How To Make The Perfect BIRTHDAY CAKE | Dessert Person
How To Make The Perfect BIRTHDAY CAKE | Dessert Person Is there anything better than birthday cake? I don’t know about you, but to me, bday cake always means yellow cake and chocolate frosting. This vanilla-scented cake bakes up extremely light and tender, but still has the unmistakable richness and color of a yolky batter, while the super-easy frosting gets balance and tang from cream cheese and unsweetened chocolate. Claire gives lots of pointers for layer cake construction, like what to do if you’re trying to frost it in a 90-degree kitchen (hint: it involves an AC window unit). #ClaireSaffitz #Baking #Cake Classic Birthday Cake Special Equipment: Stand mixer, three 8-inch cake pans Ingredients: Butter for the pans 3 cups cake flour (12.7 oz / 360g) 2 teaspoons baking powder (0.28 oz / 8g) 1 1/2 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt (0.16 oz / 5g) 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2 sticks unsalted butter (8 oz / 226g), at room temperature 1 3/4 cups sugar (12.3 oz / 350g) 1/4 cup neutral oil, such as vegetable or grapeseed (2 oz / 57g) 5 large egg yolks (2.6 oz / 80g) 2 large eggs ( 3.5 oz / 100g) 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1 cup buttermilk (8.5 oz / 240g), at room temperature Classic Cream Cheese Frosting, Chocolate Variation (page 324) Sprinkles, for decorating 0:00 Start 0:34 Intro To Claire Makes Birthday Cake 0:57 Intro/Animation to Dessert Person 1:15 Birthday Cake History 2:13 Ingredients & Special Equipment 3:07 Prepare The Pans 4:15 Make The Batter! 9:22 Fill The Pans and Bake 13:57 Calvin is in my shot 14:17 Claire Gets Upset At Her Oven 15:10 Cream Cheese Frosting 18:17 Level Cake Layers 19:42 Frost The Cake 23:05 We Leave The Kitchen. 23:37 Cake Frosting 25:18 Birthday Party for Cal & Mike 28:35 Kyu s Cats! Thanks for watching! Dessert Person Online: https://www.dessertperson.com/ Claire on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/csaffitz/?hl=en Claire Merchandise: https://www.dessertperson.com/buystuff Penguin Random House Books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ Dessert Person Cookbook Photographer: Alex Lau Food Stylist: Sue Li Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka Video Series: Producer/Director: @VincentCross Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino Editor: Kyu Nakama Animation Credits: Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry Character Rigger: Johara Dutton Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar
