Making The Elaborate OPERA CAKE

[@JRCSalter]

Opera cake is quite difficult to make if you do what we used to do, and make the layers as thin as possible. And when I say thin, I'm talking a couple milimeters when fully cooked. Spreading it on the tray needed to be done quickly, or you'd lose the air bubbles, and needed to be as flat as possible, or any imperfections would show when fully cooked. If I recall, it took 5 minutes in the oven, and if it was even thirty seconds longer, then it would be overcooked. Removing it from the paper was a challenge, as it could so easily break, and we were making sheets on trays about a metre long. We used to serve them for afternoon tea, and they looked soooo good. I used to take the trimmings home.

[@thandiwolfe813]

Would you have more layers or would it just be a smaller cake than the one here?

[@jeremynixon1280]

My family and I have come across your channel in the past couple of weeks and love what you do. We've been enjoying all your old videos. My wife even made the Milk Bar funfetti cake for my birthday. It was delicious! Really appreciate your show, that you're just a regular guy trying to get better in the kitchen. Very relatable and makes me interested in exploring the kitchen a bit more. Looking forward to what you do next!

[@antichef]

Made my day! Thanks so much Jeremy, loved reading that. You totally get what I’m going. That birthday cake of yours sounds DELICIOUS!

[@katebxo]

That was great and the cake looks absolutely delicious. I mean you can't go wrong with coffee and chocolate. I cracked right up when the unicorn cake made it's cameo appearance coming out of the fridge 😂 Hope you are nicely settled in London and hope you are staying safe.

[@antichef]

🦄 Definitely can’t go wrong with some coffee in your cake. Thanks Katelyn!!

[@brookecannon5817]

im so glad I found this channel.

[@antichef]

😊

[@annabr8864]

The cake looked perfect! I literally gasped when you cut it right away!! I would have admired all the work done for a while..... but it looked awesome!!! Well done!!!!

[@antichef]

When I cut into the cakes, there is no turning back

[@ValeriaGalindo]

how come you are anti-chef?! if you can make an opera cake, you can make anything! that cake looks so freaking difficult for me to do ! haha, your videos are amazing!!

[@antichef]

Thanks so much! Baaaah the opera cake is easy, even for an anti-chef!

[@thomasross4921]

Watch episode one and you'll see why he's the anti-chef. He didn't know what what white pepper was, what wilting spinach was, how to properly separate eggs (but he got the job done), or how to beat the whites into soft peaks (he used a dirty whisk and gave up almost immediately, throwing them into the batter while still clear and liquid). Hilarious! And as an added bonus, you get to see what he looked like before he had any gray in his beard.

[@joehutter4816]

That was one of your best yet Anti-Chef! A couple comments...you mentioned that this one was not as difficult as Chef Ramsay suggested. Have you considered that perhaps your skills are improving??? My favourite part...when the unicorn cake unexpectedly showed up! Well done and looking forward to the next UK episode!!!

[@antichef]

🦄 😱

[@MadameX_]

Love the addition of the Flower Duet from Lakme while you write out “Opera” Nice touch.

[@iminco9844]

Loved the unicorn cake that was hiding! Poor thing felt abandoned and had to make a showing.

[@antichef]

🦄

[@meganlockhart4148]

As background music I was expecting something like Puccini's La Bohemia. Great job at baking and great video as always. Emeril Lagasse has nothing over you.

[@antichef]

I wanted to use ALL the opera music...but I was having a tough time finding good copyright free opera tunes. Classical was the substitute!

[@lulumoon6942]

Bakers dream about someone else baking THEM a cake, and this is my dream! 🤤🍰

[@annabr8864]

Oh ya!! It cracked me up when the unicorn cake mad a special appearance!!!

[@antichef]

🦄

[@shirleycastle5170]

I bet that tasted so good you had to have more. Hope you are all unpacked with your move and all settled in. Stay home, keep healthy and stay safe.

[@ammuparvathy8471]

Wonderful job! Can't wait to see you cooking in your new kitchen!!

[@antichef]

Coming soon!

[@buffysheffield1328]

Your impression of the thinking man was on point for this adventure! Rock on!

[@Digital_Dreaming_]

I have been binge watching all your videos. LUV it

[@cazadoo339]

Omg please do a remake of this one, concentrate, breathe and concentrate some more

[@izziebelletorres9834]

This was easy as a breeze for you... You guys stay safe...till next awesome video from your new kitchen...

[@raeray2235]

Bon Jour! Love your rogue approach and can-do-attitude! You crack me up! Happy Travels!

[@antichef]

Love it! Thank you!

[@Caitlind17]

My sister makes these all of the time for her business... I have yet to attempt. It feels like so much work! Great job. You were entertaining as always!

[@antichef]

If you’re into coffee tasting cakes, it’s definitely the cake for you! Thanks Caitland!!

[@My5sons1114]

You have taken on Christina Tosi. No way an opera cake defeats you. 😆Nicely done! P.s. Every reference to the unicorn cake had me 😂😂😂

[@antichef]

🦄 😱

[@dawnjochum4185]

Your egg cracking skills are on point

[@antichef]

🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@alc5440]

You really killed it on this one. Nice job!

[@kimberlee3243]

Can’t wait to see your new set up. Could you make the Starbucks cinnamon coffee cake? Recipe is online 😋

[@antichef]

oooOOOOOoooo sounds devine

[@michaelcrenshaw3099]

Wow!! You’ve come a long way!!

[@brookecannon5817]

when you cut to the unicorn cake with screaming in the background I lost it 😂

[@antichef]

🦄 😱

[@دعاءبوته]

🎉🎉❤️

[@thomasross4921]

If you want that really glossy glasslike finish on the ganache you need to do two coats.

[@larrywasserman294]

I like this guy he’s realistic things go wrong at home specially if you really don’t do this for a living or used to work in hotels Miami Beach hotels it was exciting crazy and I had a hard time

[@SoTypicallyMeh]

that looks friggin delicious

[@corinnak.4875]

Looks good but there is one layer missing: chocolate ganache. It's usually 2 layers of butter cream and one ganache (in between cake) and then chocolate glaze. The thing that is difficult is the french buttercream. I wasn't surprised you only got it right the second time - I've messed it up numerous times, it's tricky.

[@michelleblank2199]

Ah ha!! I was right it was the French buttercream that he was making

[@amandaredd3057]

I don't think I've ever seen coffee syrup... pretty cool 👌

[@selleniwright5919]

I love ur videos u made me laugh too when it didn't work to write the title on the cake lol looking forward to see more

[@Hollis_has_questions]

That looks effing delicioso. Congrats!

[@chillcooking3119]

Gotta say I live your home kitchen setup

[@moodytune123]

This show is so equally chaotic yet so calming, it even makes me forget about his Trumpian voice and I keep on coming back for more 🤣

[@MothraVsTheWorld]

Yummmm. They were just being dramatic on that show. You did a good job.

[@dralissa123]

Going well so far! Yay!

[@Rmby5759]

Awesomeness, thank you.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

That looked amazing!

[@Natalie427]

Very impressive!

[@lisahodges8299]

Do you run the "bowl" sequence backwards the go forwards after? Birdy

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

The Opera Cake should be afraid of you! It would really be terrified of me because I'm a fat middle-aged woman and I LOVE chocolate, so the poor little cake wouldn't stand a chance (LOL)!!!

[@StanWatt.]

Bravissimo!

[@larrywasserman294]

I used to work in Coral Gables Miami Biltmore Hotel I have mostly all the recipes I’ll send you a couple so hopefully you can try then and other ones from different hotels I don’t mention the name

[@tinaadkins6251]

For me it's the bug bunny music ❤️

[@PortlyTravellers]

Never heard of an opera cake, had to Google it. Yours looks just as good as the google pictures. Lol at unicorn cake still being in fridge. I was suprised to see it especially without a dagger in it out of spite lol yay first video in London next week..something to look forward to. Our lives are pretty lame right now:)

[@antichef]

There are deleted scenes of me stabbing that unicorn cake with a dagger. Shame I cut them out

[@MothraVsTheWorld]

Great British baking show is great and doesnt have a bunch of nonsense drama in it.

[@brandonling7387]

You should try to make a tarte tatin 👀👀👀

[@antichef]

I should!

[@gracetuyor2639]

Yummers stay safe 😍❤🧡🧡

[@kianakhl7297]

loved this :)

[@Auntee-Sara]

💪🏼B..R..A..V..O💥

[@melsyoutube]

so this was the last belgium episode! 💕

[@msimpson2779]

Made this...the MasterChef version

[@TheVintageApplianceEmporium]

Awww man I wish you'd had a brain freeze and written "Oprah" XD

[@ljbasgall]

In a double boiler the water should not touch the upper vessel.

[@antichef]

It wasn’t. I promise

[@ljbasgall]

Boloney sausage!

[@paul-andregravelle]

Be on your tippi-toes.

[@OuryLN]

🧚🏿‍♂️🧚🏿‍♂️

[@amandaredd3057]

I use the rack from my microwave 🤣

[@lalazee8818]

Funny!!! Destroyed it by eating a masterpiece.

[@antichef]

Destroyed, eaten, enjoyed and gone

[@larrywasserman294]

You need to 😢buy cakes circles and squares circles it’s driving me nuts sometimes I have no choice to use a plate and it drives me nuts and a turntable

[@amandac7270]

Looks average but id eat it lol

[@elizabethm6657]

The smallest cake ever. Why cut so much off?

[@natasha1717]

Please don't use the Lord's Name like that

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

OMG. Talk about frustrating. So you didn't have enough of the cake at the first bake. Why didn't you use the cake you had already made, then make another so that you had 3 perfect pieces? Instead of chucking it all out, starting again and still having a broken layer? Think logically!!! Also, there are easier ways to make coffee buttercream than that. Just make a normal buttercream and sift some coffee powder in with the icing sugar or dissolve a bit of coffee in some warm water and add that instead. Boiling sugar and water and then mixing eggs? Completely unnecessary. Then you waste half the cake at the end by cutting so much off. All that work for just a few mouthfuls which is all you had left. As for the writing on the top, didn't it occur to you to practice first on a sheet of parchment paper maybe? You had loads of the icing in that bottle, plenty to practice with before you did it on the actual cake. . I admire your bravery for making the cake in the first place. It looks really nice and I'm sure it tastes great, but honestly maybe thinking about what you're doing before you do it, might save you a whole lot of frustration and make cooking easier. You remind me of my husband in the kitchen. He just doesn't think logically and then it all goes belly up. I know I'm criticising you but I'm still subscribed and I still give every video a thumbs up 😙