[joshua] yo! welcome to man about cake. i'm your host, joshua john russell. [joshua] and this week, this man is all about manly cakes. that's right, i'm making a cake for myself. [joshua] and actually, i'm only gonna use one cake layer. the rest of the cake is gonna be brownie, cookie and cheesecake. [joshua] because i'm ridiculous. you guys ready to do this?[crew] yea [joshua] let's do it! [joshua] let the ridiculousness begin. so here are all the things i'm gonna throw this cake with. [joshua] these are all kinda my favourite things. so i have a 6-inch layer of marble cake, [joshua] 6-inch layer of brownie, 1 cookie, 1 cheesecake and we're gonna fill it with chocolate buttercream. [joshua] by the way, if you want any of the recipes, you can click the i at the top here or you can get them in the description box below/
[joshua] so the first thing i'm gonna do is actually chop this guy up, make a little cake frisbee out of him. [joshua] alright, who's catching? brandon? ready? [joshua] well, he caught part of it. [joshua] so we're gonna fill this starting with the brownie layer. [joshua] and i'm actually gonna glue him down with a little bit of chocolate buttercream so it doesn't slide around in this. [crew] i like that this is a heat cake! [joshua] this is definitely a heat cake. this is a manly cake! [joshua] so we'll put some chocolate buttercream down. [joshua] so if this wasn't ridiculous enough, i'm actually gonna add some stuff between the layers, [joshua] some of my favourite things. so i've got my favourite candy bar,
[joshua] i've got some oreo here, gonna have some chocolate pop tarts. [joshua] because growing up, i ate these every morning for breakfast and they were my favourite! [joshua] i didn't toast them though, they're raw. [joshua] well i guess they're not really raw. well i used to call it raw. [joshua] in the morning my mum would say "you want a pop tart?" of course i do. "do you want it raw or toasted?" [joshua] and i could choose. [joshua] cos if you toast it it's all like warm and has a different flavour. [joshua] i'm an expert at pop tarts. [joshua] alright so we're gonna do some pieces of candy bar, yum!
[joshua] add our layer of cookie, more chocolate buttercream. [joshua] let's put some oreos in here. gonna do our cake layer next. [joshua] marble cake, my favourite. [joshua] more chocolate buttercream. [joshua] and then the pop tarts! [joshua] they're so good. [joshua] the cheesecake is really delicate. cheesecake's got an oreo crust by the way. [joshua] because why not? who's gonna stop me? nobody! [joshua] very delicate so we'll just push that a little bit.
[joshua] so i'm gonna pop this guy in the cooler then we'll do a crumb coat and a final coat. [joshua] alright, now we're gonna give her a crumb coat with chocolate buttercream. [crew] wait, did you just call her her?[joshua] oh it's a guy! him! giving him a crumb coat! [joshua] him [joshua] i guess techinically we don't have to do a crumb coat, cos there's not any crumbs! [joshua] we'll do it anyways cos that's how cake designs work. [joshua] i'm gonna do a little haircut on top here. [joshua] it's going back in the cooler, chill and then we'll do the final coat. [joshua] i'm doing this with the same chocolate buttercream.
[joshua] how many calories do you think are in this cake? [crew] 40 or 50?[joshua] a 1000! [joshua] sealing in all that manliness. [joshua] brr! i'm not a good grunter. i'm like [joshua] have a high voice, i'm okay with it. [joshua] alright, now i'm gonna get him in the cooler and we're gonna work on our skull and decoration. [joshua] manly [joshua] so now we're gonna make some chocolate decorations for the cake [joshua] i have a little bit of milk chocolate coating here and a little bit of dark chocolate coating.
[joshua] then i'm gonna spread out, then we're gonna kind of break up into shavings. [joshua] but a few of them i wanna have a little bit of texture. [joshua] so i have these fun texture mats here, that have all these sort of animal prints. [joshua] i think this one's a giraffe, a zebra, a cheetah, that's like a wooly man-myth, what is this? [joshua] who is this? [crew] wooly man myth. [joshua] it's a wooly man myth, why wouldn't it be? they're super trendy right now. [joshua] so i'm gonna pour some of the chocolate over this, and we're not gonna cover the whole thing [joshua] because like i said before, we're gonna break this all up and kinda shove it into thte cake. [joshua] cos that's what men do on manly cakes.
[joshua] i think. [joshua] that's what i'm gonna do. so i'm just gonna spread the chocolate out, [joshua] spread this one out. [joshua] it seems to be a little more effective. [joshua] what am i doing? just pour that on there dude [joshua] let's do a marble one. [joshua] cos who's going to stop me? [joshua] so i'm gonna get these guys in the cooler, let them set up for a few minutes and then we'll bust them all up! [joshua] let's go kids/
[joshua] for the top of the cake, i'm gonna sculpt a little skull out of modeling chocolate. [joshua] whenever i sculpt something, i like to have the 3d piece in front of me so i have a visual. [joshua] i'm gonna get the general shape to start, [joshua] i do start with the eyes, just so i have placement over the nose and teeth are going to go. [joshua] and then from there, i just- i don't know, build out spaces as i see them. [joshua] you need to be built out. [joshua] that's why sculpting takes a long time. [joshua] there! he's done. [joshua] now we're gonna add some colour to his dead little face.
[joshua] with some confectioner's glaze and some powdered food colour in black. [joshua] you gotta kinda lay the colour down and then take it off. [joshua] it'll look less like he was eating oreos in a few minutes. [joshua] here is the finished product, our manly skull. [joshua] you ready to go on the cake? [joshua] alright, i filled a second tier the exact same way, now we're gonna do a little drizzly drippy. [joshua] with some ganache that i melted down. [joshua] that is sexy right there. [joshua] sexy man cake.
[joshua] drips! [joshua] so now i'm gonna get them back in the cooler, then we'll put the whole cake together. [joshua] oh it's gonna be heavy! [joshua] okay now we're gonna stack the two tiers but we're not gonna use bubble tea straws. [joshua] because we have the cookie and the brownie layer, it's gonna be really hard to get the straws through those. [joshua] i'm gonna use little dowels. [joshua] we're gonna add a little chocolate buttercream. [joshua] she's coming back a tiny bit. he, he needs to come back a tiny bit. [joshua] oh man, i moved it. that was a cake slayer move, backfired!
[joshua] now i'm gonna grab the rest of my decorations and we're gonna finish this bad boy! [joshua] now that our chocolate has set for our chocolate decorations, i'm gonna pull it off of the mat. [joshua] this is the wooly man myth mat. [joshua] weird sound, fun texture. [joshua] so we'll just bust it up into pieces, and these all you should just shove all in the cake. [joshua] to start, i'm gonna put the skull on top using a dowel. [joshua] now we'll pipe a border around the top and the bottom. [joshua] i'm gonna add my chocolate shavings that i made, some candy pieces and some pop tarts. [joshua] alright! so our man cake is complete!
[joshua] i got a little crazy with the decorations but i think he turned out pretty good/ [joshua] thank you guys for joining me on this episode of man about cake, [joshua] remember, if you want any of the recipes or tools, click the i on the corner of this video [joshua] or you can get them in the description box below. [joshua] subscribe to the channel, like the video, and please leave a comment letting me know what you guys want to see on future episodes. [joshua] let's cut this beast! [joshua] i think i grew a chest hair!