Cake Birthday Explained Clearly

today I'm going to make my mother a birthday cake so to start I'm going to make a batch of brownies I have everything weighed out and measured out in here I have 12 oz of semisweet chocolate they are not chocolate chips even though they look like chocolate chips a cup of unsalted butter 1 and 1/4 cups of golden brown sugar or light brown sugar a half a cup of granulated sugar a half a teaspoon of salt four whole eggs two egg yolks a teaspoon of vanilla and then I have how much flour is it again I have to read my own book okay 1 and 1/4 cups of allpurpose flour and a/4 of a cup plus a tablespoon of Dutch processed cocoa first things first I'm going to put this chocolate onto a pot of warm

water and allow it to melt okay so normally this is when I add both my sugars light brown sugar and granulated sugar but I saw a post on Instagram recently by food scientist and she suggested mixing the sugars with eggs first and they melt better I'm going to try it her way and I'm going to whisk all of this together and then add it to the melted chocolate and butter o I'm not going to waste any of this now I want to make sure it's fully Incorporated but I don't want to over mix you never want to over mix a brownie I'm going to fold in the flour and the cocoa oh I didn't follow my own instructions of preheating the oven my God yo come on I mean the good thing is I have a professional baking oven and it Heats really fast did that sound like

bragging Eli I just didn't mean it to sound like I was trying to brag like my oven is better than yours it is but that's not what I meant I just wanted to show you what the brownies look like when they're baked can you see that Eli at that nice skin they're baked but I have to let them cool completely before I start to build this up as a cake a okay it's time to make one of my favorite things in the world caramel for this recipe you need sugar water whipping cream and unsalted butter you can also make this with salted butter if you wanted it to be a bit salty I'm going to pour my water into my pot and then I'm going to sprinkle the sugar over it I like putting the water first to make sure the sugar is saturated in

here this is half a cup of whipping cream and I've gone ahead and heated it up a little you just want to heat it a little or defrost it you don't want it to be cold because there's such a drastic temperature difference between the piping hot sugar and cold cream from the fridge that it really bubbles up and you can burn yourself so normally my recipe calls for a/4 of a cup of butter and I've decided to add 1/3 cup cuz I want it to be extra Rich put your si right over it and this way we can pour that piping hot caramel into the butter it will start to melt and it will also stop the caramel from cooking any further come over to the stove top kids I don't want any sugar granules burning

at the bottom without my knowledge turn it up to high heat so the lid is on and when I start to see this bubble and boil I'll remove the lid all right that was good it's a little darker than I wanted it but it's still good I'm just going to let it um melt the butter naturally and then I will give it a nice stir I'm going to set this aside to cool completely woo hot stuff now I'm going to make my three ingredient peanut butter cookies the three ingredients are one cup of sugar one egg and one cup of smooth peanut butter the first thing I want to do is whisk together the egg with the sugar now I'm going to add my peanut butter this feels like it won't come together at first cuz it's so thick

but eventually it does one good stir and scrape down the sides make sure everything is combined now I need to chill this dough for 30 minutes and then I'm going to scoop it out and bake it oh boy okay that is beautiful Well normally I do the fork design cuz you know that's very traditional peanut butter cookies but I don't think I have to do that as she does it I'm going to take these cookies of the oven they bake around 8 to 10 minutes maybe 12 minutes keep an eye on them so what I'm going to do now is roll some slabs of fondant to cover the sides of my planter box see when I cut through it you saw like air bubbles that's why I need to knead it to get those out otherwise when I roll they

appear on the surface and that's why I have the PIN to pop them uh oh shoot that was excellent I can't believe this happen I mean that was an excellent catch I'm going to mix some paint um and start to paint the wood grain I'm going to make a peanut butter cake what I'm going to do is add some butter if this was a recipe that wasn't oilbased I'd be more upset about what happened I'm going to let it go I've got I'm going to put my brown sugar in first brown sugar golden brown sugar I have vegetable oil smooth peanut butter this recipe is on the blog at how toake it.com and vanilla with a paddle I'm going to cream all of this together my eggs are cracked and ready to go this is buttermilk and then this is my

all-purpose flour to which I'm going to add baking powder baking soda and salt and then I'll just mix all this together so eggs will be next then I'll alternate wet and dry and then finally peanut butter chips this is optional your choice you could also do it with chocolate chips I'm going to pop this in the oven for the base of my mom's cake the brownie is going to be at the base because it is the heaviest part I spread a little bit of peanut butter on the board and that's just to stop the

brownie from moving and I'm going to cut my peanut butter cake so now I'm going to layer this into two where're to start oh my God I forgot about the cookies oh my God they're being layered in here oh wow okay yeah like oh maybe they were like a side attraction oh no MM I'm going to pipe some chocolate buttercream as a fence I need to chill this so that the peanut butter doesn't push it away I'm going to spread a little bit of pure peanut butter peanuts salted peanuts kind of want this cake to be like a like some kind of a chocolate bar you know what I mean here we

go beautiful just a DOT of chocolate buttercream in all the gaps and then that will help the cake to stick is I'm going to spread a thin layer of caramel now for the pretzels oh that is do you see that wo okay so I'm going to make some dirt for my planter box I'm using a combination of Oreos and fudos I didn't even know they started to make double stuffed fudos yeah they do for the planter box I need to bury these little bottles inside I'm using six and this way I can put a little little bit of water and the flower stems will fit in these okay so I'm going to ice the sides I ran out of ganache thank goodness I had some brown sugar buttercream cuz this is really just to make sure that the wood panels stick to

the sides of the cake okay so I need the slats to be taller than the cake so it will hold the dirt I enjoy this now when after the dirt's in want to have some little reinforcements in the corners so I'm going to cut those out of this fondant I'm going to work on painting these raw edges just a little bit right now it just looks too flat I have to be careful not to touch the already painted portions but what I'm going to do is sink the bottles in now I've just covered the opening with clean paper towel because I don't want cake crumbs to get inside or Oreo and fudio crumbs to get inside so

I'm going to sink these in and when I'm ready I'll take these out and then I'll cut flowers and put them in okay so it's time to add the dirt which is just Oreos and fudos that I put in the food processor and I'm going to use the dropper to place water in flowers so I'm thinking I'll alternate colors yeah you want to try and buy organic flowers that haven't been sprayed or maybe you're lucky enough to have your own garden then you can just pluck them from your own garden that's what I used to do with my mom's flowers I wanted to make a little sign that said mom's Garden there you have it's Mom's Garden my mom she used to love to Garden especially flowers so I wanted to make her this planter box of

course I'm not cutting my mom's cake don't even ask me to do that so uh everyone help uh wish my mom a happy 83rd Birthday and I'll see you next week