Pro chef Natasha Pickowicz and home cook Emily are swapping recipes and hitting the kitchen to make chocolate cake. We set Emily up with all the ingredients necessary to make Chef Natasha’s luxurious $449 chocolate cake recipe, sending only $18 worth of stuff back the other way. Will Natasha be able to bake up a storm from Emily’s humble ingredients? Will Emily be able to keep up with Natasha’s restaurant-quality recipe?
Director: Chris Principe
Director of Photography: Francis Bernal
Editor: Misa Qu; Michael Imhoff
Featuring: Natasha Pickowicz
Talent: Emily Duncan
Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Producer: Isabel Alcantara
Culinary Producer: Jessica Do
Culinary Associate Producer: Leslie Raney
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Amanda Broll
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Audio Engineer: Z Jadwick
Production Assistant: Alex Mitchell
Researcher: Vivian Jao
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
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36 Comments
Emily understands those nights when you just NEED CAKE, and this is why I love her.
Who cares. Both will end up In the toilet.
Gosh I just love Natasha!! Can we like get the recipes for the made-up chocolate cake??😅Both cakes looked incredible🤍🤍I’m gonna look in my More Than Cake copy to see if there’s anything similar!
Cake was fine until the random rosemary and fig leaves. I don't want random stuff on my food that isn't meant to be eaten with it.
As someone who is hypersensitive to the smell of roses and can't have caffiene, the cake is lovely. However, I am now craving the cake that chef Natasha made. It looks positively decadent and glorious!
sifting like fairies and the economy i believe in it! hehe Oh emily u are so poetic!
Emily is the best.
Liked the pun emily😂 batter
I am not quite seeing the point in having very a very expensive version of a dish as most of the time it's pointless and doesn't even serve the recipe. Why not simply have ingredients picked by a chef to make their dream version of the meal regardless of the price.
I thought eating flowers was just something Homer Simpson did when hiding in the bathroom 🤨
16:46 Organic does not mean safe to eat, this is such a huge misunderstanding. All organic means is that the produce was not grown with synthetic chemicals. This does not mean there were no pesticides, herbicides, etc. Many organic farmers use organic pesticides, some of which can be as or more toxic than their synthetic counterparts. If you need roses that are edible, you need to actually ask around and seek out edible roses. Just basing edibility off of certain roses being organic is not the sure bet a lot of people think it is.
Emily is so real
3:48 15:53 What's the hate with natasha in the comments, I don't get it? I like Emily too but Natasha it's not that bad she explained everything on point and i took for granted and You hate her for imitation vanilla extract? People got mad of everything
The Hershey chocolate cake recipe on the cocoa box is the absolute hands down best cake recipe ever! Subtract 1/2 cup less powdered sugar for the icing and it's the bees knees as my kids say
I wish they gave us the recipe to enjoy 😢
I'm just waiting for the one time they unveil the finished food and the other chef dead-eyes them and says, "What have you done to my dish?!"
I really don't like this chef 😬
I wanna actually see the pro make their version
I’m so curious about how the more savory elements like olive oil and buckwheat add to the overall flavor. Personally, when I want a decadent chocolate cake, I wouldn’t be tempted by a cake described as “earthy”.
…Just me?
Emilyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
The question is will I see ketchup on chocolate by the end of this video?
Give me 25 $18 cakes over 1 £449 cake any day.
🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰
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No contest.
I think these would be better if they divided up the chef's sections and played them all the way through at one time. It's so hard to keep track of what's going on when they keep switching back and forth.
Emily crying over cake means she's officially reached her Benjamina era – time to apply for Bake Off.
i can do without cussing…
not tasting the rose in the video was a HUGE blunder
is the 449 cake only supposed to be that high?
Organic roses may still have pesticides. Organic doesn't mean anything. They just use naturally derived forms of fertilizers and pesticides instead of lab made version. Which can be less environmentally friendly and more dangerous since they will have multiple compounds in them that are not regulated or well known. Unless something is labeled food grade or edible don't put them on your cake. Same thing with the vanilla bean vs vanilin, vanilin has far less environmental impact.
nice
Day 4 of asking for pro vs pro style video
7:01 Emily should be a level 4 chef for this.
anyone else think the pro-chefs voice sounds like lindsey lohans?
So the roses were the most expensive ingredient. Let's just say that's quite a bit of artificial inflation.
2 Baddies makin a chocolate cake lol
Can you please provide the recipe ingredient measurements?
this might sound weird but emily reminds me of a seal because she is cute and at 3:05 she looks like that video of the seal trying to climb up on to the kayak
Extract?! Phhhft not even madagascar vanilla she extracted herself.