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2024-05-18 05:47:26
Individual Momofuku's Birthday Cakes
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Ingredients
- subheading: For the cake:
- 60 grams Crisco
- 55 grams Butter
- 250 grams of granulated sugar
- 50 grams of light brown sugar
- 110 grams of Buttermilk
- 65 grams of Canola Oil
- 8 grams clear vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 245 grams Cake Flour
- 6 grams Baking Powder
- 3 grams of Kosher Salt
- 50 grams Rainbow Sprinkles
- additional 25 grams of Rainbow Sprinkles
- subheading: For the Cake Crumb:
- 90 grams cake flour
- 100 grams granulated sugar
- 25 grams light brown sugar
- 40 grams canola oil
- 20 grams rainbow sprinkles
- 12 grams clear vanilla extract
- 2 grams baking powder
- 2 grams Kosher Salt
- subheading: Double batch Icing:
- 2 sticks of unsalted butter
- 100 grams Crisco
- 110 grams cream cheese
- 50 grams of glucose
- 36 grams of light corn syrup
- 24 grams of clear vanilla extract
- 400 grams confectioners sugar
- 4 grams of kosher salt
- pinch of baking powder
- 2 pinches of citric acid
- For the milk soak
- 55 grams milk
- 4 grams vanilla extract
Steps
- subheading: To Make The Cake:
- In the stand mixer, add the shortening, butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix on medium speed until it is light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.
- Still on medium speed, add the 3 eggs, one egg at a time.
- Raise the speed to medium high. Whip until light and fluffy, 3 minutes. Scrape down the bowl.
- In a Pyrex cup, combine the Canola Oil and the buttermilk and the clear vanilla. Slowly stream it into the mixing bowl at slow speed. Raise the speed to high and whip for 4 to 6 minutes until the mixture has doubled in size and it is almost white.
- In a separate bowl, mix the cake flour, baking powder and Kosher salt.
- On low speed, add these dry ingredients to the mixing bowl. mix and scrape down the bowl. Set aside.
- Spray a 10" x 15" sheet pan with Pam. Line with parchment paper. Spray the parchment paper with Pam.
- Stir in the 50 grams of Rainbow sprinkles. Don't stir too much or else the sprinkles will color the batter grey.
- Pour into the prepared pan. Level it and sprinkle the 25 grams of sprinkles.
- Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes. The cake should spring back when you touch it.
- subheading: Make the Birthday Cake Crumb:
- In the stand mixer with the paddle attachment, add the cake flour, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, rainbow sprinkles, baking powder, Kosher salt. Mix until combined.
- add in the canola oil and the vanilla.
- Using the paddle attachment, mix all together until little cake crumbs are formed.
- Dump crumbs onto a cookie sheet.
- Bake at preheated 300 degree oven for 15 minutes. The crumbs should be soft.
- subheading: To make a double batch of frosting:
- Add the butter, shortening and cream cheese to the mixer. Paddle this for 3 minutes.
- Stream in the glucose, corn syrup and vanilla extract, while the mixer is running at low speed. Beat on medium high for 2 to 3 minutes until it is light and fluffy.
- Stop the mixer, scrape the bowl and then add the confectioners sugar, salt, baking powder and citric acid. Mix on low until these ingredients are incorporated and then mix on high for 3 minutes.
- Cover in plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator until it is needed to assemble the cake.
- subheading: Prep the cake rings:
- Cut a piece of acetate long enough to go around the 3" cookie cutter that you are using. Put the acetate around the cookie cutter and tape it together. Remove the cookie cutter and make 5 or so more.
- subheading: Assemble the cake (6:13 on the video):
- Invert the cool cake and remove the parchment paper.
- Cut out the cake rounds. Each cake will have 3 layers. You can cut out half circles out and use those for the middle layers of some of the cakes. In the video she was able to get 6 3-layer cakes out of the pan using a 3" cookie cutter.
- Stir the vanilla into the milk to make the milk soak.
- Put an acetate ring on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Identify the prettiest layer for each cake and make that the top layer.
- 1. One cake layer with the bottom side up so it will absorb the milk soak
- 2. Dab milk soak on cake.
- 3. Put 2 T. frosting on top of the cake layer.
- 4. Put about 1 T. of cake crumbles on top of the frosting.
- 5. Put 2 T. frosting on top of the cake crumbles.
- Repeat steps 1 to 5 two more times, ending with Frosting .
- Continue making the other 5 individual cakes.
- Once all cakes are assembled, divide out the large pieces and decorate the tops of all of them evenly.
- Refrigerate or freeze until firm.