Hey guys who doesn't love a gaytime. In my experience of making packet mix cakes you have to use an electric mixer to get the air in it. The mix looked to wet and a bit lumpy. Still as long as it tastes good who cares. Hopefully we can have a gaytime together in Adelaide in September. 🍰🍰
That looked like a good cake! My grandmother always used to say never add all the liquid at once. She said you can always add more if you need too, but you can't take excess liquid out. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, and had a milking cow, so there was fresh milk daily, and eggs, and lots of baking. She also used a cheesewire, to cut cakes horizontally. Bad eggs float in water. So there is no need to crack them open to see if they are off. Have fun baking more goodies.
First off - a whisk would help to airate(?) the cake mix (as a pose to stirring a yorky pud 😉 batter). Second off - just coz the recipe said 2Tbsn of milk for the frosting, if it seems a bit dry you just add a bit more milk.
That's true. I checked the measure and found that a UK tablespoon is smaller than an Australian tablespoon.... Simply ask Google.... I had not considered this added complication. It seems to be true of lots of measures.
@@brucefsanders Yes. It's an extra complication when using recipes from other countries. I always look for recipes that have measurements in mills and grams instead. Much more reliable.
Doing "the charlie", that's is now how we refer to a person when they clearly failed to do something, but still think an outcome was achieved. This refers to the video when Charlie failed to rip the cake mixture open, but still tried to pour the mixture into the bowl. I love it, was so funny, cheers Rob and Charlie 🤣🤣. Love it, watching from, Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 😄
Finally got a chance to see this... So pleased for you and Charlie that in spite of the cake not rising high enough, due to using a larger circumference pan and mixing manually, that it still turned out alright and that the icing and crumbs experience heightened a mildly underwhelming cake experience. I haven't tried the cake, but I will. Another commenter on this video commented that Gaytime icecreams don't taste as good as they used to. I haven't had one for a while, but I'm going to buy one in the near future and pop in in the freezer, then make the cake, hopefully as successfully or better than you guys did and have a slice and alternating with the ice cream and see how the two compare. Great video, so much fun to watch.
g'day rob and charlie, if the cake is light and fluffy to taste, and does not taste gritty from sugar granules, it has risen correctly, a mixer would have helped airate the mix a little more but a smaller cake tin would have worked better, but don't worry for you have made a torte which is the type of cake you might find in a coffee shop
two grown ups behaving like two little kids... so nice to see.. Greenes products are all natural. no chemical additives etc.. God bless you both.. love from Melbourne town
If you want to make the ice cream. Chef cheat tip for you. Soften a bit of vanilla ice cream mix in some of the icing. Put in the freezer again to harden up. Put a couple of scoops in a bowl then sprinkle the crumbs over. You can make it like the ice-cream on a stick but it takes to much work to do it so I wouldn't bother. Lol thank me later 🤪👍
Rather than icing, the ice cream has a chocolate-like shell that tastes like caramel, cracks like chocolate and all the biscuit crumbs around the outside.
I bought a packet of the Golden Gaytime cake mix the other day after seeing it in the local Coles. It looked absolutely scrumptious. I'll make it once Lent is finished, as an Easter treat. Your reactions are certainly a good sign.
Actually if you smack the eggs on a flat surface, you don't get any shell either. It's only when you crack the egg on a edge that you get non uniform breaking of the shell.
Using a whisk instead of the wooden spoon would have been better as you would have gotten more air into it. If I’d made that cake I still would have sliced it into halves and instead of the toffee icing I would have put a layer of jam inside, would have really made the cake more moorish. Great video, May have to send you a few pairs of kitchen scissors.😆😆
Needed more aeration. A blender would have done that. The toffee mix was a little bit dry. Overall if you had more volume you could have cut it, and then added the toffee layer between the vanilla cake to break it up. Would have been better than a big chunk of vanilla cake and sugar overload on top. Probably it settled a bit in transport, making both a bit denser than they'd normally be. But most importantly the flavour is all there for you to enjoy.
I know at one stage my local Woolies was selling the gaytime crumbs separately in the baking aisle... not sure if they still do though. The ice cream in the tub is a lot sweeter than the original stick so I feel like the icing would be closer to that. Still looks great... good job guys x BTW Rob... My Pixie T-shirt arrived today.😸 Bless the postie... still delivering it on time despite being surrounded by flooding.
Yes I used to buy the crumbs at Coles too but they stopped selling them. I was seriously lactose intolerant for a couple of years. I would add the crumbs to a vegan hokey pokey Ice cream and a bit of melted chocolate/topping. It was the closest I could get to a Gaytime but nothing beats a slightly melty original Golden Gaytime!
The cake while simulating the delicious ice cream taste is primarily a transport for the Gaytime goodness going into your mouths. I see that it isn't your first Gaytime experience Rob. 😁
Should have whisked it Rob more air in it the cake would have risen more, but the main mistake was Charlie didn't lick the spoon when applying the topping LOL how could she not lick the spoon mate. At least you enjoyed it so any cake you like is perfect as far as I am concerned mate. Love to You and Charlie Keep Safe Keep Strong and have a Gay Time.🦘🦘🦘🦘💖💖💖💖
I made a toffee / butter scotch cake adding angle delight (yes I got it in the UK section) and brown creaming soda to a vanilla cake recipe it was a Harry potter butter beer themed one with marshmallow top lol I reckon that that flavour cake would be nice with the topping
You're very domesticated mate...Charlie does the cooking, you do the eating...great team work! 😅 I'd say the baking tin was too big...Green's make nice cakes. I have never made one of these....that has to change immediately...Nice work! The crumbs on the ice cream are indescribable...you will just have to wait until September 🤷♂️
The tin was actually only 1cm too big. Honestly, the crumb was amazing. Like we said, we could make our own vanilla sponge and just top it with the crumbs!
I love cake above anything else. Yum looks great, saliva glands are working over time watching. Greens have good products. A lot of people use Gravox to make a quick gravy, but Greens is better, they make chicken and roast beef flavours
If you really want the complete taste of Australia you have to make some fairy bread. White bread with butter and topped with 100s&1000s. Classic kids party treat.
The lce-cream is a very soft, mix of vanilla and caramel, you can see the difference. I buy 4 packs of individual ice-creams on sticks in the supermarket freezer, and more recently we can also get tubs of ice-cream, with the sauce and crumb mixed into it. They also have crispy creme donut crumbs as an alternate flavour, not better than the original. If you want to try making something, get puff pastry, in 12" square sheets, buy sausage meat or sausages and split them to remove the meat. You could use the skin as a piping bag too. Put a line of meat down one sideof asheet of pastry, cut into 2 6×12" rectangles. Roll the puff pastry around the meat, cut into 2 long rolls or 6 short ones, keep the split side down and bake. Dip a warm sausage roll in tomato sauce... we call the small ones party size and no double dipping, unless it's just both ends before you eat it. If you can get these at your shops, don't bother? All the best.
Of all the places you thought this could lead bet you never thought it'd be you & your wife making your own gaytime for the internet, huh? Two fun & easy recipes that go together are Chocolate Crackles (with cophar) & Honey Joys. Classic school fate treats.
I'm envious I've never had a Golden Gaytime cake . I'm sitting here half a world away drooling . You pair of bastards ( only joking ). We use profanity as a term of endearment.
You can make your own Golden Gaytime crumb. Simply make a biscuit batter using: 1 cup (150g) self-raising flour 2 tbs caster sugar 2 tbs brown sugar 100g unsalted butter, melted and cooled 1 egg yolk You preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Combine all the ingredients in a bowl with ½ tsp of salt and mix it together with your hands. In batches, push the mixture through a colander onto a baking tray lined with baking paper to create crumbs, being sure to not overcrowd the tray because you want separate crumbs, not biscuits. You then bake for 10 minutes or until golden, then cool completely. Repeat with any remaining biscuit mixture. I make a Gaytime mousse which combines a vanilla and a caramel mousse swirled in a bowl, topped with a chocolate ganache and then covered in these crumbs. It's delicious!!!
Also don't forget to use your spatula to get all the mix out of the bowl.. I'm cooking my GG cake tomorrow, but am going to buy more crumbs and smother it all over...
Only plans at the moment is we land in Melbourne (flights booked), drive along great Ocean road to Adelaide, trip to tassie and maybe sydney. I really want to see AFL play off match or final but not knowing where they will be and which team is a pain.
4 mls over, tch tch, use a teaspoon next time to be more accurate. To increase air don’t use a wooden spoon,they are ok if you’re a stirrer, but if you add each ingredient individually then stir the cake it will fill with air. BTW, salivating over here in Tassie…
Come on Rob, give in to your dark side, be rude lol Rob to the rescue with the knife ta rah. My misses was yelling at you to have a container of hot water to dip the spatula in so the icing would spread smoothly hahaha . A hand mixer would have aerated the cake mix and it would rise more. She is so good at giving advice just ask me I know; you have heard the expression "back seat driver" rofl
haha We should have used the thermomix to beat the mixture. Like Charlie said, her stand mixer is in the loft as we have the thermomix which does the same.
What size cake tin did they recommend on the box? Edit: I just checked the box, 20cm x 7cm cake pan. Yours looks bigger, which would make the cake shallower.
@@RobReacts1 It doesn't matter Charlie and Robbo. At least you both had a go and it tasted great. Just keep having fun and keep giving your admirers à look into your lives in England. P.S. youv'e got a nice looking comfy home, good onya both. Love and best wishes Wally.
Packet cake mixes always need an electric mixer. You get more air in it. You could have chucked it in the thermometer for a quick mix also. That’s why it’s flat.
I think you made two little (really little and not fatal at all) mistakes while cooked it: better use mixer to make that mix more airy and better to leave cake in the oven to cool slowly for more gentle and light-ish structure
Do u know how to test if the cake is ready? If u poke it in the center with a knife or something thin an if no cake sticks to it ya all good You'll love the ice cream when u arrive. Was your cake tin the right size?
Did the instructions say 3 large eggs? Coz apparently what you call large is what we call medium, so you should have used extra large eggs. That would probably be enough difference to affect the rise.
@@Merrid67play Yeah, I meant the kind with the handle and two beaters linked by gears. Crank the handle and beat that batter! My Mum was a whiz at that thing, she could spin that handle so fast, I got tired just watching her! 😍
Delicious Australia has a video on youtube, Wazza attempts Golden Gaytime icecream. He nails it. You could do a reaction video and then a video on making your own and try them. For the cake mix it needs work. You need two cakes, or a smaller pan.
@@RobReacts1 Hope you enjoy them. Todd's Kitchen also has an interesting video on making the Golden Gaytime cake from scratch. It's different. 'ava good weekend.
Not sure if anyone has already said but i remember when you could just buy the golden gaytime crumbs on there own in a milo like container to sprinkle on your own ice-cream at home not even sure if they still make it and if anyone comes across one send it to Rob & Charlie to try out.
Who else thought the milk was a detergent bottle? 😲 Edit: Also, reading all these beater comments & Rob says "someone's gonna be like 'Rob, you're technique's all wrong.' Shade."
Also on the ice cream the outer layer/shell under the crumb is VERY thin. That's maybe why there wasn't much icing... thin outer layer with crumb, think inner layer.
You needed an electric mixer to mix it properly. Your mix still looked a bit lumpy. May have been better if you’d used a whisk to mix it & put air into it.
No air, no rise. Need to use an electric beater. Also, putting all ingredients in at once can effect the rise. Butter could have been too soft and eggs should be added one at a time and each one beaten in well. Can you tell I am not a fan of the packet mix? And what is with that icing??
@@RobReacts1 check out a great British RUclips channel called 'Cupcake Jemma'. She's has a business 'Crumbs and Doileys' and has numerous 'how to' videos for best results (and why cakes fail). I've been a dedicated baker for years and love her content. Oh, yeah and throw away the thermomix ;)
@@karencramer6491 haha we have gone from cooking without the thermomix and now with it! We wouldn't go without it now! If you had one, you would understand. We have never eaten such a variety of food and healthy also! And its all so easy for even me to cook. Just eaten a chicken curry from scratch. :)
@@RobReacts1 I've seen too many kitchen gadgets come and go in my lifetime and all end up on the street. That being said, I recently sold my 40yo schlemmertopf for a tidy profit. Keep up the good work.
We have flights to Melbourne. Would love to see some AFL but were planning on driving to Adelaide, taking a trip to Tassie and maybe a quick stop in Sydney
The reason it didn’t rise to the right size is because you are using uk electricity and that is an inferior electric power to the Australian electricity.
@@RobReacts1 if the ice cream can’t come to you, then you must go to the ice cream. When you come down under and finally sink your teeth into one, it will possibly be the most expensive ice cream ever eaten.
Hey guys who doesn't love a gaytime. In my experience of making packet mix cakes you have to use an electric mixer to get the air in it. The mix looked to wet and a bit lumpy. Still as long as it tastes good who cares. Hopefully we can have a gaytime together in Adelaide in September. 🍰🍰
Agreed, the electric mixer would have airated the batter more and made the cake rise better. Possibly even a smaller diameter cake pan as well...
We probably should have used the thermomix to blend but I wanted to make something without that for once :D
We will certainly be coming to Adelaide!
Charli, you know when you try to rip a cake mix open like that you're a big chance to wear it! Scissors girl, scissors!
That looked like a good cake!
My grandmother always used to say never add all the liquid at once. She said you can always add more if you need too, but you can't take excess liquid out. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, and had a milking cow, so there was fresh milk daily, and eggs, and lots of baking. She also used a cheesewire, to cut cakes horizontally.
Bad eggs float in water. So there is no need to crack them open to see if they are off.
Have fun baking more goodies.
First off - a whisk would help to airate(?) the cake mix (as a pose to stirring a yorky pud 😉 batter).
Second off - just coz the recipe said 2Tbsn of milk for the frosting, if it seems a bit dry you just add a bit more milk.
Tablespoons also have different volume values in different countries. I think Australian tablespoons are 5mL larger than UK tablespoons.
That's true.
I checked the measure and found that a UK tablespoon is smaller than an Australian tablespoon.... Simply ask Google.... I had not considered this added complication. It seems to be true of lots of measures.
@@brucefsanders Yes. It's an extra complication when using recipes from other countries. I always look for recipes that have measurements in mills and grams instead. Much more reliable.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Who said you can't have your Gaytime cake and eat it too right?!
OMG! Best laugh I’ve had in forever -
thank you.
Rob going - ”I didn’t want to bring it up”
re the thermomix.
God I laughed.
Haha glad we can entertain
Doing "the charlie", that's is now how we refer to a person when they clearly failed to do something, but still think an outcome was achieved.
This refers to the video when Charlie failed to rip the cake mixture open, but still tried to pour the mixture into the bowl. I love it, was so funny, cheers Rob and Charlie 🤣🤣. Love it, watching from, Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 😄
It didn't rise because of the extra 4 mls of milk 😆. Charlie's face when she couldn't open the plastic packet 😄.
I don’t think the extra few mls was the problem just that they didn’t get enough air into the batter
@@tiaelina1090 I was joking, kidding, being silly etc 🤷🏼♀️
We are a bloody disaster! :D
Golden gaytime is my absolute favourite and I had no idea Green's had a cake mix ! 😳 definitely going try it, thanks Rob and Charli.
Yum 💖 Hope you guys grab yourselves a Golden Gaytime in September. GGs and Maxibons are my fave!
Finally got a chance to see this... So pleased for you and Charlie that in spite of the cake not rising high enough, due to using a larger circumference pan and mixing manually, that it still turned out alright and that the icing and crumbs experience heightened a mildly underwhelming cake experience. I haven't tried the cake, but I will. Another commenter on this video commented that Gaytime icecreams don't taste as good as they used to. I haven't had one for a while, but I'm going to buy one in the near future and pop in in the freezer, then make the cake, hopefully as successfully or better than you guys did and have a slice and alternating with the ice cream and see how the two compare.
Great video, so much fun to watch.
g'day rob and charlie, if the cake is light and fluffy to taste, and does not taste gritty from sugar granules, it has risen correctly, a mixer would have helped airate the mix a little more but a smaller cake tin would have worked better, but don't worry for you have made a torte which is the type of cake you might find in a coffee shop
two grown ups behaving like two little kids... so nice to see.. Greenes products are all natural. no chemical additives etc.. God bless you both.. love from Melbourne town
Why do you think we dont have kids yet at my age of 32! My mental age is still of an 22 year old!(Or younger) :D
If you want to make the ice cream.
Chef cheat tip for you.
Soften a bit of vanilla ice cream mix in some of the icing. Put in the freezer again to harden up. Put a couple of scoops in a bowl then sprinkle the crumbs over.
You can make it like the ice-cream on a stick but it takes to much work to do it so I wouldn't bother.
Lol thank me later 🤪👍
I think if you used the stand mixer it would of added air into it. With a spoon you can often beat the air out of it
yes definitely should have used the stand mixer or the thermo-mix
100% the beaters are required for aeration and proper ingredient mixing. Wooden spoons are for muffin mixes and other just combined recipes.
Oh FFS, like he needs another reason to use the damn Thermomix /tic
@@robby1816 I think they use it to boil water. LOL.
Yea we should have used the thermomix to blend together
Hey rob ya techniques all wrong 4:15 in. Didn't wanna disappoint ya. U asked for it 😂😂😂😂
Rather than icing, the ice cream has a chocolate-like shell that tastes like caramel, cracks like chocolate and all the biscuit crumbs around the outside.
I bought a packet of the Golden Gaytime cake mix the other day after seeing it in the local Coles. It looked absolutely scrumptious. I'll make it once Lent is finished, as an Easter treat. Your reactions are certainly a good sign.
Oh please do let me know how it tastes!
The cracking of the eggs!!! oh my God man! never seen anyone do it like that. I was so waiting to see the egg go everywhere.
Haha I learnt it from another home cooking channel. It's great because it makes a clean cut and means no shell comes off!
Actually if you smack the eggs on a flat surface, you don't get any shell either. It's only when you crack the egg on a edge that you get non uniform breaking of the shell.
Fishing line wire is always handy to cut the cake
So is dental floss
This cake just didnt rise enough so I didnt see the point in cutting it in half
Thanks for the cooking show and I'll try if I remember to buy a packet you guys did a great show working together in the kitchen
Just take notes about the whisking that everyone told me about :D
@@RobReacts1 thanks
Using a whisk instead of the wooden spoon would have been better as you would have gotten more air into it. If I’d made that cake I still would have sliced it into halves and instead of the toffee icing I would have put a layer of jam inside, would have really made the cake more moorish. Great video, May have to send you a few pairs of kitchen scissors.😆😆
Needed more aeration. A blender would have done that. The toffee mix was a little bit dry.
Overall if you had more volume you could have cut it, and then added the toffee layer between the vanilla cake to break it up. Would have been better than a big chunk of vanilla cake and sugar overload on top.
Probably it settled a bit in transport, making both a bit denser than they'd normally be.
But most importantly the flavour is all there for you to enjoy.
I know at one stage my local Woolies was selling the gaytime crumbs separately in the baking aisle... not sure if they still do though. The ice cream in the tub is a lot sweeter than the original stick so I feel like the icing would be closer to that. Still looks great... good job guys x
BTW Rob... My Pixie T-shirt arrived today.😸 Bless the postie... still delivering it on time despite being surrounded by flooding.
Yes I used to buy the crumbs at Coles too but they stopped selling them. I was seriously lactose intolerant for a couple of years. I would add the crumbs to a vegan hokey pokey Ice cream and a bit of melted chocolate/topping. It was the closest I could get to a Gaytime but nothing beats a slightly melty original Golden Gaytime!
Oh Brilliant! I hope you like the tshirt! Now you have Pixie in your life too!
The cake while simulating the delicious ice cream taste is primarily a transport for the Gaytime goodness going into your mouths. I see that it isn't your first Gaytime experience Rob. 😁
We probably should have mixed it in the thermomix
I'll have to make it, to tell if it tastes like the icecream, my family likes cake, so I'll be eaten. 😋👏
Should have whisked it Rob more air in it the cake would have risen more, but the main mistake was Charlie didn't lick the spoon when applying the topping LOL how could she not lick the spoon mate. At least you enjoyed it so any cake you like is perfect as far as I am concerned mate.
Love to You and Charlie Keep Safe Keep Strong and have a Gay Time.🦘🦘🦘🦘💖💖💖💖
A whisk might have been a better choice than a spoon
We probably should have used out thermomix to blend
Lol did your misses have a gay ole time making it?!🤣🤣🤣
She loved it ;)
I made a toffee / butter scotch cake adding angle delight (yes I got it in the UK section) and brown creaming soda to a vanilla cake recipe it was a Harry potter butter beer themed one with marshmallow top lol I reckon that that flavour cake would be nice with the topping
Looks delicious. As a celiac I’m Green with envy.
Oh that sucks! I have finished the cake on your behalf! 😉
You're very domesticated mate...Charlie does the cooking, you do the eating...great team work! 😅 I'd say the baking tin was too big...Green's make nice cakes. I have never made one of these....that has to change immediately...Nice work! The crumbs on the ice cream are indescribable...you will just have to wait until September 🤷♂️
The tin was actually only 1cm too big. Honestly, the crumb was amazing. Like we said, we could make our own vanilla sponge and just top it with the crumbs!
@@RobReacts1 Ice cream is slightly different I'd say....BUT I will buy the cake mix & the ice cream & then compare...
I'd put the Topping on top or mixed thru a bowl of Ice-cream!!! 😁🥄
I love cake above anything else. Yum looks great, saliva glands are working over time watching. Greens have good products. A lot of people use Gravox to make a quick gravy, but Greens is better, they make chicken and roast beef flavours
Yes! Greens Gravy Granules all the way!
If you really want the complete taste of Australia you have to make some fairy bread. White bread with butter and topped with 100s&1000s. Classic kids party treat.
Cant stand butter so that wont be happening :D
To get height, you needed a mixer. But it still looked yummo.. i need to go to the shops to buy one now..
The lce-cream is a very soft, mix of vanilla and caramel, you can see the difference. I buy 4 packs of individual ice-creams on sticks in the supermarket freezer, and more recently we can also get tubs of ice-cream, with the sauce and crumb mixed into it. They also have crispy creme donut crumbs as an alternate flavour, not better than the original. If you want to try making something, get puff pastry, in 12" square sheets, buy sausage meat or sausages and split them to remove the meat. You could use the skin as a piping bag too. Put a line of meat down one sideof asheet of pastry, cut into 2 6×12" rectangles. Roll the puff pastry around the meat, cut into 2 long rolls or 6 short ones, keep the split side down and bake. Dip a warm sausage roll in tomato sauce... we call the small ones party size and no double dipping, unless it's just both ends before you eat it. If you can get these at your shops, don't bother? All the best.
Ripper Rita spot on beaut
Electric mixer would have introduced more air and made it rise better.
Of all the places you thought this could lead bet you never thought it'd be you & your wife making your own gaytime for the internet, huh? Two fun & easy recipes that go together are Chocolate Crackles (with cophar) & Honey Joys. Classic school fate treats.
I think this would also work on muffins or cup cakes, sightly warned and served with some vanilla icecream.
It will be great for you to try the icecream!
Wow, love that range. Lucky guys.
You did nothing wrong, just needed a smaller diameter tin.
La La La Cake Music 😁❤
I'm envious I've never had a Golden Gaytime cake . I'm sitting here half a world away drooling . You pair of bastards ( only joking ). We use profanity as a term of endearment.
🤣🤣
Get yourself to the shop!
@@RobReacts1 bugger it ,I can't cook so I'm getting me an ice cream.
You can make your own Golden Gaytime crumb. Simply make a biscuit batter using:
1 cup (150g) self-raising flour
2 tbs caster sugar
2 tbs brown sugar
100g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 egg yolk
You preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Combine all the ingredients in a bowl with ½ tsp of salt and mix it together with your hands. In batches, push the mixture through a colander onto a baking tray lined with baking paper to create crumbs, being sure to not overcrowd the tray because you want separate crumbs, not biscuits. You then bake for 10 minutes or until golden, then cool completely. Repeat with any remaining biscuit mixture.
I make a Gaytime mousse which combines a vanilla and a caramel mousse swirled in a bowl, topped with a chocolate ganache and then covered in these crumbs. It's delicious!!!
😋
Now I just want a gaytime
I reckon I might have to buy the cake to test it out
Yes do!!
I'm sure the ice cream will taste better
Wet because of all that extra milk 🤣
Also don't forget to use your spatula to get all the mix out of the bowl.. I'm cooking my GG cake tomorrow, but am going to buy more crumbs and smother it all over...
Oh let me know how it goes compared to ours!
So you’re coming to Aus in September? You got plans on where you’re gonna stay and what you’re gonna do etc?
Only plans at the moment is we land in Melbourne (flights booked), drive along great Ocean road to Adelaide, trip to tassie and maybe sydney. I really want to see AFL play off match or final but not knowing where they will be and which team is a pain.
If you used sandwich cake tins you would've been able to do the layers. They are smaller sized cakes
Yea we have square ones that are smaller, so i will blame charlie for that decision! :D
4 mls over, tch tch, use a teaspoon next time to be more accurate. To increase air don’t use a wooden spoon,they are ok if you’re a stirrer, but if you add each ingredient individually then stir the cake it will fill with air. BTW, salivating over here in Tassie…
haha yea that 4ml made all the difference :D
Come on Rob, give in to your dark side, be rude lol Rob to the rescue with the knife ta rah. My misses was yelling at you to have a container of hot water to dip the spatula in so the icing would spread smoothly hahaha . A hand mixer would have aerated the cake mix and it would rise more. She is so good at giving advice just ask me I know; you have heard the expression "back seat driver" rofl
haha We should have used the thermomix to beat the mixture. Like Charlie said, her stand mixer is in the loft as we have the thermomix which does the same.
Its hard to have a Gaytime on your own!
We have Daniel’s Donuts in Melbourne & they do a Golden Gaytime Donut.
What size cake tin did they recommend on the box? Edit: I just checked the box, 20cm x 7cm cake pan. Yours looks bigger, which would make the cake shallower.
Yeah it looks like a standard 23cm cheesecake tin they used which would explain things.
From Charlies measurement, it was 1cm bigger what we used.
What can i say Gord er Robbo? I made mine in my thermomix. It turned out magnificantly.
haha I knew we should have! :D
@@RobReacts1 It doesn't matter Charlie and Robbo. At least you both had a go and it tasted great. Just keep having fun and keep giving your admirers à look into your lives in England. P.S. youv'e got a nice looking comfy home, good onya both. Love and best wishes Wally.
If you want to visit the country, in the middle of nowhere, I'd be happy to show you around in Sept :)
The ice cream in a gaytime is toffee flavored,
Need always to use an electric beater to incorporate air for at least 3 mins ... goes for al cakes
Packet cake mixes always need an electric mixer. You get more air in it. You could have chucked it in the thermometer for a quick mix also. That’s why it’s flat.
Yea we should have used the thermomix to mix it
Golden gaytime ice creams are so good.
I think you made two little (really little and not fatal at all) mistakes while cooked it: better use mixer to make that mix more airy and better to leave cake in the oven to cool slowly for more gentle and light-ish structure
Dip your palette knife in hot water. Also you could probably have dribbled a little more milk in without ruining it
Do u know how to test if the cake is ready? If u poke it in the center with a knife or something thin an if no cake sticks to it ya all good
You'll love the ice cream when u arrive.
Was your cake tin the right size?
Yes we know that trick. And it was 1cm bigger but that shouldnt have made a huge difference.
I love gaytimes as an ice cream I’ve not seen the cake.. I think it would be weird 😆
Well now you have to try it!
Use a slightly smaller round tin. Then the batter sits higher and the rise is higher.
Sift the mix, add liquids slowly, and use a mixer.
Did the instructions say 3 large eggs? Coz apparently what you call large is what we call medium, so you should have used extra large eggs. That would probably be enough difference to affect the rise.
Im not even sure if we can easily get EXTRA large eggs
@@RobReacts1 really? You’d better add a visit to the egg section of a supermarket to your itinerary then 🤯😂😂
So Charlie and Rob when are you off to the Great British bake off ????
To be fair I keep telling Charlie to apply as we love the show!
Rob - reckon you would have been better using a bricklayer trowel than a spatual ;)
Burnt Butterscotch Angel Delight might go well that.
You need an eggbeater in the utensils drawer, for those times when it’s just a simple mixer job.
Or whisk, or hand held beaters
@@Merrid67play Yeah, I meant the kind with the handle and two beaters linked by gears. Crank the handle and beat that batter! My Mum was a whiz at that thing, she could spin that handle so fast, I got tired just watching her! 😍
Love Golden Gaytimes and the food too
haha!
Dont fuss about the cup measures, our cooking cup has 250ml.
Delicious Australia has a video on youtube, Wazza attempts Golden Gaytime icecream. He nails it. You could do a reaction video and then a video on making your own and try them. For the cake mix it needs work. You need two cakes, or a smaller pan.
I may have to try the ice cream in the summer!
@@RobReacts1 Hope you enjoy them. Todd's Kitchen also has an interesting video on making the Golden Gaytime cake from scratch. It's different. 'ava good weekend.
Using an electric hand mixer on medium speed for approx 3 minutes would have help the cake to rise.
nothing bets the ice creambut its close to it the taste of it .
Looked great!
The outside is caramel chocolate with crumbs
Not sure if anyone has already said but i remember when you could just buy the golden gaytime crumbs on there own in a milo like container to sprinkle on your own ice-cream at home not even sure if they still make it and if anyone comes across one send it to Rob & Charlie to try out.
We would happily have the crumbs on its own!
I wish the rest of the world had Gaytimes.
Looks yum
Tasted great!
Who else thought the milk was a detergent bottle? 😲 Edit: Also, reading all these beater comments & Rob says "someone's gonna be like 'Rob, you're technique's all wrong.' Shade."
haha I can predict my audience! :D
@@RobReacts1 Haha, got it in one. We're sassy but we have got a bit of a perfectionism streak.
An eletric mixer for the cake mix and the icing would make all the difference.
should have used the thermomix to mix it up
Also on the ice cream the outer layer/shell under the crumb is VERY thin. That's maybe why there wasn't much icing... thin outer layer with crumb, think inner layer.
Looks delish
You need to use either a manual whisk rather than the wooden spoon, or a rotary beater or stand mixer.
We should have just used our thermomix to mix it
You needed an electric mixer to mix it properly. Your mix still looked a bit lumpy. May have been better if you’d used a whisk to mix it & put air into it.
Can you put this cake into the fridge after icing it
Yes we did!
didn't sift the flour/cake mix to add air.
No air, no rise. Need to use an electric beater. Also, putting all ingredients in at once can effect the rise. Butter could have been too soft and eggs should be added one at a time and each one beaten in well. Can you tell I am not a fan of the packet mix? And what is with that icing??
We should have just used the thermomix to mix! 🤣 Actually we discovered the icing has the crunchy bits in as well so that was fine 😃
@@RobReacts1 check out a great British RUclips channel called 'Cupcake Jemma'. She's has a business 'Crumbs and Doileys' and has numerous 'how to' videos for best results (and why cakes fail). I've been a dedicated baker for years and love her content. Oh, yeah and throw away the thermomix ;)
@@karencramer6491 haha we have gone from cooking without the thermomix and now with it! We wouldn't go without it now! If you had one, you would understand. We have never eaten such a variety of food and healthy also! And its all so easy for even me to cook. Just eaten a chicken curry from scratch. :)
@@RobReacts1 I've seen too many kitchen gadgets come and go in my lifetime and all end up on the street. That being said, I recently sold my 40yo schlemmertopf for a tidy profit.
Keep up the good work.
@@karencramer6491 the thermomix has been around a very long time 😉
Use a smaller cake tin next time !!
It was only 1cm bigger than recommended as thats what we had.
You guys are coming to Oz in September? That’s great! What State are you visiting?
We have flights to Melbourne. Would love to see some AFL but were planning on driving to Adelaide, taking a trip to Tassie and maybe a quick stop in Sydney
@@RobReacts1 - Maybe Sydney? How do you come to Australia and not visit Sydney
@@AbiNomac well, time basically 😊 but we may come if time permits
You needto sift the mix before you add egg to airate the mixture
The reason it didn’t rise to the right size is because you are using uk electricity and that is an inferior electric power to the Australian electricity.
😂😂😂
Haha I've heard it all now!
Once you have an ice cream, you’ll never go back to the cake. I’ve tried both and in my opinion you just don’t improve on perfection.
Sadly ice cream doesnt transport around the world very well
@@RobReacts1 if the ice cream can’t come to you, then you must go to the ice cream. When you come down under and finally sink your teeth into one, it will possibly be the most expensive ice cream ever eaten.
Haven't seen a gay time cake before.. interesting
Rob & Charlie bringing Aussie things to the Aussies :D
Fyi Australian cup is 250 ml, so 2/3 cup is 166 ml
Measuring in cups is so american! Lets get actual measurements.
needed whisking more if not a electric mixer use a metal whisk