I Recreated Milk Bar's Iconic Birthday Cake

Taylor Swift raved about this cake! Here's our spin on it.

Ingredients—

For the birthday crumbs:
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons rainbow sprinkles
1/2 cup canola/vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

For the cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup rainbow sprinkles, divided
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup whole milk
1/3 cup canola/vegetable oil
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 large eggs

For the frosting:
6 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
2 tablespoons margarine
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
For the soak:
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Steps—

For the birthday crumbs: Preheat oven to 300 degrees, and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugars and rainbow sprinkles. Add oil and vanilla extract, and mix until tiny clusters of dough form. Spread clusters over prepared baking tray, and bake for 20 minutes, stirring once during baking to break up clusters. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

For the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease and line a quarter sheet pan with parchment paper.
In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and all but 2 tablespoons of the rainbow sprinkles. Set aside.
In another bowl, whisk together vanilla, sour cream, milk and vegetable oil. Set aside.
In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until well incorporated, and scrape down sides of the bowl. Continue to mix until fluffy and light. While mixing, slowly stream in sour cream mixture and continue whisking until voluminous and homogenous in texture. Slowly pour in flour mixture, and mix until just incorporated. Pour onto prepared sheet pan and spread into one even layer. Top with reserved rainbow sprinkles. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

For the frosting: Cream together cream cheese and margarine until smooth. Add vanilla and powdered sugar and continue to whisk until fully incorporated. Place in an icing bag fitted with a large round tip.
For the soak: Mix milk and vanilla in a bowl and set aside.
To assemble: Use a round cookie cutter to cut circles of cake from the sheet pan. Place the first round of cake in the base of a similarly sized Mason jar. Brush with soak mixture. Pipe in frosting, and top with birthday crumbs. With a second round of cake, pipe bottom with frosting; place frosting side down on top of birthday crumb layer. Continue layering until you reach the top of the Mason jar. Garnish with more frosting and birthday crumbs. Dig in with a spoon and enjoy!

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[askbob]

Omg every chef wants to cook things that take them back to their childhood.

[alonasanbira]

Where is the actual recipe? Did I just watch a frosting recipe video?

[thejompi]

Only Vincenzo from Bon Appetite is the master of editing this has no rhyme and rhythm.

[antisocialite]

There are literally a ton of dupe recipes out there for this cake--this recipe has nothing to do with the Milk Bar cake itself.

[MrHarryHeavenly]

Bon Appetit actually went to Momofuku Milk Bar and made a video about this birthday cake long long time ago. Check it out if you want the real recipe. Stop giving her a hard time.

[wingus]

The editing style isn't very fitting for Tastemade

[Mayatemil]

The sound of people in the background got me dying 😂😂

[historiaporsiempre]

I never post YouTube comments but I’m seeing hellaaa hate towards this girl, she literally says it at the end, it’s HER VERSION, like stahpppp being so hateful to people doing their best efffort!! You did amazing sweetie, I liked the recipe

[pristley]

GURL.. Please read the original recipe, if you are a true fangurl

[TheVickiScott]

Icing sugar should be sifted into the frosting to make a lump free texture.

[oabuseer]

Everyone's hating on the editing but it made me smile lol. Random, yeah, but cute.

[mlawler]

Make the fried egg chili chutney sandwich from red dwarf.

[msutubeloveruk]

someone watched Brads Its Alive...that editing 👎

[MaverickBaking]

Honestly, I made a version on my channel like two weeks ago and it was more informative than this 🙃

[julesgainey]

Don’t nobody curr about ole snakey swift

[XusernamegoeshereX]

You kind of make it sound like you made a different recipe than the original, but all you did was make it smaller and put it in a mason jar? Also, the animations/edits belong in a highschool powerpoint, not a cooking video series.

[Livelaughnlove]

She acts like she created the recipe. 🙄

[treyd]

*Christina Tosi uses white vanilla ONLY specially for this recipe. In fact, it is the key ingredient for her birthday cake. I stopped watching the moment you put that dark vanilla into the frosting. You should change the title from “RECREATING” to “REINVENTING”*

[Mnguyen]

The amount of make up she got... poor skin