How To Make A JACK-O-LANTERN Halloween Candy Pail Out Of CAKE | Yolanda Gampp | How To Cake It

You know what? I want to wear this and order a pumpkin spice latte. Just walk into a coffee shop like, guess what I want? Lemonade. Welcome back to How to Cake It, I'm Yolanda, and today is the release of the first How to Cake It cake book! You have two of them. Yes, we have a soft cover edition and a hard cover edition. I'm a cover girl. And in celebration of Halloween, today I am making a jack-o'-lantern trick-or-treat bucket. To make this jack-o'-lantern trick-or-treat bucket, I am baking 12 pounds of my ultimate chocolate cake dyed black. It's not really scary though, it's a really cute jack-o'-lantern, right? Once my cakes are baked and cooled, I'm going to remove them from their pans and level them. The next thing I need to do is simple syrup these black chocolate cakes. So Squeeze and Fennell are inseparable. They come in a few bundles together on howtocakeit.com. They demanded I store them on the same shelf. You know, she's a bit like Yoko, you know what I mean? Oh no, don't say that! She's, she is, no, she's... How to Cake It is different since she got here. That's all I'm saying. To fill these cakes, I dyed some of my Italian meringue buttercream orange. Actually, I dyed a whole batch orange. Orange like Halloween orange. Unmistakably orange. Is it orange now? It's orange. Now I'm going to fill my cakes with this buttercream, layering the black chocolate cake buttercream, black chocolate cake buttercream until it's all stacked up, and then place it in the fridge to chill. There's no, it's not pumpkin. It's not sunset. It's not basketball. It's orange. The next thing I want to do is carve this into my jack-o'-lantern bucket shape. I begin by flipping my cake. I flip my cake over and I mark a five-inch circle on top using a small cake pan, and then I carve from that mark down about halfway, rounding out the cake. Then I flipped it back, right side up, and carved again down to the center. And I realized I felt like the cake was a little bit shriveled. I really did. So thank goodness. Here's a tip. Whenever I level my cakes, I always keep my humps. Like I have them in a bowl or a tray next to me. So in this case, I used a hump. And I actually didn't even have to put icing between it because I think just from having my hand compress it and hold it, and it was such a thin piece of cake, it just adhered to the cake. So I wasn't worried about it. I, I'm going to crumb coat and chill. Yes, definitely. Said it with confidence. Yes. How to crumb coat and chill. It's page 56. Under what Yo knows. Page 56. Look at that. I am crumb coating and chilling. And of course, you need my Italian meringue buttercream recipe, which is in here. Oh, let me look in Yo's recipe box. I put it in a golden bowl. I wanted it to be like one of those cards. So when you flip to this page, it would be like, but apparently they can't do that in publishing. And it's in his contract that I have to show him to Yo. So here's Sir Squeeze. Look, he has on a bow tie. He's more dressed up than I am. Look at him. Look at me. I'm like cash and he's formal. Once my crumb coat was chilled, I iced the cake again. All in orange buttercream. Orange. I said to Jeremy, if I never see orange buttercream again, I'll be fine. If you love the idea of black cake and orange buttercream, please share this video. It's extremely Halloween. And we have an entire Halloween playlist right over here. I need to tell them the truth about this cake. When can I do that? Time to address the handle. These buckets have like a thin plastic handle. Perfect so you can like saunter down the street with your candy. I used to hate when sometimes the handle breaks and it falls out of the bucket. I think we're out. And then you risk candy on the sidewalk. Yeah, no, that's not good. And that's upsetting. I'm going to take some black fondant and roll it out. And then I'm going to brush some clear piping gel onto a floral wire. Set that onto the fondant and then just pinch the fondant up around the wire. Because the handle's quite thin. And then what I'm going to do is roll that fondant with the wire in it on the table and just make it look like a nice smooth tube. I need this handle to sort of bend. Not sort of bend. I need it to bend so it will fit into the cake. But because of the wire, it has a tendency to want to bounce back. So what I did is I wrapped it along the bottom edge of the cake pan. And I used some masking tape on the exposed bit of wire and taped it down to a cake board to sort of hold it in place. So now we'll have some time to somewhat dry while I finish this cake. At the bottom of the thin handle, there are some little round black things. Don't know what they're called. But I think they prevent the handle from pulling out of the bucket. So I'm going to make them. I rolled out a little bit of black fondant and used a round piping tip to cut out a few circles. And then I just used the blade of my knife to make a little line in it. Because that little black thing has a little seam. Remember when you go trick-or-treating and you see, like, a chocolate bar on the floor that was, like, run over by a bike? You're so sad. I don't have that specific memory, but... Is that just mine? OK. Jeremy, do you have that memory? No. I don't like wasted candy. And you know what else I don't like? I don't like when you get to somebody's house and they give you raisins. If you are a raisin giver, please stop. Time to cover this cake in fondant. Guess what color? Orange! A little tip about making orange fondant. I find it easier to mix yellow fondant with red fondant. As opposed to adding a bunch of orange food coloring to white. Oh, I see. So to cover this bucket, I'm going to cover one side of it first, trim halfway, and then the other side of it and trim the excess. Because these jack-o'-lantern Halloween buckets actually have a seam, I want to create a seam. On purpose. On purpose? Yep. Purposely making a seam. Happens rarely on How To Bake It. I'm going to cut a seam. I did use a fabric measuring tape to help me measure halfway, and I also lined the fabric measuring tape up along the side and ran my knife along it to cut the seam. I'm going to roll out the rest of the fondant and cover the other half of the cake in the same manner. Once again, I am going to chill it before cutting the seam. When cutting off the excess fondant at the seam this time, you want to make sure not to cut too much because we don't want a gap. So just really keep in mind where your fondant is cut underneath. This slab of fondant. And carefully cut the seam once again. Now for the excess fondant at the top of the cake, I'm going to use a circle cutter to trim that away. And this will be the opening of the jack-o'-lantern bucket. I wanted to address a lot of the questions people have about fondant in my cake book, and so there's a section called... Don't fear the fondant. Can you see my eyes, Jeremy? Don't fear it. Don't fear the fondant. I should have used the hardcover. Oh my god, wait. More sound, more sound. Hold on. Yes, I like this. Now it's getting Halloween-y. Don't fear the fondant. I should have moved my finger. Is it okay? It's fine. It'll be fine. It's my left hand, it's okay. The next thing I need to do is make indents in this jack-o'-lantern pumpkin because it has lines in it to show you that it's a pumpkin, not a ball. But unlike my pumpkin cake, which I made last year, where the lines were random because it was nature, this one is not really from nature. The lines are evenly spaced around the bucket. I used the measuring tape to measure around and make sure that they were equally spaced, and then I also held it along the sides and ran my bone tool. I didn't use a bone tool. I used a veining tool. I'm so sorry. They're like, Yolanda, we don't care. I used the sculpting tool. Thank you. Now I need to address the seam because the seam on these buckets sort of sticks out a little. I guess it's made in a mold. Yeah. So what I wanted to do was use my clay extruder with the smallest circle face plate. I extruded some orange fondant after softening it with a little vegetable shortening, and then added that thin, thin cord of orange fondant over the seam with a bit of clear piping gel. The next thing I need to do is make a rim for the top of the bucket. So once again, I extruded some fondant, actually using a face plate on my clay extruder that I've never used before. With what? It's like a long rectangle, and then I took that strip and I wrapped it around a circle cutter. That's the same cutter I used to cut the opening, and then I just set it in the fridge to chill for a bit before adding it to the cake. Time to make this plastic pumpkin a jack-o'-lantern. I made myself a template of the type of face that's usually on these buckets. He's kind of like a laughing jack-o'-lantern with bad teeth because he eats a lot of candy. From the template, I cut out two eyes, a nose, and a mouth with only three teeth. I used these template pieces, lined them up on the front of my pumpkin, and cut them out. I used a scalpel. It's not really a scalpel, but it's an X-Acto knife, but it's all metal so it makes me feel like it's a scalpel. And that's more Halloween-y. Once the face is cut out and I'm happy with it, it is time to paint this cake. Because these jack-o'-lantern buckets are plastic, they have a bit of a sheen. They're not as flat as fondant. So I'm going to paint it with, you guessed it, orange. I mixed some orange food colouring with clear food grade alcohol, and I brushed it all around the cake in an up-and-down motion. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered my book. They are going out as we speak. And if you haven't ordered, you can still order. You can order on howtocakeit.com or you can go into your local bookstore and buy one. I actually can't wait to walk into a bookstore and see it. And I'm going to do that tonight at my book signing at Indigo Yorkdale. That's in Toronto. Please come and say hello. It's going to be so much fun. I can't wait to see y'all. And I can't wait to see this on show. It better be neatly displayed. I'm going to have to go there every day now. It's going to be a problem. While my paint is drying, I'm going to roll out some black fondant. I used the same template pieces that I used before for the eyes, nose and mouth. I just line them up on top of my black fondant. Use the same X-Acto knife and cut them all out. Now that the paint is dry on my cake, only do this once the paint is dry. I'm going to add these black features into the gaps that are left behind on the cake. A good thing to do is use a paintbrush if you do need to push in. That way you can sort of use the paintbrush and just stroke along the fondant, pushing it in rather than your fingertip, which will leave a mark. Unless you cut off your finger. I'm trying to make this really scary. I mean, come on. First year we made, I made a brain. Second year I made a severed maggot-filled leg. And this year I'm like, look! Halloween Jack-O-Lantern! I feel like we're Brits. So I'm just trying to add some scary elements in here. Time to add my handle to this cake. Woohoo! I was really excited about that. The good thing about making this handle on the same day and not too far in advance is that it will be a little more stable, but it won't be so dry that if I have to adjust it as I'm putting it into the cake, it will crack. So we don't want that. I mark an equal distance on either side of the bucket, right beside the seam from the top rim. And then I poke the whole handle into the cake. Guess what goes in this bucket? What is this bucket, Vincent? Candy! Thank you. Fill the top of this bucket with Halloween candy of your choice. I did chocolates, some eyeball chocolates that were wrapped up. What else did I put in there? Oh, eyeball gummies. Hashtag no raisins. Please don't make this cake and put a box of raisins in it. I like raisins, just not as a treat. I just feel like it's wrong. I feel like it's, you know, it's wrong. It's Halloween. Don't ruin a child's Halloween with raisins. I will see you guys on Thursday at 5 p.m. EST for my YouTube Live episode. I'm not going to tell you what city I'm going to be. Okay, so, no, no, I want to tell the story. Orhan, Orhan, you're going to love this. You're going to love this, Orhan. So do you remember where I mentioned to the viewers that Chet used to really like to guy Richie the clips, meaning he would flip the camera while I flip the cake for a really cool shot? And Jeremy acted like that comment didn't bother him. But apparently, when I went to flip the Jack-o'-lantern bucket, Jeremy was like, oh, watch what I'm going to do. Except he didn't realize that because he has the camera on a monopod, the monopod physically stopped the camera from flipping all the way. So, Orhan, we have some like maybe one quarter flip. It was amazing. It's amazing. And then when I flipped it back, he tried it again. Guys, I even changed my flip direction for Jeremy the second time because he felt more comfortable flipping this way. And I was like, fine, I'll reverse my hand. Still no Chet shot. Oh, Jeremy. Yeah, hashtag Chet Richie. Let's do it. And the thing is, I figured out how to cheat it and do it even better than him. And I was like, I got a rat so I know what camera he shoots on and it'll be smoother and it'll be better. And then it just stopped. So I was like, boom. And then, oh, I think I might have even, my language might have not been something.