The Duck Cake from Bluey | Binging with Babish
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Wackadoo! It's about time I tried to create this long-requested (very cute) cake.
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As long as we’re doing food from Bluey, you should do the ‘special’ from the episode “Fancy Restaurant”.
Or the pizza 🍕
THE WHAT? 😲
Oh man 🤮
WOW, that IS special!
@@meganfrank183THE SPECIAL!
Well that’s a dose of nostalgia I never expected. This comes from the “Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake” book. A cake from that book was a rite of passage for many Aussie kids and mums in the 80s and 90s, though rare was the mum who dared tackle the duck cake. Bluey certainly knows their audience, or at least their audiences’ parents lol.
"Duck cake" thereafter becomes a swear word on the show.
and they are "crinkle cut" chips not pringles cause pringles weren't a thing in australia when the book was made
Was posting to say is a blast from the past when saw your post explaining it perfectly. Yes, the Aus/NZ kids from 80s will definitely get some nostalgia from seeing this (kiwi myself, 80s baby).
[Spit take] You mean to tell me an Australian cartoon show is making Australians would get?
(Seriously, though, I watched an episode of Michael Cussack's Koala Man that centered on "show bags" and I had to look up what that was).
My favourite cakes growing up were totally from that mag. Kiwi here
As an Australian, it's sending me that he's not just following the instructions from the book. Mostly, because he's actually making spherical cakes. Like, this cake was designed to be cut out of slab sponges from the supermarket. It looks great but it's so extra. I love it. Also, making caramel corn - the popcorn we use is actually from this sweet, multicoloured popcorn we get from the shops. Its not caramel corn. But tbf, I dont know if they have rainbow popcorn in the states...
I can't speak for ALL of the United States, but I've not seen rainbow popcorn in a supermarket in decades. I only ever happen to find it in gift shops and tourist traps.
I was going to say it's meant to be that horrible chewy multi coloured popcorn 😂
I suspect he does not know about the Women's Weekly cake book.
I yelled at the screen when he used corn syrup. This is not a thing in the recipe, friends!!
The original recipe calls for two boxed cake mixes. I doubt he's seen the actual book this came from, but even if he has he was never going to do it the easy way. 😂
There is a cultural history of the duck cake, it comes from the 80s/90s (now a cult classic) woman's weekly magazine which had other birthday cakes such as clown train and swimming pool cake with water made from jelly(jello) as a topping.
My favourite was always the echidna cake with tv snack quills
I loved the turtle. There was something so appealing about its dome shape and tiny appendages
My poor mum made me the train cake as a kid!
@@jaybehkay2438 What's a echidna?
@@hawkfeather6802google is your friend, brother.
Seriously. I don't really know how you'd describe one other than looking like "a hedgehogs very distant cousin twice removed", so you really do have to see for yourself.
7:35 "why not Pringles I have no idea" because Pringles weren't sold here until 1992
The originals were definitely Smith's, for sure.
It's been 30 years
@@NoThankUBeQuiet yes but pringles aren’t Australian and the Bluey cake is an exact replica of the duck cake from the 80s-90s birthday cake cookbook by The Australian Women’s Weekly. To make this cake in the most authentic way you have to use crinkle cut chips. Every single Aussie kid from that time had multiple different birthday cakes from that cookbook (much to the dismay of every mother who had to make them) including the creators of Bluey, it’s a nostalgia thing.
@@AhreighThat’s really interesting! I’m an American, so I never knew that. It’s so cool how so much of the show has so many Australian references and I love learning about them. My tradition has usually always been ice cream cake lol, kind of a splurge a couple times a year thing and my Mom or I usually make it homemade if we could which makes it even better than Carvel or Dairy Queen.
@@moonlightdreamer4957the most prominent cake that keeps showing up for me is tres leches. Crazy to think about popular cakes in different regions .
The reason the beak is crinkle cut chips and not Pringles is because Pringles weren't available in Australia back when the Women's Weekly cookbook was first published.
Mimkey (Mini Hockey) is a shrunk down version of Hockey that is played at Austrialian Primary Schools
So basically, it's the in-between version of standard Hockey and Air Hockey?
Just as a heads up, I think he misunderstood it as ice hockey, not field hockey which based on Bingos equipment is what she's playing, I'm guessing. Or he was just being a goof.
Normally for kids in US as far as I know, ice hockey for kids Bingo's age would classified as a mite league. I don't know about field hockey leagues in the US. I was confused the first time I watched the episode until Bingo came home. 😅
This is what I was looking for.
Ahh, that is why I don't know it. I am middle-aged and Child Free, so I have not been exposed to the venue of mini hockey.
Austriaialieaien?
I went into bluey expecting a kids show made for dogs. This show made my genuinely cry waaaaaaay to many times.
My husband and I are 31, we have no kids, we have watched Bluey 3 times all the way through and cried a lot
Me too
35, no kids, Cricket always gets me bawling
Meeeee toooooooo
Same 33 years old and I cry like a baby when certain episodes are on.
The Women’s Weekly birthday cake book is an icon for Aussie families. I recall my late Mum making me the swimming pool cake with Smurfs chilling in and by the pool!
My parents made me the jewellery box with the dancing ballerina!!
@@catrionagraham7095 our parents made memories is what they did
I’m sorry for your loss
@@rickybryan1759dude that hit hard. They do so much for us. I’m sorry for your loss. I can’t even stand the thought that one day my mom won’t be here anymore.
@@Daniel-om4ce it’s the little stuff that make memories that birthday I was like 4 and I still remember it. I’m now 49. Similarly my daughter talks about her birthday at the reptile park etc… make those memories.
Noooo you needed to do the original recipe from the Women's weekly cookbook - the taste of the cake and icing from that book is incredibly nostalgic for Aussie kids for generations.
Yeah, I don't think it did it with sphere tins, I dont think they even existed for a family kitchen when the book was made. It got you to stack some cakes on top of each other and carve. (The leftover icing gets put on the leftover cake after carving!)
@@greengreen4616 and the batter waaaaay too dense. It is meant to be a sponge. Light. Easy for kids to cut. As well as it being normal buttercream. Not whatever that icing (not frosting) he made.
The whole point of the show was Bandit was taking a recipe that has driven fear to the hearts of so many parents. And doing it the way it was done in this video was sort of taking the easy way round.
Someone send the actual recipe and instructions and see how it goes…
Was disappointed he didn't do the original recipe before doing his own take as usual. Would of been interesting to seem him wrestle with the same problems my mother did lol
@@leniciuro9192 man who gaf make your own and post it
"cause it made my tail wag" is the best reason ever to do something! 😊
As a father who is constantly overwhelmed with work and life. This episode hit hard. I can’t wait for the day my daughter is old enough to have an interaction with me like bluey does with bandit after cleaning up the cake.
Single dad here: kiddo has watched from age 2-now, and Bluey is legitimately one of the best blessings I’ve ever stumbled on. It’s just a parenting show that kids can watch.
That's a great description I never thought of before "A parenting show that kids can watch." A great show for me as and my 6 year old. I can only hope to strive to be a Bandit :)@@Jamesfrancosdog
Your daughter will definitely appreciate it. This show is showing me that my parents (especially my dad) barely did anything for me and I miss a childhood I never had
@@jasonrundle3372 100% I am striving to be a bandit.
Love that bluey is teaching a whole generation of parents, worldwide, things they never knew or had 🥺❤️
I'm loving how my fellow Babish fans from the Land Down Under are taking this as the opportunity to emerge from the outback and the bush
G'day.
My 6 year old is obsessed with watching your videos. Her birthday was a week ago. I will now hear no end of the questions as to when I am making her Duck Cake.
Worth it.
Not sure how accessible it would be for you but I'd recommend seeing if you can get the Australian women's weekly children's birthday cake book. It has the actual recipe as well as a whole bunch of other much easier cakes.
You need to find a copy of the Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake recipe book. Although you will NOT want to show this to your kids as you will have to make the rest of the cakes over the coming years 🤣🤣🤣
You missed the point of the cake. It comes from the Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbook.
Every Aussie child had a cake made out of this book (till they are old enough to enjoy a caramel mud cake from The Cheesecake Shop) My personal favourite was the cricket pitch :)
We are Aussies living in America now and each birthday, our 2yo daughter chooses a cake out of the book! Tradition is important.
Mine was orange mudcake but thats so true
Every Aussie child born after 1980, perhaps.
Every kiwi kid too. I begged my mum to make the castle cake!
One of my favorite Bluey moments comes right before this clip, with the mention of the clown cake. Everyone gets that far off, shared PTSD stare while Bluey shudders, stating, "That was not a happy clown...".
“Shared PTSD stare”
i've a feeling we'll be seeing this on botched by babish. like, you could have gotten the recipe from the birthday cake book, or even from the actual bluey website 😭
As an Australian who grew up with the cakes I definitely agree this is a botched because what Babish made is a cake that is a duck but it’s not THE duck cake
This Aussie is calling for a future botched episode.
A simple google search amIright?!
please redo this one as a botched, this hurts to watch 😭
Definitely botched.
The cake recipe originated from the 80s - they use crinkle cut chips because Pringles weren’t really a thing in Australia then. The came to Australia in 1992 (I did Google it)
The duck cake is actually from women's weekly, some australian mom magazine staple that apparently every house had a subscription to.
I think “Adhering with nonstick spray” is a funny little oxymoron
It's non-stick for cakes, not parchment paper.
Bandit did a fantastic job given the instructions in this video.
The instructions in this video are actually very VERY incorrect for the actual formation per the book for the Duck Cake. (Also Bandit is also incorrect, the Tip Truck is in fact the hardest of cakes and it supposedly wasn't even working in the photos/by the person who was doing the cakes for the book.)
the woman who created the woman's weekly cakes said to never make the garbage truck, even suggesting to glue the pages together so the kids never see it- so you should make the garbage truck
Question! What was the garbage truck cake?
@ihavenoclevername8300 a question that should never be answered
A kids show that doesn’t hide behind “It’s for kids, so we don’t have to try”
Legends!
That’s because it’s actually a parenting show that kids can watch too 👌🏼
@@Jamesfrancosdog Well it is in Australia. The version we get from the BBC has all the "Bandit's thinking about getting his tubes tied" bits cut out.
Sadly, their video game absolutely played the "this is for kids, we don't have to try." card.
A super cool series would be to do all the cakes from the Australian Womens Weekly book that this is originally from!!
Babish versus the dump truck cake would be great viewing. (The dump truck cake is notoriously hard because the "tray" is tilted up and sponge cakes aren't known for their strength).
I would love to watch him make the dump truck cake 🤣
Just seeing the thumbnail of the duck cake brings back childhood memories! I used to love looking through my mum's copy of the Women's Weekly cake book. She once made the garbage truck cake from the same book for my brother's birthday. It was awesome.
Now imagine being an Australian mother in the 90s who had to make this cake without a stand mixer.
There's no need for a stand mixer when following the original recipe which uses two packs of regular sponge cake mix, a hand mixer would do just fine. Or for the more authentic "mum" version just get pre-made sponge cakes from the supermarket.
Electric mixers were still around then
Any other Aussies feel increasingly uneasy watching this? Babish, you do understand that there's a real way to do this, right?
Very. If you’re going to make the cake from a very specific book ingrained into Aussie culture for decades… just make the cake from the book.
And the right ingredients… we don’t make popcorn, or use m&ms… or argue that pringles are better 😂
@@rebeccasunflowerWhat's it supposed to be if not M&Ms?
@@harringt100probably smarties
So much this. Dude clearly didn't do his research!
If you ever want to do another Bluey that’s simpler than the Duck Cake, my favorite episode of the show is Pavlova. Pavlova seems relatively easy to make and you can add a lot of stuff to it.
As an Australian, pavlova is a temperamental tricky beast (due to being both soft and crunchy at once) and should only be attempted by buying a premade base and then customising 😂
Not quite as "the baker of these cakes said don't attempt the duck cake" but very very hard
@@TheLostFaeRight! Try making Pavlova in Queensland - the humidity will ruin your attempt!
There is a fine line between having a pavlova and having a pile of curd that either cracks or falls into itself
@@PKLuver944 I feel like it's not authentic if it's not partially shattered
@@TheLostFae It's not that hard. Pavlova Magic anyone?
As an Aussie, this gives me so much nostalgia. For the first 10 or so years of my life, my mum made my birthday cakes from the Women's Weekly birthday cake book, which is where this cake originates from. My favourites include the swimming pool birthday cake with blue jelly water and the number cakes that my mum would decorate with cut marshmallow flowers and mint leaf lollies 🥰🥺
If the aussies correcting him in the comments means another Botched by Babish episode then I am not complaining. Those are some of my favorites
This is relevant to my interests. Quack.
Bluey is required viewing for everybody not just parents
I don't have kids and I've binged it 3 times already. It's so much fun.
Bruh
I concur
😂 I have kids but if prob still watch it if I didn’t
It's a great series to watch if you're learning a foreign language. Each episode is relatively short, the vocabulary is useful for everyday speech and is both easy enough to follow but complex enough to be stimulating, and the plots are engaging in a way that isn't repetitive or trite.
Any Aussie kid that grew up in the 80/90’s should recognise this book! It’s an Australian classic! Would love to see a Babish series where he goes through and makes them all! That would be fun! I had several birthday cakes made for me from that book when I was growing up and I have made the train for my nephew when he was little. I still have my mum’s original copy ❤🎉
the subtle bits of humor...the raw vulnerability...the absurd dish that I'll never make...just bravo
"Just don't say anything, this is a family show"
You got it, I always enjoy watching Binging with Boobish
As an Australian, your version of this cake made me cry. Find a copy of the legendary (in Australia) Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book and make it properly!
I love the Women's Weekly cake book! Some of my favourite memories are me and mum going through it before my birthday each year to pick which one we'd make. I read a great interview in Frankie magazine with one of the women who worked on recipes for the book and said that her editor was constantly putting her draft cakes into photoshoots and using them for the final product because the appeal is that it's for people who don't necessarily have time or artistic skill to make fancy cakes, but still showing them how to make cute cakes for their kids.
Is it possible that Babish didn't even know the book/recipe was a real thing? His version seems way more complicated :D
Literally takes two secs to google duck cake Australia. It’s the first recipe up on the Woman’s Weekly website.
Oh duck cake! Not going to lie I have been using Bandits trick replacing curses with food, works surprisingly well when the kids are around. Bluey is a great show.
The nobule you buttered is called a planitary shaft lol. I build those stand mixers at KirchenAid. My family loves Bluey and this was another amazing video. Maybe I can now make a duck cake!
Bluey is hands down my favorite show to view with my kids.
Anne Reardon did an experiment with different kinds of frostings to see not only how they taste but also how they stand up to being outside for a theoretical outdoor children's party. That frosting is an Ermine frosting, and Ermine is the frosting that stands up to the heat the best (second best is American buttercream, which is often considered too sweet and gritty by anyone over the age of 8).
buttercream can be smooth if you dont make it wrong
Bluey should be required viewing for everyone, not just new parents. This show did so much to help heal my inner child.
The fruit by the foot bow tie was such a clever idea!
The original was satin ribbon. It was trouble to tie/attach without getting icing on!
I made this cake for my daughter's third birthday, she LOVED it.
I don't think I ever asked for the duck cake. My biggest memory was the pool cake.
Yes! Did you have gen1 pool cake which predated blue food colouring and so looked like a swampy pond? Or gen2 “resort pool” cake?
I always wanted the pool cake and mom would never! 😂 too much food coloring she said
@@SaffronMilkChap I remember it being green. So I guess I predate the food colouring? It was mid 90s.
I have multiple copies of the book that this comes from (including an original 80s copy) and seeing the duck cake on Babish made me so happy. The duck cake is such a meme for Australian millennials.
My mom decorated cakes for many years. She made it seamless by smoothing a Viva paper towel between the icing and her spatula. The icing needed to set for a few minutes prior to prevent the paper towel from sticking as she smoothed the whole surface.
Bluey made it into the BCU? For real life? No but I really like what I've seen so far of the series, and would happily share it to a family of my own later in life.
HOORAY
Do whatever the crisp is from the Christmas bbq episode. Idk what it is but it looks delicious
Look up pork cracking. It's like crispy pork belly but done on a whole pork roast.
They're wavy crinkle chips instead of Pringles because when the cake was invented by a local magazine Pringles didn't exist yet ❤
My mum once made me the Womens Weekly mouse cake for my birthday but in order to get the body shape right she kept carving the cake smaller and smaller until there was only enough left for four kids lol. Lots of nostalgia in this video
Leaning Tower of Pisa Honeycake from Arthur episode, "Dad's Dessert Dilemma"
Aww the memories from the AWW cake book! We were allowed to choose a cake from there each birthday!!! Never got a duck tho!!! Didn't have enough Lollies (Sweets) on it for a typical kid!!!
The witch cake did, I got that once!
“Oh ducks cake!” is my new favourite way of swearing thanks to Bluey and Bingo’s dad.
My mom had a cake baking book when I was a kid. This cake was one of them. Instant flashback to my childhood
No, Andy, what are you doing!? This cake is iconic! There's a recipe and instructions on the Women's Weekly website. It's a normal ribbon, not candy ribbon. There's meant to be texture in the icing, the shape is all wrong... please, follow the recipe instructions. I had this cake as a kid many times growing up and that is not the duck cake. It's a box with a duck head.
"Adhering with non-stick..." that'll keep me up tonight.
The book in this show is a real life book. The Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake book. I always wanted the duck as a kid!
You can pass the chunky frosting through a fine mesh sieve while it's warm to save it.
Yes! He did bluey!!!
FINALLY!!! 🎊😁🎊 Took ya long enough, mate. Thank you so much in any case for covering a dish from one of the all-time greatest tv shows made (primarily) for preschoolers!
Aww I bet Andy's nephews would love to try a piece of that
I love learning about culturally relevant foods I'd never heard of before. It's fascinating the silly and fun ways people celebrate with food around the world.
My kids were too old for Bluey when we discovered the show during the pandemic, but it’s still one of our favorite shows to watch together.
No human is too old for Bluey.
Seeing this done both by you and @tiggamac in less than a week really makes me want to try making a duck cake.
If you want to get the authentic 90's Australian vibe, you can follow the Women's Weekly duck cake recipe that the Bluey episode was referencing. Slightly different than Babish's recipe, but perhaps compare the recipes and see what's most achievable for you!
Bluey is a legitimately excellent cartoon and I'm glad it exists and kids love it as much as they do. Because, unlike with some of the more nonsensical cartoons, the parents can also enjoy watching Bluey with their children instead of trying their hardest to block out the noise and focus on something else. And most of the episodes have very wholesome moral lessons to them, which is nice.
Ham-Egg-Edon from Green Eggs and Ham episode, "Goat", would be nice on Saint Patrick's Day! Or Dumpling Soup from Wish Dragon movie for the Year of the Dragon starting on February 10th
valentines day boutta go crazy with this duck cake
Between me and my four siblings my sweet mother must have made every cake from that book at least once
I remember picking cakes out of that book when I was little! The pink jewellery box was my favourite
Millenial dad here, father of a 3yo girl. I'm so happy right now!
Right here with ya man, only my little lady is about to turn 5!
Mini hockey, mini sticks or shinny is where you get down on your knees with small hockey sticks and battle to the death, preferably with younger siblings
Great try! Now you just need to work your way through the 2 Women's Weekly Kids Birthday Cake books. You might like to try the train next or the monster or Hickory Dickory Dock or.....oh, just get the books and make them all. lol These were the go to books for Aussie kids birthday cakes in the 80's and 90's.
Mum used to make me and my brothers some pretty cool cakes growing up (I’m from Melbourne, Australia)
Not surprised this is in an Aussie kids show 😊
Is fantastic that you made a food from Bluey, hope that you do the Pavlova that Bandit made sometime soon.
"Hheyy bayyybe" my wife and I communicate like this most of the day now
You've gotta do the recipe from the original Women's Weekly cookbook. It's a goldmine of fun birthday cake ideas.
Mini-hockey, or "Minkey" in some places, is hockey (not ice hockey) played by very young kids. It's basically less about positions and winning and losing and more about learning the basic skills and developing a sense of teamwork. As for the cake, it's an interesting interpretation, but as an Aussie I'd love to see you tackle the Women's Weekly Birthday Cake book, not just for this one but some of the other classics in there.
A bunch of Australians are probably going to point out that the Duck Cake originates the popular Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake book that was a fixture for kids growing up in the 80s and 90s.
I am not Australian myself. I am a Canadian who also grew up with a copy of that book in the house, but I never requested the duck cake to be made.
Botched with babish?
im aussie and this brings up some weirdly specific childhood memory but i cant recall anything past the duck cake.
It makes me so sad that there is no longer a number cake for my age, also that ladybug cake is fire
I feel like the Canadian equivalent is the Jello pool cake
What one did you pick?
2:49 *”anyway, welcome back to Boobcakes with Babish”*
I instantly recognized that cake, it is from the Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake Book that was sold in Australia and New Zealand. My mum had a copy and she made a few of the cakes from it. I actually found a copy in an op shop and I bought it, since the one we had was all worn out. Loved looking at all the cakes in that book
You must track down a copy of the book. It's a great part of Australia history haha.
They’ve reissued it several times. Difference is that they no longer have the Disney licenses so no Mickey Mouse Donald Duck cake
@@patrickweyland-smith1023 true!!!
That is SO cute! 🥹🥹
Now Babish will face judgement from Paul and Prue for his cake-making skills.
Oh my gosh, I’m so happy that you covered something from Bluey
Ideea fantastica! Complimenti!
Well this is everything I’ve ever wanted. Now you need to make a Pavlova!!!
Fried Orb from The Owl House episode, "Really Small Problems"
All the comments saying its from a nostalgic tradition, make me want to see you actually make it from the magazineeeeeeee
Do a take 2 on this plzzzzzzzzz 🎉
This feels a lot fancier than whatever the instructions in the woman's weekly cake book actually says.
For those not familiar, it's a staple book in Australian homes. Milenials in particular will have had a lot of birthday cakes from that book.
I'm here for the umpteenth second on, but Babish didn't do it show accurate first. I'm perfectly fine with this being the Babish version, but let's see him make it exactly the way it should be done. They even posted the recipe directly on the site for you to use. But anyways, what I really want to see Babish tackle is the Pavlova.
But did you have a heartwarming bonding moment with your daughter as she learned of the joy of helping others?
It's in the recipe, I sure hope you didn't forget.
I needed this video. My daughter asked for the Bluey duck cake for her birthday and explained it needed to look horrible like Bandit’s attempt. 😂
It looks nice, but the duck cake bingo is referring to is the Australian Women’s Weekly cake book that we all picked a cake from in the 80’s and 90’s. Haha IE the Train cake, Swimming pool cake, Mushroom cake, etc. The woman’s weekly cake book is iconic haha 😂
Looking at these comments makes me happy that so many people remember the Women's Weekly cake book.
I've still got one on my bookshelf now!
You should do Carl Weathers' stew from Arrested Development in honor of his memory.
I love the Duck Cake episode of Bluey, so happy to see it made!
As an Aussie I got my mum to buy me the women’s weekly cake book for my birthday. I’m forever impressed with how her cakes turned out from this book.
Bluey Time!!!