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@SimonClark7 ай бұрын
Haha thank you for clipping this, I can send this to my DnD group! Also to address the question: yes, it's unfortunately scuffed. Sponges are traditionally made from equal weights of flour, eggs AND sugar AND butter. This was a question I took from an online multiple choice quiz and I clearly didn't do my due diligence. I wrote the quiz in the past week and it was inevitable that some mistakes would creep in, and I just have to own this as my mistake. I legitimately feel terrible that it ended Mark's run. Sorry for taking up your time with a badly-worded question, Mr Mercer! But thank you for being such a good sport.
@PsyCoCinematics6 ай бұрын
I was gonna say, following along with the video, I was thinking to myself that butter and sugar are kind of important so for it to be only one? I woulda been as tongue-tied as Mr. Mercer too!
@MayLina6 ай бұрын
Traditional sponge cakes don’t have nor need butter☺️
@PsyCoCinematics6 ай бұрын
@@MayLina *Everything* needs butter.
@Elfdaughter6 ай бұрын
A traditional sponge cake mix is 4,4,4 and 2. 4oz flour, 4oz butter 4oz sugar and 2 eggs. So yes, the question was wrong, but the answer would have been 'both of them'.
@berrycolin39116 ай бұрын
Sponge cakes have been around since the 1700s, but they used to beat the life out of eggs. Butter wasn't introduced until the 1800s when baking powder was made (which is why the Victoria sponge came about, the addition of butter). So technically a traditional sponge cake doesn't require butter, even if every sponge cake is better with it and has been for a long time.
@sirgwan57687 ай бұрын
What a flex for Hulmes to just cast a 7th level Summon Mercer spell in front of everyone
@Hawk_of_Battle7 ай бұрын
Divine Intervention. Unfortunately the dice gods did not favor him today.
@evilemuempire95506 ай бұрын
What’s wild is that it put him and Sips into the same tier of celebrity
@Zelmel6 ай бұрын
They've been friends for many years, originally from internet forums IIRC.
@sirgwan57686 ай бұрын
@@Zelmel I believe they met at a cosplay covention many years ago and immediately began talking about D&D, as they do. Truly a great friendship
@sirgwan57686 ай бұрын
@tmdelacrush Mercer's avatar, in reality, he's a God, you can't just summon a God like that
@evilemuempire95507 ай бұрын
Respect to the doctor for being able to keep his cool talking to Mat Mercer and British Mat Mercer, I certainly wouldn’t
@Vinewood87 ай бұрын
well he IS a doctor!
@justaghostinthesea6 ай бұрын
This implies that there's a Matt Mercer for every country, and I like that
@evilemuempire95506 ай бұрын
@@justaghostinthesea I like the idea of a multidimensional Mat Mercer except it’s just him from various different countries
@purespite35807 ай бұрын
My internal baker screaming because a typical sponge cake has flour, eggs, butter and sugar
@Vinewood87 ай бұрын
isnt it possible to make it without butter tho?
@pizzapielemon6 ай бұрын
I think the trick might be in the "equal parts" bit (as a complete non-baker) there might be less butter, so it's technically not that?
@Zeppy1596 ай бұрын
Historically sponge had no butter at all, due to lack of baking powder they had to be aerated with whipped egg whites which cant have any fats mixed in. Honestly though I think traditional sponge refers more to a victoria sponge nowadays
@timothyburbage6 ай бұрын
That's what I thought!
@migueldelmazo52446 ай бұрын
Equal parts butter, sugar, eggs and flour would be a pound cake. Leave out the butter for a sponge cake. Leave out the egg yolks for an angel food cake. Not perfect, but the above is close enough. (vanilla extract being the big missing piece)
@rocketforthree44797 ай бұрын
I hope that somebody has forwarded the clip to Matt Mercer already
@Lukasaske6 ай бұрын
As revenge, Matt Mercer is going to make a master baker NPC on Critical Role. Maybe even a baking one-shot with the Slayer's Cake. I'd watch that and I know all the Critters would too.
@jovianarsenic68936 ай бұрын
A master baker sounds like a same character
@fidellerosa6 ай бұрын
Lord Eshteross!
@rjbramirez6 ай бұрын
The shadow baker
@Banquet426 ай бұрын
FCG is also in the mix, I can imagine Sam saying something like: 'Do you think me some lowly line cook waiting fearfully of other chefs that pose greater danger and timidly awaiting the day they turn up in my kitchen and ice me? I am the one they fear, I am the danger, I am the one who bakes'
@T0NI_6 ай бұрын
Well, Ashton did have his little stint away from the party with all the baking and stuff lol
@henningmadsen95107 ай бұрын
A cake is supposed to be sweet. Neither flour or eggs are sweet, so to me, someone who has never made one of those, it seemed pretty obvious that it of course needs sugar.
@Giga4ever6 ай бұрын
That doesn't say anything about the quantity. Read the question again, and pay attention to the "equal parts".
@voxlicentia72756 ай бұрын
i think the phrasing of the question is important, the question says EQUAL parts of flour, eggs and the answer ingredient (butter), so the recipe could include sugar but it wouldnt be the same volume as the other ingredients
@harmony86236 ай бұрын
It was definitely obvious, baking powder is only ever a teaspoon or less, cornflour and flour would be too much flour, leaving butter and sugar. Sugar is the obvious answer because it needs sweetness, and butter is usually not that much in a cake
@coltonbuhler70116 ай бұрын
That's what the fruit toping is for
@motodog2426 ай бұрын
They’re Brit’s, cake could have literal mud and Brit’s would be fine with it.
@TheEvilPet6 ай бұрын
If anything, the 'equal-part eggs' part is iffy bit, not sugar vs butter. I've been baking since childhood and it's always been equal parts sugar, flour and butter/marge in our household, then with say a 4 ounce recipe, we tend to use only 2/3 eggs, with the 3rd egg mostly being optional if you're struggling to stir.
@HexQuesTT6 ай бұрын
exactly, the question is just straight up wrong, a sponge cake has equal parts flour, butter and sugar
@e.d.57666 ай бұрын
It's pretty standard, and I use recipes that do this, to have your "equal weight" be the weight of your eggs, with the first part of your recipe being to weigh 2-3 eggs. You're working backwards because you have a recipe that is trying to make a specific weight, 4 ounces, but the reason why you'll be using 2-3 eggs is because that's approximately the same weight as the other ingredients in that recipe.
@eruannster7 ай бұрын
Well, this was quite a rollercoaster of emotions.
@MrSeagallo7 ай бұрын
FYI there's a clip of Matt Mercer talking about Mark and their history at the recent PAX Unplugged. Would be a nice companion piece to this video!
@Ace_Maus6 ай бұрын
This actually feels unfair bc both sugar and butter are part of the recipe 😅
@Sean-Richards6 ай бұрын
Mark Hulmes summoned the Shadow Baker himself
@michaelkemmet8346 ай бұрын
I just want to point out that this appears to be a baking nomenclature issue between British English and American English(like biscuits vs. cookies). In America, we call a cake made up of equal parts flour, eggs, sugar, and butter a pound cake(as in one pound of each ingredient). In Britain, it appears that same cake is called a traditional sponge cake. The conflict comes because America also has something called a sponge cake, but that cake involves removing the butter from a pound cake recipe(although the proportions of the remaining ingredients also have to change). So the question used the name and proportions of the British sponge cake, but the ingredient list of the American sponge cake. Most likely it was originally written by a non-baker.
@HexQuesTT6 ай бұрын
yh but also it should be even part flour sugar and butter, how would you even have an even part egg?
@michaelkemmet8346 ай бұрын
@@HexQuesTT By weight/mass. If you want to be super precise, you start by weighing the eggs you plan to use, then match the rest of ingredients to the mass of the eggs. Or you just approximate. In the US, minimum sizes for eggs are Jumbo(2.5oz), XL(2.25oz), L(2oz), M(1.75oz), or S(1.5oz). In Europe, average egg sizes are XL(78g), L(68g), M(58g), or S(48g). Other countries have different sizes.
@jblen6 ай бұрын
I haven't baked anything in years but it has to be sugar. A cake is sweet. Subway bread is defined as a cake in Ireland because the sugar content is too high. Butter does make sense as an ingredient for a cake, but sugar is absolutely necessary.
@SqueakySniper7 ай бұрын
It was a shame there was a f'up with the question. Reckon Mark would have gotten to J 1m if it werent for that.
@kingambrose99197 ай бұрын
I kept flipping between sugar and butter out of confusion only to look it up and realise it takes equal parts of both
@SpaceMissile7 ай бұрын
@@kingambrose9919 so they were both correct answers? dang, unfortunate for mark
@kingambrose99197 ай бұрын
@@SpaceMissile yeah there were a few mess ups throughout and they kept apologising because it was quite complicated for the tech crew to handle
@SpaceMissile7 ай бұрын
@@kingambrose9919 understandable. live broadcasts have a ton of moving parts.
@mmmmCinnamon7 ай бұрын
A classic sponge doesn't include butter. A more modern (1800s) sponge usually does include equal parts butter
@Haexxchen6 ай бұрын
And here I was contemplating the validity of my chemistry knowledge for full 10 seconds...
@JoeyFaller6 ай бұрын
This was such a rollercoaster
@TheSandell7 ай бұрын
1:1:1:1 < That is the Traditional Spongecake ratio, both sugar and butter are correct...
@zero30456 ай бұрын
The moral of the story is... sponge cakes are complicated.
@oeurydice5 ай бұрын
This question would have thrown me through a loop because the recipe I use needs 4oz of butter, 4oz of sugar, 4oz of flour and 2 medium eggs
@NotTheWheel6 ай бұрын
Matt Mercer master of dungeons and bake goods.
@Eddygeek186 ай бұрын
A sponge has equal parts sugar butter and flour, for example 200g flour, 200g butter, 200g sugar and 4 beaten eggs. So both butter and sugar are both correct
@rebeccatrishel6 ай бұрын
That's a pound cake!
@Eddygeek186 ай бұрын
@@rebeccatrishel I'm not a professional baker just a small amount of personal experience and the question felt wrong so I googled sponge recipes and that was the recipe that appeared for both "victoria sponge" and "sponge cake"
@HexQuesTT6 ай бұрын
yeah, the question is wrong since you can't have an equal part egg to the other things
@scottclowe6 ай бұрын
@@HexQuesTT Yes you can - by weight. That's what a pound cake is, one pound in weight of each of the four primary ingredients (egg, flour, butter, sugar). Since you must use an integer number of eggs, the ideal way to bake a cake is to first crack your eggs and weigh them and note the weight of the eggs you will be using. Then use an equal weight of the other three ingredients, each of which can be arbitrarily partitioned to match the weight of the eggs.
@bluefox53316 ай бұрын
@@Eddygeek18 That doesn't feel right to me- a sponge cake is suposed to be light, and starts with beating the eggs so it can rise. that much butter would not make it light and fluffy, and when my mom makes a sponge cake base to layer filling between there is no butter involved. Maybe the recipees you googled are just far away from the traditional one the question was about if they're indeed also called sponge cakes? The wikipedia page on sponge cake does not list butter either
@Lord_Phoenix956 ай бұрын
Okay. My inner chef is screaming sugar. It's sugar. I looked it up.
@mauberni6 ай бұрын
I think the whole question is wrong. It should be one of the other ingredients instead of eggs in the question. How do you even measure if it's equal parts egg since the egg is measured in number of eggs and the others in grams or whatever measuring system you're using. A quick search revealed that the recipe is equal parts flour, sugar and butter. 225g softened butter 225g golden caster sugar 4 large eggs ½ lemon, zested 1 tsp vanilla extract 225g self-raising flour splash of milk Optional fillings of lemon curd, jam, lightly whipped cream icing sugar for dusting
@I_love_dark_souls_2_and_you6 ай бұрын
what a chaotic experience
@NOSTahlgia6 ай бұрын
I always think of butter as mainly an American thing, for whatever reason.
@carronline16 ай бұрын
how are you expecting the cake to be sweet if its just made of flour eggs and butter, need sugar
@collinfant51466 ай бұрын
I actually knew it was sugar
@coletidwell28066 ай бұрын
Max level summon dm.
@llewtree30136 ай бұрын
The question itself is wrong, your classic sponge cake is the 666 3 equal parts butter sugar and flour, and then 3 eggs I forget in the moment the actual measurement for the 666 part of the cake
@TalesStahl6 ай бұрын
quick google 225g softened butter · 225g golden caster sugar · 4 large eggs · ½ lemon, zested · 1 tsp vanilla extract · 225g self-raising flour so both butter and Sugar is right
@Zelmel6 ай бұрын
That's not traditional in the sense they mean, though. Before modern chemical raising agents you'd use plain flour, eggs, and sugar for most cakes plus whatever flavorings (vanilla, lemon, dry fruit, etc) as the whipped eggs would leaven it. You could also use butter (creamed with the sugar) but didn't necessarily depending on the type of cake.
@JB-xl2jc6 ай бұрын
That amount of butter is definitely not traditional. Well think of it this way. It's a cake- without the sugar it is basically bread, 0 sweetness whatsoever.
@scottclowe6 ай бұрын
@@Zelmel How do you know what they mean by traditional?
@L4sz106 ай бұрын
I thought someone called Matt Mercer a millionaire on Yogscast.
@ampharosian3506 ай бұрын
Did someone cast a 9th level wish and summon him?
@HexQuesTT6 ай бұрын
See, the question is just wrong, it's sugar, butter and flour, how tf would you have an equal part egg??? you can't add half an egg if you're a little under
@scottclowe6 ай бұрын
A pound cake is one pound in weight of each of the four primary ingredients (egg, flour, butter, sugar). Realistically, since you must use an integer number of eggs, in practice the ideal way to bake a cake is to first crack your eggs and weigh them and note the weight of the eggs you will be using. Then use an equal weight of the other three ingredients, each of which can be arbitrarily partitioned to match the weight of the eggs.
@HexQuesTT6 ай бұрын
@scottclowe yh but this is a sponge cake ya fuckin yank
@boniakarlo6 ай бұрын
You made a wrong question and eveyone knows that, because it is exactly the question in the Mercer cameo video... well that's a natural 1
@shieru22076 ай бұрын
Does Mr. Hulmes have a new channel? He hasn't posted in months
@suntiger7456 ай бұрын
Just busy with events and the High Rollers DND work. :)
@tatonka4116 ай бұрын
Equal parts with butter gives you pound cake. Sugar gives you sponge cake. All the protein and fat makes the cake extra heavy. Sugar provides a spongier fluffier texture.
@damiens46016 ай бұрын
Did he age like 20years ?
@_TheDudeAbides_6 ай бұрын
This dude's mouth looks like that of ricky gervais.
@soyitiel6 ай бұрын
Why so much disrespect?
@suntiger7456 ай бұрын
It's what the brittish refer to as 'banter', especially common between friends and colleagues who know each other well.
@suntiger7456 ай бұрын
It's what the brittish refer to as 'banter', especially common between friends and colleagues who know each other well.
@ZarHakkar6 ай бұрын
It's what the brittish refer to as 'banter', especially common between friends and colleagues who know each other well.