- Hello, everyone.
It's Barry here.
Welcome to My Virgin Kitchen.
I hope you are well.
Take some pugs, take a swimming pool cake,
the amazing retro swimming pool cake
that I never, never had as a kid.
I always saw them, I was like, ugh, I want one.
Fuse it together.
All right, you have got a pug swimming pool cake.
Decided I was gonna make this, a lot of you guys
went crazy about that on Twitter, so I was reading
a bit of it.
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you, straight up.
I've already baked my cakes, because I don't want
to wait for them to cool down.
This is all about the finish, right?
And I've also spent six hours last night
just doing the most simple pug modelling using
different colour fondant, but I'll come onto that
right at the end.
If you support me on page, you would see a little
behind the scenes, but we need to move on.
Or we need to start.
So the chocolate cake recipe I'm using is one that
Mrs. Barry used in a previous video.
The link can be up here and down below if you
haven't seen it.
And all I've done is made two of those sponges,
and I'm just letting it cool down.
But we're gonna make the buttercream first of all.
Buttercream, butter, butter cream.
The first thing is you make sure you've got
nice room temperature butter.
Plunk it into your stand mixer.
I'm just gonna...
Just gonna beat it.
Beat it.
Next we add in the icing sugar.
All righty, so in that goes.
Cloud, the cloud.
(blender whirring)
All right, we beat the hell out of that, it's nice
and creamy.
So to give it that chocolate vibe, two tablespoons
of cocoa powder and a tablespoon of milk.
This will loosen it up a little bit, make sure
it all grips together.
We're not making too much buttercream today,
just enough, 'cause it's just gonna be like
a supporting role in this major movie.
Don't know what I was going with the hands.
(blender whirring)
And hey, presto!
We have got ourselves a proper stonking buttercream
right there, just enough.
That really does make one of the nicest tasting
buttercreams ever.
Next, we'll grab our cooled cakes, and it's time
to make the pool section.
So this is my bottom cake sponge, and I'm just
gonna put a light frosting just over this.
If you wanted to go for like a chocolate orange
cake vibe, or maybe a mint cake, you could have
added extract into the frosting, as well as the cake.
It's looking good, loving it.
Now that is a sponge that I deliberately made
a little bit higher, so you can get a bit
of depth in this.
Now I won't frost the outsides just yet.
As I say, we're gonna start to work on the pool.
So I'm gonna cut out a little hole
in the middle.
Just gonna do a relatively small circle.
Gonna go down like maybe half an inch.
Just using a spoon to help me pull the
sections out.
Obviously, make the pool as big as you want
it to, but for me, I've got one of the pugs
in the pool, and another pug out of the pool.
So I'm not making it so it completely overtakes
the cake.
But what I will do is use the back of a spoon
to just kind of flatten it, sort of define those
edges, you know?
That's not looking too bad, but if we put the blue
water effect which we're gonna go for against a
chocolate cake like that, it won't stand out.
So we're gonna roll some icing over this top part.
So, folks, this is some icing sugar coating a big
old block of royal icing.
So the sort of stuff that you roll out most
birthday cakes with, or sometimes marzipan.
Yuck.
I've also got this rolling pin, which is actually
really good for icing, it's really sort of smooth.
It doesn't get all grainy like the wooden one.
I'm trying to just keep it moving.
I've got way too much.
I'm just making sure I've got enough,
and it's not too thick, either.
Want it thick, but not, I don't want to completely
overtake the cake in icing.
Right.
That will do.
Cake comes back in.
Just draping the icing over.
See I've got way too much.
And I'm not even doing the sides,
I'm gonna cut those off.
But what we want to do is kind of lift it
to get the pool area as good as we can, okay?
I've got to make it look like a swimming pool.
All right, let's carve some of that excess.
What I'm doing is just really tucking that in
just to make sure that it's got that nice edge on it,
you know?
I'm loving that.
Now, to trim off the sides.
Bit of a clean down.
Just for a little bit of fun and to make it look
a teeny bit more like a swimming pool,
these are some blue icing squares I've cut out
last night, which we're gonna stick on top
of the white icing.
So I'm just gonna...
I've got a pastry brush.
I'm just brushing the icing with a little bit of
water, because if you do that, it kinda turns into
a bit of a glue, really.
It'll grab stuff.
And obviously we want it to grab the tiles.
So all I'm gonna do is take one of my tiles,
press it down like so, and then join the next one
kinda next to it on a point like that, okay,
so it kinda looks a little bit like a swimming pool tile.
Hopefully you'll see what I mean by this.
I think that looks pretty neat.
You know what?
Amy? Amy?
Hello.
(laughing)
It's me.
Boston, no, you've got no hope over there.
I'm making this for you, okay?
So we're gonna give the side of the cake a very light
frosting, okay?
Now for those of you that like cakes, I have got a
lady local to me who makes the most incredible cakes.
She has her own business, does all different styles.
She would absolutely smash this.
And she's expressed and interest in coming on
and doing video recipes on here, which I really
like the idea of, but I also like the idea of getting
myself and also Mrs. Barry to maybe sort of do challenges,
so she'd challenge us to do something and she
can judge it and stuff like that.
So it could be really, really fun.
So those sorts of stuff is gonna happen once the
studio is finalised.
I'm just finishing finding a camera person to
work with right now.
So meeting lots of people, but it'll be really
exciting once it's all done.
There we go, that'll do nicely.
Next up, I am gonna take a KitKat bar and I'm gonna
snap it in two and hopefully this'll give our swimming
pool a nice kind of gated community vibe.
Just stick that round there.
Doing it in twos.
'Cause it'll make it feel like it is rigid,
but it gives you enough flexibility to work
around the cake.
There wasn't a massive amount of buttercream on there,
but that is actually gripping really nicely.
This was the bit I was worrying about earlier,
like what if it's not gonna fit?
So we're gonna put one in like that, and I think I can just
snap off the one finger and it might be able to just
wedge in there.
Yes.
(laughing)
Wow, that was pretty cool.
Now as you guys know, I am not a master baker.
I can make a cake taste good.
The new book, in fact, has got 50 cakes and bakes
recipes in there.
Stonkin'.
But in terms of visually, I've always struggled.
But I'm happy so far with how this is going.
Now with it being a swimming pool cake, we've got
to get that cool swimming pool effect.
And I've picked up this stuff.
This is called clear piping gel.
It's like a sweet edible vaseline.
But everyone online seems to say that this
is the best way to get that really cool water effect.
So this is what we're gonna use.
But we're gonna dye it, a little bit blue.
So we'll take a mixing bowl.
Dollop that in there.
It does kind of look like jelly.
Jelly could work.
I couldn't find a blue jelly.
And I also, just people 'cause they raved
about this, again, it's called clear piping gel,
I had to get it.
Apparently 'cause the texture of it just gives off
that constant watery vibe.
So here I have some sky blue coloured food colouring gel.
Ooh.
Oh, wow, look at that.
Amazing.
So all I'm gonna do now is create our pool
by spooning that mixture into the crevice.
Part of me feels like it's gonna be best to start
in the middle
and then work my way out.
(laughing)
I love it.
We'll finish the cake off now with the models
that I made last night.
They took me absolutely hours.
And I would actually love to show you me making them
in real time, but there's just not enough light
in the kitchen to do that, which is another reason
when I have the studio all going and working
full steam, I can show you the whole steps.
But let me show you them.
First off, we've got a little beach ball.
I made that out of red and yellow icing.
Quite simple.
Now Amy's quite a hungry pug, so I made her
a little cake, complete with candle.
Oh no.
A leg just fell off, but that is Amy,
complete with tongue wagging out and a little collar.
There's Boston with his tongue wagging out
and his little white medallion that he's got,
sat in a rubber ring.
So I'm gonna try and set him in the pool,
but I might need something underneath him,
otherwise he could sink.
And of course no pool party is complete
without a little banner.
I made this out of some bamboo skewers
and card.
And cocktail umbrellas.
(laughing)
So I'm gonna put this on the cake.
I'm gonna show you what it looks like.
Ladies and gents, I present to you the pug cake.
The pug pool party cake.
I don't know what we're gonna call it.
It's the cake.
So we've got the tiles there, and the swimming pool
area, we've got a little beach ball there,
we've got Boston in the water with the life ring
on, of course with his tongue hanging out.
And Amy sat there.
Her arm did fall off and land in the pool,
but hey, eating a cake, being sensible,
hanging out in the shade under the umbrella,
which is actually propping her up.
I am over the moon with how this had turned out.
All right, folks.
I don't really want to slice this up, but I'm gonna do it
anyway, because I've always wondered how people
slice these sort of cakes up.
With a knife through the cake.
Oh no, stay there, stay for me baby.
Let's just try and do a little slice,
so the kids can see it later.
Oh no.
There.
There we go.
Chocolate cake and the pool is kind of...
Someone pulled the plug out on the pool.
Mmm.
That is good.
What do you think?
You're on a rubber ring, look.
It's saving you.
Huh?
Kinda see the resemblance, although he's
keeping his tongue in today.
What about you?
Eh, she wanted to go sniff yourself.
Ugh, your breath smells.
I need to go wash my hands now.
Someone did suggest on Twitter I should
have just used the salt and pepper pug pots.
You know, these things.
That would have probably been a lot easier.
But anyway, as I say, I hope you enjoyed this.
Maybe we could make a regular cake of the week
segment with me, Mrs. Barry and also this expert
and have some fun with that.
But I hope you try it.
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