I Baked a PRIME Cake | Food Theory

Ah, our good friend Logan Paul's  back in the news with Prime. To celebrate a billion bottles sold, that's right, a billion with a B, Logan and KSI once again went crazy over  the top in the way that only they can. They decided to create a solid gold  bottle worth half a million dollars. A bottle that was set to self-destruct  unless someone was able to guess the correct number combination  in the case that it was in. The code was guessed and the Prime bottle was won by a lucky young boy whose l

ife got  changed forever by a Prime bottle. Ah, truly we live in a dystopia. Anyway, this whole thing got me thinking, that's no way to celebrate a milestone. I mean, the only true way that you can celebrate something this big is in the  most classic way possible, a cake. So today, Santi and I are challenging  ourselves to make a cake out of Prime. And spoiler alert, it ends up being  exactly the cake that Logan Paul deserves. I can say that it smells  very strong and oddly sour. Hello, Internet

! Welcome to Food Theory,  where today, it's Prime Day. Not Amazon Prime, we are talking Prime Prime. Mr. Super-infused-with-potassium-instead-of-sodium  Rehydration Prime. I know, I know, we've had our fair  share of negative things to say about Logan Paul slash KSI's product in the past, but today, we're putting all our differences  aside to commemorate their billionth bottle. Because honestly, and I gotta  give props where props are due, that is a huge accomplishment,  especially for a YouTub

er-born brand. So, really proud of those guys, even though  I'm not quite proud of their past actions. Anyway, what better way to celebrate than by creating a cake with Prime infused  into every part of the recipe? It's kinda like our Mountain Dew pizza episode,  except this time, it's even less healthy. But today's episode isn't just about  celebration, it's also about hydration. Obviously, Prime Hydration's main  selling feature is that it's meant to replenish your electrolytes and  keep you h

ydrated throughout the day. But what you might not know, and the  problem that we're faced with today, is that baked goods actually dry you out. So today, Santi and I are setting out not just to  challenge ourselves by baking a cake for Prime, but also baking a cake from Prime, in an effort to see if we can create  the world's first hydration cake. It is odd, it is revolutionary, and who  knows, it might just end up being revolting. It looks like we slaughtered a Smurf. But before we dive in, we

need to  first establish what being hydrated is, what about a cake it is that dries us out, and  finally, how Prime could work to counteract that. Once we have those answers, it's just a matter of  whipping it all up and trying it for ourselves, and, um, not to give too much away too soon, but, uh, let's just say the results  are something to be beheld. To start things off, what exactly  does it mean to be hydrated? Well, our bodies need water  for a whole lot of processes. You may have heard t

hat common factoid  that the human body is 60% water, but I feel like that isn't  really enough context for it. To put it a different way, our brain  and heart, they're about 73% water. Our lungs come in at about 83%. Our muscles and kidneys hover around 79%, and our bones? 31% water. A third of your bones are just good ol' H2O yeah! So, now you understand why the human body  can go upwards of 6 weeks without food, but barely 1 without water. We lose it in practically everything we do. Sweating,

exhaling, going to the bathroom. In fact, we lose 2-3 quarts of water,  or just about 12 cups of it, per day. And when we need it for our blood, our  joints, our eyes, skin, digestive system, flushing out toxins, and finding the  will to live on blistering summer days, it's slightly important to  replenish what we're losing. But hydration isn't as simple as  just drinking a bunch of water. You also need electrolytes. Electrolytes is one of those vague words  that we hear about in our day-to-day

lives without much of a second thought, but what these are, in essence, are minerals  in your blood and other bodily fluids that help keep the water inside your  body, the acidity in your blood, and your muscle functioning all in a  very specific state of homeostasis, the state of balance that  your body needs to be in. Electrolytes, which include things  like calcium, sodium, and potassium, are electrically charged and help direct water to the parts of your body that  need it through osmosis.

To bring back the biology class that  we've all tried to shove into the dank, dark corners of our collective minds, water in our body moves from areas of  high concentration to low concentration, and electrolytes basically act as the aircraft  marshallers directing it to the right places. So being hydrated means not just replenishing  water, but also those charged ions, which your body reabsorbs through what's called the sodium-glucose cotransport  system that exists in your gut. As the name sug

gests, that cotransport system  needs glucose, or sugar, to function properly. Without the sugar, we can still absorb the  electrolytes, but we can't do it as efficiently. Cake has sugar, so we should  be halfway to rehydration. Unfortunately for our cause today, too much  sugar ends up having detrimental effects. When your gut absorbs a large amount  of sugar, your body detects this, and in order to maintain homeostasis, your body takes water from your  cells, saliva, tears, and skin in order t

o flood your now sugar-rich blood with  water to try and balance the whole thing out. As a result, you become more dehydrated. Considering that cakes contain  cups and cups of sugar, and the icing on top is also  essentially flavored sugar, this means that cake leaves  us looking like baby prunes. Our hypothesis today, though, is that by introducing Prime  hydration powder into the cake batter, we'll be able to balance out some  of the copious amounts of sugar, helping reintroduce electrolytes i

nto  our bodies so that less water is used to compensate for the sugar that we're eating. Coming up with a recipe for all this,  though, is a bit outside my wheelhouse, which is why I had to call in the help of Santi. That is what I've tasked Santi with  creating for us today, actually, is designing a recipe that uses Prime  hydration beverage as its core base to create the world's first Prime cake. So, I have this wonderful  vanilla cake recipe that I love, and we're gonna take that as  a base

and, uh, build on it. That's a nice way of saying bastardize  it for content, so there you go. I'm trying not to be precious about  it, but it's my recipe. Anyway... Well, it's Logan Paul now. So, what I've seen a couple of  people online do, and mistakenly so, is using Gatorade and Prime and other  hydration beverages to make their baked good, they use the liquid. And the problem is, there's  a lot of water in that, but we're gonna use the hydration  sticks instead of the actual drink. So, that

way we get to keep all the sugars  and electrolytes inside the hydration mix, but also keep all the goodness of the cake? Right, and being able to control  for all the other variables. This, we're getting the pure, I  was gonna say the pure goodness, the pure essence of Prime. Uncut Prime. Uncut, pure Prime. 100% pure Colombian Prime. Right there. Oh, they'll never get that reference. Oh, I'm sure people will understand. Read between the lines. There's another joke. No! That's a good one. So, l

et's get cooking, shall we? Uh, Santi, take me through the  flavors and why we chose them. We're starting off with a vanilla cake base, because obviously we want something that is  plain and easy to build on in terms of flavor. So, we're gonna go with Ice Pop and Lemon Lime for the flavor of the actual  meat of the cake, if you will. Nice carnivore cake. You don't like meaty cakes? Usually not, but sure, we'll go with it. Fair enough. So, for the sponges of the cake, we're gonna go with Ice Pop,

which  is a nice, sweet, tart flavor. The Lemon Lime is a nice, the  lemon really comes through strong. Similar to like a lemon cake, right? And that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to make a cake that's  actually yummy and that you want to eat. Yeah, that you're gonna serve to your next,  like, 15-year-old maverick's birthday party, as opposed to something that we're  just making for the views on YouTube. And then, for the icing, we're going with Blue. Blue Raspberry? Blue. Just Blue.

You know, I said it. I know what I said. Why these three specifically,  just out of curiosity? So, we wanted to try and make  this as normal as possible. The Ice Pop flavor, me and Sam,  thank you, behind the scenes, tried every powder just by itself. Worst experience ever. So sour. Really? Worst experience? I feel  like there's gotta be some, like, worse experiences in your life. Very few. Okay, we're gonna try this now. You're gonna have to take a  good little, like, mouthful. Oh, come on. All

these muscles for no reason! Wow. Hashtag humblebrag. Oh, I'm so muscular! Oh, forgive me, I'm so fit! There we go. Knock that back. This is like a pixie stick. Worst pixie stick you'll ever have. Smells nice. Little bit sour. Little bit salty. You're dead inside. My muscles were involuntarily spasming  for, like, a good 30 seconds after this. Maybe you have too many muscles. I'm not gonna live that down. No, I am never gonna forgive you. Can I hang from your arm? Oh, yeah. Hold me up! Oh, wait

, I'm a lefty. Here, actually try this. I'm curious now.  Can we try this? We're gonna do this. Alright, ready? Okay, here we go. Ready? Oh, God! Okay, you couldn't see it.  His feet were off the ground. Here we go. Got him! So the reason we use ice water... Santi is sweating there a little bit. Honestly, I mean, you're not a light  guy. No, you know, in a great way. In a great way. I'm not used to... You eat your own damn Prime cake. I'm not used to grown men  hanging off my arms anymore. Right

? Maybe that's what it is.  Maybe you can't handle flavor, Santi. You know what? You're right. My palate is so  refined that anything that offensive is just... I love that everyone behind the camera  is just collectively rolling their eyes and shaking their head at  what's going on right now. Let me be on camera. I mean, this seems like an  interesting flavored cake, I will say. It's gonna be a trip for your taste buds. Food Theory so often is. I have tasted some of the strangest  things in my l

ife thanks to this channel. Before we insult my cake that we're gonna make... I'm just saying. We are going to probably insult it, but the cake  itself, and we'll put the recipe down below, it's so good! While Santi takes a minute to mourn his recipe, let me walk you through the  ingredients that we used for the cake. First, we start by cracking  four eggs into the mixing bowl. Then you're gonna add a cup and a half of sugar, and you're gonna gently mix  those for about seven minutes. Once that'

s done, you're  gonna add the dry mixture, which is made of two cups of flour, two and a half teaspoons of baking powder, and a quarter teaspoon of salt. Thanks, Santi. Next, we come to the actual Prime portion. We're gonna be mixing in two  sticks of Ice Pop into one layer, and two of Lemon Lime into the other. Once your eggs and dry  ingredients are all combined, you're slowly gonna be pouring  in some warm milk and butter. We actually tempered our milk by adding in a  small amount of our mixt

ure to help cool it down, so it wouldn't cook the batter as we stirred. That's the goop that you're seeing  right there as Santi pours it in. Once all of that's combined, you're ready to  pour it into the mold and stick it in the oven. Tap, tap. Give me three taps. There you go. Don't do it. Fourth tap, too many? No, fourth tap is way too many. All the air bubbles will  be gone on the fourth tap. You don't get four wishes  from a genie for a reason. I never thought of it that way. You are so rig

ht. It's because of the air bubbles. It's because of the air bubbles. All right, cut to the fancy cam. Woo, fancy cam! We upped the production for this one. Go ahead into the middle rack. He's already preheated at 350. And up. And down. Ready? Three more. Go. One. Two. And, oh, there went my microphone. And that's why you only get  three wishes from a genie. You get three wishes from a genie and two squats. All right. We're going to set it in  there for how long, Santi? 20 to 30 minutes. 20 to 3

0 minutes. There we go. So I guess that's more bonding time for us. Oh, yay! All right, ladies and gentlemen,  20 minutes have elapsed. Our Prime cakes are out of the oven. It looks a lot like sliced ham over there. Like, I can't even. First off, these are some thin boys. Santi, I know we're being health  conscious on the channel right now. We could have made them a little  bit more robusto, I feel like. I wanted to limit how much we  needed to put into our mouths. I don't know, man. I'm eager t

o put this in my mouth. But, right, doesn't this look like a slice of ham? This looks like a slice of ham to me. I mean, we're going to put icing over it. Don't, you know, put that into your head yet. I can say that it smells  very strong and oddly sour. My house now smells like Logan Paul. Please get Logan Paul out of my house. So let's review, shall we? Let's. In this episode, we've arm wrestled,  hung off each other's arms. You've punched me in the stomach. I have. Is this the effect of Logan

Paul? Is this the effect of Prime? This is the machismo that I  feel coursing through my body. Right? It's just, like, gone in through our veins. And now we're just like, ugh, manly men. The most masculine episode of Food Theory. Having completed our little  moment of toxic masculinity, it was time to put the icing together. And that's when it became clear that  it was going to be a rough road ahead. That's very powerful. Interesting. Yeah. We'll see how it all comes together. Santi, can you sh

ow the camera kind  of what's happening in this bowl? No. I think it would be really  fun and exciting if you did. You know what? I hate you all. I'll spare you from what followed, which was 20 minutes of Santi trying to figure  out what exactly went wrong with his icing, which ended up looking a whole lot less  like icing and a whole lot more like sand. So, hi. Welcome back to the kitchen. Santi has made an incredible discovery. And I think we all are equally surprised  by the revelation that S

anti has had. Santi, can you communicate to the  camera the oversight that happened that we've been trying to fix and figure out here? Yes, Matthew. In the week that I was working on these  recipes, both the cake and the icing, one thing that I didn't take into  consideration when making the icing recipe was the actual powder from the hydration  stick being incorporated into the icing. I was more concerned with making the icing itself. Now, finding out the coarseness of the  Prime hydration stic

k is very granulated. It's like drippy sand. This stuff is like kinetic sand. That being said, it tastes like a banger. Texture, hot mess. Just hottest of messes. But from a flavor standpoint,  this is actually pretty good. So, you know. You know what? I tried my best with what I had. What is the one ingredient  that I'm overlooking here? Oh, yeah. The Prime hydration. Slight oversight. Slight oversight. It worked for the cake. I made the cake recipe that  we built upon and it worked. I figured

it would be the  same thing for the icing. You just incorporate some Prime hydration  stick on top of the recipe that you make and it would work out fine. I was wrong. And that, ladies and gentlemen,  is a lesson for us all. Huh. Go figure. Guess that's what happens when you  don't actually use the main ingredient when you're putting together a recipe. What were you expecting, Santi? Let's go down the list of things  that went wrong in this train wreck to try and put the final few nails in the c

offin. That is Santi's dignity. As it turns out, adding an  excessive amount of salt is gonna make your cake sponge insanely dense. This is because salt molecules form  strong bonds with the flour proteins causing the gluten molecules to become less mobile which in turn makes the batter  tighter and more elastic. This is desirable if you're making bread dough but definitely not desirable  if you're making cake batter. And unfortunately for Santi,  we also got the ultra combo with the fact that w

e added 4 grams  of sugar to each half of the cake through those Prime sticks which knocked his precious recipe off balance with way too much sugar thereby contributing more to the  rock-like density of this cake. The icing was something he also didn't expect but luckily for us, Steph stepped  in with the answer that we needed just that she stepped in way too late. Go figure. You see, cake frosting is an emulsion. An emulsion is a mixture of two  liquids that don't normally mix like oil and wate

r but it's stabilized by an emulsifying agent. In this case, the butter and  egg acted as those agents. They helped fuse the fats and the waters together into that delicious delicacy  that we spread all over the cake. The extra salt from the Prime sticks, though, decreased the stability of the emulsifying agents and disrupted the careful  balance of ions in the emulsion causing it to split into the grainy, goopy floam that we ended up with. So, let's see everyone's reactions to this, um, I was g

onna say cake, but uh... So is this done? I mean, like, this is as  close as we've gotten so far. Yes. It looks like we slaughtered a smurf. It has the texture of floam. Nickelodeon floam. However, I will say, it tastes good. It does taste good. It looks... It looks traumatic. But it tastes good. Oh boy. So, what do you say... You kick me while I'm down, why don't you? We put this episode out of its misery by icing ourselves a Prime cake. Please, let's do it. Alright, let's pull out those sponge

s. You know what? I hate Prime. I hate you, Logan Paul. You know what? I hate everything about you. You know what, in the true spirit of Logan Paul, we over-promised and under-delivered. So, the only thing that  we're missing at this point, besides a better cake, is the word Prime. We gotta really hype the brand, you know? Here we go. Let's do it, boys. I'm gonna write prime right here. Oh yeah, look at that. You're gonna throw it on us. Oh, you know it. It's gonna say "Prim." Let's go, boys. Le

t's go, boys. It's our "Prim" cake. Slap that one on a thumbnail and send it to print, ladies and gentlemen. It's our Prime cake. Yo. This is so unhinged. This is it, ladies and gentlemen. The fruits of our labor today. Prime cake. It looks... Man, it is so dense, Santi.. I know. I got forks for all of us. Come on, Steph. You walked into the kitchen at the perfect time. No, you missed the journey. No. You can't judge off of nothing. Oh, she is absolutely gonna judge. Oh. Oh, wow. That has a firm

ness I am not accustomed to. Prime may be supposed to hydrate, but this cake is deeply not hydrated. Let's go down the line, shall we? Sam? This is disgusting. Okay. Steph? I wouldn't feed this to a dog. Ash, how about you? How was your Prime cake experience? So, I like that it's an experience, right? You would. What a Gen Z thing to say. And for me, honestly, similar to Ash, it's not a good cake. It's an interesting cake. Oh, for sure. You know, I dig the ride. Yeah. Have we succeeded today in

making a cake that is gonna hydrate you  after your day at the gym? Absolutely not. Have we succeeded in making a cake at all? Absolutely not. But you know what? We had fun making it. And I have a feeling this one is gonna go down in Food Theory history with bread gloves. And I made cookies out of sawdust. Let me close and end Santi's  pain and suffering here by saying thank you all for joining us on this magical journey. Wait, does that say "Prim"? And remember, that's just a theory. A Food The

ory. Bon appetit! Before we go, I wanted to  give an extra special thanks to today's sponsor, air up. I'm not exaggerating when I say I went off camera right after the shoot and  chugged my entire air up bottle to get the taste of that cake out of my mouth and desperately rehydrate. Obviously, after all the sugar I ate in this cake and the floam frosting, the last thing I needed was a sugary drink. So with air up, I was just able  to pop on the wild berry pod to give me a hint of flavor  with no

ne of the drawbacks. So I was able to give my bones the water that they had definitely lost  throughout this experience. And hey, if you decide to make  this cake for your loved ones or your enemies this holiday season, you can always take the  guesswork out of gift shopping by complimenting that cake  with their own air up bottles. Trust me, they will be ecstatic to bust them open and start chugging away. And you'll come out winning by  saving 30% on their holiday bundles. Create the demand of

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friends, I'll  see you in the next episode. Hopefully it tastes a little  bit better than this one.