The level of commitment to the original cake's look, the french toast stick transformation, the thematic and actually funny jokes made this video an absolute joy to watch
This is truly the best rendition of this cake I have ever seen, nearly every other edition uses fondant which is absolutely disgusting. You are the chosen one Alvin!
This is my idea of the Minecraft Cake. Minecraft origins from Sweden. A traditional cake from here would be "pannkakstårta"(Translation=pancake cake ) If you look it up it as reasonably similarity to the Minecraft Cake. In Sweden we would then take traditional Swedish Pancakes layer them with any local berries jam and cream sugar etc. So each layer would be a pancake sugar, cream and jam. On top of the cake should be a cream layer with fresh strawberrys. This is what i allways thought the Minecraft Cake was. Which is also why i think the receipe is closer to a pancake then a cake.
I'm planning a Minecraft themed birthday party for my nephew since he really loves the game, I'm keeping this on the back burner for when that day comes.
I've always thought that the "True" Minecraft cake should be a Tres Leches cake. A meringue based cake with three kinds of milk fits the ingredients perfectly, and they're often served with cherries on top like the Minecraft cake.
Not going to lie, I would eat those french toast sticks a lot faster than a slice of yellow cake. That said, I do like seeing how you take recipes from games and make real :)
Steve's metabolism is beyond insane. Man instantly digests everything that enters his stomach and uses it to fuel a literal inability to get tired and a Wolverine-like healing factor.
To be fair Steve is like 6 foot 6 inches weighed like a 600+ pounds on the low end and can run around carrying millions of pounds Makes sense that he eats a lot
@@yocapo32 Because it tastes bad? It's not solid sugar, it's also a lot of corn syrup and often gelatin. There's also more to taste than just ingredients. Better to just use modelling chocolate or a stiff royal icing.
@@yocapo32 like another person said, it's not just solid sugar, it's the corn syrup and gelatin. as well as that, the texture is like play doh and you can taste any food coloring in it. looks nice for decoration, but awful to eat
Most likely strawberries. To me it looks like the cake is based on gräddtårta/jordgubbstårta which is just like an easy to make cake we eat around summer (when the strawberries are ripe). You can copy the names since they have IKEAlanguage letters if you want to google and see how it looks.
okay, now I wanna try making those fried syrup french toast pancake sticks that you made with the failed "game-accurate" cake. those sound actually amazing.
Alvin, I really appreciated that you took the time and effort to reuse the "maybe it will work cake". I have always wanted food shows to waste less food and I think your thoughtfulness was creative and inspiring. Thank you and your Minecraft cake looked amazing
I was honestly quite impressed with how he used it as pancake. When he said it tasted like pancake instead of cake the first time I didn’t know he meant it 😅
Seeing the raw wheat and eggs sitting on the table really makes me want to see you make something from absolute scratch. Like harvesting the wheat, milling the grain into flour, and so on for a recipe! Like a homesteader❤
Since Minecraft is a Swedish game, I would guess the cake actually is a strawberry cake with whipped cream on top (never frosting!). This is the second most common cake in Sweden :)
Thank you for NOT using fondant for the frosting, though it would have made the frosting a lot easier to decorate. I love how you used the basic game ratios for the original cake. I've always loved seeing people try to make this recipe. Thank you for trying your hand at it!
You can “leaven” by separating the eggs and making a meringue of the whites, folding in your sugar and yolks and milk, then mixing in the flour, then baking.
@@spookycakes4667 yes, because it traps air pockets in the mixture. It’s how they made cakes rise before they had baking soda if they weren’t using yeast.
@@Luffy-su1ho obviously not just like this, it was just a vanilla cake with vanilla icing baked in a square pan and had red fondant squares on it and you really didn’t want to eat the red squares but dang it, it was cool
This is my favorite cooking channel because you guys use every excuse to eat leftovers and never waste things. Me being used to living poor at one point brings me great joy.
If you count the milk for also making butter and more quantities of ingredients, you can get pretty close to making an edible cake, however without the baking soda it will taste very different. You would just have pancakes with icing on top.
This guy is legendary because he actually tries to make it as close as possible.with the kraby patty video he actually made it out of veggie products instead of beef and normal people would have done red foundont instead of actual raspberry squares.
You're making me remember being a kid. In Sweden what we mean by "pancakes" is the thin ones, and after we'd eaten pancakes and had leftovers, we'd cut the leftovers into ribbons and fry it in a mix of sugar and butter. mmmm.
I found it immensely impressive of how perfectly you made the the symmetry of the cake. Everything from the corners to the red raspberry squares were perfectly symmetrical.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently, recreating the LeBlanc Curry from Persona 5. I know there are some recipes out there already, but I'd love to see the BCU's take on it
Suggestion, try whipping the eggs and sugar together at the start, to a creamy state, then add the flour. And bake it in the oven, before using some heavy cream (is essentially milk based :P ) to make whipping cream with a touch of sugar to use as the frosting part.
Game logic wise you needed another white box to act as the output. There isn't a craft button in minecraft, you fill out the crafting blueprint in the crafting bench window (like you did) then you pull the cake out of the output window providing you with a cake and clearing the crafting window. By the logic established in this video your original process could have been working, but without an output window there was no way to know.
I remember when 7y/o me tried to make cake by putting milk, eggs, sugar and bread (because i didn't have wheat) on a blender because of the Minecraft crafting recipe
idk who else needs this but I did... so here's a reference if you don't have a scale at home. 2 oz sugar = ~ 1/3 cup, 180 grams eggs ~ 10 tbsp or 3-4 eggs, 140 grams egg yolk ~ 8 tbsp, 240 grams milk ~ 1 cup, 550 grams flour ~ 4 1/3 cup, 550 grams sugar ~ 4 1/3 cup, 340 grams butter ~ 1 1/2 cup this list is really only to get an idea of the amounts, I'm not entirely sure how accurate my research was.
This was amazing Alvin. The cake looked amazing and the tie in of Minecraft lingo and it’s crafting recipes for the cake in game was a nice detail. Also I’m criminally early to this video for once
I’d have separated the eggs and made, variously, a meringue and a sabayon for the leavening. Fold them together, add the flour in three batches, and fold in the milk.
Quickest I've caught a Babish notification in a hot minute xD Unfortunately I'm awake at 9am cause my car had recalls and I had to go to the dealership, but now I get to enjoy this :D
@@Xarth I hope so too 😂 I caught a ride back home while the mechanics do their stuff (something to do with a part in the brake system having the potential to get stuck, and the passenger airbag being faulty) fingers crossed it's done before I have to go to work tonight lol
The level of commitment to the original cake's look, the french toast stick transformation, the thematic and actually funny jokes made this video an absolute joy to watch
Alvin has seriously upped the game. What a great addition.
Plus, we have all wanted to eat a minecraft cake once in our lives, and Alvin delivered
It has a little something for everyone!
@@Safaid862 the game
like the video game
haha
forget the cake, i need them french toast sticks😩
i really appreciate alvin showing how he uses the scraps/secondary recipe so i will absolutely be making those french toast sticks
It’s my favorite part of Alvin’s videos actually - the side quests err side recipes.
You've just made every 10-year olds birthday party infinitely better
YES
And 37 year olds birthdays too
Fun fact: kids who were 10 years old when Minecraft had its official 1.0 release back in 2011 are now 21 years old.
@@kubaGR8 Yep. Turning 22 in a month. Insane stuff. No game has ever taken over the entirety of UA-cam TWICE. Notch is RIIIIICH dawg.
I can’t believe you pulled that off I am speechless
This is truly the best rendition of this cake I have ever seen, nearly every other edition uses fondant which is absolutely disgusting. You are the chosen one Alvin!
Also the best rendition of a game-accurate recipe
Fondant was used by the mother of a friend of mine, and let's be honest, I thought it tasted like gum.
@@megafan2001 I believe you can flavour fondant.
@@megafan2001 tastes like playdough
Have you tried marshmallow fondant? Complete game changer for me!
This is my idea of the Minecraft Cake.
Minecraft origins from Sweden.
A traditional cake from here would be "pannkakstårta"(Translation=pancake cake
) If you look it up it as reasonably similarity to the Minecraft Cake.
In Sweden we would then take traditional Swedish Pancakes layer them with any local berries jam and cream sugar etc. So each layer would be a pancake sugar, cream and jam.
On top of the cake should be a cream layer with fresh strawberrys.
This is what i allways thought the Minecraft Cake was. Which is also why i think the receipe is closer to a pancake then a cake.
That sounds delicious!
Wait, if it is a pancake but cake, then...
*THE CAKE IS A LIE*
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Ooh that sounds mouth watering 😋
@@s1lence_tiramisu2005 portal and Minecraft reference nice
I'm planning a Minecraft themed birthday party for my nephew since he really loves the game, I'm keeping this on the back burner for when that day comes.
If I had this cake as a kid it would have been a dream come true 👍
u will fail
@@tie7626 glad to see someone still has faith in people
@@crambone1237 You have to make it exactly with the game's recipe for extra authenticity.
Do it!
I didn't even know Babish had other chefs on this channel. Alvin was delightful and entertaining to watch! More humor is always welcomed
Honestly this feels a lot more like the old BWB than Babish's actual episodes nowadays.
Tbh I was wondering what happened to babish lol. Did he just mostly retire and hand over the work to a younger dude?
It is the babish culinary universe after all
Look at tasty he is on there too
cooks. not chefs
Looks sorta fun to eat, definitely an interesting recipie for a party
now you can play minecraft irl
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@@hio.hinomaru21 everybody gangsta till someone brings a flint and steel to the party
@@Emp31 *Everybody gansta till a player brings end crystals and tipped arrows*
should get some filling, otherwise too plain
I really aprecciate that you didn’t just trow away the first “cake”, in general the food waste problem is not given the dimension it actually is
I threw away most of a bag of flour, just to spite your moralizing.
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The level of detail and faithfulness to the game including the 7 slices segment makes me so happy. Thank you for the amazing episode!
I've always thought that the "True" Minecraft cake should be a Tres Leches cake. A meringue based cake with three kinds of milk fits the ingredients perfectly, and they're often served with cherries on top like the Minecraft cake.
ohhhhh- that could be the one
mmm sounds delicious
Yeah!
No, the cake is supposed to be a Red Velvet cake.
@@roguefever No it’s not the inside isn’t even red when you eat it in the game lol
Not going to lie, I would eat those french toast sticks a lot faster than a slice of yellow cake. That said, I do like seeing how you take recipes from games and make real :)
Same here, I’m using the French toast sticks recipe for myself now
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The fact that Steve can just down this whole cake in like five seconds if he’s hungry enough is insane.
Steve needs all the calories since he deadlifts 150 tons a day.
Steve's metabolism is beyond insane. Man instantly digests everything that enters his stomach and uses it to fuel a literal inability to get tired and a Wolverine-like healing factor.
@@bluewarbler9034 He goes insane when he doesn’t sleep, that’s why the phantoms exist.
@@JohnZiTAB but otherwise he doesn't really need to sleep
To be fair Steve is like 6 foot 6 inches weighed like a 600+ pounds on the low end and can run around carrying millions of pounds
Makes sense that he eats a lot
8:34 bro was so hungry he ate the knife too
mmmm knife
Now make the mushroom stew from Minecraft and the weird funny stew too.
in this minecraft mushroom stew one of the mushrooms is poisonous hahahahahahahhaha
Never have I thought about how 3 buckets of milk, sugar, eggs and wheat can't make a cake irl
It can make pancakes
@@Gilgamesh-Fate-assassin pancakes and a LOT of leftover milk
@@ayaderg milk for eating with pancake
Honestly what it did make was way more edible than I expected!
It’s has no leavening aka no rising agent so it can’t develop that spongy texture unless you beat the eggs how you would do for a soufflé
I'm impressed by the frosting and berry squares! Usually, bakers just go for fondant, but you took it to the next level!
i was a little afraid it was going to be fondant too, im glad they made it edible instead!
@@ATV0222
I really don't get why people hate fondant, it's literally just solid sugar.
@@yocapo32 Because it tastes bad? It's not solid sugar, it's also a lot of corn syrup and often gelatin. There's also more to taste than just ingredients. Better to just use modelling chocolate or a stiff royal icing.
@@yocapo32 like another person said, it's not just solid sugar, it's the corn syrup and gelatin. as well as that, the texture is like play doh and you can taste any food coloring in it. looks nice for decoration, but awful to eat
Fondant "bakers" are hacks
I always figured the berries in Minecraft were lingon berries, seeing as Mojang is a Swedish company. Raspberries sound very tasty as well
They definitely look like lingonberries since they're so round, but I suppose the flavor is pretty similar
Most likely strawberries. To me it looks like the cake is based on gräddtårta/jordgubbstårta which is just like an easy to make cake we eat around summer (when the strawberries are ripe). You can copy the names since they have IKEAlanguage letters if you want to google and see how it looks.
@@mintpaintome "IKEAlanguage letters" 🤣
Thank you! I'd been wondering what those berries were for a while!
I assumed they were candied cherries.
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okay, now I wanna try making those fried syrup french toast pancake sticks that you made with the failed "game-accurate" cake. those sound actually amazing.
Alvin, I really appreciated that you took the time and effort to reuse the "maybe it will work cake". I have always wanted food shows to waste less food and I think your thoughtfulness was creative and inspiring. Thank you and your Minecraft cake looked amazing
I was honestly quite impressed with how he used it as pancake. When he said it tasted like pancake instead of cake the first time I didn’t know he meant it 😅
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With the "maybe" cake, perhaps you could separate the egg whites out, beat them into a meringue, and then fold in the yolks, sugar, and flour.
i was thinking the same thing, i was wondering if the egg white would be enough of a riser
Yeah, that seems like the most accurate way to make them.
Yeah so a genoise
I wish there was a written recipe of this because it's annoying to have to rewatch this a hundred times to make my son his birthday cake 😂
I wrote it, do not worry.
Did it work??? I’m trying to do the same thing
Seeing the raw wheat and eggs sitting on the table really makes me want to see you make something from absolute scratch. Like harvesting the wheat, milling the grain into flour, and so on for a recipe! Like a homesteader❤
It's weird seeing Alvin make something in less than 10 hours
FR HIS UBE FROM STEVEN UNIVERSE TOOK DAYS
Since Minecraft is a Swedish game, I would guess the cake actually is a strawberry cake with whipped cream on top (never frosting!). This is the second most common cake in Sweden :)
It’s not a sweddish game
Thank you for NOT using fondant for the frosting, though it would have made the frosting a lot easier to decorate. I love how you used the basic game ratios for the original cake. I've always loved seeing people try to make this recipe. Thank you for trying your hand at it!
8:01 bro this looks like an image, i seriously am flabergasted at seeing this
I remember when I was 7 years old, my mother made me a Minecraft cake for my b-day, it looked amazing. I will never forget about it.
This is probably the most creative and nostalgic recipe
You can “leaven” by separating the eggs and making a meringue of the whites, folding in your sugar and yolks and milk, then mixing in the flour, then baking.
Will this make the cake more airy? As opposed to dense? Like will there be more rise?
@@spookycakes4667 yes, because it traps air pockets in the mixture. It’s how they made cakes rise before they had baking soda if they weren’t using yeast.
The milk slowly leaking out of the tiny buckets was hilariously subtle
I love how at 1:08, you can see the three little buckets leaking out.
Julien Solomita's cake was almost identical to this, amazing.
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I always thought the cake was like a very classic Swedish strawberry cake - with whipped cream and strawberries on top
I love the little pails leaking slowly on the table
“I’ve got this… I’ve got this… I don’t have this…”
4:04 you can tell he knows his stuff when he makes the classic minecraft damage sound effect
I did a Minecraft cake for my sons birthday party a few years back. Turned out awesome. Awesome video.
I'm glad Alvin is keeping the OG binging with babish spirit alive in these trying times
I remember one year when my mom made me a Minecraft cake for my birthday, it was awesome.
It seems like your mom loves u a lot :D
Wow, really? Was it like this?
@@Luffy-su1ho obviously not just like this, it was just a vanilla cake with vanilla icing baked in a square pan and had red fondant squares on it and you really didn’t want to eat the red squares but dang it, it was cool
This is my favorite cooking channel because you guys use every excuse to eat leftovers and never waste things. Me being used to living poor at one point brings me great joy.
1:13 Well, it looks like the cake is indeed a lie......Congrats on the achievement!
Every Minecraft player thought they didn't need this, but as soon as we see it. We get in love with it.
A lot of people thinks that all of the milk and sugar goes intro the cake, but the cake has the icing (milk and sugar combined)
True, I imagined that's why the milk was always put on top of the grid, because it makes up the frosting.
@@NerdMiGerd Exactly!
If you count the milk for also making butter and more quantities of ingredients, you can get pretty close to making an edible cake, however without the baking soda it will taste very different. You would just have pancakes with icing on top.
@@temmieio3731 You can whip the eggs
@@temmieio3731 can't you use the milk to do the baking soda?
A lot of people have done this recipe over the years but the decoration was always fondant, thank you for actually making a cake
“If you’re not spilling while you’re baking, you’re just baking…” -Dark Alvin, 2022
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so nice to see Alvin in videos, I was missing his own content on his channel, and seeing him here is great
This guy is legendary because he actually tries to make it as close as possible.with the kraby patty video he actually made it out of veggie products instead of beef and normal people would have done red foundont instead of actual raspberry squares.
I would've expected the "accurate" recipe to just be closer to a pound cake, making the milk into butter like how the wheat was made into flour.
You're making me remember being a kid. In Sweden what we mean by "pancakes" is the thin ones, and after we'd eaten pancakes and had leftovers, we'd cut the leftovers into ribbons and fry it in a mix of sugar and butter. mmmm.
The Alvin segments are by far the best. Making things that look appetizing in some media and then creating them irl.
Hearing the OG (aka Beta) tracks from Minecraft will always bring peace.
someone out there is gonna recreate this recipe for their 9 year old's birthday and it will be the peak of their life
I found it immensely impressive of how perfectly you made the the symmetry of the cake. Everything from the corners to the red raspberry squares were perfectly symmetrical.
I never smiled so widely at a thumbnail. Also, your commentary is so nice! I love the fact that you found a use for a happy cooking accident.
I've been thinking about this a lot recently, recreating the LeBlanc Curry from Persona 5. I know there are some recipes out there already, but I'd love to see the BCU's take on it
Yes please!!!
Yes with Alvin dressing up as Joker/Ren and Andrew as Sojiro
@@dianalunagamer6451
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Add in the coffee too!
I think, because of this video, that the original Minecraft Cake recipe should be changed.
Okay but how awesome would a Minecraft themed birthday party be if everyone could make their own little Minecraft accurate cakes-
Thanks Alvin. Its not often that the most marginalized group, Gamers, are properly represented in cooking media
the most suppressed group of all
Remember Mark Chiodano from Eurogamer?
These video's are so calming and entertaining to watch
Oh what if they actually played Sweden in the background
When I ask for a Minecraft I don't mean a Minecraft themed cake, I mean *THIS* absolute beauty.
5:42 everybody gangsta until the cake starts making nether portal noises
This has to be one of the most impressive thumbnails on the channel. So square!
Loving these anime/arcade with Alvin episodes. Need to bring back some Kendall ones too!
Suggestion, try whipping the eggs and sugar together at the start, to a creamy state, then add the flour. And bake it in the oven, before using some heavy cream (is essentially milk based :P ) to make whipping cream with a touch of sugar to use as the frosting part.
I made something similar to this for my brother’s birthday 2 years ago. Yours looks better though
This guy's a chad, he fights the Ended dragon with a Diamond pick
Game logic wise you needed another white box to act as the output. There isn't a craft button in minecraft, you fill out the crafting blueprint in the crafting bench window (like you did) then you pull the cake out of the output window providing you with a cake and clearing the crafting window. By the logic established in this video your original process could have been working, but without an output window there was no way to know.
Ah yes, Minecraft cake. The only cake you can stand on and still eat after.
u can eat it WHILE ur standing on it!
It's so uncanny to see a voxel model in real life, great job!
Minecraft has a special place in my heart ❤️
I remember when 7y/o me tried to make cake by putting milk, eggs, sugar and bread (because i didn't have wheat) on a blender because of the Minecraft crafting recipe
In Minecraft, this cake heals you but in real life, this cake takes 20 years off your life, and gives you an extra 100 pounds.
I love that you guys don't waste when possible. Fun experiments don't have to waste perfectly edible food!
Man, that thumbnail gave me instant nostalgia.
Have you guys watched Ann Reardon's video about the same subject? She had a very different take on the "game-accurate ingredient" cake...
idk who else needs this but I did... so here's a reference if you don't have a scale at home.
2 oz sugar = ~ 1/3 cup,
180 grams eggs ~ 10 tbsp or 3-4 eggs,
140 grams egg yolk ~ 8 tbsp,
240 grams milk ~ 1 cup,
550 grams flour ~ 4 1/3 cup,
550 grams sugar ~ 4 1/3 cup,
340 grams butter ~ 1 1/2 cup
this list is really only to get an idea of the amounts, I'm not entirely sure how accurate my research was.
massive respect to alvin for not wasting the food. i can say from experience that is definitely more of an asian skill.
This was amazing Alvin. The cake looked amazing and the tie in of Minecraft lingo and it’s crafting recipes for the cake in game was a nice detail. Also I’m criminally early to this video for once
Alvin finally made the cake from Minecraft!!
8:42~ Alvin, I think I saw your diamond pickaxe stuck in the floor of the top studio lol
Honestly I'm more interested in the French toast recipe. I never thought about making them like that
Bro placed the ingredients on a counter instead of a crafting table and is surprised when it doesn't work
i like that you didn't waste the "maybe it will work" cake, and instead turned it into something better
Ok but Alvin doing GoodTimesWithScar's little "hello there" at the start? Perfection
Would love to eat this at party, the french toast sticks as well, great stuff as always! Love the creativity and effort here
Alvin is always so cute when he realizes the thing he made is delicious 😊
8:35- HE JUST ATE THE KNIFE
This channel is turning into "Alvin's Baking Channel"
05:55 brown brick
Love the frosting you chose to do. I was so worried it would be a fondant version, and that always makes me sad.
I’d have separated the eggs and made, variously, a meringue and a sabayon for the leavening. Fold them together, add the flour in three batches, and fold in the milk.
I remember my mom making me a minecraft cake for my birthday a few years ago! Should do it to my younger sibling in their birthday!
I've always thought of the Minecraft cake as a Tres Leches with strawberries on top cake, because of all the milk required.
1:20 it didn’t work because from your perspective you had the recipe upsidown
Quickest I've caught a Babish notification in a hot minute xD
Unfortunately I'm awake at 9am cause my car had recalls and I had to go to the dealership, but now I get to enjoy this :D
I love the positive perspective, I hope your time at the dealership goes smoothly!
@@Xarth I hope so too 😂 I caught a ride back home while the mechanics do their stuff (something to do with a part in the brake system having the potential to get stuck, and the passenger airbag being faulty) fingers crossed it's done before I have to go to work tonight lol
Next time you should make the calamari gumbo from Mass Effect 2.
i love the lack of waste, its a new for this show that i wouldnt get rid of
0:24 did that cow just wink after getting milked?
Yes
Yes he did