Binging with Babish: Angel Food Cake from Groundhog Day

Happy Groundhog Day all! It's the magical time of year when a homeowner's backyard nightmare reluctantly, but alertly predicts the weather. As the snow piles up here in New York City, I can think of no more fitting tribute to this particularly bizarre ceremony than recreating the centerpiece of Phil Connors' immortal diner feast: angel food cake, eaten in one hedonistic bite. After a year that's felt an awful lot like Groundhog Day personified, let's ring in a new...groundhog year together with this classic teatime cake!

Music: "Add And" by Broke for Free

My playlist of preferred cooking tunes, Bangers with Babish!

[babishculinaryuniverse]

All in favor of a Bill Murray marathon? Angel food cake from Groundhog Day, then fried chicken & corn on the cob What About Bob?, baked Alaska from Scrooged, liver doughnuts from Fantastic Mr. Fox, and...coffee and cigarettes from Coffee and Cigarettes?

[RawBerserker]

See, he managed to get the whole slice in the second time. That's what Groundhog Day is all about, learning and bettering yourself.

[isaac]

I like the implication that trying to shove that slice of angel food cake killed Babish each time

[eviltricster]

I forgot he stuffed an entire piece of cake in his mouth in that movie. And he did it without making a horrible mess of himself at that

[jokerproduction]

Next year you should do Phil's ENTIRE breakfast from that same scene.

[drewfurbush]

Fun fact: Bill Murray actually couldn’t destroy the alarm clock properly when he smashed it against the floor, so the crew had to come in and destroy it with a hammer. When they did, it actually continued playing the song like it did in the movie

[katsukeys]

business expense to write off: "one cheap-looking alarm clock to smash a la ground hog day"

[SlyCoopergraff]

I was really hoping in the third loop that he'd give up and bring in a storebought angel food cake

[alexmcgillvary]

Everyone's talking about Babish fitting the cake slice in his mouth and not enough people talking about how committed Babish is to his show that he's willing to take a chunk out of his butcher's block countertop for a 15-second bit.

[srutica]

Babish talking about growing and learning to be better while stuffing his face with cake is... for lack of a better term - a mood.

[ninguem]

finally someone is using time loops as they should be used: a guide to improve food

[mileslc]

Fun fact: Groundhog day is the only day where people remember that there’s a Groundhog day.

[amberburger]

My husband loves Angel Food cake and I make one every year for his birthday in March. I've made my cake recipe so many times for events and parties, I don't even need to look the recipe up anymore. I will say my proud moment is when my mother in law gave me her mom's angel food cake pan. It was a passing of a torch so to speak :)

[redundantchosen]

Babish just saying "It's dead. I am free." Made me laugh so much more than I feel it should have.

[namingisdifficult]

“Don’t fit an entire cake in your mouth”
Sounds like quitter talk to me

[sxinley]

I remember my mom and I for my 5th birthday made a angel cake together I loved it it wasn’t fancy like this but we did it in a heart shaped pan because my birthday is valentines I love my mother

[feraldynasty]

My mom has an empty bottle of Bailey’s specifically to let angel food cakes cool on, the wide bottom of the bottle is enough support for it and the stem of the bottle fits perfectly in the center hole of the pan

[talos]

Cooking is just chemistry with the only difference being that you can eat the end product.

[good_beans]

Something about Andy saying "Groundhog day at its core was about growing and learning to be a better version of yourself, and I feel like I've accomplished that today" while we watch him stuff an insane amount of cake into his mouth is just perfect to me.

[leventemucsi]

Babish: Don't try to fit an entire slice of cake in your mouth
Me: You can't stop me