Claire Saffitz Makes Birthday Cake #shorts | Dessert Person

Is there anything better than birthday cake? I don’t know about you, but to me, bday cake always means yellow cake and chocolate frosting. This vanilla-scented cake bakes up extremely light and tender, but still has the unmistakable richness and color of a yolky batter, while the super-easy frosting gets balance and tang from cream cheese and unsweetened chocolate. Claire gives lots of pointers for layer cake construction, like what to do if you’re trying to frost it in a 90-degree kitchen (hint: it involves an AC window unit).

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Classic Birthday Cake
Special Equipment:
Stand mixer, three 8-inch cake pans

Ingredients:
Butter for the pans
3 cups cake flour (12.7 oz / 360g)
2 teaspoons baking powder (0.28 oz / 8g)
1 1/2 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt (0.16 oz / 5g)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 sticks unsalted butter (8 oz / 226g), at room temperature
1 3/4 cups sugar (12.3 oz / 350g)
1/4 cup neutral oil, such as vegetable or grapeseed (2 oz / 57g)
5 large egg yolks (2.6 oz / 80g)
2 large eggs ( 3.5 oz / 100g)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk (8.5 oz / 240g), at room temperature
Classic Cream Cheese Frosting, Chocolate Variation (page 324)
Sprinkles, for decorating

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Photographer: Alex Lau
Food Stylist: Sue Li
Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka

Video Series:
Producer/Director: @VincentCross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino
Editor: Kyu Nakama

Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton
Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley
Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar

[CSaffitz]

Happy Thursday Dessert Family! We’ve got some new episodes coming out very soon but until then we’re looking back at some of our favorites! Thanks for your patience & support!

[jayneengelgau]

This is like skimming sparknotes as fast as you can before a test

[tati.l.]

Gentle reminder that Claire must be very busy with book 2 stuff right now. Last we heard (the Dorie Greenspan live back in December) she was coming to "the end of the process", and soon after that came the holidays. Coordinating the schedules of the whole team (who have their own stuff going on), filming a batch of episodes, getting those edited and ready to go, must be a bit challenging right now, and that's understandable. We've had no breaks in such a long time, we're all a bit spoiled, lol.

[thatdyergirl]

I dig the idea for recipe shorts - it's going to be a nice quick reference to come back to when I want to make this recipe again and don't quite need the entire video to remember how to do it!

[Raedrie]

Getchu someone who looks at you how Claire looks at a birthday cake in a thumbnail.

[mjhadrich]

reminds me of when she reads the ingredient list!!

[isaacada]

Thanks for including quantities in grams. Those of us in Australia, and most other parts of the world haha, appreciate that!

[BP-kgti]

You know you keep it real! With all your missteps we still love you because we have been there!!

[bonnierussell]

I love how much she's a real human. Subscribed

[laurenschenck]

You make Thursdays my favorite day ♥️💙💙♥️💙💙✨✨💕❤️💕

[viveksharma-tmkh]

I am so happy to see this video by Claire in my feed, I had such a long day and it feels like getting a new episode of 'GOT'

[room]

"something pale and fluffy" is what my girl calls me

[ksander]

I just made this a couple weeks ago for my 4 year olds birthday! My new favorite recipe for confetti cake!!

[LowCommitmentASMR]

yes!! more claire recipe shorts please ❤️❤️❤️

[meremadswyant]

Love this episode! Soooo funny!! 🤣🤣🤣
Love your sense of humor and your crew! So down to earth and refreshing! 😊👍🏻

[RBRB]

Thank you for uploading this! I was thinking I missed today's video. Excited to see the new episodes 😊

[peperminthospitalitygoa]

Missed the bus ! Definitely Catch up soon !!

[carolbuzelim]

Every time a pastary chef say a little vanilla they mean 1L

[SkitSktch]

how did you know to post this on my birthday <3 love it

[philadelphiawalksptsd]

I totally saw your sourdough bread making video (it came up in my feed on the side over there) and had to find you because of your humor. Namaste :o) 🙏👑