Thanksgiving Pies Around The US  #Tasty Food

 you see that's crazy of my family

Thanksgiving is one of my favorites and

this pie will always be there nobody

does it quite like we do hi my name is

Aaron Vance lemon and today I'm gonna be

making my grandfather's recipe for

blueberry tapioca pie tapioca and this

recipe is being used as a thickener some

people might use corn starch or other

ingredients but definitely in the

Midwest we use tapioca this pie I

originally heard from my grandfather he

would make this pie every year for my

dad's birthday he would wake up at 6

a.m. to come and bring this pie to my

dad so for lucky enough we'll be able to

pick fresh blueberries since Michigan is

known for its wild blueberries and

everyone will hold them for the summer

months knowing that we're gonna want

them for Thanksgiving I just have to try

one you have to make sure it's good

first when I was too young to bake I

would just sit at the kitchen table and

wait until my sister or my dad or

whoever else was making it would turn

their back and I'd grab a few blue areas

just in case so usually if you have

extra crust left over me and my sisters

would take that extra crust and cut a B

out of it for my dad's name berry or you

know also for blueberry pie because my

grandfather would always take the crust

and poke holes in it so that it made his

initials hi is always a staple for

Thanksgiving and it's a real tradition

in my family even if my sister's have

all moved and I've left we always come

back for the holidays and we know we can

gather around food and this pie will

always be there

mmm-hmm just like how my grandfather

used to make it hi my name is Bianca

Lambert and I am cooking my aunt

Vivian's sweet potato pie my honors the

only person in our family that still

bakes sweets she's the only person

that's kind of carried this recipe over

from my grandmother and just kind of

passed down those southern roots so the

way that you will know your potatoes are

done you just kind of give it a little

poke or a little stab that's how you

know that it's ready I grew up in

Atlanta and my parents are from this

town and Alabama called Monroeville so

Thanksgiving Christmas like whatever

holiday you can think of we were drive

down well my grandma I remember like she

would just always have all this food and

she didn't have a lot of money and all

that but you could guarantee that there

was going to be a spread everything that

you ever wanted she knew all your

favorites and that was her way of

showing love and I feel like that is

what southern cooking is all about it's

just a way to show love and give back to

your family in a different kind of way

I'll say this I'm always looking forward

to this pie for Thanksgiving and

Christmas

I might even volunteer to make the sweet

potato pie this year

nobody's probably gonna let me do it

though or don't let me do like one and

then she'll do

anybody makes anything good like if you

know something's really good thank you

me it just goes so if you don't get to

that pie before it's gone forget about

it yeah you better get it with me and

people I mean we do share it's very much

about community but people like what

they like we all know each other's

favorite so yeah once it's gone

that's it this is just one of my

all-time favorites it's the thing I can

eat I mean I could eat a whole pie by

myself so my aunt surprised me by

letting me know that she uses lemon

extract and the sweet potato pie when

she said it I was like is she making a

mistake but it's been perfect for years

so I'm sure she knows what she's talking

about here's a B I don't think anyone

can cook sweet potato pie like anybody

in my family nobody does it quite like

we do I hate so all the aunties and

grandmas and people out there like you

guys are amazing

and I just think we're all partial to

our families cooking Thanksgiving for us

is just like the best time of the year

it's probably my favorite holiday just

because there's so much about family and

food and eating and just having a good

time it tastes so good

no it's gonna be super proud my name is

Brendan Dahl and today I am making my

mom's amazing pumpkin pie it is my

favorite thing in the entire world my

mom is always the one who makes the pies

for Thanksgiving 100% we are allowed in

the kitchen honestly everyone kind of

congregates in the kitchen in part

because it smells so good but also

because that's where my mom is so I

talked to her and keep her company while

she makes us delicious fish

this is my grandmother's pie dough

recipe so the whole pumpkin pie recipe

is actually I say it's my mom's or

really it's her mother's it's not super

complicated and its ingredients but it's

a very dense spicy pie which i think is

like maybe a little more old-fashioned

it's a very very old family recipe I'm

from Arkansas and I do feel like pumpkin

pie is popular there

but there's kind of a big division

there's pumpkin-pie people and there's

pecan pie people and we say pecan not

pecan there are two distinct camps

honestly my mom makes both but the

pumpkin is like the star and the pecan

pie is for like the other folks I don't

want to imagine a life without pumpkin

pie this pumpkin pie it is a holiday

staple but honestly like living I live

across the country from my mom and our

whole family is really spread apart so

even when we go back random times during

the year like if I go back in April I

get pumpkin pie if I go back anytime I

get pumpkin pie it's definitely the main

comfort food that like makes me feel

like I'm home and like I don't feel like

I'm officially home until I've had this

pumpkin pie regardless of what time of

year it is I would like to say that we

like chip in like oh my mom makes the

pies but like I have an amazing

casserole or something but I I bring

nothing to the table literally I like

Thanksgiving a lot actually

I love holidays but I'm not someone who

gets like really obsessive over holidays

but for me Thanksgiving is one of my

favorites because it's so food based

anytime you have a lot of food I'm down

to be there so Thanksgiving is probably

my favorite holiday because like you

know that the meals gonna be on point

typically I celebrate Thanksgiving with

my mom and my my brother Chris if he can

make it we don't really have that big of

a family I'm in California my brothers

in Texas have another brother in

Kentucky and it's just been hard the

last few years to actually get everyone

together so some years it's just me and

my mom some years it's like you know a

couple of us or a couple extra like some

cousins here and there but we're a

pretty small group making this pie is

definitely bringing back some nostalgia

because it's actually been a couple

years since I've gotten to go home for

Thanksgiving I'm not sure I realized how

homesick for this pie I was and homesick

in general this is a nice treat honestly

of all the Thanksgiving foods really all

holiday foods regardless of holiday this

is kind of like the big one this is the

one mainstay like on Thanksgiving or

Christmas or whatever sometimes we'll

have like hey

instead of Turkey or this instead of

that but the one thing that never

changes is pumpkin pie well it even

smells perfect it's the perfect pie it's

absolutely perfect

I'm ray Pilar and today I'm making my

Thai tea pie when I first brought the

pie out to Thanksgiving my family was

like really surprised that you could get

Thai tea into a pie flavour and since

then it's been one of those things that

my family just expects me to bring to

Thanksgiving every year so my

sister-in-law will bring to traditional

pies apple or pecan or strawberry and

then I'll be in charge of the to Thai

tea pies which usually goes by faster

compared to the other pies since again

it's not something that you would be

able to get at your local Thai store

Thanksgiving that's crazy at my family

because it's like loud there's a lot of

us with a family hashtag my last name is

Pilar so we had at ey so it's party cuz

there's so many of us that we had a hard

time getting photos whenever we would

take like a group photo or any kind of

photo during a party so we just made the

hashtag so that you could look it up and

find the photo online but now it's just

become like a fun thing so my family

came out to California in the 1980s the

family was still relatively small and it

was just my mom my dad my like six older

half siblings and as the years grew and

as we all became adults everyone brought

something to the table so the table just

got bigger what was originally probably

close to a traditional Thanksgiving

became something that is pretty much a

giant Thanksgiving party it's like now

we can't really fit into one table but

we'll fit into one house as we all get

older everyone brings something new so

if I show it up to Thanksgiving without

a pie specifically this tightiy pie they

would put me in the kitchen and make

this pie the first year that I actually

made this pie I've made one tightiy pie

and then I also made an Earl Grey pie my

family liked the Earl Grey pie but it

just wasn't as

popular compared to the Thai tea party

and what I found was like blunt enough

that they'll be like this was good but

it's not great we'll just get two of the

Thai tea flies instead of a royal grape

I the amount of people that we do have

over for Thanksgiving someone is always

bound to forget something since I'm

traveling over there I don't really end

up forgetting a pie or anything but

there have been years where we would

forget like the lumpia someone would

forget the rice someone would forget the

mashed potatoes with big families you

have to move fast if you're gonna hope

that someone's gonna save you a a slice

of a pie or a piece of a cake sucks for

you because not everyone's gonna say

that my favorite way to serve the Thai

tea pie is to give it a nice healthy

dollop of fresh whipped cream just

because it ties it all together and it

looks really pretty

I love sharing with my family but this

one is all mine

you

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 you see that's crazy of my family

Thanksgiving is one of my favorites and

this pie will always be there nobody

does it quite like we do hi my name is

Aaron Vance lemon and today I'm gonna be

making my grandfather's recipe for

blueberry tapioca pie tapioca and this

recipe is being used as a thickener some

people might use corn starch or other

ingredients but definitely in the

Midwest we use tapioca this pie I

originally heard from my grandfather he

would make this pie every year for my

dad's birthday he would wake up at 6

a.m. to come and bring this pie to my

dad so for lucky enough we'll be able to

pick fresh blueberries since Michigan is

known for its wild blueberries and

everyone will hold them for the summer

months knowing that we're gonna want

them for Thanksgiving I just have to try

one you have to make sure it's good

first when I was too young to bake I

would just sit at the kitchen table and

wait until my sister or my dad or

whoever else was making it would turn

their back and I'd grab a few blue areas

just in case so usually if you have

extra crust left over me and my sisters

would take that extra crust and cut a B

out of it for my dad's name berry or you

know also for blueberry pie because my

grandfather would always take the crust

and poke holes in it so that it made his

initials hi is always a staple for

Thanksgiving and it's a real tradition

in my family even if my sister's have

all moved and I've left we always come

back for the holidays and we know we can

gather around food and this pie will

always be there

mmm-hmm just like how my grandfather

used to make it hi my name is Bianca

Lambert and I am cooking my aunt

Vivian's sweet potato pie my honors the

only person in our family that still

bakes sweets she's the only person

that's kind of carried this recipe over

from my grandmother and just kind of

passed down those southern roots so the

way that you will know your potatoes are

done you just kind of give it a little

poke or a little stab that's how you

know that it's ready I grew up in

Atlanta and my parents are from this

town and Alabama called Monroeville so

Thanksgiving Christmas like whatever

holiday you can think of we were drive

down well my grandma I remember like she

would just always have all this food and

she didn't have a lot of money and all

that but you could guarantee that there

was going to be a spread everything that

you ever wanted she knew all your

favorites and that was her way of

showing love and I feel like that is

what southern cooking is all about it's

just a way to show love and give back to

your family in a different kind of way

I'll say this I'm always looking forward

to this pie for Thanksgiving and

Christmas

I might even volunteer to make the sweet

potato pie this year

nobody's probably gonna let me do it

though or don't let me do like one and

then she'll do

anybody makes anything good like if you

know something's really good thank you

me it just goes so if you don't get to

that pie before it's gone forget about

it yeah you better get it with me and

people I mean we do share it's very much

about community but people like what

they like we all know each other's

favorite so yeah once it's gone

that's it this is just one of my

all-time favorites it's the thing I can

eat I mean I could eat a whole pie by

myself so my aunt surprised me by

letting me know that she uses lemon

extract and the sweet potato pie when

she said it I was like is she making a

mistake but it's been perfect for years

so I'm sure she knows what she's talking

about here's a B I don't think anyone

can cook sweet potato pie like anybody

in my family nobody does it quite like

we do I hate so all the aunties and

grandmas and people out there like you

guys are amazing

and I just think we're all partial to

our families cooking Thanksgiving for us

is just like the best time of the year

it's probably my favorite holiday just

because there's so much about family and

food and eating and just having a good

time it tastes so good

no it's gonna be super proud my name is

Brendan Dahl and today I am making my

mom's amazing pumpkin pie it is my

favorite thing in the entire world my

mom is always the one who makes the pies

for Thanksgiving 100% we are allowed in

the kitchen honestly everyone kind of

congregates in the kitchen in part

because it smells so good but also

because that's where my mom is so I

talked to her and keep her company while

she makes us delicious fish

this is my grandmother's pie dough

recipe so the whole pumpkin pie recipe

is actually I say it's my mom's or

really it's her mother's it's not super

complicated and its ingredients but it's

a very dense spicy pie which i think is

like maybe a little more old-fashioned

it's a very very old family recipe I'm

from Arkansas and I do feel like pumpkin

pie is popular there

but there's kind of a big division

there's pumpkin-pie people and there's

pecan pie people and we say pecan not

pecan there are two distinct camps

honestly my mom makes both but the

pumpkin is like the star and the pecan

pie is for like the other folks I don't

want to imagine a life without pumpkin

pie this pumpkin pie it is a holiday

staple but honestly like living I live

across the country from my mom and our

whole family is really spread apart so

even when we go back random times during

the year like if I go back in April I

get pumpkin pie if I go back anytime I

get pumpkin pie it's definitely the main

comfort food that like makes me feel

like I'm home and like I don't feel like

I'm officially home until I've had this

pumpkin pie regardless of what time of

year it is I would like to say that we

like chip in like oh my mom makes the

pies but like I have an amazing

casserole or something but I I bring

nothing to the table literally I like

Thanksgiving a lot actually

I love holidays but I'm not someone who

gets like really obsessive over holidays

but for me Thanksgiving is one of my

favorites because it's so food based

anytime you have a lot of food I'm down

to be there so Thanksgiving is probably

my favorite holiday because like you

know that the meals gonna be on point

typically I celebrate Thanksgiving with

my mom and my my brother Chris if he can

make it we don't really have that big of

a family I'm in California my brothers

in Texas have another brother in

Kentucky and it's just been hard the

last few years to actually get everyone

together so some years it's just me and

my mom some years it's like you know a

couple of us or a couple extra like some

cousins here and there but we're a

pretty small group making this pie is

definitely bringing back some nostalgia

because it's actually been a couple

years since I've gotten to go home for

Thanksgiving I'm not sure I realized how

homesick for this pie I was and homesick

in general this is a nice treat honestly

of all the Thanksgiving foods really all

holiday foods regardless of holiday this

is kind of like the big one this is the

one mainstay like on Thanksgiving or

Christmas or whatever sometimes we'll

have like hey

instead of Turkey or this instead of

that but the one thing that never

changes is pumpkin pie well it even

smells perfect it's the perfect pie it's

absolutely perfect

I'm ray Pilar and today I'm making my

Thai tea pie when I first brought the

pie out to Thanksgiving my family was

like really surprised that you could get

Thai tea into a pie flavour and since

then it's been one of those things that

my family just expects me to bring to

Thanksgiving every year so my

sister-in-law will bring to traditional

pies apple or pecan or strawberry and

then I'll be in charge of the to Thai

tea pies which usually goes by faster

compared to the other pies since again

it's not something that you would be

able to get at your local Thai store

Thanksgiving that's crazy at my family

because it's like loud there's a lot of

us with a family hashtag my last name is

Pilar so we had at ey so it's party cuz

there's so many of us that we had a hard

time getting photos whenever we would

take like a group photo or any kind of

photo during a party so we just made the

hashtag so that you could look it up and

find the photo online but now it's just

become like a fun thing so my family

came out to California in the 1980s the

family was still relatively small and it

was just my mom my dad my like six older

half siblings and as the years grew and

as we all became adults everyone brought

something to the table so the table just

got bigger what was originally probably

close to a traditional Thanksgiving

became something that is pretty much a

giant Thanksgiving party it's like now

we can't really fit into one table but

we'll fit into one house as we all get

older everyone brings something new so

if I show it up to Thanksgiving without

a pie specifically this tightiy pie they

would put me in the kitchen and make

this pie the first year that I actually

made this pie I've made one tightiy pie

and then I also made an Earl Grey pie my

family liked the Earl Grey pie but it

just wasn't as

popular compared to the Thai tea party

and what I found was like blunt enough

that they'll be like this was good but

it's not great we'll just get two of the

Thai tea flies instead of a royal grape

I the amount of people that we do have

over for Thanksgiving someone is always

bound to forget something since I'm

traveling over there I don't really end

up forgetting a pie or anything but

there have been years where we would

forget like the lumpia someone would

forget the rice someone would forget the

mashed potatoes with big families you

have to move fast if you're gonna hope

that someone's gonna save you a a slice

of a pie or a piece of a cake sucks for

you because not everyone's gonna say

that my favorite way to serve the Thai

tea pie is to give it a nice healthy

dollop of fresh whipped cream just

because it ties it all together and it

looks really pretty

I love sharing with my family but this

one is all mine

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hey y'all Oh weird all right hello

everybody no hey oh I'm Vaughn

I am a tasty show producer and I'm gonna

show you why I love making mesmerizing

dessert videos strawberry cheesecake

macarons was really like my first big

video here at tasty I was a French and

film double major so this is really like

literally the perfect job for me I've

always taken a really strong liking to

desserts in general I worked at a bakery

after I graduated from college

I've always loved Lucky's emphases and

so I applied for this job at tasty and

was so nervous because I was like this

is the perfect job for me I have to get

it and when you apply for a job at tasty

they ask you to make a top-down food

video and I think that I should make a

matcha ginger citrus macaron which is

like the craziest flavor combination

that no one on tasty or none of our

tasty audience would really like or get

unless they were like taste Japan or

something I saved all of my macarons and

I actually brought them into my

in-person interview they were like this

kid is the biggest suck-up of all time

like who is he and then they tasted my

macarons they were like actually these

are pretty good we should give him a

second chance

and thankfully they did give me a second

chance and I knew when I started here

that I had to make a macaron video so

what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to

find a flavor combination that the

Tastee audience is gonna like strawberry

cheesecake so on top of this crazy

flavor combination I really want to make

them look swirl like a strawberry

cheesecake so what I did was I combined

the two colors of better and I piped

both of those into a bigger piping bag

and then I swirled them around and

people were watching me in the taste

studio like what the hell is this kid

doing I didn't have them taste

yet because I wanted to like save them

all for the end and then they tasted the

macarons I passed them out and that was

really like my first time where I felt

validated almost in the tasty studio it

was a really gratifying feeling and then

when the video came out like a week

later I remember being on a plane from

DC and I saw that the video went up I

was like okay I gotta turn my phone off

I'm on a plane flew back landed in New

York City and it had like 10 million

views when I heard that I was like yes

this is awesome this is like the HAI

that you get when you make a viral video

was really like my first time where I

felt like this is where I meant to be I

know that this is gonna be a place that

I'm at for a long time and we ate

macarons for like four weeks after that

because I made like 150 of them when I

started as a tasty producer we had to

make to one pot recipes and then our

third video had to be like a mashup I

really wanted to make a dessert because

I love sweets and a huge sweet tooth it

was wintertime so I was feeling

something swore Z s'mores a word I was

like I want to make something

s'mores flavored and I wanted to be good

for a party so I came up with his wacky

idea of s'mores cheesecake pops when I

first tested this recipe out I made my

no-bake cheesecake base and then I

rolled a whole bunch of marshmallows and

when you're making a tasty video

you're not exactly able to cook your

recipe all the way through without

stopping because you have to like change

your camera's change your lenses get

different angles from the side so I go

and I get the marshmallows out of the

oven

and then I'm like oh wait I have to do

my graham cracker base so I make my

graham cracker base and then I go to put

my marshmallows into the batter and

they're like brick salad I ended up

having to do more marshmallows and then

because the marshmallows were so hot it

made my batter soupy and I was like what

the hell is going on so I learned from

my mistakes and I left the broiled

marshmallows cool for three to four

minutes I just had to get like really

fun with those chocolate dipping shots

because there's absolutely nothing

sexier than beautiful shots of melted

chocolate it ended up tasting like

toasted marshmallow cheesecake which was

awesome tasty 101 is really really near

and dear to my heart

my boss was essentially like we don't

have anybody doing just YouTube videos

we've tried out a couple of things on

YouTube but you really want a dedicated

team of producers to just play around

with different long-form recipe videos

long-form content in general for a

YouTube audience and we were thinking

about shows it was a no-brainer

tasty 101 had to be one of our shows

everybody knew it people loved Claire's

voice we had a new person in LA Alexis

who was also really gifted with recipes

and had a great voice as well people

really loved Claire's voice it's really

just another flavor enhancer so when we

were thinking about a first season of

tasty one a wonder if he really brought

what do people really need to know about

I quickly learned that making long-form

content especially tasty 101 is a whole

different ballgame than just like your

normal recipe video they require a lot

of planning a lot of recipe development

because what we're putting out there is

what we think the tasties perfect recipe

for something is so Claire and I took a

couple days to come up with like the

perfect recipe for a pound cake we made

all these like tarts and muffins and we

had some like class some that we made

and things like that and we just like

had

smorgasbord of desserts out on this

table in making that video I just

remember like having so much fun with

playing around with those beauty shots

getting those kind of cool cushions and

flyover shots and like really showcasing

how sexy desserts can be we're able to

really highlight the most amazing

aspects of one thing and make it look

incredible

so when we're thinking about season two

I was like look one of my passions in

life is decorating cake and I love

decorating cake I personally will spend

like hours on my phone at night when I'm

trying to go to sleep watching cake

decorating videos on Instagram it's like

an actual problem but I really want to

do a five beautiful ways to decorate

cakes ideo because it's something that

people love watching we need to

capitalize on this so Claire and I came

into the taste of studio one morning and

what started off is like a cake

decorating video with just a few tips

and tricks quickly turned into like a

we're gonna make five unreal cakes

Claire and I'm like we're pulling our

hair out and about to pull each other's

hair out for this video but by the end

when we were going through and doing

like the voiceover and everything we

were like wow this was so much fun and

this is something that we're pretty good

at so we're gonna continue to do this

which is why when season three came

about we were like alright gotta do

desserts again

let's do brownies I worked with one of

our recipe developers sue and we just

made like eight batches of brownies one

day and it was the best day of my whole

entire life because we were just eating

brownies all day long that's really the

best part about being a tasty producer

is that you

all day long when we do a tasty 101

video it's always kind of like what is

that one crazy technique that people are

gonna go and watch this video and be

like whoa that is a cool thing that I've

never seen before we both remember this

recipe where a baker like takes the pan

of brownies and just whacks it against

the table halfway through baking turns

the sheet of brownies around and puts it

back in the oven so it gets like that

nice crackly top keeps them really

really moist but not dense like these

are literally the best brownies I've

ever had in my whole entire life and I

can firmly say that the people of

BuzzFeed New York who got to try these

brownies said the exact same thing in

tasty 101 - what I love is that I was

able to use a lot nicer cameras and I

was able to showcase what I could do in

terms of like slow motion filming and

flyover shots and everything like that

which really inspired me and I think

that that's one of the big reasons why

we made made by hand tasty is made by

hand is a very artistic look and insight

into how everyday people make something

by hand exacting that human emotion

exacting that human condition from the

passion that somebody has when they make

thing thousands of times every single

day and then came Asian Pacific American

Heritage Month

yeah a pan I wanted personally to do

this tea house in New York that I had

been to before what really drew me to

that was they had these really

traditional Japanese tea cakes and

pastries but then they also had this

really cool modern take on pastries as

well and I thought that that was perfect

way to showcase the juxtaposition

between the old and the new when I dug a

little deeper and I liked when there to

talk to the people who owned it I found

out that not only was it like a

completely family-run business but it

was also like women doing these

incredible things and I was like this is

perfect

I am so into it when I graduated from

school I moved to Thailand for like

seven months to teach English and my

favorite thing to do after school would

be to play badminton with my students

and then I would go and get like an iced

americano and a little matcha tea cake

from the cafe across the street when I

went to the tea house here in New York

really brought back those memories for

me and that was when I was kind of like

food is a memory every single flavor

every single taste every single

ingredient that you've ever experienced

is and can be tied to a specific moment

in your life and I think that that

emotion was something that was super

touching to me when I went there and I

just got this rush of nostalgia and I

think that that's something that was

really cool with that video was that we

were able to learn that food is more

about just the way something tastes or

the way something looks it's about the

story behind it from there we saw that

people seem to really like the human

element behind all of these stories I've

gotten to meet and talk to these amazing

people that have dedicated their lives

to making one thing it's really special

to see someone with a passion so deep

and so ingrained in themselves that

they're committing their whole entire

lives to perfecting one craft I think

that that's what really resonates with

our audience the most is that like food

is inherently connected to memories when

I get in the kitchen and bake something

I'm automatically brought back to my

childhood getting up on like a rainy

Saturday morning and baking with my mom

and my grandma in the kitchen I've had a

lot of life experiences you know I've

lived in three different countries

I moved up to New York City when I was

23 without a job living in this tiny

cramped apartment and it was negative

ten degrees in January that's like the

time in my life that's connected most to

like instant ramen no I'm sure when I go

out and I film a mesmerising dessert

video I don't just go and say like okay

I'm gonna set the camera here and I'm

just gonna let it roll our food and the

way that we showcase food is done from

that human perspective and we try to

always

how is this gonna make something feel

when we put it down

I always try to think about how is

something gonna play into not just the

overall video but like the psychology of

the video how is that gonna make you as

a viewer feel when you see this 70 year

old woman who's dedicated her life to

making mochi and honestly that's the

coolest part of my job is seeing in the

comments and getting direct messages of

like hey I saw your brownie video I made

your brownie recipe I loved it

I'm gonna put pretzels on top of it and

bring it to my cookie swap this money as

the most gratifying thing is to be able

to see like the fruits of our labor or

in my case the cakes of our labor that

was really dumb

English (auto-generated)

hey y'all Oh weird all right hello

everybody no hey oh I'm Vaughn

I am a tasty show producer and I'm gonna

show you why I love making mesmerizing

dessert videos strawberry cheesecake

macarons was really like my first big

video here at tasty I was a French and

film double major so this is really like

literally the perfect job for me I've

always taken a really strong liking to

desserts in general I worked at a bakery

after I graduated from college

I've always loved Lucky's emphases and

so I applied for this job at tasty and

was so nervous because I was like this

is the perfect job for me I have to get

it and when you apply for a job at tasty

they ask you to make a top-down food

video and I think that I should make a

matcha ginger citrus macaron which is

like the craziest flavor combination

that no one on tasty or none of our

tasty audience would really like or get

unless they were like taste Japan or

something I saved all of my macarons and

I actually brought them into my

in-person interview they were like this

kid is the biggest suck-up of all time

like who is he and then they tasted my

macarons they were like actually these

are pretty good we should give him a

second chance

and thankfully they did give me a second

chance and I knew when I started here

that I had to make a macaron video so

what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to

find a flavor combination that the

Tastee audience is gonna like strawberry

cheesecake so on top of this crazy

flavor combination I really want to make

them look swirl like a strawberry

cheesecake so what I did was I combined

the two colors of better and I piped

both of those into a bigger piping bag

and then I swirled them around and

people were watching me in the taste

studio like what the hell is this kid

doing I didn't have them taste

yet because I wanted to like save them

all for the end and then they tasted the

macarons I passed them out and that was

really like my first time where I felt

validated almost in the tasty studio it

was a really gratifying feeling and then

when the video came out like a week

later I remember being on a plane from

DC and I saw that the video went up I

was like okay I gotta turn my phone off

I'm on a plane flew back landed in New

York City and it had like 10 million

views when I heard that I was like yes

this is awesome this is like the HAI

that you get when you make a viral video

was really like my first time where I

felt like this is where I meant to be I

know that this is gonna be a place that

I'm at for a long time and we ate

macarons for like four weeks after that

because I made like 150 of them when I

started as a tasty producer we had to

make to one pot recipes and then our

third video had to be like a mashup I

really wanted to make a dessert because

I love sweets and a huge sweet tooth it

was wintertime so I was feeling

something swore Z s'mores a word I was

like I want to make something

s'mores flavored and I wanted to be good

for a party so I came up with his wacky

idea of s'mores cheesecake pops when I

first tested this recipe out I made my

no-bake cheesecake base and then I

rolled a whole bunch of marshmallows and

when you're making a tasty video

you're not exactly able to cook your

recipe all the way through without

stopping because you have to like change

your camera's change your lenses get

different angles from the side so I go

and I get the marshmallows out of the

oven

and then I'm like oh wait I have to do

my graham cracker base so I make my

graham cracker base and then I go to put

my marshmallows into the batter and

they're like brick salad I ended up

having to do more marshmallows and then

because the marshmallows were so hot it

made my batter soupy and I was like what

the hell is going on so I learned from

my mistakes and I left the broiled

marshmallows cool for three to four

minutes I just had to get like really

fun with those chocolate dipping shots

because there's absolutely nothing

sexier than beautiful shots of melted

chocolate it ended up tasting like

toasted marshmallow cheesecake which was

awesome tasty 101 is really really near

and dear to my heart

my boss was essentially like we don't

have anybody doing just YouTube videos

we've tried out a couple of things on

YouTube but you really want a dedicated

team of producers to just play around

with different long-form recipe videos

long-form content in general for a

YouTube audience and we were thinking

about shows it was a no-brainer

tasty 101 had to be one of our shows

everybody knew it people loved Claire's

voice we had a new person in LA Alexis

who was also really gifted with recipes

and had a great voice as well people

really loved Claire's voice it's really

just another flavor enhancer so when we

were thinking about a first season of

tasty one a wonder if he really brought

what do people really need to know about

I quickly learned that making long-form

content especially tasty 101 is a whole

different ballgame than just like your

normal recipe video they require a lot

of planning a lot of recipe development

because what we're putting out there is

what we think the tasties perfect recipe

for something is so Claire and I took a

couple days to come up with like the

perfect recipe for a pound cake we made

all these like tarts and muffins and we

had some like class some that we made

and things like that and we just like

had

smorgasbord of desserts out on this

table in making that video I just

remember like having so much fun with

playing around with those beauty shots

getting those kind of cool cushions and

flyover shots and like really showcasing

how sexy desserts can be we're able to

really highlight the most amazing

aspects of one thing and make it look

incredible

so when we're thinking about season two

I was like look one of my passions in

life is decorating cake and I love

decorating cake I personally will spend

like hours on my phone at night when I'm

trying to go to sleep watching cake

decorating videos on Instagram it's like

an actual problem but I really want to

do a five beautiful ways to decorate

cakes ideo because it's something that

people love watching we need to

capitalize on this so Claire and I came

into the taste of studio one morning and

what started off is like a cake

decorating video with just a few tips

and tricks quickly turned into like a

we're gonna make five unreal cakes

Claire and I'm like we're pulling our

hair out and about to pull each other's

hair out for this video but by the end

when we were going through and doing

like the voiceover and everything we

were like wow this was so much fun and

this is something that we're pretty good

at so we're gonna continue to do this

which is why when season three came

about we were like alright gotta do

desserts again

let's do brownies I worked with one of

our recipe developers sue and we just

made like eight batches of brownies one

day and it was the best day of my whole

entire life because we were just eating

brownies all day long that's really the

best part about being a tasty producer

is that you

all day long when we do a tasty 101

video it's always kind of like what is

that one crazy technique that people are

gonna go and watch this video and be

like whoa that is a cool thing that I've

never seen before we both remember this

recipe where a baker like takes the pan

of brownies and just whacks it against

the table halfway through baking turns

the sheet of brownies around and puts it

back in the oven so it gets like that

nice crackly top keeps them really

really moist but not dense like these

are literally the best brownies I've

ever had in my whole entire life and I

can firmly say that the people of

BuzzFeed New York who got to try these

brownies said the exact same thing in

tasty 101 - what I love is that I was

able to use a lot nicer cameras and I

was able to showcase what I could do in

terms of like slow motion filming and

flyover shots and everything like that

which really inspired me and I think

that that's one of the big reasons why

we made made by hand tasty is made by

hand is a very artistic look and insight

into how everyday people make something

by hand exacting that human emotion

exacting that human condition from the

passion that somebody has when they make

thing thousands of times every single

day and then came Asian Pacific American

Heritage Month

yeah a pan I wanted personally to do

this tea house in New York that I had

been to before what really drew me to

that was they had these really

traditional Japanese tea cakes and

pastries but then they also had this

really cool modern take on pastries as

well and I thought that that was perfect

way to showcase the juxtaposition

between the old and the new when I dug a

little deeper and I liked when there to

talk to the people who owned it I found

out that not only was it like a

completely family-run business but it

was also like women doing these

incredible things and I was like this is

perfect

I am so into it when I graduated from

school I moved to Thailand for like

seven months to teach English and my

favorite thing to do after school would

be to play badminton with my students

and then I would go and get like an iced

americano and a little matcha tea cake

from the cafe across the street when I

went to the tea house here in New York

really brought back those memories for

me and that was when I was kind of like

food is a memory every single flavor

every single taste every single

ingredient that you've ever experienced

is and can be tied to a specific moment

in your life and I think that that

emotion was something that was super

touching to me when I went there and I

just got this rush of nostalgia and I

think that that's something that was

really cool with that video was that we

were able to learn that food is more

about just the way something tastes or

the way something looks it's about the

story behind it from there we saw that

people seem to really like the human

element behind all of these stories I've

gotten to meet and talk to these amazing

people that have dedicated their lives

to making one thing it's really special

to see someone with a passion so deep

and so ingrained in themselves that

they're committing their whole entire

lives to perfecting one craft I think

that that's what really resonates with

our audience the most is that like food

is inherently connected to memories when

I get in the kitchen and bake something

I'm automatically brought back to my

childhood getting up on like a rainy

Saturday morning and baking with my mom

and my grandma in the kitchen I've had a

lot of life experiences you know I've

lived in three different countries

I moved up to New York City when I was

23 without a job living in this tiny

cramped apartment and it was negative

ten degrees in January that's like the

time in my life that's connected most to

like instant ramen no I'm sure when I go

out and I film a mesmerising dessert

video I don't just go and say like okay

I'm gonna set the camera here and I'm

just gonna let it roll our food and the

way that we showcase food is done from

that human perspective and we try to

always

how is this gonna make something feel

when we put it down

I always try to think about how is

something gonna play into not just the

overall video but like the psychology of

the video how is that gonna make you as

a viewer feel when you see this 70 year

old woman who's dedicated her life to

making mochi and honestly that's the

coolest part of my job is seeing in the

comments and getting direct messages of

like hey I saw your brownie video I made

your brownie recipe I loved it

I'm gonna put pretzels on top of it and

bring it to my cookie swap this money as

the most gratifying thing is to be able

to see like the fruits of our labor or

in my case the cakes of our labor that

was really dumb

English (auto-generated)

vhi I'm RIA and this is my recipe for old

crab cake so a few years ago there was a

trend where you roll up apple slices

onto a pastry and made a little turret

so I was wondering if there was anything

I could make that would look pretty like

that and I came up with this idea using

crepes instead of Pesce I wasn't sure if

it's gonna walk first but I tried it

anyways and when I think of crepes my

favorite feeling it's strawberry and

whipped cream so instead of apples I

decided to use strawberries the

important thing about making crepes is

wasted dough for at least 30 minutes

because we are mixing with milk and

flour which creates gluten and if you

don't want to make chewy and rubbery

crepes if you want you can also rest in

overnight and make it the next day

I chose cream cheese filling because

it's a little thicker so easy to work

with you are ending up making a bunch of

crepes for this recipe and that will

take time but I also think it's fun as

well so I tested this and made a pretty

small version that was really really

cute but when I make the tart I usually

want to share so I don't want to make it

just for myself when you're making at

home it's a little bit messy because

you're spreading cream onto the crepe

and rolling it up but it's what's there

for and most a man because it's really

pretty and I'm sure whoever you're going

to give it to will be super impressed

make sure to cut the strawberry it's

very thin it's similar to a crepe cake

because it's layered about just a

different presentation because the

crepes are vertical instead of fries on

top

so instead of stopping making small

little tart I was just kept rolling and

rolling and rolling and I ended up

making a large crepe cake

I think rolling it up it's the most fun

and difficult particles it's kind of

like building a snowman it's the same

cake all the way through it just gets

bigger also after you make this roll the

crepe a big enough then you can start

laying it on the side instead of rolling

then what you end up with it's a super

pretty roll of crepes all standing up

with strawberry it's kind of looking

like a flower which is why I call this a

rose crepe cake this is the perfect

dessert to bring down afternoon people

ready or just to make reads your friends

sometime I was filming this recipe late

and I because I wasn't sure if it's

gonna work so I was kind of testing and

shooting at the same time and Alex and

Scott was also shooting Leigh and I so

we shared together and both of them are

super impressed so this recipe it's

something I'm really proud of because

I've never seen this type of cake before

so I would like you to make it and I

also want you to proud of it

thank you for watching see you next time

you

English (auto-generated)

hi I'm RIA and this is my recipe for old

crab cake so a few years ago there was a

trend where you roll up apple slices

onto a pastry and made a little turret

so I was wondering if there was anything

I could make that would look pretty like

that and I came up with this idea using

crepes instead of Pesce I wasn't sure if

it's gonna walk first but I tried it

anyways and when I think of crepes my

favorite feeling it's strawberry and

whipped cream so instead of apples I

decided to use strawberries the

important thing about making crepes is

wasted dough for at least 30 minutes

because we are mixing with milk and

flour which creates gluten and if you

don't want to make chewy and rubbery

crepes if you want you can also rest in

overnight and make it the next day

I chose cream cheese filling because

it's a little thicker so easy to work

with you are ending up making a bunch of

crepes for this recipe and that will

take time but I also think it's fun as

well so I tested this and made a pretty

small version that was really really

cute but when I make the tart I usually

want to share so I don't want to make it

just for myself when you're making at

home it's a little bit messy because

you're spreading cream onto the crepe

and rolling it up but it's what's there

for and most a man because it's really

pretty and I'm sure whoever you're going

to give it to will be super impressed

make sure to cut the strawberry it's

very thin it's similar to a crepe cake

because it's layered about just a

different presentation because the

crepes are vertical instead of fries on

top

so instead of stopping making small

little tart I was just kept rolling and

rolling and rolling and I ended up

making a large crepe cake

I think rolling it up it's the most fun

and difficult particles it's kind of

like building a snowman it's the same

cake all the way through it just gets

bigger also after you make this roll the

crepe a big enough then you can start

laying it on the side instead of rolling

then what you end up with it's a super

pretty roll of crepes all standing up

with strawberry it's kind of looking

like a flower which is why I call this a

rose crepe cake this is the perfect

dessert to bring down afternoon people

ready or just to make reads your friends

sometime I was filming this recipe late

and I because I wasn't sure if it's

gonna work so I was kind of testing and

shooting at the same time and Alex and

Scott was also shooting Leigh and I so

we shared together and both of them are

super impressed so this recipe it's

something I'm really proud of because

I've never seen this type of cake before

so I would like you to make it and I

also want you to proud of it

thank you for watching see you next time

you

English (auto-generated)

hi I'm RIA and this is my recipe for old

crab cake so a few years ago there was a

trend where you roll up apple slices

onto a pastry and made a little turret

so I was wondering if there was anything

I could make that would look pretty like

that and I came up with this idea using

crepes instead of Pesce I wasn't sure if

it's gonna walk first but I tried it

anyways and when I think of crepes my

favorite feeling it's strawberry and

whipped cream so instead of apples I

decided to use strawberries the

important thing about making crepes is

wasted dough for at least 30 minutes

because we are mixing with milk and

flour which creates gluten and if you

don't want to make chewy and rubbery

crepes if you want you can also rest in

overnight and make it the next day

I chose cream cheese filling because

it's a little thicker so easy to work

with you are ending up making a bunch of

crepes for this recipe and that will

take time but I also think it's fun as

well so I tested this and made a pretty

small version that was really really

cute but when I make the tart I usually

want to share so I don't want to make it

just for myself when you're making at

home it's a little bit messy because

you're spreading cream onto the crepe

and rolling it up but it's what's there

for and most a man because it's really

pretty and I'm sure whoever you're going

to give it to will be super impressed

make sure to cut the strawberry it's

very thin it's similar to a crepe cake

because it's layered about just a

different presentation because the

crepes are vertical instead of fries on

top

so instead of stopping making small

little tart I was just kept rolling and

rolling and rolling and I ended up

making a large crepe cake

I think rolling it up it's the most fun

and difficult particles it's kind of

like building a snowman it's the same

cake all the way through it just gets

bigger also after you make this roll the

crepe a big enough then you can start

laying it on the side instead of rolling

then what you end up with it's a super

pretty roll of crepes all standing up

with strawberry it's kind of looking

like a flower which is why I call this a

rose crepe cake this is the perfect

dessert to bring down afternoon people

ready or just to make reads your friends

sometime I was filming this recipe late

and I because I wasn't sure if it's

gonna work so I was kind of testing and

shooting at the same time and Alex and

Scott was also shooting Leigh and I so

we shared together and both of them are

super impressed so this recipe it's

something I'm really proud of because

I've never seen this type of cake before

so I would like you to make it and I

also want you to proud of it

thank you for watching see you next time

Applause]

English (auto-generated)

hey everyone it's chef JJ I'm here today

hosting my annual potluck party with my

sous chef

Google's new smart display the Google

home hey Google cook with tasty welcome

back to tasty what would you like to

make today

JJ's holiday seafood pot sure here you

go did this look good it looks amazing

the inspiration is recipe came from my

time that I spent in Ghana I would go

fishing in the morning get this dry is

he food pot off the side of the street

and kind of drink out of a coffee cup I

brought it home and kind of put the JJ

Blair on it I loved this dish for the

holidays because it's like a big pot in

the middle of the table and all your

family or friends are jumping in

fighting over the king crab legs or the

biggest piece of shrimp it's just that

kind of moment that brings family

together so who's gonna wait for this to

come to a hard simmer and I'm gonna

throw in the clams and the mussels oh

yeah it's that time of year I'm gonna

have my crab legs everybody loves a good

crab way I love shrimp to be nice and

caramel and golden brown so I cook it in

the cast-iron pan and add it up Hagel

will show me my holiday photos showing

your photos for my family in the holiday

season my grandfather is 94 years old so

having him through the holidays is

really big for us

he is a major puzzle piece to the family

always reminiscing about who we were as

kids and what we did some people are at

the front door that's the doorbell

family and friends are here have an

amazing holiday

so with the lemon juice for my ashram

English (auto-generated)

hey everyone it's chef JJ I'm here today

hosting my annual potluck party with my

sous chef

Google's new smart display the Google

home hey Google cook with tasty welcome

back to tasty what would you like to

make today

JJ's holiday seafood pot sure here you

go did this look good it looks amazing

the inspiration is recipe came from my

time that I spent in Ghana I would go

fishing in the morning get this dry is

he food pot off the side of the street

and kind of drink out of a coffee cup I

brought it home and kind of put the JJ

Blair on it I loved this dish for the

holidays because it's like a big pot in

the middle of the table and all your

family or friends are jumping in

fighting over the king crab legs or the

biggest piece of shrimp it's just that

kind of moment that brings family

together so who's gonna wait for this to

come to a hard simmer and I'm gonna

throw in the clams and the mussels oh

yeah it's that time of year I'm gonna

have my crab legs everybody loves a good

crab way I love shrimp to be nice and

caramel and golden brown so I cook it in

the cast-iron pan and add it up Hagel

will show me my holiday photos showing

your photos for my family in the holiday

season my grandfather is 94 years old so

having him through the holidays is

really big for us

he is a major puzzle piece to the family

always reminiscing about who we were as

kids and what we did some people are at

the front door that's the doorbell

family and friends are here have an

amazing holiday