Perfect! lol I actually read an article the woman who ghost wrote the recipe for Sandra wrote. She said she was asked for a cake for the holiday but it was “too homemade” and that she had topped the original with real nuts. She had no clue where they doctored it into this mess and didnt care b/c she got her paycheck 😂
Chewlie mukbangs Chill, Emmy might not even know about the cake, even if she did that doesn’t make her racist for not making a video on it. Stop assuming shit
Just fyi to everyone, the Swahili names for the principles are: 1. Umoja - unity 2. Kujichagulia - self determination 3. Ujima - collective work and responsibility 4. Ujamaa - cooperative economics 5. Nia - purpose 6. Kuumba - creativity 7. Imani - faith
@R I R I Yawn. So, you can drop the f-bomb. You're super validated now, Treebeard, Yada, yada, yada, and some of your best friends are black, too. So, you've pretty much covered every cliche line. What more do you have to say? (Also, I never suggested you were being racist, you're the one who brought that up.)
I second this! Someone ~sober~ to try aunty Sandy's monstruosities, I'm in!! (Come to think if it... You can't be sober to taste some of the premade ish she came up with 😂😂😂)
enterthesphere That could cause some serious damage to Emmy’s mental well-being. Eating terrible food is known to cause depression in soldiers, I can just image how Sandra Lee’s recipes would affect Emmy’s morale..!
Or your kids birthday party that you forgot about because you husband is cheating on you with his secretary and you’re always 3 sheets to the wind drunk, and your Gucci purse is last years design. The shame.
Sandra producer's: "We need black viewership in 2 hours Sandy, whip something up okay?" Sandra in her drunken stoop with no research: "I pReSeNt tO yOu a Kwanzaa cAKe🤪" Production: "Okay, the frosting matches the skin, let's start filming"
"hey sandra what kinda food do black people like again" Sandra on her two shots of "my husband is cheating on me": *"yeah idk seeds off of the fuckin ground or some shit"*
After watching Sandra's video, they were definitely NOT corn nuts. They look like shelled acorns. If you want to be bothered for proof just look that up, videos here on YT show what shelled acorns look like.
@yulyu none of the ones she used has that dark line down the middle to give it that baked corn kernel look. At some point it almost looked like peanuts but after seeing shelled acorns , Im more convinced that's what they are.
I appreciate so much how you took the time to research Kwanzaa and what it's all about & really give your viewers a history lesson while making this... Novelty cake lol!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
I have seen Sandra Lee make some pretty disgusting stuff. The ingredients in that recipe you made don't even seem to go together. Yuck. Good lesson on Kwanzaa though!
Omg this came on my feed and my husband and I remember seeing Sandra Lee make this and it was hilarious then, still hilarious now. I told my husband "OMG Emmy made Aunt Sandy's hate crime cake!"
It’s a way to add more steps/ingredients to make it look like it’s a recipe. You can only get so much material when half of what you’re making is already pretty much done already.
She has a miniseries on Netflix called "Tales of Kitto-Katto." It's about the different Kit-Kat flavors in Japan. She goes over the inspiration for the flavors, like matcha for instant, and shows how they're really made or grown in different regions of Japan. Here's one of the episodes www.tastemade.com/shows/tale-of-kitto-katto-tv/wasabi-and-strawberry-cheesecake
Are you sure Sandra Lee wasn't just hitting the bottle a bit early when she came up with this thing? Come to think of it, some of her cocktails were hilarious also. "Cocktail Time!"
@@stapuft that absolutely in carracter with Authoritarian corporate assholes too, please don't use words in deragitory ways while they don't provide insight beyond your belief system.
@@bettyjones2929 yeah, the format was basically really simple recipes for bored affluent suburban housewives to pass the time while hanging out with their other housewife friends.
The candles are lit one each night, black first then alternating red and green. Each one represents one of the 7 principles. Plus the candles are supposed to be in a special holder called a kinara. This is an awful thing Sandra Lee did, very disrespectful of the holiday. But I am glad you brought it to light.
A Christian might say putting up a santa lawn decoration is disrespectful to Christmas. In fact, that has happened, so it's not even a might situation. Can you really be disrespectful to a holiday? It's not like the holiday cares. It's not alive. In fact, do most black people care about Kwanza any more than white people care about any other holiday? I know I just use holidays as an excuse to eat and drink. Couldn't get care less about the meaning. I mean, Mincemeat pie is also known as "Christmas pie" yet it has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity. Is that also disrespectful? I am confused here. I think people are taking offense to something for dubious reasons. I am sure she had no ill-intention. She had an episode where it was "holiday themed" and had to use shitty ingredients as a requirement.
I am certain she had no ill intention. I love Emmy! Just wanted to add some relevant info. It seemed as though she was on the same wave length as I was, that it's odd to just toss something at a holiday and call it so. NBD, just saying.
@@s0515033 I think the majority of the disrespect comes from a white woman trying to invent a cake for a holiday for people of colour. Like Emmy said, it's kind of problematic for someone to just create something and say oh yeah it's celebrating X culture
I always enjoy watching your videos for your humor, calming voice and education of new foods. (I love the fruit series!) I really appreciate how you didn’t just bake the silly cake but took time to learn about a culture and shared it’s truth to others in a light hearted way. It was the icing on the cake. 😉 (Pun intended)
My grandma made a really good maraschino cherry frosting for angel food cakes. She let it air dry for a few hours, so it made kind of a crispy crust, and it was whipped a lot so it didn't weigh the cake down. It was pink, light, and heavenly. I would love to find that recipe somehow. Kind of imagine a maraschino meringue. So good! Actually as I write this now I feel like I need to be on a mission to find a recipe like that.
@@jessicah3450 Probably just powdered sugar and the fruit. Throw it in a blender and you get something similar to water icing (light, pourable, dries stiff). Whip that with a mixer for several minutes and it would probably go fluffy. I always just eyeball it, and then test it on an overturned cup, but I'd guess about a cup of powdered sugar to a tablespoon or two of cherries. Sorry I can't be more precise, but I use frozen strawberries. It's a forgiving mix though, you just add more of one or the other until it's right.
I'm just going to say it: Sandra Lee was wrong for this. Sandra didn't bother to research Kwanzaa or give her audience information about it. She comes up with a disgusting cake and thinks it is ok. Thank you Emmy for researching and telling what you learned about Kwanzaa. Now, I think you should test more of her recipes. Make sure you have a cocktail, lol. I'm sure that is how she was able to take her own recipes seriously.
Cee Lee lmfao why would Sandra lee owe you or anyone information about kwanza? 😂 that’s like saying anyone who cooks Mexican food should give background. Uh, no.
@@kimmyymmik If you are cooking something on a show, it is your job to inform your audience about what you are cooking and why. She did neither. Now this conversation is done.
I mean, as much as you have a point, Sandra Lee wasn't the one who came up with the cake. That said, the REAL story is hilarious - Sandra Lee basically just outsourced recipes, and the more ridiculous and nonsensical ones would pass her certification almost immediately. The Kwanzaa cake specifically was a cop-out by the true creator in order to meet her very, very strange and pushy book idea of 'NOTHING IS HOMEMADE, NOT EVEN BOUGHT FRESH, IT HAS. TO COME. IN CANS.' The true author of the Kwanzaa cake was Denise Vivaldo, who got clapped by a contract and was clearly losing her mind having to churn out 151 recipes, after which the devil relinquished her from service... except she needed 10 angel food cake recipes for the holidays to sell. Thus came the Kwanzaa cake. Oh, the candles were Sandra Lee's idea, though. web.archive.org/web/20101217203120/www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-vivaldo/kwanzaa-cake-sandra-lee-hanukkah-cake_b_797165.html
@@acedianPianist Well, this just proves that all of those cocktails affected her brain and taste buds. It also seems as though the creator of this recipe did not like her too well.
I thought maybe it was a nice celebration-type cake, even if it's not traditional. I was ok until the apples(I would have gone for cherries), but I lost it with the corn nuts, lol! No. Just no. I could even handle the pumpkin seeds. But absolutely no to the corn nuts on a freakin' cake!😂😂😂
REally their is no Kwanza, cause no one really celebrates it. Like why you haveing a Harvest festival in December?? Most people have it ... I dunno at Harvest.Kwanza was a fail attemtp to have a december holiday
@@ms.honiqualisha4529 Also Emmy said corn is used in Kwanza celebration and it's the only authentic ingredient but I fail to understand how corn, a plant indigenous to America only introduced to Europe in the 16th century, has anything to do with "African heritage".
oml me too. i was concerned for a moment bc i knew damn well she wouldn't of done that sorta thing. (then again, i kind of expected some pimple joke at first)
I really appreciate how respectful you are of cultures and how much you research them and are informative abt them in your videos. I mean as if we see from the existence of this recipe, not everyone is considerate enough to do that lol
What is sending me is Emmy politely articulating her thoughts on the cake while also dragging Sandra before outright calling the desert "an abomination".
Because, this way you are symbolically replacing the whiteness with chocolatey color. You know, to represent the elevation of people of color in this holiday. The recipe was a joke, I guess, but one Sandra Lee wasn't in on, so she played it sincere.
I was young and obviously didn't drink when she first came on the food network... Even at that young age I always thought she added way too much booze to her drinks lol... I'm 26 now and can confirm I was right and not alone in thinking she was a fucking alcoholic haaaha.
I held it together in disgusted disbelief..... until the candles. If you require a post hole digger to insert candles, they're too damn big. Still LMAO
The tradition for Kwanza is to serve coconut pie. If you wanted a "traditional" cake for the season, I would have themed it around that. Even a regular coconut cake would be closer to what is already done. Not that the pie is hard to make. I get the need for variety in life, so can understand a desire to do a few different things.
No it is not. Stop lying. Just stop! Majority of black ppl don't celebrate this and we don't make coconut pie. All of these are thing that white ppl love not black...
@@jojosmom8819 ...super small percentage of people celebrate it, anymore. I’m not sure how many were celebrating it at its peak but, either which way, this video, I think, wasn’t “snarky” enough. Idunno who Sandra Lee is, I’m glad I don’t know who Sandra Lee is but I do know that she had no lane to be coming up with some fkn cake, to celebrate a holiday that was meant SOLELY for the black community to have something of their own. Literally away from white ppl’s made up holidays... something to create a sense of heritage when their heritage was all but stripped of them and education on anything known, at the time, was very difficult to come by. It was an opportunity to reflect on the year before, come together within some gorgeous morals and guiding light in a life that may not have such ready made light available and ponder on the future year’s goals. At least that’s what I take from the little I’ve read on it... I’m a mixed minority female but I’m not black and I wouldn’t touch this holiday with a ten foot pole whether a billion BPoC celebrated it or the barely 2% that do cuz it’s not mine, Sandra and it’s not yours, Sandra. -That sounds about right, though... something meant for BPoC, taken over by white people, when, at its conception there wasn’t anything much they hadn’t already taken or used to oppress more than the day before. They just can’t keep their hands to themselves.
@@ec9833 “taken over by white people” this might come as a surprise to you, but Sandra lee is a single person, not an entire group of people. This is literally not a cake anyone makes ever, and yes, that includes 99.99% of white people in the “not making this shit” group. You might have gotten confused when you were working yourself up.
@@jaqenhghar6244 dude... 🤦🏽♀️ “sounds about right...” was referencing the PLETHORA (plural) of things white PEOPLE (plural) have taken from PoC (plural), for their own and without the consequences (plural) PoC (plural) have endured practicing their (plural) own culture practices (plural). Wasn’t blaming Ms. Lee for the entirety of anything.
Thank you for doing your research about Kwanzaa and sharing it with us. That's why I love watching you! But I have to say when you started to eat... that initial crunch made me laugh sooooo hard 😂🤣
"Isn't it something?" 😂😂 I like that you included actual information about Kwanzaa and let folks know that this cake is not a thing that is eaten for the occasion.
Just looking at the thumbnail alone, my immediate thought was "I fear no man. But, that cake...that cake scares me." Seriously, it looks terrifying. Just a blob.
The crunch of that first bite killed me!🤣🤣🤣 And the facial expressions! I appreciate you not only taking time to research Kwanzaa but also giving a constructive criticism of the cake.
This is how you properly experience other cultures , Emmy educated herself on the holiday and as she went through it respectfully acknowledged it , Sandra lee had too much vodka I don’t think we can trust her ideas😂😅
I mean.. he can say the thing- but I reported his ass for hate speech and violence. BYE DRUID. As you were saying Kay, yes- indeed the rampant caucacity LMFAO.
As a black man, I'm completely disenchanted by this cake and the stereotypical, conceptual tropes laced throughout the whole recipe. You, on the other hand gave your usual measured, thoughtful and professional presentation. God bless you and yours!
Yes she definitely just slapped the name “Kwanzaa” on some bs. I appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned about different cultures and your earnest research and care. I’m Black and I’ve studied the Swahili language a bit in Elementary but still am not all that very familiar with Kwanzaa. Will change that this yr.
To become more educated about Sandra Lee's show...it's based on her book, "Made from Scratch" - the premise of which is why she created Semi-Homemade, the show. It's about growing up in her Grandmother's home, because of a very challenged and brutal childhood; her grandmother had severe Rheumatoid Arthritis, and could not cook/bake like normal people because of her pain and lack of mobility. She had to use many pre-packaged ingredients, and everything close at hand to mitigate her RA. Sandra's point was the joy her grandmother got from pushing through, making meals for Sandra and her younger sister as best she could, and the girls forever were grateful.
Thanks Emmy! I am so happy to "know" you. I am touched to tears that you chose to take a cringe worthy event and turn it into a teachable moment. I am thankful for you and people can actually learn from this.
Thank you so much for making this trainwreck of a cake, Emmy. I was thoroughly entertained! I remember when I used to watch Sandra Lee's show years ago and some of her recipes were WTF-worthy, the Kwanzaa cake included. I'd love it if you could recreate her Hanukkah cake next.
I think the corn nuts is the worst part. If you take that out, all you got is a sponge cake with a chocolate cinnamon spice frosting and apples. That seems okay if you use quality ingredients.
Today I learned that Sandra Lee doesn't understand how flavor works. On behalf of all white people, I would like to apologize to everyone who celebrates Kwanzaa for this catastrophe, and to thank Emmy for letting us know that it exists.
tildessmoo in behalf of all white people? I’m white and have never heard of Kwanzaa, but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested or don’t care. Please don’t speak on my behalf. I haven’t done anything wrong. Best to speak for yourself.
Even as a new cook in my late teens, I recognized that Sandra Lee's whole "Semi-Homemade" series was jaw-droppingly bad when it was on the air. A bunch of processed, store-bought foods thrown together with little to no imagination. "Sandra's Chili Dog-Tater Casserole" (canned chili & cut up hotdogs with frozen tater tots thrown on top), "Sandra's Autumn Harvest Cake" (store bought cake with candy corn & a few candles tossed on top), etc. Just horrible! And then she'd end every episode showcasing the gaudiest place settings she could come up with. One that's (regrettably) forever ingrained in my head is her "Demin & Diamonds" table setting. Cut up bedazzled jeans used as a tablecloths & napkins. Astonishingly bad! It always seemed as if Ms. Lee was pandering to the budget-conscious, low income, trailer park crowd, while making fun of them at the same time. And somehow she built an empire with this garbage! Melissa d'Arabian, later took the same concept of budget, sometimes "semi-homemade" meals and did it right with her Ten Dollar Dinners series.
she forgot the secret ingredient: two shots of vodka
Taylor Dewitt *GLUG GLUG GLUG*
* Insert clip of that guy from Trailer Park Boys falling down the stairs *
She probably had ~two shots of vodka~ while coming up with this recipe hahaha
Only two shots? You're being nice! Sandra Lee would finish half a bottle just with the first 10 minutes of the show.
That's the main ingredient!
When the candles were still blazing and Emmy cut the cake I knew she feared nothing.
Hahaha yep
I had so much anxiety when she was cutting the cake 😂 I was like "IT'S GONNA FALL"
I decided that just watching the things she eats so that we don't have to....
Puke fruit, anyone?
When she took a bite of that disgusting cake I knew she feared nothing. Smh
Yum. I'm going to file this under "cakes to take to social events I never wish to be invited to again."
Exactly Ben lol
Ben LMAO
Good call!
😂😂
😂😭😂
"So it's not exactly disgusting. You've got some... very familiar flavors in there."
(She's trying so hard to be polite.)
Evan Swiech the face reaction don’t lie lol
Her eyes are watering
This is the kindest shade throwing I've ever seen.
She’s so kind.
@@ehernandez1049 LOL Her face totally betrayed her!
She also once made a Hanukkah cake that had marshmallows in it, which are not kosher...
Another hate crime cake!
Perfect! lol I actually read an article the woman who ghost wrote the recipe for Sandra wrote. She said she was asked for a cake for the holiday but it was “too homemade” and that she had topped the original with real nuts. She had no clue where they doctored it into this mess and didnt care b/c she got her paycheck 😂
Chewlie mukbangs Chill,
Emmy might not even know about the cake, even if she did that doesn’t make her racist for not making a video on it.
Stop assuming shit
Please tell me there's a Chinese New Year cake that's topped with top ramen.
Marshmallows can be and nowadays more often are, kosher (and halal). All it requires is non-pig based gelatin.
I’ve never seen her throw so much shade. I love it
Blanime _ same lol
Agreed
Right lol
Love it
very immature to be honest. smh
Just fyi to everyone, the Swahili names for the principles are:
1. Umoja - unity
2. Kujichagulia - self determination
3. Ujima - collective work and responsibility
4. Ujamaa - cooperative economics
5. Nia - purpose
6. Kuumba - creativity
7. Imani - faith
Thanks sis
@R I Wrong. I am as white as mayo and thought this was an informative video with great comments. Troll else where, let the mature adults speak.
@R I lol Sure thing, treebeard. Also, as stated I'm white. I do care. Therefore some white people obviously do care.
@R I R I Yawn. So, you can drop the f-bomb. You're super validated now, Treebeard, Yada, yada, yada, and some of your best friends are black, too. So, you've pretty much covered every cliche line. What more do you have to say?
(Also, I never suggested you were being racist, you're the one who brought that up.)
Thank u for the information.such a lovely holiday deserves a much nicer desert. Shame on sandra lee for phoning it in!
I would die for a series of you just trying Sandra Lee recipes
Emmy's liver wouldn't be able to handle it.
I second this! Someone ~sober~ to try aunty Sandy's monstruosities, I'm in!! (Come to think if it... You can't be sober to taste some of the premade ish she came up with 😂😂😂)
Yes!!!!
enterthesphere That could cause some serious damage to Emmy’s mental well-being. Eating terrible food is known to cause depression in soldiers, I can just image how Sandra Lee’s recipes would affect Emmy’s morale..!
Yess!! She should definitely make the Doughnut tree, the Hanukkah Meringues and The Star of David Angel Food Cake!!! All classic Sandra Lee creations!
When you said "itadakimasu" it just hit my how, for better or for worse, this moment was a weird confluence of a lot of cultures.
Dr. Sandra Lee (aka Dr. Pimple Popper) is clearly the superior Sandra Lee.
Bear Eggers 😂😂😂
Omg 😂
I'd eat something from Dr. Lee's hands right after a session before I'd eat anything from self-acclaimed Lee at all
LMAO when i saw the title of this video the first thing i thought was “i didn’t know dr. pimple popper shared cooking recipes”
lol when i saw the thumbnail i was like oh so dr.pimple popper is also a baker? 😂
It's not a true Sandra Lee experience unless you're half-drunk while baking this.
😂😂😂
That explains the entire cake actually
Best comment!
Shots fired.
🤣
She GRIMY for adding that "bloop" sound effect at 5:10 😂😂😂 I'm dying hahaha I'm here for the shade in this video.
Facts lol
I read your comment only 3 mins in and sat there waiting for the sound effect. You right.
Yeah that was pretty funny!
😂😂😂 I got caught off guard
I'm wheez-laughing right now, omg 🤣🤣🤣 I need an ambulance 🚑
That cake looks like something they make in 1st grade and your suppose to lie to your child about how nice it it.
Hahahahahahahaha! I know that pain...omg rofl
Reminds me of the old full house episode. Olives and pudding 🤣
Dang! 🤣
thats what I was thinking!
my mother was very vocal about her dislikes 😂 she said things that would make an adult cry these days.
"its not exactly disgusting" I died lol
😅😅😅😅😅 I knew then it was terrible
You know it’s bad when Emmy of all people describes it in this manner 🤣 #chronicallypositive
I'm dying 💀🤣🤣🤣
Emmy doesn't swear. So she was just being nice.
it was how the look on her face betrayed her that killed me lol
This is the kind of cake you attempt to make at 3am after a big night on the vodka
Not on the vodka 😂😂
Just two shots
Or your kids birthday party that you forgot about because you husband is cheating on you with his secretary and you’re always 3 sheets to the wind drunk, and your Gucci purse is last years design. The shame.
A big night after 2 shots of vodka
@@Roanoak damn thats very specific lol
Sandra producer's:
"We need black viewership in 2 hours Sandy, whip something up okay?"
Sandra in her drunken stoop with no research:
"I pReSeNt tO yOu a Kwanzaa cAKe🤪"
Production: "Okay, the frosting matches the skin, let's start filming"
Missy Samuel 😂😂😂😂😂
Ouch! I can feel the burn from here!!!!
FAM I HOLLERED SOOOO LOUD!!!!
SANDRA NO 😂
"hey sandra what kinda food do black people like again"
Sandra on her two shots of "my husband is cheating on me":
*"yeah idk seeds off of the fuckin ground or some shit"*
The color of that frosting looks like wet cat food. When the cakes is frosted it looks like a big pile of liver patte.
Sam Wheat that is totally
What i thought the cake was made of by the thumbnail lol
i thought it was paté
I thought the frosting was potted meat from the thumbnail.
Mmmmm pate tho 😍😋
😂
“The abomination that is Sandra Lee’s Kwanzaa cake.” Haha!
I love that you devoted time to actually learning/teaching about Kwanzaa instead of making it a joke like so many folks.
OH MY GOD, IT'S AUNT SANDY'S KWANZAA CAKE!!!!!!!
Did you have your "two shots of Vodka?"
😂😂😂😂
oh lord, she's been drinking herself to poor choices since before vine was a thing, lol
Don’t forget to take a shot for each minor she invited to liquid lunch!
th-cam.com/video/41CA-yz4Lfk/w-d-xo.html LMAO 😄😄😄😄😄
Ugh, I truly wish this recipe would just DIE, already!
I love how she tries to be kind the whole video, then at the end calls it an abomination. Somehow, that felt so relieving!
LMAO I remember Anthony Bourdain blasting this cake calling it a crime against humanity. Great video once again, Emmy!
Emmy dragging Sandra Lee for 10:01 min. I'm here for it and relate so hard to this.
Carlos Carrillo ikr!!
Dragging Sandra Lee with class of course! 👌🏼❤️👍🏼
Carlos Carrillo She wasn’t ‘dragging’ her, just making her points.
Sandra is a cancer survivor and the first lady of New York State
I think it was pretty shitty of Emmy to do that.
As a black man I can say nobody’s making that Kwanzaa cake outside of Yorba Linda white guilt dinner party
Yorba Linda says it all 😂
...
LMFAO
Wtf is a white guilt dinner party)
Dat white guilt.....🤣🤣🤣
Sandra Lee tried it with this one...CORN NUTS? APPLE PIE FILLING? lol come on....
I am SCREAMING!!! 😭😭😭
The best part is that she called the corn nuts "acorns."
After watching Sandra's video, they were definitely NOT corn nuts. They look like shelled acorns. If you want to be bothered for proof just look that up, videos here on YT show what shelled acorns look like.
@yulyu yeah they don't look like corn nuts I have ever seen.
@yulyu none of the ones she used has that dark line down the middle to give it that baked corn kernel look. At some point it almost looked like peanuts but after seeing shelled acorns , Im more convinced that's what they are.
I already loved Emmy but I love her soooo much more now. 💗💗💗(not the recipe but her self education and respect.)
❤️❤️❤️
Averyofthemain you really thought you did something here huh?
Averyofthemain I mean, you tried.
But she's always been that way tho.. If u watch her old vids
@@Averyofthemain how many shots of vodka
I appreciate so much how you took the time to research Kwanzaa and what it's all about & really give your viewers a history lesson while making this... Novelty cake lol!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
Sandra Lee should have taken some time to research it.
You're such an icon hahaha I CANNOT BELIEVE you give us this amazing gift of Sandra Lee shade
I have seen Sandra Lee make some pretty disgusting stuff. The ingredients in that recipe you made don't even seem to go together. Yuck. Good lesson on Kwanzaa though!
Only thing I liked from her was her two shots of vodka.
Wow! I can not believe a network actually put that original cake on the air. Emmy, thanks for the background info on Kwanzaa. You are awesome!
Nobody could believe they kept Sandra on the air! LOL.
Omg this came on my feed and my husband and I remember seeing Sandra Lee make this and it was hilarious then, still hilarious now. I told my husband "OMG Emmy made Aunt Sandy's hate crime cake!"
Lol Aunt Sandys hate crime cake just served me my whole existence! 😂😂😂 you should have more likes on this comment lol
Do yourself a favor and go read the comments on the original video. You’ll hurt yourself laughing
😂😂😂 “hate crime cake”
@@lamalama9361 yeah. And everyone's having a ball laughing about. Nothing offensive about that 🙄
Dutchess Jones I’m sorry you’re offended but I’m not the one who offended you. Take it up with Sandra Lee boo 😂
This is absolutely d-i-s-g-u-s-t-i-n-g
pre-made Apple filling????? CORN NUTS????
angeles valdez now you can imagine how the rest of Sandra lee’s recipes are....TwO ShOTs Of VoDka 😂
Daniela Carrera Got to be way more than two shots. About a 5th should help wash down those "acorns"
The corn nuts is just absolute foolery which has nothing to do with Kwanzaa. It's disrespectful. The Caucasity!
I’ll just take the corn nuts
U hit the nail on the head
"NOT EXACTLY DISGUSTING", looking at that combination I think you were being kind.
Anyone else find it stupid that it uses white frosting then adding cocoa powder to make it "chocolate".
Yes! Why buy vanilla and turn it into chocolate? I also thought that was stupid.
For that matter, why buy vanilla frosting and add vanilla extract? Seemed super redundant.
It's blackface for the cake!😂
It’s a way to add more steps/ingredients to make it look like it’s a recipe. You can only get so much material when half of what you’re making is already pretty much done already.
I find this entire recipe to make no sense honestly
To be fair, she was probably drunk when she came up with that "recipe".
@Ororo Munroe damn.
2 shots of vodka GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG GLUG
Everybody say it: *TWO SHOTS OF VODKA!*
Lol
LOL!!! She was drunk when she made every recipe😄😄😄😄
You get a hood pass anywhere you go, just for knowing what each candles for. I love you M.E.
Emmy needs a Food Network, PBS, Netflix, idk education based food show like now
Brian Landers YOU don’t watch tv so the whole idea is terrible. Really
she's got a netflix about kitkat
@Brian Landers so, just because YOU don't have something, nobody else can have it? Ok....
She has a miniseries on Netflix called "Tales of Kitto-Katto." It's about the different Kit-Kat flavors in Japan. She goes over the inspiration for the flavors, like matcha for instant, and shows how they're really made or grown in different regions of Japan. Here's one of the episodes
www.tastemade.com/shows/tale-of-kitto-katto-tv/wasabi-and-strawberry-cheesecake
Agreed!!! This show reminds me of Food: Fact or Fiction. Not exactly the same, but it reminds me of it.
OMG I remember this!!!!! 😂😂😂😂 This was totally some disgruntled writer’s hilarious rage-quit exit
Are you sure Sandra Lee wasn't just hitting the bottle a bit early when she came up with this thing? Come to think of it, some of her cocktails were hilarious also. "Cocktail Time!"
This is true! The staff member came forward to Eater www.eater.com/2010/12/16/6705855/the-creator-of-sandra-lees-kwanzaa-cake-confesses
@@TonySarkees That is beautiful! Ah!
tony s all she said is sandra lee likes tasteless recipes lol
@@stapuft that absolutely in carracter with Authoritarian corporate assholes too, please don't use words in deragitory ways while they don't provide insight beyond your belief system.
At first, I was really confused with this vid
This whole time i was like
"What? Dr. Sandra Lee (pimple popper) made a kwanza cake?? What??"
And i still dont know what sandra lee shes actually talking about xD
😆
@@Itsmysurf you csn find some of her videos on here. She use to have a cooking show
@@bettyjones2929 yeah, the format was basically really simple recipes for bored affluent suburban housewives to pass the time while hanging out with their other housewife friends.
I know right!!!!
Man, I never EVER thought a cake would represent ignorance so perfectly!
The candles are lit one each night, black first then alternating red and green. Each one represents one of the 7 principles. Plus the candles are supposed to be in a special holder called a kinara. This is an awful thing Sandra Lee did, very disrespectful of the holiday. But I am glad you brought it to light.
A Christian might say putting up a santa lawn decoration is disrespectful to Christmas. In fact, that has happened, so it's not even a might situation. Can you really be disrespectful to a holiday? It's not like the holiday cares. It's not alive. In fact, do most black people care about Kwanza any more than white people care about any other holiday? I know I just use holidays as an excuse to eat and drink. Couldn't get care less about the meaning.
I mean, Mincemeat pie is also known as "Christmas pie" yet it has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity. Is that also disrespectful? I am confused here.
I think people are taking offense to something for dubious reasons. I am sure she had no ill-intention. She had an episode where it was "holiday themed" and had to use shitty ingredients as a requirement.
I am certain she had no ill intention. I love Emmy! Just wanted to add some relevant info. It seemed as though she was on the same wave length as I was, that it's odd to just toss something at a holiday and call it so. NBD, just saying.
@@s0515033 Well fuck dude.. a lil Scrooge much.. Ba humbug lol
@@s0515033 I think the majority of the disrespect comes from a white woman trying to invent a cake for a holiday for people of colour. Like Emmy said, it's kind of problematic for someone to just create something and say oh yeah it's celebrating X culture
It's about research , Sandra didn't do any.
Who would've thought roasting could be so cute? I look the passive aggressive blowing of the candle at the end, too! 🤣
I always enjoy watching your videos for your humor, calming voice and education of new foods. (I love the fruit series!) I really appreciate how you didn’t just bake the silly cake but took time to learn about a culture and shared it’s truth to others in a light hearted way. It was the icing on the cake. 😉 (Pun intended)
Right. Thnkx for nicely putting those words together. 🙏
Corn nuts? Jesus, she might as well have made a cake topped with Funyuns
Great vid as always
Lol...or pork rinds.
Actually, they were shelled acorns.
At least the funyuns wouldn't break ur teeth. Those things r hard as rocks
@@novaguy1968 No, no they weren't. LOL. Emmy replicated it perfectly.
🤣🤣😭😭😭
Just the fact alone that this requires FROSTING an ANGEL FOOD CAKE has me all sorts of bothered…
My grandma made a really good maraschino cherry frosting for angel food cakes. She let it air dry for a few hours, so it made kind of a crispy crust, and it was whipped a lot so it didn't weigh the cake down. It was pink, light, and heavenly. I would love to find that recipe somehow. Kind of imagine a maraschino meringue. So good!
Actually as I write this now I feel like I need to be on a mission to find a recipe like that.
Jessica H that sound so amazing I love maraschino cherries please let me know if you ever find it!!
@@jessicah3450 Probably just powdered sugar and the fruit. Throw it in a blender and you get something similar to water icing (light, pourable, dries stiff). Whip that with a mixer for several minutes and it would probably go fluffy. I always just eyeball it, and then test it on an overturned cup, but I'd guess about a cup of powdered sugar to a tablespoon or two of cherries. Sorry I can't be more precise, but I use frozen strawberries. It's a forgiving mix though, you just add more of one or the other until it's right.
Try making pudding with the left over egg yolks and pour it over the Angel food cake. You won't regret it!
IKR
Sorry, but Sandra was a hot mess! “Two shots of vodka...” glug glug glug glug glug...😂
Literally laughed out loud hahaha
Ohhhhhh ok Sandra is the vodka lady
Kwanzaa cake! *first ingredient is plain white frosting*
ashley j. 😂😂😂
Why didn’t she just use chocolate frosting?
@@Raddeh It started with white, that was supposed to be lighter weight, but I think it was to lengthen/fill Sandra's show.
I also saw the irony there...and a white cake. Literal white washing.
@@MrsBrit1 Well aren't you a gentle snowflake?
I love the subtle shade and actual information!
I'm just going to say it: Sandra Lee was wrong for this. Sandra didn't bother to research Kwanzaa or give her audience information about it. She comes up with a disgusting cake and thinks it is ok. Thank you Emmy for researching and telling what you learned about Kwanzaa. Now, I think you should test more of her recipes. Make sure you have a cocktail, lol. I'm sure that is how she was able to take her own recipes seriously.
Cee Lee lmfao why would Sandra lee owe you or anyone information about kwanza? 😂 that’s like saying anyone who cooks Mexican food should give background. Uh, no.
@@kimmyymmik If you are cooking something on a show, it is your job to inform your audience about what you are cooking and why. She did neither. Now this conversation is done.
@@kimmyymmik #ImNotRacistBut
I mean, as much as you have a point, Sandra Lee wasn't the one who came up with the cake.
That said, the REAL story is hilarious - Sandra Lee basically just outsourced recipes, and the more ridiculous and nonsensical ones would pass her certification almost immediately. The Kwanzaa cake specifically was a cop-out by the true creator in order to meet her very, very strange and pushy book idea of 'NOTHING IS HOMEMADE, NOT EVEN BOUGHT FRESH, IT HAS. TO COME. IN CANS.'
The true author of the Kwanzaa cake was Denise Vivaldo, who got clapped by a contract and was clearly losing her mind having to churn out 151 recipes, after which the devil relinquished her from service... except she needed 10 angel food cake recipes for the holidays to sell. Thus came the Kwanzaa cake. Oh, the candles were Sandra Lee's idea, though.
web.archive.org/web/20101217203120/www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-vivaldo/kwanzaa-cake-sandra-lee-hanukkah-cake_b_797165.html
@@acedianPianist Well, this just proves that all of those cocktails affected her brain and taste buds. It also seems as though the creator of this recipe did not like her too well.
This was totally hilarious 😂😂😂 I thought to myself self, “Kwanza cake? I’ve never heard of kwanza cake.” ...there is no kwanza cake lol
I thought maybe it was a nice celebration-type cake, even if it's not traditional. I was ok until the apples(I would have gone for cherries), but I lost it with the corn nuts, lol! No. Just no. I could even handle the pumpkin seeds. But absolutely no to the corn nuts on a freakin' cake!😂😂😂
REally their is no Kwanza, cause no one really celebrates it. Like why you haveing a Harvest festival in December?? Most people have it ... I dunno at Harvest.Kwanza was a fail attemtp to have a december holiday
@@ms.honiqualisha4529 Also Emmy said corn is used in Kwanza celebration and it's the only authentic ingredient but I fail to understand how corn, a plant indigenous to America only introduced to Europe in the 16th century, has anything to do with "African heritage".
@@BTiffney71 Not corn. Corn nuts
the **BLOOP** when she drops in the apple pie filling sends me every time lol
underrated😂😂😂
Emmy dismantling Sandra's entire career through a 10 minute TH-cam video, incredible
Nathan Aran And she does it with such class, too!
@@belantww there's no other way Emmy could do it! Kill em with kindness
Tell Sandra to keep her nasty cake and call her sister Sara Lee
Jon Menard you should do some research
This read gave me life!
Jon Menard call your Uncle Brother and DadPaw
super imposed 😂😂😂😂
@@superimposed6796 yo you dumb 😂😂😂 I wasn't even gonna respond to dude. Thx 👌🏽
I got diarrhea just by looking at that cake.
The only Sandra Lee I know is Dr Pimple Popper so I was quite confused.
oml me too. i was concerned for a moment bc i knew damn well she wouldn't of done that sorta thing. (then again, i kind of expected some pimple joke at first)
Big facts😂
Same
I just frightened my husband by screaming, "Oh my God, Emmy's making Sandra Lee's Kwanza cake and I am HERE FOR IT!!!!!"
YAAASSS. 🙌
OMG, I just said the same thing! This cake is a legend in the worst ways possible but boy do I enjoy watching people bake it. 😂
@@loveandcupcakes100 Absolutely!! A friend and I used to watch the recaps of her show for the comedy value!
What? No "tablescape"?
That’s a really awkwardly long sentence to scream
emmy: takes bite of cake
* THE LOUDEST CRUNCH*
me: 😶
Vanessa Van Downen 😂😂😂
That show was sooooo wack. But she always had a cocktail though! Lol 🍸
I remember tuning in to that show just to laugh at all of her recipes and her "decorating skills."
it was always after shows i loved (either ina, giada or rachel ray, can’t remember) and i always ran to shut it off when the intro came on😂
Her show was literally "idfk make some easy mac? Time for the cocktail!"
I really appreciate how respectful you are of cultures and how much you research them and are informative abt them in your videos. I mean as if we see from the existence of this recipe, not everyone is considerate enough to do that lol
What is sending me is Emmy politely articulating her thoughts on the cake while also dragging Sandra before outright calling the desert "an abomination".
Why not just get chocolate frosting...
Because, this way you are symbolically replacing the whiteness with chocolatey color. You know, to represent the elevation of people of color in this holiday. The recipe was a joke, I guess, but one Sandra Lee wasn't in on, so she played it sincere.
Cause that wouldn't be semi homemade frosting
@책과차bookntea that's a stretch but this cake is absolutely disgusting.
And add the cinnamon
I literally laughed out loud this entire video. I used to watch her show on Food Network and remember laughing at this foolishness then. lol!
I remember her drinking problem lol
I was young and obviously didn't drink when she first came on the food network... Even at that young age I always thought she added way too much booze to her drinks lol... I'm 26 now and can confirm I was right and not alone in thinking she was a fucking alcoholic haaaha.
davierap ...so true, but what can we expect Sandra Lee dates that useless demoturd Cuomo n.y. Gov.. her taste is crap.
I held it together in disgusted disbelief..... until the candles. If you require a post hole digger to insert candles, they're too damn big. Still LMAO
Two Shots of Vodka *GULP* *GULP* *GULP*
I love Sandra Lee, and I love that someone actually went out of their way to reproduce her atrocious cake so faithfully. Thank you!
This cake seems like she's giving a giant middle finger to Kwanza.
Honestly Sandra put in absolutely no effort
I have no issue with that lol
@@TheMabes69 you aren't a fan of Kwanza?
Yeah really it’s pretty fuckin rude :/
@@TheMabes69 I feel the same about everything white from magazines to movies etc
Thank you for making this video Emmy!!!! We used to celebrate Kwanzaa when I was younger, I really appreciate you calling out the foolishness 😆
🙌
"It's not exactly disgusting..." LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
Thanks for informing everyone on Kwanzaa! very nice.
@LloydBonafide1 and why is it ridiculous...explain please smh
@LloydBonafide1 I knew there was gonna be a troll just like you. Why don't you go make-out with one of your cousins?
@LloydBonafide1 if this holiday is ridiculous then all of them are.
@@HyeFelicia Sorry but I agree, Kwanzaa is dumb
@@missgibbonsx2376 exactly
The tradition for Kwanza is to serve coconut pie. If you wanted a "traditional" cake for the season, I would have themed it around that. Even a regular coconut cake would be closer to what is already done.
Not that the pie is hard to make. I get the need for variety in life, so can understand a desire to do a few different things.
no... dont misunderstand. this is not her recipe. its sandra lee's. she knows the recipe is ridiculous
No it is not. Stop lying. Just stop! Majority of black ppl don't celebrate this and we don't make coconut pie. All of these are thing that white ppl love not black...
@@jojosmom8819 ...super small percentage of people celebrate it, anymore. I’m not sure how many were celebrating it at its peak but, either which way, this video, I think, wasn’t “snarky” enough. Idunno who Sandra Lee is, I’m glad I don’t know who Sandra Lee is but I do know that she had no lane to be coming up with some fkn cake, to celebrate a holiday that was meant SOLELY for the black community to have something of their own. Literally away from white ppl’s made up holidays... something to create a sense of heritage when their heritage was all but stripped of them and education on anything known, at the time, was very difficult to come by. It was an opportunity to reflect on the year before, come together within some gorgeous morals and guiding light in a life that may not have such ready made light available and ponder on the future year’s goals. At least that’s what I take from the little I’ve read on it... I’m a mixed minority female but I’m not black and I wouldn’t touch this holiday with a ten foot pole whether a billion BPoC celebrated it or the barely 2% that do cuz it’s not mine, Sandra and it’s not yours, Sandra. -That sounds about right, though... something meant for BPoC, taken over by white people, when, at its conception there wasn’t anything much they hadn’t already taken or used to oppress more than the day before. They just can’t keep their hands to themselves.
@@ec9833 “taken over by white people” this might come as a surprise to you, but Sandra lee is a single person, not an entire group of people. This is literally not a cake anyone makes ever, and yes, that includes 99.99% of white people in the “not making this shit” group. You might have gotten confused when you were working yourself up.
@@jaqenhghar6244 dude... 🤦🏽♀️ “sounds about right...” was referencing the PLETHORA (plural) of things white PEOPLE (plural) have taken from PoC (plural), for their own and without the consequences (plural) PoC (plural) have endured practicing their (plural) own culture practices (plural). Wasn’t blaming Ms. Lee for the entirety of anything.
“The abomination that is the Sandra Lee kwanza cake...” 😂
This cake makes little sense. Calling it a Kwanzaa cake makes even less.
I wonder if Sandra Lee ever tried this cake on the air? I would love to see her choke down that corn nut topping with that cake.
"let's see if I can cut this with out everything toppling over"
*lit candles*
*evil chuckle*
my anxiety can't handle this
OMG Emmy, no you didn’t make this disastrously iconic cake. I’m READYYY
PS: please make her atrocious Kings cake next!
This cake is just nine kinds of wrong. However, props to Emmy for explaining Kwanzaa!
I've never seen a video that so perfectly defines "disgruntled."
Oh no DRINK to go with it ?
2 cups vodka
4 cups rum
1 ice cube 😉
Her drinks Bahahahaha
I knew I wasn't crazy when I thought she was hardcore with her drinks.
Sandra lee was always drunk on semi homemade.
Don't forget the tablescapes
Thank you for doing your research about Kwanzaa and sharing it with us. That's why I love watching you! But I have to say when you started to eat... that initial crunch made me laugh sooooo hard 😂🤣
"Isn't it something?" 😂😂
I like that you included actual information about Kwanzaa and let folks know that this cake is not a thing that is eaten for the occasion.
I never heard of this cake before and I hope to never encounter it in real life.
Just looking at the thumbnail alone, my immediate thought was "I fear no man. But, that cake...that cake scares me." Seriously, it looks terrifying. Just a blob.
The crunch of that first bite killed me!🤣🤣🤣 And the facial expressions!
I appreciate you not only taking time to research Kwanzaa but also giving a constructive criticism of the cake.
If Emmy is as disappointed in the video as she is in the thumbnail, then I'm excited to see how terrible this cake is!
I seriously believe that she was on something, and threw things together at the last minute. It was a really terrible episode😞.
She's always drunk, I swear!
Google "two shots of vodka" and "Sandra Lee's Epic Cocktail Time"
Linda from SEA AT TULL I think it was a little more than vodka.... Oxycontin more like it
por que no los dos?! :D
The cake looked disgusting. However, I used to love watching her show. Now I want to go look up some episodes.
This is how you properly experience other cultures , Emmy educated herself on the holiday and as she went through it respectfully acknowledged it , Sandra lee had too much vodka I don’t think we can trust her ideas😂😅
Girl what in the...??? The caucacity of it all😂😂
But great job Emmy for educating ppl on Kwanzaa despite this travesty cake
@@druidboy76 Purchased and whipped? You have some caucacity saying that to a person😂
@@MsKJackson831 As a Caucasoid, I found your neologism most amusing.
White girl laughing over here - "caucacity" is AMAZING.
I mean.. he can say the thing- but I reported his ass for hate speech and violence. BYE DRUID.
As you were saying Kay, yes- indeed the rampant caucacity LMFAO.
@@druidboy76 that's the only comeback you can think of?! Boy oh boy, go back to elementary school and learn a better comeback
Drag her
vinyl knightt Sandra Lee's wig was snatched!
As a black man, I'm completely disenchanted by this cake and the stereotypical, conceptual tropes laced throughout the whole recipe. You, on the other hand gave your usual measured, thoughtful and professional presentation. God bless you and yours!
Yes she definitely just slapped the name “Kwanzaa” on some bs. I appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned about different cultures and your earnest research and care. I’m Black and I’ve studied the Swahili language a bit in Elementary but still am not all that very familiar with Kwanzaa. Will change that this yr.
Sandra Lee was the Kellyanne Connway of the food world...Think about it ;)
So true
😂😂😂
She made an alternative cake
To become more educated about Sandra Lee's show...it's based on her book, "Made from Scratch" - the premise of which is why she created Semi-Homemade, the show. It's about growing up in her Grandmother's home, because of a very challenged and brutal childhood; her grandmother had severe Rheumatoid Arthritis, and could not cook/bake like normal people because of her pain and lack of mobility. She had to use many pre-packaged ingredients, and everything close at hand to mitigate her RA. Sandra's point was the joy her grandmother got from pushing through, making meals for Sandra and her younger sister as best she could, and the girls forever were grateful.
"It's not exactly disgusting" is hands-down the best initial Emmy response to a taste test ever.
So happy for Emmy getting all these sponsorships I got the hello fresh deal the other day!
Emmy: We're gonna add some Corn nuts
Me: **heathers flashbacks**
it's not a party without the corn nuts
DON'T FORGET THE CORN NUTS!
Thanks Emmy! I am so happy to "know" you. I am touched to tears that you chose to take a cringe worthy event and turn it into a teachable moment. I am thankful for you and people can actually learn from this.
Thank you so much for making this trainwreck of a cake, Emmy. I was thoroughly entertained! I remember when I used to watch Sandra Lee's show years ago and some of her recipes were WTF-worthy, the Kwanzaa cake included.
I'd love it if you could recreate her Hanukkah cake next.
Never heard Emmy drag someone's name like that.
In fairness, she called it “a harvest cake for Kwanza.” Regardless, it looks gross. I appreciate you and you taught me something today.
I think the corn nuts is the worst part. If you take that out, all you got is a sponge cake with a chocolate cinnamon spice frosting and apples. That seems okay if you use quality ingredients.
Today I learned that Sandra Lee doesn't understand how flavor works. On behalf of all white people, I would like to apologize to everyone who celebrates Kwanzaa for this catastrophe, and to thank Emmy for letting us know that it exists.
tildessmoo in behalf of all white people? I’m white and have never heard of Kwanzaa, but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested or don’t care. Please don’t speak on my behalf. I haven’t done anything wrong. Best to speak for yourself.
Cam Bar “on behalf of all white people, I would like to apologize...” do u not want to apologize??
Japanese character name Yeah, none of us white people want to apologize. We didn't do anything.
@tildessmoo Sandra Lee doesn't represent "white people". I'm not sorry for shit. Fuck off with all of your white apologist bullshit.
TheCynicalDouche you sure about that lmaooooo
Even as a new cook in my late teens, I recognized that Sandra Lee's whole "Semi-Homemade" series was jaw-droppingly bad when it was on the air. A bunch of processed, store-bought foods thrown together with little to no imagination. "Sandra's Chili Dog-Tater Casserole" (canned chili & cut up hotdogs with frozen tater tots thrown on top), "Sandra's Autumn Harvest Cake" (store bought cake with candy corn & a few candles tossed on top), etc. Just horrible! And then she'd end every episode showcasing the gaudiest place settings she could come up with. One that's (regrettably) forever ingrained in my head is her "Demin & Diamonds" table setting. Cut up bedazzled jeans used as a tablecloths & napkins. Astonishingly bad! It always seemed as if Ms. Lee was pandering to the budget-conscious, low income, trailer park crowd, while making fun of them at the same time. And somehow she built an empire with this garbage!
Melissa d'Arabian, later took the same concept of budget, sometimes "semi-homemade" meals and did it right with her Ten Dollar Dinners series.
"It's not exactly disgusting" :) I think I'll pass on this recipe. I like the video and the information about Kwanzaa though