How to Make Looney Cake from Succession (+ Meal fit for a King) | Binging with Babish 

1:24 i love the clarification that the 6 large eggs require their shells removed as opposed to being dumped in the bowl whole

Hearing Babish say "You can't make a Tomlette without breaking a some Gregs" is peak entertainment

The second cake being pretty much the same but ridiculously more expensive perfectly fits the themes of Succession

Conheads rise up

I remember when I was a chef in London and our executive chef the great -name redacted- ordered Fern Verrow strawberries. At the time the most expensive strawberries in England. He ordered an enormous amount of them and we all wondered what he his plan was for them. He flowed into the kitchen later that day and declared we were going to make strawberry jam with them. Undeniably the most expensive strawberry Jam in the UK at the time. We all thought he was mad but man was it delicious.

I love that you used cream and strawberries to decorate the top of the cake. Traditionally here in the UK, a Vicky sponge is dusted with icing sugar (powdered sugar), but it always makes the entire thing feel kind of dry. Your idea is so much better

Hoping for you to at some point do a Coraline special. start with the sauce wraps, then create the circus treats, then the other mothers breakfast, then that large feast she first makes for coraline, mango milkshake included 😊. It’s one of my favorite movies and I think it could make for a fun episode

Andy standing over the batch of burned, posh strawberry jam is too real. I felt that moment in my bones

In my country (Italy), "fancy lemons" are the big ones with thick peel, that we use for limoncello (among other things). They're usually grown in the south. :)

I find the strawberry flavor for these kinds of recipes, especially from high quality strawberries, to be better when you just let them sit in the sugar for a few hours to form a syrup rather than cooking. But otherwise its perfection.

Got a $200 cake and Andrew taking a puke smoothie shower out of today's installment. All in all... Binging with Babish.

He managed to do that milkshake monstrosity less than two full days after the episode aired? That’s an impressive turnaround.

You know Andrew is living that Roy life when he can waste SO MUCH from each strawberry 😢

I’m gonna need a botched episode featuring Sarah snook to get that spit now

I love that the egg shells made it into the Meal Fit For A King! I can't believe you drank that.

Casually watching this as background noise while I make pancakes from a bag mix.

What a show and what an ending. Thanks for making this so fast after last episode! You truly are a king.

What hurt more: scorching the world's most expensive strawberry jam, or dumping a blender full of awfulness and missing the shot cause it was out of focus?

I have nothing to add apart from this was perfect. The fact the fanxy, £200 cake is only marginally better says a lot about the show.

So not that this needs a botched episode, but the next time strawberries are made into jam I would be interested in both the refrigerated gelatin quickset version (my favorite version because I think it preserves the fresh taste of the berries) and the roasted strawberry version (very time intensive but genuinely fascinating to me).

If you do a music episode, you should do prince’s starfish and coffee maple syrup and jam. Butterscotch clouds tangerines and a side order of ham! 😅😊

This is somehow the weirdest but also one of the coolest episodes of this channel.

Request: Cake Flavored Pizza and Pizza Flavored Cake from Gravity Falls?

I'm sure Im not the only one who thought "Man, it'd be a shame if he messed up that 80$ jam..." I feel like I jinxed him 😢

As someone who has a job testing food and dairy products, I appreciate what you did at 4:55

I would really like to learn the proper way to make a french cruller and I dont think that has been done on your channel yet? Always my favorite cooking tutorials come from you and your team :) if you have done crullers could someone point me in the direction? If not i really would love to see it! ❤ love from Pennsylvania

Thank you for always showing your mistakes! It's always nice to see very real moments

I was taught to add raspberry jam to the cake sides (one top and one bottom part) before adding the cream and strawberries and finishing the sandwich. It ensures the cream doesn’t sink into the cake, and makes it too wet.

This show has been in my queue for a while now. I guess I need to get going on it!

You missed a key ingredient! It must cone with a cup of tea 😁 and sprinkles of Greg

Could've gone Amalfi lemons, but finding a neighbor with a tree is probably an even better option.

"Now you're gonna want to plant your strawberries early." -Babish, probably.

The people needed a Meal Fit For a King and the King did provide

Cake #2 was gorgeous. Definitely doing with the less expensive ingredients - but I’ll wait until I have enough fresh strawberries from the garden.

I mean, Mary Berry is fine but using her solely for all of your English dishes is a bit like me making a cooking show and only using Guy Fieri recipes for all American style dishes, please look up Delia Smith and Mrs Beeton

It’s official, babish deserves a raise

Kenmare strawberries from Kenmare, Ireland already taste like strawberry jam without being cooked. I wonder how jam made from them would taste. My grandfather made us pull over at a farmstand to get Kenmare strawberries.

Love Victoria sponge cake, my absolute favourite cake

I just picked the first video that popped up when searching your channel. I just want to say thank you for doing what you do! I love food and I love cooking. I am very new to the game but I will be getting your cookbook soon. Been watching you for years! Tried joining culinary every year in highschool.. never was able to join. But your channel always inspired me. Thank you!!

I never watched Succession but I would like to eat that cake. Speaking of cake when will you come around to making a Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness cake from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic?

Can you do whatever you believe could be Greg Sprinkles? I think that would be an amazing episode!

Please do Skittle Sandwich (Andy’s Mouth Surprise) from Parks and Recreation and the Gummy Breakfast Burrito from Brooklyn Nine Nine!

We all want a 'fit for a king ' smoothie

I'm half-awake and watching this episode was a real experience. I thought I dreamed the ending at first. Even without it, this episode feels like a fever dream. Babish creating a sponge cake called a "Looney Cake" from a movie I have never heard of, remaking the exact same cake out of the most expensive possible versions of the previous ingredients and it turning out exactly the same, the word "macerate," and THEN the extremely cursed ending :D

So astonishing.

Wait…THAT’S HOW YOU MAKE A VICTORIA SPONGE?! My dream of making a Boston cream pie from scratch has become much closer…

This looks very yummy. Id love to try this cake ❤

Anyone else picture Viserys' "crowning" scene from GoT when he poured the blender over his head?

I am truly Impressed by Babish's conviction.

Watching the last episode, I knew we would have to get a meal fit for a king, I just thought we wouldn’t get it so quickly! Bravo and what a bittersweet way to say goodbye to a great tv show

Strategic strawberry strewing.🍓

@Binging with Babish, you must see the timeless Norwegian scetch, " Ante Valente ,Snøscooter Sandwich " Just got flashbacks to the blender on the end .

It goes to show you that just because something has expensive ingredients doesn't mean it's going to be any better tasting.

Best birthday gift ever

Doing this around when succession was ending was definitely perfect timing.

Hey, are you growing hair...? I loved how you said there was no appreciable difference between the two recipes. It's not the cost, it's the taste.

Got to love when someone brags how easy something is then serves a sunk victoria sponge.

Fancy Lemons: What about the Amalfi coast lemons that they make Limoncello out of?

As an English person I was thrilled to hear you mention Mary Berry. However, you did a few things wrong (sorry) for a true Victoria Sandwich. It was traditionally filled with jam only and undecorated. Now buttercream and jam is more common, although I think your cream would be nicer. The main things that had me screaming 'NO' was that in the UK we use self raising flour along with baking powder, which results in a much fluffier, lighter sponge. You used cake flour, but I don't think this has the added raising agent so you would have ended up with firmer, denser sponges. Also, we never tap or shake a Victoria sponge batter with such force. It needs to be treated gently - again denser sponges were your result. I applaud you for making your own jam though :) Please try again using self raising flour and baking powder and don't tap or twist the sponges before baking.

you should tackle that Deluxe Peanut Chicken from Phineas and Ferb, that would be insanely interesting

As a brit this is not how a victoria sponge is made. You mix the butter and sugar together till light and fluffy, then you add in your egg slowly, if it curdles you add in some flour. Once your egg is all in then you add in your baking powder and flour. This is the proper method

The last one reminded me on t e recipe of the whisky cake

Awesome!

2:40 the cake didn't "bake up" with that concave top. It came out fine, you just didn't bother to find out how to properly bake a sponge cake. Tin should be ungreased (the parchment circle at the bottom is necessary though) and the cake should be cooled upside down. A sponge cake is so light that it will collapse in on itself if cooled right side up. Not greasing the tin also allows the cake to rise up nice and tall by clinging to the walls of the tin. So the cake baked up fine (as fine as it could with a greased tin) but it collapsed afterwards. Old babish used to put effort into designing his recipes, even if it was for a jokey episode. This just seems like something that was put together using the first recipe from a recognizable name (Mary Berry's victoria sponge recipe is nuts, could not have picked a worse one)

As soon as I saw the “meal fit for a king” scene, I thought I’d be seeing it here.

Did not expect the end 😂

What a lovely strawberry gateau. When you put cream on the outside, it could no longer be called a Victoria Sponge. Technically a Victoria sponge has no cream in it at all actually, just jam.

Anything Looney is awesome.

The Conheads are gonna love this

Man this episode was *crazy*

Can you make Meemaw’s famous brisket form young Sheldon

I love your dessert videos and would love to see the rumplestiltskin cupcakes from Shrek Forever After and Oeufs a la Jenny from Oliver and Company!!

Easily the best show of the year

😂 props to you for actually tipping it over your head lol

When I saw the meal fit for a king, I was like I can’t wait for Babish to recreate it lol

On a scale of 1-10, how annoyed were you when you realised that the final shot wasn't in focus? 😅

A Mary Berry recipe, you are a man of beautiful taste

Andrew botched the strawberries & Succession botched the finale. Proof that even the best make mistakes!

Best ending to a Babish episode ever

what I want to know is, can you get away with using less sugar? Is 440g too sweet?

I was thinking while watching. That the cost of that one cake. Was equivalent to my monthly grocery budget lol.

Have you made the goose from all quiet on the western front?

The conheads are gonna love this

I’m glad you consulted Her Majesty Mary Berry herself for this. Alternatives for the filling can include but are not limited to any and all jams and lemon curd. Plum and amaretto jam is also delicious.

Great video.

1:16 Whisking and sifting at the same time😂

Babish X Fact Boy(today I found out) would be legendary, food with facts!

Hey babish Victoria sandwich cake were just that a sandwich style cake cut in fingers.

With the upcoming movies for both Metalocalypse and Venture Bros. Metalocalypse Special? I hope to one day see the Babish versions of the meal from the Metalocalypse first episode, your version of "Explosion Sauce", and the Sugar-Crusted, Bacon-Wrapped Chilean Sea Bass Seared in a Platinum Pan.

Hey, Babish. I am one of the subscribers who is enjoying your channel videos. I would like you to do the ‘Korean Walnut Cake’ from the movie ‘Life is Beautiful(2022)’. I really liked that movie and recommend it, along with the recipe that showed up in the movie.

Christ, poor Connor. He deserved so much better.

Please make the Killer Shrew beverage from Mystery Science Theater 3000

That looks YUMMY :)

oh my, when did the berry switch from creaming to all-in-one?

I'd love to see what you could do with soylent green

In place of a fancy lemon, you could always try yuzu?

Odd choice going with whipped cream, i've never had a victoria sponge that didn't have buttercream icing in the middle with the jam, cool vid though dude.

Could you do some food from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel since it’s ending too?

My heart hurt when you burned the $80 batch of jam😮‍💨

Sorry that I missed out on Succession. But, luckily, I do have access to Max, so I should just add it to my list and check it out. Those are some great looking sponges there, but I mostly appreciate the two different ways that they were made. Reminds me of the old days of the channel. Could you please do your own take on the Fiesta Burrito with Chili and Eggs that Dan Aykroyd makes for Robert Stack in the food truck scene from Caddyshack 2?