Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we are making a cake from a game
that everyone in our family has been playing.
It's a Slither.io cake or Slitherio or whatever you want to call it.
I've had lots of requests for this, so we'll make the cake and then I'll play a game for
you at the end.
Firstly you'll need 1 1/2 times of my light fluffy sponge cake recipe.
I have a video already on my channel showing how to make this cake and I'll put all the
details on howtocookthat.net blog post for this week and I'll link you to that below.
Once you've whipped the egg whites, you just mix together all the other ingredients, it's
really easy.
And then you fold the egg whites through to make it nice and airy and a fluffy cake.
Pour that into two trays and bake it in the oven until they are golden brown and beautiful,
and then leave them to cool.
Mix up some vanilla buttercream with white chocolate ganache - and again I've got a video
on frostings and how to make them all and I'll put that on the recipe post too.
Wash, hull and slice your strawberries into quarters.
And then whip your cream to firm peaks but don't over-whip it or it will separate out,
you'll be making butter which is not what we want.
Level the top of your cakes, I like to use the side of the tin as a guide so I get it
really flat.
And then place a little frosting on your cake board, I just made this board out of some
thick cardboard and then wrapped it in alfoil.
Turn it upside down and put it on the cake... and then flip the cake over to tip it out
of the tin ... take off the tin and peel back the baking paper.
Pipe a line of frosting all the way around the edge and this just stops the filling from
spilling out.
Now add some cream into the centre be generous with that, and spread it out to the edges.
And then add the strawberries, and I like to be generous with all the fruit in my cakes.
Then place the second cake on top.
Now if you put it onto a flat tray with some baking paper, then you can just pull back
the baking paper under the tray as you slide off the cake and that just makes it easy to
line it up perfectly with the base.
Cover the top and sides with frosting, cover the side and then place in the fridge to chill.
Roll out some dark grey fondant and cut out hexagons, lots of hexagons.
So you could do this by hand but if you can get hold of a cutter it's going to make your
life so much easier.
Peel back the scraps from in between so that then you can re-roll it to make more hexagons.
Now using a paintbrush and a little watered down black gel food colour just paint a one
corner of each hexagon.
When you play the game next have a look at it and you'll see they are shaded on one side.
Roll out your black fondant into a nice big piece and place it over the top of the cake,
and when you're covering a large flat cake like this I find a silicone fondant mat is
really helpful.
Once it is on the cake, just flatten it down onto the sides and then peel off the mat carefully
so that it is off the cake.
Then squeeze the corners together.
Tuck the excess under so you can see where the bottom edge is of the board.
And then just use your knife to cut off the excess fondant all the way along.
When you get to the corner, again just give it another squeeze to make sure the corners
are joined together, that the fondant is fuzed there.
And then trim it off with scissors.
Then for one just gently rub it to smooth off the corner.
Print out the template that I'll put on the website and rub oil on it to make sure the
paper doesn't stick to the fondant and place it on top of the cake at a 45 degree angle
with the base.
Add hexagons with the shaded side pointing down into each space.
Adding them all the way along, making sure that shading is facing the same way on all
of them.
Once you've got them there you can gently slide the paper out and push the fondant down
onto the cake.
Continue to add more hexagons in the same way and any that are on the edge, that are
half over the edge, you'll need to cut them so that they sit neatly along there.
Now on the top all you need to do is add some candy snakes and some m&m's for dots and a
pile of them for mass, and you can arrange them however you like of course.
And if you want a giant snake on top you can make this giant gummy one and I'll link you
to the DIY video for making that below.
Yummm look at those strawberries inside.
OK let's play.
Choose your name ... Reardon for me.
And then when you're little you need to collect dots or you can't boost.
And you need to be able to boost.
Dots make you grow a little bit but mass makes you grow a lot so we need to find some other
snakes - if you hit another snake you'll die, but if another snake dies they leave behind
mass and that makes you grow fast.
If you can't find other snakes you can head towards the middle, you can see where you
are on the map in the bottom corner.
OK Let's see if we can get some mass there is one pink dot, Ahhh he bumped into me awesome,
let's eat that mass before everyone else does.
That was great because he was a big snake, he got some of it.
I'll pick up all the scraps back there.
Now these little pink ones are bots - they are not actual people so they're just crash
into me.
There's another one.
Oooowww someone popped quick let's get some.
Boost across it, not up it, so that we don't bump into anyone and now that I know it's
safe let's clean up the rest of it.
I need some of these snakes to vacuum my floor for me at home, everyone is so keen to scoop
it up when they're snakes on a game.
More mass let's get that.
Ahh this guy is trying to get me out, no you don't let's try and loop him ... nope he knows
what he's doing.
OK I'm going to speed the game up for you now.
Let's put it in fast forward.
Noooo
Whoa, nearly got me.
I am surrounding you...
That was lucky!
Got him
Of the most venomous snakes, 5 out of 10 are found in Australia so I should be able to
win this game.
I've got you surrounded, come out with your hands up.
Got him
No no no no Rocky, you got right in the nose!
I was number 2 on the leader board with 26,000 ... I can't believe he got me out like that.
What's your best score?
Let me know in the comments below.
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Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday.