(upbeat music) - Hello, everyone.
My name is Mike; this is my first ever "Goodful" video.
Go easy on me. (bell dings)
Figuring it out as I go along.
I'm currently in my parents' kitchen,
which is a whole 2020 mood.
You may or may not see my parents' dogs
coming in and out of the kitchen.
They spark joy, and they (bubble pops)
spark chaos. (bubble pops)
I have a very special guest here
to help introduce what we are making today.
Darling sister, welcome. (applause)
(bubble pops) This is Becky.
What are we making today, Becky?
- We are making my Grandma's Stealth Cake.
- [Mike] She called it Stealth Cake.
My Grandma devised a way to hide vegetables
inside a chocolate cake,
hence the name Stealth Cake.
Not only is there some tofu hiding in here,
but there is also carrots and zucchini.
Becky, were you an adventurous eater
as a child? (laughs) - Nope, I was very,
very picky. - What were your foods
of choice? - The cereals food group,
so bread, the dairy food group, and the sugar food group.
There were smells and textures that bothered me,
and she found a way (Mike laughs)
to make them wonderful. - So we've got flour, sugar,
cocoa, baking powder, baking soda,
salt, vanilla, tofu, carrots,
egg whites, zucchini, oil.
She also had in the recipe to do prune butter.
I don't know where on earth somebody finds that.
Instead, we did pumpkin puree mixed with honey concoction,
melted butter, and melted baking chocolate.
Let's get started. (whooshing)
I think there's a little bit of wiggle room
for what order I do this in.
So I'll do the one that excites me the most first,
(bubble pops) which is to liquefy
(whooshing) the vegetables.
For this, I'm gonna liquefy carrots,
zucchini,
egg whites, vanilla, tofu
until very fine. (blender whirs)
(bell dings)
The liquification is done.
Thank you, Becky, for your help.
I'm gonna combine the dry ingredients together,
'cause we'll be sifting that
into the liquid ingredients later.
(upbeat music)
So now I'm gonna do the wet ingredients.
Technically, what the recipe said was to liquefy
the egg yolks and then fold in the egg whites later.
What happened is, I didn't read it properly,
so I accidentally liquified the egg whites.
You know what?
It's all going in the same place.
I've got all the liquids mixed in
except for this veggie-tofu concoction.
Time to add this bad boy in.
♪ Let's whip it up. ♪
All right, Becky, I know you're busy doing
PhD student work, but look.
Look what I did. (laughs) - I'm so proud of you.
It's beautiful. - All the liquids, and all
the dries; I think it's time (upbeat jazzy music)
to put them together
and make them kiss. (smack)
- Okay.
- Look at this.
She's all ready to be baked.
I've got my oven pan, oven cake pan?
What's this called, Becky?
- Baking dish. - I've got my baking dish.
(spraying) (upbeat jazzy music)
There it is, gonna put it in the oven,
and then check on it in 32 minutes.
While the cake is cooling,
I'm going to make the cream cheese frosting.
There's powdered sugar,
butter, cream cheese, vanilla extract,
and salt; obviously feel free
to do any kind of frosting that you want.
I saw some fun-looking healthier
cream cheese frosting recipes.
Go wild, y'all.
Live your truths.
The first step is to combine the butter and cream cheese
in the bowl using a mixer. (clicking)
My Grandma had a standup mixer.
I have this, and this will be my workout for the day.
'Sposed to do this until all the lumps are out.
So that might take a little while.
Now I add the vanilla extract and the salt.
(mixer clicks)
Next step is to slowly add in powdered sugar.
It says have the mixer on low,
but the mixer is me and my strength,
so (growls) dammit. (laughs)
So this is too thick; I read on the internet
that I can add a splash of milk to make it thinner.
♪ Put a little bit of milk in here. ♪
(milk trickles) I transitioned to a spoon
because it gives me better leverage.
(exhales) Only a little bit of a mess,
but a lot of sweat. (whooshing)
Ordinarily I would probably just frost it in the pan
but kinda wanna frost the whole thing,
and I think it'll look better that way.
That is, if the cake comes out in one piece.
♪ Moment of truth, it's the moment of truth. ♪
(clicking) Oh.
There we go.
Now I attempt to frost the cake.
I think there's probably a right way to do this.
I don't know if I have all the right tools for it,
so I'm gonna wing it a little bit.
Some part of the top.
(upbeat jazzy music)
I'm gonna try something I haven't done before
and attempt to put some texture into the frosting
so it doesn't look like a five-year-old did it,
which, like, not that inaccurate.
Little swirls into it. (upbeat music)
Great, now I'm going rogue and trying something with a fork.
So it's somewhat more presentable now,
but as a final touch, and I'm gonna shave some chocolate
on top of it. (upbeat music)
(whooshing) Welcome back, Becky.
Here comes the moment of truth
- Uh-huh. - Where we see if it actually
A, is edible, and B, tastes anything like
the cake that Grandma made.
Cheers with our plate. - With our plates.
(plates click) - Cheers.
- That's Stealth Cake. - That's Stealth Cake?
- You did it. - I made Grandma's cake.
- [Becky] You made Grandma's cake so good.
You know, some people, you still have foods
that you're not okay with later on,
and that's okay. - Thank you, Becky,
for all your help; thank you, everyone, for joining us
in this adventure.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
Well, there's a bunch of cake leftover here.
So I'm gonna-- - Whatever will we do?
- Whatever will we do? (upbeat music)