How To Make A Rubber Duck Cake with Betty Crocker
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00:00 Hi, I'm Lori Gelman.
00:07 Every baby knows rubber duckies mean fun in the tub, so it's really the perfect
00:12 theme for a first birthday party.
00:14 It's easy to follow this theme too. Just use yellow. Yellow plates, cups, and
00:18 napkins.
00:19 And for decorations, dozens of duckies. The highlight of this party is of course
00:23 the rubber ducky cake, which is really easy to make.
00:26 Liev Hansen is here for Betty Crocker Kitchens and she's going to show us exactly how to do it.
00:30 Hey Liev, how are you? Hi Lori. I can't help thinking that a baby's first birthday is
00:35 such a milestone event. You really want to make it special.
00:37 How about making a rubber ducky cake? That sounds great. Okay, well what you're going to need
00:40 is one 8-inch round, one 9-inch round, and one cake baked in a custard cup, a 10-ounce
00:46 custard cup.
00:47 Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to start trimming off the dome of the
00:51 8-inch cake.
00:51 I'm going to use a serrated knife. It makes it easier to cut the cake.
00:57 And I've also chilled these cakes in the freezer for about 45 minutes
01:00 and that firms them up a bit. Nice. Can you use one cake mix
01:04 for all three of these? You can. Okay. So I'm going to take the first one
01:07 and I'm going to invert it. That way there's fewer crumbs. And we're putting it right on our
01:11 platter.
01:12 Now this one had a little bit of an edge. I'm just going to take my small serrated knife and just cut it off.
01:16 Make it easier to frost. You want to keep that dome? I do want to keep that dome.
01:20 That's going to help create part of the duck shape.
01:22 I have some frosting over here
01:25 and I've tinted it yellow. Nice. Just a little yellow food coloring? Yeah. You can just buy it in the
01:29 supermarket.
01:30 And I'm going to take about a third a cup, place it right on top.
01:34 I'm going to use my offset spatula to spread it.
01:38 It has a little offset, a little bent there.
01:41 Now I'm going to take this one, but I'm going to keep the dome side up
01:45 and center it. Okay.
01:49 Now this little custard cup one is going to act as the head. So I can also trim this
01:54 just a little bit.
01:55 And again I'm just going to take a little frosting for glue.
01:59 And you're going to set it in about one inch. Then
02:03 take these little sugared orange candies
02:06 and we need to make a little tail. So we're going to actually use these as the shape
02:10 underneath.
02:10 So you can use one, or maybe two,
02:14 and maybe even stack them like that. And if they're not going to stick right away,
02:18 you can use a little frosting as glue or to really reinforce it,
02:24 you can stick a toothpick right through it into the cake. Just make sure when
02:27 you're serving it
02:28 that you tell people and you remove those toothpicks before eating.
02:31 So now we're ready to crumb coat the cake. So I'm just going to get this out of the way.
02:34 Okay. And when you say crumb coat, what do you mean by that? A crumb coat is just a thin layer of
02:38 frosting that we spread over the entire cake and that's going to seal in any crumbs
02:41 that might
02:41 stray into your final coat of frosting. Okay. Take a nice
02:47 dollop. Now you can see that we're going to have to actually angle the frosting in a bit.
02:51 That'll help also give the shape of the duck. I'm using some of the frosting on the top
02:56 to help me frost the sides.
02:58 I actually have one ready to go and it's chilled already in the freezer. Why don't I go get it?
03:05 Great. I'll move this. Thank you.
03:09 Oh, what a nice idea to put it on a cake plate. It looks like it's swimming in a little pond.
03:16 Okay. So we're ready to frost this one. Great. I'm going to show you a little trick after we have all the frosting on,
03:22 how to frost a curved area.
03:25 Okay. So I'll give you a little start
03:29 there so you can get the sides. I think we almost have it.
03:34 Yeah, it's covered. Coated. A little bit on the tail here.
03:37 Now this is a little trick I have. We want the head to be round.
03:41 So what you can do is you can actually take a piece of paper
03:45 or maybe even a little strip of cellophane and you can
03:48 frost with it. You're going to come over here.
03:52 Oh, nice.
03:55 And just curve it over. And then you just scrape it off. That really works.
04:00 Yep, nice.
04:03 A little trick. So you can use paper to frost a cake.
04:08 Okay, so now it's time to put the face on.
04:14 So what we have are these little candied orange slices.
04:17 You used those for the tail. I did use those for the tail. And what you can do
04:20 is actually just take a scissor and cut right down the center of it,
04:25 but not all the way through, just about three quarters of the way through.
04:28 You'll see that it opens up.
04:32 Like a mouth. So one little trick to sort of form it is I have some
04:36 just basic granulated sugar and I'm going to dip that in there because that's sticky on
04:40 the inside.
04:41 And then you can just sort of form it with your hand, mold it
04:44 until you have a kind of beak shape.
04:48 And then we're just going to stick it right on.
04:51 Now again, if it doesn't stick, the best tip is to just stick a toothpick
04:55 right through it. So the next step is the eyes.
04:58 I'm going to start with two nonpareil chocolate candies. Just place them above the beak.
05:05 And then, just to give it a little pupil,
05:08 we're going to use chocolate chips. And you can adhere that with just a little
05:12 dollop of icing as your glue. Okay, and there you have your rubber ducky.
05:18 He looks fantastic. As most moms know,
05:21 you know this, a baby's first party is mostly about the picture you get of them
05:24 with their cake.
05:25 So don't miss this memorable moment. They grab it, they put it all over their faces,
05:29 they smush it. It's fantastic.
05:30 Thanks, Lee, for showing us the ducky cake. Thank you. I'm Lori Gelman.
05:34 (silence)