Surprising Zach With a Giant Shrek Cake

- I'm trying to bake a giant Shrek,

move outta my way (censored).

Today we are making an epic six foot, life-size,

vegan cake of Shrek on a skateboard,

wearing sunglasses with a juicy booty.

There's a lot happening today.

Oh, I thought making a big old Shrek would be possible.

This is crazy, man.

This is gonna take me forever.

You know what they say about insanity?

I'm one man.

There might be arm hair in your cake, Zach.

- Never expected this.

(energetic music)

(energetic dance music)

- Rachel had this fun idea

to try to do a good version

of Zach's Shrek cake debacle,

from "Candid Competition."

- Hi, I'd like to order a custom cake please.

Do you know the movie "Shrek?"

- [Baker] Yeah?

- So an ogre wearing sunglasses,

doing a skateboard trick,

and then his back is to us

and he has kind of like a nice,

a bigger, big juicy butt.

- Zach didn't get what he wanted.

- There's no Shrek, there's no juicy booty,

it's not even a skateboard.

- I have to succeed at this one,

because I'm supposed to be the expert.

Like, what if I do worse than the Walmart bakery?

(group laughing) - [Miles] Oh my god!

- [Keith] Okay!

- I actually want it to be good.

First and foremost, we found an artist online.

- [Emily] I'd always been an artist,

but I had a dream that I painted Shrek as my living,

as my job.

- She's a lovely woman.

Her occupation is making Shrek Renaissance paintings.

- We're looking for somebody to create

a hot Shrek on a skateboard,

with a big, juicy ass.

- I swear when I had that dream,

this was what it was all leading to.

Bring it, I'll do it.

- So happy we found you.

- Thank you so much.

So we have her drawing,

(angelic singing)

and what we're gonna do is project it on a cake.

This is a six foot by four foot cake.

I'm going to pipe out the outline of Shrek,

and then fill him in with different colors of buttercream

and then I'm going to try to make his ass

sort of pop out from the cake,

because I want Zach to take a big bite

out of Shrek's vegan ass.

Is that all we're doing?

(phone ringing)

Oh, this is what my hair looked like?

Oh, no!

Oh my God, you're the wrong Zach.

- I assumed.

- Guys, this is my hot friend Zach.

I'm at "Try Guys," so I'll call you later.

I'll call you later.

My friend Zach is so hot,

he's one of those people who,

when I go out to (indistinct) with him,

I'm wearing a cloak of invisibility.

Literally no one sees me.

Hi!

So, I'm calling you for a reason.

- Yeah, I was in the office last night

and I saw a sign on the door that said, Zack, stay out.

- Yeah, currently it says, no Zach's allowed.

And I was like, what if my hot friend Zach came?

I mean, you are my hot friend Zach,

but my other hot friend Zach came

and could he not get in?

I have a little surprise for you

and I was wondering if you are interested

in coming and checking it out tonight.

- I would love to check out your little surprise, Jonny.

I have a lot to do,

but now I'm being told I can't come to the office.

I guess I'll just (censored) off for the day.

- Oh, work from home, you ever heard of it?

Pandemic, 2020, Zoom?

We gotta start.

I have a large cake to make,

but it's an oil-based cake

as opposed to a butter cake.

So these are dry ingredients,

and the cool thing about this vegan cake

is we don't have to cream anything.

There's no butter, obviously.

Just using butter in baking is harder,

because you're creaming it

and that just takes extra time.

Like, a lot of chocolate cakes are oil based.

So when something's oil based,

you throw everything in together and it's really easy.

So now let's do the wet ingredients.

I hate saying wet ingredients.

It reminds me of ingredients

that have like been left outside, or something.

Oat milk really do be looking like regular milk.

She's so thick and delicious, I love oat milk.

The thing is, the reason people add butter to cakes

is obviously to add a fat,

but butter is a flavorful fat.

Oil is a fat and it's a neutral oil,

so it doesn't have any flavor.

But if your cake is flavorful in other ways,

I actually prefer oil.

I think it makes for a moister cake.

So, we're team vegan here.

I was gonna say something vile.

Like, I was gonna say if he drinks milk,

he shits his pants.

But like, why would I say that?

Who doesn't? (Jonny scoffs)

What happens when you add vinegar, sometimes,

to the wet ingredients is it will look like

the milk is split or curdled a little.

Yeah, it looks like a little pimply, actually.

It's like what my skin looked like in high school,

but it's good. We're gonna be good.

I usually measure vanilla extract with my heart.

I always want it to be punchy.

People say a half a teaspoon.

I'm like, get real.

That means three tables spoons.

We're gonna mix the wet and dry together.

You're gonna see some fizzing and some bubbling.

What's happening is the baking soda

and the vinegar are interacting.

This batter always looks a little lumpy-bumpy,

it is totally fine; it's gonna be great.

It's very delicious, I promise.

Now, add some Oreo.

Kids today don't know how hard it was

to open a pack of Oreos,

they just do this now.

We had to like get our little baby fingers in there

and try to open it.

They'll never know the struggle.

I love mixing in things like Oreos,

where there's bigger pieces and smaller pieces,

little bit of crumbs here and there;

just a little more fun to bite in to.

So that they don't sink to the bottom of the cake,

just coat them lightly in flour.

I don't know why; again, I'm not a scientist.

That's the thing, like they say baking is a science.

It's like, no, I failed science.

I can understand rules but I can't explain them.

We're gonna mix this in.

Cookies and oat milk,

the good old fashioned cookies and oat milk.

Country Crock? Yep, looks vegan to me.

I was about to grease these pans with butter.

That could kill Zach.

And if Zach dies, would I replace him?

♪ You're the one that ♪

♪ I've been here waiting for ♪

♪ 'Cause you know ♪

So we're making like thin sheets so they bake faster,

'cause we have no time.

I guess raw egg is bad for you,

but I eat it all the time.

If you guys get salmonella, you can't sue me.

You think I can fit this whole thing in my mouth?

A Keith video be like,

(Jonny struggles quietly)

Yeah, it's okay.

Let's let it bake.

So only the ass of this cake is vegan.

Look what Jack did.

Jack bought me Sam's Club cake.

So, we're gonna make the majority of the cake

with non-vegan cake.

Never buy frosting that warns you

that children can tumble into it and die.

And we have four of these.

It's vegan though, so Zach's gonna love it.

We're taking a ton of this vegan buttercream

that comes in a big vat,

putting it in a bus tub.

You know, where you put dirty dishes

when you work at a restaurant?

- [Rachel] Wait, we cleaned that.

- Yeah. Yeah.

So basically, we need to dye this icing

an ugly Shrek green.

So, I'm gonna empty this out.

Empty this out.

Okay, alright.

(quirky music)

Deja vu.

(bus tub clatters) (Keith beats on tub)

(Jonny grunts with effort)

(tub of frosting crashes)

So that happened.

Oh!

(crew laughs)

Oh.

I'm gonna get so messy today.

So, we're not gonna start with all of this.

The thing is, I've never made a six foot big cake before.

I don't know how much icing we need to cover it.

Oh my god, this is so gross.

This avocado green,

and then a whole bunch of yellow

because actually, Shrek,

Shrek is probably more yellow.

I mean, he's green obviously,

but like to make Shrek colors,

you need more yellow.

This is a workout.

Woo woo!

I'm gonna be sore tomorrow.

- [Rachel] We're like, six seconds in.

- Listen Rachel,

why couldn't we make a small cake?

Would you guys watch a small cake episode?

I hate everybody, I hate my life.

There might be arm hair in your cake, Zach.

There might be arm hair.

I am Shrek.

I got an idea, maybe I'll just frost my whole body

and Zach can come in and I'll be Shrek.

- [Rachel] And he'll bite your ass?

- Yeah.

(Keith sighs, taps backspace button rapidly)

- Whoa buddy, lots of backspaces there.

You know, you should try Grammarly.

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- Oh, I've heard about Grammarly.

I really did think it just did spelling and little things.

Hold on, let me try this out.

Yeah, it does fix my spelling, but oh yeah,

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I can click rewrite for clarity,

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This is really nice, it's making a super professional.

- And what if I told you

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- [Keith] They're free.

- Isn't that crazy?

- That is crazy.

- [Zach] I don't understand it.

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- We call that a grand slam, son.

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- If only Grammarly can fix is understanding of sports.

- [Zach] Hija!

(Zach scoffs in surprise)

(nervous laughter)

- Thanks to Grammarly for sponsoring today's video,

now back to it!

- Oh no, I liked this.

- I hate this.

I'm putting in my two weeks notice.

It looks so easy, you watch this video in 30 minutes.

Do you think this took me 30 minutes?

Now we got booty short, blue jean blue.

Okay, so this is like a light jean.

It's like kind of sky blue.

I think it's cute.

And then, we need a skateboard color.

We'll do a light fuchsia.

This looks kind of like what a swampy skateboard would be.

- [Rachel] Have you ever been to a swamp?

- No, I don't go outside.

The most time I spent outside

is when we went to that kiddy daycare thing outside.

Auggie left me.

Auggie? - [Kwesi] You can

make this jump. (child speaking indistinctly)

This is so,

this is so my preschool experience.

My friends always left and went to the cooler kids.

Kwesi is cooler, I can't compete.

Wonder how Auggie is doing.

You think Martha Stewart did this shit on her show?

Martha Stewart probably just rolled in,

yelled at a few people,

committed a bit of tax fraud, went home.

Brown's the second biggest color, right?

- [Rachel] You're the artist.

- This is an art? I'm an artist?

- [Rachel] Yeah. - Oh gosh.

I'm in agony.

- [Rachel] Did you like Shrek?

- I'll never like Shrek again.

I liked him as a kid, I don't like him today.

I also love that the guy

who's not traditionally attractive

gets the hot princess.

What's up with that?

These hot women marrying these nasty men.

He must've been a great lover or something,

because he wasn't offering,

he was mean, yelled at her.

But I stayed with someone who's been mean,

'cause they, you know, got that good ogre dick.

I want to see what the drawing ended up looking like.

You people are sick.

(dramatic music)

This is better than Zach could have ever hoped.

This is a booty-licious, cool as hell, big boy Shrek.

I love it, I just hope I can replicate it in frosting form.

Let's lay cakes out

and just see what the pattern should be.

We have 16 cakes, so we have to sort of

figure out the configuration of them.

One, two, three.

So think you can,

oh my God, okay.

The thing is, you would think it would be

directly in my wheelhouse.

I make little cakes, feel very comfortable with a burger.

But a six foot cake is crazy.

Okay, I think what I have to do,

turn this board this way.

- [Rachel] Why turn the board?

- Because I think this is the shape of the cake.

I want it horizontal.

Center him, yep. Okay, great.

Yeah, there we go.

One, two, three, yeah.

(cheerful orchestral music)

Can we turn the lights off?

That's a big sheet cake.

I can't handle this, but yet, I have to.

All right, frosting cake.

Let's do it.

Ooh, a workout.

Great!

(lid crashes)

(Jonny sighs heavily)

- [Rachel] Did you go to the gym today?

(Jonny gasps)

(crew laughs incredulously)

(frosting tool creaks and snaps)

(crew laughs)

- Off to a great start.

It's like spackling in a wall.

I've dedicated two of these

just for frosting the cake,

so I think we'll be okay.

Always apply way too much frosting.

You can always scrape off excess.

Don't worry, we're gonna bring in orphans

to eat this at the end of the day.

You don't want crumbs.

Crumbs are our enemy.

It's just really pulling.

God, that sucks.

Stop it!

All right, so we've got a rough coat of frosting,

now I'm gonna attempt to smooth it out

with this giant bench scraper that looks somehow tiny.

Feel like the folks at home

need to understand the scale that we're working with.

Like this is a,

I've never needed anything this big when cake decorating,

and today it's like being dwarfed by this cake.

I do want it flat, but if there's craters

or pockets where I missed a spot,

I'll toss it back on.

Try to re-smooth it.

So gross.

I would spend a long time doing this on a small cake,

let alone a mega cake.

This is also why I want to pipe,

because piping a border

will hide a lot of imperfections around the corners.

I want it straight, white.

Me, leaving for college. Okay.

I need to stop.

We're gonna pipe a nice border,

it's gonna really come together.

I just, right now I need to stop

and I need to pipe out Shrek.

I think in a lot of ways,

I'm better than a grocery store bakery.

But in a lot of ways, I don't pipe designs on my cakes.

I'm terrible with handwriting on cake.

Like, there's basic cake skills

that just are not in my wheelhouse.

Okay. Okay. Okay, okay. Okay.

So now we're gonna fill this in.

The important thing is to keep the outer line where it is.

Great, awesome.

At least I'm having fun, you know what I mean?

Whether or not this makes a great video or a great cake,

I had a good,

(Jonny giggling with delight)

(crew laughing)

is this funny or is it just me?

- [Rachel] It's very funny.

- Okay, so now I gotta go in with black.

(Jonny laughs)

It's just so stupid.

(energetic music)

Let's go.

Okay, ready?

(energetic music)

(Jonny giggling)

Is it so dumb, Rachel?

- [Rachel] Yes.

- Great.

The first pass the artist made at this,

she made Shrek butt naked,

but it looked a little too pornographic

and my little cousins watch this show.

Why is Zach calling me?

- [Rachel] Oh, we should answer.

But, don't FaceTime!

- [Jonny] Hi. - Hey Jonny,

- [Jonny] How are ya?

- Real excited for whatever this surprise is.

Are you excited?

- Yeah, I'm doing some very serious work right now.

- Let me see what you got going on.

- Absolutely not.

- [Rachel] No.

- Okay, you need me to pick anything up for you?

- I wish I had a Shrek outfit, but,

(Rachel gasps)

(dramatic music)

I mean, a sick outfit.

I wish I had a sick outfit.

(dramatic musical crescendo)

- What did you say?

- I wish I had a sick outfit.

(crew laughing)

- [Rachel] Do you need a snack or something?

Zach could bring you a snack.

(Jonny whispering indistinctly)

(Zach groans)

- Well, I'll see you guys

soon, I guess. - Okay!

- What are you giggling about?

Did I missed some,

did you say something that you weren't supposed to?

- No, I just was thinking about what I want.

- [Rachel] Why are you even calling us, Zach?

- Okay, bye!

- I'm so sorry.

(Rachel laughing)

I'm such a bad surpriser.

- [Rachel] That was probably

the only thing you shouldn't have said.

- Okay, but when you were like,

do you want anything?

I'm like, yeah, what would be good for the reveal?

We gotta give Shrek's cake some cake.

Like, we just want his booty to be popping a little bit.

It looks like he's wearing a cake diaper.

(energetic music)

(Jonny giggling delightedly)

It's so good.

You want it to pop, but you don't want it to be insane.

(Jonny giggling)

Can you see it coming out?

- [Camera Person] It doesn't read so much on camera.

- Okay, it could pop more?

Hang on, let me go get another layer.

(energetic music) (Jonny giggles mischievously)

(Jonny giggles)

That was good, okay.

Oh God, I've got the giggles today!

I mean, that's a juicy ass.

- [Rachel] June and Poppy are gonna die

when I say that's the booty.

- Yeah, remember when you were that age and butts were,

remember that age when you would giggle

every time you heard or thought of butt?

Okay, honestly, this is great; okay.

- [Rachel] Why is his lower back revealed?

- [Jonny] What do you mean?

- [Rachel] I just mean he's a little slutty.

- A little slutty?

Look at this whore.

- [Rachel] How are you feeling?

- I'm feeling okay.

If I can get it done, it's gonna be good;

but it's a matter of like, will I get it done?

(dramatic music)

Gotta be really tender with Shrek's booty.

The lines are not perfect

and that's driving me crazy.

- [Rachel] It's a handmade Shrek.

- Yeah.

- [Rachel] What's the sluttiest outfit you've ever worn?

- [Jonny] I was a Hooters girl for a Halloween once.

(slow rock music)

- [Rachel] It seems about like this, yeah?

(dramatic music)

- I'm really hoping I have time to,

- [Rachel] Decorate the cake?

(dramatic music)

- It's truly alarming

how much better cream I'm using today.

Oh, Zach!

- [Zach] Yeah?

- Zach, Zach, Zach, what a day I've had!

What'd you do today?

- I'm looking at videos of hummingbirds.

- So, I decided you've done so much for me over the years,

I wanted to give you a little gift.

Just a little gift.

- Okay?

- There's one thing you gotta do.

- Okay? - Yeah,

I think you're gonna love what you have to do.

(Zach laughing in confusion)

- Okay?

Okay, my eyes are closed. - Eyes closed, fully closed?

- [Zach] Yeah, they're fully closed.

- 'Cause we gotta walk.

You've tried so hard for something

and been let down time, after time, after time.

And today, the letting down, I hope, is over.

Zach, on the count three,

you're gonna open your eyes, ready?

Three, two, one. (dramatic music)

(Zach laughing incredulously)

Oh, oh my God!

It is huge!

- I wanted to give you

the cake that you never got:

the delicious, juicy, Shrek booty sheet cake.

I wanted to make it vegan

so you could take a bite of Shrek's juicy vegan ass.

- Oh no!

You're gonna make me eat the ass!

- You're gonna have to eat that ass,

and only the ass is vegan.

The rest is just regular cake.

- Oh, so I have to eat the ass - [Jonny] So you cannot,

you are allergic to everything

that is not Shrek's ass.

- I literally have to eat the ass!

He's hot.

The sunglasses are giving Michelle Rodriguez

in the first "Fast and Furious."

I'm a little upset by how hot he is.

- Yeah, he's hot.

- Like this, the kind of the back muscles.

- I know.

- I really, in my wildest dreams,

never expected this.

- Well, I (censored) up, Zach.

- [Zach] What do you mean?

- Well, when you FaceTimeed me halfway through the day

and you said, can you pick me up anything?

I said, I wish I had a Shrek outfit, but,

(Rachel gasping)

Did you not hear that?

- I thought you said "sex outfit,"

and I'm like, what kind of cake is this?

- Well, I also could wear a sex outfit, I guess.

I mean,

- I also don't know what a sex outfit is.

- Right.

- Do we want me to come in from the top,

kind of 69 Spider-Man kiss this ass?

- Yeah, Mary Jane eating Spider-Man's ass upside down.

(Zach cackling)

- [Rachel] Are you gonna put your hands on the cake?

- I think I have to, to,

I think I need to brace myself.

- Go for it big boy.

(crew laughing)

(dramatic music) (Zach squeals)

- [Camera Person] What's wrong? What's wrong?

No, you're doing great.

- Here we go.

This is what I wanted.

(dramatic music)

(crew laughing)

(Zach smacks his lips loudly)

That's a lot of frosting, Jonny.

- Listen, I, (crew laughing)

- Let me, oh boy.

- Yeah, just finger it.

Oh, look at that cookies and, yeah.

Ooh, there's probably a lot of frosting in that part, too.

- Mm-mm.

- [Jonny] Lot of frosting. - [Zach] That's good.

I was a happy big boy.

- Look at that ass!

Shrek had a wild weekend, okay?

- Jonny, you've done it again.

- [Rachel] We've moved on to shooting a new series,

but we're still eating the Shrek cake.

(up tempo electronic music)

- By the way, if we made these skateboards,

we would sell at least four of 'em.