- [Lauren] If you're looking for a fun
and easy cake to take to a baby shower
or just eat by yourself on the couch,
this is the recipe for you.
I got this recipe
from my aunt's butterscotch, poppy seed bread
that she used to make for Christmas every year.
That's why you're seeing ingredients
like butterscotch pudding that you haven't seen since 1993.
Get your things out, you know,
especially if you're in a like a tiny kitchen
where you can't move very much.
Start your oven.
It should be at 350, I put my on 375 because I don't trust
that 350 is actually 350 in my oven.
So lets put the mix together. It's gonna be super easy.
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If you're lost at this point,
there's probably no hope for you.
I'm gonna crack some eggs into a separate container
because I'd like to think that I'm good at cracking eggs
but sometimes I'm not and bits get in the bowl,
and then they get into your cake mix,
and then it's a lot bigger deal,
than if you just do it in a separate container first.
And yes, I'm throwing everything into my sink
because my trash can looks gross.
Eggs into the mix,
a 1/3 a cup of oil, mix this up.
(record scratching) Forgot to add the water.
Surface, check it.
That's enough.
The recipe says use a hand mixer
but due to the size of my kitchen,
I don't own appliances like that,
so now I just have to do the really hard work
of mixing it by hand, until all the lumps are gone.
And by all, I mean most because it's by hand so,
cut me some slack.
(panting)
Most of the lumps are gone.
Now that we've mixed everything up
because this is leopard print bread
we're gonna need a couple different colors.
We're gonna get some bowls and divvy it out.
This isn't like an official tablespoon or anything
but it is a spoon from the table
and it gets you about the same amount.
So we're gonna put six heaping tablespoons
of batter into this bowl,
and four normal-sized tablespoons into this bowl.
Now that you have your mixtures divvied up,
you're gonna add your flavors, alright?
So they act both as coloring and flavor.
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Let's put this in some bags so that we can pipe it,
look all professional, impress our friends
at the baby shower, even though we're single
and we'll not be in a relationship for some time
because it's a pandemic.
Let's fucking go.
Grab your trusty measuring cup.
Alright, so fold over your top,
grab a spatula
and like, this is a pretty oily cake
so it cleans itself out of the bowls pretty nicely.
So just close it up,
squeeze it all down to a corner.
Curly, Joe, and Larry, all lined up, ready to go.
So we've got our mixes let's put them in a loaf pan.
Loaf pan, in case you were unsure what that is.
We are going to grease it up,
I'm gonna use parchment paper and a little bit of oil.
Now, you could butter and flour it
that's kind of like the Julia Child thing to do.
I am no such thing and I already have the oil out
so that's what we're gonna do.
Grease her up and then on top of that, some parchment paper
and when it's done, you're just like boop!
Keep these upright and we're gonna lay down our first layer.
So I feel like this one
you can go a little bit of a larger hole.
It's like a baby. (baby wailing)
You don't wanna go too big guys.
You want control, do a tiny corner.
Lets put down one layer.
You don't need it to be that thick.
And I'm just gonna tell you now, it's gonna get everywhere.
Even it out, give us a good base layer to work with.
Okay, so we're gonna take our medium color
and you're gonna do two lines down the cake.
And you want'em to be (sighs) a little wide,
a little wide,
and then take the small bag, make a small hole
and go in the middle of your medium stripe.
Now you've got your base
and like so a leopard spot right can be,
they're not usually like completely circle
but they will have like some irregularities to the outside.
Go on this layer and do a little bit more
on the top to one side.
So now we've got like a, little C's around our middles.
So now we go back in and with this,
I want to kind of support leopard spots on the sides
so I'm gonna go on the edges. Yap.
And now I'm going to very gently use my spatula,
just kind of cover up the pores and now it's like even.
I wanna go down the middle,
I eventually wanna have five leopard spots.
I'm gonna repeat the same thing
and back with the medium brown.
I'm gonna go on the opposite side top
of what I did last time
and then back in, a butter scotch.
(imitates drumbeat)
Back to brown.
This is our last use of these colors, so just induce.
Now finish up with our top batter.
So now that it is all mixed, it just goes in the oven.
So the cake has been in there for about an hour,
hour and 15 minutes, I think it's just about done.
I cleaned up and by cleaned up I mean
I put the things in the sink,
so let's get it out and test it to see if it's done.
Alright. Looks like a cake.
It's all we can ask for right?
So let's test it toothpick style,
see if it comes out clean boop!
We just gonna give it a little bit to cool,
could do some dishes. Not gonna.
Okay, so I'm really hungry
and this smells too good for me to wait.
Honestly not long before I cut it open.
So we just gonna do it. Okay?
Ah! Bowl clean.
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Still toasty but like,
in that good way you want bread to be toasty.
Moment of truth, I will say that sometimes
this doesn't work out as well as you'd like it to
but I have faith.
Ahhh! Yeah!
Oh baby!
Guys it a little crushed (chuckles) but we've got spots,
we've got spots people, we got coffee, we got chocolate,
we got butterscotch.
Is it perfect? No.
Are you perfect? No.
But do we still love you and do you taste delicious? Yes.
Specifically to the cake for the last part.
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Mmmh! Mmmh! Like a good crisp on the bottom too,
not crisp but like a, mmmh mmmh.
I'm very happy, about this right now.
Mmmh!