I’m a biology teacher and a baker, and dude, to workshop this and then explain it so clearly to non-scientists is so brilliant and such a rare trait. This channel should have so many more followers.
Thank you so much. And thanks for doing what you do. It's such an undervalued and tough job to be a teacher so getting a compliment from someone who is out there doing the real thing is awesome
Agreed! As a chemist and teacher (with a biology background) I was absolutely ENRAPT this entire video. I loved the way things were explained. This is a solid example of science communication (which is a field). But also? I was just in wonder the whole time 🥺
As they always say "Baking IS a Science" and you just gave us one of the coolest and most epic science classes by explaining so much! And just to make a fluorescent cake! LOVE IT! Keep it up, this is awesome!
I am 35 and have been on TH-cam for years and watched hundreds of videos for hundreds of different topics and DIYs. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I have left a comment but this deserves one more than all the others! I thought when you began the apartment comparison that I was going to get lost and close the video. Then you floored me with the way you explained the analogy! The whole video was amazing and you rock!
Oh my gosh I never leave YT comments but you never cease to amaze me! I love that you consistently bridge the gaps in understanding the mechanisms on a molecular level and the outcome of your lovely recipes! I'd love to try this for a cool Halloween dessert!
Just when I thought there are no more cake innovations - here is the mother of them all!! I have a science background and still couldn’t figure out this extraction. Kudos to you!!
As a high school bio teacher, I really appreciate your explanations about what's happening in the plant cells. I do a chlorophyll extraction with my students, but we just use isopropyl alcohol. Probably not delicous.
Science, baking and extrovert parties. A huge yes and more yes. I’ve never tried to make a glow in that dark cake and now I have the how. Thanks for taking us with you. Amazing.
Amazing! Thank you for taking the time and being vulnerable enough to show us the different experimental steps to your process. Its a great example to keep trying differently when you don't get your desired results immediately. Another wonderful video 😁
Your work is amazing! I'm a chemistry teacher who loves to bake and this gave me chills. And lot of ideas to work in class! Thanks for all your work and time put into this project. I really hope you wrote this down and try to publish it.
You should totally have the class make this cake or something, could be a collab with home ec if the school has that class. Maybe extra credit for whoever makes the brightest frosting.
Just made a cake for my son's birthday and added the spinach/coconut oil mixture to make it glow....it worked and I'm excited to try making the icing glow, too! Thanks for the great explanations and delicious recipes! Awesome channel 😊
Amazing......mind blowing how you reached your goal through deduction and trial-error. And got something soo fun out of it! As always, incredible video, thank you for everything you teach us! You're an outstanding food scientist. I really hope more people find you and your channel gets the recognition it deserves for the fun and innovative work that you do.
THIS IS SO FUN! I love your channel so much. The information coupled with you showing so much of your process is such a delight and educational. Thanks so much for this.
This project was so fun - it took me weeks to figure out but it was a love of labor. And it really makes me happy when I hear that someone nerds out on it as much as I do 💕
These projects you've been working on are really intriguing - I never paid much attention in my Science classes in school, but I find all this so interesting when it comes to food...
I totally agree, you made a novice science enthusiast like me feel smart . I've never heard anyone talk so much and yet keep my interest in something I'm not keen on, for so long . I loved this video so much, SUBSCRIBED .
I am studying biology and I also believe you are correct about needing to disperse chlorophyll by breaking apart the antenna complexes to make your cake or buttercream flouresce. This was a pretth interesting project!
I'm trying to think of flavours that would complement the cake and I think matcha and mint would work. Maybe they could be added in the extraction process to provide chlorophyll too.
As a science buff and a professional cook, a lot of this was long-winded, but the truth is you explained the processes in a clear and concise manner, without making the process *too* difficult for your average home cook. Still, I find myself wondering about the reactivity of basified chlorophyll (chlorophyllin) to UV. I loved your 'what goes up must come down' analogy to quantum energy states and photon emission.
The fact that this channel isn't million subscribers is utterly glitch. As a fellow who suck at biology, i wish i have you when i was still in school. The way you explained the whole process, so easy to remember and fun to make, I'd rather watch you than stuffing myself with knowledge forcefully. And i love your dedication with the experiments, as always. Patiently wait for your book, if you have that in mind💚
This is so fascinating! I love how you combine food science and biology in your recipes, while also making it easily understood to the average viewer. I can’t help but wonder how much money companies would pay for an all natural fluorescent food dye, this could be someone’s entire graduate thesis! Keep up the good work!
I love your channel! It brings out the aspiring nerd and aspiring baker in me! But I get to live it through you. I always feel like my knowledge has increased after watching your videos while enjoying a baking videos. Which is on of my favorite passtime. 🤗
This is the first video of hers I have watched and it was so well made and thoughtful that I subscribed within the first few minutes. Fantastic video and amazing work!
you brain is one of the best of our generation, our generation's Ada Lovelace or Marie Curie. thank you for this amazing video, and huge respect. I don't even like cakes, but I love science and as a girl, I love seeing women like you who I can admire and look up to in science. you've gained a long term subscriber. :D
I loved this., Im a biology major (specifically Microbiology) currently and it feels like Im sitting in class while learning something fun! Amazing job. A new subscriber is here
Oh wow I thought this video would have millions of views. This is my first time seeing this channel, came up randomly in my shorts feed. Absolutely criminal that this isn't viral.
When it comes to formulating then concocting an array of beautiful frostings and cakes you are like a mad scientist that wins every time. I thoroughly enjoy your approach to the baking process. My late Mother was an educator teaching Science and Math and loved to bake. She would have simply loved what you are doing.
OMG I learn so much from you. I would love to make this for my grand nephews but honestly i would rather just watch and share this video. Very cool. This can be shown in school. I think I would have understood science better.
That’s INSANE!!!! Omg thank you so much for this video! The amount of research, time, and dedication that was put into this experiment! The results are AMAZING!
This is amazing. I saw your short and then came here to watch the full version. The way you a) figured it out in general, blows my mind but more so b) the way you explained it to us in layman's terms was brilliant!! I completely understood what you were saying when you broke it down to apartment complexes and separate apartments etc etc. This is the first time I've seen one of your videos but if more of your videos are this cool, I'm your new biggest fan!
Niki Bee, all of her videos are cool, fascinating, knowledgeable and the best part: EDIBLE! If all teachers had 1/3 passion of explaining things her way, most would look forward going to school. I find her videos captivating and then some 🙂
Ok hi I just watched your Ultimate Buttercream Comparison vid and it was so detailed, thought out, informative and helpful (plus I love sciencey content) that I instantly had to subscribe. No question. So I checked out your cakeculator and wanted to see what other vids you had, and got excited when spotting this one! I’m blown away, and genuinely wondering how did this not go VIRAL(?!), if not over the entire internet than just in the youtube baking community?!?! I watch quite a bit of PBS’s digital content and you would fit 👏 right 👏 in 👏 with their lineup. Idk what you have going on in your life, but consider looking into pursuing a science-forward baking show with them. As other commenters have pointed out, your science communication skills are phenomenal!!!!!!
What a unique cool effect and thank you for taking time to explain the process you used to get this result!!! So cool! Could you do a video on how we can try to make this including a recipe/video ?
So incredibly cool! I love it. It may not be a recipe video, per-se but I find it really inspiring. You got me thinking and wanting to do my own experiments!
I loved this. I have made glow in the dark frosting in the past. But I used tonic water. It was pretty simple. If you find yourself brainstorming for something in the future perhaps you might try that.
This is epic!! Thank you SO much for making this video!! My daughter's birthday is next month and I already wanted to do one of those rainbow checkered cakes for her, but with this frosting and using this for the green layers of cake, it will be amazing. I hope I can pull this off right.
You truly are inspiring I admire your tenacity & truly wish you'd taught me science 50yrs ago I may have loved it as much as I love Baking. Honestly since I've found you I've been using so many of your recipes & love your Cakeculator, here's another winner I can't wait for the next.
I would love to know when the recipe is up! I am definitely trying this for a halloween party. You explained this immaculately and I love the amount of research and detail you put in to get the perfect results. I wish the best of luck to your channel!
This is fascinating! And I love this direction you're going with you're videos. There are a lot of recipe videos out there (and I certainly love those), but digging deep into the 'why' and 'how' unlocks so many more cooking/baking possibilities. It's that concept of understanding the rules well enough to know how to break them effectively and produce truly unique results. And I'm totally both a science and baking/cooking nerd and this just takes me to my happy place. 🥰
SCIENCE CAKE! WOW. Just WOW. I was captivated for that entire video! My son has a glow dance party coming up and this is AMAZING! I had no idea this was even possible. I'm doing a black cake with neon chocolate splatters, but perhaps I can use this buttercream for the inside and make the inside of the cake glow too. What a phenomenal discovery! I am flabbergasted at your effort and ability. I wonder how long the buttercream would last with this in it? Can I freeze it? Does the glow diminish over time? I don't suppose you tested those things, I might have to in the weeks leading up to the party. Wow again.
I'm not sure how long it will last but that's such a good question. I do plan expanding on this idea a bit more in the future but probably later this year;)
I’m a biology teacher and a baker, and dude, to workshop this and then explain it so clearly to non-scientists is so brilliant and such a rare trait. This channel should have so many more followers.
Thank you so much. And thanks for doing what you do. It's such an undervalued and tough job to be a teacher so getting a compliment from someone who is out there doing the real thing is awesome
Agree!
It will I just subscribed and have watched 9 videos since 5a
Agreed! As a chemist and teacher (with a biology background) I was absolutely ENRAPT this entire video. I loved the way things were explained.
This is a solid example of science communication (which is a field).
But also? I was just in wonder the whole time 🥺
Subbed! I agree. She is so talented and personable. ♥️♥️♥️
My degree is in biochem and I love to bake. This made my day seeing someone use science to make something so cool and delicious. TY!!!
IYKYK 😎💕
As they always say "Baking IS a Science" and you just gave us one of the coolest and most epic science classes by explaining so much! And just to make a fluorescent cake! LOVE IT! Keep it up, this is awesome!
I am 35 and have been on TH-cam for years and watched hundreds of videos for hundreds of different topics and DIYs. I can probably count on two hands the number of times I have left a comment but this deserves one more than all the others! I thought when you began the apartment comparison that I was going to get lost and close the video. Then you floored me with the way you explained the analogy! The whole video was amazing and you rock!
Awww, that’s so great. I was worried about the complexity of the analogies but you’ve made me feel a lot better about them 😀
The analogies were wonderful. I loved the one regarding quantum energy states and photon emission; excellent explanation.
Thats pretty awesome. There are not many people actually practicing science on youtube.
This is so FRICKING cool! For someone who has a hard time understanding sciency stuff, your explanations just made perfect sense :))
Oh my gosh I never leave YT comments but you never cease to amaze me! I love that you consistently bridge the gaps in understanding the mechanisms on a molecular level and the outcome of your lovely recipes! I'd love to try this for a cool Halloween dessert!
Wow, thank you!
GAWJUSS
Just when I thought there are no more cake innovations - here is the mother of them all!! I have a science background and still couldn’t figure out this extraction. Kudos to you!!
As a high school bio teacher, I really appreciate your explanations about what's happening in the plant cells. I do a chlorophyll extraction with my students, but we just use isopropyl alcohol. Probably not delicous.
Science, baking and extrovert parties. A huge yes and more yes. I’ve never tried to make a glow in that dark cake and now I have the how. Thanks for taking us with you. Amazing.
Amazing! Thank you for taking the time and being vulnerable enough to show us the different experimental steps to your process. Its a great example to keep trying differently when you don't get your desired results immediately. Another wonderful video 😁
Your work is amazing!
I'm a chemistry teacher who loves to bake and this gave me chills.
And lot of ideas to work in class!
Thanks for all your work and time put into this project.
I really hope you wrote this down and try to publish it.
You should totally have the class make this cake or something, could be a collab with home ec if the school has that class. Maybe extra credit for whoever makes the brightest frosting.
The fact that she went through all this trouble and research just to make a glow in the dark cake shows how much she loves her job
Just made a cake for my son's birthday and added the spinach/coconut oil mixture to make it glow....it worked and I'm excited to try making the icing glow, too! Thanks for the great explanations and delicious recipes! Awesome channel 😊
Amazing......mind blowing how you reached your goal through deduction and trial-error. And got something soo fun out of it!
As always, incredible video, thank you for everything you teach us! You're an outstanding food scientist. I really hope more people find you and your channel gets the recognition it deserves for the fun and innovative work that you do.
Thank you so much!
I'm in awe of how you figured this out. This should go viral.
THIS IS SO FUN! I love your channel so much. The information coupled with you showing so much of your process is such a delight and educational. Thanks so much for this.
This project was so fun - it took me weeks to figure out but it was a love of labor. And it really makes me happy when I hear that someone nerds out on it as much as I do 💕
I don't know why this video doesn't have more views. It's incredible !!
Wow! Just wow!
Brilliant! Not sure what I love more, your persistence or the cake!!!
as an avid science and baking enthusiast, youre my new FAVORITE channel!
These projects you've been working on are really intriguing - I never paid much attention in my Science classes in school, but I find all this so interesting when it comes to food...
I totally agree, you made a novice science enthusiast like me feel smart . I've never heard anyone talk so much and yet keep my interest in something I'm not keen on, for so long . I loved this video so much, SUBSCRIBED .
I am studying biology and I also believe you are correct about needing to disperse chlorophyll by breaking apart the antenna complexes to make your cake or buttercream flouresce. This was a pretth interesting project!
I love everything about this. The ideas, the experimentation, the science, the explanations. Looking forward to more videos!
I'm trying to think of flavours that would complement the cake and I think matcha and mint would work. Maybe they could be added in the extraction process to provide chlorophyll too.
As a science buff and a professional cook, a lot of this was long-winded, but the truth is you explained the processes in a clear and concise manner, without making the process *too* difficult for your average home cook. Still, I find myself wondering about the reactivity of basified chlorophyll (chlorophyllin) to UV. I loved your 'what goes up must come down' analogy to quantum energy states and photon emission.
Your determination is really something, i would give up so quickly lol. Love the video and the clear explanation.
This is one of my favourite videos. I come back to it a lot, and I really want to try make it
Please keep showing us these passion projects. Very fun and entertaining!
thank u 4 explaining science in a way that is not condescending, love ur channel 4 that💖
When intelligent and art fuse in one. Nice...
The fact that this channel isn't million subscribers is utterly glitch. As a fellow who suck at biology, i wish i have you when i was still in school. The way you explained the whole process, so easy to remember and fun to make, I'd rather watch you than stuffing myself with knowledge forcefully.
And i love your dedication with the experiments, as always. Patiently wait for your book, if you have that in mind💚
You continue to amaze me!!
Tenacity personified, with buttercream! What a fantastic project, we loved it!! :D
As soon as you said you were extracting chlorophyl the chemist in me perked right up. You make wonderful videos. =)
Subscribed. Baking and cooking is science, and I love it so much more when learning how to do cool stuff is all explained with science.
This is so fascinating! I love how you combine food science and biology in your recipes, while also making it easily understood to the average viewer. I can’t help but wonder how much money companies would pay for an all natural fluorescent food dye, this could be someone’s entire graduate thesis! Keep up the good work!
Once this video blows up Adriana, we'll probably see a trend of home bakers doing this for family members/clients for wedding cakes 💚💚
You remind me of Alton Brown the way you break things down to a science. I always loved that about his shows and really enjoy it here also!
To explain to a 76 year old baker is a real talent. I was looking for a good black buttercream for a football cake that was edible. You nailed it!
I love your channel! It brings out the aspiring nerd and aspiring baker in me! But I get to live it through you. I always feel like my knowledge has increased after watching your videos while enjoying a baking videos. Which is on of my favorite passtime. 🤗
this is one of the most interesting videos I've ever watched
So cool ! You are amazing 🤩
Watch the ads, let make sure we support her to the fullest! She gives us such wonderful information! Thank you!
This is the first video of hers I have watched and it was so well made and thoughtful that I subscribed within the first few minutes. Fantastic video and amazing work!
I enjoy baking, I enjoy cake, and I enjoy learning something new. Thanks for the video.
I love this SO MUCH 😂 as a scientist this delights me to no end. Thank you so much for doing all this great work and explaining it so well.
So very cool! Worth the wait! Excited to see where this knowledge leads.
How is this video not viral?! So dang cool!!
How did I miss such an informative channel for this long
I regret 😢
Amazing content
You are incredible! Please continue doing what you are!
BIOLOGY!!!! The science of EVERYTHING!
You are AMAZING!! I’ve never been a big science nerd but you videos are so interesting and inspire me to want to learn more kitchen science :)
I get so hyped every time I see you’ve posted 😫🙌🏽
I am in complete awe…please never stop with your incredible talents ❤
you brain is one of the best of our generation, our generation's Ada Lovelace or Marie Curie.
thank you for this amazing video, and huge respect. I don't even like cakes, but I love science and as a girl, I love seeing women like you who I can admire and look up to in science.
you've gained a long term subscriber. :D
I loved this., Im a biology major (specifically Microbiology) currently and it feels like Im sitting in class while learning something fun! Amazing job. A new subscriber is here
INSTANT FOLLOW ❤ You’re amazing, thank you so much for your thorough and beautiful offerings ✨
Oh wow I thought this video would have millions of views. This is my first time seeing this channel, came up randomly in my shorts feed. Absolutely criminal that this isn't viral.
When it comes to formulating then concocting an array of beautiful frostings and cakes you are like a mad scientist that wins every time. I thoroughly enjoy your approach to the baking process. My late Mother was an educator teaching Science and Math and loved to bake. She would have simply loved what you are doing.
OMG I learn so much from you. I would love to make this for my grand nephews but honestly i would rather just watch and share this video. Very cool. This can be shown in school. I think I would have understood science better.
That’s INSANE!!!! Omg thank you so much for this video! The amount of research, time, and dedication that was put into this experiment! The results are AMAZING!
You are inspiring. Sharing your knowledge is a huge blessing
That was absolutely amazing!!! I literally can not wait to show my kids this video!!!
You should add "teacher" to your repertoire... so well explained!
This is incredible! Your videos are that great combination of unique, educational, and entertaining! The trifecta!
this was so fun to watch!!!
This is amazing. I saw your short and then came here to watch the full version.
The way you a) figured it out in general, blows my mind but more so b) the way you explained it to us in layman's terms was brilliant!! I completely understood what you were saying when you broke it down to apartment complexes and separate apartments etc etc.
This is the first time I've seen one of your videos but if more of your videos are this cool, I'm your new biggest fan!
Niki Bee, all of her videos are cool, fascinating, knowledgeable and the best part:
EDIBLE!
If all teachers had 1/3 passion of explaining things her way, most would look forward going to school. I find her videos captivating and then some 🙂
Ok hi I just watched your Ultimate Buttercream Comparison vid and it was so detailed, thought out, informative and helpful (plus I love sciencey content) that I instantly had to subscribe. No question. So I checked out your cakeculator and wanted to see what other vids you had, and got excited when spotting this one! I’m blown away, and genuinely wondering how did this not go VIRAL(?!), if not over the entire internet than just in the youtube baking community?!?!
I watch quite a bit of PBS’s digital content and you would fit 👏 right 👏 in 👏 with their lineup. Idk what you have going on in your life, but consider looking into pursuing a science-forward baking show with them. As other commenters have pointed out, your science communication skills are phenomenal!!!!!!
And now I will hit up the cakeculator to bake my mom’s birthday cake today. THANK YOU for the wonderful work you’re doing 💚🩷
Fascinating! Thank you for all that effort. I am sending this to my chemist and science teacher sister.
this is so very cool. thank you so much for putting that much work in
I love your content! Each one of them peaks my interest in just learning new things
What a unique cool effect and thank you for taking time to explain the process you used to get this result!!! So cool!
Could you do a video on how we can try to make this including a recipe/video ?
Yes please 🙏 😍 I would love to remake this for my mother's birthday
I love spinach .!
I absolutely love these food science experiment videos! They're so fun and so fascinating!
You are brilliant. Your work is stunning. This content scratches an itch I didn’t know my brain had. I’m officially obsessed with your channel.
That was amazing!
So incredibly cool! I love it. It may not be a recipe video, per-se but I find it really inspiring. You got me thinking and wanting to do my own experiments!
I loved this. I have made glow in the dark frosting in the past. But I used tonic water. It was pretty simple. If you find yourself brainstorming for something in the future perhaps you might try that.
This is so amazing and makes me so happy!!!! Thank you so much for sharing 💚💚💚💚💚
It's amazing to watch you embark on a journey of research and discovery! 🥰
Wow! Thank you for this amazing video!
O my gosh! This is amazing! I love how in dept your videos are😁
This is epic!! Thank you SO much for making this video!! My daughter's birthday is next month and I already wanted to do one of those rainbow checkered cakes for her, but with this frosting and using this for the green layers of cake, it will be amazing. I hope I can pull this off right.
That’s amazing! 🤩 I like your vegetable garden and the glow in the dark cake it looks beautiful.
You truly are inspiring I admire your tenacity & truly wish you'd taught me science 50yrs ago I may have loved it as much as I love Baking. Honestly since I've found you I've been using so many of your recipes & love your Cakeculator, here's another winner I can't wait for the next.
So so so incredibly cool! Amazing work!
This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for this!!
I would love to know when the recipe is up! I am definitely trying this for a halloween party. You explained this immaculately and I love the amount of research and detail you put in to get the perfect results. I wish the best of luck to your channel!
Yesss I love food science! I'm excited for what you'll come up with next :)
That cake is so awesome! ❤️💖💗🧡💜💙🫶🏻
This is fascinating! And I love this direction you're going with you're videos. There are a lot of recipe videos out there (and I certainly love those), but digging deep into the 'why' and 'how' unlocks so many more cooking/baking possibilities. It's that concept of understanding the rules well enough to know how to break them effectively and produce truly unique results. And I'm totally both a science and baking/cooking nerd and this just takes me to my happy place. 🥰
You are truly AMAZING!!!❤❤❤
I'm a botanist, and I'm totally going to make this!
absolutely incredible the way youve presented this video and all the explanations
I love how you explain things!
I honestly love your work 💕 looking forward to your future projects!
SCIENCE CAKE! WOW. Just WOW. I was captivated for that entire video! My son has a glow dance party coming up and this is AMAZING! I had no idea this was even possible. I'm doing a black cake with neon chocolate splatters, but perhaps I can use this buttercream for the inside and make the inside of the cake glow too. What a phenomenal discovery! I am flabbergasted at your effort and ability. I wonder how long the buttercream would last with this in it? Can I freeze it? Does the glow diminish over time? I don't suppose you tested those things, I might have to in the weeks leading up to the party. Wow again.
I'm not sure how long it will last but that's such a good question. I do plan expanding on this idea a bit more in the future but probably later this year;)
@@Sugarologie Can’t wait to see what else you do! 😊
You are saving my life with these videos girl
This is AMAZING!