I got a haircut (Day 3374 - 2/19/19)

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The vlog starts out with Stephen saying that his hair has been bothering him. So, Stephen said that he decided to get a haircut. He said that this is probably the longest time he has went without a haircut. Since Stephen said he wasn't going to do haircut haikus anymore in vlog Day 3308, he decided to do a haircut song instead and here are the lyrics.

Stephen says that he has been working on stuff all day. He then said that Mallory decided to take a short break from working on her new painting in order to bake cupcakes. Stephen said that Mal was baking these cupcakes for Austin and Nikki's gender reveal party for their 2nd baby. Stephen then talks about how Lilly is their 1st child and how he is unsure if Lilly is already 2 years old or almost 2 years old. He also says that the cupcakes Mal are making are not gender reveal cupcakes because Mal is not in charge of the gender reveal part of the party.

Mal then takes over the vlog and says that she will be making cookies and cream cupcakes using a recipe she found online. She shows all the ingredients she has and how she has already put the cupcake liners in the muffin tins. She is also using some chocolate creme sandwich cookies instead of Oreos. Mal said that she was going to start out by mixing her dry and wet ingredients separately. So, she starts mixing the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together. Then, she melts the butter in the microwave and measures out 400 grams of sugar to mix into the melted butter. Mal said that she was doubling the recipe because the recipe makes about 15 cupcakes and she needed 24 cupcakes. She also had to ask Stephen to help film because it was difficult holding the camera and measuring the ingredients at the same time.

Mal then whisks the sugar into the melted butter and separates 2 eggs to get the whites of the eggs. She then measures the amount of yogurt needed and adds it to the bowl with the melted butter and sugar. Stephen then proceeds to ask Mal if he can taste test an Oreo. Mal tells him that he can only have 1. He then asks if she means that he can have one Oreo from each row or 1 Oreo total. Mal then replies that he can only have 1 Oreo. Stephen then asks if it was possible for him to have 2 Oreos. Mal asks him how many Oreos there were in the package and Stephen says that there are 39 Oreos. Mal yielded and told Stephen that he could have 2 Oreos and Stephen exclaims "Yay!" in excitement. Mal then proceeds to add vanilla extract and 180 grams of milk into the melted butter mixture and mixes it. Then, she combines the dry and wet ingredients and mixes them together. Mal then smashes the chocolate creme sandwich cookies with a rolling pin. She says that she usually uses a 1/2 measuring cup to fill the cupcake liners 2/3 full and bakes the cupcakes first for 10 minutes and then continually checks them until the toothpick comes out clean.

Mal said that her trick to get the cupcakes out of the hot muffin tin and getting them on a cooling rack is to use chopsticks and pick them up. She said that she made the 24 cupcakes she needed, but she still had a lot of her cupcake mixture left. So, she says that she could've probably filled her cupcake liners with more mixture. There is then a short sped up montage of Mal taking out the cupcakes. Mal estimates that 2 full batches probably makes 4 dozen cupcakes. While taking her last batch of cupcakes out the oven, Mal said that she was always taught to fill the empty spots with water if you don't use all the spots in the muffin tin. She says that she is not sure about the reason behind it, but she thinks that it might be done in order to balance the heat of the pan.

Mal then goes to where Stephen is working on editing vlogs and asks if he wants a "muffin" since she didn't frost the cupcakes yet so they were still technically muffins. Stephen can be seen editing the Day 3369 vlog where Dan is trying a chocolate covered strawberry. Stephen has Kepler on his lap and he tells Kepler that he can't eat the cupcake. Stephen says that the cupcake tastes really good and that he has never had a cookie and cream cupcake before.

The video then transitions to Stephen and Mal having dinner. Stephen says that he doesn't know if Sagan likes to spend dinner time with them because he likes them or if he is hoping that one day he will get some food scraps from their dinner. They both have chicken basted with mustard with asparagus for dinner. Stephen says that he received a bunch of different varieties of mustard for Christmas and one of those was a pecan honey mustard which they used to baste their chicken.

Kit Kat Flavor Tried: Otona no Amasa Strong Matcha Kit Kat

Stephen says that the color of the Kit Kat is very green. Mal says that she really likes the taste and that it tasted better than the other matcha flavored Kit Kats. She said that it was better because the matcha flavor was stronger compared to the other matcha Kit Kats. Stephen said that the taste was okay and that he felt that it didn't taste all that different from the other matcha Kit Kats. Mal thought that it tasted very different compared to the other matcha Kit Kats. Stephen said that strength of the matcha flavor was not very pleasing to him. Mal then asks him if he wants another cupcake to get rid of the matcha flavor. He refuses and says that he is instead craving some green tea ice cream after eating the matcha Kit Kat. Mal replies by saying that they don't have any green tea ice cream.

Stephen then says he is going to work on some more stuff before going to bed. However, he felt guilty getting up because both Sagan and Kepler were lying down on his lap.