Welcome to HowToCookThat, I'm Ann Reardon and today we are making a
treasure chest cake from the game Fortnite. My older boys and I have been
playing this game over the holidays we always seem to pick a game to play each
holidays and this time it was Fortnite so that's what we have been playing. The
chest is actually made from gingerbread and the base is made from cake. So to
make our wooden gingerbread planks you will need butter sugar flour glucose
syrup. Now normally I'd use half glucose and half molasses but I want to slightly
lighter coloured gingerbread so I'm going to use all glucose for this one.
Bicarb of soda, milk, ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Now you can take out the ginger
if you don't like ginger and change that and just have cinnamon and cloves or
just cinnamon a little bit of grated orange whatever flavor you'd prefer. All
these recipe quantities are on the howtocookthat.net website for you and
the template is there too and I'll put a link to that in the description below.
Add the sugar in with the butter and mix that on low speed and then add in the
glucose syrup ... you can swap this for a light corn syrup if you don't have
glucose syrup where you live. Add in the cloves cinnamon and the ginger ... I think
my bowl was a bit too full there, we're just powder everywhere. Now we need to
add the flour and the milk ... I am totally out of room so what I'm
gonna do is tip the rest of the flour onto the counter and then tip the
mixture on top of that and mix it together kneading the flour into the
mixture until it forms a really soft dough like this. Place about a third of
the dough onto some baking paper and before you start rolling it shape it
roughly into a rectangle shape so that it's easy to get it into the corners and
then place the next piece of baking paper over the top and roll it out to
about one centimeter thick. Take off the top sheet and add your template into
place and cut around it using a pizza cutter for all of the straight cuts. Now
if your template is sticking to the gingerbread a little bit like mine is
just sprinkle some flour onto the gingerbread dough
first and then it won't stick. We want to leave some extra bits of dough
around a shape and that's because it helps keep the gingerbread in the right
size and it also stops the corners from getting overcooked in the oven. Mark
where the planks are supposed to go and you can use a pizza cutter or a ruler to
cut the planks ... cut them right through on the front and back pieces of the chest
but when we get to doing the side you just want to indent them don't cut them
the whole way through. Some of the planks are a slightly different colour so I'm
going to use a dry paintbrush and just brush on some cocoa powder to give them
a slightly different colour. Add some more cocoa powder between each plank and then
indent on the end of the wood just using the ruler there just a bash of the bit
so it looks like it's a bit older. Now use your knife to make lines on the
surface of the dough the lines should be slightly wavy with the occasional knot
in the wood just to give us that woodgrain look. Cut out your other pieces
in the same way just texturing them all with your knife and shading them with
the cocoa powder and then bake them in the oven. Part the way through baking
redo any of the cuts that go the whole way through and then shape the bottom
front edges up a bit by adding some foil under the baking paper so that those
planks just curve a bit. I'll show you that from the side so that you can see
what I'm doing ...you've got your baking paper
you've got the foil just sitting underneath so it's making it come up
slightly. One important thing with gingerbread is being able to tell when
it's done because when it's hot it can still be quite soft and a little bit
bendy. If you're not sure if it's done you can let it cool and once it's cold
if it's not firm if it's still really soft just put it back in the oven for
another 10-15 minutes because we really need this to be firm because we need it
to hold its shape otherwise it's just going to fall apart. The other way you
can tell if it's done is to flip a piece over if the back feels dry it's done if
the back feels really wet and moist then just leave it upside down and chuck it
back in the oven to dry out. Once that's all baked we've got some fondant pieces that
need making ahead. Put some baking paper over the handle template and shape a
thick snake of black around the handle ... you can leave this round it but in the
Fortnite game they're a bit more chunky and cartoony because of the way the
graphic artist has drawn them. Then just join those ends together with a little
bit of water and use your knife just to square it off a bit. Cut around the lock
now this needs to be quite thick and cut off the corners and then round them out
using the edge of your knife. To make the hole I'm using a piping tip now if you
don't have one of those just try using a straw instead it cuts really good
circles. Then cut straight lines of the keyhole and remove that bit of fondant.
Use a smaller round piping tip to make indents for where the nails are on each
corner. Cut out the two unusual shapes now these go on the side of the lid I
think they're supposed to have something to do with the opening mechanism of the
chest but I'm not exactly sure. They look a bit plain to let that a few details to
them and then the only other thing we need to make ahead is these circles ...you
need six in this size and then another four smaller ones and then we want to
dust all of those with silver luster dust and dust the lock and the handles
and those weird side bits too so that it's all silver and then we'll just
leave those to one side to dry out. I'm pretty happy with how this woodgrain
look has turned out on the gingerbread the cocoa powder's coloured it nicely the
wood grain looks good ...now we just need to put it all together. So to start with
lay out your bottom pieces and your two side ones and cut the board to be the
same shape as your pieces as you can see mine are a little bit different to each
other so that's why my board looks a little bit weird but just make it match
how yours have turned out. Then take some melted chocolate and make sure if your
chocolate has cocoa butter in its ingredients that you temper it first
watch my video 'CHOCOLATE SECRETS' on how to do that if you don't want to temper
buy compound chocolate that has no cocoa butter in it. Then you can see this
one is a bit broken you can just repair that with
a bit of chocolate and then pop that into place on the edge ... put this one here
and use a cup to hold that. Now you can get these make it a great week cups from
the merch store there's a link to that below (quick merch shout out there 😊) if you
use the handle of the cup then the base won't get stuck in the chocolate rather
than just using the straight side. Do the same on the other side now I'm a bit
worried about these walls falling outwards so I'm going to add more
support on both sides that seems a lot safer to me. Add some chocolate up the
sides and add that plank into position. Stack your other planks using more cups
to support them while the chocolate sets and do the same on the other side and
then you want to cover the whole inside with chocolate to seal any little gaps
that you might have in your chest. Use chocolate to glue that little strip of
gingerbread across the base there and now we want to make the lid. To start
just put it like that and balance those two up so you can see what I'm
trying to say next put the center one there and then when you put this one
here because of the angle they're on see how the bottom corners are going to stop
the tops coming together ... so we need to shave off the bottom corners. So just
grab a finely serrated knife and run it along your gingerbread now this is
really messy so I usually do it over the sink but I'm doing it here so I can show
it to you and you need to do that on the other piece as well and then when you
put them together see how now they come together and they sit neatly next to
each other. Once you've adjusted all your planks you can put the two end pieces on
top of the base and then use chocolate to put each one of those planks into
place, now the planks should stick out beyond the ends and you'll notice that I
didn't add chocolate underneath the half circle bit here because I want to be
able to take the lid off. Once all those pieces are set in place take the lid off
the chest turn it upside down and then line the
lid with chocolate now this is going to give it more strength but it's also
going to make sure that our gas will only get out of the gap under the lid
and not everywhere where there's little gaps between our planks. Cover a cake
board in foil and using a little bit of buttercream to hold it in place add cake
randomly over the top there's no real pattern to this just make sure you have
a flat area under the chest and the rest is however you want it. Cut some cake
pop sticks to the height of your cake and poke them in one for each corner and
add a couple in the middle just for extra support.
Then add the chest on top and the cake pop sticks to stop the chest from
squashing the cake underneath. Cover that whole thing in grey buttercream and then
anywhere where you can see lines so it looks like it's buttercream and not a
rock just gently tap it down to make it look a bit more like flat ground. There
are so many different ground textures in Fortnite particularly in the new
release so I'm going for the ones where there is a chest sort of in a clearing
on the top of a mountain where it's got that different colored grey and then
it's got a bit of grass so just try and smooth that out. Take your leftover
buttercream and spread it on some baking paper and chuck that in the freezer for
about 20 minutes ... you can color some with a darker shade
of grey and do the same thing with that if you want to. I just realized I forgot
something really important the light has to go in ... I should have done this before
I added the buttercream but that's okay. I'm using a really bright torch for this
and just wrapping it in orange lighting gel and then I'm going to put the whole
thing in a clear plastic bag to keep it dry. This one turns on just by pressing a
button on the top which is perfect for how we want it and then what I'm going
to do is just scoop out some cake from right in front of the chest and add the
light into that hole. Then pipe some buttercream around it just to hide the
torch. Take your frozen buttercream and cut it into chunks so it looks like
little rocks and just scatter them around the place wherever they are I'm
gonna do them in two different colours. Roll out some green fondant and use your
knife to cut three or four long thin curves then just pinch and twist them
together for a tuft of grass. You want to make lots of those all different shapes
and then just leave those to dry out for a minute.
Cut two strips of black to the width shown on
the template and brush them both with silver. Wet the back of the strip and
push it onto the chest at the top of one side. just cut that to length and then
use a knife or a blade underneath to straighten it up so that it looks like
it's metal. Put a little water on your finger and rub off a bit of the silver
so the chest looks a bit old and rustic instead of brand new. Wrap a snake of
black around the top of your handle and brush that with silver too then put a
little bit of water on the back and add that to the strip we just put on. Now
while that's drying it's a bit heavy so you'll need to support the weight ... I'm
just going to use an offcut of gingerbread just to hold that up and
once it's dry we can take that out. Cut two strips of fondant brush them with
silver and add them around the chest from the bottom at the front all the way
around the back ... you just want to trim them to size and then cut through where
the lid joins the chest so that we can still take that off. Use a little bit of
water to add one of the circles that we made earlier and add an indent there and
then use a piping tip to add circles for nails in the center of each wooden plank
and then add another circle there. On the left hand side there's a piece of metal
missing I'm not sure how you'd actually damage the metal on a chest like this
without destroying the wood underneath but that's how the artist drew it so
that's how we'll make the cake. Use a bit of wet paper towel then to distress down
the middle of the metal strip taking it back a bit to black. Cut out the two
chunky lock pieces and brush them with silver and then add the bottom one into
place making sure it's wide enough to fit around the middle part of the lock.
Now take your serrated knife again and mark where the lock goes on the lid and
shave away that part so that the lock will sit flat when you add it into place
and you just want to attach that at the bottom half not the top again so that we
can get the lid off. your grass should be dry enough by now so you can poke those
into place all around the cake. I'm going to put a jar of Slurp Juice inside
my chest with some dry ice in it so that we can
get that vapor coming out of the chest! You can put whatever you want in your
chest lollies (candy) would be good but you're not
going to be out of fitting an AR, a med kit or an RPG ... when they spring out of the
chest they're much bigger than what the inside of the chest would fit. How cool does that look!?
It looks just like a Fortnite ches! For those of you who have no idea what Fortnite Battle
Royale is I'll show you one of my games sped up. Now I must warn you I don't
usually like first-person shooter games so I don't usually play them so I am
absolutely hopeless with a gun. So unless I can take time to carefully line it up
I am going to get shot before the other person does that means I have to play a
much more strategic game. So I land right near the edge of the map where
there's less people and then I make my way into the circle with the storm
behind me so no one can get me in the back. It starts with a hundred players
and the last player standing wins, a bit like a Hunger Games kind of vibe. Now you
can play gung-ho and try and eliminate as many people as you can or if you
can't shoot and you're a bit more of a pacifist like me you can just stay
hidden and let everyone else battle it out. It tells you how many people are
left here and the circle that you have to be inside gets smaller and smaller so
it brings everyone together. If I was an aggressive player I would get this guy
over here yeah but I'm a hundred percent sure that if I shoot at him he'll turn
around and shoot at me and decrease my shield and my health so I'll just wait
here and let him go first. If my boys are watching me play they get so frustrated
when I do this ... they just go "Mum shoot him!" Once he's gone I can go up his ramp and get into the
circle and then I'll put on the bush that I have ... now I'm recording this game
before the new map update ... the bush is still Christmassy 🎄
Spewing (happy Australia Day) the new circle is not on my side ... now walking bushes are a teeny bit obvious
especially with flashing lights on them so I'm gonna need to move slowly around
objects. I'll just speed this up for you ... okay I'm in the circle and there are now
eight people left make that seven, now five ... someone is
building up there and there's a drop so while they're distracted by that I'm
gonna move into the next circle I have no idea where the other three people are
and this circle is getting pretty small now. Oh there's someone they're running in. And another person is to my right shooting RPGs...
The guy behind me has just jumped out of his base to get the loot. So there are three people left with me, one there
I can just see one person hiding in there and where's the RPG guy? There he
is he has just used a jump-pad to get into the circle ... so while they're all
distracted battling each other I'm gonna move into the next circle. That's it he
got those other two people really quickly and there's only two of us left
and now I know where he is and he has no idea where I am so I can carefully line
up this shot ... YES! There you have it, Victory Royale! I'm quite sure if he had have had more health then he would
have won because if it had a chance to shoot back at me he probably would have
got me but anyway I still won fair and square ... strategy won the day! Click here
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