I think there should been the added challenge of doing it the night before and in a smaller cluttered kitchen without a stand mixer, while trying to not wake up the kids, and also realising you forgot the key decorating component but it’s midnight and there are no open shops so you have to hunt through the cupboards in desperation for any hidden/forgotten lollies 😅. Totally calling my mum in the morning to thank her again for the years of the birthday book cakes 😂😂😂
100% My mum made me the train cake for my 3rd birthday, and she made it on her own, and was up all night doing it. Also not wanting "to get into trouble with the dad community", but I suspect that not a lot of 80's dads were staying up helping out. The dad community in our house certainly wasn't. It was her first and last foray into complicated birthday cakes. But I remember so vividly the excitement of walking into the kitchen the morning of my party and seeing it on the bench. It was so impressive.
@@storytimeforgrowndups6052 my step mum made cakes from that book for 6 kids until we each turned 10! It’s still my favourite memory from those birthdays, especially the sweet shop and the castle 🥰
My Mum made it for my 2nd birthday, 40 years ago and still have photos of it. Along with my Auntie dressing like a clown. One of my fav photos is my Auntie the clown holding me while im blowing out the candles while crying because i was scared of her outfit.😂 QMy sister got the doll cake.
I made it for my youngrst son's 2nd birthday ( he's now 26) Easy as. I bought a bunch of woolies madeira cakes, cut them to shape, several tins of Betty Crocker icing and a packet of colouring. I mean lets face it kids don't ever actually eat the cake at parties. It didn't need to taste good, it just had to look cool, is all. I did the same with a Postman Pat van, an Olympic Gold Medal, Shrek, Dr Who's Tardis, Bob the Builder, the WW Rocket, the WW witch and various others I can't remember. Photographable but not particularly edible😂
This is my fave Andy Cooks video. Not taking himself too seriously, clearly having a blast, and showing folks how to make a fun cake. If you want cake making perfection, there are other channels, but for a good time seeing two mates give it their best shot, this is the video to watch. 10/10 no notes.
Please make this a series and bake entire book!! Banter between you two lads is brilliant, inspiring a new father that the womens weekly birthday cake book isn't the Everest of challenges
I made this 30 years ago for my little boys hot Aussie Summer birthday. Pre aircon days. As I iced, the icing melted and slid off the train. I can laugh now. Just.
@@alexobery9813 .....what do you mean "how come?" People live in Africa. People have birthdays. People like cakes. People typically make cakes on birthdays. It's fun to decorate those cakes in interesting ways, especially for kids.
Dude the it refers to the book, idk was women's weekly cook book also published in South Africa, or did they publish it but under a different name?? Or idk maybe all junk shops have a women weekly or two is universal?
@@gingivitis9148 I googled it; apparently, the book first didn't sell well in Australia, but it was very popular in other countries, like Africa, before it caught on here
I grew up with this book in Indonesia too!! (was born in the 90s) Oh the nostalgia of flipping through this😍😍😍😍 My mum made the pool, one of the numbers (forgot which one but decorated with smarties like the number 1), the zoo, the guitar, and the paint palette for my best friend. They were so awesome, thanks Mum ❤
I was at a mate’s bucks party last night and the host had this exact book sitting on their coffee table and we were chatting about it. Wake up this morning and boom here’s Andy with it. What are the odds, hey
Shortcut for doll cake: use a bundt cake tin (the dome shaped ones with the hole in the middle). Sit the doll in the hole (I use cut up marshmallows to wedge her upright) and be a bit more generous with the icing.
Loved the video. Brought back lovely memories. I had this book in the mid eighties and made the train cake for my sons birthday. Made it a day before and had it to keep it in the room with the ac on. We lived in Cameroon then and it was so hot. I made the doll cake as well for my daughter. Watching now from Bangalore, India. I lost the book some years ago, lent it to someone who did not return it. Wish I had it so I could bake something from it for my granddaughter.
OMG the best video to date. I haven;t stopped laughing. Two Aussie blokes taking on the Womens Weekly Birthday Cakes that are so iconic. As a mother of two boys who used this book, I have many memories of all my failed attempts. Maybe the two of you can tackle with the same humour, the Womens Weekly Chinese cookbook lol
Was given a wonderful Dolly Varden cake as a 1960s child. The doll was a modest version of Barbie. Mid brown hair and sensible figure ❤. Another cake was a cottage covered in flowering vines and flowers. That was a stunner and more my outdoors style 😊. Was a very lucky child.
My cousin just mentioned this to my Mum the other day, about how he loved the truck, car, boat, and train cakes that she used to bake for my birthday when we were kids. I think it may have also been the inspiration for his Mum to become a professional cake decorator later in life.
What a blast watching this! Great work. And a tip from an enthusiastic home cake decorator - for the love of all that's holy, buy some gel food colouring before attempting something like this! The reason the first frosting's texture was problematic was because of all the liquid added from the type of food colouring used. Gel colours are highly concentrated and you need much less. Having said that... red is tricky at the best of times, and can taste not so great. You can sometimes buy a super-concentrated red food colouring but you can also consider going with more of a pastel theme so you don't need so much colouring. Or consider adding a little cocoa powder (not dutch processed) to the frosting first, then the red food colouring, again to use less of the colour.
I worked in the Bakery department of an IGA. We had a cake pan specifically for the dolly varden cakes. No one could ever remember how much batter was needed but it was easier then carving it like this. Well done fellas. 13:32
Far out, bit of a throwback, as a young one my Mother made me the train cake for one of my birthdays. Still sticks in my head how fantastic it was, had a coal cart with 'clinkers' as coal. Even the book brings back memories!
This was our “bible” as parents of 2 boys who are now in their 40’s. My husband and I have very fond memories of making cakes from this iconic book❤️❤️👍
That was bloody awesome! I had twins in 1985 and their yearly birthday celebrations (because they had to 'share' a special day) were always OTT. I ended up having to buy al three WW Birthday Cake books - I'd do one cake for playgroup, one for kindy or preschool, one for each primary school class, one for their actual birthday AND one for the birthday party which usually catered to every child they knew/class/group. I reckon I made about 3/4 of all the cakes in the WW books. Not joking. And it was escalated because they were a pigeon-pair - one boy and one girl... Best days of my life actually - although an enormous amount of work, I still can't remember any birthday cakes or parties from my childhood. But I know absolutely that our two had and still have vivid memories of the cakes they chose and I baked/iced. And the kids got to choose every cake (individually and as a collaborative selection - class cake (if they were in the same class) or on their actual birthday (not their party, which they always chose their "own" special cake). You did an amazing job Andy and Ash! Hats off to you both!
Brings back memories 😂,I was in foster homes and I made the train cake for the family son ,who happens to be called "Thomas "and he 🩵trains, I loved making the Kola Bear, made so many of the cakes in the book, the Pool cake, those are few of the best 1's that I enjoyed making as a teenager and as a mother myself and I was looking forward to making my grandkid's birthday cake, but their dad enjoys doing it ,so I just have to wait for my turn to do it, Andy I thoroughly enjoyed the video, thank you 😊
so many photos of these for me and my siblings growing up - I was always envious when you'd turn up to a party and they had the pool cake! I've made the treasure chest and castle several times too, such a classic book
I think this has to be the most chill cake decorating video ever. The chemistry you two have is awesome! We had this book when I was a kid, and my dad made several of them for me and my siblings (he was the sweet maker, while mum made dinners and stuff), so I was excited to see someone referring back to the book. It's definitely still a classic, and it makes cake decorating so easy, with the step-by step instructions, and the basic shapes. I'm glad it's still getting love, and seeing that there are so many people from all around the world who have memories of this book too is very heartwarming.
It was published in the UK too. All my birthday cakes were from this book. My Mum still has it and I attempted the train for my son's 2nd birthday. Was not as accurate as yours and I almost had a nervous breakdown making it but it still got plenty of compliments.
OMG laughed my arse off watching this vid, you two have great chemistry. I have fabulous memories of the Mum making the Doll cake for me and the train cake for my brothers. Cheers from a fellow Kiwi
I made the train cake for my daughter’s birthday last year, then the duck cake for her birthday this year. Both came out better than I hoped, helps that I’m a chef as well, but definitely not a pastry chef!
Called a tip truck because the deck literally tips up and, a car would have a motor of its own in British English whereas a carriage is something pulled by something else 😊
This made me so happy. I still have the original copy from my childhood, and a new copy as well, lols. The first serious cake I ever made was for my sister, I don't remember how old we were- I was maybe 8? So maybe it was for her 16th. I made the pig cake. Having just celebrated her 50th, I realise now I missed a prime opportunity to remake that pig cake, lols. I made the train for my son's first birthday, and having also just celebrated his 21st, I realise I have also missed another prime opportunity to remake that train cake, as well. AARGH. Ironically, the first cake my mother made from that book was the tip truck for my little brother when he was tiny- and it's his 40th next year, YES. I ADORED the dolly cake. We had the cricket cake one year, and the clown, and the duck with the chips all over it, and of course, eight billion number cakes over the years for my kids. Every cake in there was awesome, and I need to pull the book off the shelf and start making them all just for because, I think. I've always wanted to, and never have had reason to, make the robot and the castle cakes. I'ma doing it. Excellent content, A+, I hope the kid adored his bright red tip truck.
This is absolutely my favourite video of yours so far. I looked at this cookbook so many times as a kid. It's awesome to watch a couple mates hanging out making these cakes.
I’m American. My son would pick a theme for his birthday a few months out, giving me time to come up with a cake. I have made Pokémon cake pops, the Weighted Companion Cube and the Cake is a Lie from the game Portal, the moon from Zelda and a golden snitch for his 17th birthday.
I love this, couple of blokes just having a good time in the kitchen. Love the nostalgia too as I was a kid lucky enough to have parents with this book
Congratulations on 5 mill!!!!! How good is it to pick your bday cake as a kid & continuing on the tradition with your own kids & hopefully one day, grandkids. Many a cake made here & ice cream cakes are fun to do too, endless possibilities
I've made several of the cakes in that book! My kids (all now adults) loved all my cakes, and that's good, because they took time! 😅 i even made the piano for my mum's 70th birthday! Ton of fun!
Talk about bringing back old memories. Made the train cake for my son 31 years ago however I cheated a bit. My neighbour who had the same book, recommended buying Madeira cakes and going all out on the decoration. Best advice ever and my son absolutely loved it! 🇦🇺 😄
😀 I have taken a lot of cakes as hand luggage for over 30yrs between Sunshine Coast and Perth, even lemon meringue pies. Also, frozen cooking as normal luggage and it is still frozen when unpacked. Keep being original Andy 👏
Loved all 3 cakes you guys are awsome I'm a 90s kid so I grew up with that recipe book I actually bought a copy a few years ago after my daughter was born I was amazed it was still in print I'm making my daughter a dolly vardan cake for her 4th birthday this year wish Ms luck thank you for bringing back some very cool nestelgic memories.
This video is definitely one of the funniest and best that you’ve done! I loved every second of it! You are Ash are hilarious together and the cakes looked great ❤😂
Loved all 3 of those cakes. That book is linked to so many great memories. Either of mine, my brother or sisters bdays, or of my sons. This book is essential for anyone moving out of home. Only other book I suggest is from the same range - Big Beautiful Biscuits.
My mum made the train cake for my brother's birthday in the 80s or 90s. Got photographic proof of it lol. It actually turned out well. Mum made me the Dolly Varden cake - she stuck a barbie in it, which, for me at the time, was the most amazing thing ever. This book is a core memory for me from the 90s.
My mum made so many of these cakes for us 3 kids, particularly remember the train cake and the racetrack. She put so much effort in and they looked just like the book pictures :D
I would have loved to see Babe's reaction to your making her favorite cake. I bet she would have eaten the whole thing all by herself. You guys did a smashing job. My favorite was the train.
i dont know why im here. however. even tho im a gen z aussie, we had The Cookbook. i always wanted the train cake. it looks beautiful. there is something so comforting about a new zealander and an aussie casually makin some cakes. i love it
My mum made the tip truck cake for my brothers 10th birthday, she also made the train and a dolly varden one for my sisters and my birthdays, she did the clock one for my baby sister great memories
This is making me realize how lucky I was as a young child. My mom has made cakes for a living along with chocolates and sugar sculptures most of my life. Every birthday we had beautiful cakes, every Easter and valentines we had lovely chocolates.
I grew up in the 90's in Aotearoa, and I still got cakes from this book, It's a classic! I always wanted the pool one so bad (despite not liking jelly. Little me was clearly not one for logic 😆)
I have to say that was very enjoyable! I remember my mom making a velvet cake castle when my brother was 6 years old. 1972 or something. Thanks for the memory.
We didn’t have this book in the states back in the 80’s… we had The Wilton Yearbook, which I believe is still in print. I still have it, and it’s the reason I became a cake decorator!
My mum use to make a lot of cakes out of that book for myself and my brothers. I still have it with me this day the original booklet. Crazy these little things we find.
My mum made so many of the cakes from this book for my sister and I. Last week my sister made one for her daughters first birthday! This book is iconic 🙌🏻
Always a blast to watch these long videos👌🏾 really enjoyed watching this, learned a lot about how these cakes be turning into all these real life structures
I remember having a pig, an artist palette, various numbers, and i think i had a Dolly one year. Mum refused to do the duck no matter how many times i asked. Few years back someone made the train for a work colleague's birthday. Worth it to see a bunch of mid life ladies get excited about cakes.
This is was such a great video. Reminded me of my mum making me a tank cake for my 6th birthday. Happy memories which I’d forgotten about. So thanks for that.
Can confirm this book was also the birthday cake bible for those of us born in the 90s and early 00s! My mum was a legend and would make these cakes for me, my favourite was the treasure island with the cone volcano!!
Try food colouring gel for a bright red. Normal food colouring doesn't really give a vibrate colour for reds and blues without using heaps and effecting the consistency, as you found out. You forgot to put icing in-between the layers of the doll cake too 😂. It's pretty important as it "glues" the layers together. Otherwise they can move and ruin the cake. I've made the train one as well. Didn't find it too challenging
I've been flicking through the book since I was a kid, and I have been fascinated with the choices there, I think there was one with that resembled as a swimming pool with blue jelly and chocolate sticks on the side as fences.
Omg - core memory unlocked! I’m sure ‘we’ (my sister and I, but mostly my mum) made this for my dad! You had to squeeze a plastic baby into a Lifesaver lolly as well.
Loving all the red. Should keep the kids running around until midnight! I remember my Mum made my brother the Football Cake, covered in chocolate. Winner!
This was us - every year my sisters and I would argue over who would get which cake from THE book 😂😂😂 mum had a go but it was fairy castle and the Dolly Varden. Oh the memories!
Oh man. My daughter is hassling me for the duck cake because it’s also featured in the Bluey cookbook and I just keep telling her we don’t have ingredients in. Even though I have an entire section of my pantry dedicated to baking supplies.
I think there should been the added challenge of doing it the night before and in a smaller cluttered kitchen without a stand mixer, while trying to not wake up the kids, and also realising you forgot the key decorating component but it’s midnight and there are no open shops so you have to hunt through the cupboards in desperation for any hidden/forgotten lollies 😅. Totally calling my mum in the morning to thank her again for the years of the birthday book cakes 😂😂😂
this gave me anxiety
100% My mum made me the train cake for my 3rd birthday, and she made it on her own, and was up all night doing it. Also not wanting "to get into trouble with the dad community", but I suspect that not a lot of 80's dads were staying up helping out. The dad community in our house certainly wasn't. It was her first and last foray into complicated birthday cakes. But I remember so vividly the excitement of walking into the kitchen the morning of my party and seeing it on the bench. It was so impressive.
@@storytimeforgrowndups6052 my step mum made cakes from that book for 6 kids until we each turned 10! It’s still my favourite memory from those birthdays, especially the sweet shop and the castle 🥰
@@Insidecera81 that is very impressive! True dedication!
My Granmother made the train cake for my 6th birthday. Im now 46 and it is still 100% a core memory.
Miss you Granny.❤
When did this book come out?
@@Noblebird02 First published in 1980. I think it is still published with updated editions.
My Mum made it for my 2nd birthday, 40 years ago and still have photos of it. Along with my Auntie dressing like a clown. One of my fav photos is my Auntie the clown holding me while im blowing out the candles while crying because i was scared of her outfit.😂
QMy sister got the doll cake.
@@katrina484 thankyou
I made the train cake together with my husband for my son’s third birthday… never again. It is a testimony to our marriage that it survived this.
These cakes created memories.. good and bad
😂
I made it for my youngrst son's 2nd birthday ( he's now 26) Easy as. I bought a bunch of woolies madeira cakes, cut them to shape, several tins of Betty Crocker icing and a packet of colouring. I mean lets face it kids don't ever actually eat the cake at parties. It didn't need to taste good, it just had to look cool, is all. I did the same with a Postman Pat van, an Olympic Gold Medal, Shrek, Dr Who's Tardis, Bob the Builder, the WW Rocket, the WW witch and various others I can't remember. Photographable but not particularly edible😂
This is my fave Andy Cooks video. Not taking himself too seriously, clearly having a blast, and showing folks how to make a fun cake. If you want cake making perfection, there are other channels, but for a good time seeing two mates give it their best shot, this is the video to watch. 10/10 no notes.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed something different this week 🙏
Loved this video!
This magazine was available in Pakistan in the 80’s and 90’s. As a child I remember looking at the cakes and my mum replicating as close as possible!
Shout out to all the mums that make these cakes, some of them are not easy
Oh Anam you've reminded me of the good old days! I no longer live in Pakistan and the nostalgia is hitting hard
I love this. It's such an Aussie icon it is awesome to find out it was a staple in a another country as well ❤
Oh Wow ❤
@@andy_cooks Especially when you want to help make and then decorate them!!!
"you've got quite delicate hands for a bogan from the gold coast" has gotta be a top 10 all time Andy quote
Please make this a series and bake entire book!! Banter between you two lads is brilliant, inspiring a new father that the womens weekly birthday cake book isn't the Everest of challenges
Came on here to say the same thing.
Its a change from the usual baking videos I watch!
I would watch a whole series just working through these books!
I made this 30 years ago for my little boys hot Aussie Summer birthday. Pre aircon days. As I iced, the icing melted and slid off the train.
I can laugh now. Just.
South African here - I remember this book and the 'not allowed to choose' stickers on some of these beauts 😂😂😂
How come you had it in South Africa?
@@alexobery9813 .....what do you mean "how come?" People live in Africa. People have birthdays. People like cakes. People typically make cakes on birthdays. It's fun to decorate those cakes in interesting ways, especially for kids.
@@alexobery9813 I'm sorry, what??
Dude the it refers to the book,
idk was women's weekly cook book also published in South Africa, or did they publish it but under a different name?? Or idk maybe all junk shops have a women weekly or two is universal?
@@gingivitis9148 I googled it; apparently, the book first didn't sell well in Australia, but it was very popular in other countries, like Africa, before it caught on here
My nan made my twin brother and I a tugboat cake for our 4th birthday. It was EPIC!!! 43 yrs later it's still the greatest cake we've ever had. ❤
Great man so happy for you❤
🎉
A tugboat cake is pretty awesome!
@@andy_cooks yes it is
@@andy_cooks yes it is
I grew up with this book in Indonesia too!! (was born in the 90s) Oh the nostalgia of flipping through this😍😍😍😍
My mum made the pool, one of the numbers (forgot which one but decorated with smarties like the number 1), the zoo, the guitar, and the paint palette for my best friend. They were so awesome, thanks Mum ❤
I was at a mate’s bucks party last night and the host had this exact book sitting on their coffee table and we were chatting about it. Wake up this morning and boom here’s Andy with it. What are the odds, hey
Very nostalgic book!
Shortcut for doll cake: use a bundt cake tin (the dome shaped ones with the hole in the middle).
Sit the doll in the hole (I use cut up marshmallows to wedge her upright) and be a bit more generous with the icing.
Well done😍🌟
That's what my aunt did for my cousins cake!
pull the legs off the doll
Loved the video. Brought back lovely memories. I had this book in the mid eighties and made the train cake for my sons birthday. Made it a day before and had it to keep it in the room with the ac on. We lived in Cameroon then and it was so hot. I made the doll cake as well for my daughter. Watching now from Bangalore, India. I lost the book some years ago, lent it to someone who did not return it. Wish I had it so I could bake something from it for my granddaughter.
I noticed in my Australian newsagent there was a new addition out. I wonder if you'd be able order online. Good luck.
@nimoobalani6321 - Amazon books has it...
There’s definitely a new edition out. Hope you can order it online.
OMG the best video to date. I haven;t stopped laughing. Two Aussie blokes taking on the Womens Weekly Birthday Cakes that are so iconic. As a mother of two boys who used this book, I have many memories of all my failed attempts. Maybe the two of you can tackle with the same humour, the Womens Weekly Chinese cookbook lol
Omg Andy you need to do this one.
I still use the Women's Weekly Chinese Cookbook. The same two recipes over and over again!
god bless you andy, clearly demonstrating the difference between a chef and a pastry chef
My mum is the best. When I was a kid, I used to pick a cake out of that book for my birthday every year, and she would make it.
Was given a wonderful Dolly Varden cake as a 1960s child. The doll was a modest version of Barbie. Mid brown hair and sensible figure ❤. Another cake was a cottage covered in flowering vines and flowers. That was a stunner and more my outdoors style 😊. Was a very lucky child.
My cousin just mentioned this to my Mum the other day, about how he loved the truck, car, boat, and train cakes that she used to bake for my birthday when we were kids. I think it may have also been the inspiration for his Mum to become a professional cake decorator later in life.
You got all the good cakes from the book!
What a blast watching this! Great work. And a tip from an enthusiastic home cake decorator - for the love of all that's holy, buy some gel food colouring before attempting something like this! The reason the first frosting's texture was problematic was because of all the liquid added from the type of food colouring used. Gel colours are highly concentrated and you need much less.
Having said that... red is tricky at the best of times, and can taste not so great. You can sometimes buy a super-concentrated red food colouring but you can also consider going with more of a pastel theme so you don't need so much colouring. Or consider adding a little cocoa powder (not dutch processed) to the frosting first, then the red food colouring, again to use less of the colour.
I worked in the Bakery department of an IGA. We had a cake pan specifically for the dolly varden cakes. No one could ever remember how much batter was needed but it was easier then carving it like this.
Well done fellas. 13:32
My mum made the train cake for my first birthday. I think she’s made every single cake in the book for my brother and mine birthdays as children.
Congratulations Andy on 5 Million!!!!
thank you!
Far out, bit of a throwback, as a young one my Mother made me the train cake for one of my birthdays. Still sticks in my head how fantastic it was, had a coal cart with 'clinkers' as coal. Even the book brings back memories!
This was our “bible” as parents of 2 boys who are now in their 40’s. My husband and I have very fond memories of making cakes from this iconic book❤️❤️👍
While it can be challenging, I think the process of making these cakes are just as memorable as eating them
@@andy_cooks Couldn't agree more. Half the fun for our boys was them choosing their cake from the book❤️
That was bloody awesome!
I had twins in 1985 and their yearly birthday celebrations (because they had to 'share' a special day) were always OTT.
I ended up having to buy al three WW Birthday Cake books - I'd do one cake for playgroup, one for kindy or preschool, one for each primary school class, one for their actual birthday AND one for the birthday party which usually catered to every child they knew/class/group.
I reckon I made about 3/4 of all the cakes in the WW books. Not joking.
And it was escalated because they were a pigeon-pair - one boy and one girl...
Best days of my life actually - although an enormous amount of work, I still can't remember any birthday cakes or parties from my childhood. But I know absolutely that our two had and still have vivid memories of the cakes they chose and I baked/iced.
And the kids got to choose every cake (individually and as a collaborative selection - class cake (if they were in the same class) or on their actual birthday (not their party, which they always chose their "own" special cake).
You did an amazing job Andy and Ash! Hats off to you both!
Brings back memories 😂,I was in foster homes and I made the train cake for the family son ,who happens to be called "Thomas "and he 🩵trains, I loved making the Kola Bear, made so many of the cakes in the book, the Pool cake, those are few of the best 1's that I enjoyed making as a teenager and as a mother myself and I was looking forward to making my grandkid's birthday cake, but their dad enjoys doing it ,so I just have to wait for my turn to do it, Andy I thoroughly enjoyed the video, thank you 😊
so many photos of these for me and my siblings growing up - I was always envious when you'd turn up to a party and they had the pool cake! I've made the treasure chest and castle several times too, such a classic book
Licorice saves the day, no matter how crappy the icing job, the licorice edging perfects the design-ta-da
I think this has to be the most chill cake decorating video ever. The chemistry you two have is awesome!
We had this book when I was a kid, and my dad made several of them for me and my siblings (he was the sweet maker, while mum made dinners and stuff), so I was excited to see someone referring back to the book. It's definitely still a classic, and it makes cake decorating so easy, with the step-by step instructions, and the basic shapes. I'm glad it's still getting love, and seeing that there are so many people from all around the world who have memories of this book too is very heartwarming.
As a kid in South Africa I had a quite a few of these birthday cakes, including the train. Great memories.
Don't let the train cake put you off. This book was a birthday cake godsend! Everyone l made was a hit!
The world is a happier place with CAKE !!!🍰🧁🎂
Aussies/Kiwis have the best banter!
It was published in the UK too. All my birthday cakes were from this book. My Mum still has it and I attempted the train for my son's 2nd birthday. Was not as accurate as yours and I almost had a nervous breakdown making it but it still got plenty of compliments.
Thrilled you're introducing the rest of the world to this absolutely classic book!! Such a cool video idea ❤🎉
OMG laughed my arse off watching this vid, you two have great chemistry. I have fabulous memories of the Mum making the Doll cake for me and the train cake for my brothers. Cheers from a fellow Kiwi
I made the train cake for my daughter’s birthday last year, then the duck cake for her birthday this year. Both came out better than I hoped, helps that I’m a chef as well, but definitely not a pastry chef!
Wow, well done even attempting the duck !
Next we need the collab with Ann Reardon so she can "fix" those cakes and make 'em look exactly like in the book...
Yes!
I couldn't figure out what a tip truck was....😂. A DUMP truck! Thanks for the morning giggles from Canada.
I didn't know what a tip truck was either. The same with the train carriages. We call them train cars in the US.
Called a tip truck because the deck literally tips up and, a car would have a motor of its own in British English whereas a carriage is something pulled by something else 😊
We call them both tip truck/dump truck, and train carriage/train cars here in Australia and NZ.
@@DougieBarclay l'm from Aotearoa but, have never heard them called that. Maybe it's regional - like crib/bach.
@@nikiTricoteuse born & raised in Whangarei, living in Sydney
I was lucky to have an amazing mum who made many of the cakes in this book for us kids. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
This made me so happy. I still have the original copy from my childhood, and a new copy as well, lols. The first serious cake I ever made was for my sister, I don't remember how old we were- I was maybe 8? So maybe it was for her 16th. I made the pig cake. Having just celebrated her 50th, I realise now I missed a prime opportunity to remake that pig cake, lols. I made the train for my son's first birthday, and having also just celebrated his 21st, I realise I have also missed another prime opportunity to remake that train cake, as well. AARGH. Ironically, the first cake my mother made from that book was the tip truck for my little brother when he was tiny- and it's his 40th next year, YES. I ADORED the dolly cake. We had the cricket cake one year, and the clown, and the duck with the chips all over it, and of course, eight billion number cakes over the years for my kids. Every cake in there was awesome, and I need to pull the book off the shelf and start making them all just for because, I think. I've always wanted to, and never have had reason to, make the robot and the castle cakes. I'ma doing it. Excellent content, A+, I hope the kid adored his bright red tip truck.
This is absolutely my favourite video of yours so far. I looked at this cookbook so many times as a kid. It's awesome to watch a couple mates hanging out making these cakes.
I’m American. My son would pick a theme for his birthday a few months out, giving me time to come up with a cake. I have made Pokémon cake pops, the Weighted Companion Cube and the Cake is a Lie from the game Portal, the moon from Zelda and a golden snitch for his 17th birthday.
My mum made the train cake for one of my birthday back in the 80's. It's one of the few cakes from my childhood I have a strong memory of.
I love this, couple of blokes just having a good time in the kitchen. Love the nostalgia too as I was a kid lucky enough to have parents with this book
This is one of your best Andy. What fun! And a real achievement! Cheers from AKL, NZL.
Congratulations on 5 mill!!!!!
How good is it to pick your bday cake as a kid & continuing on the tradition with your own kids & hopefully one day, grandkids. Many a cake made here & ice cream cakes are fun to do too, endless possibilities
I've made several of the cakes in that book! My kids (all now adults) loved all my cakes, and that's good, because they took time! 😅 i even made the piano for my mum's 70th birthday! Ton of fun!
Talk about bringing back old memories. Made the train cake for my son 31 years ago however I cheated a bit. My neighbour who had the same book, recommended buying Madeira cakes and going all out on the decoration. Best advice ever and my son absolutely loved it! 🇦🇺 😄
I bloody love watching guys bake cakes when they’re new to it 😂😊 giving it a go! Love it 😊
I made this for my son in 1986. He still remembers it. And was easy peasy. Just took time.
😀 I have taken a lot of cakes as hand luggage for over 30yrs between Sunshine Coast and Perth, even lemon meringue pies. Also, frozen cooking as normal luggage and it is still frozen when unpacked. Keep being original Andy 👏
Excellent spatial awareness and perception required for WW birthday cakes!
OMG the legendary birthday cakes book! Swimming pool cake for the win 🎉🤩.
Loved all 3 cakes you guys are awsome I'm a 90s kid so I grew up with that recipe book I actually bought a copy a few years ago after my daughter was born I was amazed it was still in print I'm making my daughter a dolly vardan cake for her 4th birthday this year wish Ms luck thank you for bringing back some very cool nestelgic memories.
This video is definitely one of the funniest and best that you’ve done! I loved every second of it! You are Ash are hilarious together and the cakes looked great ❤😂
The best birthday cakes came from that book. I’ve had the robot and the cricket pitch cake. Trip down memory lane 🤙
Loved all 3 of those cakes. That book is linked to so many great memories. Either of mine, my brother or sisters bdays, or of my sons. This book is essential for anyone moving out of home. Only other book I suggest is from the same range - Big Beautiful Biscuits.
My mum made the train cake for my brother's birthday in the 80s or 90s. Got photographic proof of it lol. It actually turned out well. Mum made me the Dolly Varden cake - she stuck a barbie in it, which, for me at the time, was the most amazing thing ever. This book is a core memory for me from the 90s.
I love hearing these two fellas call it a “base coat” and “primer” rather than a crumb coat. Lol
Tip for the butter cream. Dont over whip as it will split and fo lumpy. Looks like you had a blast making this cake ❤
My mum made so many of these cakes for us 3 kids, particularly remember the train cake and the racetrack. She put so much effort in and they looked just like the book pictures :D
I would have loved to see Babe's reaction to your making her favorite cake. I bet she would have eaten the whole thing all by herself.
You guys did a smashing job. My favorite was the train.
I grew up in the 2000s and my extended family still used this book, lots of lovely memories
WELLLL THIS WAS FUNNNN!!!! I'm pretty sure I smiled though the entire video!!!
Best train ever. Love the tracks.❤❤❤❤🎉
i dont know why im here. however. even tho im a gen z aussie, we had The Cookbook. i always wanted the train cake. it looks beautiful. there is something so comforting about a new zealander and an aussie casually makin some cakes. i love it
My mum made the tip truck cake for my brothers 10th birthday, she also made the train and a dolly varden one for my sisters and my birthdays, she did the clock one for my baby sister great memories
This is making me realize how lucky I was as a young child. My mom has made cakes for a living along with chocolates and sugar sculptures most of my life. Every birthday we had beautiful cakes, every Easter and valentines we had lovely chocolates.
I made the train cake in 1992, 32 years ago for my son’s 1st birthday. Transporting it was difficult. Great to see this video. I still have the book.
I grew up in the 90's in Aotearoa, and I still got cakes from this book, It's a classic! I always wanted the pool one so bad (despite not liking jelly. Little me was clearly not one for logic 😆)
Thx for doing this - memory lane activated for me as a Dad of 3 young men who grew up on these cakes
I have to say that was very enjoyable! I remember my mom making a velvet cake castle when my brother was 6 years old. 1972 or something. Thanks for the memory.
I've made this cake at least 5 times and most of the cakes in that book. Best birthday cake book ever!
I still have my 80s version and made so many of these cakes including the train,race tack and swimming pool.❤
We didn’t have this book in the states back in the 80’s… we had The Wilton Yearbook, which I believe is still in print. I still have it, and it’s the reason I became a cake decorator!
🎉 Happy *FIVE* MILLION, Chef and team 🎉
My mum use to make a lot of cakes out of that book for myself and my brothers. I still have it with me this day the original booklet. Crazy these little things we find.
My mum made so many of the cakes from this book for my sister and I. Last week my sister made one for her daughters first birthday! This book is iconic 🙌🏻
Congrats on 5M ..deserved! 👏🇬🇧
This was fun to watch.
I loved the train cake and Dolly.
This is so cool, my mum still has this book & she made the train cake for my birthday in the early 90s, still have photos of it
Always a blast to watch these long videos👌🏾 really enjoyed watching this, learned a lot about how these cakes be turning into all these real life structures
I remember having a pig, an artist palette, various numbers, and i think i had a Dolly one year. Mum refused to do the duck no matter how many times i asked.
Few years back someone made the train for a work colleague's birthday. Worth it to see a bunch of mid life ladies get excited about cakes.
This is was such a great video. Reminded me of my mum making me a tank cake for my 6th birthday. Happy memories which I’d forgotten about. So thanks for that.
Can confirm this book was also the birthday cake bible for those of us born in the 90s and early 00s! My mum was a legend and would make these cakes for me, my favourite was the treasure island with the cone volcano!!
Try food colouring gel for a bright red. Normal food colouring doesn't really give a vibrate colour for reds and blues without using heaps and effecting the consistency, as you found out.
You forgot to put icing in-between the layers of the doll cake too 😂. It's pretty important as it "glues" the layers together. Otherwise they can move and ruin the cake.
I've made the train one as well. Didn't find it too challenging
Yes I have made it twice!! Once for eldests 4th birthday then again for her 14th!!!
So grateful to have a child who only ever asks for the Edmonds chocolate cake covered in M&Ms. Nice work, fellas!
Wow! So many memories.. Igrew up requesting recipes from this book in the 80’s 😂
Seriously loving the banter! Golden! 😂
I've been flicking through the book since I was a kid, and I have been fascinated with the choices there, I think there was one with that resembled as a swimming pool with blue jelly and chocolate sticks on the side as fences.
Omg - core memory unlocked! I’m sure ‘we’ (my sister and I, but mostly my mum) made this for my dad! You had to squeeze a plastic baby into a Lifesaver lolly as well.
My youngest son had the swimming pool for his 18th birthday with a request for vodka jelly water. 😉
Grandson has booked the swimming pool cake for next birthday. Have made the train cake for two generations of children!
This book was a staple in my family! Mum still has it, my favourite was the witch.
Also in South Africa, I still have my grandmother's book that she used.
Loving all the red. Should keep the kids running around until midnight! I remember my Mum made my brother the Football Cake, covered in chocolate. Winner!
Oh I love this Andy! My favourite was the barbie doll dress cake
This was us - every year my sisters and I would argue over who would get which cake from THE book 😂😂😂 mum had a go but it was fairy castle and the Dolly Varden. Oh the memories!
Love this ❤ i had these cakes growing up and now I am making them for my daughter ❤
We've done the Train, the Tip Truck, Pool, Race Track and a couple of others. BUT, it was the Rubber Duck cake that sent me over the edge!
Oh man. My daughter is hassling me for the duck cake because it’s also featured in the Bluey cookbook and I just keep telling her we don’t have ingredients in.
Even though I have an entire section of my pantry dedicated to baking supplies.