Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we are making a desk
cake complete with cute little accessories to go on top that are all
edible of course ... and we have an EPIC competition this week where you could
win a laptop or your very own camera and I'll tell you how you can enter that
competition at the end of the video. Now today's video is sponsored by Wix. Thank
you Wix for that, there is a link to Wix below where you can get started
creating your very own stunning website today. I started my website seven
years ago now and I never dreamt it would lead me where it has I didn't
think it would be this popular. Now to make this cake the first thing you need
to do is make up a triple batch of my rich chocolate cake and bake it in four
trays. While that is baking tip some tempered chocolate onto some alfoil and
spread it out. Once that is starting to set cut around the template and you'll
find the template and all the recipe details on the recipe post on howtocookthat.net
and there's a link to that below. Round off each of the corners and
then scrape your knife along the edges just to smooth them and round them a bit.
then brush these pieces all over with silver luster dust on the front and the
back. Print the template designs onto rice paper if you don't have an edible
ink printer there are websites online where you can order them and they'll
print it for you and post it out. Rub the back of the rice paper with a
little bit of melted cocoa butter or you could use white chocolate and carefully
put it into place. Use some non-stick baking paper to press it down flat so
that you don't rub on the image with your fingers and then pipe a thick line
of chocolate along the back of the base. Add the screen into place leaning it up
against a wall to hold it on an angle there while that chocolate sets. Once it
is set you can brush that line of chocolate at the back with silver to
disguise it. I started my website when my youngest was
born during night feeds, I'd type out my recipes on my secondhand laptop
one-handed but even with great technology I still love using paper to
jot down ideas so we need to make a notepad. Just cut a rectangle of white to
the size shown on the template and then use your knife to draw lines down the
side of the pages. Roll out some cardboard coloured fondant if that even
is a specific colour and cut it closely around the notepad so it looks like the
back. Using a metal skewer poke holes into the top of the notepad and then use
a knife to make indents across the pad for lines and then roughly paint on some
blue food colouring. Now use a damp piece of cotton ball to wipe off the food
coloring and you'll end up with just the color that is sunk down into the
indents so it looks like straight ruled lines. Now for the tricky part take a
thin snake of fondant and place it into the hole at the top and let it hang over
the edge and then just trim it off. Once you've put one of those into each hole
lift up the notepad and tuck that fondant underneath.
use your knife to straighten them up so they're all roughly on the same angle.
now for the cup ... roll a cylinder of brown fondant and make it about the size of
the circle shown on the template then you want to wrap that in a strip of
white fondant. Mark where you're going to need to cut it, unroll it a little bit
and then trim it across and roll it back up.
roll the snake of white for the handle and then use your finger to flatten it
slightly and then shape it into the shape of your handle and trim it to
length if it's too long like mine is and then use your knife to make sure that
it's sitting straight and then you just want to leave that down flat for it to
go firm. Add some cake shine to the top of your drink by spraying it onto some
baking paper and then just letting it drip in. Then add a couple of
marshmallows if you've ever been out for coffee with me you'll know I don't drink
tea or coffee I just like hot chocolates with marshmallows so that's
what needs to be on my desk. Put a rice paper 'make it a great week' on the front
and then wrap around some baking paper to smooth that on. Once your handle is
firmed up you can add that to the side. Book time! Trim a piece of fondant to
make it straight on three sides roughly the size of you cover, a little bit
bigger is good and again this is printed on rice paper using edible ink. Just rub
on some melted cocoa butter and then carefully add the cover. For those of you
who are new around here you might not recognize this amazing novel this was
written by Dave Reardon my husband together with input from the subscribers
on this channel. They chose what the bad guy's name would be, where one of the
main characters was from, what movie they were watching at the movies ... so many
things they were involved it was a very fun process it's getting rave reviews on
Amazon so if you want to read a good novel that is a good one. If you want to
know why I didn't write a novel, I love maths, science and art... English was never
a subject that I was strong on so I'll leave that to Dave, he was a journalist
he was the English wiz. Trim off the fondant to make it match the size of the
book cover and then add lines just like we did around the notepad. bend the
corners up a bit so it looks read and not brand new and now onto the camera ... cut a
short cylinder of black. When I started my website I took photos and video on my
phone and back then that was not a good option, cameras were not HD on your
phone the sound was terrible ... they've got heaps better since then. It took me ages
to save up for a proper camera like this sort of one. Make little indents all
the way around and then make lines going the other way for separate sections like
lens and focus and zoom and then you can cut that shorter. make a smaller
cylinder of black and wrap that up in a thin strip to make the lens cap and make
sure it's round and then add it to the top.
now take a thick rectangle of black and squash it down in the centre using the
back of a knife and make one side sit slightly higher
than the other. Then add your lens bit on top of that. Using a thin straw cut some
circles of black and add them to the top for controls and you can even make an
indent for a dial and then leave that to dry out. okay let's get onto the desk we
will need a support board for the top of our cake and that one's gonna run along
here so our cake doesn't fall down in the middle. On each side here this is
tall so it's gonna need a support in the middle or the cake will just compress
and squash itself. So I'm going to use one of those on this side and one on
this side half way up. We'll take some taller ones if the support rods to go
straight through the board and support this top one in place here but we've
also got some shorter ones that are going to sit underneath here just to
stop it squashing down. So we'll have cake support cake support and then cake
on top. Put your first two pieces of cake into place and check that they are in
the right spot because everything is lining up with this use your top board
to make sure it's straight. Then add some jam and some buttercream
and stack your first three layers of cake. Push in the two short support rods
then place the board over the top and do the same on the other side then poke the
longer supports right through down to the base. Add a little buttercream and
then add the next layer of cake and continue to stack your cake up right to
the top. Now before we put the top support board in place I want to cover
the underneath with fondant and I'm doing it now because it's actually quite
tricky to put fondant smoothly underneath something once it's in place,
whereas when it's flat like this you can just use a rolling pin and it makes it
really easy to get it smooth and perfect looking. Before I put the fondant on I
did rub a little bit of water onto the board just to make that fondant stick.
then you can just trim along the edges and then we can put the cake board over
the top and the underneath looks perfect. Spread on some buttercream and add your
final layer of cake. now this is a big cake ... this
is enough to serve around 60 people so make sure you scale it down if you don't
have that many people coming to eat it. now you want to cover the whole cake in
buttercream making it as flat and straight as possible and then we're
going to put that in the fridge to let that buttercream firm up a bit. If you
have a fondant extruder make a long hexagonal shape and then stretch it out
nice and straight. Also make a black cylinder and stretch that out perfectly
straight too. Cut some little strips of black fondant and then leave all of that
to dry out we'll come back to it in a minute.
make more snakes of black and wrap them around something so that you can get a
consistent shape. This is just an SD card holder, you could make something out of
cardboard, just anything so that everyone is exactly the same because this
is for the handles and they're going to be above each other and if they look
different it's not going to work. okay back to our pens ... cut a little piece
off and make an indent for where the lid should be, then using water add the
tiniest piece on top then brush one of the little strips in silver and
carefully add it onto your pen. Add a tiny ball of fondant to the end of the
pencil for an eraser then add another lighter colored ball to the other end
and shape it into a point. Now add a strip of black around where the eraser
joins the pencil and lightly brush that with gold luster dust. Dip the tip of
your pencil into black gel food coloring and then leave it to dry. now back to our
handles pipe some chocolate over the middle of them and then lift them up so
the chocolate drapes around it and move it to a clean spot. So you just need to
lift each one up give it a gentle shake back and forth and move it over. Once
that's set pipe two dots of chocolate and place the handle on top. I actually
want the middle decoration to be a little bit thicker on each handle so I'm
going to add another bit of chocolate either side. A lot of people ask me in
the comments "well who taught you how to make
cakes?" well to be honest I haven't been to any cake decorating lessons at all
and when I started doing cakes there were no videos on YouTube about cakes
either ... I just made it up so I'll look at the object I want to make like a handle
and then just decide what I need whether it's chocolate or fondant or what's
gonna be the best thing to make that shape. I'm dusting all of these handles
in copper luster dust you could just leave them in black and brown if you
prefer though. Now to the top of the desk it sticks out slightly beyond the edges
and it has sharp corners so I'm going to make that very top layer out of
chocolate. So let's pour that out and leave it to start to sit and then you
can cut it to size. Cut a strip of white fondant to the height of the top drawers
and spray it with vegetable oil so it doesn't stick to itself and roll it up
then unwrap it around the cake ... it kind of looks like I'm putting a bandage on
the cake. Squeeze the corners to make them nice and sharp and then use a
fondant smoother to flatten it out. Wrap the fondant around each side of the desk
and sharpen the corners and just flatten it out like we did around the top. Trim
the fondant around the base and you have a white desk but I want to make a wooden
desk. In real life I actually do have a white desk but my mum has this amazing
handcrafted antique wooden desk that even has secret compartments in it it is
so super amazing. I would like to show it to you but she lives on the other side
of Australia so I'll show you another time. Paint the whole thing with diluted
brown food coloring working on one section at a time just add some darker
patches and then drag your paintbrush up and down and you can see that as the
food coloring starts to make the surface of the fondant a little sticky you get
this pattern as you drag the brush across it that looks like wood. Once you
leave it it will go dry again it's not going to stay sticky but it just lets us
get this pattern in it. Add a layer of fondant over the top chocolate piece
trim it to size and then brush it with coloring just like we did for the other
sides. Add snakes of brown to outline the
drawer fronts and just use a ruler to straighten them up. Then super carefully
add your handles into place being very gentle so that you don't break them. Add
the desk top piece on top and then add your accessories ... the laptop of course
has to go in the middle so that you can work at the desk and then the hot
chocolate can go just to the side there. I'm going to put 'The Deep Enders' book
there and the notepad and pen for ideas at the front.
and then extra pens because they always seem to disappear off my desk and a year
planner. I like to use this to write down what videos went up when and how many of
views they got in the first week and all that sort of stuff and then a rice paper
envelope with a letter ... I love getting letters in my PO box and
I always reply to them, they're very special. And a pencil and of course a
camera. Now to enter the competition where you could win your very own laptop
or camera you need to create your own website using a Wix template and then
fill in the entry form before May 30 with a link to your new site so that I
can see it. Your site must have a home page and a post of at least 50 words and
a photo or a video of yours and the competition will be judged equally on
those three things. For more details see the entry form and there's a link to
that below. It can be a recipe site or it could be nothing to do with food your
website can be about whatever you want it to be about. For those of you who the
very thought of making a website sounds impossible don't worry it isn't that
hard and I didn't want anyone to miss out so I've even made a how-to video
taking you through step by step how to make your website and you can click here
to watch that video, click here for the entry form and here for more of my cakes
and there's a link in the description below to take you directly to making
your own Wix website. Thanks to Wix for sponsoring this video and supplying
the prizes. Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday 😀
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