- Hey, it's Alix and today I'm gonna be watching
Behind Tasty Giant Raindrop Cake, starring yours truly.
It's been a minute since I watched this video.
I mean, I don't usually watch my own videos.(laughs)
But I have to say,
if I were to watch a Behind Tasty,
this is my favorite one just 'cause I think it's so funny.
- No, I'm just trying to help you.
Don't show your boobs on camera.
- I'm not. (laughing loudly)
- Off to a great start.
I am that much of a klutz in real life.
And originally,
I was supposed to do this video with Rie.
She ended up having a lot of shoots to do herself,
so she didn't have the time to do it.
So instead, we just settled for her popping in to help me
every once in a while.
I hadn't even eaten a raindrop cake before.
I knew what it was.
I wanna say this was one of
if not the hardest Behind Tastys that we did.
- All right, let's make it rain.
(laughing)
- What was so funny in these videos,
you see how light and fun I am in the beginning.
And then it slowly goes more and more dark.
Also, I got a lot of comments being like,
people pronouncing, agar.
I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced.
I still didn't figure that out.
- ♪Two minutes, two minutes,♪
♪we're gotta wait for two minutes.♪
- I still sing this song a lot of times.
Whenever I have to wait for two minutes,
it's the first thing I do.
- This maybe the easiest one we've done yet.
Although we haven't really done anything yet.
So maybe I shouldn't say anything.
- Yeah, you should not be. (laughs)
- I'm already in the (mumbles).
- So, we're already running into a few problems.
But, one of the biggest problems was finding
the right type of agar-agar to use in this recipe.
Because again, there's only three ingredients
in this whole thing.
But it's more about the method
that ended up being tricky,
then the ingredients themselves.
- We are taking a little field trip--
- My God, this is real.
We had to go the...
Actually no, we had to go to a few different kinds.
It took a whole day to find the right agar.
- (laughs) I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try to--
- At least you know I'm having fun
while making this thing though.
- This is gonna make it much easier
to measure out properly, and--
- Wow, look at me, I'm so smart. (laughs)
- And it should also dissolve easier into water.
- Figuring things out.
- Add two table spoons of agar-agar.
Last time, and--
- Oh gosh, and I do remember this,
there's so much math that went into this recipe.
It's like, division and multiplication.
Oh my God, and I hate math.
Not only do I have to do all these different things,
come up with this recipe, figure it out, film a video,
be on camera, now I gotta do math!
Are you kidding? (laughs)
I didn't sign up for this.
The point of the raindrop cake
is to have this very clear cake.
So, if you have too much agar,
then it's not gonna be clear.
The cake is gonna be to dense,
it won't be like a raindrop.
But if you have too little of the agar,
then the cake won't hold its shape.
It was just very hard
and more than my simple brain could handle. (laughs)
Mind you, it's like day two or three
and I'm still just on the small raindrop cake.
I haven't even moved on to the giant raindrop cake.
- The same exact--
I say that so much.
Third times the charm, fourth times the charm,
I don't know why.
It keeps me going. (laughs)
And that's what's also difficult.
Is that like, each time in between
there was an hour waiting time.
So it was like pushing the schedule back and back and back.
So I was getting more pressure.
- Yeah, they're like raindropy.
- You could tell I hate it.
Like I can't even hide my disgust.
- [Woman] Can I just try to do the giant one?
- Oh, also, yeah, another factor is
to get that nice raindrop shape,
we had to get a specific bowl at night.
We were going out to different stores
to find the right bowls.
- [Woman] We're gonna make a little bouquet at the bottom.
- Yeah, so some of the raindrop cakes you see online,
the reason they look nice,
is because they have little decorations in them.
So, I decided to put the flowers in them
because they are meant to be at the top.
Like when you flip the cake over,
then they'll be at the top.
But, it didn't work.
Spoiler alert. (laughs)
- [Alix] Whoof! I don't know why.
- It's because you're supposed to thicken it first,
I don't really know,
I don't know what I was doing this whole time.
- Don't stay at the bottom,
they put a little more agar than a normal size,
they don't keep wet.
So, I guess we'll just start--
- I know I was definitely very stressed out at this point.
Because during these days, I was like,
"I really don't think I can do this."
Because it was just not working.
I hadn't even had one successful try.
It's such a simple process.
Obviously it's really tricky and hard,
but the process it self is so simple.
It's just like boiling down the agar in the water.
That I was just so over it by like day six.
I was just like,
"How many more pans of water do I have to boil?"
- It's not flipping, oh.
- So, that was also tricky.
For some reason, the molds that I bought, these bowls,
they had a weird surface on the inside,
and it didn't allow for the raindrop cake
to slip out nicely.
They were just all clinging to the bowl for some reason.
So, here you can see I'm dipping the bowl in hot water
to hopefully loosen up the edges.
- ♪I'm flipping in reverse (mumbles)♪
(laughs)
- Again, as the days go on,
I get more and more crazy 'cause I'm just going mental.
- And one table spoon, we'll have our raindrop cake.
- The power of positivity people.
- [Alix] There we go, pull it a little bit.
(laughs)
- There was a lot I had to clean up
this episode, I remember that.
There was water everywhere.
The final day, I think I had called Claire
who was the culinary head at the time.
And I spoke with her for like an hour.
We finally came to the conclusion that, for some reason
the arga needed to be dissolved first in just cold water
and then to boil it,
it was just little variations like that.
But, it ended up making all the difference.
So, thank you Claire for your help.
- ♪Gonna get a simmer.♪
- [Claire] Okay, stop.
Few minutes, and it's of the heat--
- (laughs) If you know me, you know I sing.
I got very weird moments.
- [Claire] It literally looks warm in here.
- Oh my God, I'm even sweating now, my palms. (laughs)
(dramatic orchestral music)
Wow!
(laughing)
So, let me just say, I know that this raindrop cake
wasn't actually as clear as it maybe was supposed to be.
But, we had realized after days of this
that it wasn't really going to get that much clear,
and especially with the math of being a giant raindrop cake,
we didn't really think it was possible
because it just needed more agar to be able to hold itself.
What I was going for this point was just that shape,
and the hold, and the texture,
more than the complete clarity.
But, it is a little deceiving, the video of it,
because if you looked at it from different angles,
it was a lot more clearer than it looks there.
What was the stressful part was,
once we finally nailed it,
because I did not wanna have to do it again,
we only had a few minutes
to get all the shots we needed.
Because, naturally a raindrop cake
because it is so delicate,
it will just start to disintegrate on it's own.
So, I had a few minutes to get all of my shots
for the Tasty video,
and all of the shots for the Behind Tasty video
that Nathan was making.
And the final words, everything,
we had a few minutes to get it all once I took off this bowl
and saw that it worked.
- Wet. (laughs)
- (laughing) I am still shocked
that they let us end on that note.
That's all I have to say about that, wet. (laughs)
I love watching that video back because it's so funny to me.
And I'm just glad I get to watch it back
and I'll have to do it back.
It brings back all the good memories
from doing those videos.
The moments where I got to hang out with my friends
and laugh with the other producers,
and challenge myself to do something
that I hadn't done before,
that is what I take back from the videos.
Well, that was me watching back
the Behind Tasty Giant Raindrop Cake episode.
There's only one way to end it.
Wet.
- [Announcer] Oh, yes!
- (dramatic music)