How To Make A Birthday Cake 🍰 _ MasterChef Canada _ MasterChef World

What do you think has the advantage in this competition ?

I'm gonna say Tammy number one because uh she has six kids and uh baking birthday cakes .

Sounds like it's almost a full time job in that house .

I am making a white cake and it is my daughter's birthday .

My daughter loves strawberries and I'm gonna decorate it with a lot of flowers .

She loves flowers .

It's kind of heart wrenching for me because it's the first birthday I've missed in 17 years .

What about Christopher though ?

He seemed to be really confident , very confident Christopher .

You know , the pastry man .

I'm making my variation on an opera cake .

It is a mixture of chocolate and coffee .

It's a cake that I started in high school and has slowly been built up over the years by techniques that I've learned .

I have five minutes to get this cake in .

You , get this in the oven , they gotta get it baked and cool down , ready to start building the air our cake .

And while it says cooking , you need to watch it because you may need to turn that cake so that it rises evenly and has an even color to it .

Christopher .

Do you have any semi sweet type of ?

Thank you , Chris .

What are you doing ?

Banana split ?

Something that the Children at uh daycare would really enjoy .

But you know your next door neighbor and over there is also doing a banana split .

I heard what's gonna give you the edge chef ?

I think that the way I'm gonna decorate my cake will make me come out on top .

You're confident .

I love it .

Good luck .

Thank you , chef .

Hey , Andrew .

May the best cake win .

I have no idea if I can pull it off .

I'm not confident to start this again .

It's not done .

Yeah .

Stewart cake needs to be out of the oven now .

Oh , take a look at Michael's cake .

Michael's cake is bluer than your hair .

Nothing is bluer than my hair .

Oh I'm gooey in the middle .

You gotta remember .

You gotta cut that cake into a perfect four layers .

David .

You're sweating , I sweat .

I put this pressure on myself .

My son's birthday today .

Wow .

So there's two of you with uh with birthdays today .

It's amazing .

Excellent .

So you're making a peanut butter cake , peanut butter and chocolate .

Standard vanilla icing covered a whole thing with pretzels .

My favorite part is dipping in the uh batter .

Yeah , it's the best part of the cake , isn't it ?

I think it's good already .

Thank you .

Good luck .

Thank you .

Chef minutes .

We are low on time .

I'm putting so much pressure on myself .

My internal temperature is just roaring .

I'm trying to concentrate .

Oh my God , I've burned the peanuts .

I have to push forward .

I'm not failing on this challenge for JJ .

I work .

Where's the piping bags ?

I love a great cake .

Nice and moist tasty , but it's the icing .

I look forward to the beauty of having icing is that you can actually cover a lot of your mistakes .

It's a baker's trick .

What they don't know it never happened , Michael .

Hello , Chef Alvin .

So you're doing that blue suede blue velvet .

Honestly , it looks like blue carpet definitely will not taste like carpet .

What are you doing ?

So I'm gonna alternate between cream and blueberry filling so that the blueberry filling isn't too rich .

So you gonna do four layers in this thing gonna try ?

Is that all the cream you're gonna put in ?

Oh , I can put more if you like , you know , when you cut it up , you want to see the layers .

I want to see nice thick layers because it makes the cake rich and delicious .

You got it .

Well , good luck .

Thank you so much .

You know , David's cake looks absolutely amazing .

He handles that spatula like a pro .

Well , it's very similar to concrete .

It is like traveling .

My secret weapon is the fact that I am a talented concrete guy .

Hi there , Christopher .

Hello , chef .

That's a beautiful technique there .

Where did you learn that ?

Years and years of experience ?

What else are you going to do now to finish the decoration on this chocolate curls and you're tempering the chocolate to get the curls .

That's right because otherwise they won't have big nice curls .

Wow , that's amazing .

I'll let you carry on .

Thank you , sir .

One minute .

No , they don't have much time actually though , I'm gonna make this work no matter what .

10 , 987654321 hands off your cakes .

Tonight , the judges are choosing two mystery box winners .

This is the best cake that I've ever made .

I think I nailed it .

Both will receive a huge advantage in the upcoming elimination challenge .

What I'm most proud of is that I was able to channel being a dad on his cake today .

We've been so impressed with your creations .

We're gonna be calling up four of you .

I'm at least one of the four going up .

I have to be the first cake that we want to call up was made by a home cook who honored this challenge with innovation and color .

This cake looks like a soccer field .

I just wish the judges would try it .

Please come up to the front .

Michael .

Whoa , I'm cooking cakes , baby , I'm cooking cakes .

This is a blue suede cake with blueberry filling , a little bit of lemon zest .

Some graham crackers on the side to give a little bit of texture and taste .

And I topped it off with some very fine sugar sprinkles .

So when I cut through a cake , what I want to see is all the layers all connected .

I don't want to see any air pockets in between the icing and the cake .

Is that what I'm gonna see here ?

I think so .

Wow , that's pretty incredible .

Thank you chef .

Let's try this .

It's a very good cake .

So moist .

I love the blueberry that's running through here .

It looks like the kind of cake you would buy in a in a big shop .

Great job .

Just go to the front .

The second cake we'd like to see was made with a level of technique and confidence that was nothing short of breath taking .

And that cake belongs to Christopher .

Please bring up your cake .

This cake really shows off who I was and who I am .

Now today I've done an opera cake , coffee praline buttercream between the layers and lay it all on top of the chocolate sponge .

Wow , this is a league of its own .

My mouth is watering right now .

It all oozes out between the layers that tells me that it is such a soft and delicate pastry cream , beautifully balanced , big hit of chocolate up front .

A touch of that coffee comes in and then just a slight crunch from the pre lien that you curate up for me .

It's best in class .

Thank you .

Chocolate hits you and then the coffee comes and after that textures of the hazelnuts .

Definitely one of the best cakes I've ever had .

Yeah , we'll be happy for you to do my birthday cake .

Please stand down the front .

The third cake we like to see was inspired by a loved one .

Please come up , David the chocolate birthday cake .

Philadelphia cream cheese , peanut butter , uh layers and then I covered the whole thing with pretzels and the roasted peanuts .

It's my little boy's birthday today .

So I put everything into it .

It's really hard to get a kick that perfect rigid , smooth construction .

You got the peanut butter , you got the cream cheese .

All these comfort things that your son loves .

This cake is about love .

Thank you beautifully cooked sponge enough sweetness .

A little saltiness from the peanut and pretzels .

In fact , that flavor is quite sophisticated and you can't go wrong with peanut butter .

Top marks all round for a stunning cake .

But when it comes to spelling , yeah , I'm not known for my spelling .

I think that says hap .

It made us all very happy .

The fourth home cook we're calling up is Andrews .

My cake actually looks pretty great but this is all an unknown inside .

This thing .

Banana split cake .

I made just a simple white cake , butter cream and I flavored it with strawberries , chocolate and bananas .

It looks incredible from the outside .

But on the inside , I want to see a cake that stays together .

Yes .

Yeah .

So you kind of get a bit of a challenge here .

You're missing some sponge here .

Well , let's try this and all these flavors and textures that you have going on in here .

Work really ?

Well , it's a very good cake .

Let's go to the front .