- [Woman] Cookie, come here!
- [Josh] Off! (car horn beeps).
(all laughing)
Oh my God, Jesus.
- Here you go.
- Aw, God.
- [Woman] So polite.
- Eat it! - Jesus Christ.
(all laughing)
(upbeat music)
- Me and my colleagues were getting nostalgic,
talking about childhood movies,
and along came Matilda.
Do you remember the iconic scene
where Bruce Bogtrotter had to eat a giant chocolate cake?
Challenge here, why don't we get BuzzFeed staff
to try and eat the same cake that Bruce Bogtrotter ate?
What do we need to do to get started?
We're going to be making one giant cake
out of lots of Woolworths mud cakes,
and we also need to do a ganache sauce,
which is going to go on top.
Super simple, we use two ingredients,
dark chocolate and pouring cream.
(upbeat music)
We want it to be runny enough to actually coat the cake
and sort of drip down it but thick enough
that it will set in a layer.
So, here we have nine Woolworths mud cakes.
Now, the challenge is going
to be making this one giant circle cake.
We're gonna go two high, and then we're going
to use three of them to create wedges and fill in the gaps.
(upbeat music)
So, even though making this cake was a piece of cake,
we still need to perfect it just a little bit more.
It's a little bit lumpy around the edges,
so we're going to circle it off.
So we're going to add the chocolate ganache on,
and I can tell it's going
to create that nice thick fudgey layer
that they get in Matilda.
Ooh, oh yeah.
(upbeat music)
That looks so good.
And there we have it.
That's nine Wooly's mud cakes turned
into one iconic Bruce Bogtrotter cake from Matilda.
Pretty sure Ms. Trunchbull would be proud of me.
- [Trunchbull] Now eat it!
- [Woman] Cookie, come here!
- Aw (car horn honks).
(group laughs)
Oh my God, Jesus.
- Here you go.
- Aw, God.
- [Woman] So polite.
- Eat it! - Jesus Christ.
Oh, it's so thick.
(group cheering)
- [Man] Come on, Josh!
(group cheering)
- God.
- [Woman] God, it's like the Arctic,
it's like falling into the sea.
- [Woman] How many calories do you think is in that cake?
- Oh (car horn honking) off.
- Come on man, you can do better than that.
- All right, all right, all right,
all right, all right!
(high intensity orchestral music)
- This is (car horn honking), honestly.
Enough.
- Oh my god, he's gonna vomit everywhere.
- You can do it Joshy, come on!
Woo!
- So much cake.
(everyone groans)
- Ooh,
whatever.
- [Woman] You can't be full, I've seen what you eat.
- All right.
I hate every one of you.
Just so you all know.
- [Woman] That's fine.
- Oh god.
Look how deep that goes,
it's just so thick.
I'm getting the sweats.
Oh geez.
(groans)
(High intensity orchestral music)
I'm starting to fade,
I'm gonna be honest.
(dramatic music)
Oh.
I think this is it,
I think this might be the last thing
I ever eat in my life.
- [Man] That is a lie.
(Dramatic orchestral music)
- I'm done, I've been defeated.
Oh God.
I need to lay down.
(everyone cheering)
Oh.
- So Josh just finished his part.
I feel like I can do a lot better than him.
I came in with some reinforcements,
I've got my backup, my baby spoon and my big spoon.
This is a solid ass cake.
Oh my god, it's so dense.
All right.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Hopefully this will do me better.
Oh,
that chunk, though.
Oh my God.
Compare the pair.
(intense dramatic music)
(group cheering)
It is stuck to the roof of my mouth.
(laughing) Help.
I think I'm gonna throw up.
(inspirational orchestral music)
This is done.
I'm out.
I'm gone.
- Okay.
I'm Tom, I'm challenger number three.
And I'm here to help finish this cake.
I think I can do half the cake by myself.
Game day baby, let's go.
(everyone cheering)
Wow that's thick.
Holy shit.
Pretty good, pretty tasty.
I'm just gonna pump this out, pump this in my stomach.
Pretty easy, I'm going pretty well.
No fatigue yet.
Oh shit, some fell on my pants.
Whoa.
Starting the feel myself filling up,
my stomach filling up a little bit now.
This is where we see where real legends are made
at this point now.
(groaning)
This is harder than I thought.
- [Girl] You can do it Tommy!
- Okay, I'll do it the way the guy did it in the movie,
that must be the way.
It's actually (coughing)
- I can't look, ah!
- It's just, it's too much.
(dramatic music)
I feel really bad right now,
I'm feeling really actually sick.
(group cheering)
The icing is really bad, I just can't deal with the icing.
(mumbles)
Feeling, eugh, feeling pretty bad.
Get it out, get the air out get the cake in.
That's the strategy.
I need to empty my body of any thing else.
Can I have a bathroom break?
Just like, quickly.
- [Woman] Yeah, sure.
- Just to pee, to nothing else.
(gagging) Oh yeah!
I feel a little better after that,
so I reckon I can go a little bit more still.
So I'm just gonna go for these crumbs,
small crumb, just a crumb at a time!
Down the hatch!
- He looks real bad.
- I don't know if I can go much more.
I don't feel good.
Like I didn't get my goal of half of it,
but I did more than the other two.
I think combined I gave my best and that's all that
matters in the end.
I'm gonna tap out.
- So Tom just came and got me from the office
because he said he couldn't eat any more of the cake
and it was now my turn.
(group cheering)
- You can do it!
- Gotta say I thought more of it would be gone.
I'm a little bit disappointed in the team
but I guess I'll give it a crack.
Eating cake at work's never a bad thing.
I'm tryna do this lady-like, I don't think there's a way.
(team cheering)
it's so dense I feel like it's stopping my rhythm.
(dramatic music)
People have attacked this really randomly
like from every area.
Oh, I feel sick (gagging).
(team laughing)
Movie's completely unrealistic, that kid is so little
he wouldn't have been able to fit this whole cake in him.
I think I'm actually gonna have to tap out.
(group clapping)
I'm done, stuff this, I'm not getting sick
just for the sake of a video.
So I'll pop this in the office kitchen and every one
else can take a bite or two.
(dramatic music)
- Woo! Yeah!
(whispers)