Cake Rescue Fixing Viral Cake Fails | How To Cook That Ann Reardon new 2020

Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and this is an episode of Cake Rescue ✚ where I take viral cake fails and show you how to rescue them. Fail number one is this cake by Pettie Beige and she says it didn't turn out how she wanted it ...so first let's recreate the fail so you can learn what not to do when cake decorating you can actually learn a lot from your failures along the way. It looks to me like the top layer she had is slightly smaller than the bottom one. If you don't have two cake tins the same size you can trim the bigger one to match the smaller one and that way they'd be even. next it looks like she's poured warm ganache over the cake which is a good move, ganache is a mixture of chocolate and cream and it's really yummy. How runny it is depends on how much cream you add in proportion to your chocolate and obviously the temperature it is when you pour it on. The warmer it is the runnier it's going to be and once it's cold it sets. So let me just spread that a bit more so we've got more down the edges like she had. At this point if she put it in the fridge all would have been fine but it looks to me like they've gone ahead and piped whipped cream on the warm ganache which at first looks like it's going to be fine it's looking pretty good but if i put this in fast forward you can see what happens... the ganache is actually still slowly flowing down the cake and it takes the cream with it. That looks about right to me I think I nailed the fail. Step one to fix this cake is to refrigerate it for at least an hour. Now that it's chilled i'm gonna spread the cream around the side of the cake. Now you can see that that ganache that was runny is now set quite thick, all it needed was the fridge. I'm going to clean up the ganache that is down on the base and i'm going to add that into the gaps where the top cake is much smaller than the bottom cake to kind of even out our sides. now i know this looks really messy but trust me it's a rescue ... sometimes things get worse before they get better! next take a handful of flaked almonds and push them into the sides of the cake. Scoop up the extra that falls off and do it again. Now if you don't like nuts or you have a nut allergy instead of almonds you could use flakes of chocolate here and just press it into the sides. If you have any obvious gaps just pop an extra flaked almond in individually until you're happy with what it looks like 😊 now that the ganache is set we can pipe cream onto it and it will not slide off, so let's pipe swirls all the way around the top of the cake to hide the messy edge then wash some strawberries hull them and cut them into quarters. Place one quarter of a strawberry onto each swirl of cream around the cake and then add your candles on top and the cake is rescued! No one would even know that there was ever a problem. At number two we have a scary looking Elsa cake. Now this cake demonstrates beautifully that piped character cakes are actually really hard to do. To recreate the fail I'm going to pour on some heated up blue buttercream. If you heat up buttercream it goes runny like this so you can pour it over the cake and then they seem to have some sort of color variation going on on top so let's add a bit of a different color buttercream to that too. The actual shape of Elsa's face that they have seems pretty good to me. Now to do that you can easily just put baking paper over a picture and then trace it using compound chocolate. Once it's set you can then just lift that up and put it on top of the cake so it gives you the outline. So far so good but i think this is where everything seems to have gone downhill they use a thick icing and try to color in the picture of Elsa and fill in all the gaps which you can kind of get away with for the hair but as soon as you go onto the face and you're piping it on like that instead of it looking like a perfect flawless Disney princess complexion it looks a bit more like a Shar-Pei puppy. Add a bit of pink for the lips and I've made my fail somehow look worse than the original but we can fix this fixer-upper with a little bit of love 🎵 put some coconut into a food processor blitz it up and then let it snow. That Shar-Pei girl is gone. Sprinkle with icing sugar to make it white so it looks more like snow and then roll out some pale skin colored fondant. Spray the back of a print out of your character with cooking oil so that it doesn't stick to the fondant and put it on top and trace around the outlines. If you're trying to do a character then just search for a colouring-in sheet for them because that will give you this really clear outline look. Carefully cut around the outside of the shape and then peel off the paper and you can now see those indents that we drew. Use your knife to make them a bit deeper anywhere where it's just skin on skin like around the nose and the chin line now repeat that process to cut out the eye shapes and then put them into place and roll a ball of blue and squash it on top and then do the same with a little ball of black and pop that on top. See how that is much easier in fondant than trying to pipe this on her skin has that flawless disney princess look. Use food color to paint on her lips and then use the template to cut out the blue dress and the shape of the top of her hair. Make a plait out of yellow fondant and add it in following the outline you drew so you know where it goes a lot of people don't like the taste of fondant it just tastes super sweet it tastes like a lolly without any flavoring if you add flavoring to it like you'd add mint or musk or anything that doesn't have a color to it unless the color matches so in this case you could make it banana flavored then it's going to taste like a lolly so it tastes a lot better. Put Elsa on top of your cake and this is before and this is the same cake after ... so if you ever feel tempted to pipe a character cake, go for fondant cutouts it's much easier. At number three we have a badly cracked fondant cake. Now that usually happens when the fondant is too dry or it hasn't been kneeded enough before you go to use it. I'm going to add lots of extra icing sugar into this one to try and dry it out. I don't usually roll out fondant using icing sugar or cornstarch, I usually use the spray vegetable oil to stop it sticking to the rolling pin and to the mat underneath because then it doesn't dry it out. This is quite dry this fondant but it still isn't cracking so to reproduce the fail i'm going to have to just manually pull it down and make tears in the fondant so that we get rips and damage that looks a bit like theirs. That looks similar ... okay now to rescue it you could just pull the fondant off and redo the buttercream and essentially start again but if you don't have time for that let's look at another option. Firstly to fix that dry white powdery look I'm going to spray the fondant with cooking oil and rub it in and just rub gently to get rid of any little white spots at the icing sugar that are there because we want it to look a smooth one color. Now this oil will soak into the fondant so it won't stay super shiny like this but it's going to get rid of that dry look. What I will do is I won't spray the sides so then you can see the difference the spray oil makes to the fondant. Now for these lovely holes ... um let's make it look like they're supposed to be there. Use a knife and cut around to continue a crack the whole way around the cake using the holes that you already have as a bit of a guide as to where it should go. Then press sprinkles into the exposed buttercream. Now we've still got some work to do you can clearly see the improvement the extra oil made to the dry looking fondant, so i'm going to rub some oil onto the sides too and there are still quite a few cracks that are big and i don't want so i'm going to take some fondant scraps and mix them into a paste using a little water. It takes a bit of time to get this into a paste just press the back of your spoon into the bowl and keep going until you get it smooth and then spread that over the cracks. Now this doesn't work perfectly but it's okay. If you have enough spare fondant you could have pulled off this bottom strip and replaced it but i'm assuming that you either don't have time or you don't have any more fondant so i'm making it a quick fix. It's certainly not perfect but it looks ready for a party. Now for a game of hide and seek ... can you find a piping tip, two knives, a stand mixer, chocolate, measuring spoons, a hinge, a match, a receipt and rose petals? If you love hunting for things then you're going to like today's sponsor June's Journey. You can hunt through different hand-painted scenes for hidden objects and clues to solve a 1920s murder mystery. And a couple of gameplay tips if you're like me and have your mobile screen brightness always turned down really low ... turn it up, it's much easier to find things and I went through quite a few levels before I realized I could zoom in and when you're zoomed in it highlights what you can currently see on your screen so it makes it easier to find things that you're stuck on. It's free to download I'll put a link below, see if you can beat my high score on the first four scenes. Now for cake fail number four this is when the person at the bakery gets the order wrong! Some of these pictures have been floating around on reddit for years now and i'm not 100% sure how genuine some of them are. I mean look at this one ... they said they wanted 'nothing' on top. Now you're telling me that the person at the bakery baked the cakes covered them perfectly with buttercream carefully piped chocolate patterns on top of the cake and down the sides and then they put swirls of buttercream perfectly even all the way around the top edge they sprinkled chocolate in the corners and then after all that work without thinking they piped 'nothing' in the middle with no skill at all?! I just don't think so. But just in case you do make a mistake when you're piping on top of your own cake or you get a cheap cake that wasn't actually designed for your event and you want to change the writing on it here's how to fix that. Spread out some white compound chocolate to make it big enough to cover what is written on the cake. Give the foil a little bit of a shake that just smooths off the top and then just let that set. Put a sheet of baking paper over the top and a print out of the text that you want on the cake. Trace over it with a pen so you get an indent in the chocolate. Now all that you need to do is trace over the indents that you made using compound milk or dark chocolate. Now if you're not confident piping then of course you can repeat this if you make a mistake because it's not actually on your cake so you haven't ruined anything. Spread out the writing that was on the cake so that it can't be red when you pull the chocolate off but also so it's not visible through the chocolate. Add your chocolate plate on top and problem solved. With thanks to my patrons for your ongoing support of this channel it is so much appreciated 💝 You can watch more of the Cake Rescue series and other of my videos here. Check out the new merch in the bar below. Make it a Great Week and I'll see you on Friday.

Channel: How To Cook That

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Keywords: cake rescue, caek fail, viral cake fails, funny cake fails, best cake fails, new, how to fix a cake fail, ann reardon, how to cook that, howtocookthat, debunking, elsa cake fail, writing on a cake, techniques, piping on a cake, ganache, yummy, amazing, nailed it, the best, nailed it cake fails

Id: NYFHnIiA8gE

Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020