Hey guys it's Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today we're gonna be doing special, I got so many requests for something Animal Crossing
and I've been playing Animal Crossing a lot on my 3DS, and when I was playing the little
game, it was my birthday a day ago and in the game the little town presents you with
a vanilla-strawberry cake for your birthday so I's thought "It's perfect!"
Today we are going to be making a strawberry cake that's Animal Crossing Birthday Cake!
All right, let's get started!
The things you will need for this vanilla-strawberry cake will be: 3 Cups of cake flour,
3 Cups of regular sugar, 7 eggs, 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 a teaspoon of baking powder.
3/4 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup of sour cream, 2 tablespoons of vanilla extract, a bunch
of fresh strawberriesssss- yumm, yummy, yummy, yummy!
2 sh-ticks of butter which equals 1 cup and then you'll need 2 round cake-pans.
Mine are 8 inch by 2 inches tall, and you'll need 2 big mixing bowls like I've got here, and an
electric mixer.
Let's put it all together!
In your first bowl, we're gonna mix together all of the dry ingredients.
Gonna add your flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and then whisk 'em together!
What does the whisk say? Ch-ch-ch-ch-choowah-choowah-choo
Once that's all whisked together you're just gonna set this off to the side and then we're
gonna mix together our wet ingredients.
Now take your second bowl and we're gonna cream together our butter and sugar, just
make sure your butter is room temperature- it's nice and soft...be easier to work with.
Sugar...
Now I'm just gonna take the hand-mixer and beat it together until it's light and fluffy.
Now you're just gonna keep mixing and add your eggs in one at a time.
Now you're gonna add your vanilla- Oooh smells so good!- and then mix it up again.
Last but not least, we're gonna add 1 Cup of sour cream and then mix for 30 seconds.
We've now got our wet ingredients all mixed together and now we're gonna slowly add our
dry ingredients. I like to add it in sets of 3 so that you don't get a big poof ca-loud,
so here we go...
Ooohh-ooooooo! That's about a 3rd....- ThhhPffft, little poof!
Then just keep mixing after each addition of the dry ingredients.
We've got our cake batter all ready and now we are going to butter our two cake-pans.
I'm just taking a stick of butter, just movin' it around the pan getting the bottom and the
sides all the way around so that the cakes will just slip right out.
Once your pans are ready, you're just gonna evenly distribute the batter into both pans.
Just eyeball it, doesn't have to be perfect!
Ohhh, oohhh, oohh, ooop! K that's about half...
Oohh, rrrrruah, rrrrrr, rrrouh!
You're just gonna give it a little shake and a tap...
Shake...tap....perfect!
Now the cakes are ready to bake you're gonna set your oven to 325 degrees and you're gonna
bake for about 50 minutes.
I know this is a long time, and we're gonna slow baking the cakes because they do rise
a lot.
We just want to make sure that the whole cake is baked!
While the cakes are baking, it's a good time to make our frosting!
I've already made the frosting, this is a cream cheese recipe, it's really easy!
It's two 8 ounce sticks of cream cheese, I use the "light" cream cheese, 1 sh-tick of
butter and 4 Cups of powdered sugar.
I mix in a little bit of strawberry jam and some pink food-coloring so that it will look
like the exact birthday cake from the little video game!
And now we're gonna cut up some strawberries to go in the in-between layers in our cake.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!
Take a sharp cutting-knife , put them on a cutting board and you're gonna just chop off
the little green part at the top.
There we go...put those aside.
Now take your strawberry and make thin little slices.
Once your cakes are done baking, take them out of the oven and make sure they've had
plenty of time to cool before you frost, but we are ready to frost now!
Alright so you're gonna take your frosting, gonna cut a little hole at the end of the
bag, then you're just gonna put it for the in-between layer...
...take a little spatula, spread it around.
As you can see, even my cakes came out a little messy, but the frosting will even it out so
it's OK!
It still tastes really good!
Now you're gonna add your strawberries- Ohmm, yum, yum, yum yumm!- right on top.
Ooh I love fresh fruit and cake. It's so good!
Now that we've got our strawberries on, we're gonna put on the top-layer of the cake and
what I'm gonna do is flip it upside down-
Gentle, gentle, gentle, here we go, here we go!
Down....right, because the bottom of the cake is really flat, it makes the perfect top of the cake!
Now you're gonna take your frosting and you're gonna do a crumb-coat, just frost all around the cake!
Now that we've got our cake totally frosted, we are going to decorate with fresh strawberries,
a little bit more frosting-
I've dyed it a little bit lighter-pink and then 4 green candles.
Bewrmp!
First thing that we're gonna do is put on 6 strawberries, evenly-spaced around the top.
Then you're gonna take the cream cheese frosting, the one that I dyed a little bit lighter-pink.
I put a jagged tip at the top just for a little bit of decoration-flair!
And you're gonna put a little... Bloop!- In between each strawberry.
Last but not least, we're gonna add 4 candles, you're gonna put 'em in the back.
I'm looking at the front of the cake so it's a little bit backwards, but you're gonna put
'em right in between the little frosting-bloops! Bloop!
Ta-daaaaa!
Here's The Animal Crossing Birthday Cake that we made, it's so cute!
Thanks you guys for suggesting something Animal Crossing!
I love this cake because it's very, very easy to make!
It's a cake that does not need to look very polished because in the video game, it's handmade
so if you are a messy frost-er, this is the perfect cake for you!
It's a really good idea for people's birthdays- excpecially if they like Animal Crossing-
and I hope you guys liked it.
If you have any other suggestions for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know!
Leave me a comment down below and I will do my best to make it happen!
Also I will be posting pictures of this cake on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
That's right, that's my last social media haha!
And if you guys make this birthday cake for anyone, please send me pictures!
I love seeing your baking-creations, I just get a big kick out of it!
All right, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Make a wish, make a wish, make a wish, make a wish...
Awwwwwuph-
Pfffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttttttttt- huh-heh!
Yaaaaaaay! Huh-ha-ha!
Doo-doo-dewp-doo-do-dooo...
Doo-doo-dewp-doo-do-dewwww...
Doo-do-deep-do-da-dewp-dewwww...
Doo-doo-dewp-doo-do-deeeewwwwwww...
There's four candles for each decade I've lived!
Pffft, just kidding!