Can These Chefs Create A Kid's Dream Cake?

Hi I'm Mia Today I'm seven years old I had two groups competing to make the dish of my

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s Hi how are you Hi Mia I'm Alexis I'm Marcus High five Hi everyone My name is Chef Marcus Samson from Red Rooster in Harlem He's the best in the world line, the best of the best, honestly I'm excited to cook next time. Do you like mermaids? Yeah, that's great, so we have a great question. If you were a mermaid, what kind of vanilla

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would you like? Can you draw it? for us, I am right now, yes, absolutely, there are shells, there are berries, not berries, not scary berries, not scary berries, do you like strawberries?

Yeah, what about pineapples, not pineapple, do you like raspberries? They have thick raspberries. I feel the same way about the flavors Mia talks about. about vanilla and fruit are also the flavors that I like so I feel very good about this what color would the decoration be blue blue why did you choose blue for your

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it has a lot of blueberries because you like blueberries and also what was the theme easy cakes , should we help you draw this with this book here? What would you like us to draw here? Vanilla cake with candles. I guess the show is now.

We draw and cook. I do not hate it. Hello, I haven't been. drawing class for a long time so it was fun six layers I only have four so I have work to do you need seven oh seven I don't think I have room for seven how many candles do you want in it? twenty twenty I have you, she asked for twenty candles, six or seven layers. I'm going to give it some sparkles and candles without focusing on how many. What happens if you don't get 20 candles? I'm going to cry, oh don't cry, there's probably nothing to cry about. a mom i love you too do you want something other than blue on this pink cake do you want pink with some poop that's definitely interesting everything up to this point has been really kid friendly really doable and then mia said she wanted poop im I'll focus on the pink.

I'm going to let Alexis focus on the poop. I feel like this is very helpful and I think we can do something cool for you. A Barbie, maybe not a Barbie. Let's go cook. We will make you. this fabulous mermaid cake and you keep drawing, okay, okay, see you soon, I'll see if I can get out of here, so this is my plan. I'm starting with the sand, the ocean, the strawberries, the popcorn, the seaweed and then you move on to the next thing, which is the chocolate pancake. two ice creams, the whipped cream and then the stardust that rains on top and on top of that you have the birthday element which is two different types of candles and sparklers, it's all there, so here's the game plan.

I'm going to make a crepe cake and dye it blue so that each layer is blue. I'm going to dye the whipped cream a pale blue as well to put that in between and then I'll top it all with berries, it'll be pretty simple. but I think it will hit all the flavors Mia wants. I look very bored right now, but you have this amazing apron. What is the history? Yes, this is a beautiful charity that I love. Alex's Lemonade Stand that supports and helps young children with cancer. That is incredible. It's beautiful, great because let's start cooking, I want to add a lot of color to my dessert and raspberries, strawberries, a little bit of blueberry could be a fun way to add color but also a good texture, so here is the vanilla bean that I just add. in a little cream and coconut flakes and coconut milk.

Later I'll add a little more chocolate. Nutella Nutella is like the way to children's hearts. That was good. I'm just making my crepe batter, which is just flour. sugar, eggs, milk and butter, so my crepe batter is ready, it's very soft and I'm going to dye it. I grew up eating grapes, it's one of my favorite things to eat on Sunday mornings, so this dish, I mean, I love it, I probably would. I won't dye it blue, but okay, where do mermaids live in the sea, in the sea? Yes, have you ever seen one? Yes, would you like to see one?

Yes, we have our beach and ocean floor right here and I like the way it looks. amazing oh my god she's going to love it we don't know I mean I love it. Marcus has all these different elements and all these flavors and I'm just making grapes. I want a dough that is fairly loose but not too runny. I can see the edge starting to cook and that's kind of a sign, you know when to flip it, this is all I'm going to do, I'm so sorry, so what's going to be on the pancake is going to be butter and chocolate, then some flour , uh, some eggs and egg white, this will be ready when you can basically flip it.

Marcus was definitely looking a little whipping the egg whites by hand, but I honestly can't find them, I'm old school, my grandmother. He's the one who taught me how to cut and I like to beat things by hand, especially when you make desserts, texture is very important and I've never cooked in this kitchen so I won't have full control over it. I didn't cook an electric one for a minute, so this is good, this is a good test, okay, you'll be the flavor, thank you. Marcus gives me a bite of his pancake and then I drop it.

I'm going to take care of this. I'll be back, I just had to buy a new pan after my pancake mishap. I let it warm up. Marcus beat his egg whites by hand. I am making whipped cream with a mixer much faster. Would you ever want to be a mermaid, yeah, yeah, what? It would be the best part of being a mermaid the tail you are already a fish because you like to swim if you imagine if you had a tail that would make you swim even faster if the idea with this dish is to

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a beach but the The pebbles here are strawberries, popcorn of corn, seaweed and sugar will represent the sand and you know how you feel when you go up.

You have sand between your toes and sometimes you like it and sometimes you don't. It's much more creative than mine. Is blue. I was pretty set on my idea that I wanted to build a really big sandy, rocky ocean. I was just more concerned about whether I could do good enough work to understand it. I don't know if she would understand it, but I had fun. preparing it and it was good, I finally ended up with 24 grapes here. I'm layering this blue whipped cream between the crepes and continuing to stack them. You want to try to make sure the whipped cream is even so that the cake isn't crooked, but I find that a little relaxing, just keep going, what color would your tail be?

Green, no other color with some blue. There is some shine. Oh, definitely glitter, but not too shiny. Yes, not too bright. So I added two. types of food coloring for the top layer, so it looks a little streaky if you get closer or like waves. This totally looks like a smurf cake right now. I'm nervous if I'm actually going to like my sauce because it's sour and sour. Strawberries are not very sweet either. I have a serious doubt. I mean, it's very good, but it's difficult. It worked more like my track, but I liked it and that's important too.

That might help. We do not know. Mia said she really likes fruit, so I'm going to make a very, very simple fruit decoration on top that I hope she likes a lot. The berries actually looked like a wave and then I felt like, oh, this could be really good. I also have basil it's not like seaweed but maybe remember seaweed just to make it a little bit prettier ok I'm going to walk away I think it's done it's always stressful and there's a lot of moving parts I wanted to build this like a hilly beach and then the dry ice has to work and then the flashes have to work, so I'm a little nervous, I'm going to put this together, everything is going to fall because this whole part needs to work, otherwise you don't. get that dramatic effect let's see what mia thinks yeah im a little nervous me too ok wish me luck oh me too my crepe k is very simple but hits all the notes she wanted vanilla berries , that's all, so I hope you like it.

In this simple interpretation of a mermaid cake all I kept thinking about was that moment when I would present the dessert to Mia and she would say: Yes, I'm in the candy store, I'm in a circus and it's fun if you don't. you do. Don't go with those eyes, I basically fail, look at that, what do you think of that good mom? It's what you imagined in your head when you made that drawing, yes, you're going to blow out the candles, what's your wish, she's a Barbie, a barbecue, one two. Three of us come on, yeah, how fun it is like a birthday cake, what is this?

I don't know, I'll try it, delicious, is it good? Yes, you love it, it looks like sand, doesn't it? What does it taste like? It tastes like a mermaid, you have to do it. try this strawberry it's so delicious mmm it's really good it's really good which part do you like best it's hot the top part yes I like the napkin do you like it yes it looks like you're drawing no so what do you think about this dessert it's delicious okay you're Living your best life right now, yeah that's good, I'm happy I loved it and it was fun to do, oh my gosh, what beautiful blueberries, those are your favorites, does it look like you're drawing?, yeah.

I'm excited, how delicious? Can I try this here? No, it's okay, I didn't want to ruin the pretty cake. It's so creamy. What do you think is delicious? Yes, I should eat a blackberry, of course, oh, it's got cream, it's delicious, it's so good, huh? Does it taste like anything? A mermaid wants one last bite. No, thanks mom. You got it. Mia really likes both desserts. I really don't know who she will choose, but the fact that she liked the cake in the first place makes me very happy. Okay, my, we have a big question for you about the two cakes, which one did you like better, the sand one, the sand one, Marcus made that one, which is good, thank you very much, yes, this is going right to the wall of the restaurant. right next to the beard awards I like it I mean it makes me very happy I feel like the happiest loser of all time I mean mia happy that's a win in my book you know what I have for you not because you like my apron is lemon Yes, I'm going to give you that when you cut it, I know it's big, but when you cook at home you can have it, it's yours.

Thank you so much, it was so much fun being with you, thank you Mia, can I give you a high five too? Yes, as long as you can cook for a child and make them happy, you should do it.