Has the same energy as Dylan Hollis saying "Were you really worried that I was gonna mix in a FULLY CONSTRUCTED PIE SHELL into this?! I'm a fool, not an idiot."
I love that you used cream and strawberries to decorate the top of the cake. Traditionally here in the UK, a Vicky sponge is dusted with icing sugar (powdered sugar), but it always makes the entire thing feel kind of dry. Your idea is so much better
I remember when I was a chef in London and our executive chef the great -name redacted- ordered Fern Verrow strawberries. At the time the most expensive strawberries in England. He ordered an enormous amount of them and we all wondered what he his plan was for them. He flowed into the kitchen later that day and declared we were going to make strawberry jam with them. Undeniably the most expensive strawberry Jam in the UK at the time. We all thought he was mad but man was it delicious.
Hoping for you to at some point do a Coraline special. start with the sauce wraps, then create the circus treats, then the other mothers breakfast, then that large feast she first makes for coraline, mango milkshake included 😊. It’s one of my favorite movies and I think it could make for a fun episode
Would be cool if at the end of the episode there was a transition and it revealed the food as dusgusting trash and button themed items like in Coraline.
In my country (Italy), "fancy lemons" are the big ones with thick peel, that we use for limoncello (among other things). They're usually grown in the south. :)
I find the strawberry flavor for these kinds of recipes, especially from high quality strawberries, to be better when you just let them sit in the sugar for a few hours to form a syrup rather than cooking. But otherwise its perfection.
I didn't realize people didn't cut the top off strawberries and no, I'm not rich. It's just such a small amount of fruit less, it's not like you're actually wasting anything
I was taught to add raspberry jam to the cake sides (one top and one bottom part) before adding the cream and strawberries and finishing the sandwich. It ensures the cream doesn’t sink into the cake, and makes it too wet.
So not that this needs a botched episode, but the next time strawberries are made into jam I would be interested in both the refrigerated gelatin quickset version (my favorite version because I think it preserves the fresh taste of the berries) and the roasted strawberry version (very time intensive but genuinely fascinating to me).
Well if he ever does revisit this, historic Victoria Sponge doesn't contain baking powder (it wasn't invented at the time the sponge was developed), the egg whites were whipped to provide all of the leavening. Victoria Sponge'a use of whipped eggs was a method to replace the hart horn in most other cake recipes at the time - hart horn is a leavening agent made from ground deer antlers and had a flavour that didn't always work in a cake. So a Sponge that didn't require hart horn but was still fluffy was instantly seen as fashionable and fancy invention, being commonly served at high tea and being named after royalty, delicate and sweet with no bitter after-taste.
I hope he does revisit it, there were a lot of little things in making the sponge he didn't do. The top ended up sunken because he had no care for the batter he had just beaten air into, you shouldn't grease the pan as the cake needs the grip from the sides to climb the pan, and you shouldn't smack the pan to smash all the air out you just put in. I'm sure it would have been a very fluffy soft crumb sponge otherwise!
What hurt more: scorching the world's most expensive strawberry jam, or dumping a blender full of awfulness and missing the shot cause it was out of focus?
2:40 the cake didn't "bake up" with that concave top. It came out fine, you just didn't bother to find out how to properly bake a sponge cake. Tin should be ungreased (the parchment circle at the bottom is necessary though) and the cake should be cooled upside down. A sponge cake is so light that it will collapse in on itself if cooled right side up. Not greasing the tin also allows the cake to rise up nice and tall by clinging to the walls of the tin. So the cake baked up fine (as fine as it could with a greased tin) but it collapsed afterwards. Old babish used to put effort into designing his recipes, even if it was for a jokey episode. This just seems like something that was put together using the first recipe from a recognizable name (Mary Berry's victoria sponge recipe is nuts, could not have picked a worse one)
I would really like to learn the proper way to make a french cruller and I dont think that has been done on your channel yet? Always my favorite cooking tutorials come from you and your team :) if you have done crullers could someone point me in the direction? If not i really would love to see it! ❤ love from Pennsylvania
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Kenmare strawberries from Kenmare, Ireland already taste like strawberry jam without being cooked. I wonder how jam made from them would taste. My grandfather made us pull over at a farmstand to get Kenmare strawberries.
Watching the last episode, I knew we would have to get a meal fit for a king, I just thought we wouldn’t get it so quickly! Bravo and what a bittersweet way to say goodbye to a great tv show
As a brit this is not how a victoria sponge is made. You mix the butter and sugar together till light and fluffy, then you add in your egg slowly, if it curdles you add in some flour. Once your egg is all in then you add in your baking powder and flour. This is the proper method
I'm half-awake and watching this episode was a real experience. I thought I dreamed the ending at first. Even without it, this episode feels like a fever dream. Babish creating a sponge cake called a "Looney Cake" from a movie I have never heard of, remaking the exact same cake out of the most expensive possible versions of the previous ingredients and it turning out exactly the same, the word "macerate," and THEN the extremely cursed ending :D
I'd add some tips before baking: The top ended up sunken because he had no care for the batter he had just beaten air into, you shouldn't grease the pan as the cake needs the grip from the sides to climb the pan, and you shouldn't smack the pan to smash all the air out you just put in. Originally, there was no baking powder. You beat the egg whites for the leavening 😊
I mean, Mary Berry is fine but using her solely for all of your English dishes is a bit like me making a cooking show and only using Guy Fieri recipes for all American style dishes, please look up Delia Smith and Mrs Beeton
I’m glad you consulted Her Majesty Mary Berry herself for this. Alternatives for the filling can include but are not limited to any and all jams and lemon curd. Plum and amaretto jam is also delicious.
As an English person I was thrilled to hear you mention Mary Berry. However, you did a few things wrong (sorry) for a true Victoria Sandwich. It was traditionally filled with jam only and undecorated. Now buttercream and jam is more common, although I think your cream would be nicer. The main things that had me screaming 'NO' was that in the UK we use self raising flour along with baking powder, which results in a much fluffier, lighter sponge. You used cake flour, but I don't think this has the added raising agent so you would have ended up with firmer, denser sponges. Also, we never tap or shake a Victoria sponge batter with such force. It needs to be treated gently - again denser sponges were your result. I applaud you for making your own jam though :) Please try again using self raising flour and baking powder and don't tap or twist the sponges before baking.
@Binging with Babish, you must see the timeless Norwegian scetch, " Ante Valente ,Snøscooter Sandwich " Just got flashbacks to the blender on the end .
What a lovely strawberry gateau. When you put cream on the outside, it could no longer be called a Victoria Sponge. Technically a Victoria sponge has no cream in it at all actually, just jam.
I never watched Succession but I would like to eat that cake. Speaking of cake when will you come around to making a Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness cake from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic?
Self raising flour is just plain cake flour with pre-added baking powder. Confusingly different web-sites disagree on how much baking powder is added though but you can look it up.
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1:24 i love the clarification that the 6 large eggs require their shells removed as opposed to being dumped in the bowl whole
Wait for the last recipe... 😂
Has the same energy as Dylan Hollis saying "Were you really worried that I was gonna mix in a FULLY CONSTRUCTED PIE SHELL into this?! I'm a fool, not an idiot."
Oh is that how it should’ve been….
Makes sense later on
Hmm, crunchy Victorian Sponge Cake? With extra Calcium?
I love that you used cream and strawberries to decorate the top of the cake. Traditionally here in the UK, a Vicky sponge is dusted with icing sugar (powdered sugar), but it always makes the entire thing feel kind of dry. Your idea is so much better
disagree but ok!!
It's the american way!
It's going to make the top very soggy very quickly.
@@Nooticus you're giving passive aggressive ngl-
@@caylinvance3569 very much not the intention lol, cake is cake!
Hearing Babish say "You can't make a Tomlette without breaking a some Gregs" is peak entertainment
In the running for best line in Succession
This is how I win
Its weird hearing that when your Christian name is Greg and your middle name is Tom.
@@Sewblon what's your rastafarian name
@@Hawk7886 I don't have one. I am white.
I remember when I was a chef in London and our executive chef the great -name redacted- ordered Fern Verrow strawberries. At the time the most expensive strawberries in England. He ordered an enormous amount of them and we all wondered what he his plan was for them. He flowed into the kitchen later that day and declared we were going to make strawberry jam with them. Undeniably the most expensive strawberry Jam in the UK at the time. We all thought he was mad but man was it delicious.
The second cake being pretty much the same but ridiculously more expensive perfectly fits the themes of Succession
Hoping for you to at some point do a Coraline special. start with the sauce wraps, then create the circus treats, then the other mothers breakfast, then that large feast she first makes for coraline, mango milkshake included 😊. It’s one of my favorite movies and I think it could make for a fun episode
I would love that
Yes!!
He’s done Coraline already
Now that would be a dope episode
Would be cool if at the end of the episode there was a transition and it revealed the food as dusgusting trash and button themed items like in Coraline.
Conheads rise up
balls
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Connor Roy was interested in politics at a very young age
balls
Andy standing over the batch of burned, posh strawberry jam is too real. I felt that moment in my bones
In my country (Italy), "fancy lemons" are the big ones with thick peel, that we use for limoncello (among other things). They're usually grown in the south. :)
I find the strawberry flavor for these kinds of recipes, especially from high quality strawberries, to be better when you just let them sit in the sugar for a few hours to form a syrup rather than cooking. But otherwise its perfection.
I usually set aside one berry in some sugar and add it back into the jam at the end!
What a show and what an ending. Thanks for making this so fast after last episode! You truly are a king.
He managed to do that milkshake monstrosity less than two full days after the episode aired? That’s an impressive turnaround.
I love that the egg shells made it into the Meal Fit For A King! I can't believe you drank that.
Got a $200 cake and Andrew taking a puke smoothie shower out of today's installment. All in all... Binging with Babish.
As someone who has a job testing food and dairy products, I appreciate what you did at 4:55
Casually watching this as background noise while I make pancakes from a bag mix.
I’m gonna need a botched episode featuring Sarah snook to get that spit now
Right?!
You know Andrew is living that Roy life when he can waste SO MUCH from each strawberry 😢
Yow. It kinda hurt to see that.
every time i watch anyone cut berries like that i hope they at least eat the remaining parts...
@@timothycoble87140 he has the money for it
But he just cut the tops off??? Is that...not normal???
I didn't realize people didn't cut the top off strawberries and no, I'm not rich. It's just such a small amount of fruit less, it's not like you're actually wasting anything
Thank you for always showing your mistakes! It's always nice to see very real moments
This is somehow the weirdest but also one of the coolest episodes of this channel.
I have nothing to add apart from this was perfect. The fact the fanxy, £200 cake is only marginally better says a lot about the show.
I was taught to add raspberry jam to the cake sides (one top and one bottom part) before adding the cream and strawberries and finishing the sandwich. It ensures the cream doesn’t sink into the cake, and makes it too wet.
So not that this needs a botched episode, but the next time strawberries are made into jam I would be interested in both the refrigerated gelatin quickset version (my favorite version because I think it preserves the fresh taste of the berries) and the roasted strawberry version (very time intensive but genuinely fascinating to me).
Well if he ever does revisit this, historic Victoria Sponge doesn't contain baking powder (it wasn't invented at the time the sponge was developed), the egg whites were whipped to provide all of the leavening.
Victoria Sponge'a use of whipped eggs was a method to replace the hart horn in most other cake recipes at the time - hart horn is a leavening agent made from ground deer antlers and had a flavour that didn't always work in a cake. So a Sponge that didn't require hart horn but was still fluffy was instantly seen as fashionable and fancy invention, being commonly served at high tea and being named after royalty, delicate and sweet with no bitter after-taste.
I hope he does revisit it, there were a lot of little things in making the sponge he didn't do. The top ended up sunken because he had no care for the batter he had just beaten air into, you shouldn't grease the pan as the cake needs the grip from the sides to climb the pan, and you shouldn't smack the pan to smash all the air out you just put in. I'm sure it would have been a very fluffy soft crumb sponge otherwise!
What hurt more: scorching the world's most expensive strawberry jam, or dumping a blender full of awfulness and missing the shot cause it was out of focus?
This show has been in my queue for a while now. I guess I need to get going on it!
If you do a music episode, you should do prince’s starfish and coffee maple syrup and jam. Butterscotch clouds tangerines and a side order of ham! 😅😊
I'd also like to see him do a peanut butter chocolate cake with Kool Aid from Redbone
Cake #2 was gorgeous. Definitely doing with the less expensive ingredients - but I’ll wait until I have enough fresh strawberries from the garden.
Binging … Caronline …… bugs
Request:
Cake Flavored Pizza and Pizza Flavored Cake from Gravity Falls?
I second this.
2:40 the cake didn't "bake up" with that concave top. It came out fine, you just didn't bother to find out how to properly bake a sponge cake. Tin should be ungreased (the parchment circle at the bottom is necessary though) and the cake should be cooled upside down. A sponge cake is so light that it will collapse in on itself if cooled right side up. Not greasing the tin also allows the cake to rise up nice and tall by clinging to the walls of the tin. So the cake baked up fine (as fine as it could with a greased tin) but it collapsed afterwards.
Old babish used to put effort into designing his recipes, even if it was for a jokey episode. This just seems like something that was put together using the first recipe from a recognizable name (Mary Berry's victoria sponge recipe is nuts, could not have picked a worse one)
I'm sure Im not the only one who thought "Man, it'd be a shame if he messed up that 80$ jam..." I feel like I jinxed him 😢
The people needed a Meal Fit For a King and the King did provide
It’s official, babish deserves a raise
I would really like to learn the proper way to make a french cruller and I dont think that has been done on your channel yet? Always my favorite cooking tutorials come from you and your team :) if you have done crullers could someone point me in the direction? If not i really would love to see it! ❤ love from Pennsylvania
Could've gone Amalfi lemons, but finding a neighbor with a tree is probably an even better option.
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"Now you're gonna want to plant your strawberries early."
-Babish, probably.
Kenmare strawberries from Kenmare, Ireland already taste like strawberry jam without being cooked. I wonder how jam made from them would taste. My grandfather made us pull over at a farmstand to get Kenmare strawberries.
We all want a 'fit for a king ' smoothie
Watching the last episode, I knew we would have to get a meal fit for a king, I just thought we wouldn’t get it so quickly! Bravo and what a bittersweet way to say goodbye to a great tv show
Love Victoria sponge cake, my absolute favourite cake
Can you do whatever you believe could be Greg Sprinkles? I think that would be an amazing episode!
As a brit this is not how a victoria sponge is made.
You mix the butter and sugar together till light and fluffy, then you add in your egg slowly, if it curdles you add in some flour. Once your egg is all in then you add in your baking powder and flour.
This is the proper method
I'm half-awake and watching this episode was a real experience. I thought I dreamed the ending at first.
Even without it, this episode feels like a fever dream. Babish creating a sponge cake called a "Looney Cake" from a movie I have never heard of, remaking the exact same cake out of the most expensive possible versions of the previous ingredients and it turning out exactly the same, the word "macerate," and THEN the extremely cursed ending :D
Got to love when someone brags how easy something is then serves a sunk victoria sponge.
Strategic strawberry strewing.🍓
1:16 Whisking and sifting at the same time😂
You missed a key ingredient! It must cone with a cup of tea 😁 and sprinkles of Greg
I am truly Impressed by Babish's conviction.
Anyone else picture Viserys' "crowning" scene from GoT when he poured the blender over his head?
Please do Skittle Sandwich (Andy’s Mouth Surprise) from Parks and Recreation and the Gummy Breakfast Burrito from Brooklyn Nine Nine!
Wait…THAT’S HOW YOU MAKE A VICTORIA SPONGE?! My dream of making a Boston cream pie from scratch has become much closer…
I'd add some tips before baking:
The top ended up sunken because he had no care for the batter he had just beaten air into, you shouldn't grease the pan as the cake needs the grip from the sides to climb the pan, and you shouldn't smack the pan to smash all the air out you just put in. Originally, there was no baking powder. You beat the egg whites for the leavening 😊
Doing this around when succession was ending was definitely perfect timing.
I mean, Mary Berry is fine but using her solely for all of your English dishes is a bit like me making a cooking show and only using Guy Fieri recipes for all American style dishes, please look up Delia Smith and Mrs Beeton
I’m glad you consulted Her Majesty Mary Berry herself for this. Alternatives for the filling can include but are not limited to any and all jams and lemon curd. Plum and amaretto jam is also delicious.
Ooh that sounds awesome
As soon as I saw the “meal fit for a king” scene, I thought I’d be seeing it here.
😂 props to you for actually tipping it over your head lol
It goes to show you that just because something has expensive ingredients doesn't mean it's going to be any better tasting.
As an English person I was thrilled to hear you mention Mary Berry. However, you did a few things wrong (sorry) for a true Victoria Sandwich. It was traditionally filled with jam only and undecorated. Now buttercream and jam is more common, although I think your cream would be nicer. The main things that had me screaming 'NO' was that in the UK we use self raising flour along with baking powder, which results in a much fluffier, lighter sponge. You used cake flour, but I don't think this has the added raising agent so you would have ended up with firmer, denser sponges. Also, we never tap or shake a Victoria sponge batter with such force. It needs to be treated gently - again denser sponges were your result. I applaud you for making your own jam though :) Please try again using self raising flour and baking powder and don't tap or twist the sponges before baking.
Best birthday gift ever
So astonishing.
@Binging with Babish, you must see the timeless Norwegian scetch, " Ante Valente ,Snøscooter Sandwich "
Just got flashbacks to the blender on the end .
Best ending to a Babish episode ever
Fancy Lemons: What about the Amalfi coast lemons that they make Limoncello out of?
you should tackle that Deluxe Peanut Chicken from Phineas and Ferb, that would be insanely interesting
The Conheads are gonna love this
I thought it looked slightly over cooked but when you said it had a cornbread like texture - My fears were confirmed.
Have you made the goose from all quiet on the western front?
Ha! Missed this when it came out. 😂
oh my, when did the berry switch from creaming to all-in-one?
what I want to know is, can you get away with using less sugar? Is 440g too sweet?
Christ, poor Connor. He deserved so much better.
When I saw the meal fit for a king, I was like I can’t wait for Babish to recreate it lol
On a scale of 1-10, how annoyed were you when you realised that the final shot wasn't in focus? 😅
Can you make Meemaw’s famous brisket form young Sheldon
A loony cake in Canada is what Americans call a Money cake. Where you mix dollar coins into the cake and folks find them while they eat.
4:55 * Laughs in indoeuropean * weak babish fears milk...
Anything Looney is awesome.
I'd love to see what you could do with soylent green
I was thinking while watching. That the cost of that one cake. Was equivalent to my monthly grocery budget lol.
The last one reminded me on t e recipe of the whisky cake
The conheads are gonna love this
7:15 Are we hinting at a future episode on Dead Ringers?
I love your dessert videos and would love to see the rumplestiltskin cupcakes from Shrek Forever After and Oeufs a la Jenny from Oliver and Company!!
A Mary Berry recipe, you are a man of beautiful taste
Easily the best show of the year
Would the recipe work ifci swapped strawberries for another fruit?
Did not expect the end 😂
Man this episode was *crazy*
What a lovely strawberry gateau. When you put cream on the outside, it could no longer be called a Victoria Sponge. Technically a Victoria sponge has no cream in it at all actually, just jam.
No simple syrup for moistening?
The tomlette comment is one of my favorite moments. Tom is so unnecessarily aggressive but funny
Oooooh the pain of those strawberries getting burnt
1:09 You made a strawberry with the strawberry sauce.
Babish can you make the stew Mira cooks for Spear in Primal?
I drink raw milk regularly and haven't ever gotten sick
Where did you get the milk from
yo mama
About the so-called 'Meal fit for a King', is there a proper way in how to make it?
I never watched Succession but I would like to eat that cake. Speaking of cake when will you come around to making a Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness cake from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic?
Seconded! There are so many insanely-named dishes in that show, and Babish has done episodes based off far less.
MMMM
We don't have self-raising flour here. How should I adapt the recipe?
Self raising flour is just plain cake flour with pre-added baking powder. Confusingly different web-sites disagree on how much baking powder is added though but you can look it up.
how much would i have to pay you to do the ortolan from season 1 i'm fully serious