DIY Wedding Cake With Everyday Kitchen Tools - YOU'VE BEEN DESSERTED
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2021
- Watch JJR take on the challenge of making a professional wedding cake while only using kitchen tools that everyone has in their kitchen. JJR makes a vanilla cake with delicious Orange Curd inside, paired with vanilla buttercream, and hand-made sugar flowers! This episode also features Brandon's new favorite drink DONK! (You have to watch to figure out what that means though!)
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YBD Orange Curd Filling
Yield: Enough to fill one 8-inch cake
What you need….
½ cup (120 ml) orange juice concentrate
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
6 tablespoons (85 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar
4 large egg yolks
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
1. In a cold saucepan, whisk cornstarch and orange juice concentrate until the cornstarch is broken up and there are no lumps.
2. Add the zest and vanilla and heat on medium-high, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes until the mixture thickens.
3. Add the butter and sugar, and heat until the butter is melted and sugar is dissolved.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg yolks. Temper the yolks by adding a small amount of the hot liquid and whisking until incorporated.
5. Add the yolks to the pan and cook on low, stirring constantly, for 10 to 12 minutes until the curd is thick. Transfer the finished curd into a bowl or storage container.
6. Place a piece of plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the curd to prevent a skin from forming. Cover the container/bowl and refrigerate the curd overnight before using.
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About JJR:
Joshua John Russell is a pastry chef and cake designer from Atlanta, GA. He
graduated in 2002 from Johnson and Wales University and started his career as a
pastry chef at the famous Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. Joshua made a name
for himself appearing on 15 episodes of Food Network Challenge (winning 5) and all
6 episodes of Last Cake Standing, as well as local media and TV outlets. His work
has been featured in books (Decadent Details), magazines (Jezebel, Atlanta
Weddings, Flavors, 944, Life and Style and Grace Ormonde) and national ad
campaigns.
In addition to being a pastry chef, Joshua has food styled for Focus
Brands, Sweetex, and had his work featured in several TV shows and movies (Life as we
Know It, Table 19 and Dynasty). Joshua’s endeavors as an instructor at Craftsy.
com has produced worldwide attention with a student base spanning the globe.
In 2015 Joshua was named one of the top ten cake designers in North America by
Dessert Professional Magazine, as well as Johnson and Wales University’s
Distinguished Visiting Chef. His name in the business and success in the field has
also prompted Joshua to be asked to judge cake shows and baking competitions
from the Austin Cake show, Viking Cooking School, Share Our Strength, Top Chef
Jr. and Nailed It (Netflix). Joshua hosted the NBC RUclips show Man About
Cake. He currently works as a corporate pastry chef for Irca in Atlanta and hosts You’ve Been Desserted.
Now for a moment of appreciation for the How to Stack a Cake flip book. 😆
So this video reminded me of this one time when my husband's cousin wanted me to make her wedding cake (I've been a cake decorator for 22 years so I know what I'm doing...ish 🤪🤣) anyways she wanted a huge wedding cake! 9 tiers... oh also it's 6 hours from home... she gave me free range to decorate how ever I wanted! So I baked all the cakes at work, froze all of them and left them in the pans. So I brought all the cake and stuff with us, they had a big kitchen I could use at the reception hall. So we get there I unload all my stuff in the kitchen and start leveling out the cakes and getting them on cardboards then I realize the only tool besides a leveling knife was an offset really freaking small spatula 🤦♀️😲😭 I wanted to cry. Also back story we were in a town of a few thousand people in BFE South Dakota, so no place to get any other tools. So I ice the whole cake with a small offset spatula. It took me forever! It turned out just fine in the end and I was the only one who knew what I did 🤣🤣🤣 I will never forget my spatula again! Love this orange cake, looks beautiful and I can imagine taste freaking awesome! 😋 ❤❤❤
Wedding “disaster”: Apparently I almost had a falling apart cake too! I didn’t find this out till about a month after the wedding! But - apparently when they delivered the cake, it had no support (3 tiered) in it so it was tilting. Our family friend/coordinator/flourish turned it away! Said they had two hours to present a proper cake - and about 5 minutes before the reception… the fixed cake arrived! He decorated it with flowers from the ceremony and it was lovely. I never noticed.
I think this was an EXCELLENT cake challenge! A lot of home bakers wonder why their cakes don’t turn out looking as good as they want them to, and this video perfectly illustrates why: you need the right tools for the job, people!!
Wedding fails: my ring bearer lost my wedding ring.
The moral of this story: Any job is easier when you have the right tools. My daddy taught me that when he raised me working on cars side by side with him. Now I use that mantra in the kitchen as a DIY baker. Hey JJR, why are the nails on one hand polished but not the other?? Inquiring minds want to know! (Nice color btw!)
add together a heavy 3 tiered wedding cake for my niece, insufficient Dowling, a small car trunk, a thirty minute car ride and 90 plus degree July heat and you get a collapsed wedding cake in the trunk! So 2 hours before the reception I walk into the country club and say to the food and beverage director, "I need a bakery and fast"! I had them make a dummy cake similar to what they wanted with sheet cake to serve in the kitchen! The only salvageable part was the very top tier! They had one there before the reception! Now I still had to attend the wedding, but I didn't tell my niece till after the ceremony! She saw me sitting in the church, visibly upset and thought to herself that someone had died and we weren't saying anything to her! She was just happy that everyone was OK and that there would be a cake there! The best part was that the bakery didn't "rape" me on the price for the cake, I was just happy that I had a credit card! When the time to cut the cake came, my immediate family, that were the only ones who knew, jokingly said, " Now lets all go out to Brians car to cut the cake". I can laugh about it NOW, not so funny then! I didn't make another cake for more then 10 years!
My Wedding DIY chaos:
JJR every time my husband and I watch your videos he requests something you make. You make very delicious work for me. Thank you!!
I loved this video! It reminded me of every cake I've ever made because I don't have any fancy tools. Granted they never came out this pretty, but in my experience any wonkiness can be fixed by smashing more frosting on the offending areas with butter knives. And remember to take plenty of DONK! breaks.
I use a butterknife for a lot of my frosting! I've only got a huge offset spatula and my mom's old butterknife works pretty well as a sub for a small offset spatula in the meantime. It's got a really heavy handle with the blade coming out of the centre so there's technically a small offset that seems to work pretty well. I use a long plastic ruler (that I only use for cakes) for a scraper - not perfect but it's OK. And my partner built me a turntable which is sooooo good but you can also take the wheels and glass plate out of your microwave and use those on the counter for an emergency replacement turntable. I've got a list of baking tools including a stainless steel scraper and a little offset spatula on my Christmas wish list, here's hoping Santa is paying attention!
I have most of the special decorating tools JJR has and love making cool cakes for my friends, but one time i was at a friend's house and his family wanted me to make a cake, and it was so frustrating making it with whatever I could find in their kitchen. I just said it was "rustic".
Hello I was in search in new content and guess what I found you guys and I have been beige watching and it surely helps with my anxiety and that takes me back to those days when I use to watch cake boss on tlc and wanted to become baker
JJR, you are the best. I swear I made your vegan chocolate cake recipe, it tasted just like the cake I usually make! Keep up the good work! I also have a question- where do you put the garbage cake? I ate all of mine when I made the cake! ❤️❤️❤️
JJRs no tool cake looks better than the cakes I make with the tools. IMO, experience counts as much as the tools do. But, even my fugly cakes taste delicious cause I use JJRs recipes 😁
I absolutely love this challenge, because this has been all of my baking from 2013 to 2019, when I was finally able to start collecting bit by bit better tools. Even so, most of my tools are also DIY, lol.
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There is a zester on a box grater.
Story time! At my reception, My maid of honor (my sister) pulled out a list. And when it came time for her speech she continued to read, " To the groom... things to look out for when you married my sister..". She explained ( in front of 250 people) how I used to bark at dogs when I was little.. how when I get excited that I spit.. etc. I was mortified!
Haha I am so glad I found you guys again, love the show!