Nick Makrides is the brains and the vision behind the rapidly growing YouTube channel The Scran Line, and if you haven't heard of The Scran Line yet – well, you heard it here first. Makrides makes incredible food videos, focusing on colorful cupcakes that will inspire any pro baker or beginner to have fun in the kitchen. Raspberry lemonade cupcakes? Blueberry french toast cupcakes? Matcha? Tiramisu? Rosée champagne? Whatever you'd want in a cupcake, Makrides has done it. He's one of thousands of food YouTubers, but what makes the artistic Australian stand out is his graphic design background that adds style and tons of fun to his videos.
You can watch his full-length cooking videos on YouTube, or his short clips on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat. Prepare to crave cupcakes like never before!
Read on for HNGN's exclusive interview with Makrides in which he tells us the secret of making delicious food and all the magic that goes into his artistic, colorful food videos.
Raspberry Lemonade CupcakesThese raspberry lemonade cupcakes are the perfect tangy addition to any party. Packed full of raspberries, with a tangy punch of lemon! :0) xWatch me make them here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpmvIdzQsQwGrab the full recipe here:https://www.thescranline.com/#!raspberry-lemonade-cupcakes/cfpo
Posted by The Scran Line on Monday, 18 January 2016
HNGN: Hi Nick! It's so great to meet you. I just discovered your videos recently and have watched almost all of them in a week. They're just captivating. The visuals are so beautiful!
MAKRIDES: Thank you very much! I'm glad you like them.
My first question for you is about your upbringing. Was your house a food-centric home?
Oh absolutely, of course, yes! My grandma and my mom are amazing cooks, so I just grew up watching them cook. Since I was little, I loved eating. I still love eating, but when I was little I loved it a little bit too much (laughs).
On YouTube or in real life, who's your most important food inspiration?
In real life, I would have to say my grandma and my mom. Something that I think is really important in cooking is that you cook with love. When you cook with love, if you're cooking at home or at a restaurant, the person who's eating that food, whatever it is, is gonna know right away. The way you present it, the way it tastes, whatever – they'll know that you've cooked it with care and love, and I learned that from my mom and my grandma.
Online, I'd say a YouTube cook named Laura Vitale. She's quite big now, she started six or seven years ago. When the pizzeria that she and her father ran closed down in the financial crisis, she decided to make a YouTube channel to share her family recipes. I watched her since the beginning, and she's a huge inspiration to me. The way she talks about food, how much she loves it, the way she presents it and the recipes she chooses - everything about her channel, I really love. There's loads of other YouTubers that I love: Donal Skehan, Elise from My Cupcake Addiction. There's a bunch.
