With great respect, I want to say: I LOVE YOU; you are the one who made me smile this early afternoon. Thank you for being so happy and a wonderful teacher. What a wonderful show! w/love [all of us!]
You, My Dear Baking Guardian Angel, taught me how to make the most perfect puff pastry ever. I make a few batches a week just so I can make wonderful things for my friends and family. Croissants, palmiers, kouign amman, tarts, galettes, all manner of wonderful dishes that have blessed my life. I have so much to thank you for and the greatest way I know how to show thanks is to cook for someone. I obviously cannot do that but know that my next batch of perfect Erin McDowell croissants is in honor of you.
You are so awesome! Love the energy and personality you bring to baking! Thank you! I do have a tip for you, to prevent separation of the condensed milk frosting.....use cold condensed milk. This is the ONLY buttercream frosting I like so I make it quite a bit and it never separates if I used the condensed milk straight from the fridge.
One tip to making your own sprinkles instead of just using a normal tip use a grass tip so you get multiple lines at one time if you want to create interesting pieces sometimes you get little curls and swirls or you end up getting a little hashtag marks it can just be something super funny
Love white wedding cake. When I was younger and went to a wedding (we have a large family!) we would always bring home leftover white wedding cake wrapped in bride/groom napkins. Yum!
Watching this makes me want to go to the store to get ingredients instantly, Erin has an amazing effect of turning a boring Saturday into a "hmm maybe I will bake a cake" kinda of day. The only thing is, I'm not a fan of dessicated coconut, does anyone know what effect this will have on the cake in terms of moisture?
Hey Erin! Love all your videos and recipe books…especially, “The Book on Pie”…so beautiful and creative…when I steal a few quiet moments in my day…I look and marvel at your book on pie. …My mother is celebrating a momentous birthday in early December (she doesn’t want any of friends to know her true age…so I can’t divulge it here!😂) ..in Vancouver BC…I live in Ottawa, Ontario …and will have no kitchen to speak of in which to bake ….so I plan to make a sheet cake, freeze it …and bring it with me … with frosting and decorative bits in tow to Vancouver. She, like your parents, doesn’t care for overly sweet frosting….f loves carrot cake ..and I love vanilla cake …so I will also bake both as you did …and somehow assemble her’s using half carrot and half white!!! I am super excited!!! I love this video…because you think of everything…right down to making your own cinnamon and vanilla sprinkles. …Love your energy, gurl!!….You are so uplifting and inspirational!
This carrot cake & icing recipe sounds perfect for my friends birthday cake. Delicious & not too sweet. Perfect timing! Plus you are such a joy to watch, Thank You.
Erin, my kitchen has been torn up for almost 2 years so no stove, no ovens, no good solid baking possible. I think I'm going to do both these two. cakes in my new Thermador double ovens ( convection)! They both look amazing in their own way, and I LOVE the whipped cream/cream cheese idea! You are a genius!!! Please don't ever stop creating!
Lmao, you are somehow one of my number 1 baking resources these days. I just made a toasty spiced toasted coconut and toasted almond flour whipped cream frosting/mousse using your peanut butter whipped frosting recipe as a base. I def have to make a sheet cake to pair with it! Thanks!
I love you!❤️ What a lovely video to watch. Many thanks for the happy inspiration. I'm so happy to see even real bakers can delight in the results the way I do when I make a once-in-a-decade cake! Please keep baking and making us smile!
Erin your just fabulous 🎉 I am so lucky to have the opportunity to learn from you. I always get excited to see your next bake . You are just wonderful to watch. Your my TV friend 😉
I can't believe this series has been around for more than a year. It is literally the answer to my prayers to the pastry gods: send me a pastry goddess that will share her enviable baking knowledge w/me, hilariously & free. I look at this series like a free pastry course. Thank you
I made the wedding cake. Oh my richness!! My butter was way too warm for the frosting as it is 90 degrees today. It seemed too soft so I popped it in the fridge for 20-30 minutes and it came together into a luxurious creamy frosting!! Thanks for a great class Erin!
So... your older brothers ate half of your parents' wedding cake. Isn't that interesting. I love these videos because Erin McDowell's mastery of baking is unassailable. It's a pleasure to listen to an expert speaking on topics they own. And she certainly does.
I love condensed milk buttercream. Nobody in my family likes American buttercream because it is so sweet, so the default is SMBC, but sometimes that is more than I want to do. Russian buttercream is easy, and great in vanilla or chocolate (cocoa)-I imagine it would work as a lemon, banana or coffee frosting too. It turns out light and fluffy, is great on cupcakes and cake. It pipes beautifully and though I hear it is not strong enough to use between layers, it works fine on the 6” cakes I make most often. Glad to see you bring it into the mainstream.
I subscribed just to see Erin and her baking. Sadly, I get all these others from Food52 that I'm not interested in. I do love how excited Erin gets and how well she explains things as she goes.
My wedding cake was also carrot cake! Your parents have good taste. Because it was so heavy we did a small three-tiered cake (with fresh flowers) for display and cutting, them we had the rest as sheet cakes to serve after dinner. This was a bit before everyone did fresh flowers and non-traditional cakes so I got a little bit of push back. (I’m guessing I’m somewhere between you and your parents?) Anyway- LOVE all your videos and make your Apple Butter Quick Bread at least 2x a month. (With tweaks. Like Sweet Potato Butter, coconut yogurt and coconut sugar topping.)
I am going to try the vanilla cake and sweetened condensed milk buttercream. I haven't made a sheet cake in a very long time. I've never even tasted that frosting. This is perfect for our end of summer family get together!
Erin, I absolutely love you!You are the best; all the instructions and teaching tricks you provide are excellent. Which size mixing bowl are using for the carrot cake recipe?
Erin I have a QUESTION ABOUT THE WRITTEN RECIPE. First, I'm so glad I found you! Love watching your vids! I really, really want to make this white cake but when I printed the recipe, some of the grams-to-cups equivalents seemed 'off'? I think you like to weigh the ingredients rather than measure so that's probably safe. But for just one example, if the sugar is 454 grams, that's closer to 2 1/4 C rather than 1 1/2 C? Check milk too! I'm looking forward to baking and eating this cake!
Can’t wait to try these recipes Erin how can I store cloth these cakes especially with the icing I like to cut up and freez individual pieces is that possible with those frostings
Hey Erin love the channel. I am looking for a combined cream cheese and mascarpone cheese frosting for a carrot cake with pecans, coconut and pineapple spiced cake. Goal is less sweet frosting with hints of flavor and a tropical version of cake. No rum in this one…but an option. I had such a cake in Aruba on my honeymoon 30 years ago. I haven’t found anything that is close. Maybe toasted pecans first? Looking for help.
Your frosting for the carrot cake sounds great. I found I like something not so sweet with carrot cake too, but tend to go with a lemon cream cheese frosting. It’s still sweet, but not as overpowering as the usual American buttercream. Glad to see your recommendation.
Are half sheet cakes appropriate for a wedding? For me, this is easier to make, decorate, transport and cut for a smaller wedding. My sister says her second wedding is going to be informal and she really does prefer a simpler cake for her event in a year or so. Any advice is helpful. I want to do the right thing.
You are so fun to watch, you are such a happy person. I want to try both cakes, they look sooo good! On an unrelated topic, do you have a video on making caramel? It is a hit and miss when i make it :(
You solved my problem with cream cheese frosting. I’ve avoided it because it always felt too rich and heavy for me. Though that’s probably more because I’m huge fan light airy cakes like angel food/chiffon cakes and especially white cakes.
I love your videos and I am learning a lot. I tried making the condensed milk frosting a few years ago and it was not fluffy and tasted like plastic. Can you give me an idea as to why this happened? I chucked the recipe.
First video of yours I've seen. I just subscribed !! Great delivery, no BS and very knowledgeable ! Thanks for sharing your talent and ability! I cook and bake a lot and always appreciate creative and personable chefs...if that's what you call yourself....like I said 1st video I've seen ...lol
I will pipe tiny designs like hearts or daisies, I'll use a star piping tip to do little dots which you can also just do dots with the normal piping tip. Also get a little bit more detailed and do rainbows, ladybugs, keep it simple. I also like to pipe letters that way you can go and spell something out but if you add a small little extra line at the bottom of the letter you can stand it up in the frosting and not have any of the letter disappear
Do you do anything to prepare the pans? I didn’t see you do anything specific so are you using a specific pan and if so what kind? This white cake has been my go to for many years and my kids always wanted it for their birthday when they were growing up.
The white cake is similar to Dominican cake, but instead of milk we use pineapple juice and Italian meringue for icing 😍🥰 it’s my favorite cake of all time
I've been meaning to make a carrot cake since fathers day 😅 I guess this is my sign to make one. Thanks for the recipe trying it this morning. 😁 ETA: I had guests over who tried some of the carrot cake. They said it is the moistest carrot cake they've ever had. Taste way better than store bought. Thanks for the recipe 🙏🏼
I love watching her! She is like sunshine in human form!
This woman is adorable- I wish I had a tenth of her energy- and joy she exudes. Thank you Erin!
With great respect, I want to say: I LOVE YOU; you are the one who made me smile this early afternoon. Thank you for being so happy and a wonderful teacher. What a wonderful show! w/love [all of us!]
I love to watch Erin show her stuff. I like baking, but she adds some joy to it all.
A whole half hour of Erin - a dream
You, My Dear Baking Guardian Angel, taught me how to make the most perfect puff pastry ever. I make a few batches a week just so I can make wonderful things for my friends and family. Croissants, palmiers, kouign amman, tarts, galettes, all manner of wonderful dishes that have blessed my life. I have so much to thank you for and the greatest way I know how to show thanks is to cook for someone. I obviously cannot do that but know that my next batch of perfect Erin McDowell croissants is in honor of you.
Yay!! Another Erin food lesson. It’s really like going to baking school..🌷🌷🌷
Erin is the absolute sweetest, most charming person, she has such warm personality I can't stop watching those videos
That whipped cream/cream cheese frosting looks amazing.... Like the best of both worlds!
You are so awesome! Love the energy and personality you bring to baking! Thank you! I do have a tip for you, to prevent separation of the condensed milk frosting.....use cold condensed milk. This is the ONLY buttercream frosting I like so I make it quite a bit and it never separates if I used the condensed milk straight from the fridge.
Would please share your recipe? 😬
One tip to making your own sprinkles instead of just using a normal tip use a grass tip so you get multiple lines at one time if you want to create interesting pieces sometimes you get little curls and swirls or you end up getting a little hashtag marks it can just be something super funny
Love white wedding cake. When I was younger and went to a wedding (we have a large family!) we would always bring home leftover white wedding cake wrapped in bride/groom napkins. Yum!
Watching this makes me want to go to the store to get ingredients instantly, Erin has an amazing effect of turning a boring Saturday into a "hmm maybe I will bake a cake" kinda of day. The only thing is, I'm not a fan of dessicated coconut, does anyone know what effect this will have on the cake in terms of moisture?
Hey Erin! Love all your videos and recipe books…especially, “The Book on Pie”…so beautiful and creative…when I steal a few quiet moments in my day…I look and marvel at your book on pie. …My mother is celebrating a momentous birthday in early December (she doesn’t want any of friends to know her true age…so I can’t divulge it here!😂) ..in Vancouver BC…I live in Ottawa, Ontario …and will have no kitchen to speak of in which to bake ….so I plan to make a sheet cake, freeze it …and bring it with me … with frosting and decorative bits in tow to Vancouver. She, like your parents, doesn’t care for overly sweet frosting….f loves carrot cake ..and I love vanilla cake …so I will also bake both as you did …and somehow assemble her’s using half carrot and half white!!! I am super excited!!! I love this video…because you think of everything…right down to making your own cinnamon and vanilla sprinkles. …Love your energy, gurl!!….You are so uplifting and inspirational!
This carrot cake & icing recipe sounds perfect for my friends birthday cake. Delicious & not too sweet. Perfect timing! Plus you are such a joy to watch, Thank You.
I don't even like baking, but I love watching Erin bake. She has so much fun with it that I almost want to try doing it myself.
Erin, my kitchen has been torn up for almost 2 years so no stove, no ovens, no good solid baking possible. I think I'm going to do both these two. cakes in my new Thermador double ovens ( convection)! They both look amazing in their own way, and I LOVE the whipped cream/cream cheese idea! You are a genius!!! Please don't ever stop creating!
Erin makes me want to make and share the cakes! It's a joy to watch her. Thank you food52
Love watching Erin, she’s so passionate about baking, shares great tips, and a delight to watch. Thank you for sharing your recipes and talent!
Sprinkles? Oh, you mean jimmies! That’s what they’re called in Boston 😉 Your classes here are genius, I don’t miss any of ‘em. Thanks!
This ENFP woman is fab. Love her. Love the carrot cake. Want it. She made it look so simple.
Lmao, you are somehow one of my number 1 baking resources these days. I just made a toasty spiced toasted coconut and toasted almond flour whipped cream frosting/mousse using your peanut butter whipped frosting recipe as a base. I def have to make a sheet cake to pair with it! Thanks!
I want that carrot cake and that icing sounds delicious! As always, love, love, love your videos!
I just love your passion for baked goods! We should really be besties lol
You are so entertaining to watch and love the way you explain how to to it !!
Erin makes me very happy! I’m going to bake the carrot cake for my mom and the residents in her facility.
She is so funny amazing talent and full of energy.great teacher. Wish I cud bake with her.
I think we all wish we could bake with her
Really enjoyed this episode, love the way you explain just about everything!
I’ve liked to cook for quite a while but never used to like to bake. I really love how approachable you make baking! Thanks for sharing!
I seriously binge your videos. I want to be you when I grow up 🥹🥹🥹
I really look forward to bake it up a notch episodes
Me too!
Erin, you are just adorable, charming and a great teacher. Thank you!
🌺🤗🌺
Erin's back!!!
Thank you Erin I love your videos, no pretension just fun in the kitchen
Thanks for these recipes and the stories behind them, I am definitely gonna try them!
Love to watch her! She is such a wonderful role model and teacher. Can’t wait for the new book❤️
I love you!❤️ What a lovely video to watch. Many thanks for the happy inspiration. I'm so happy to see even real bakers can delight in the results the way I do when I make a once-in-a-decade cake! Please keep baking and making us smile!
Erin your just fabulous 🎉 I am so lucky to have the opportunity to learn from you. I always get excited to see your next bake . You are just wonderful to watch. Your my TV friend 😉
I love this lady, she’s such a riot!
I can't believe this series has been around for more than a year. It is literally the answer to my prayers to the pastry gods: send me a pastry goddess that will share her enviable baking knowledge w/me, hilariously & free. I look at this series like a free pastry course. Thank you
I love this channel so much! Erin makes me smile and I am learning so much about baking from her. 🥰
Erin is an amazing teacher!
Love a dense cake. Can't wait to try. The vanilla would be my first choice.
I made the wedding cake. Oh my richness!! My butter was way too warm for the frosting as it is 90 degrees today. It seemed too soft so I popped it in the fridge for 20-30 minutes and it came together into a luxurious creamy frosting!! Thanks for a great class Erin!
This maintains as my favorite series
So great. And so nice to see a cake without a mixer! I don’t have one and really appreciate this.
Erin, my kid and i love your energy and your recipies! ❤️
I want to make both of them. I love watching you bake, you make it look so fun.
That’s so clever different flavors on one sheet cake !! Great idea!
So... your older brothers ate half of your parents' wedding cake. Isn't that interesting.
I love these videos because Erin McDowell's mastery of baking is unassailable. It's a pleasure to listen to an expert speaking on topics they own. And she certainly does.
I agree, no slice shaming! I’m definitely going to try to make the carrot cake 🧡
Awesome and looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing! Have a great weekend!
I love condensed milk buttercream. Nobody in my family likes American buttercream because it is so sweet, so the default is SMBC, but sometimes that is more than I want to do. Russian buttercream is easy, and great in vanilla or chocolate (cocoa)-I imagine it would work as a lemon, banana or coffee frosting too. It turns out light and fluffy, is great on cupcakes and cake. It pipes beautifully and though I hear it is not strong enough to use between layers, it works fine on the 6” cakes I make most often. Glad to see you bring it into the mainstream.
Made the whipped cream and cream cheese frosting and it is the best. Thanks Erin for your great teaching series.
I subscribed just to see Erin and her baking. Sadly, I get all these others from Food52 that I'm not interested in. I do love how excited Erin gets and how well she explains things as she goes.
Gosh! Have you been reading my mind?
You should give a try to Krysten - Genius Recipes! She is also pretty good and I tried some of her recipes! They are easy and came out beautifully!
My wedding cake was also carrot cake! Your parents have good taste. Because it was so heavy we did a small three-tiered cake (with fresh flowers) for display and cutting, them we had the rest as sheet cakes to serve after dinner. This was a bit before everyone did fresh flowers and non-traditional cakes so I got a little bit of push back. (I’m guessing I’m somewhere between you and your parents?) Anyway- LOVE all your videos and make your Apple Butter Quick Bread at least 2x a month. (With tweaks. Like Sweet Potato Butter, coconut yogurt and coconut sugar topping.)
Both... they both sound delicious!!!
Erin, you are the bomb! Love watching you bake! Can I make this cake in 2 layers? Two 8 inch or two 9 inch cake pans?
Erin is PERFECTION!
I am going to try the vanilla cake and sweetened condensed milk buttercream. I haven't made a sheet cake in a very long time. I've never even tasted that frosting. This is perfect for our end of summer family get together!
I want the white cake. Living in Boston at weddings that white cake was what we had! Yum!🎉
Professional cook here! You are just wonderful. Love your videos.
Definitely the carrot cake first then the white one….yeah, I’ll be baking both!!!!
I love watching Erin! Now I’ve got to try both of these.
Erin, I absolutely love you!You are the best; all the instructions and teaching tricks you provide are excellent. Which size mixing bowl are using for the carrot cake recipe?
That cream cheese/cream frosting will be the next one I make!
Erin I have a QUESTION ABOUT THE WRITTEN RECIPE. First, I'm so glad I found you! Love watching your vids! I really, really want to make this white cake but when I printed the recipe, some of the grams-to-cups equivalents seemed 'off'? I think you like to weigh the ingredients rather than measure so that's probably safe. But for just one example, if the sugar is 454 grams, that's closer to 2 1/4 C rather than 1 1/2 C? Check milk too! I'm looking forward to baking and eating this cake!
I just don’t think of carrot cake very often. This is making me want some. It’s happening this weekend!
Can’t wait to try these recipes Erin how can I store cloth these cakes especially with the icing I like to cut up and freez individual pieces is that possible with those frostings
Hey Erin love the channel. I am looking for a combined cream cheese and mascarpone cheese frosting for a carrot cake with pecans, coconut and pineapple spiced cake. Goal is less sweet frosting with hints of flavor and a tropical version of cake. No rum in this one…but an option. I had such a cake in Aruba on my honeymoon 30 years ago. I haven’t found anything that is close. Maybe toasted pecans first? Looking for help.
I absolutely love Erin's recipes..Recently tried the coconut cake recipe n it was amazing!!
Your frosting for the carrot cake sounds great. I found I like something not so sweet with carrot cake too, but tend to go with a lemon cream cheese frosting. It’s still sweet, but not as overpowering as the usual American buttercream. Glad to see your recommendation.
Are half sheet cakes appropriate for a wedding? For me, this is easier to make, decorate, transport and cut for a smaller wedding. My sister says her second wedding is going to be informal and she really does prefer a simpler cake for her event in a year or so. Any advice is helpful. I want to do the right thing.
I'd be crazy and make them both!! I can't wait to try the homemade sprinkles
Sprinklage is my new fav word!!
I want them both ! But i think the carrot would be my fave :)
You are so fun to watch, you are such a happy person. I want to try both cakes, they look sooo good! On an unrelated topic, do you have a video on making caramel? It is a hit and miss when i make it :(
You solved my problem with cream cheese frosting. I’ve avoided it because it always felt too rich and heavy for me. Though that’s probably more because I’m huge fan light airy cakes like angel food/chiffon cakes and especially white cakes.
I like wedding cake. I want to dive into that carrot cake!
Erin you make baking fun!
I love your videos and I am learning a lot. I tried making the condensed milk frosting a few years ago and it was not fluffy and tasted like plastic. Can you give me an idea as to why this happened? I chucked the recipe.
I love ro watch Erin. I want to bake 9x13 3in layer cakes for my church. Is this frosting summer friendly when transporting
First video of yours I've seen. I just subscribed !! Great delivery, no BS and very knowledgeable ! Thanks for sharing your talent and ability! I cook and bake a lot and always appreciate creative and personable chefs...if that's what you call yourself....like I said 1st video I've seen ...lol
I will pipe tiny designs like hearts or daisies, I'll use a star piping tip to do little dots which you can also just do dots with the normal piping tip. Also get a little bit more detailed and do rainbows, ladybugs, keep it simple. I also like to pipe letters that way you can go and spell something out but if you add a small little extra line at the bottom of the letter you can stand it up in the frosting and not have any of the letter disappear
Do you do anything to prepare the pans? I didn’t see you do anything specific so are you using a specific pan and if so what kind? This white cake has been my go to for many years and my kids always wanted it for their birthday when they were growing up.
I’d make the white cake, because I have a great carrot cake recipe already!!!❤
Drooling over the yummy carrot cake lol...btw where can I buy that gorgeous mixing bowl? 😍
love this Erin. keep doing what you're doing.
So glad I found you!
The white cake is similar to Dominican cake, but instead of milk we use pineapple juice and Italian meringue for icing 😍🥰 it’s my favorite cake of all time
Can't wait to bake your carrot cake recipe 😊
you and the crew are always having fun gonna make carrot cake 1st wish me luck thank you
I've been meaning to make a carrot cake since fathers day 😅 I guess this is my sign to make one. Thanks for the recipe trying it this morning. 😁
ETA: I had guests over who tried some of the carrot cake. They said it is the moistest carrot cake they've ever had. Taste way better than store bought. Thanks for the recipe 🙏🏼
I love your teaching
White both cakes sound good, I am not a carrot fan. I need to try both frostings though.
BOTH of them! Omgeezers😲😋😋😋
Love your videos! 😊😊😊😊
I need both!
I think Carrot Cake will be part of our Fall Dessert Rotation!💃
In our house, the word ‘slime factor’ comes to mind with store bought sprinkles. Ugh. Homemade is brilliant!!