I Made A Giant 50-Pound Birthday Cake

hello I'm Alvin welcome back to Tasties making it big the show where I make giant food for my friends yesterday I got a really fun message from my friend Victor who was my very first guest on my very first episode of making it big where I made him a giant burger I think he has a surprise for me so let's go see what he said [Music] oh yo I hope it was good my bro listen uh my birthday is coming back around and I was wondering if you might be able to help me out with a little something last time it's my birthday a couple years back you hooked it up with a massive version of my favorite cheeseburger so this year I want to do things a little bit more traditional and I was wondering if you might be able to hook it up with a massive version of my favorite birthday cake my favorite birthday cake is from Momofuku Milk Bar there's no butter cake it's gonna be a little bit of a challenge but I'm sure if anybody could do it it's you my bro okay well Vic said he wanted the Momofuku Milk Bar birthday cake this is Christina tosi's recipe gonna put in a lot of softened butter brown sugar shortening if you're not familiar with Momofuku Milk Bar it is a fan favorite destination started out in York they have a lot of locations now we're seeing the toasty also did an episode on Jeff's table about it and her life story and it's probably one of my favorite Chef's Table episodes drugs uh butter sugar shortening and more sugar I I'm not I'm not drunk I promise this is gonna cream for a while next up I'm gonna combine buttermilk which is very interesting for a cake some grapeseed oil and clear vanilla extract so this stuff is not brown it's the the more like vanilla birthday cake kind of extract I think this is actually very important to give this cake a signature flavor without making it look too dark a little mix so Todd has been working very hard to make this butter and sugar nice and fluffy it's like doubled in size so I think it's ready for some eggs eggs go in one at a time that was fun I like that four more bloops I hope you guys are not tired of me saying bloop wow look at that texture that's so fluffy and silky this little buttermilk oil vanilla mixture gets solely streamed in get every last drop this looks great I'm gonna scrape down the sides a bit that's important it looks like cheesecake batter they're just like those soft beautiful luscious ribbons we're gonna add the flour and in classic making big fashion Alvin is probably gonna spill quite a lot of this Alvin is going slow why is Alvin talking in third person Alvin doesn't know don't spill Alvin sorry Todd I'm hitting his head really hard oh wow it only took 5 5 I don't think I spilled that at all and that baking powder salt and signature item rainbow sprinkles I don't want to over mix the batter so I'm gonna take it out I'll get you off come on get off what the heck dude oh there we go this batter is like a cloud it's so Airy and to smooth it out cue the Blue Danube waltz [Music] foreign foreign [Music] this is the cake batter time to bake this one and about 20 more of these so we're gonna go back and bake some cakes oh okay all the cake bakes I'm going to make the frosting we're going to start with all the fats so two sticks of softened butter cream cheese I love cream cheese and shortening all right everybody become friends okay some salt some baking soda and a very interesting ingredient citric acid I'm not a scientist so I might be wrong but citric acid is derived from fruits things like citrus so lemon orange anything that has that flavor so it adds a really nice acidity and sourness to this seems pretty natural and it reacts with the baking soda so that it kind of makes the frosting fluffy like the volcano experiment we did in uh Elementary School you add baking soda vinegar a small version of that is happening inside here so that creates air I think you'll also be totally wrong anyways we're gonna move on here we have some corn syrup or some of that Sheen a lot of clear vanilla extract and another interesting ingredient glucose so glucose is another form of sugar once the sugar changes the way the things are arranged the texture changes so it's like this nice glue like consistency but I think it adds a nice texture to this frosting that's cool well you can't have frosting without a lot of sugar so I'm gonna put in uh a lot of sugar I have a strong feeling I'm gonna spill again but we'll see oh it's oh worse we're spilling oh I'm tasting sweet okay oh this tastes good that's so weird I can lick a cloud of sugar it's getting so fluffy it's frosting there's even like little sugar strings that the mixer just like caught up that's pretty it's not definitely not hair but it's like little icicles of sugar we have a lot of cake going so a lot of frosting must be made one of the most interesting things about the Momofuku birthday cake and all their cakes is that they do a little cake crumble inside that gives it a nice really like crunchy texture so I'm gonna put some flour lots of sugar get out of there wrinkles baking powder salt and we're gonna mix that a little bit and then more of this clear vanilla extract we're really going through a lot of this vanilla extract today and then the vegetable oil because it makes it look crumbly so the goal is to kind of get this like a wet sand heavily texture situation it's almost there kind of looks like rainbow sand that is done take this guy out onto the tray spread them out a little bit and then to kind of get these like chunks I'm just gonna like take a handful and like press them into rough little balls and things like that so it gets this nice little chunky texture this is fun it's kind of like digging for gold but you make your own gold we have the little cake crumbs of all shapes and sizes this is gonna go big and it's gonna get nice and crumbly and delicious I use a lot of sugar today all right so my cake has finished baking and cooling I'm gonna start cutting out the shapes we found like a strainer that was really large macgyvered it ripped off all of its insides and we're gonna use this to Cut the Cake all right let's go in oh that is soft oh yeah I didn't bake this in a circle because I need these sort of Clean Cut edges so that's why baking here is the rule also this is how Milk Bar does it they bake rectangles and they cut really nice pretty circles so I think it's a great technique some great snacks for later one cake layer out of many do you have so much cakes in the back I'm gonna check on that probably cut some more we're gonna assemble this cake all these cake crabs I'll combine these with some milk the way that Milk Bar makes their Famous Cake truffles all this cakes gotta go somewhere we're gonna make sure we don't waste any of it foreign a lot of cakes this is actually only half because well we're still making more back there so I'm gonna assemble the cake as much as I can all right to start get a nice base going there's some frosting down nice little glue first layer of cake in and to make sure that this cake stays as still as we can I'm going to use acetate strips the same kind of acetate they use at Milk Bar to assemble and stabilize your cake quite genius really and one thing that Milk Bar cakes also have is a little soak so this is milk with vanilla the same Clear vanilla extract so vanilla milk I think this helps the cake stay moist I actually do this with any cake I make I think this really helps achieve that nice moist fudgy cake that we all love very easy salt frosting time as you can see we have a giant tub of frosting over here oh yeah that's what I like to see get this nice and smooth and the cake crumbs actually go here I like this part a lot kind of acts like a structural component and adds a lot of nice Crunch and flavor Pat this down into the cake and more frosting now you might be wondering hey Alvin that's a lot of frosting and you would be exactly right but it's Victor's birthday and as you know on this show it's called making it big not being a little wuss so we're gonna keep going I think birthday cakes are less about maybe the taste of the cake and just the fact that it's a cake to celebrate but this cake in itself is a reason to celebrate if it goes well we'll see okay layer one done it's time to keep going okay next one goes in beautiful more acetate come on get down more of this soak smells really good more frosting so apparently after making all this with the team we're gonna be using over 56 sticks of butter 28 8 ounce cream cheese packets and 100 cups of powdered sugar and that's just the frosting I hope Victor is not on a diet I can already feel the weight turning this cake has already become a task in itself all right crumble time oh we're frosting okay oh we're going for the bottom of the barrel with this one all right that was only two and it's time for ring number two let's just say we got a lot of strainers and dismembered a lot of them we got a tape to Mark how high this cake is gonna be every Mark is like three quarters almost a foot so we're just gonna slide that in on over there oh I want to take a little break and then I'm Gonna Keep building this cake probably gonna ask for some help I'm going to need a lot of coffee a lot more cake a lot more frosting and a lot of mental fortitude I'll be here for like a couple hours I'll see you guys in a bit oh it's been 12 years I'm now sitting on a stool my lower back has been crying but this is the result of hard work dedication lots of teamwork from The Culinary team and most importantly sugar every part of my being has been tested I'm glad this is the finale of the season because I don't think I could shoot another episode after this we have six whole rings on this cake 10 cake rounds two tubs of frosting and the only thing holding this up besides the Rings are hopes prayers thoughts and dreams arms and wrists have been pushed to their limit as well speech is slowing vision is blurring palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy there's frosting on my apron it's all Funfetti a couple of last Strokes to smooth it out and ah I'm gonna take a nap in 30 minutes I'm gonna get this guy into the freezer to set up he's going to have to chill overnight and I'll see you guys tomorrow it's day two we have the cake out of the freezer freezing overnight so it's stable and we also have more cake crumbs sprinkles and kick truffles that the culinary team and I made mostly The Culinary team from the cake scraps so these are actually inspired by the cake truffles that Momofuku Milk Bar sells whoa now to the main task I want to try to get these rings off we have fire don't try this at home all right here we go let's kind of defrost the sides all right that should be okay let's get these rings off oh first one came off pretty easy let's see if I can get you off here okay he's spinning I gotta wedge it physics come on oh there it is two oh God this spoon is the best spoon I've ever seen in my entire life oh oh nope why are we here just to suffer give me a stool yes it's going I went to the gym yesterday so I can do this today two more come on go up higher rise why do we fall master Bruce I mean master Bruce so we can learn to get back up that doesn't really apply here but it reminds me of that movie this is what like a corset feels like oh the force of that threw me back oh one more it's coming up I think this is a tight fit oh I see the cake is curving that's why okay with a lot of help and muscles from The Culinary team we have achieved top ring time to peel off this acetate it's been protecting the cake the whole time I'm gonna spend some time smoothing out the edges the last touch is to do some vinyl decorating some sprinkles and then the cake crumbs I'm just gonna put them on it's Victor's birthday so we have a beautiful candle the art team made in you go oh this is gonna be oh it's going in very easily I think this is it giant version of the cake that Vic requested Milk Bar birthday cake approximately 50 pounds very very heavy we did it I'm so tired this is the actual Momofuku Milk Bar birthday cake we got one as you can see there's quite a size discrepancy and our guest Victor welcome to the show again Victor well thank you very much for having me Alvin I'm happy to be back and I'm very excited for you to see what we have for your birthday dude I'm super anxious I cannot wait to turn around right now and check it out I'll light the candle for you one two three yo it's like this like the skyscraper of cakes I can't even talk right now it's massive holy cow You Wanna Stay Vector dude no I don't I mean yes um holy cow I really just want to take it all in from close you want to come take it it's gorgeous please please all right let me get in there oh man oh and then you hit the mini oh my God look at the now you snuck the little mini one in there too people check this out holy cow Alvin I think you really knocked it out of the park with this one bro thanks knock it out the park man everybody um happy birthday to you everybody come on ha we can't see you all right to you wow that's always awkward but everybody thank you very much everybody clap all right make a wish make a wish [Applause] I'll cut you a slice please oh the knife is being completely engulfed inside this cake oh I'll give you some more later look at that here you go Victor oh man cake slice dude this slice is bigger than the whole cake cheers man cheers Alvin whoa that is phenomenal it's cool right I think you've made me the perfect cake album thank you that means a lot more I'm I'm so happy right now I don't know how I'm gonna be able to eat this all but you better believe I'm gonna eat this all this is Slim you really made my birthday something special this year yeah what a what a fun way to close off this season I hope you guys had a fun time watching if it's a good thing that Victor and I both like this cake because we're gonna spend some time with this cake but thank you guys for watching thanks for coming Vic and uh we'll see you guys next time till next time baby bye [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Tasty

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Id: SBoXfW4_TZU

Length: 16min 0sec (960 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 10 2021