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Do you know the secret cake for winning over your crush? Brittany Krystantos and Nikki Steele, get real with you. Join Brittany and Nikki in this chaotic episode of The Dear Brittany Show as they dive into the art of baking with a twist! Titled "What's Your Secret Cake for Winning Over Your Crush (& Praying He Doesn't Die of Sugar Shock or Poison)," this live baking adventure quickly turns into a hilarious disaster. With Nikki being a ‘fetch’ and voicing her complaints, and Brittany trying to keep the sweet spirit alive, their baking skills are put to the ultimate test. Will they create a delicious masterpiece or serve up a comical catastrophe? Nikki shares the time she licked a cake off someone... Yes, she did say that, and you know what, this episode is special and makes us realize how important it is to give back to our loved ones, even if it’s in baking. They might need an expert to help them out next time…. Tune in for laughs, mishaps, and maybe even a sprinkle of romance!
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Hi everyone. We're back for a special episode. We're doing a live baking for you. It's Brittany Krystantos here and Nikki Steele. And we're here on the Dear Brittany podcast where we are going to be talking about what's your secret cake for winning over your crush. And praying he doesn't die of sugar shock or poison. Totally. Yeah. We're going to get real. We're going to get raw. So what are we making? We're making strawberry cheesecake. Oh my gosh. I can't wait. Do you think your crush is going to like it?
Uh, yeah. I'll be bringing that piece right over. And what are you going to do? Um, feed it to him. Feed it to him? I want to fucking feed it to someone. I want to fucking feed it to someone. I'm finding the recipe, everyone. Finding the recipe. Nikki, okay. Let's talk. This is going to be hard to talk and multiply at the same time. I know. What do we need, Nikki? What do we need here?
Okay. So, come on, girl. Okay. Um, we need cream cheese, which we have. Yes. We got cream cheese. We need the crumbs for the bottom. We need, oh, we have strawberries. Strawberries. Okay. So should I like do something here? Yeah. Let's like do something. Okay. So what am I doing? Okay. Here's the recipe. It says, first thing you're going to do is have a cup of graham cracker crumbs. We have to melt it. Melt the butter. Preheat the oven to 350. Line the bottom of your spring fave, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is baking with Nikki and Brittany. Oh my God. That means it's all over the place and we might even leave something out.
Yeah. Okay. So let's hope for the best. Hope for Nikki's crush. Oh, for the best. What crush? I don't have a crush. You're your crush. Oh, I am my crush. I'll take it home. Yeah. To myself. To your kids. Well, my Jake would eat it for sure. It says use a food processor to make graham cracker crumbs, but we have a bag, so we're good. Okay. Okay. I'm not a baker. I'm a cook. Me too. I'm a baker. I love it. Oh, by the way, sorry guys, if you're seeing this video, I have bruises on me because I'm doing this cupping massage. She got like a therapy.
Yeah. Okay. So what are we doing? All right, Nikki. We need to melt two tablespoons of butter and a half, and we need a cup of graham crackers, but we need bowls. Where's the butter? The butter is here. Oh, there it is. Okey dokey. Do we have bowls? Um, I don't know. Okay. Talk to everyone. Is this like a fake kitchen? You know, there's some stuff and there's not some stuff. Talk to everyone. Tell people some stories. I'm back. Stories, stories. Let's talk. What do I want to say? I'm very hot here.
There's a lot of lights, stories. I always have a story, but I don't have one right now because, um, this is the first baking extravaganza that we're going to be doing. So I'll get my coffee and, uh, we can have coffee talk, you know, like New Yorkers do coffee talk. Like we talk about daughters and dogs and coffee and how we like our coffee. That's good coffee. Oh my God. Did you get the fat free creamer? You know, the fake crap that doesn't even need to be chilled. That's the stuff I like. Okay, here she comes. I told a little joke.
Okay. We got bowls. We got bowls. Awesome. We got some stuff right over here. Anyone who's listening to this, we are a hot mess. So mind us. Always. Okay. Here's the butter. Butter. Butter. We need two tablespoons of butter. Okay. And hot. Okay. I need to melt it. Okay. So we need a little glass dish. T-B-S-P is tablespoon, right? Yes. Okay. That's disgusting. Yes. Grab it. There's teeth marks. Teeth marks. They don't eat it. Just look. Her brother-in-law bites the butter. Can you see that? That's disgusting. Okay.
We're going to take it from the other end. That's so gross. Okay. First of all, we just do that. Okay. That's a tablespoon. And then hot. Yeah. And then that's a good... One sec. Now you need a little more. Okay. And that was a half. So then you got to take... Wait. Oh, this is disgusting. Something's there like this from like a granola bar. This is nasty. That's okay. It's just... We are just going to eat it. I mean, we know it's Daniel. I mean, he's fine. Right? Okay. Nikki. Have you ever made cake for your crush? And how did it go? I don't have a crush.
In the past, Nikki. Oh, when I was like a kid? Like anything. Okay. I make... Walk away from the microwave. There's radiation. Like how bad? Like... Like what kind of radiation is this? You know? So, my crush when I was a kid was... His initials were JS. And if anyone out here knows me, like my friend Adina, she'll know who this is. It didn't melt. Okay. Put it back in. And I make chocolate chip cookies and chocolate cake. That's it. I don't do anything else. I don't really know how to do anything else because I'm a cook, not a baker. Okay?
I'm a baker. So... I love baking ice. Is this a coffee, everyone? I had coffee. I'm drinking coffee. We had a little talk about coffee. Okay. Like Nikki? Yes. So... Talk to me. Tell us a funny story. Tell us something. I did. I told her about coffee. Okay. What should we talk about? No one wants to hear about coffee, Nikki. So, today, I looked at her and I go, don't look at me right now. I'm not in a good mood. She goes, you mad right now? You mad? A little mad today. I go, yes, Nikki. It's my monthly cycle. A little mad. Oh, we're melting. Oh, we're melting.
Oh, good. Okay. Now we're doing the graham crackers, right? One cup. One cup of graham crackers? Okay. So, I think that the red one is... Oh, is that one? Yeah. Okay. Gluten-free, because Brittany's gluten-free. And it's not a health diet. No, no. She has to be. It's not a skinny girl. It's not a skinny girl LA trend. It's like, I will blow up. She gets really sick. Yeah. Really sick. People are like, oh, you're on the gluten-free diet? Mm-hmm. Like me. All us LA girls do that. I'm like, no. No. This is not an LA trend. This is... I get blown up. Basically, you need all of it. I know, but it's not falling. It's falling everywhere. I'm trying to be clean. Oh. We need more. I have more, though. Do you? Yeah. Not... I want to try it. I won't bite it.
Okay. So, I have definitely made cake or anything for my crushes. This is like my love language. I love baking for people. You have a lot of love languages. I do. What's your love language? You do things for people. You'll help them in their business. You take pictures. You do diagrams, and you help with anything they need. You're like somebody that's there for them. You're very supportive. You're very, very supportive. These are honey grams that are gluten-free, right? Mm-hmm. This is so good. So, what are you going to do? How are you going to crush all these? I'm going to have them. Oh, smarty pants. I am. I am. You put it in there, and you just beat the hell out of it, or you do it? I want to do it. I want to do it. Okay?
Here we go. Here we go. Okay. Oh, now I know. You do this. Do the lemon juice. Oh, that's better. Everyone, you don't know what's happening because we're not showing the video, really. We're hitting the graham crackers. We're crushing them in here. Okay? I can only use my left arm. Okay. Okay, ready? Mm-hmm. Let's get it. I think we're done. Let's make some cake. We're making some cake. Okay, let's go. Oh, my God. She's hilarious. Okay. We're making some cake. We're making some cake. I can't show my arm. You can't touch my arm. Oh, shit. Don't touch my right arm.
Okay. Go ahead. Tell them why. Nope. Okay. It's a secret. Oh, that's good. It really worked out well. You're so smart. I didn't even think about this. Oh, it's perfect amount. I think we put it all in. So that one little pack was perfect. Yeah. Okay. We are, everyone, we are pouring the graham crackers into the bowl. And we're going to take the melted butter, take the melted butter, we're going to pour it in there, Nikki. That a girl. That a girl. Come on, Nikki. Okay, ready? That's it. Now we're going to take the one and a half tablespoons of sugar and pinch of salt. Let's go, Nikki. She's mixing it. Oh, it's looking good, actually. Then we put it in there, and we press it down, or you need something in here. Salt? Yeah, I was answering a message from my agent. From her somebody. Oh, the agent. Okay.
I think it's good. Wow, it looks really good. Okay. So you're putting the salt in here? Salt in there, but we need the sugar. In here as well? Yeah, we need the sugar in there, it says. One and a half tablespoons of sugar. Okay. We are going to get the sugar out of this. I hope we're not being boring for you guys right now. We're just trying to be multitasker, you know? We're just trying to multitask at this point. Where's the tablespoon, Nick? Where do we put it? Where do we put it? Oh, it's dirty. Can you use another one? One tablespoon. Here.
This is a tablespoon. I'm going to get my hair brush. Okay. So I think it's really amazing to bake for your loved ones, whether it's a crush or not. I think it's so cute. You can totally, like, I don't know if this is getting a little, like, sexual, but like, Nicky would say, Nicky, I'm trying to find half of this. Nicky would probably, Nicky, would you bake, wear a nice dress for your loved one? Like, you know, feed him? And I would rub it all over. Oh, she would rub it. Yummy. Yummy. Did you put some salt? Nope. A little pinch? Will you do it? Okay. Okay, wait, move over a little so our viewers can see us. Is this too much salt? Nope. I think it's good. Pinch. Okay. Oh, that's enough, yeah. Okay, good. Okay.
That's step one, so we did that. Bake for eight to ten minutes, set aside, so we'll do it after. Okay. We'll put that to the side. We're just putting it all together and then we show you the things. So we're going to put it in here. Okay. For now. Okay, just making sure. Do we need to put butter on this or no? I don't think so, no. Okay, here we go. In the springform pan, so like that. Okay. You can see it can open up on the side. Okay. And then you have to press it down. Do you have enough graham crackers? It's a big thing. Yeah. It's good. Okay. Unless you want it to be like a massive amount. Nikki, share some cheesy baking theme pickup lines you would break the ice to a guy. Do you want to lick my spoon? Tell more.
She thinks that I just have these off the top of my head. I know, I'm having weird purple lipstick on today. I don't love it. Okay. Trying to get it nice. Let me think. Weird pickup lines. This is a recording of a podcast, so you do have to talk. Okay, I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm thinking, I'm working, and I'm moving and shaking here, you know? Okay, there we go. Okay. Okay, perfect. So this is side. Okay, that looks great. Oh, it's incredible. Let's put the locust locust. Okay, perfect. Okay. Let's eat it. Most of us know that food is medicine, but what we don't know is how to start implementing it into our daily lives to actually make a difference.
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We're back because I had to go make a pee. And my makeup looks so scary in this light today. I don't know. It's a little scary. But Halloween's on its way, so it's okay. Yeah. And guess what? I'm going to share the first time I ever made a cake for a crush. Okay. And? It went really well. It did? He ate the cake and he was like, oh my God, I'm going to love you forever. But it didn't work out. Did you eat it off of him? No, Nikki. PG. Come on. Not PG. I want to know the good stuff. No. Tell me the good stories. Can I be honest with you? Did you lick it off of him? No. Did you smear it down his leg? No, Nikki. PG for me. Did you lick a cake off someone? Yes, I did. Tell me about it. The initials are J-S. If you know who you are out there, I licked the cake off your leg. Who's J-S? Uh-huh. I'm going to find him. I'm going to put it down the lid. I'm finding this guy. It's yummy.
We're going back to the cake. Go ahead. We are two eggs. Two eggs. Now we are eight ounce cream cheese. Okay. We get very off topic. So I actually didn't make a cake for anyone. I made that up. I made cookies for someone and that person didn't like it and actually spit the cookie out. But it was back in the day when it wasn't good. It was that bad? Yeah. Who spits a cookie out? Because I forgot to put the sugar and I forgot to put the flour. Oh. Why is it blue? That's the thing that holds it in shape. I forgot to put the flour in the thing and I forgot to put the sugar and it was like very pasty. It was really nasty. Who doesn't put flour and sugar? How do you even bake without flour and sugar?
I've actually done cookies where there's no flour and sugar and it's like, you know, banana mush. Okay. I want to know, Nikki, who is J someone is and who licked it all over the place? J.S. J.S. That's his initials. Oh, my face itches. I was 16 years old. And you actually are 16 years old. You licked someone. I made a Duncan Hines cake with Duncan Hines frosting and Duncan Hines sprinkles and then I just like, you know, and then I just licked it all over. He's so cute. Do you still talk to him? Once in a blue moon. Yeah. Okay. Any sugar? Once in a blue moon. We talk once in a blue moon. But just he likes running to him. You know, that kind of thing. What's a two third, Nikki? Two thirds of a cup. Yeah.
Do you have a two thirds? I have a one thirds. I'll do two of them. So do two of them. Okay, Nikki. Yeah. So is there like a love spell? Oh, shit. Is there a love spell or something that you do? Like, do you like have a secret ingredient that you like? This guy's so lovely. He has so much cinnamon in the cake. Like, should we be adding cinnamon in this cake for someone? Oh, you mean adding something special. Special. You know what I'm saying, Nikki Steel? Hold on. Hold on. There is something a little special. You know what we should put in this cheesecake? Don't say marijuana. Well, always marijuana. You should sprinkle that shit on everything. But truly, we could put a little cayenne pepper in. Pepper in our cake? Cayenne pepper. No. What do you think it would do? No, listen. That's cayenne.
Okay. Nikki, do you know what restaurant that is? Do you know what they serve there? And I said, no. Actually, I was just told that we're going there for dinner. He's like, that restaurant is for people that are true, true foodies, that have gotten to the highest level of foodie and the highest level of cooking, culinary, everything, and And they need another level to kind of sink their teeth into, because they're bored of the other levels. Sink their teeth into? So they have specials, like the chicken or the rooster, the neck of the rooster, you know that neck, that thing that hangs off of them? They cut that off and they fry it up in garlic and butter and they serve it as a delicacy.
And there was a lot of other things, too. Like, we're not talking frog's legs. We're talking past frog's legs. It was an interesting experience because, you know, I'm at a point where I don't want any rooster neck fried up in garlic and butter. I'm not interested. I'd like a steak, some seafood, some Caesar salad, you know, a martini. I'm good. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm good at the level of where I'm at, you know? Okay, tell us about the sexiness that happened after the cake was made. Oh, wait. So this is what I want to tell you. At this restaurant, it was called Celestin, okay, Celestin. So it was French and they had cayenne pepper in their chocolate cake and it gave it a zip.
It gave it like a zing. It was good. It was really good. It was different. I mean, there was things there that I had that were different, but I wasn't ordering the rooster's neck. Did you have sex after? She wants to know about sex all the time. Do you have sexy time? I always have sexy time. It's Nikki. I'm a Scorpio. That's all I think about. Sexy time. Sexy time. Did you feed him cake while you were naked? Um, well, no, but I did end up eating the rest of my pasta at home after. That's always, that's always like something you want to look forward to after you have a great dish and you didn't finish it and you bring it home and you get to eat it after. Does he feed it to you? He did. The first bite. Then I took over. Don't kill me right now. I got a little bored. Just wanted to eat the rest, you know. And alone. So what are you doing now?
I think you need to have a mixer. I've gotta go get a mixer. Okay, so now you're leaving me again. Yeah, I'm leaving you again. But you're killing it. All right. This is an amazing episode, everyone. This is Baking with Nikki and Brittany. We are putting our taste tests to the run right now. Ask me if I'm going to do this again. Go ahead and do it. She doesn't want to do this. She said she hates doing this. She literally made me stop this. And I think this is going to be our best episode. Leslie, her mom, is going to say, Nikki, I love this episode, right? I can't wait for you to do that for her. All I can see in this episode is that my eyeshadow looks like I'm 70 years old. You look great, Nikki. But my teeth look white. Nikki, do my look white? Yes, because you're following all my rules. I'm going to get a mixer, okay? Take this out for just a minute.
Oh, there's another plug. There's one there. Okay. Just for a second. I think all of this is fine. The more cheese, the better. Put it all in. We're going to make it cheesy. We're going to make it very hearty cheese. We're going to make it smooth. We're going to make it yummy. You're very talking sexual to that. No, we're going to talk about cream cheese. Is there anything gross you just touched on? Woo! This mixer is... Woo!
This mixer is a little crazy. Oh yeah, here we go. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's smooth. It's thick. Oh ya. Now we're baking with Nikki and Brit. Brid and Britney, Brit and Brit. Here we go. Oh yeah baby, oh talk to me, there we go, oh yeah, oh yeah, now we're talking, now we're talking, she's kidding! Okay everyone, this is the Dear Brittany Podcast, I think this is by far going to be our best episode, Nikki doesn't think so, I think you like to see the inside of our life, Nikki doesn't want to show you her true self I think right now, I think Nikki's trying to hide behind her true self right now, TBSP, that's her true self. What true self? I'm just me. You don't want to show people yourself.
Well I would if I had a glass of wine, where's the wine? Do you want wine? Yeah! Do you want me to make you go upstairs again? Actually I think you have wine here. Where's the wine? In the fridge. There we go, here we go. Get out of the vanilla. Get out of the vanilla. Alright. So what you're going to do is you're going to mix it and scrape the sides of the bowl everywhere. Sorry, let me look at it. This is baking on the Dear Brittany Podcast. Baking. Baking on the Brittany Podcast. We're baking. No, my mother, lastly, she doesn't. Oh, we are overdoing it? Sorry. What are you saying so they can hear properly? My mother, Leslie, has a special cookie dough in the fridge. You know what that is? In the freezer. What is it? You can cut it into little small bits and make balls and you can put it in the oven and you make special cookies. Do you know what kind? What kind? Can you taste it super good or do you need more anything? Wheat cookies. Leslie has it at her house. I'm going to show them looking at it. More sugar or no? No, it's perfection. Perfect. It's perfection. Okay, this is honestly, guys, this is us testing for our future crushes.
Okay, future crushes. My crush is my boys. They're my crush. Okay, I'm going to see if you have wine in this fridge. No, there's no wine in that. Nothing? What about this guy? There's no wine. Come on. There's got to be something here. I'll get you a glass of wine. Let me get you a glass of wine. Can I lick these? Yeah, lick it. Are we done with this? We're done with this. So I can take these out? Oh, my God. Yeah, lick it. You sure you don't want anything else? Can I lick it over here? Yeah, lick it. Is this all done? Yeah. Lick it. Go, Nikki. Go, Nikki. That's what she does on a date.
Everyone. Do you like my singing? Britney's nuts. I don't go on dates. She's licking it when she was younger, when she was dating in her 20s and her 30s and her 40s. Yeah. I might as well just smear all this excess stuff right on my ass. Just smear it. That's where it's going to go. Shake. Show them. Shake it. Go shake it. Go shake it. Go, Nikki. Go, Nikki. This is everyone. We're dancing on the Dear Britney Podcast.
We're dancing. Let's go. Let's go, Nikki. spotlight on her. Woo! Alright. Muzzle tug! Muzzle tug! Muzzle tug! We are ready. Next step, we're making the strawberries, everyone. Strawberry topping. We need strawberries. We need strawberries! We have strawberries. We have two packs of strawberries. This is how it's done. Ready? Gotta cut them all up, right? Um, you just gotta take the stems off. Okay. You don't have to wash it. I washed them. You have to. Oh, but he kills all the bugs. We should wash it. We should wash it.
Okay, so let's wash it. Should I clean as we go? Or we'll clean up after? We'll clean up after. We're unorganized girls. These are bruises because I went to a special treatment where he did cupping on my body and so I am bruised up. But you know what? It's working. It's working. Let me check my phone. We need to have the cornstarch, Nikki. The cornstarch is there. Cornstarch. Okay. Cornstarch. We need strawberries. We need lemon juice and sugar. Where are you going? I just have to check on Dylan. She's leaving me, everyone. But you know what? I want to make this episode about you, the people. And about the fact that we all have the ability to do something nice, whether it's baking a cake for your partner, for your crush, or if it's about baking a cake for your friends and family. It's the best feeling when you make something for someone.
Don't you agree? It gives me so much joy when I bake for someone I care about, when they're eating the spoon and they know that this was made out of love. I think that is what's so beautiful. Right, Nikki? I was saying to our viewers here that it gives me joy baking for people, whether it's your crush, your boyfriend, your husband, your partner, your friend, or it's a friend, or it's a family member. That gives me joy, knowing that she is enjoying that. That was very sexual. No. It was delicious. It was delicious. Okay, let's go. We're going. Strawberry time.
It says one and a half LBS strawberries. Does that mean cups? Pound. Pound. What's a pound? LB. LB is a pound. What is a pound, though? Like, here, let me see. Let me see. That's it. That's a pound. We're doing all these. Yeah, that's like a pound and a half.
So you need, like, three quarters of that. What would three quarters of that be, Nikki? Like? To the math girl who doesn't know her math. I don't know math. I'm a science person. We're just going to add it all in. Let's talk science. LB. Pound. Yeah, it is a pound. Yep. Okay. I think this is going to be a great episode. Do you? I'm so glad. I'm going to ask our viewers a question. I have a question. How do people find love in 2024? Like, I saw this, um, this, um, stat the other day that said in 1980, the biggest way people met their loved ones was through love.