Giant Jiggly Castella Cake | Anything with Alvin

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Watch us make this gigantic, extra-jiggly castella cake (and some other stuff along the way).
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[@KazeMemaryu]

I can only imagine Alvin walking up to Andrew, head hung down, asking if he can have 54 more eggs... twice.

[@lizzzlouise]

😂

[@SammyNail]

3 times!

[@shadesofblack89]

I give Alvin credit for not wasting food. This food experiment couldn't have been cheap.

[@notaword1136]

I may or may not have read this wrong and imagined Andrew hanging from the ceiling like a vampire with a giant pile of eggs underneath him... In my defense it is 2am

[@collinfant5146]

Thrice

[@erica9443]

I really like that the babish team keeps mistakes in the video, like the egg whites that didn't fluff up, and that they made extra desserts with the leftover eggs!!

[@K0wface]

Agreed.

[@christyb6916]

YES! its so refreshing to see that even the professionals make mistakes, and that those mistakes can be salvaged into something and dont have to be trash!

[@0-Kirby-0]

It does feel a little silly they didn't point out how risky it is to separate all eggs from one big bowl. Even a small amount of egg yolk can keep egg white from fluffing, that's why people do them one-at-a-time.

[@Stipopedia]

It also teaches people how imporant it is to be really careful with some of those steps.

[@coolcycles]

They got to do it, as long as they keep Alvin in.

[@taylorredlinger9878]

There's an army of chickens out there ready to declare war.

[@caskaz1om]

The babish kitchen is the leading cause of the recent rise in egg cost

[@Doommaker89]

I think Australians did something similar to the emus. We know how that might end up :D

[@collinball7443]

It’s like Gaston’s impact on the French egg economy all over again

[@aquadraco20]

Chickens will lay them anyway, whether they get used for cooking or not. They'd eat them themselves if they could.

[@cabbage-soup]

only in alabama are eggs sold as whole chickens

[@doctoreplay]

“Remember, it’s ok to get a little bit of white in the yolks, but never a little bit of yolk in the whites” - Chef John (I think)

[@funakfunak2740]

Yeah, does not take a lot of yolk to make whites unwhippable

[@HiddenWindshield]

Surely you're yolking!

[@Smithers888]

@@HiddenWindshield I dunno, that sounds white to me.

[@Kannamoris]

Chef John is the alpha and omega of foodtubers.

[@rosie2292]

@@Smithers888 your confidence is eggcellent!

[@razorsitch9882]

Babish crew: Goes to store Babish Crew to store staff: Eggs please Store Staff: How many? Babish Crew: Yes.

[@RichCsigs]

Babish in his best Ron Swanson, "Wait. I'm worried that what you heard was 'Give me a lot of eggs.' What I said was, 'Give me ALL the eggs you have.' Do you understand?"

[@MerikRelian]

@@RichCsigs "Please and thank you."

[@DaDragon555]

Babish Crew singlehandedly responsible for the rise in egg prices

[@EvelynnNystrom]

Can we please talk about how normal it is for this channel to make mistakes, use them for the audience to learn, AND not waste as much food as possible? Like that's such an easy thing to cut out and they just don't and it's so cool

[@Eulangelo]

Literally all the food they say they bring home will go into the trash as soon as they turn the cameras off but keep telling yourself that

[@EvelynnNystrom]

@@Eulangelo wow! your life must be very sad!!

[@sweetgrassOW]

@ you can literally watch him pack food away into carry-out containers multiple times throughout the video... what are you on my guy

[@fluffernutter6633]

@@Eulangelo Just because you're an incredibly wasteful person doesn't mean everyone else is.

[@Smithers888]

I love that they keep the mistakes in the video (because mistakes are human and we need to normalise that as a society) and also show how to find the silver lining in the cloud (pun intended).

[@flammablewater1755]

If you have leftover castella cake, you can fry slices of it in some butter and it basically turns into instant french toast.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

That sounds amazing. Maybe add some cinnamon with it as well.

[@danir9289]

"the cake was not done baking yet" Understatement of the year! Beautiful episode

[@ARabidPie]

And I'm just sitting here thinking: "They could have checked that with the toothpick test..."

[@kalliste01]

@@ARabidPie They did. You see a skewer (or maybe it's a knife) go in and come out fine at 8:40

[@wolfieswap]

The way my heart dropped when i saw the yolks break 😭

[@Anita_Chen]

For real! I was like "He's not gonna use that for meringue, is he? That's way too much yolk mixed in... Hmm... well, maybe he won't be doing that and it'll be fine...?" Lo and behold... 🙃

[@schmecklin377]

yeah i dont think cracking them all into a big bowl then separating is the move

[@XavierTheNeonTiger]

Flashbacks to 10yr old me 'ruining' 5 eggs worth of whites when one yolk immediately broke into the bowl. You learn pretty early to transfer your clean whites to another bowl between cracks.

[@JetstreamGW]

@@schmecklin377I reckon this is why Cakes by MK uses three bowls for egg separation :P

[@KairuHakubi]

@@XavierTheNeonTiger yeah Alton Brown used a little 'quarantine bowl' to catch each white before moving it to the big bowl. though he loves using extra bowls. Basically the lesson here is, if you don't want to ruin _grosses_ of eggs, study, pay attention, and look up "things that can go wrong while baking X" beforehand.

[@OhioUltimate979]

Goodness, the Babish chaos factor was present in the kitchen for this one.

[@FarFromtheSuns]

Almost makes you wonder if Andrew was rolling through sabotaging things Dropping egg yolks into the whites when nobody is looking, turning down the oven, resetting timers.

[@OhioUltimate979]

@@FarFromtheSuns I want to believe that so bad. I want it with bodycam footage.

[@andreiareis1301]

About the origin of this kind of cakes... It seems that they were created in old monasteries in Portugal. Later the recipe was brought to Japan in the XVI century during the discovery age. We call it "pão de ló".

[@lucinae8510]

Was it named after Castile, because Portugal at time was part of the Iberian Union?

[@didioriol]

@@lucinae8510 nah, the name comes from "claras em castelo", which is the way the egg whites are beaten

[@borismuller86]

That explains why they’re so popular in Nagasaki.

[@Xalerdane]

I think most baked goods in Japan were introduced by the Portuguese.

[@MissingRaptor]

I absolutely hate food waste so every time you guys say that the extra is being taken home by the crew and you make something new with the leftover ingredients, I am filled with delight 💖

[@Onyxkokoro96]

So many fails but I love Alvin for including them 💛😊 homie is a kitchen improv genius

[@RDB93]

12:38 The final product reminds me of that succulent loaf of bread Aladdin and Abu share with those kids in the alley 😂

[@Tikuros]

With the egg prices I heard in the US, this might be the most expensive project in the history of the Babish Culinary Universe :D

[@ItsJustLisa]

About $3.25 per dozen for large eggs in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota where I am.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Nah, I would say Babish's video for Red Dead Redemption II would probably be more expensive since he made a stew using multiple meats, including bear meat, which isn't common and probably is expensive. Sadly, the gaminess of the bear ruined the whole dish because it overwhelmed everything else 😅. But Babish got fully into character and actually went out into the woods, even putting on a western accent, lol. Really fun episode (please don't ask me to find it, it was years ago).

[@lorensolomon1419]

8$ for 60 eggs in the Midwest

[@NOGRIZZGUY]

they used half the cities egg supply for this video

[@sparkax]

All the shout outs to Rachel, the real MVP of the Babish Team!!!!

[@racheldolfi6533]

❤️❤️❤️❤️ team effort always!!

[@squiddy1132]

A beautiful and messy baking journey, very inspiring

[@K0wface]

If they bake and make mistakes you can too!

[@p0larb3arzer0s]

I love how this devolved into making many desserts out of the scraps.

[@chazjohannsen]

I’d like to see the behind the scenes of this episode, like a BOTCHED BY BABISH style.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I second this!

[@vampgoosh]

accidents with alvin

[@larryscott9583]

Shoutout to Alvin, who is just so entertaining and such a value add to this channel - Babs is lucky to have him.

[@colinperry8923]

Can’t make a cake without cracking cracking 54 eggs. I’d be lying if I say I didn’t enjoy the multiple attempts. Bravo.👏🏽

[@Aiodiam]

I think every baker out there professional or not, has had a day were just nothing seems to be going right. Refreshing to see it, great job team!

[@KrisKrisKrissy]

I really love seeing the mistakes. And the side projects to make sure nothing gets wasted.

[@rocketbooste]

Amazing episode. Not only did you show off all the trial and error, but you also turned those errors into other treats (and errors)

[@sarahwatts7152]

Spiritually speaking, working here on Alvin's filming days must feel like the chocolate factory scene from I Love Lucy

[@henrygutierrez3243]

I'm honestly kinda more invested in the flan than the jiggly cake. Really wanna see how that turns out!

[@racheldolfi6533]

The flan was AMAZING

[@lerneanlion]

Castella cake seemed to be the best cake for me since it has no cream involved whatsoever. So thank for baking this cake, Alvin and the crew!

[@matteopinamonti1867]

"Anything with Alvin" truer than ever, since this time he actually made anything and everything at the same time XD

[@Kiwifluffs]

Babish crew is going to have enough dessert after this episode for the next two weeks! xD

[@DefconMaster]

I love how Alvin always manages to turn his scraps and mistakes into snacks for the whole crew

[@wtfjackaboy]

It’s always nice to see how this channel ensures no food goes to waste. Food wastage is one of my biggest pet peeves as someone who’s experienced a lot of food insecurity (and still does) so it’s a relief to come here and not have to worry about food being unnecessarily chucked away like I unfortunately see in a lot of cooking videos.

[@kerseyHarding]

I really appreciate you guys showing how to use scraps and mistakes to decrease food waste

[@RasMatti]

"a little vanilla" - dumps the rest of the bottle 🤣😂

[@jaywizardess]

I absolutely love this episode. The mistakes are on camera and just lovely. Shows that everything doesnt always go to plan!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Jiggly! The best kind of cake! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@StarCrusher.]

oh yeah😏

[@jeremymcguire8186]

The first time I ever heard of a castella cake was from samurai champloo and I've wanted one ever since

[@chippeswe]

Its so amazing that Alvin gets to continue the big foods here, like in the olden days 🤪🥰

[@preparetotakeaim66]

I feel like a better title is "Giant Jiggly Castella Cake (and several side quests)"

[@titytitmk2738]

the local store must have thought you were feeding an army with the amount of milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk and eggs you must have bought for this.

[@potatoesindrag4095]

Babish supplying the egg farms with yearly profits. Great video.

[@pinstripeowl]

These were great - and i love the different iterations, it made the video feel so much realer in terms of learning

[@krissy5445]

I love how you show what you're doing with the mistakes and leftovers. Changing plans when things don't go exactly right is a very useful skill in the kitchen

[@00Resev]

FYI. Castella's original recipe come from the Portuguese traders when they first visited Japan in the 16th century. In Portugal, the cake is called "Pão de Ló". Its a very common cake here. Can be made in a few different ways, but by and large its a rather simple and unimpressive sponge cake. Its also, as far as i can tell, not originally from Portugal, as the same base recipe or some slight variations could be found throughout Europe.

[@bastimixacoustic3958]

Welcome to Botched by Alvin^^ Seriously though, I like it when they include their mistakes.

[@Cats-TM]

Glad you show using of the leftovers, one of my favourite parts of your serieses.

[@BrokenSoul79x]

the texture of the chocolate cake looks absolutelly amazing

[@pedrolycus]

Once my mom messed up a Pudim (brazilian pudding). The taste was amazing but the consistency wasn't. She made ice cream with it, the best homemade ice cream I've ever tasted. Never tasted it again because she never missed a Pudim again. Maybe next time you could make ice cream out of a mistake :)

[@harutran4703]

honestly as much as I love watching these videos, my heart hurts seeing all the eggs wasted in the underbaked castella cake 🥺 I'm perfectly fine with watching videos without Alvin having to make everything GIGANTIC in order to minimize food waste 😭

[@ninac4815]

in this episode they cracked 164 eggs and somehow managed to use all of them that’s fantastic

[@owen9510]

I love this series. I really enjoy watching Alvin try these things out.

[@joscreen3252]

I love the Alvin episodes so much! Not only do we get the mistakes but also ways to repurpose them.

[@bt4637]

That overcooked flan is looks like a combo of clotted cream and dulce de leches. Which sounds delicious tbh

[@angyeliz]

Glad to see that even pros struggle with baking fails! Thanks for keeping honest.

[@everettehungerford2858]

The slow, calm, complete chaos that is this show is wonderful.

[@reddy272]

Episodes like this are so much more interesting to me. It's cool seeing people try different things, adjust, research, and try again. And thank you for not throwing away 108 eggs.

[@springdude1165]

Now THAT'S an eye catching thumbnail

[@hasaniennis442]

I like how they try to cheat the recipe and it fails; then when they do it right it's so satisfying 😊

[@HailTheRegent]

_jiggly_

[@IncapableLP]

_cake_

[@BigPeteNasty]

This episode is absolute chaos and I am HERE for it.

[@xXCUSHBEASTXx]

That was a wonderful video. The resiliency of this chef scientist is unmatched. Bravo!

[@blade2718]

Love that you rescued as much as you could.

[@aime7035]

i would've cried with so much going wrong- and yet, you guys made everything work! thank you for not letting anything going to waste and for sharing your learning process with us!

[@lauralittlemark4079]

oh gosh, I love it! And I really love all the mistakes made in the making, it was absolutely fun!

[@lucaslegz]

I absolutely love that you show the mistakes.

[@Kabbijcakes]

I’ve come to love the random side dishes Alvin makes along the way sometimes.

[@justme3457]

I can finally live my dream of eating memory foam

[@LilCatSillyTheSillyOne]

I remember watching Alvin on Tasty. His vids where honestly my favorite to the point where I really only watched those ones. Its so nice to see him thriving here doing still those kinds of vidoes he enjoys!

[@a.r.beckert4909]

Loved this even more than when everything goes smoothly

[@constancep7632]

So many misadventures! I wish I could have been there to nibble on all of these!

[@butrfli777]

I so appreciate you guys sharing your mistakes!!! We're learning along with you guys!!

[@kccccccc]

This video makes me feel better about all the mistakes I’ve made in my life.

[@willromancini]

Literally Anything with Alvin. Get one recipe and transform it into anything

[@nicolakunz231]

I love that we get to see the mistakes! And the fix its!

[@Memetic_BB]

In this episode, the BWB team empties a chicken farm of their entire stock.

[@patricklopez1799]

Alvin's narration is a DELIGHT

[@ASV9399]

That was one rollercoaster of an episode....

[@PeppyDoABarrelRoll]

Just loving the fact that everyone gets cake to take home like a celebration.

[@Menuki]

The Castella cake was initially introduced to Japan by the Portuguese, but it’s strayed from its European roots to accommodate Japanese tastes. Tempura is also from Portuguese. It came from catholic missionaries as a food they prepared for lent “ad tempora quadragesima”

[@SithasUl]

living the dream today, watched this video, got a craving for this, and had a store-bought one right within arms reach!

[@starringclarissa]

This might be one of my fav episodes yet

[@cassiedlp847]

This is the most chaotic video so far 🤣🤣🤣

[@labrat001]

chocolate cake looks amazing. Great job.

[@gam3army]

i wanted to try this so badly and now seeing you make it nice

[@fsociety.dat101]

Andrew's voice is calming. Alvin's just makes you sleepy and slightly irritated.

[@bobzmuda3456]

what a phenomenally chaotic episode

[@wunnup3229]

Mistakes Were Made: The Cake Arc

[@lokuzt]

the final result looks like my old pillow

[@FabulousKilljoy917]

Fun fact (courtesy of max miller) castella cake came to east asia via the Portuguese, along with tempura

[@Valeriein3D]

I always wanted to try this 😋

[@makeyourlifeaworkofart]

This is the chaos I needed after my day 😂

[@megasingularity9305]

I loved this journey

[@amandalatchman890]

I love this entire video, well done Alvin and team. I especially appreciate the great efforts made to not waste any ingredients!😍

[@c.argelfraster1291]

The kitchen chaos gremlins were with you for this one! Great job holding each other up and making the best of it, team 🤝

[@Virtual01Gamer]

I used to watch this channel for babish voice overs and the amazing food he has cooked. miss you babish.

[@raghnall847]

Finally, I can make the viral cake

[@YKTVRAY]

Closest we got to a “Making It Big” episode with Alvin

[@PinkieOats]

Dungeon Meshi when??? The veggie tart with the red pepper crust please!

[@WishMish15]

This is an insanely chaotic video and very fun for it haha

[@landonbogar2999]

Nice to see you going back to your roots. The gaint food!!!