(playful circus music)
- Greetings, my beautiful lovelies.
It's Emmy and welcome back.
Today, I'm gonna be making a sponge cake,
but not the sponge cake
you might be thinking.
I'm gonna be making a cake
that actually looks
like the sponge you use
to wash your dishes.
I know it sounds totally gross.
You know with like the green scrubby
and the yellow bottom.
Yes.
That's what I'm gonna be making today,
because so many of you
got in touch with me
saying that I should make this.
I remember seeing this for the first time,
a few years ago on Pee-wee Herman's blog.
He shared it and I'm like, oh yes.
And I almost made it then and I didn't,
so let's make it now.
So I think many of you learned about this
from Emma's Goodies.
I'll put a link down below to
her original video and recipe.
She recently did a video about this
and I will be following her
recipe with a couple tweaks.
This recipe looks totally cute
and gross at the same time.
And I'm hoping it tastes delicious too.
I don't see why it wouldn't.
It's just cake after all,
with a bunch of food coloring.
So let's go home and make this.
So the first thing you need to do
is take 135 grams of butter.
And that works out to be one
stick plus one tablespoon.
And this should be nice and soft.
If it's slightly melted, that's fine too.
To that, we're gonna add 120
grams of granulated sugar
or a half a cup plus one tablespoon.
Work that in.
You can just use a spatula,
you don't need a mixer for this recipe.
Cream that nicely.
So Emma's version is a lemon cake.
I've decided to make this vanilla
because I'm not a huge fan of lemon cake.
Next, we're gonna add
one teaspoon of vanilla.
Using a whisk, we're gonna
incorporate three medium eggs,
one at a time, mixing well in between.
So once we have that all nice and creamed
and whisked together,
next, we're gonna add 140
grams or one cup of flour,
half teaspoon of baking powder.
And then we're gonna add three
tablespoons of buttermilk.
Mix to combine.
You don't want to overmix this
'cause you don't want a tough cake.
So now we're ready to dye the batter,
we're gonna reserve one third of it.
And that's going to be the green
or top portion of the sponge cake.
If you wanna be very
accurate, you can use a scale.
So take the smaller portion of batter
and we're gonna dye it green.
I didn't have green pastry coloring,
So I combined yellow and blue
together with a touch of black
to get kind of a nice olive green color.
And then we're gonna
pour it into a seven inch
prepared brownie pan.
So I sprayed mine with
baking spray and lined it
with parchment paper.
And use an offset spatula to make sure
that everything is smooth.
For the two thirds of our batter,
we're gonna dye that a nice sunny yellow.
Mix that well, and again,
pour it into a prepared pan.
Then give it a few swift
taps on your countertop
to get rid of any bubbles.
Next, you're gonna pop these
into a 320 degree
Fahrenheit preheated oven,
or 106 degrees Celsius oven and bake these
for 10 minutes, initially.
The green cake, because
it's so much thinner
will cook much faster.
So start checking it at 10 minutes.
When a toothpick comes out
clean, it should be done.
And the yellow cake
should take an additional
five or 10 minutes.
So allow the cakes to completely cool
before we assemble the cakes.
So here we are at this stage of assembly.
So this is pretty straightforward.
We're just gonna stack
our cakes, make some foam,
and then we've got a sponge cake.
A real sponge cake.
Alrighty, let's do this.
So the beauty of parchment paper
is that we can just pull
out the cake like this.
Look at that, so easy.
And boom.
Now we're just gonna gently
remove the parchment paper.
(kids awwing)
Set that down here.
So this is honey for my own hives.
I harvested it last summer
and it has since crystallized
and I used to not like crystallized honey,
but now I've really come to
love it and actually prefer it
to runny honey, because
it stays on my toast.
And I love the little
crunchy crystallized bits.
I love the texture, so great.
So I'm gonna be using that.
I'm gonna spread a layer of this honey,
probably about a tablespoon or so.
Just enough to act like glue.
Now there are two sides to my cake here.
I'm gonna opt to use
the fuzzier side on here
because we're gonna be
using our bread knife
to remove a layer of cake,
so it's nice and fuzzy.
Oh my gosh, look at that.
Okay.
Next, gonna take a serrated
bread knife and just take off
the very top layer of
this green portion of cake
to make it look fuzzy.
So it looks like the
scrubber part of the sponge.
(upbeat music)
So this is the first time
I've made a lookalike cake,
but not the first time I've made food
that looks like something that it's not.
For example, I've made
edible soap, edible towels.
I've also made ice cream
that looks like fried chicken
and ice cream that looks like a steak.
So it's super fun and playful to make food
look like something else.
Slice right through it.
That's so satisfying.
It looks just like those
dollar store sponges,
like perfectly.
This is so great, okay.
Now we're gonna cut these
into little rectangles.
Just like you can buy in the sponge pack.
Saw it in half.
Wipe off the knife.
(Emmy chuckles)
Oh, I love it.
It's so great.
So so great.
Okay, so for the finishing touch,
we need some bubbles.
Now to do this, I'm just gonna
use nonfat milk and a whisk.
Let me get a bowl.
And we're gonna whisk
this like we're making
a frappe topping for our coffee drink.
Just like that.
(whisk scraping)
There we have it.
Bubbles!
Okay, my lovelies, let's give
this sponge cake a taste.
I'm so pleased about how this turned out.
It looks just great.
It looks like the verisimilitude
is very impressive.
I love it.
Alrighty, here we go.
Itadalimasu!
Delicious.
Buttery, rich.
Dense without feeling heavy.
It tastes like a very moist poundcake.
Absolutely scrumdiddlyumptious.
It's just very yellow and green.
I love it!
Mm.
Such a great cake recipe.
It doesn't need any frosting whatsoever.
The level of sweetness is perfect
and it looks like a dish sponge.
Mm.
That's great.
Mhmm.
That's how you make a cake
that looks like a dish sponge.
Absolutely delicious.
Very easy recipe actually to put together.
Just need some food coloring.
You probably have most of
the pantry items already
and it makes for a delicious cake.
If you don't make it look like a sponge,
you'll still end up with
a delicious buttery cake.
Thanks again for watching.
I hope you guys enjoyed that one.
I hope you guys learned something.
Please share this video with your friends.
Follow me on social media.
Let me know what videos you'd
like to see in the future,
recipes and such.
And I'll see you in the next one.
Toodaloo, take care.
Bye!
(upbeat dance music)
I'm gonna wash the dishes with my sponge.
