A Chef Tries to Bake This ICONIC Cake | Momofuku Milk Bar Birthday Cake | Sorted Food
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2020
- SO many birthdays have been spent during lockdown, but the boys at Sorted are determined to make sure that Ben has a birthday surprise to remember! In this episode, James tries to recreate Chistina Tosi’s birthday cake that’s famously sold in her bakery, Milk Bar. Does he get anywhere near close to the original? And does Barry offer any visual wisdom along the way? Have a watch to find out!
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As a trained pastry chef, I can tell you firsthand: "It'll be fine" was one of the most common phrases in our kitchen. The trick is to say it at the right times.
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I am ass at making things look pretty like that, that's a big reason I went savory instead of pastry
I was a baker's apprentice back in another lifetime and I can confirm. What hides under the frosting, you can never tell.
As a baker I 100% agree.
The frosting hides any fudges or mistakes~
Hail to the frosting.
That's also my most common phrase. I'm a cake decorator.
James’s voice went so small and high in disbelief when he went ‘how did I burn a cake?’
*I felt so bad for him*
Ben: Makes huge wedding cake for a hundred or so people with a dodgy oven, and still nails it.
James: Makes small birthday cake and burns it 😂
It's okay though, because James is the bread baking expert.
to be fair on James, Ben did make a few test cakes first.
@@AceOfScrubs only because he was unfamiliar with the equipment. James was using standard sorted gear that he's well accustomed to.
@@MegasXaos yeah that's true lol
James makes a huge tasting platter including bread in 30 minutes while Ben makes a dessert/drink thing.
Both have strengths and weaknesses and I think they get on well together. Sorted has contests but it isn't a competition.
@@bcaye Exactly. You couldn't have said it better. They're still good enough mates to laugh at each others failures, though.
So James struggles to make this cake and Ben straight up made Barry’s wedding cake in a shitty barn with rubbish ovens 😂😂
@dylan foley That's debatable. Ben tries out different cuisines more than James. Ben's culinary arsenal is much larger. I would say James is better at the regular English style cooking though.
@@Oyashio202 honestly whenever i hear bens opinion on whatever they’ve cooked it genuinely seems so amazing that he has just so much knowledge about different cuisines not to mention the infinitesimal techniques he seems to know. for example on their christmas eve instagram live, ben was answering questions regarding ingredient replacements in christmas dishes e.g., cranberry jam replacements - and he immediately knew exactly what to recommend, etc. he has honed his craft so much and so well its pretty crazy. i wish we had more of that old french cookbook as i really enjoyed seeing his (+james’) culinary knowledge really shine
James has admitted many times baking is not his thing. He makes a killer sandwich tho.
Seriously, Barry looks like he's just somewhere else in the studio.
Tbh this is Barry, i imagine the studio is just his sort of rustic/modern/ nonsense chic.
Hes even got the matching hobs, by matching i mean they are all turned on.
Its possible. In the last video, Ebbers said Mike was with him in the studio but at a “relatively safe distance over there”
@@harrytodhunter5078 Nah, then he wouldn't have had to video call in, plus his wife & kid wouldn't have been there.
That looks like the corner off the studio. Like it was back when they used to do the first battles like 1yr ago
For people who wants to know, Barry is recording from the basement of the Rose Gold Pinterest Princess Palace, aka his house’s basement
Happy Birthday legend, you helped get a guy that couldn't even fry eggs to try new things
Amazing! That's so good to hear 😀
All of em. Legends.100% one of the best food channels on UA-cam.
How could you not fry an egg? Lol
@Daniel...anyone can fry an egg but not everyone can fry an egg so that it is still edible! Trust me, I've had roommates! LOL
Terri Dormer Eggsactly. Just about anyone can do almost anything, but not everyone can do those things well.
Between a chef who burns toast and another who burns cake, I'm sure the smoke alarm is taking a beating. 😂
There's a chef that can't make toast and a chef that can't take the top off a boiled egg. Breakfast disaster imminent
Look at Ben casually being the most adorable thing I've seen today
I swear I think this every time I watch a video.
So darn cute! And I love all the plants in his place 😁
"That will be suitably sad." That line is James in a nutshell! LOL
This could be a perfect Pass It On. 1 cake, 50 minutes. It's a disaster waiting to happen, and we should all be able to witness it together.
they already did and it was a disaster (S1E11)
11:15
Barry: noo, you can’t it’d never work-
James: I did it 😁
this was just so cute and funny 😭🤣🤣
He said "you have to be confident"
He confidently ignored barry's protest to the bowl.
I lol'd when James just went *confident action. looks up* "I did it" hahaha
As an American, I can say we have all manners of cake pans. Round, square, and any novelty shape you could ever want. I've even used spherical cake pans.
This is why pastry chefs have an entirely different skill set from savory chefs.
“I was so adamant this wasn’t going to be stressful.”
Me: Remembers James crouching on the floor during the Royal Wedding Cake video 🤨
That was a classic!
drat now I gotta go rewatch it ;)
I actually had a cake baking book that told you on the first page to just use the box mix if you like it, because from-scratch cake making is so finnicky and stressful. I learned to make a brilliant lemon-chiffon cake from that book, but I lost it in a move.
@Jay Ar boo go away troll
@Jay Ar, Thumbs down for your homophobic post. And FYI, get educated, they're not gay, the intro isn't gay, they're **British** & the culture is different from ours & that's all there is to it.
“No! They’re useless too!” Those were some very comforting words.
"'if only a chef was there, making it' NO. they're useless too!" LOL
but then at after its done, Barry asked "are you happy?" sweet man!
"just a thin slither" cut slither, sends rest of cake.
sliver, just a thin sliver. 😅🤣
Both Ben and James said “slither” and it made me laugh so much.
@@segoi11 I could use some silver
Oh, good. When I heard them I thought I'd been pronouncing it wrong my whole life.
*sliver
I feel like the roles have been reversed. James is flapping and making mistakes and Barry is being sarcastic and critical. I love it! :D
Barry had the time of his life today!
i was so hoping this was James talking Barry through making this cake
Ben: I have a candle here so when it arrives, I'll blow that out and try the cake.
King of Sass: That'll look suitably sad. I think that's a good idea.
Happy Birthday Ebbers!!!!
Ben's reaction is so precious when finding out this year the guys actually made it better ❤🎉
_Barry roasts James' pastry skills_
James: "I can still hear you."
Barry: "Hello."
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Happy birthday, Ebbers! 🎂🎉
“Baking is not a science”
"It's the thought that counts" is a universal language for "You f***** it up, but I'm still grateful" :)
Happy Birthday Ben!
Barry's busting out laugh when James shows the burnt cake = heart emoji.
James,
I have 40 years in the industry and I can tell you from my experience we chefs burn our weight (If your my size) in food over the years your size 2x... schit and distractions happen.
keep up the great content guys and happy birthday Ben!!
Ben.."you got me balloons"😁
James..."no I got me balloons".
James is just straight savage..Great job though James really cute cake..
Happy birthday when it comes Ben...lots of love from 🇯🇲🇯🇲
Totally agree with Barry on the sweet frosting thing. So many 'Instagram-able' cakes in shops and bakeries now just pile on heaps of frosting and you really can't taste the actual cake itself sometimes
Frosting is the worst part of cake.
that's why I like whipped cream based frostings, not as sweet.
Most of the time that's a good thing. If I wanted sweet bread I'd eat a Hawaiian roll..
animeducky9 That’s the exact reason Tosi created this type of “naked” cake.
I've made this cake countless times for birthdays here in the U.S. and on the topic of the vanilla extract, she advises using imitation vanilla extract because it is what is most comparable to the boxed cake mixes that you would have during your childhood here! I also would challenge James or Ben to try Milk Bar's Arnold Palmer. It takes forever, but it's soooo worth it!
Vanilla extract: get the cheapest brand possible!
James: I can’t get on board with that... 😂
Who could? Cheap vanilla tastes like... like soap smells. It's clearly pungent in all the wrong ways and has none of the deep notes of better vanilla. I'm not saying pop Madagascar vanilla bean paste for your 10-minute custard, but James is right on this one 100%.
Rebeca Stanca easy, it was just a joke.. didn’t mean to trigger the high end vanilla community 😜
@@beckstheimpatient4135 The point is that for a ton of people in the US, the taste of cheap vanilla is what vanilla tastes like, and for someone marketing to a broad audience pulling on that association is likely what sees sales.
You should watch Christina Tossi's making this cake with Bon Appétit's Alison Roman (when she used to work for BA). The video was cringey af. And that white vanilla!
I always use my homemade vanilla extract.
We need a Cake Pass-it-on
Happy birthday to the most adorable, witty, and knowledgable chef, Ben!
I like how this showcased some of the differences in cooking between the us and uk. I'd be interested to see more things you might want to make sure americans know about the differences between our culture's cooking tools and recipes. stuff like alternate ingredients, available tools and instruments, how some things are named /pronounced. stuff liek that.
Yes it was interesting when he mentioned that "Americans work in sheet pans as a standardized size" . My quote is probably off, but it never would have occurred to me that standardized sheet pans are an american thing and not universal. When he mentioned it, Barry made a "hmm" face, like he'd never heard of it.
As a European it's pretty annoying. There's over-reliance on hard to source ingredients, like corn syrup (or golden syrup in the UK), over-reliance on super-standardized tools that NOBODY else uses (those sheet pans, cups - which differ from UK cups - you don't want to start baking a UK recipe using US cups, standardized tablespoons/teaspoons). Or the UKs (Canada too?) insistence on using avoirdupois ounces.
Hi, rest of the world here: GRAMS and MILLILITRES please.
It's one thing to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade, but stuff like what I mentioned above is the bane of my cooking journey. I spend half my research time for a recipe 'translating' it to rest-of-civilised-world standards.
Aussie here, aka pretty much british. Golden syrup is more like molasses. Corn syrup is more like glucose syrup.
Teaspoon and tablespoon measures are actually different sizes from British to American. I never knew sheet pans were a standard thing. Super helpfull to know.
@@beckstheimpatient4135 I hear you. It seems simple enough if you grow up with it and are surrounded by it I suppose.
Professional bakers here still weigh everything, or at least we did everywhere I ever worked.
@@beckstheimpatient4135 my scale does grams and ounces, but I think I could count on one hand the times I've seen something call for a measurement in ounces. Most recipes I've seen from US that uses weight uses grams. Now the cup thing, I didn't know that.
"It's the thought that counts" - Ben to his birthday cake
You guys got it wrong, it's meant to be a birthday RISOTTO
😂 That would be more Ben, you're right.
Or a birthday Quiche!
MizzyDia They already did a squiche!
you have a point
a Rice cake?
If we know James: putting out balloons... “I can’t believe they’ve got me doing this... bloody birthdays...”
Bh
i can imagine his face
The Poor Unfortunate Souls refrain is genius. Well done, James! I can feel the cavities from here! Ebbers is a total sweetie, though, so he deserves the sweetest of cakes!
A tip for pure white frosting if it has a tint of yellow. Take a toothpick. Dip the tip into purple food color and mix that tiny amount into the frosting. The cool color of the purple is just enough to offset the warm slight yellowness of cream cheese and butter frostings. Making a cool frosty white color. My cousin who makes all the cakes for birthdays and weddings in my family taught me that.
I was expecting the cake to be just left on bens doorstep at the end of the video 😂
LOL
@@SortedFood I can only hear LOL in Jamie's voice now!
Ben: "I've got a candle here, so when it arrives I'll blow that out and enjoy the cake."
James: "That'll look stupidly sad... and that's a good idea."
I heard “suitably” but let’s be honest both would be in character for James...
“The moisture is there to obviously make it moist” - Michael Barry Owen
James (while making a video for yt): No one's gonna see this.. lmao
Barry: gives slight encouragement
James: *"aRe YoU cOaChInG mE"*
My cousins own a bakery and I assure you, Americans do make round cakes in round pans. I'm sure many restaurants don't bother to buy round pans and just use sheet pans, but that usually results in cakes with straight sides. Or with a lot of wasted cake, which isn't profitable. I like that Milk Bar has found a way around that, but the number of man hours being paid out for all the extra assembly is more expensive than three cake rounds.
He explained it kind of strangely, but in order to get the visible sprinkles and white sides, you'd need to cut it whether it was baked in a round or square pan anyway. Using the normal baked edges would give a browner, less colorful look. Using the square tin like this means you're getting bigger off-cuts to use for the bottom layer, rather than thin slivers you'd get from trimming a round cake. It's more about the desired end look than what Americans typically use. Though I don't know why she wouldn't just use 3 round tins and have a tiny bit of scrap from trimming the edges, unless the pieced together look of the bottom layer was what she wanted as well.
I love the friendship between you guys, it cycles between "You donut, how are you still even alive", and "I'm really proud of everything you've done"
Feel like they've all have learned so much from James and Ben : )
It's actually kinda sweet to see how much they really love cooking and baking
So this is why Ben did Barry’s wedding cake and not James...
“I wouldn’t go that far, my friend.” - James Alastair Currie, 2020.
his middle name is alastair? i have significantly more respect for him now.
Jenn Brazel He’s such an Alastair.
Haha I know right!!!! That was epic!!!
I would. He would rank pretty low in the technical challenge.
New quarantine tagline, "That'll look suitably sad." 😂
Americans don't always use sheet pans. Here, they're used to avoid browning the edges of the cake so you can get the 'naked' cake effect when you decorate.
She also specifically uses clear vanilla extract to avoid colouring the cake and icing.
When you‘re not sponsored by Kenwood anymore so you immediately switch to KitchAid.
eh . Fair's fair.
BUT Kenwood has really good kitchen tools, my grandma won't use anything else neither would my mom or me
@@JKat94 they are my dream set but I have other financial priorities rn lol. One day!
@@Missmethinksalot1 same here. it would be excellent to have, but the price is too steep for the tangible benefits it has over others
@@InternetKilledTV21 Huh... In my area KitchenAid is two times more expensive than Kenwood and about 3 times or more than other brands. It would cost an arm and a leg for me to get one. Been wanting to get a stand mixer for a long time but I am not ready to invest in a KitchenAid yet...
“It’s a good way to use up waste”
Wait... there’s wasted cake? I can’t process this nonsense.
13:07 Ben looking towards Barry's direction makes me believe that he has magical powers beyond the kitchen.
I'm with Barry on this one, Watching James flap is really entertaining!
Happy Birthday Ben! So you're 21 now?
... no seeing Ben with a silly hat blowing out the candle on the cake?
James well saved!
Happy Birthday, EBBERS! ❤❤❤
PS. James, Christina Tosi isn't famous only because of her appearance on The Chef's Table. She was also a judge on a few of the American editions of Master Chef.
That's so interesting - thank you!
I thought everyone knew this???? I was expecting James to say Masterchef instead of Chef’s Table
It's very cute when she works with kids on Masterchef Junior--highly recommend @sortedfood, they adore her.
Just hopping back here a year later because I'm currently in the middle of making this cake and was mid-stress attack, so I thought I'd come get a little guidance. Completely forgot he'd burnt it, and I'm now feeling 100% better since he still managed to get it to turn out so lovely. I knew I was going to miss this man, but I didn't realize how much 😩
Americans don’t use sheet pans and circles out of them. Christina Tosi does the cut-rounds-out-of-sheet-cakes, but she is literally the only chef I’ve ever heard of doing it that way regularly. She does it this way so the outside of the round doesn’t have that caramelized, darker edge. Much easier (and smarter and less wasteful) to use round pans with bake-even strips.
I feel like this whole video is just James passive aggressively roasting the US lol
No no, he's being judgemental.
It's a very "look at how cute they are using sprinkles in their cake! They are like little babies that like to bake cakes in a sheet pan!" 😂
This is one of those rare youtube channels that wouldn't be any better on tv. I think youtube/online is the perfect place for it :)
Just FYI, lots of Americans use round cake tins. I have never seen anyone I know use a rectangular pan to make a round cake. 😁. Love the videos!
God my heart broke seeing that old footage of Ben. As both a pastry chef and someone who tends to have shitty birthdays, I felt that.
«You got me balloons aswell!!!», that was honestly quite adorable😂
“I was so adamant this wasn’t going to be stressful.” - Me, every year making my little sister’s birthday cake, even though I’ve done it for the past 5 years and know exactly what I’m getting myself into
I fully understand the using of a "low quality" vanilla extract. It has that nostalgia, that kind of back at home or at grandmas house kind of thing because I can damn sure say that never did my grandma ever use anything other than like mccormick and the only times I ever remember my mother using anything other than whatever extract she had was because it was a special occasion.
If you think about it its the same reason you may go back to a certain scotch or gin or what have you because there is something in there that reminds you of something from your childhood that is gone now.
"That'll look suitably sad, so that's a good idea." Oh James...
Its ironic today is my husband James's birthday and this is his favorite show. Possibly the best birthday gift, thanks James and Sorted. 🙂 Ps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!!! 🎉🎉
Happy birthday to your James! 🎂 🎉 🎆
Hope your James didn't have to eat burnt cake :)
@@sarahr7890 LOL, nope.
@@BSWVI Thank you!
Came for the cake. Got a freakin' gunshow as well James!
I live for videos featuring the guns.
For the struggle Jamie’s had to go through he deserves every like
Happy BDay, @Ben! You're underappreciated around here and I love what you bring to the channel. Cheers!
The little card you've added to the video saying to like seems really effective I often forget to like videos but I'll pretty much always like the video at that point
If I'm watching YT on my TV it takes me a few secs to click around the interface to throw up a like. It's made it so much easier having a reminder half way rather than a mad scramble to pause and like before it autoplays the next vid.
Yeah, as much as people complain about being told to like and subscribe its been proven that the prompting makes a difference. Personally I like there card insert as the method of delivery.
Fun tip: Christina Tosi bends her spoons so you can poor the liquid with them and spread the icing if you dont have a pastry brush or offset spatula
But... why? Why bend and ruin a spoon instead of getting a cheap pastry brush - or hell, making one like our grandparents did? With Christina's way you're out of a spoon - unless you like eating soup with a weird bendy spoon.
My birthday is in April, the most extreme point of the lockdown. For my 21st birthday my grandmother and I sat in the car outside of a grocery store and she sung me happy birthday with a lighter as a candle and a miniature parfait as a cake. It was honestly one of the purest sweet moments in my life
Awww I wanted to see Ben's reaction on how it tasted x
I am a sugar fiend! I'm talking diabetic-levels of sweetness. Living in NYC, I've been to Milk Bar. Their stuff is way too sweet...and I LOVE sweet.
James did a great job. Part of being a skilled chef is knowing how to turn disaster into success! Well done, mate!
HAPPY NATAL DAY, BEN!! May your new journey around the sun be filled with love, light, and loads of laughter!
The photo's at the end are just so sweet, Happy Birthday Ben!!
So I'm currently watching all of the Sorted Food videos in newest-oldest order.... My sister got me this cake for my birthday about a week after this video came out in June 2020. Honestly, what a coincidence!
A touch of purple food dye makes for a gorgeous white buttercream frosting.
It’s true!
This is brilliant, next Wednesday we’re having a family bake off and I’m using SORTEDfood’s red velvet cheesecake brownie recipe :)
YUM!!! Let us know how they turn out, it's such a good recipe!
SORTEDfood absolutely! :)
making a video would be inspirational! have fun
Lee Phillips I contemplated filming it actually lol, will do thanks!
It's been quite a while since we've seen Jamie add Chorizo to any of his dishes, so I think Barry cradling his own face is the new drinking game...
Happy birthday Ben! More James is always welcome.
Happy Birthday Ben, have been enjoying your videos now for a couple of years. Keep it up boys. Stay safe.
Ben: You got me balloons!
James: I got Me balloons....
Happy bday Ebbers!!!!
**@13:10ish Ben look is ☺️ to whoever he’s looking at.
Can we please have the sorted wifes in a video!! Perhaps an ultimate battles between the couples!! We need to see this!!
I will miss James..hope he learns much, has fun, and becomes even more inspired on his new job..
Watching a proper chef burn a cake just makes me feel better when I burn stuff.
Ben's reaction to the reveal is so cute!
Awesome and well done James! Great coaching Barry! Happy New Year Ben!!
Loved a chef doing a chef level challenge. Everything associated with David Chang is amazing. My favorite part was Barry saying "Yes! More Sprinkles!"
James's reaction to the cake being burnt is the same reaction I have to my life going pear shaped 😂😂 Happy Birthday Ben!! 🎂🎁🎈🎉
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Its quite funny that my birthday was a couple of days ago, two Ben birthdays in a week. Happy birthday Ben
SURPRISE! Happy belated Birthday Wishes Ben.
Amazing! Happy birthday Ben 🎉🎈🎂
I get weirdly excited when I notice them using that curved jar spatula thing (I’m a kitchen expert!), knowing they discovered it in a gadget video. We can definitely call it “useful.”
Definitely!
The pained little sideways glance when James had to say "inspo"
I loved this episode! It’s so sweet! And James did a great job! 👏 👏
You are beautiful people. Your friendship makes me so happy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
There should've been a mint leaf on the top.. Happy Birthday Ben
The happiest of birthdays, Ben!!
Edit: I was wondering if Ben will even get a piece of that cake but yay! He got to eat it too!
Happy Birthday, Ben! You and all the SORTED crew are awesome, and bring so much joy to our lives; I can only hope that our support as fans brings at least a fraction of that same joy to you.
Happy birthday, Ben. Thank you all for your cheery videos.