next weekend. I know. Sorry. Listen, Phil, I'm not answering your question. Next? No, it's a spike. Just kidding. What do I think of Minnesota? Everything's on a stick and it's amazing. Yeah, we went to the state fair. Yeah, we went to the Minnesota State Fair. Yeah. And that's the reason I'm here this weekend because of the fair. And those videos will probably be up before this video if I haven't said that already. We ate all the things. A lot of things on sticks. I got a shirt that's like the state of Minnesota on a stick, which is amazing. Yeah. It's basically the whole reason for being... So what do I think of Minnesota? It's... There's a lot of corn fields. What do I think of Minnesota? I think it's great. I think it's, you know, good times. Is this the Midwest? It is. Yeah, I think it's very Midwestern. Even though it's like right in the center of the United States, but it's Midwest is what they call it. Right. You know, in summer it's great. I'm sure in the winter it sucks. Yeah, just like Boston. Well, Minnesota. Yeah, like Boston. Exactly. The same things. Yeah, just different. Same, but different. Yeah. The weather here's been, well, the state fair, if you've watched the video, we had a great time. It was amazing and the weather was awful, but it was just so memorable. Ring down rain. But it was so memorable that it's like, you got to do it. It was super happy. It was fun. And I was like, what the, I guess going on right now. Because we're crazy Minnesota people. We're like, we don't let some rain bother us. We're like, let's do it. It was awesome. And my dollar store ponchos worked out great. So good. It was good. As you could see in the video. Which is probably linked down below. What do her and her husband do for a living? Do they have kids? You already talked about having kids. So yeah, we have James. He's three and a half. He's amazing. He's a perfect little crazy toddler who runs around like a madman. He's home with my husband and his grandma, my husband's mom is staying this weekend. And he's having a ball. I FaceTime him. My husband, we own a general contractor in Boston. We work all over New England. I say we, I have nothing to do with it. She takes care of a tiny human all day long. That's my job. Yeah. Which is really hard. For now. No. So he, so it's retail construction. So he does a lot of shopping centers, redevelopment of stores. If you ever see a store that's like putting in new fitting rooms, like he does a lot of that kind of stuff. He builds new stores. He's also getting into some office work and some historical work in the town that he's in. He's working on a church right now that's part of the historic commission, whatever it's on like the registry of historical places. So he's like getting into kind of that little bit of educational stuff with like some colleges in the area in New England. They kind of do a little bit of everything, a little bit of restaurant. So like restaurant retail, he knows a lot of developers. So he actually builds like the shopping center buildings, not like a big mall, but like in New England, it's like a strip mall. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So he'll build like the base building is what they call it. And then the tenants will come in the stores will come in and build their like stores themselves. But he puts up the walls and gets all the stuff going. So he builds a wall. He builds walls. Yeah. I am a veterinary technician by trade. So instead of chasing dogs right now, I just chased James. Good work for you. So I work for a veterinary office. I do reception stuff and I'm also a technician. So I'm a dog and cat nurse. So which until you know, drawing blood and taking vitals and doing some really gross things to dogs, you probably don't want to know about. Yes. Not in a cooking show today. You don't want to know where these hands have been. I made it wash them before it started. Okay guys. Don't worry. Yeah. Doyle has been avoiding me. Yes. Yes. He's like, stop touching me like that. I really want to trim his nails. I have this like, I know. He doesn't. I know. It's a thing. It's my thing. I know, but you love it. But your dogs are crazy and they actually don't mind it. My shepas will come to me and roll over on their backs and put all four paws in the air and to get little drugs. No. That is not Doyle. He screams bloody murder and he's like, they should try to kill me. And it's like, no, I'm not about whatever. Does your boss and bestie watch your YouTube channel? Sometimes. You're such a brat. So I, you should tell the story about this afternoon when I was in the shower. No. Yeah. Okay. I don't watch a lot of the planning videos. I don't watch a lot of the financial planning videos. I don't, it's not stuff that I do. Yeah. Or I think about, so I don't watch those. If she puts up a video that's like an organization video or a haul sometimes, like when she posted her haul with like the coffee creamer, which was for me. Like I watched that. If I have a minute, I'll try and click on whatever video she posts. So yes, I watch her channel as much as I possibly can. But if it's like all planning videos, I'm like, it's just not her speed. And that's funny because one of the questions, one of the other questions is, do I plan? No, but I have a planner. She does more like a memory keeping. I scrapbook. I print out little pictures and I'll grab it and show you in a minute. She uses a Polaroid Zip and it's more of a memory keeping thing. So she does planning, but it's more of, so she got me into the Air and Converted Planners, which they're pretty. They are. Very pretty. But like, you know, here that I find a good page that actually has things just, I'm really bad at it. It's okay. We were planning earlier. Like last night we planned a little bit or she planned a little bit. I just wrote out some of my plans because I do all of my planning online. So we went on a trip to Aruba recently in April. So this is like my, if you can see, I like just print out little pictures of memories for each day. And so I can kind of go back and see what we did that day. And like, I got, this is my little dude here and you know, pictures of things we've done each day. So like, on April 23rd, we apparently ran right up front yard. There you go. So this is my plan. So this afternoon, I'm late, was in the shower and I was down here just hanging out watching TV. She got a cable. I did. Thanks to Phil. And Doyle was like hanging out with me sitting on the couch and then he would go up stairs and he would come down and he came down and he like went to the front door. Like he had to go to the bathroom. And I was like, I have two dogs. I can totally take you out. So I opened up the closet, right? And I was like, I was like, oh, Doyle, let me grab your leash. I'm like, oh, crap. Where's the leash? And like, wait, I know this one. It was in a video like last week. She was like organizing things and the leash was right there. So I found the leash. She did. Grabbed myself. So yes, I watched her channel. To find out where leashes are. Right. To find leashes and to make sure she got me coffee creamer. That too. What does your bestie like most about living in Boston? I'm from Massachusetts too, but I'm in Western Mass. I love going to Boston public market when I'm there. So I don't live in Boston. She lives in the burbs of the Boston. I live in the suburbs. It's about 40 minutes to the south going like Cape Cod-ish directional. So I like Boston as a city. I grew up in California in Napa Valley. Why? I moved to Boston in 2005. What do I like about Boston? It's a small city. I grew up near San Francisco, which is huge and ridiculous. You get lost going five feet in either direction. So Boston's nice. You can navigate it. In the summer, it's amazing. There's so much to do in Boston in the summer. What do I like best about living where I live now? I know like what we have where we have now we couldn't have in California. The construction industry is so weird out there. The house market is ridiculously expensive. We have a nice house in a nice suburb of Boston and I know that wouldn't be possible in California. So I like that. I like that the cost of living is more reasonable than California. It's still high because it's Boston but it's still a city. I like the culture of Boston. Boston is a great cultural city. There's a ton of different things to do. They're big on like their Irish festival and they're big on their music and they're big on their you know they celebrate everything. I mean when I was there it was like a lot of like history yeah the history I'm a history nerd. Even like downtown it was like they're all like all these like historical pavers and like all the buildings were restored beautifully and you know it's just like a big historical town and everything even the new stuff being built is true to its roots which is yeah I just I don't know I like I hate winter it sucks snow awful pretty when it comes down the first day awful the rest of the time. Yeah don't want to drive it want to drive it uh especially in Boston like the traffic sucks yeah um but you know Boston is it's home now so I like it and you've been there for how long since 2005 so these are some interesting questions because I don't think we have any answers but we'll go try what are the three things that you agree on and three things you disagree on I don't we agree on everything to me we don't no we don't agree we disagree on rose gold yeah rose gold lover and even my planners go I was like get out get so like do you disagree with yourself we are gonna change out the battery and we'll come back in a little bit when we start frosting those cakes tada cupcakes have cooled so we are gonna be making the cream cheese frosting now and we're gonna be following the directions we're gonna follow the direction we're gonna try this type uh thingamajig quarter pound 125 grams of cream cheese at room temperature which it should be at room temperature now because it's been out for a little while we have finished the bottle of wine we have I have like the tiniest amount um hey did you guys know that we went to go see the butterhead at the Minnesota State Fair Butter Princess yeah so this is basically the rest of it but like like so this stick of butter like imagine it about like eyes of me basically hurt like the like double her body they like carbon yeah it's amazing it was weird but it was good but it was weird um so a quarter what a quarter pound of cream cheese 125 grams so this is 226 so we have a guesstimate sure I mean it's not bad to have more frosting but like then now we throw off our fresh cheese to sugar ratio try to add so like most of this but not all using an electric mixer beat the cream cheese and butter together at a medium speed until smooth and creamy just beat it taste it it's delicious oh that's really good she wants to try this cream cheese frosting there's cream cheese frosting on the counter there's some on the counter but I would I would say you need to get a little bit from the bowl yeah because the bowl frosting is is where it's tasty oh just a mess you stick your finger stick your finger so for it I mean we're not we're all friends here right oh that is delicious right yep mama prove mama yeah do I get to lick them again you want to be she wants to be a pastry bag lesson this was an effective education lesson and you want to fold it down that's what I'm trying to do no I know we're gonna do it on your hand oh okay try because you got a nice you need a nice little good cup of it okay you got it under the cup of it okay I'm gonna give it a little small as well these bags aren't the greatest thing but okay okay you get a little here we go you take this frosting and you put it into there yeah all our fingers are already been on it that's all right we're all friends here that's what we said we're basically twins so we're basically related we should have our DNA checked right I did actually not less Native American than I was told oh man here we go oh that's a little that's a big one look at you go it's like you've never had a pastry bag I've never done it this is so good the color goes on this is so good what did you do god damn it did you ruin Christmas again all right hold on frosting and now we're gonna put it in a bag do you still want to do that remember where you put yeah I do okay what's going on guys a baking semi masterpiece terrible at this hold it again okay I hold on I'm so excited oh my gosh this looks cool this is only because I totally screwed up first time let's oh no yeah make it make the whole bigger what that does not we will not be selling these later they're not for generally sale these are for our own consumption oh it pooded yeah it did sounds like a Doyle sounds like a Doyle poos let's put it down so we can like kind of see what we're gonna do or all right I really want to decorate okay so now we have the decorations we're gonna bust these out we should have done this before and we're not professional either and we've got these all right she's gonna frost one while I do lines of dollops oh you do know I used to decorate cakes for a living right no things about you manage an ice cream shop I made ice cream cakes for a living who do you're like the perfect person to have on my channel to show me how to not do things probably because I don't know how to do anything look at this mom I gotta watch the separation over here look at this situation oh my gosh she's like doing it to the max the girl has talent no it's not how who would even eat that you that is so beautiful fine which is like clearly not exciting I think I would start on the outside and then work my way to the inside but I don't really understand how to do this like so it's all about this the top of like the right hand so look oh god here we go okay it's all about it's all about okay so you twist yes and you squeeze right so you're squeezing here yeah and this is your guide so everything is in this hand but I don't think it's gonna look good now all this like wizardry is happening a freaking harry potter up in here just like a cupcake twist a lot of twisting it's all in his hand okay okay I'm gonna try I'm gonna try but I really want to do like all right mine looks pretty stupid job mom somehow Kristen became my favorite dad or I don't know how because this welcome to favor god christian I mean glitter some shimmer shit on there careful gentle gentle careful it's like a it's a it's a you know it's like it's like a procedure it's a shimmer it's procedures you're gonna have glitter all over your that's all right we're fine your kitchen here now all right so I'm gonna use this one which claire doesn't call the candle to christians because she's not the favorite see this is what I was gonna do originally it's just a flower in the center and that was it that's all I was gonna do but it clearly that's not good enough that's very pretty Emily you are such a freaking liar and like maybe one little like thing oh right very nice it's like I got the sportsman's award or something oh my gosh oh look you met oh you didn't mess up that was on purpose god damn it nipples so what is going to be there oh okay hold on I'm gonna do the like okay hold on I'm gonna be like this and feel like I should be on those cupcake war shows like without the very good very good in the middle because I'm gonna cover that up with a bow a red bow you know what you'll do flower you're putting that I did all right so then I put a bow on it because everybody needs a bow in their lives this is some good nipples Emily I like the nips what can I say you're doing good and you're gonna start singing oh canada for a second which one she likes the best to eat she gets to pick which daughter she likes the best she gets to pick which one to eat and then oh we're gonna go up just a smudge because we're a little okay um you should come around well yeah well look at them now and then come around because you should be in the frame doils in my spot oh doils ready for a cupcake as well okay all right well they're they're all really really beautiful she lies they are but you have to pick the most beautiful and the most delicious of them which one looks which one looks like it would hit your lips in the best way possible I don't remember what I did I do okay I was just making cupcakes yeah and if you would like your face to be in the frame and not just your torso you can come down here hey there hey guys like normal people you know okay hold on I'll hold down yeah I can say we can like hold this I'll hold them and then mom gets to choose which one she likes now I don't have to do squats and also which daughter she likes the best okay I can't choose I just I need the best I just need the best all right okay I think they're both going to be christians though because let's be honest I didn't I didn't the ugliest and the best no because mine's gonna be the ugliest in here so just pick two okay so all right so I'm gonna pick this one right here together and there's a reason for that is because I am kind of a frosting and this is a like a butt of frosting on it it's a cloud it's like a yeah it's like a big thing on the back and the other one just to be really nice I'm gonna pick this one right here dammit you pick one right here that's because wait because it's okay yeah like demon are you come on let's eat cupcakes okay I'm eating a cupcake I'm just gonna choose this one because it's here so I think this is christians because it looks delicious no you haven't made that one I make this one well wherever freaking delicious well see it's freaking delicious I think they're all freaking delicious but you're picking like the best ones ever well I'm sorry okay that one is a good one it's got a lot of frosting on it yeah all right so what should we do a like a quick taste test and tell people if we like it or not wait it's pretty good is it better than carols no dang it wow no nobody can be better than carols red velvet it's really good though it's like a butt if I was making it from scratch it was more chocolatey like it's very un-chocolatey the red velvet cake but it came from a mix too right like when you make real red velvet cake you melt like a chocolate into it no I definitely need more chocolate than this because red velvet cake is just supposed to be chocolate that's died red oh it's really good I'm gonna turn into a grandma now I know you fed me after midnight damn it gonna start molting well we're gonna go it's very good thank you so much for watching a drunk bake with me featuring christin from boston and the favorite mama from florida doils here too doils here too yeah he's trying to get to the cakes oh there he is hey it's like the whole family is here hi um feel free to subscribe to my channel if you want if not it's okay and remember all the links we're down below so anyway I'm going thanks for watching we'll see you next time bye let it get us well folks it's time to kick it old school