-Our next guest is the owner and founder
of the Milk Bar Bakery. Her latest book,
"All About Cake," is in stores now.
Please welcome Christina Tosi, everybody.!
Yeah! Come on! We love you. [ Cheers and applause ]
We love you, pal. Welcome. Welcome back.
Welcome. -So excited to be here.
-Thank you. Congrats on this book.
Congrats on everything. -Okay,
I know both of you like popcorn. -Oh, yeah.
-I know both of you well. I know you both like popcorn.
This is one of my favorite cakes.
The recipe is in the cookbook.
We sell this size at the Milk Bar,
but, like, you guys have big appetites.
So I decided to bring a really big version.
It's a popcorn cake. -We have a lot of
hungry audience members. -We have Oscar season coming up.
It's cold outside. I don't know about you,
but I'm about celebrating the great indoors,
not the great outdoors right now.
You put on a movie, you get down with it.
This cake has popcorn in every element --
in the layers of the cake,
in the milk that we soak the cake with.
-You make popcorn milk? -The fudges, the filling.
Popcorn everything. We take fresh popcorn,
we grind it down, and we start to play around with it.
-And you can make this in your house.
Because I was reading, and you're like,
"Dude, don't freak out." It's very easy
to make popcorn milk." -"Calm down, calm down."
Calm down, 'cause we're about to do it right now.
-Let's do it right now, Here we go.
-Okay, so, Questlove, I got popcorn milk,
I have this sort of janky spoon.
25 cents. Best kitchen tool ever.
You bend it a little bit. -Okay.
-You get your Jackson Pollock on.
And you just splatter that popcorn milk all over the cake.
But, Jimmy, you're up next, because we got popcorn pudding.
It's fudgy. Again, we take popcorn,
we grind it down,
we make it into sort of a custard pudding.
Layers of that in the cake. No, it's got to go in the cake.
Get your lizard hands out of there.
-They're not lizard hands, I swear!
-Okay, you get in there, get as much as you want.
As much as you want.
And then we're gonna get in there and start --
Okay, okay. -I gotcha. Here we go.
Spread that around. -It's fine.
We'll clean it up later. -It's fun, right?
-All right, Quest, I'm getting some in there for you.
-Here we go. Perfect. -My favorite part of layer cakes
is, like, it's do you. You got some fudge.
I'm getting under you. These are some popcorn crumbs.
-I just tasted them. It's amazing popcorn.
-Nice, crummy texture hidden into the cake.
And then go from there.
-You had a great chef's table, by the way.
I should say, you were fantastic on that.
-Thank you. -I'm a big fan of this.
Now, wait, if people don't have a Milk Bar where they live,
where can they get Milk Bar cookies and cake?
-If you don't have a Milk Bar near you, milkbarstore.com.
You can get this popcorn cake, you can get the compost cookies,
you can get birthday truffle. -You can get it sent to you.
-We send it to you. Care packages.
-Dude, I'm telling you, Valentine's Day,
you will get serious points. -Care packages.
-This is what it's all about. -Look at this.
I'm stealing him. -Sorry, I'm bad at this.
-I'm recruiting him to Milk Bar. -Can I try it?
Can I try what the finished product is like?
-You can. But, you know,
I know that you both are such big popcorn fans
that I made your Saturday-morning cereal popcorn
and I made your
Ben & Jerry's Tonight Dough flavored popcorn.
That is, like, a staple in my home freezer.
We fight over the ice cream. So I made both of them here.
And I made some -- This is our original popcorn cake.
We decorate it with a little bit of this caramel corn.
But then I made your Tonight Dough...
Will you hold this for me? -Okay.
-That's popcorn cake
garnished with your Tonight Dough popcorn.
-I've never heard of popcorn on a cake.
This is awesome. -That's popcorn cake decorated
with Quest Saturday-morning popcorn.
-Let me try, Quest. -Okay. You want to try it?
-Yeah, I'll try it. -Are we going in?
But he's gonna taste mine. -You.
[ Laughter ] Perfect.
-I already know what it tastes like.
Okay, I'm going in. I'm going some of each.
-Here we go. -Oh, my gosh.
[ Drumroll ]
-Oh, that's perfect. -Oh, my God.
-That is the most unbelievable thing.
-Oh, my God. -Have fun with taste.
Who are you? -Stop, okay.
-Christina, what do you think? -I feel like it's impolite
to eat in front of everyone. -Uh-huh.
Now let me know which one you like best.
Here, you can hold both of our hands.
One of our hands goes out. -Oh, my Lord.
This one has touched a lizard, so I'm just saying.
-No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
-Come on, come on, you got to make the call.
Come on, which one do you like better?
The winner is... [ Drumroll ]
-Oh, my God, oh, my God. You want to know what?
[ Bell dinging ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-They both win 'cause they're yours?
-No, but it's like you got to do you.
The only rule to baking is "Do you."
-You got to do you. Christina Tosi, everybody.
[ Cheers and applause ]
"All About Cake" is in stores now.
And order Milk Bar goods online at milkbarstore.com.
Yummy, that is so delicious!