How to Make a SNAKE CAKE! Chocolate Chip Banana Cake with Coffee Buttercream! JUNGLE BOOK Giveaway!

uh yolanda wanda welcome to how to cake it this week is so much fun i'm making a snake cake and i have a disney jungle book prize pack giveaway i'm giving away five prize packs so stay tuned for more details about how to win those and if you watch to the end of this video i'm gonna have someone special join me actually three special guests i'm yolanda and i'm wild for cake i think there's something in your hair i think so to make this snake cake i am baking 18 pounds of my banana cake and to my batter i added three cups of mini chocolate chips the texture and color of banana cake really reminded me of a snake so i thought it was perfect for the inside i divided all of my cake batter into six different round and bundt cake pans i'll put all of the sizes and details below in my blog at how to cake it.com with my biggest two round cakes i remove them from their pans level them and cut off a layer of caramelization at the bottom of each cake and for my butt pans i simply level them at the top most of the caramelization is going to disappear anyway when carving the snake i begin by stacking my two 10 inch cakes on top of each other and using a small serrated knife to round the edges now i want to create a c shape kind of like if the snake was like coiled on itself so i take my sharp knife and carve away an indent in that cake and round it down as well did you just run through the jungle again yes it's too far it looks crazy there there we go i'm gonna move on to one of my bundt cakes bundt cakes are perfect for a snake because there's a hole in the middle and they're already curved i cut the bundt cake into two parts i take each half of my bundt cake and i connect it to the sea cake that i've already carved and now you can start to see the shape of the slithering snake come to life cake is soft especially moist chocolate chip banana cake so it's a little bit tricky when you're carving you have to be careful take your time i continue the process with yet another bundt cake extending the snake further and then i have a smaller bundt cake that i add to one end of the cake and try to sort of coil it up over itself like a snake's tail would sort of wrap over itself which is really hard but really cool i use a bigger piece of leftover cake from my ten inch to create the head and then i basically just use a picture on my iphone and some sharp knives and carved carved carve till i'm happy all in all the carving process alone took me close to three hours so i didn't beat my turkey cake record if you want to know how long the cake took me from start to finish including the carving i always put a time lapse video on my facebook page with a time clock now i need to crumb coat my entire snake cake i've decided to use coffee buttercream to make coffee flavored buttercream i just make a concentrated coffee and whisk this into my italian meringue buttercream and the best part is you can just flavor it to taste the same way that you like coffee i'm also going to put a little bit of buttercream between the two 10 inch layers remember now that it's carved it doesn't look like two cakes and anywhere that the cake is joined i'll put a little bit of buttercream in between and just crumple the entire thing this is how you know i'm wild i'm so wild for cake that i broke a rule well it's not a rule it's just my rule but i don't break my own rules either i made the snake cake so big i couldn't fit it in my fridge so it's just crumb coat and so honestly like what did you do after the crumb coat i just left it we had lunch my whole world is shattered your world it's now time for fondant i dyed my fondant a really pale pale yellow i just used a little bit of buttercup yellow as a base this cake is gonna take about six sections of fondant i start in the middle with the c and i just roll fondant and start to cover it's really difficult because the cake couldn't be chilled it remains soft inside so i have to be very careful covering with fondant not to press too hard some of the places like in the middle of the sea and some of the s-curves it's really difficult for me to even get my hand in there and secure the fondant to the cake this snake cake has all kinds of seams so to hide my seams i made a fondant paste i basically just worked water into fondant and then i use that paste put it on with a spatula and use a wet paint brush to just work it in and blend it in this snake is now seamless as a snake should be but it needs scales to create my scaly texture i'm using a rolling pin sleeve it's basically just this plastic sleeve that you slip over a rolling pin and it creates texture when you roll with it but i've cut up the sleeve because i'm wild wild for cake so i basically just cut a piece of this sleeve it's called a diamond sleeve and pressed it pulled it and pressed it into my fondant this made me so nervous because once again there was no chill see what happens when you don't chill out you get stressed at least this diamond sleeve is a step up from the shelf liner i used on my turkey cake i mean at least it's actually made for kings if there's one thing that makes me nervous in the kitchen it is painting cakes i always get apprehensive i feel anxious i try to procrastinate before starting so you know what it's time for a jungle book giveaway that scared me well you're in the jungle you should be scared i have five jungle book prize packs to give away this is what you have to do to win one subscribe to this channel how to cake it right now and comment below and tell me which jungle book character you would be and why i'll also put a link of the trailer for the brand new jungle book movie in my description below so you can check it out i would of course be ka the snake in the jungle book movie because today i'm all about snakes good luck everybody all right no more procrastinating i need to paint this snake cake i'm mixing a little bit of black a little bit of brown and some ivory food coloring diluted with clear white rum clear white rum white rum the first coat of paint is going to be one light color over the entire snake let it sit for a moment and meanwhile i start to mix another layer of paint that contains more brown and a little more black i begin to paint on the ball python snake pattern all around the stake up one side down the other what i did do to add some texture was use cut up pieces of paper towel pressed into the paint and pulled off just to leave behind some texture and soften the paint the next color i'm going to paint on is pretty much black but i softened the black with a little bit of brown i'm leaving this paint a bit thicker so adding less rum and use that paper towel technique once again i use more black paint to add dots to the snake and i used some more black paint to darken the snake again that's the key to painting a cake especially one of this nature do it in layers take your time have a look you'll know when it feels right this snake needs eyes hello i used two little red candy beads for the eyes and i painted them with my black food coloring mixture i just plopped them into the snakehead and painted them snake was like please don't pee there okay i won't i'm wild i can't help it this cake was so much fun to make and a lot of you have requested it thanks for all your suggestions i really appreciate it but i need your help i need you all to participate in our it takes two contests if every single one of you subscribed right now got even one person to subscribe we would hit 2 million in a heartbeat all you have to do is leave a comment below tagging someone get them to subscribe to this channel and as long as you're both subscribed you will be entered to win two matching wild for cake t-shirts imagine you and your friend walking down the street everyone will be like did you see them they're wild for kay i know i spent all this time making this snake but at the end i had to catch it and have a piece it is banana chocolate chip that cake was delicious i've invited dave salmone animal expert and all-around jungly man and he's bringing some live models cut to the footage hi hi how are you i'm good you look uh happy to see me i i am good i'm gonna put it here and she's gonna hold on to you now what's she doing with her tongue she's just smelling the air so they have a pork tongue and a little organ in the top of their mouth and they smell a cake and then they put it in the roof their milk smells like good cake oh she's coming close to my head yeah she's gonna be all over here she's gonna bite me no she will not bite you i think she's a girl she's like looking me up and down yeah she's like let's see who this is i wonder i wonder that's right i just held a snake palm drop i think that was the first palm drop in history oh sorry kanye i did this first and if you want to kiss her you're welcome too yeah i think you should kiss her jocelyn today is the day you went too far yeah very pretty so people often think of snakes as slimy no that's slimy all right very soft there we go i think dave liked my cake i mean he doesn't look like a man who eats a lot of cake but he enjoyed it banana banana with chocolate chips and a cup there's actually a coffee buttercream in the middle banana cake yeah my favorite cake is it it's just like i feel like i'm uh you know being a bad friend eating snake in front of my snake friends thank you so much to dave salmone for coming and bringing my two new best friends to my kitchen if you want more information on where you can find dave i'll put a link in the description below because i know some of the ladies are wondering whoa okay today i did something i never thought i'd do you're welcome yolanda it wasn't on my bucket list everything's on jocelyn's bucket list for me to do i'll see you all next week or maybe i won't make it out of the jungle i don't know why you're betting can you see me i wanted to like fall out i feel very like britney spears slave for you right now i was thinking the same thing this is one of those i was hoping you're gonna break into song you don't want that no no guys there's a lot of giveaways in this episode good luck to winning five disney jungle book prize packs and good luck on the it takes two contest where you can win two matching gorgeous teas

Channel: How To Cake It

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Keywords: Yolanda Gampp, Yolanda Gamp, How To Cake It, Cakes, Cake, Sugar Stars, How To Cake It By Yolanda, Buttercream, Vanilla Cake, Chocolate, Vanilla, Recipe, Chocolate Cake Recipe, Simple Syrup, snake, cake art, banana cake, coffee, coffee buttercream, fondant, coloring, david salmoni, baking, giant cake, jungle book cake, disney's jungle book, banana bread

Id: ENlnfMa2E_I

Length: 13min 20sec (800 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 05 2016