How To Make The Perfect BIRTHDAY CAKE | Dessert Person
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Published 2021-07-22
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).
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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!
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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
All Comments (21)
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What kind of cake do you request on your birthday? Leave a comment!
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I super don't envy Claire having to frost a layer cake like this in the middle of summer but honestly this video felt so real. I really loved this recipe when I made it.
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Claire: "It's easy" Also Claire: episode full of chaos
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The chaos this episode is *chefs kiss*. Loved this one!
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Claire: Ugh, this is terrible. The cake is overbaked, the frosting is overwhipped, nothing is working out the way I envisioned Viewers/Claire's fans: Yasssss love the chaos in this video 👏👏👏
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“Take it home to your children, get it out of my sight.” Okay but Claire being 1000000000% done with the cake this episode is so incredibly entertaining
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ahh the beautiful juxtaposition of calming clips and Claire's chaotic energy.
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Claire saying sorry to Maya for disturbing her by entering her own room is such a relatable cat owner thing to do.
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Vinny: Like Russian dolls. Claire: Never saw it. Vinny: It’s not a movie, it’s a thing! 😂
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claire: that one’s for looks also claire: don’t look too hard😀
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Vinny really said - while you wait for the 3M Subs drunk baking video, here's caffeine buzzed Claire. 😂
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when i woke up today I didn’t expect that i would see claire frosting a cake in front of an AC so thank you for the home baker representation
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Was this like Day 3 of caking or something??? Some major Day 3 energy here…
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I love how chaotic this is.. so realistic to most people’s experience in the kitchen, not like some other cooking channels that makes everything look so perfect and then makes us amateur cooks feel bad about ourselves when our cooking doesn’t go as well as them. Thanks Claire for making chaos in the kitchen a normal thing!
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The zoom-ins aligning with the pulsing of the mixer had me DEAD 😂
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“we need some positive affirmations here, guys.” Vinny knows what Claire needs on all fronts
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Thank you for showing the "not according to plan" bits. It's such a comfort to know even the pros have their moments.
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The juxtaposition of the gorgeous cake/classical music and the iced coffee-induced chaos/upbeat drums is TRULY my daily vibe, the editor really gets me
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This is the perfect thing to watch while sewing
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I love the human aspect of Claire and this channel. There's so much polished perfection on baking channels that it's nice to see that even an amazing baker like Claire has rough times. Makes me feel less bad about my many many many baking screw ups!😙
