How to Make a Gravity Defying Surprise Drip Cake | Cookies and Cream Cake featuring Ari Attempts

hi it’s Ashley from sweet dreams BakeShop and Aria and today we’re making acookies and cream gravity-defying cakewith a little surprise inside of it aswell I am starting with my regularchocolate cake recipe I will leave it inthe description box below it’s actuallya recipe that I got a long time ago forperfect chocolate cupcakes from glorioustreats I definitely didn’t notice thatit said thin on the Box in the store butoh whatever we’re going to be crushingthese up anyway and putting them intoour Italian meringue buttercream you cango ahead and look at the recipe downbelow or I also have a full tutorial onhow to make this buttercream and I’llthrow that up in the right hand corner Iam just roughly crushing up these Oreobits if you want it to be really finethen you can go ahead and throw thisinto your food processorI did not use a specific amount of OreosI just kind of threw in however much Iwanted there really is no specificamount that you have to use leveling offmy cake making sure that knife kind ofstays at the exact same angle nice andflat and then using my cake turntable todo the work for me this is going to be asurprise cake for Father’s Day so I’musing a cookie cutter to take out asection out of this layer as well asanother chocolate layer I will also putthe recipe for the vanilla cake that Iam using down in the description belowthe beauty of crumb coating this cake isit already has little bits of black inthe buttercream so you could really justdo one layer[Music]you want to avoid putting thebuttercream inside of that hole becausewe’re going to be filling it up withsomething else my husband really likesputting things together so I’m givinghim a Home Depot gift card and I coveredit several times in plastic wrap thegift card didn’t fit perfectly so I didhave to kind of ease it into the bottomof the cake which is totally fine nowI’m filling up the rest of the cake withthese little cookies and creamedcrunchers they smell deliciousgenerously cover it up with somebuttercream and then you’re going to putthe final layer of cake on top and crumbcoat as usual[Music]I have lots of videos of me crumbcoating in real time so you can go aheadand check one of those out I will throwthem up in the right-hand corner[Music]to create that gravity-defying element Iam using a large wooden dowel that I gotfrom the dollar store using Wilton’scandy melts in bright white I took thatdowel and I covered it with the meltedchocolatenow this chocolate I did not add anyvegetable oil to because I wanted it tobe super thick and I wanted it tosolidify fairly quickly when you addvegetable oil to it it does not solidifyas quickly and then you will havedifficulty placing any of these littlecookie bits on it because it will justkeep sliding off this way it will makesure that everything solidifies prettyquickly I am going to create my drip onthe cake now and now I have added a tonof vegetable oil to these candy meltsyou want to make sure it has that typeof consistency if you don’t want yourchocolate going chunky when you drip itnormally I use a piping bag for this butand you guys know me I really hatewasting piping bags for one job so I’mkind of just using my spoon and creatinga little pool at the very edge andletting it drip off naturallythe beauty of using really thinned outcandy melts is that you get a reallynice smooth finish[Music]time for Ari to come helpsince this cake is for Father’s Day Ithought it was only right for Aria tocome and help decorate the cake this isa really great project for kids becauseit just uses candies and things anddoesn’t require a lot of fondant work oranything that is too difficult make surewhen you are decorating with candy meltsthat you put on the decorations fairlysoon after you’ve applied the chocolateor else none of your decorations willstick[Music]we chose to dip a few of those Oreos insome of the candy melts but you canreally use whatever you want I lovedecorating this cake[Music]you’ll notice I’m not covering the wholedowel with all of those littlecookies-and-cream bits because the bagitself is going to cover a lot of thatup this next part always looks sochallenging in photos but it’s actuallyreally easy you just place the bag ontop and it stays fairly nicely this cakewas actually really quick and easy forme to make but it looks really reallycool just having that gravity-defyingelement makes it really different andhaving that surprise element will alsodelight your guests[Music]thanks so much for watching guys don’tforget to Like share and subscribe soyou can be part of this sweety fam rightnow I’m uploading daily so make sure youhit that notification bell so you knowwhen I upload also be sure to commentrequests or ask a question I lovehearing from you guys and make sure thatyou stick around to see what happenedwhen my husband cut into this Father’sDay cake you neckla ferrari attempt[Music]you[Music]