150-Hour Chocolate Cake

A good chocolate cake shouldn't need this long, but I enjoy taking my time. This one has a rich chocolate mousse, brown butter espresso, infused honey bourbon, hot chocolate cake soak, and about 5 million bars of chocolate.

Cake recipe adapted from:

music by City Girl
Ji-Eun's Sunset
Echo of A Rose
Winter Fields (ft. mklachu)
Palette
Left Blue

Other music:
Ballerina - Yehezkel Raz
My Night With You - Wesly Thomas

My video style is heavily inspired by Asian vlog channels I admire, such as Zoe, Cat's Kitchen, haegreendal, HidaMari Cooking, EMOJOIE Cuisine, Nino's Home, Cooking Tree, Wife's Cuisine, and more. Please check them out!

Thank you for watching.

[AlvinKZhou]

Storytime: 90% of the reason I made this video was because of a song I heard I year ago. I was browsing YouTube and stumbled across a beautiful piece of piano music. It wasn’t particularly complex or mind-blowing, but I loved its simple charm.

When certain songs hook me in like that, I’ll close my eyes and a scene will start to appear. Almost like a painting that draws itself. In this case, I saw a cake being assembled on a cloudy afternoon, right next to the window where the sunlight casts a soft glow. It was a strawberry cake, actually.

As the piano flowed, I saw whipped cream being piped, cake layers stacked, strawberries delicately placed one by one, powdered sugar falling gently like snow, the cake stand spinning and spinning - it was such a striking image that stuck in my mind. I told myself that one day, I’d make a cake like that in real life, in a video with the exact same song.

A year later, the cake ended up being chocolate and the scene was shot at night under my stove light, but I had a lot of fun doing it!

The song is “Ballerina” by Yehezkel Raz, and the scene is around the 14 minute mark.

[aparnaeaswar]

Me: sees butter
“He’s going to brown it isn’t he”
Alvin: browns it.

[weirdo]

Master chef: you have 45 minutes to make this 150hr chocolate cake

[mgg]

I love how he serves that tiny slice to his friends after he himself ate this humongous piece of cake 🤣

[saimakhaleeq]

Guys, he didn't stop uploading, he's just making a 1-month instant Ramen!

[attlebro]

Me: * is having a stressful day *
Alvin Zhou: *We don't do that here*

[Barry_TopG]

Me: "Dad when is dessert?"
Dad: "6 days son, 6 days"

[Mydnight]

I have never seen someone LITERALLY make cooking/baking so relaxing. I love the calm and chill theme

[spring]

Popular opinion: Alvin's friends are the luckiest people ever

[ajf]

The fact that Alvin doesn’t speak and just lets his cooking do the talking makes this video so much better.

[NanaNana-kqom]

Alvin’s friends: hey we’re going to hang out tomorrow
Alvin: NO WAIT I NEED A WEEK TO MAKE THE CAKE

[codyjordan]

im making this for my mothers next birthday as a slow and methodical lovingly built treat and judging by how you made it, it will probably end up being the best chocolate cake we ever eat

[jazzyjasper]

This wasn’t just a bake, this was a spiritual journey.

[FedouBC]

Alvin: "I'm gonna take some slice" takes a quarter of the cake to himself
Also Alvin: "My friends are here, time to give them some cake" Gives them a 19th of the cake.
I fully respect that.

[romanceandsarcasm]

I feel like Alvin really just exudes “Bob Ross, but in the kitchen” energy

[Flotsam_]

I find it so sweet how much it seems like you enjoyed making this cake. It's strangely charming to see someone love what they're doing so much that they appreciate every little step.

[mojogold]

Alvin: “My friends are coming over next week so I’m making a 150 hour cake for them”

Me: *buys 1 family sized bag of Doritos*

[bathory]

"I'm stealing a slice." *proceeds to pull out the biggest honking slice you've ever seen*

[Willjum]

Next Episode- 3 Year omelette - Raises a chicken from an egg

[Ilikepancakes-dv]

Alvin you might not be reading this but I have major depression and when I am at my worst I watch your videos and they help me feel better and I just want to say thank you and keep doing what your doing.