Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon today we are making all your favorite apps
on a much requested iPad cake. I will show you two different ways to make
the iPad so let me know in the comments which one you prefer which one looks better.
Firstly though we are going to make our apple box and to make that you'll need one and a
half quantities of the rich chocolate cake recipe and bake that in two trays. The recipe
videos and everything that you'll need to make the iPad cake are all on this weeks blog
post and I'll link to that in the description below the video.
Once your cakes have cooled level them out and then cut them in half. Then place a small
amount of frosting onto the cake board, followed by the first layer of cake. Cover that in
frosting then add two more layers of cake. So you'll have one layer spare.
Now trim the edges to make that as straight and box like as you can get it.
Then cover the whole thing in a thin layer of frosting. This coat catches all the crumbs.
I am using mixture of the American buttercream and white chocolate ganache here and again
those recipes are all on the website.
Place that in the fridge and once the frosting has firmed up then we want to cover it in
another layer of frosting, take your time when you're putting this one on. Get the edges
as straight as you can, get the corners as crisp as you can.
When you put the fondant over the top it will reflect what you've done underneath.
Then place it back in the fridge to firm up. Now take some water on a pastry brush and
brush the cake, this just makes it a little bit damp so the fondant will stick to it.
Roll out your white fondant and then lift it up and drape it over the cake.
Pinch it in at the corners together and use scissors to trim off the excess and then rub
it with your finger. Now to get those tight edges you will need
to use a fondant smoother to smooth it out and also massage it towards the edges.
You can make the front of the ipad screen out of a printed icing sheet or out of fondant.
The printed icing sheets can be purchased online, they don't taste great even though
they say they are made out of icing they are not sweet. But they are good for apps that
have detailed logos. To make the fondant ones firstly we need to
make an app cutter. To do that decide how big your apps are going to be it is going
to be then take some aluminum flashing and fold it around something round like a pen
to make that rounded corner shape that all apps have. Repeat that with the next corner
each time lining it up with the distance you want the sides to be so they are all about
the same. Once you get back to the beginning trim the first side to about half the distance
and fold up the last side to overlap it. Trim it off and use some tape to hold it into place.
Now for your favorite apps you guys had so many requests we couldn't do all of them but
here is some of them starting at the bottom we have
DUMB WAYS TO DIE. To make this one roll out some background
colour. For all of your backgrounds use two skewers either side of your fondant and then
when your rolling it so that the rolling pin rests on them and you get a uniform thickness
for all of our buttons. Then cut it out using the cutter that we made. Then roll out a oval
of blue and squash it and using a little bit of water add it to the square. Trim off that
excess then take balls of orange really little ones and then roll them into tear drop shapes
and add them for fire hair. Dumb ways to die was a viral youtube video
made by Metro Trains in Australia promoting train safety. It was so popular that it has
its own game and various other things now as well and you can play the game and try
and survive all the different scenarios that are in the song.
Roll out a snake of white for the smile and then add two dots for the eyes using a food
safe marker.
CUT THE ROPE is a good fun little game that I like as well I printed this one on the edible
icing sheet and you can get the image that I printed it all from on the the how to cook
that website as well. I will put it up there for you.
PANDORA To make the logo print it out and cut out
the P shape making sure you keep that white part in the centre of the P.
Pandora is a music app where you can listen to music using wifi and create your own stations.
And it's free if you don't mind lots of adverts. If you want no ads then you'll need to pay
every month. Place it on some white fondant and with the
middle of the P in place as well. And then brush it with some powdered blue food colour
and a dry paint brush.
And then brush of any excess blue. Peel it off. And then place your cutter over the top
and cut it out.
Next on the printed on we've got WE HEART IT
This one is similar to pinterest but in my opinion to as good. What do you think?
Spotify is next it is similar to pandora where you can listen to songs in playlists for free
on wifi & make your own playlists. It seems to have less ads than pandora does and I think
it's got a bit of an easier to use interface. Once you've rolled and cut out the black cut
out a green circle using a piping tip and place it on top. Roll out a snake of black,
curve it and place it on. And then repeat that using two smaller and thinner snakes.
The next printed one we've got is GEOMETRY DASH I'd never played this game before, you
jump over shapes, it is really hard, but kind of addictive.
Then we've got skype Roll out two ovals out of blue, flatten them
and place them across each other. Then use a snake of white to add the S.
And then put the whole thing onto a white square.
HAY DAY is a game where you run a farm it is one of the top grossing apps of course
because it has inapp purchases.
Next we've got Retrica. Retrica lets you take photos with different
filters and different layouts so it's a bit of a fun photo app. Cut out a square of white
then add a strip of orange and put that on the top. Roll a ball of white and add it to
the top of that and then repeat that with a ball of black. Then add the four little
dots in the corner using your food grad marker.
Then we've got TEMPLE RUN this game has been around for quite a while now but you run and
you swipe to tun and swipe to jump and slide under things. It's quite a complicated logo
so it suits best the printed one.
Next we have POU In this game you have a little character who
you feed and you can play games with. If you feed him too much he'll get fat. If you have
push notifications on this one can get really annoying but if you turn them off it is a
pretty cut little game. Cut out your white square then roll a circle
of brown, squash it and pinch it to make it narrower at the top. Roll a tiny square of
white then cut it in half to get two even eyes and roll them into balls and add them
on top.
Then using a food safe marker draw on the black dots on his eyes and his little mouth.
Next we've got SUBWAY SURFERS we've played this one for a while now you just dodge trains
and collect coins pretty much the opposite of the message of the dumb ways to die one.
Next we've got whatsapp With whats app you use your smart phone to
send text messages, photos, videos and you do it all over the internet instead of using
sms. Cut out a green square and roll out a snake
of white. Then make a mini oval and trim it at the join
to leave a slight tail. To make the phone cut a short piece of white
and bend over each end then add that to the middle.
CLASH OF CLANS is next its a multiplayer game by the makers of hayday, you build defenses
and train troops and attack other players communities, it does have wizards and witches
in the game play so if you that bothers you choose another game.
Next we've got 2048 this is a game where you keep adding things together so you add two
twos to make 4, two fours to make 8, then 16, 32 and so on trying to get all the way
up to 2048 Cut the square out of the yellow and then
paint on 2048 using white food colouring.
Next we have SURPRISE CAKES this is my app so thanks for requesting that one. This allows
you to use gaming technology to bring your cake to life. We are currently working on
the next update for it which will have a whole new animation which a secret I can't tell
you what it is yet but be on the look out for that.
Next we have pinterest which allows you of course to pin things you find online to different
boards so you can easily find them again. On the ipad or iphone though it can get a
bit tricky because you don't have the 'pin it' button. But if you browse within the pinterest
app you can easily pin stuff from there. Cut out a square of white and then a circle of
red. Roll out a long snake of white and start out making a semicircle on the top half then
bring it in and up to the top then back down and trim it off at the edge of that circle.
Then use a skewer to help make any little adjustments to the shape to make it look right.
Lots of requests for a bible app, You Version one is one of the most popular ones and It
is one of the most functional it's got all different things that you can do in there.
Then CANDY CRUSH this is an old one now, if you like candy crush then you can check out
the candy crush cake that is on the channel.
WATTPAD This one lets you write a story. I'd never
heard of this one before but now I've checked it out it is quite interesting you write you
story and then other people can comment after each chapter and vote or share. So you are
getting feedback on what you are writing.
Next we've got piano tiles this is a simple but addictive free game where you have to
tap on the all black or colored tiles and avoid all the white ones as fast as you can.
To make the logo cut a square out of white and out of black and the cut each of those
into quarters. Use two from each to join them together to make the checkerboard look and
then just use a little water to join them together to make them stick.
Now the top 10 most requested apps. At number ten we have KIK which is a messaging app for
smart phones so that you can message instead of smsing
And we have at number 9 YOUTUBE* You should know how to use the YouTube app,
because you're watching youtube so I am not going to explain this one. Cut a square out
of red and then cut a rounded rectangle of white and add it on top. And then cut a tiny
triangle out of red and add that on top.
At number 8 we have KIM KARDASHIAN hollywood. I didn't like this game, I am really sorry
girls. But if you read the ratings on games they are there to help you make wise decisions
for yourself or your kids if you are the one controlling what they get it is rated 12+
for mature/suggestive themes, horror themes, violence, alcohol tobacco and drug references,
crude humour and mild sexual content and nudity. Lets go on to the next one.
Coming in at number 7 was Vine which is an app where you can post and watch 7 second
videos to share and just like youtube there are some are good and some rubbish ones.
Roll and cut out your background colour then roll a snake of white fondant. Starting at
the top corner there drape it down to make a v shape and then use a knife to make it
more pointed down at the bottom there. And then loop the end bit around to make a curve
and then trim it off.
At number 6 we have TWITTER and I assume you know this one, you can tweet short 140 character
text messages publicly or privately to a person who is following you.
Cut out a blue square and then a circle out of white. Make a cut like your making a pacman
and then round one corner of that.
On the opposite side make a cut following the line of where the body of the bird is.
And then trim off the wing section to make it smaller because it is way too big there.
Then slice it into three sections. Use your skewer to pull a little point for the beak
and then place it onto the blue
Lets pause our top ten count there to make the symbols that go down the bottom really
quickly. For sms cut out a circle of green and then
make a ball of white squash it and use your knife to shape the triangle part. Then add
it on top. For emails cut out a square of blue then a
small rectangle of white then indent the envelope shape into the white using your knife and
add it on top. For the safari symbol add a circle of blue
on top of a square of white. The roll some red really thinly and put that on top of some
white and cut out that compass needle part. Add that to the middle then make indents all
the way around the circle. For itunes cut out a red square and then use
a snake of white fondant to make the music shape note.
Back to our count, at number 5 most requested by you was the FACEBOOK app and I'll show
you tumblr at the same time because their logos are so similar. Tumblr actually came
in at number 11. Roll out some white, rub a little oil onto
it. Cut out the letters and place them onto the fondant, then dust with blue powdered
food coloring. Dust off any excess then remove the paper and cut them out using your square
cutter.
MINECRAFT There are so many youtube channels devoted to this game that I think it needs
no introduction, was at number 4.
Now at number 3 we have FLAPPY BIRD. Mix some green and blue and roll it out then
cut using a square cutter. Roll a small ball of yellow and flatten it. Then add and oval
of orange for the beak, and a white circle for the eye and a yellow wing. Then use a
marker to dot or draw on all those pixelated looking edges.
Flappy birds was a very popular app and it had more that 50M downloads. And then the
creator removed it from the app store saying that it was too addictive and he was getting
too much bad feedback. There were rumours that he had it taken off because of copyright
violations but apparently that is not true. It is now available again on amazon fire tv
but not in the app store.
Trim off any excess of that yellow and then add it to the square.
At number 2 most requested was SNAPCHAT. I can't believe that this number 2.
I don't use this one but basically you send a picture or video to someone and it deletes
within a few seconds of them opening it. In a UK survey 67% of snapchat users said they'd
received inappropriate pictures on snapchat. Roll out a square of yellow.
Make an oval of white, then flatten it out. Then use a straw to push it up on each side
of the base and in at the sides. Make two slices in the base and then place it on top
of the yellow. And then use your skewer to pull some fondant
from underneath to make the little arms.
Number one most popular which I like as well, YAY. Was instagram. You share your photos
or your little short videos and then you can follow other people whose feed you like as
well. You can follow howtocookthat on instagram I'll put a link below to all the different
social medias that I'm on if you haven't yet found those.
Use your cutter to cut a strip of brown and add it to the top of a white square then.
Roll a ball of white and squash that in the middle. then add a ball of black. Roll a snake
of yellow green red and blue. These need to be really tiny and add them to the top corner
and then trim them off.
To make the background of the iPad roll out some white fondant and then add paper towel
where the clouds are. Then sprinkle it with raw sugar and spray
it with some food colour spray. Making it darker at the top. I'm then adding some more
black food colour at the top too and blending it in with my finger, if you have black spray
that would be even better. Once it is dry brush off the sugar and you
can see all your stars left there. Roll a strip of blue and place it across the
bottom. Then roll out some white and place it around
the ipad, using some baking paper just to smooth out those joins.
Place the template over the top and trim it to the right size and then add circle indents.
Now add in all of your apps that we've made using a little bit of water to make them stick
and then use a ruler to line them up neatly.
To make your apple logo on the side of the box cut out a circle and push it up at the
base with something round like a straw and then down at the top with something straight.
Flatten out the lower sides on each side and then cut out the leaf shape. Brush that with
silver luster dust and then add it to the cake using a little bit of water.
To make the print out ipad roll out some white fondant to the right size. Rub the back of
the printout the backing side of the bench to loosen it
And then carefully peel off that backing. Place your icing onto the fondant and then
use the backing to rub the top of it to make it smooth.
Then trim it along the edges.
For both of these you can make the fondant really thick if you want to make it the right
thickness for your iPad. Or if you wan to make it taste really good you can make a backing
out of chocolate.
Just temper some chocolate and spread it out. Then add your iPad on top and once it is firm
trim up the edges using a knife.
Place some grey fondant into a fondant extruder and make a long strip, alternatively you could
roll out the grey and then use a ruler to cut the strip. Dampen the sides of your ipad
and add it all the way around the edge.
Add now your ipad is ready to add to the top of your cake and you can serve it up.
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