Omg Anyone Watching The Bobby Flay Throwdown?
Decorating By LukeRubyJoy Updated 15 Aug 2006 , 5:17am by cakearoni
Anyone watching the Bobby Flay throwdown with wedding cake? OMG, I don't feel so bad now! Okay, commercial is almost over.....I am on the east coast, so ya'll on the west, get ready!! 
That's a repeat...it was on a month ago or longer and there was a thread or maybe 2 about it then. Do a search in forums for Bobby Flay or Throwdown and it should turn up so you can read about it. I do think Bobby has a lot more respect for wedding cake designers now 
Sorry, I didn't see it before, and was excited. Sorry for being redundant. I will read the other threads.
here is the winning recipe
Cinnamon Vanilla Wedding Cake with Mexican Hot Chocolate Buttercream
Michelle Doll
Mexican Hot Chocolate Buttercream:
500 milliliters egg whites
800 grams granulated sugar
900 grams unsalted butter, room temperature
250 grams white chocolate, melted and cooled
250 grams dark chocolate, melted and cooled
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons sweet ancho chile pepper
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Cinnamon Vanilla Cake:
2 sticks butter
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Mexican Hot Chocolate Buttercream:
Combine the egg whites and sugar in a stand mixer bowl and whisk to combine. Place bowl over simmering water while whisking regularly until the mixture reaches 140 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer and the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove bowl from heat and whip the mixture at medium to high speed until the meringue has cooled almost completely.
Slowly add the room temperature butter piece by piece until the buttercream takes on a cottage cheese consistency. Add the melted cooled chocolates, spices, and vanilla until incorporated and smooth.
Cinnamon Vanilla Cake:
Cream the butter in a stand mixer until smooth and light. Add sugar and continue to mix until fully incorporated and fluffy.
Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. In a medium bowl sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine milk and vanilla. Add portions of the flour mixture and milk mixture to the electric mixer, alternating, starting and ending with flour. Pour evenly into 2 buttered and floured 9-inch cake pans.
Bake for 40 minutes or until golden - cake should pull away from the side and spring back to the touch.
Frost cake and decorate as desired.
This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.
This is from the foodnetwork website - sounds really good to me
Here is a link to the other thread:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-32251-bobby.html+flay%2A
Bobby Flay's Wedding Cake Throwdown was on Food Network the first time on July 13, one month ago tomorrow.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't realize it had aired, (or even existed, for that matter).
Frankly, it's hit or miss with me and TV programs. I don't read the TV section of the paper, and the only channel line-ups I have memorized are Noggin, Nick Jr., and PBS Kids. I like this new "throwdown" program with Flay, it makes him seem more human and not so arrogant (just my opinion). Thanks for the recipes dianagreen, boy that really sounds good.
I also find searching for topics to sometimes be tedious here.....So many threads with extremely similar topics.....kind of like googling "how do I make red fondant?" There are like 1,000,000 answers...kidding, probably only 5,425. 
I am enjoying this site, love it, but still have a lot to learn about abbreviations and such.....so, I apologize in advance for any newbie stupidness that I display! 
Don't worry about not knowing about the previous "thread" about the show. Not everyone knows it was all ready on, and not everyone has time to sift through all of the forums that are on this website!!!! So what you repeated something already posted. I have a hard time finding things too. You have to go through all the pages to find what you are looking for. I did not get the see the throwdown, but maybe get to catch it on reruns. One last thing, you are not stupid!!!!!! have a good day
I haven't yet seen that episode but really wanted to see it. But ya the show really puts him in his place sometimes. I saw the chili throwdown kind of put him in his place. But we are all human and sometimes we think we know it all. But we all believe in ourselves and we should and sometimes egos get in the way. But I do like watching flay and food network. One of my other fav. passions cooking. On my tv right now is flay doing chowder throwdown. Haven't seen it yet either. So I gotta go watch it. And I haven't yet searched to much on this sight so I thought it was on right now also so stumbled on the chowder show thanks cause I haven't seen it yet.
LukeRubyJoy, it was never my intention to make you feel stupid or even silly for posting this thread. I only offered info on a thread to read about the show. Of course no one has time to see every TV show which is on, nor does anyone have the entire schedule memorized. My apologies for any offense, as none was intended.
I wonder why some folks assume an offer of information is meant as an insult... 
The show just got over and ya that was a good show. But You know if the cake tastes good it doesn't matter how it looks. But again his ego got him. So if you don't think it looks good if it tastes good that is what they remember that is all that counts. My family tells me that all the time. Presentation is good but taste is what matters. Her taste and presentionwere both good. It was a very pretty cake.
This was my first time seeing it also. The chiles and cayenne in the buttercream throw me though. I don't know if I would attempt something like that.
did anyone else notice that she used the method I prefer for stacked cakes???
instead of a central dowel hammered in from top
she used a dowel frimly attached to base board w/ point at top and lowered her layers over it.
to me this makes for a much more stable cake.
of course, it requires the support boards to be pre-drilled dead center for the hole but that isn't all that hard to do -- if you look at my plastic separator plates, they've all got a hole in them dead center (which wilton sold them premade that way!)
I finally got a chance to see it over the weekend. Was not one of the better ones. First of all, who cuts fresh roses and just sticks them directly in the icing?! 
What I found funny was that girl seemed very nervous that he would win, like it would destroy her wedding cake business - not! Just goes to prove, folks love the look of a fondant wedding cake but, as one "judge" said, the simple buttercream ones are the cakes folks just want to jump into! The think I hate to hear from people is that "it looks too pretty to cut"! Just cut it and eat a piece already! 
I knew this show aired last month but hadnt set my TiVO for it until AFTER so I was very happy to have captured it (gripe: the description just says series and you have to watch the opening of each one) now that Ive seen it Ive cancelled the TiVo request (dont really care much for Bobby, but adore Alton and am looking forward to Duff)
Anyway...Michelle's was picture perfect...just like what we all want to do. Bobby was banking on the taste (as he admitted) since he had never made a wedding cake before. But what I thought interesting was that even though Bobby only had a very basic plan/design (rosette, coconut, rose bud, dragee, repeat) it was NOT horrendous, it was ever pleasant, nice. Something a small, casual wedding party could get by with--which I think proves that even though we may be nervous or doubt our own abilities, our work-- looked at in its entirety, on the cake table-- may be just fine
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