I Tried to Turn a $5 Store Cake into a Professional Cake
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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CAKE INSPO: a two tier white cake with delicate pink and yellow piped icing around each layer. Congrats is iced on the top.
MY FINISHED CAKE: a bright green, wonky, two tiered cake with awfully piped white icing around each tier. The top is covered in silver confetti balls.
Queen did you post this on the right channel?
So if you want to reattempt this I will simply the process for you. IMMENSELY.
1) get 2 round cakes and go to the dollar store and get a cake layer cutter or your local craft shop. It will perfectly cut layers of cake in seconds.
2) stack them with or without extra icing.
3) get a buttercream icing or make a semi stiff icing and do 'swooshing' in other words just do a crumb coat, chill but instead of trying to do perfect smooth icing just slap it on and just cover the cake doing little swooshes/ocean like waves-an intentional way of doing a rustic look for icing. It's mean to be like all wavy and fluffy looking.
4) take a sieve and put cocoa power or edible glitter and just dust the cake then slap on as many sprinkles as you like. If you're feeling frisky you can add icing details but honestly it will look amazing without.
If you NEED to use sheet cake, and you want a round cake, just hold a plate in one hand above the cake and take a long knife and gentle saw around the cake. remove excess.
I've done some poor mans cake baking and decorating. trust me, if you do it with intention to look rustic it will had this playfulness that people love.
Either way. YOU DID A GREAT JOB after multiple nervous breakdowns.
The big metallic silver dragées are illegal in the US. Because we're idiots and forget to chew before we swallow, apparently.
As a cake decorator I am proud of you. As a cake decorator I am also terrified of that cake 🤣🤣🤣
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Might have been an idea to use the round cake as the base layer, no trimming required. Then use a plate or similar to trim the oblong cakes into circles. Maybe. 🤷♀️
That’s CHEATING
@@Ellbat it wouldn't have been anywhere near as entertaining, but cheating? Nah.
@@Ellbat Definitely cheating.
Hey, wanted to let you know that you were using the icing spatula backwards. It's angled so that when you're holding it, your hand is away from the cake. This allows you to smooth the icing without body parts getting in the way and messing up the smooth sections that you already did.
🤣 that is exactly how i feel and what i achieve whenever i try to cook 😆 Loved this.
I laughed so much love this
when you started massaging the cake I knew we were on the right path. If in japan they massage their cows to make yummier meat, why not massage cake
Love you but how did it turn out SO MUCH WORSE than I imagined it was going to be 🤣
This was one of the best things I've watched in a while. When you said, "I'll just add red to it" I died. That was the icing on the cake, pun definitely intended. lmao
I was thinking she would put blue and do a marble effect, but she made poo instead! 😂 (she could have drawn branches with the brown and indented some leafs in the green, but sprinkles works just as well for me!
My personal favorite line was “it’s not giving wedding! It’s giving I just turned seven!”
Love ya Ellbat but, the only way that cake costs $500 is when you get a fine for disturbing the peace with it.
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@@Ellbat you mean “👸👸👸”
“I’m gonna put some sprinkles on and call it a goddamn day” are words to live by
Ellbat - Has perfectly round cake to start.
Also Ellbat - cuts a 'circle' smack dab in the middle of it.
🤦♂🤦♀🤦
You absolutely didn't waste my time. This was so much fun! Please do similar videos once in a while. I love to watch people genuinely do things really badly. Which I guess is where my daughter gets it. I draw awful. AWFUL. Like maybe a pre-schooler could draw better than I can. And my daughter absolutely loves my drawings. I've branched out into paintings now. lol
I really love that! I feel like so many times we're taught that in order to do something or enjoy doing something, we have to be really good at it. I am terrible at art, but it looks like it's so fun! I signed my daughter and I up for a painting class in Nov! Very excited.
@@harleyraptor8865 Oh, that sounds awesome! I hope y'all have fun!
Why did I genuinely believe you were gonna make something at least somewhat presentable out of this? 😭😭
When you said "I'll add some green", I thought "oh, she's going to do the _piping_ with green frosting? Bold, but interesting"... and then you slathered a gigantic dollop of it right on the top, just to, you know, make sure there was no coming back from it. Not gonna lie, my jaw physically dropped open. 😆😆
This is loads of fun, though, definitely not a waste of time. ♥
I thought it would be like a pretty pastel green 😭
Hey, I'd be honored to eat that brilliant green cake haha.😂I also love how you started calling it a "Thor" cake instead of a "Hulk" cake.
people who are really good at what they do often make their jobs look easy and it's hard to remember that those skills come with tons of practice and time (i'm guilty of forgetting this a lot) but good job finishing your cake!!
I somehow kept believing, throughout the video, that you're gonna make it work haha. the last minute got me laughing with tears. I would like this 3 times if I could !
This was a riot to watch. I actually watched this one with my Grandmother who used to do some beautiful cake decorating complete with elaborate fondant flowers. She got a good laugh out of it as well.
Nailed it Ellbat XD
As a fully qualified chef who has had to make some extravagant cakes for special occasions, sometimes last minute…
I can just say wow! this is a true show of perseverance and determination to make a mess into a well, cake 🍰
Also at the beginning when you said you want to do something “easy” I was laughing I mean you didn’t even have to make the cake 😅 xxxx I’m sure it tasted lovely
I’m in the same boat. As someone who’s made fancy cakes for events both at home and in a professional kitchen, it is *much* easier when you have the space, tools, and (in some cases) training the professionals do.
the absolute chaos
"I'll preface this by saying 'I'm not getting married' and I'm not."
I dunno EB, I saw your tarot reading video. Three outta three said you had wedding bells in your near future.
Please allow me to be the first to say congratulations!!!
You really didn't do too badly. Two sections where I have suggestions (from someone who was taught to do this in culinary school) would be: 1 Construction. Next time, use the already round cake as your base and find a cake tin (or similar) to basically "cookie-cut" out round portions from the tray cakes. (They actually make cutters for cakes in case you need to do this-though baking them in the corect shaped tins obviously makes life simpler). 2 Frosting. Adding a bit more blue to darken your frosting would have helped the color. Putting the cake back in the fridge (and frosting when necessary) would have helped with salvaging the cake. The homemade frosting needed more milk and the store bought white was just too warm.
But honestly, you did a really great job with this. It isn't easy to do. Your attempt is very standard for a newer home baker (which I also was back before I was old). Your cake at least held together long enough to be cut (at least it seemed it did) and served. My first attempts were not so lucky and ended up with layers sliding off each other. ;)
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FrankenCake !!! This made me so happy as that is very similar to what I would be able to create. I love how you put it together like some crazy random puzzle and then just pressed it together. I need more like this. Thank you so much. I needed my good mood brightened. Be over in a minute for some Green Sprinkle Frankencake. Have a great week.
10/10, would ask you to make my wedding cake
Thank you for the laugh - who knew that cakey chaos would be something that would brighten my day so much - it's nice to see someone as bad with all things baking as I am!
as a person who makes and decorates cakes, this actually doesn't look terrible. i see piping skills in the making, but the tiering will need some work
*DAYUM* Check out all that *CAKE!!!*
What? She made cake.
My mother (who I gave your kisses to btw), has been a cake decorator for 40 years. And you'd think I would have picked up cake decorating skills in my 30 years of being her daughter...but you'd be HIGHLY mistaken 😅 I think you did great honestly and she said you get an A for effort on this one. But now I want to try this myself 😂
That cake is the second worst cake I’ve scene but this video is one of my favorite 😂 the reactions were so genuine compared to other reactionary content out there where they purposely fail and react big to it. Laughed so hard thank you for having the courage to post!! This is the kind of content I want to create!❤️
You have the most adorable sneezes.
My cats used to make the same sound when they sneezed.
I'm not eating that sneezecake though.
Get it? Like cheesecake? 🍰 ?
Love Relish Vegan! She made our wedding cake! ❤️
omg!!! She’s the best. She made my birthday cake last year and it was amazing 🥺 congrats on your marriage!!!
Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen
As a pastry chef. I had a really good laugh😂 sending love 😘
The amount of effort she put into it is admirable, great job for the continued effort!
I spent like 90% of the video quite sure that you'd used a clickbait image and then when you said you were gonna dye it green I was like "oh wait, she didn't!"...........until like 1 minute later 🤣. It was super fun to watch though.
Can we please do colab with Rossana Pansino. Part 1 her review of your methodes. Part two her teaching you how to actually bake and decorate a cake.
I would love that!
(Or if she is unavailable, a baker in you area?)
Love this video! Glad to be reminded that it is not me 😂.
10:34 had me dying from laughter XD edit: okay the last couple of end decisions were amazing XD you made my day! But on a serious note: practice makes perfect, so you could also see this as there being a lot of room for improvement in the future if you want to
I think you did a pretty dang good job for your first cake and no one helping you! I've done wedding cakes and tons of regular type cakes. It's very hard at first. Someone telling you the basics one on one really helps; but mainly you just need practice ❣️ the best part is that it'll still be yummy cake!
Making this cake had so much
3 year old: "Mommy, I made this for you!"
-Energy-
it was incredible to behold! 🏆😂
dw ellbat, you can just put it in front of a greenscreen and it'll just ✨️disappear✨️
i need more 'chill' content like this, i cant get enough 😭😭
it’s 5 in the morning, ellbat is more important then sleep 😌🤍
A little darker green and you'd have British Racing Green, and the fastest cake in the UK!! Uh-oh, I just heard that the police stopped your cake speeding (and being a public atrocity) on the M1! LOL! In all honesty, it looks, well, sweet - but I'm an American and I like sweet so I'd eat it for sure.
As a cake decorator, watching you do this both fascinated me and stressed me tf out 😆
Well… this was certainly a ride.
I honestly tried to watch in a very supportive way… but when the piping bag dripped down the side, I have to admit, I did belly laugh. A lot.
I am very genuinely sorry, but I might need to film my very first ‘reaction’ video to this.
Love you though. 😂
Me and every other baker simultaneously having a panic attack but also recognizing that you are appreciative of all the hard work that goes into professional cakes and showing why they cost as much as they do.
I couldn't stop laughing when you said "no, stop it!" and couldn't stop anymore :'D
That was just so fun. In the beginning I thought oh, OK just eying it... Interesting choice. But now I'm sitting here laughing a lot about the cake, so I don't mind any choices made
Did you say Thor instead of Hulk a bunch of times at the end?
all three primary colours joined together make brown. Green (yellow and blue) mixed with red yah makes brown.
Ooo I love this video concept!
Pure chaos 😂😂
I’m so sorry 😭
aint the Cake World just Amazing. hell i like Cake
A bet a small child would be very happy with your birthday cake!
It’d be fun to see you make chocolate chip cookies without instructions
loving the consistency xx
As a chef I was very entertained by this video
i would love to see ann reardon do a cake rescue on this :)
trash talking in ow2 wont get you anywhere just saying :)
Cope
Get gud, Ana
Life: When in doubt, add more icing. 🎂
Ellbat: "How do I make something round?"
Me: "Take a round plate --"
Ellbat: "Right, cut it in half..."
Me: ........................
This was a great video!! And the cake probably tastes better than it looks like 🤭 Did anyone eat it?
I LOVE THIS!!!!! I was having such a bad day and watching you make this where it just kept getting better and better and then 16:02 happened I literally was in TEARS laughing because BRUH ME TOO!!!!!!!!!
If only there was some way to make it circular, like...a springform pan, a cake pan, pie pan, a DINNER PLATE...SOMETHING ROUND THAT COULD BE A GUIDE...😂 But you know what, I'm proud of your effort, and it made me laugh EQUALLY as much as you made me cringe.
Also yes, any colors that are opposite on the color wheel will make brown or black...red and green, blue and orange, violet and yellow, etc. Just in case you decide to uh, make another cake?
I SENT KISSEEES TO MY MOTHER!!!! :)
Wow, the favourite corner is back! And with such a seemingly good sounding product at that. I've seen what you've done there ;-)
Those Raycons sure do look good. But I do prefer headphones over in-ear monitors. And even more, an actual stereo. In fact, I've even bought a new CD player this year (!)
And now, on to the cake. It sure wasn't no piece of cake, that cake. Will you action it off now?
OMG Elbat! I died laughing! Thank you so much for making my day brighter! (And my kisses to your mother 😘)
This was the most disastrous video I've ever seen 😂 But I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT ❤❤ So thank youuuuuu and you definitely did not waste our time!
Yup... I knew.. um.. maybe because we can't talk you through the screen?😅🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😅😅😅😅
The part you struggled with the most actually has surprisingly simple solutions: 1) Freeze the cake before putting any icing on, and 2) Do what's called a crumb coat, or a very thin coat to trap all the crumbs, then chill it again before doing the final coat of icing. That would have saved you at least an hour of time. Not your fault, you didn't know!
Quick tip to actually save a cake that has white icing you can make the icing slightly more liquid and basically flatten it on top then drizzle it til it drips around the edges. My friend made one of our friends a birthday cake and had literally bought a angel food cake (2 levels to it) then iced it like you did. Then she did the drip technique and tossed on some sprinkles. It looked super cute. 🎉
Also do they have box cake mixes in the UK? I'm just curious
Elaine why did you not use a round cake plan as a cutter or a plate amatuer.
Secondly, the only acceptable layering is raspberry jam with whipcream.
Finally, pink, yellow or white decorative layers. Really basic rules for wedding cakes. Janky, Janky, Janky!
This is why you research the other videos maybe 😊 If I’d tried it would have been much worse so don’t worry… maybe change the title: “turning a $20 grocery store cake into a $5 eBay…”. :) ✌️
Hahahahahaha oooooh this was painful to watch!!!!! First cake you cut i cringed.
But so we learn.
Caking is actually fun...just stick with it and try again.
Ganache is always a winner. Just pour over. Looks professional instantly
El: I’ll just add red
Me: NOOOOoo that’ll make brown!
This is what happens without research😂😂
You did an awesome job 😀
For your next attempt you should do a castle. Practice makes perfect sometimes you learn that you need certain equipment like cake turn tables. Or that making a royal icing for piping works better. It's all about giving it a go and learning as you go along. I love cake decorating but my piping is shocking. I can spread icing ok but my piping always ends up squiggly. I do love the creativity that comes with cake decorating.
Entertaining for sure. However, it's also educational! For me there was so much more behind this. Like allowing yourself to make mistakes and not saying to yourself you just can't do it. Having fun in the process even though the result was far from ideal. Encouraging yourself on the way and saying things like "this looks ok".
I'd totally cry or just explode with rage when the frosting dripped over the green cake.
Now I need to watch it every day to learn these skills 🤣 or do I need to actually practice them?
such a great video. I laughed and laughed and laughed. So believably likely to happen when we try some 'good' internet idea that doesn't come with sufficient instructions.
You should watch „Nailed it!“ instead, you’ll feel seen, heard, understood😌 I‘d still eat a piece of your cake though but I wouldn’t hire you for my wedding cake😁
I freaked out when you added milk to the icing. Do people seriously do that? I guess that it's whiter than the butter icing I was taught to make. I am vegan so use margarine these days with a little hot water. It's mainly just icing sugar and water though. I REALLY loved watching this. Thank you!
I’m not sure why I’m just now seeing this but I want you to know you made my morning. Definitely was curious as to why you just didn’t use the round cake as a kind of stencil to our out the tray cakes but I get it live and learn.
Laughed so hard when you thought red was a good choice with green 😂 as a painter I knew that you were going to be disappointed in that color choice.
Just pretend it’s a springtime cake and call it a day.
Loved the whole video ❤ keep on kicking butt and I can’t wait til I can order some of your merch!! Big hugs from Texas
Wow this was incredibly painful to watch 😂 very entertaining 10/10 please try this again sometime
This cake is such a perfect disaster 😁
It reminds me my first one.
To be fair to “baker”, it’s impossible to make a good cake without some knowledge and a lot of tools.
Great fun overall 🤣🙂
I gave your kisses to my mom. She accepted too, but when I presented this cake to her, idk why she kicked me out the home. Now I live with Hulk peacefully. Hulk Hogan.
Yes, as an artist I knew the red was a bad idea. Hulk green was not so bad just maybe just not the ideal you were going for...... So your not a baker. Me neither. As a viewer I still appreciate the effort, and the fact that you took store bought cake and at least to me made it more visually interesting. As a follow up video I hope you invited people over and fed them the cake while you filmed it. LOL 😝 Guess not I just caught the end.
As a Pastry Chef here, I can testify that the cooking programs make it look easy. Quite a few things went wrong here. But next time consider putting the cake in the fridge through the icing process to firm it up. Test your skill with the piping bag on a plate before actually doing it on the cake then you can test the icing consistency beforehand. And as of always pastry is a lot of practice so keep at it. Check out some RUclips videos before trying this again and good luck. There is a reason why wedding cakes are so expensive… 😉
I saw the big blob of gel food colouring and knew it was going to be bad. The colouring is super concentrated, so you just need a tiny bit on a toothpick, to swirl through the frosting. Biggest cringe was trying to freehand the circles. Just use a plate for a template! 🤦♀️
After you did your first layer of icing then put it in the fridge to firm it up. If you icing is too loose then cool it. If it is too warm then letting it warm up a bit will make it looser. I would have added the straws to the bottom tier. Cut them flush. Then add a slightly smaller than your top cake a piece of cardboard to rest on the straws. Opposite colors on the color wheel basically make a mud brown color (red+green, blue+orange, purple+yellow). To better control your piping bag, twist a handful of the icing so you are only squeezing part at a time. If you can't scrape the cake smooth then play with the texture and make it look like a palate knife painting texture. We used scrapers not spatulas to usually flatten the cake. Wipe off any excess icing and rinsing it under hot water and drying it will help it smooth the icing as it softens it as you go.
R.I.P Julia Child. Don't think hulk think doctor suess MD. Add some pom poms.
I was sucked in by the click bait and I'm so pleased I was. I was so impressed by the picture of the cake and as an amateur baker knew how hard that would be to do. I was hoping for some amazing insight. Instead I was just wildly entertained and laughed so hard. I've been there too many times sprinkles, chocolates or lollies fix a multitude of errors.
I wouldn't call it a cake... a massive cake pop is a more accurate description with that ratio of cake and icing
Just what I needed had just given myself 5 monthly injections that hurt and up you pop to make me laugh TQ very much 🥰
Omg, thanks for making my morning! Best realistic cake video ever!!!!😂
I'm never gonna be a professional baker or cake decorator, and I know a little more about it than you, but I relate to this and the outcome. By the time I've made a cake (usually last minute) and made the icing or picked some color combos and figured out even what I want to do on it, icing is warm and I'm half assing it and it turns out like this gooey mess.
The downward spiral in this video had me dying 😂. I have to say, I'm so bad at cake decorating so I totally relate. It'll still taste great so that's what counts♥️
Bless you
The second you started adding green, I said "oohhhh Hulk Cake"😂😂 Also, I'd still eat it
I would LOVE to see you do a part 2 of this where you do some more research and make another cake to compare and see how much you improve :D
You have such raw talent that cake has character! Don't give up try again. Maybe your thing is pie or rice Krispie treats . ps-next time keep your piping bag in the fridge.
Watching this made me physically uncomfortable.. I appreciate the effort but please watch a few tutorials next time :p