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- Hi, my name is Laura and I'm a private chef
and today Katie has challenged me to create a dessert based
off of one of her favorite celebrity looks.
I don't know who Katie chose, but it's right here behind me,
so let's find out
It's Billie Eilish. (laughs)
Yeah, I love her style.
I feel like it's kind of like mine
but it's weird because I'm older (laughs) and she's cooler
so it's not fair.
What really intrigues me about this look
is the amount of lime green, the glitter,
and how spooky and black it is.
Ooh, the rules.
So the rules are one, must be a cake,
two, must include a chocolate technique,
and three, must incorporate the Grammys.
The dessert that I'm gonna have to make is
gonna have to be glam and glitter and just,
it has to be dark and sexy.
This is my first challenge at Tasty, I'm a little nervous.
Let's do this.
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So the first thing we're gonna do is bake the cake.
It's hot coffee and cocoa powder.
One is black cocoa that you would use for Oreos,
but we're gonna try to make this cake nice and dark.
Coffee just enhances chocolate flavor
and it just creates a deepness that you don't get
when you just use water.
We've got our flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder
and then we're just gonna use a whisk
to whisk it all together, to get it all incorporated.
We're gonna add our eggs to the sugar
and whip them for about three minutes.
(mixer whirs) We're looking
for a light yellow.
So we're gonna start with a third of our drys.
Slap it. (mixer whirs)
To make a cake spooky, I think we're gonna try
to get it nice and dark and mysterious.
I've just always liked horror movies, anything Goosebumps.
Definitely a Hot Topic goth in middle school to high school.
So what I've learned in cake making is you always
wanna finish, when you're alternating wets and drys,
you always wanna finish with the dry.
You wanna finish your cake batters by hand.
This is just what I was taught.
You wanna let the machine help you,
but the machine shouldn't finish the cake batter
or else it'll be tough.
Human touch.
Now we have our finished plain batter.
We're gonna divide it into two bowls
and get the two colors workin'.
But to give it a little bit more of the Billie Eilish vibe,
we're gonna use some really dark black food coloring
and get that in there.
We're gonna use pandan extract.
Pandan is like the Asian vanilla.
Pandan is a green leaf that's extracted
and has very vanilla and sweet notes
and a very vibrant green color.
This is feeling very Billie.
So here's our dark batter.
And then we're gonna do same amount of green.
And we're just gonna keep alternating that
until all of the batter is done.
So then we're just gonna take an offset spatula
and gently run it through the batter,
just trying to create some more interesting contrast
between the two batters.
It looks exactly how I want it to, so I'm pretty pleased.
All right, I'm gonna go bake this for 25 minutes
and I'll be right back.
So next we're gonna make a cookie and cream mousse.
First thing we're gonna do is take hot cream
and pour it over the chocolate
and let that hang out while we whip our cream.
And then just whip it until you're at soft peak.
So now I'm just gonna take the same beaters
and I'm just gonna mix the warm chocolate and cream
just to get them nice and incorporated.
It's called a sacrifice and I think that kind of ties
into how spooky this cake is gonna be.
But we gotta sacrifice some of our cold cream
to temper our warm chocolate ganache.
And it's just gonna get it on a closer temperature
so that it doesn't just seize up
when you pour hot into cold.
And then we're just gonna do a traditional folding technique
from top to bottom.
This is now a good time to add our Oreo crumbs.
Billie has said that she wears baggy clothes
to kind of keep her body hidden away
from judgment and critique,
so I think we just wanna hide an element
to this cake so that when we cut in,
we see inside and it's something interesting.
So I'm using this cool silicone mold
that's really popular on Instagram videos.
But it's got these weird bubbly spheres
and it ties into that whole gooey, oozy, slimy look.
We just want it to be nice and filled up.
So just need a little tap from the bottom.
The tap-a-tap-a's a professional technique.
And now we're gonna take this to the freezer.
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Now we're gonna make the mirror glaze
that's gonna go on top of the mousse.
And so we have gelatin and we're gonna quickly add water
and mix it really fast into a paste.
We're gonna set this aside
while we heat up our sugar, water, and condensed milk.
And I think it is the most impressive looking thing
that I think we're gonna do for this cake.
Once this gets to a boil, we're gonna add our gelatin
and our vanilla extract.
Mirror glazes are like the resin pours
of the If You High section on Instagram.
And now we're just gonna pour it over carefully
and then just let this sit for a few moments.
And then we're gonna blend it all together.
All right, and now we're ready for color.
Now we're gonna use the same pandan extract again,
about a tablespoon.
Time to buzz.
(mixer whirs)
(batter splashes)
(laughs)
This is done.
And then we're just gonna strain it into a bowl.
I'm gonna repeat this method again
using dark chocolate and cocoa powder
and then we're gonna get our black glaze.
So I really love Billie's nails, especially in this look,
I feel like her long, glamorous nails
are something that she's known for.
So I really wanna incorporate that into the cake.
And I've gotta do a chocolate technique anyways,
so let's do it with this.
So we've got some melted, dark chocolate
and I've got this cold sheet tray
and then we're just gonna pour it.
I'm gonna try to spread it out as thin as possible.
I'm gonna pop this in the freezer
so that sets up for the next layer.
So next, I'm gonna try to replicate that Gucci pattern
with some white chocolate that we're gonna pipe
and then cover in green glitter.
So I'm just gonna do one direction and I want
to move really fast because this chocolate will set.
And I think, before then, I'm gonna just try
to get this layer on.
Ooh, we're getting messy.
Make sure it's working.
Ooh, it's working.
I am feeling the pressure also,
just 'cause I can see the chocolate setting.
So I'm like, oh, I need to get the glitter on!
Think I'm just gonna do a couple of dots 'cause I want to.
It's definitely always hard to know when to stop,
especially when it's fun.
All right, so now I'm gonna lift this up
and get all that extra glitter out of the way.
Now that this is done, let's just break it up into shards.
I definitely find a lot of fun in the physical stuff.
Not sure how I'll use it yet,
but I like all the points and I feel
like it's jagged and edgy, kind of how Billie is.
Okay, so we're gonna move on to our gold element next.
(upbeat music) So in order
to incorporate the rule that I have to involve the Grammys,
I'm gonna do chocolate covered strawberries
but we're gonna cover them in gold.
Billie's got five Grammys, so I wanna
make five gold strawberries to show that on the cake.
So I've already taken some strawberries that I've cut
and I'm just gonna stick it in the chocolate.
I wanna cover it completely.
And then we're gonna take one fancy big piece of gold leaf.
Nailed it. (elegant music)
It's like putting a blanket
of gold on the little strawberry.
This is how they apply gold leaf to old paintings
and old instruments.
All right, these look good.
Let's move on to our next step.
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We're gonna move onto coloring our buttercream
and this is just a plain vanilla buttercream
that we're gonna color green
with more of the pandan extract.
You're gonna start noticing it
in a bunch of other things.
I can't wait to see pandan on the TikTok cooking videos.
Having Billie behind me is really,
it's like having a spooky guardian
in the sky. (spooky music)
And I think she's really helping the vibe.
All right, wow, I think we got it
to match the spatula pretty well.
So now we're gonna cut the cakes to size.
We've made this little template
that's about the size of the mold.
Oh, okay, we got some green here, very cool.
Billie, if you're watching this right now,
I hope you like what I'm making.
And I hope that you can come over
and eat it one day and we can be friends. (laughs)
So we're gonna use this template and put it here.
Tiny bit of icing so it doesn't slide around.
Flip.
Whoa, see how black that is? Crazy.
And we're gonna build a little two layer cake
with this frosting in between.
I think we really got the color of her hair
in this cake somewhere.
So now this is done and our next step is
to assemble the cake and do the mirror glaze,
which is kind of the, I'm holding my breath
and I'm kind of running out of air
'cause I'm a little nervous
that I'm gonna mess this up, but we're gonna do it.
Mirror glaze! (apprehensive music)
We've done all of our components and now it's time
for the mirror glaze and we only get one shot.
I don't have an extra one.
I want Billie to tell me that I could do whatever I want
and she'd love it. (laughs)
All right, so let's do this and start from the middle.
And I'm not gonna stop until I feel comfortable
that every last inch was covered.
And then we're just gonna do our green glaze.
Ooh, look, we're getting the nice drips that we want.
All right, so I'm happy with this.
We're gonna move on to hopefully the easier one.
Work on making sure that these sides are completely covered.
So let's just add a little bit of extra green.
Ooh, this is definitely a Goosebumps vibe right here.
Wow, I love that!
So now I'm gonna quickly use two spatulas
to get this layer on top.
And then we're gonna... (grunts)
It's stuck.
(exhales)
So now we're just gonna use our chocolate
and kind of build up our accents.
This is like a spooky gingerbread house.
And I'm gonna move around to placing the gold strawberries.
So I'm kinda trying to emulate how she has all
of the Grammys together.
And she's actually got one that's on its own,
so let's do that here.
Okay, we're done, I'm so excited to be done.
That was really stressful and I'm so glad we made it.
I love the cake and I can't wait to see what Katie thinks
of this Billie Eilish cake.
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- It's so good!
It really, it's screaming Billie to me.
And the gold leaf on, are these strawberries?
I love this ooey, gooey, this needs to be
in one of her music videos.
It's creepy, but it's glam.
I cannot wait to see the inside of it.
So Laura, I'm gonna let you come in and cut it
'cause I don't dare.
Good job, Laura!
- Thank you!
It's time to cut the cake.
Just slice this baby.
Are we ready for the big reveal?
Oh wow!
It, at a point, felt like I wasn't doing enough
for this cake to do justice for how big her personality is.
But, I think looking at this,
I'm pretty excited about the cake that we made together.
All right, let's take a bite.
Get every layer.
(hums) It's really good.
Gold doesn't give a flavor, but it gives a flavor. (laughs)
I'm so glad Katie challenged me to do this cake.
If you guys are interested in seeing
any other celebrity looks turned into food,
please let us know in the comments down below.
Thanks so much for watching, bye!
(broadcast signal)
This bad guy is everything I wanted
and definitely something I would eat
when the party's over. (bell dings)
(laughs)
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