25TH ANNIVERSARY OF FFT (2022)

June 20, 2022 (♊︎︎︎)

A replica of the fine cake Ch. 4 Ramza serves us all. Baked to celebrate the game's 25th anniversary of its Japanese release. Made with copious amounts of milk.

A cake in the shape of Ramza Beoulve's ass as it appears in Chapter 4 of the game

RECIPE

For those of you who wish to reproduce and consume Ramza's butt at home, here's the milk-intensive recipe I used. Adapted from Taste of Home's hot milk cake recipe and Cooking with Carlee's buttercream recipe.

For the cake:

4 eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 1/4 cups whole milk
10 tbsp. butter (1 and 1/4 sticks)

For the Russian buttercream:

2 sticks butter, room temperature
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

For the American buttercream:

2 sticks butter, room temperature
3 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 tsp meringue powder
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk

Directions for the Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease one 9" cake pan and a standard bread pan. Gently whisk together baking powder and flour in a large bowl.

2. Beat eggs in a stand mixer using the paddle attachment until they are thick and yellow. Gradually add sugar and vanilla, and continue mixing until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add in the flour and baking powder mixture.

3. Heat milk and butter in a small saucepan until the butter is just melted. Gradually add into batter until just combined. Pour into pans and bake until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Directions for the Russian Buttercream:

1. Beat butter in a stand mixture for no less than 8 minutes with a whisk attachment.(It should become very light and fluffy.

2. Gradually add sweetened condensed milk, 1/4 of a can at a time, until the buttercream takes on a frosting-like consistency.

Directions for the American Buttercream:

1. Whisk together sifted sugar and meringue powder.

2. Beat butter in stand mixer with whisk attachment and gradually add in sugar/meringue powder mixture until light and fluffy. Slowly add in sweetened condensed milk.

Assembly: Stack smaller cake from loaf pan on top of larger cake from cake pan and sculpt cake until it resembles the juicy behind of a 1990s JRPG protagonist. Use the thinner, silkier Russian buttercream between the cakes and as a crumb layer. Chill until firm. Cover with an additional coat of American buttercream and chill again, waiting until the tougher crusting buttercream has set such that you may gently shape and smooth the cheeks as you see fit (I used both a table knife and a fondant smoother with some parchment paper). Decorate with fondant, gumpaste, modeling chocolate, or additional buttercream to outfit the cake with an impractical leather thong.

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