Real Life MINECRAFT Cake Recipe Test!

Welcome to How To Cook That I’m Ann Reardon  and I have been sent a great challenge by   Ali Sanchez … she says ‘I was wondering  if you could make a Minecraft cake using   all the ingredients and only the ingredients  that are listed in the game?’ Well, challenge  

Accepted. Of course if you’re looking for a  Minecraft cake for a birthday party I already   have several of those videos just search for ‘Ann  Reardon and Minecraft cake’ and you’ll find them.   But for today’s challenge we’re trying to  do it the way they do it in game 😁So in the  

Minecraft game itself if you’re going to make  a cake what you need is three buckets of milk,   two piles of sugar, one egg and three bunches  of wheat and you get one very large cake!   Now a bucket or a pile is not the normal  measurements you see on recipes of course … in  

My cookbook I put grams and ounces and cups but  definitely not buckets and piles … because   how big is a bucket and how big is a pile? Well to  figure out how much of the ingredients we’re going  

To use, the only clues we’ve got is if we look  in-game as to how they source those ingredients.   So first of all for the milk to get a bucket  of milk you of course milk a cow. Now how much  

Milk you get from one cow depends on quite a few  factors depending of course on the breed of the   cow how close it is since it’s carved how often  you milk it and the method you used to milk it  

But in general if you’re milking a cow at home by  hand you’re going to get around three and a half   liters there’s quite a bit of variation there but  let’s say three and a half liters in one bucket  

And we have three of those buckets of milk  to use for our cake. Next we have two piles   of sugar now how big is a pile of sugar? Well in  the game you get sugar from harvesting sugar cane  

And on each block you can see there that there’s  eight sugar canes on it and you can expect to   get between 50 and 150 grams of sugar from each  sugar cane depending on its size and its weight.  

Now of course in the game they just put the sugar  on the crafting table and you just get sugar in   real life you’ve got to juice that and then it’s  got to be heated to concentrate it and then it’s  

Got to be crystallized down but just in a moment  on the crafting table we can do all that process   get rid of all the equipment so there’s a fair few  leaps of faith in this game. So we have the two  

Piles of sugar fortunately i don’t have to process  that from the sugar cane. We could also look at it   a different way and say well each square block in  minecraft is one meter by one meter so one meter  

Squared one. Meter squared of sugarcane will  usually yield about a kilo of sugar so there’s   quite a bit of variation there obviously we have  two piles of sugar and with those calculations we   can go anywhere between 800 grams and two kilos  of sugar depending on how much you want to use  

In your cake recipe so we’ve got a bit of wiggle  room there which is good. Then moving on to the   eggs eggs is probably the easiest a chicken will  usually lay one egg a day if it’s a laying hen  

And one egg is one egg so i guess that’s all we’ve  got to work with. Compared to the magnitude of the   other ingredients really does seem like a small  amount and then next of course we have the wheat   one metre squared of organically grown wheat  well you don’t spray pesticides in minecraft  

So i’m assuming it’s organically grown if you had  pesticides you’d get more per meter squared but   let’s go for organically grown … that will give  you approximately 550 grams of your wheat grains   and we have three bunches of wheat so that means  we have 1650 grams of wheat grains to work with.  

Now that we have the ingredients list sorted  with two piles of sugar 1650 grams of wheat one   lonesome egg and three three and a half litre  buckets of milk. Now that’s a lot of milk it’s   ten and a half liters all together and that’s the  first thing people question about this recipe how  

Can you possibly make a cake using that much milk?  And we’ll get to that in a minute but first of all   i want to start with the wheat. We obviously need  to grind it up and there must be a lot of hidden  

Equipment in minecraft that we don’t see and  then we need to sift the wheat … I just want   the white part of the flour because it’ll be way  too dense to use a full wholemeal flour for a cake  

So i’m going to waste a lot of the grain here.  Now back to the milk now the milk that you buy   in shops is homogenized and what that means is all  of the little fat particles are processed to make  

Them smaller and all the same size homo meaning  the same and so homogenized you’re making it all   the same size and what that does by making them  smaller than same size is it means they stay mixed  

Into the milk. So back in the olden days if you  had milk delivered that was fresh milk the cream   would float to the top nowadays that cream stays  mixed all the way through because the milk is   homogenized. So you don’t get one person getting  all the cream and everyone else basically getting  

Skim milk from the underneath. So if you freshly  milk a cow like we did in minecraft and then you   left that milk in the refrigerator overnight do  they have refrigerators in minecraft? Then that  

Cream is going to slowly rise to the top and we  can scoop off that cream which is going to give us   the fat that we need to make our cake so we don’t  need all the skim milk but we do need that amount  

Of milk to get the amount of cream we need to make  the cake. Here we go attempt number one i’m going   to use two cups of the flour keep the rest for  the frosting as i said, most of one pile of sugar  

And some milk. Then i think i’ll separate the egg  and put the yolk in with the flour and mix that in   it’s really really dry that’s because it’s quite  like still wholemeal even though we’ve left a lot  

Of the whole meal out it’s not acting like a  normal plain flour so we’re gonna have to add   a bit more milk in there and then to add some  air i’m gonna need to whisk the egg white and  

Whisk the cream as well. There’s no baking powder  in this recipe so we’ve got no way of adding air   normally when you add baking powder it makes the  bubbles and that’s what makes your cake rise so  

We can’t do that using baking powder so i’m going  to have to try and add air using the egg white and   whipping the cream but the only problem is we’ve  only got one egg white so this is a really dense  

Solid cake mixture that we’re getting here. Fold  in the egg white and the cream and that is just   way too dense it’s not aerating at all but never  mind, let’s tip that into a cake pan and spread  

It out and into the oven it goes. Now Jedd pointed  out to me that in the game they use the crafting   table only it doesn’t get baked in the furnace  so in that case we’d have raw cake batter but  

I’m going to bake this so that we can taste it  safely. It did rise a tiny bit but not much.   Now for the frosting i’m using some milk we  have plenty of that and the rest of the flour  

And the rest of the sugar and the remainder of  the cream. So we’ve made it using everything   on the ingredients list in the proportions  they gave us except for that leftover skim   milk and the leftover husks from the wheat. So  now we’re going to heat that up and whisk it  

And continue to heat it until it starts  to bubble so that all that flour cooks   and then you just leave that to cool and once it’s  room temperature you can whip it up and this makes   a frosting, it’s a bit like an ermine frosting  but modified to suit the minecraft ingredients.  

So how does the cake look once it’s baked well  it’s pretty flat and it feels well pretty solid.   Let’s cut it open that is solid there’s no  spring to it at all the texture is classic of   a few things. If you’re trying to troubleshoot  a cake recipe in my cookbook each chapter has  

A food science introduction and the chapter on  cakes would be helpful for this particular cake.   Because what I did is I got the exact same cupcake  recipe and I baked 30 different batches of it   with slight variations on different ingredients  changing one ingredient at a time so that you  

Could see the difference that changing for example  decreasing the sugar what effect will that have on   the cake. All the different variations you can  think of I baked them all separately so I could   cut the cupcakes open, take photos so you can  visually see what difference that’s going to have.  

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Can get those and thank you again for pre-ordering  my book! Oh my gosh I’m so excited to get a copy I   don’t even have a copy yet they’re sending me  an advanced run copy and it hasn’t arrived as  

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Let’s have attempt number two i’ve got the cream  from the three buckets of milk, flour and i’m   using store-bought flour this time simply because  i can’t be bothered grinding the weight again,   two piles of sugar and an egg now i am going to  make some adjustments to the recipe this time  

We need baking powder. Now sodium bicarbonate  can be made chemically or it can be mined from   trona so that’s something they could add into the  minecraft game if they didn’t want you to make   that sort of leap of faith you also need it for  making glass but the glass recipe at the moment  

Is just sand makes glass so they could add it in  but if they add everything it’s going to get a   bit too complicated so we’ll just assume this one  was supposed to be in there and they just didn’t  

Want to add those tiny details. One change that  does need to happen though is we’re going to need   three eggs instead of one. There’s just not enough  protein in there compared to the volume of flour  

And everything else we have to hold the structure  of this cake. Let’s put some of that cream into   the mixer i’ll keep some of it to use for the  frosting then add in the sugar and all three eggs  

And now i’m going to whisk that on high speed  until we get a thick frothy emulsion so it’s   nice and airy. Then i’m going to add in the  flour and the baking powder and i’m sifting  

That in to add as much air as possible and then  we’re going to mix that till it’s just combined.   Then tip that into the same size cake tin as we  used for the last one and bake it in the oven and  

Look at that it is rising up and you can tell  already that it’s going to be a fluffier cake.   Fresh out of the oven and you can see it has quite  a bit more spring to it we’ll leave that to cool  

And then we’ll decorate it. For the frosting on  this one i’m just going to whip the leftover cream   and then added in a thick layer on the top of the  cake to square it up. Now the cake in Minecraft  

Is quite different it’s one meter by one meter  squared for one and there’s no way we can make   a cake that big with these ingredients but for  two it’s got those red bits on top of the cake  

And there was nothing red in the ingredients  list so what should we use for the red bits?   I guess there are berries it’s not raspberries but  it’s berries but let’s just make that raspberries  

For today and we’ll just add some raspberries on  top of our cake so that it looks a bit more like   the minecraft cake. This is gonna need a taste  test the one on your right was made using the  

Proportion of ingredients they used to make the  cake in minecraft so give that one a try first… It’s … it’s all right it’s  definitely cake like it’s passable   but it’s very stodgy and it reminds me of like  breadcrust. It’s like it’s like rough and it’s not  

Nice and fluffy it’s really dense. The  other one has the same ingredients but   with a couple of extra eggs and some baking  powder let me know what you think of that one? It’s fluffy the cream’s  good and I love raspberries.  

Much fluffier and sweeter I think I definitely  like this one better than the other one. So there   you have it slightly adjusting the recipe makes  it heaps better but all the recipes in Minecraft  

Are not really exact and they tend to be missing  a few of the things you’d actually need so I don’t   think it’s meant to be followed as is but it was  a fun challenge thank you so much for that. Thanks  

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