♪ Happy birthday ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday Cocoa Butter ♪
(ballon inflating)
- Happy birthday, Cocoa Butter.
- We're a year old.
- We have grown so much and I'm excited to celebrate.
(laughs)
- Thank y'all for the support.
Thank y'all for the love.
We couldn't have done it without y'all
and please we need two more years.
I got babies to feed.
(baby crying)
Come on, we gotta keep subscribing.
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(kazoo blowing)
- I'm Thomas.
I produce the "Food Swaps"
as well as a couple of ratchet videos
you might've seen here and there.
- Hi, my name is Jada and I produce
the "One Size Fits All" videos.
I do the "Beauties Around the World".
- My name is Andrew.
I'm a Cocoa Butter producer here.
I work on "Date My Fit",
"I Draw, You Sew",
"Dad In Progress".
- Hi everyone, I'm Ashley,
I'm a supervising producer here at Cocoa Butter.
I produce a lot of different videos.
- Hey what's up everybody, I'm Ade.
I am the executive producer on Cocoa Butter.
- I'm most nervous to try Ade's
because he said he is infusing something he learned.
I don't know what that skillset is.
I don't know what that means.
- I am the most nervous to try Thomas's cake.
- Just because of the message that he sent last night
I am afraid to try Thomas's.
- We had like a group Slack message,
and Thomas sent in a picture of a bowl of sugar
and he's like,
"The sugar's not melting."
And I was like why does he have to melt sugar
and I didn't know where it was going from that point.
- The one that I'm like the most nervous about
is Ashley's.
Like she had it wrapped up in some foil with a toothpick.
I totally support people trying,
but like don't feed me no BS.
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- So I made this cake because it's a classic yellow cake
which is one that a lot of people have
for their birthdays.
But I wanted to put a little spin on it,
so I made a strawberry compote
to like put in between the layers.
I made a chocolate Hennessy flavored frosting
because who doesn't like Henny?
Who doesn't like chocolate?
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- I don't know what this is.
- I don't know if this is caviar. What is this?
What's this at the top?
- What the (bleep) is that?
- I see some color going on here.
- And then we have this multiple layered cake.
- It looks okay.
It looks fine.
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(laughing)
- I feel like Andrew may have made this one.
- Maybe Thomas?
- Ashley?
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Is this you?
- This kinda reminds me of the broke college kids
swap grilled cheese sandwiches.
- My grilled cheese is probably the best grilled cheese.
- 'Cause I love grilled cheese sandwich,
and I would mess up a grilled cheese with some bacon on it.
And I like how that one person brought in
the avocado and they layered it.
And it was not a grilled cheese I'd ever seen
and I appreciate that.
- I can get with this.
- This is what this person is bringing to me right now.
- I thought this was very creative.
They had to go out of their way
to go find some gold sugar.
I assume the yellow is for the
- [Both] Cocoa Butter.
- You have too much going on.
There's like strawberry, coffee, yellow.
- With all the food swaps,
I feel like the appearance
definitely comes first.
- Whatever this brown stuff is on the top
and then the yellow sprinkles,
like that gotta go.
- The middle, it's cooked right.
Again it's moist.
This icing is interesting.
- It's also kinda moist.
It's not dry.
- Yeah, it is moist as well.
- [Camera Man] Ashley, tell him the truth.
(laughing)
- It's my cake. (laughing)
- So A, I'm not gonna lie,
like the flavor profile,
I don't really like strawberries
with my sweets and stuff,
but I'm not really gonna ding 'em for it
'cause I feel like they shot their shot
and they actually brought it.
- I will give myself a seven.
I'm giving myself a seven because it's all scratch.
- I'm gonna give this person an eight.
I'm not a hater.
- Ah, geez.
I'm wanna rate this a three out of ten.
- I'd give it like a solid six.
- Oh a six, damn.
- So I'm gonna rate this a three,
and I'm only giving you a three because of the texture.
I wouldn't wanna eat this on my birthday.
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- My baking style is like I read the box.
(timer clicks)
(timer dings) And then I put it in the oven.
So it's four layers.
And I feel like in each of those layers
is a bunch of different shades of black.
Just like at Cocoa Butter,
it's a bunch of different shades of black.
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I recognize her.
Hey, boo.
- Is this Oreo?
- There's something here,
which is cool.
- I mean I can't tell what's here because.
(both laughing)
- Kinda hard in the middle.
(both laughing)
(gasping)
- It broke my fork, dude.
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Oh.
- Mmm.
- I don't know what I just bit into.
- Oh no.
- You see, there's so many different flavors happening.
(bell bleeps)
- Yeah, I don't.
- Wait, why is this hard?
- My first guess is it's a S'mores style cake.
- I'm sorry.
- A lot of times people are overly confident.
They talking about how nice they are,
they can do this,
they can do that.
Some things just kinda speak for themselves.
- Mmm mm, I can't do this.
Mmm mm.
- Oh no.
- I'm reacting like this not because it's nasty
but just because there's a lot of stuff in here.
I got peanuts at one point and marshmallows.
- When you take one bite,
you're getting four flavors in your mouth.
'Cause even if you don't like one side,
I got three other flavors in there for you,
so you gotta like one thing.
- The way that this is put together
makes me feel like this might be a guy.
So I'm thinking Ade, Andrew on this one.
- The presentation isn't the most appealing.
I'm gonna go with Andrew.
- When I think of presentation,
I think of the chicken and waffle one.
- Oh my chest is hot.
I feel it.
Jesus.
- It was a guy who
inserted the chicken inside of the waffle.
- All right, I can't find the chicken at all
in this mother (bleep). - When I eat this cake,
it reminds me of my favorite food swap,
the curry goat episode.
- Where I'm from in Rock City,
if you ain't got no seasonings,
it ain't good.
- So what you all don't know
is that one of the contestants definitely,
definitely, definitely bought that curry goat
10 minutes before we started shooting.
I don't know.
I think it's really funny when you think about
what goes into making these food swaps
that you don't actually see on camera.
- I'm gonna just have to give that like a three.
- I'm going to rate it a five out of ten.
- Nobody's perfect,
but I'm gonna give it a nine.
- Yeah, that is a solid two for me.
- Okay.
- I don't even wanna see this cake again.
- I'm gonna give this a clean seven
because the taste is there.
Sorry, bump it down to a six
because also the appearance is trash, bro.
- This is a choking hazard.
- Next. (laughing)
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- So I decided to make a nice yellow cake today
with buttercream frosting.
The actual full portion of it had
a whole thing of sprinkles on the top
and then it had like CB,
like Cocoa Butter.
I wish I could have tasted beforehand.
Can I taste a little bit? - [Camera Man] Not right now.
- Oh.
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- Oh.
- All right, okay.
- Oh Jesus, no. (laughing)
- Based off of appearance,
it looks dry.
It looks pretty,
but dry.
- This is very elegant looking.
- I feel like if I googled birthday cake
this is what it would look like.
- I definitely saw you walking in with this, Jada.
- I think whoever did this
may have cheated a little bit because
the volume of this cake,
I don't even know how to do that.
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- Okay.
Okay.
- It tastes good. I mean it tastes like a cake.
- It's fluffy in the middle.
It's moist.
- It's not bad.
- That tastes kind of store-bought.
- It is giving me like Duncan Hines.
- My daughter's ten.
I've been to so many birthday parties.
I feel like I ate this thing 17 times.
- So this one reminds me
of the banana pudding video.
♪ This banana pudding ♪
♪ Is the best you'll ever have ♪
- One of the ladies,
she was just like, "I just put this in it."
And it was like something that
was a store-bought ingredient.
And I was like,
okay, original.
- This kind of reminds of me like the soup joumou episode.
- This soup is so disgusting.
- When we were doing it,
everybody kind of had their own their own spin on it.
So I feel like this cake is like the opposite of that.
Instead of everybody bringing something different,
this cake is just kind of like doing the middle of the road.
- Nah, I just went to the dentist.
So I'm going to stop eating here.
But this tastes really good, Jada.
- It tastes a little almond-y
with a little bit of French Vanilla.
- For me personally,
for our birthday celebration,
Cocoa Butter's first year,
I would have liked something a little bit bigger.
- I honestly think I did a pretty good job on my first try.
- I feel like this is an Andrew thing.
- I'm gonna say Jada.
- I would have to call Jada a baker.
- Personally, my favorite food swaps
are always the ones were people are blindfolded.
- I don't wanna sound rude,
but it's giving Hamburger Helper.
- I wish I was blindfolded for all of this.
- Scale of one to 10,
I would give this one a five because it looks really nice.
- From a scale of one to 10,
I'm gonna give it a six.
- I'm gonna score it a seven out of 10.
- The fact that it could have passed for
something store-bought,
made it a five.
Otherwise, it would have been a little bit lower
but presentation was there.
- I totally, totally, totally
planned on walking in this and dragging her
and giving her a low rating.
It doesn't taste like you made this from scratch so,
for that I'm gonna have to give you an eight.
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- When I was thinking about what kind of birthday cake
my team would like to have I thought,
I should get a white cake.
(record scratches)
So I made a white cake
but I did something a little bit special.
The inside has buttercream inside of it.
I didn't just stop there.
I just surrounded it with some white icing.
I still didn't stop there.
I went to the vending machine
and guess what that vending machine had?
Oreos.
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- Now this looks like a Baked Alaska.
- All right.
- This one looks good.
- We got some Oreo frosting on the top.
- It looks like a cake,
which is great.
- I would say yes this is home-made
because the pans are different sizes,
so you didn't get this at the store.
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- Mm mm.
- Oh man.
- This tastes good.
The icing is really good.
The cookies on top is really good.
- This one isn't that good.
I think they might have over baked it a little bit.
The middle is brittle.
- This isn't made from scratch
but it is good.
- Yeah, this tastes like a box cake.
That's disappointing.
- Sometimes, people make things.
They want to put their own spin on it
but it just becomes like a basic thing
with your thing on top.
Similar to the Kremas video,
I remember the third dude,
his Kremas basically just tasted like
somebody put egg nog
and added rum into it
and they like shook it and put it together.
- I don't even see spices in this one.
- I'm getting the same type of flashback of that with this.
This tastes like a poorly made boxed cake.
- There's not much I would change about this recipe
except for the icing.
- Whoever this was was very creative.
- It's a good cake.
- I think it's a little bit better than good. (laughing)
- Is this your cake, Ade?
Is this your cake?
- I mean.
- I'm having hard time guessing who this is.
I'm putting my bet on Andrew.
- I'm going to say Ade made it.
Yeah he probably took Oreo's from the front desk
that we had at reception
and just like threw it on top of his cake.
- You get an A plus for effort.
- I never said I did this.
- It's yours.
- Something that is often talked about on these food swaps
is did this person make this from a box or did they actually
go home and prepare it?
- If you ever come on a food swap,
don't bring anything
out of a box.
- The goal is to make it from scratch.
This person didn't get the memo.
- I would give this a six.
'Cause it's a good cake.
It's a decent cake
- Office birthday parties,
I can see this one showing up.
- So from a scale of one to 10,
I'm gonna have to give this one a five.
- A solid eight out of 10.
- I feel like this is what happens
in a lot of these food swap videos
when they know it's their own dish
they give it a high score.
And you know what?
I'm here. I'm gonna to do it the same.
I give it a nine.
- Oh my God.
This is blasphemy!
Get out of here!
- I'm going to have to give it a four.
Only because like it tastes great
but it's just not tasting like you made this.
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- So today I have prepared this
Oreo Cocoa Butter
(bell dings)
birthday cake.
All within this there's like coffee,
there's Oreos,
there's whipped cream.
This is handmade.
This is made from scratch.
This is like original goodness.
It's melting.
It kinda look cool though,
you know what I mean?
I feel like they might like it.
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- Oooh okay.
- This is giving me home-made vibes.
- Oh wait, this is mine.
- It looks like, like a cake pudding?
- This person brought it.
This person did some research.
- I see some crushed Oreos.
I think this is like double stuffed Oreos.
- It doesn't look that good
and now I don't wanna eat it. (laughing)
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This is good.
- Texture wise, pretty good.
- The icing is like top-notch.
The cake itself,
something is missing.
- There is like chocolate chips in the batter.
- This unbelievable.
I can't even lie.
- Yeah, it's good.
- I sell myself short.
I shouldn't have done that.
- This whole attempt of just making cakes
kind of reminds me of
the pound cake episode.
- We had a
pound
cake
video.
- Specifically, the one who had
the chocolate frosting on a pound cake.
- I am not excited about this cake at all.
- Like it just made no sense.
- Reggie B, you know who you are.
- Yo, I really,
I enjoyed this.
I feel like Thomas made this one.
- Like I have Oreos in this.
They don't got that.
- I think Thomas made this cake.
- I just wanted a little bit more of the Oreos
'cause it's in the actual cake itself.
- I just saw that food swap with gumbo.
- I had high hopes for this one.
Oh God.
- This lady had like sausages, shrimp.
This one kind of reminds me of that because
I think this looks disgusting,
but it tastes good.
- I'd give this
oh, okay.
I'm going to give it a seven.
- I'm going to have to give it a six. I'm sorry.
- I'll give it a six.
- I didn't even think I was gonna give anybody
an eight today,
but whoever did this, good job.
- I'm gonna give this a 7.5.
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(bell dings)
I didn't consider myself a baker until today.
What can I say?
I threw down.
I put my foot in it.
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