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This week I am testing videos from troom troom, five minute crafts and so yummy to see if they are faked or real. I am hoping that by exposing these videos it will make the creators have more of a conscience about what they upload. I'd love it if they actually cared about the audience that is watching.

his week I am being overly ambitious and attempting to make a reverse perspective chocolate artwork inspired by an artwork by Patrick Hughes. Then Turn my hand to interior design and do a bedroom makeover.

This week I am making a gingerbread house inspired by the house in the up movie. See how to make a gingerbread house from scratch. Homemade gingerbread tastes so much better than store bought. Get ideas for how to decorate your gingerbread house this year.

This week I am continuing in my debunking series to see if you can spot fake content. Content farms putting up recipes that do not work and pretending that they do work is ruining the DIY community. Make sure you watch channels that you can trust. Test your baking IQ in this video and see how you go.

This week I am making candy recipes from a cookbook that is 200 years old. The compleat confectioner by Hannah Glasse. We will make coffee caramels, lemon pastils and almond candy.

This week I am taking on a challenge from Netflix NAILED IT show to see if it is possible for experienced cake decorators to bake and decorate a cake in that time. Watch to see if we nailed it.

This week I am following a 260 year old recipe from The Compleat Confectioner by Hannah Glasse. 18th Century cooking is fascinating because it gives us a glimpse into what it was like to bake without electric mixers, modern ingredients and ready made products that we take fro granted, such as jam. In this video we will make bride cake, macaroons, Naples biscuits and of course cafe foot jelly to culminate in a grand trifle the likes of which you've never seen before. If you've ever been curious about how gelatin is made or even if you can make gelatine at home this video is for you.

Debunking disinformation on YouTube and Facebook viral videos on 5-minute crafts and Brightside.

This week we look at the phenomenon that is trending on youtube, fake cooking videos. Each has an element of truth and but is simplified or missing steps to the point that it no longer works. So why do they fake it? The youtube algorithm loves these quick fast forward to music no talking videos. They seem to be creating for the algorithm only (money) with no concern for the real people watching. We will also touch on FTC requirements for content.

This week I am looking at the very popular gluten free diet and examining if you should be eating gluten free.

This week I am making edible chocolate chalks, they are chocolate truffles that fit perfectly into an art supply tin. The perfect gift or an art loving foodie.

Amazing sugar decorations to distract and de-stress while at hom

Baking in lockdown is good for stress relief but when there is not much flour on the shelf it can be tricky. Here are three recipes that you have probably never tried before... princess cake, jiggly japanese cheesecake or icy wind.

This week I look into COVID-19 viral videos and do some debunking, including hand sanitizer recipes, homemade disinfectant, cleaning your phone, can you get covid-19 from food, is coronavirus killed by putting it in the freezer and are face masks effective against COVID-19?

This week we are testing crazy kitchen gadgets to see if they are clever or never. We'll put to the test a 1950s potato chipper, cake slicer and server, orange peeler, biscuit press, lemon juicer, a skull silicone egg mold, egg separator, dumpling circle cutter, extendable fork, silicone bowl lid and more. Put a thumbs up or down in the comments for the ones that you think are clever or never.

This week we are testing and exposing fake viral videos including a Tik Tok favourite using Coke to flavour watermelon? Making brownies in a bag in the microwave and cooking brownies on a hair straightener!? Banana and milk set dessert, dulces de leche from sweetened condensed milk and watch out for a sweetened condensed milk can explosion!

This week I am taking viral cake fails and fixing them. Cake rescue. Elsa cake, wrong writing on a cake, messed up cake.

This week I am making a 200 year old dessert apple tart with strawberry ice-cream that has bugs in it to colour it red. It is amazing how they used to colour food in the older days and make ice-cream without a freezer! Can you imagine living in Victorian times making butter from cream every day?

In this weeks video we are looking again at the weird world of fake how-to and cooking videos made to purely to get clicks and views to make money rather than to inform.

This week i am answering the most commonly asked question on my channel... where do the mini eggs come from? Where do you get such tiny eggs? We will be looking at humming bird eggs, quail eggs, and even seeing what ostrich eggs taste like!

Today I attempt to follow a Bob Ross tutorial using chocolate ganache on a cake. 100% edible, yummy chocolate cake with orange syrup, butter cream, white chocolate ganache. Bob Ross did many, many seasons on TV, showing tutorial on how to paint quick, impressive landscapes using oil paint. Today there is no paint in sight, just chocolate ganache and hot cream to wash the brushes.

This week I am attempting to replace a cheap frozen store bought dessert to make it look like a fancy restaurant dessert. Plating desserts four different ways showing you plating ideas and plating techniques.

In this episode we are debunking fake viral banana video hacks. Discussing panama disease (fusarium wilt or TR4) that is affecting bananas. And answering the questions: Do banana peels protect you from UV? Do bananas protect you from the sun? Can you eat banana peels? Do bananas make plants grow?

This week I am taking viral cake fail pictures from instagram and showing you how to fix them.

In this episode I will show you how to make your own gingerbread house at home from scratch. This is a fairly easy gingerbread house, you can make it. It for decorating it uses royal icing, chocolate and candy. And we head to the street to ask people if you could have anything for christmas what would you have? Who were Ruldolph's brothers, what happened at the first Christmas, sing jingle bells and more.