Today on Garden Fork, learn
how to make a really cool cake
with just two ingredients.
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So I read about this
in a number of blogs
and websites and stuff
and I thought Garden Fork has to try this.
Okay?
It's a two ingredient cake.
In other words, a quick bread.
And it involves flour and ice cream.
So we're gonna try that
today on Garden Fork.
- [Woman] Two ingredients?
- Well here's the thinking okay?
This is what's called a quick bread.
In other words like banana breads,
dump cakes, things like that.
Or like a lemon poppy seed cakes.
They're all kinda quick breads
because they use butter, sugar,
eggs, flour, and some milk.
Put that all together
and you're making kind of a quick cake.
You're not making like a fancy cake.
So all those ingredients
that's in what's called
considered a quick bread
or a quick cake are in ice cream.
There's a dairy fat in here,
there are eggs in here.
- [Woman] Oh it's built in!
- There's sugar in here.
So this is kinda like a liquid cake
that you just add some flour to.
- [Woman] It's like the cake mix.
- And we're using self rising flour
which already has baking
powder and salt in it.
All right?
- [Woman] Uh-huh.
- If you don't have self rising flour,
I'll give the recipe
in the show notes below
for using regular flour
and some baking soda.
- [Woman] But then it
won't be two ingredients.
- No.
But I literally two ingredients
we're gonna see what happens here.
Okay?
First thing you have to do
is you have a loaf pan here
and you wanna spray this and flour it.
(can sprays)
And to flour a pan you just put a little--
Oop.
That a lot little more than a little.
(woman laughs)
And then this is kinda
fun for kids actually.
You can have them go like
this and just tap it.
Or you could have buttered
the pan if you want.
But I like spray oil.
All right you have a
oiled and floured pan.
And you have a pint--
Whoa!
A pint of--
- [Woman] Whoa.
- Very melty ice cream.
- [Woman] Is that intentional?
- Yeah.
You want it to be melted almost.
- [Woman] Mm.
- That tastes like it has
butter and eggs in it.
(woman laughs)
And then a cup and a half
of self rising flour.
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- [Woman] We're almost done.
- That's the whole beauty of this thing.
Is like, if you have a pint of ice cream
and you want to make a cake.
And it could be like, you know,
if you like a pistachio ice cream,
it could be a pistachio cake.
You know?
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Maybe we gotta cut a
bigger hole in this box.
- [Woman] You got a defected box, man.
This two ingredient thing is going slowly.
- It's cause I have to
talk while I'm doing it.
All right.
I know I said two ingredients
but I thought as long as we're
making like a vanilla cake,
why don't we throw in
some dried cranberries
and kinda jazz it up a little bit.
So this is technically
a two ingredient cake,
but I'm gonna throw
some cranberries in it.
Okay?
Just because we use what
we got here on Garden Fork.
All right?
Now mix this up
and it looks just like cake batter.
Isn't that cool?
- [Woman] We'll see how cool.
- Self rising flour,
pint of melted ice cream.
(woman laughs)
You know, if you use chocolate ice cream,
it would be a chocolate cake.
All right.
Mixed together into our
oiled and floured loaf pan.
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Ready?
- [Woman] Yeah I wanna see.
- Preheat your oven to 350.
Middle rack.
45 minutes.
Let's go watch the Labradors.
(container knocking around)
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- [Man] Is it done?
I guess.
(man laughs)
- [Woman] Wow.
The dogs almost had ice cream cake.
- Oops.
(both laugh)
Does that happen on other cooking shows?
I thought it would be a little taller
but this is what came out
(woman laughs)
with the self rising flour.
- [Woman] What's it smell like?
Actually, I can smell it from here.
It's smells really sweet.
- It smells like a sweet pound cake.
And I thought I should
have ice cream with this,
but there's already ice cream in it.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- So I made some coffee.
- [Woman] That would required you thingy
having saving the ice cream.
(woman laughs)
- Who thinks ahead on Garden Fork?
- [Woman] I do.
- Yep.
(woman laughs)
- [Woman] Where are the cran--?
Oh there's a lone cranberry.
(woman laughs)
How's the crumb?
- The crumb is good.
I thought there'd be more rise in this
but maybe if we used a narrower pan.
Oh there's your cranberries.
- [Woman] There's your cranberries.
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- It smells like pound cake.
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And that's not bad at all.
- [Woman] Oh.
A bit of a delayed reaction on your part.
- I mean, it's not like "wow"
but if you have a pint of ice cream,
and you wanna make some cake.
(woman laughs)
But this is cool.
You could do this with your kids.
Get them involved with cooking and baking.
- [Woman] I did.
- And you could you know,
kinda, "Oh why ice cream"?
"Well ice cream is made of, you know,
cream or milk, eggs, sugar,
you know, a little vanilla".
And you know, it could be
kinda like a science thing.
What's self rising flour?
Why does it rise, you know?
What is rising?
So I don't know.
I just like this kinda thing, as you know.
If you don't have self rising flour,
right in the notes here below,
we talk about how you can mix up
and make your own self rising flour.
It's really quite easy.
I think this is kind of a
dunking kind of cake here, right?
Mm-hmm.
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All right.
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(woman laughs)
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And we make cakes out of ice cream so.
- [Woman] Ice cream cake.
- That's just cool.
I was just like, "We gotta try this".
So we did it, and it
worked out pretty good.
- [Woman] I wonder if the
quality of the ice cream
makes a difference?
- Well that was Ben and Jerry's.
That's pretty--
I mean, we could go Häagen-Dazs
and see what happens.
- [Woman] What if you did a lower end one?
I wonder if it would taste
like the lower end cake?
- I don't know, we'll find out.
I love ice cream so.
- [Woman] Could you toast that?
- Oh yeah.
Good idea.
- [Woman] Yeah.
Brake a fist.
- Toaster's over there.
All right.
Go out and do cool stuff
(woman laughs)
and then come back and tell me.
if you have some ideas about this.
Have you made an ice cream cake?
In the comments below I wanna
hear from you guys, okay?
- [Woman] They have not
made an ice cream cake.
- Yeah they have.
I know someone watching has.
And they're gonna write
below what they did.
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