good afternoon and welcome to the good
plates kitchen today we're going to make
an Almond Joy
cake and we have some ingredients here
this is
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cocoa
coconut chocolate dipped
almonds we're going to
make our frosting with jet puffed
marshmallow vanilla for the
cake
and we're going to use melted butter in
the cake because it's a chocolate cake
it's going to have coffee in it and of
course we have flour
sugar and milk and we're going to make
that soon so stay tuned this is usually
an oil-based cake however this time
we're going to use melted butter and I
have 1/2 cup of unsalted butter that I'm
going to melt the ratio in an oil cake
of oil to butter is one to one so this
recipe usually calls for a half a cup of
vegetable oil we're going to use a half
a cup of butter it's going to do two
things it's going to make it a lot
richer and the other thing it's going to
be a lot tastier
okay I'm melting this butter on the
stove top instead of in the microwave
because I would like to have a little
tiny bit of that brown butter flavor
going into my cake in a microwave
because it doesn't reach a hot enough
temperature will not do
that the but the butter is melted as you
can see okay and it's foaming which
means that it's getting a little bit of
that brown flavor on the bottom this
butter has to come to room
temperature before it can be used
because if I try to put it into the cake
now with eggs I'll have scrambled eggs
we don't want scrambled eggs in our cake
we want melted butter
okay okay while we are waiting for the
butter to get cool enough to continue
with our cake we're going to prepare our
pans this is a 9in cake pan I have
already sprayed it with some um cake
baker Joy spray now what really want you
to notice is this this is a cake strip
and what you do with this is you run it
underwater and get it wet and then put
it around your cake like around the pan
like that and what it does is it
prevents your cake from doming
because that just that little
bit of water that's in here cools it
enough so that the pan the outside parts
of the pan stay cool enough so that the
cake won't Dome and this is a it's
really wonderful it means you're not
going to have to cut the top of your
cake off not you're going to have even
layers these cake strips are fantastic
highly
recommended okay the dry ingredients are
ready
this is
flour I know it doesn't look like flour
this is actually flour baking soda
baking powder salt and cocoa and I used
a sifter to sift everything together the
reason I used a sifter is because we
want to have a lot of lift and using a
sifter rather than a whisk will give you
more lift it adds more air so I'm going
to add
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this
to my
mixer see you could see the
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flow I'll go it one time
and put this on
stir okay so now it's stirred and it's
got extra air in
it this is a good thing now it's time to
add the
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eggs two eggs
one
two and the milk this is a cup of
milk since this is going to be an inside
out almond Jo cake we really want to
give it some almond flavor
so almond goes in here almond this is
from penies the
best and of course
vanilla add
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that
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and next thing we're going to add is
normally this would be where you would
add the oil but this time we're adding
butter so we're going to add the
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butter and then beat this for 2 minutes
so we're going to put it on put my
machine on four for
beat actually two put on
two okay we'll be back in 2 minutes okay
now that it's been beating for 2
minutes you have to
add boiling hot water
okay this it's a chemical reaction you
can't use cold water you have to use
boiling hot
water we it all
in it's still steaming okay now put your
machine on stir because this is it makes
it um it's very thin at this point so
put it on stir so you don't make a
mess there we go if you don't have
one of these beers with edges I highly
recommend getting them you still have to
scrape a little but not nearly as much
they're really wonderful there'll be a
link in the
description okay okay I have put the
batter in the pans you see they both
have their cake strips on them and
they're going to go into a
350° oven
and they will be
baked
for 30 minutes and we're going to check
at 25 just to make sure they're done
when a toothpick comes out clean okay
see in 30
minutes okay the cakes are out of the
oven and I want you to see that because
we used the cake strips look how nice
and flat these cakes are I mean they are
flat there is no boing and that's
exactly how we want a
cake okay the cake is out of the oven
and it is cooled and it's now time to
make the frosting which we're going to
be doing now and we are making this with
marshmallow cream marshmallow cream a
panilla extract powdered sugar a little
bit of almond extract and of course
butter right be back you want to beat
it until it is nice and fluffy and
thoroughly
mixed if parts of it come loose stop the
mixer Stir It Up
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and there we have it the Inside Out
Almond Joy cake complete with
coconut chocolate covered almonds
beautiful marshmallow frosting I'm going
to cut into it
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just a smaller piece
right and there is the
cake it's just
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lovely
and now we're going to have a
piece that lovely
frosting here we
go oh
wow is amazingly
good very good okay we'll see you next
time on the good
plate