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Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon Today we are making a candy crush cake. Candy
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Crush is a free game that is currently being played 700 million times a day. Despite being
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free to download it is currently the top grossing app in the itunes store but we'll talk more
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about that later. To make your cake the first thing you need
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to do is bake a cake, I made mine 15cm square on the top. And completely cover it in buttercream
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You can use the raspberry buttercream or you can use plain buttercream and colour it with
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a little red food colour. The cake recipes and buttercream recipes are all on the website
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howtocookthat.net There is a link in the description below the video.
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Use your spatula to smooth it out as much as you can and run the spatula up the sides
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and gently fold over any bits that are sticking up on the top edge by just smoothing it into
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the middle of the cake.
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The candy crush icon has rounded corners so run your spatula up and then around each corner
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to smooth it.
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Then wipe your cake platter clean as you can using a damp piece of paper towel being careful
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not to bump the cake.
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Put the remaining buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle. If you don't
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have a piping bag you can use a plastic bag and cut the corner off but it will not be
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as rounded as if you use a nozzle for this one.
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Pipe a cylinder of buttercream along the top edge, turning it when you get to the corners
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so they are rounded.
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Next we need to fill in and smooth that gap that is along the side of the cake.
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Just get a little extra buttercream on your spatula and spread it across the gap. Then
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use the straight edge of the spatula to smooth out the side again.
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Place that in the fridge for at least 30 minutes for the buttercream to firm up.
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While it is doing that Print out your logo in the size of your cake, I have put the logo
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in the size I am using here on the website so you an download that there.
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Put some non-stick baking paper over the top and use the picture as you template to spread
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some chocolate into the right circle size, making sure there is more chocolate in the
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middle so it is not completely flat. To smooth the surface just lift and lower
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the edges of the paper a couple of times. Take some colourful round candies, I am using
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soft sugar pearls which I purchased from the baking section of the local supermarket. And
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sprinkle them over the top making sure that you get an even spread.
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Even though candy crush being free to download but it is currently bringing in $850,000 a
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day for the game developers. If you are a candy crush addict, I want to know what level
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are you up to and how much have you spent on it? I am only on a very early level 19
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and I haven't spent any money on it at all. And if you don't want to get ripped off or
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if you have little kids playing this game you can turn off inapp purchases by going
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to settings, general, restrictions, inapp purchases, you can turn them back on at anytime.
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So if you do want to go back on a different app and buy something you you can turn them
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back on and then turn them back off again. While you are there why not also set your
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age restrictions to an appropriate level and your rating restrictions for movies, games,
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and TV shows. Get another sheet of baking paper and pipe
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lots of chocolate over the jelly bean shape and smooth it out along the top. Let it set
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then To make the base of the jelly bean so that it sits up a bit higher flip it over
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and add m&ms the the underside. You could make a second half of the jelly bean and and
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stick the two together but it sits better on the cake if the jelly bean is a bit flat
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on the underside rather than completely rounded. Take a knife and scrape off any little lumps
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in the chocolate Roll out some red fondant and use it to cover
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the jelly bean, wrapping it around underneath. Gently rub with your finger to smooth out
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the surface.
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For the other candy pipe the shape put of chcolate, you can Leave it plain chocolate
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or add m&m's into the middle like I am here to build it up and to make a nice oval shape
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. Then add a circle of m&m's around the edge. Let that set then pipe some more chocolate
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over the top of them and use a knife to smooth out the edges. You can of course make these
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from solid fondant but I just think they taste much better if they are have chocolate and
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lollies in the middle.
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Once that one is set cover it in orange fondant, use scissors to trim it up and tuck it under,
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then use your finger to smooth it out just like we did with the jelly bean.
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If you want it shiny which looks quite good with this one you can paint it with a mixture
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of half vodka and half water. The alcohol content will evaporate off and it will stay
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shiny for around 4 hours. So if you are not serving it straight away you will want to
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paint this glaze on later once they are on the cake.
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Take a tiny bit of white fondant and roll it between your finger and the palm of your
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hand. Add it to the candy where the white highlights are on the logo.
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Cut out the inside section of your logo and check that it easily fits onto the centre
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of your cake, if not just trim a little extra off the edges.
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Roll out some white fondant and using the cutout as your template cut around the square
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with your rounded corners. Then cut the blue off your paper template
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and put it back on top and use some blue powdered food colour and a dry paintbrush to dust some
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colour over the top making it darker at the edges. Take the template off and blend it
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in a little. If you cant get hold of blue powdered colour
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then just use your gel colour to colour this fondant blue before you roll it out.
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Take your cake out of the fridge and place some paper towel over the edge. Gently rub
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it with a fondant smoother to make sure sure your edges are completely flat. If you don't
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have a fondant smoother you can use a book or anything that you've got that is flat.
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Repeat that on each side.
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Take some white fondant and roll it out thinly then using a ruler and a pizza cutter cut
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thin strips of white. Add the strips of white bringing them up and
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overlapping them over the curved buttercream and then trim them to the right length at
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the base.
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Make sure that they are evenly spaced and you can use an off cut of white to measure
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the gap between each one as you add the next one.
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Once you've added all of your white strips use a fondant smoother or book to gently push
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on the sides to make sure your fondant is flat and stuck to the buttercream.
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Add your blue fondant square that we made earlier . Then the orange candy, followed
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by the giant chocolate freckle and finally your jelly bean. And you cake is ready to
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serve.
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Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe and join us next week for a dessert followed
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by chocolate the next week and then back to cake. You can put all of your cake requests
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in the comments section below. Have a great week.