When people feel truly inspired in the kitchen, the result can be wonderful, delicious dishes, but things can get even better. These Reddit users have shown that it’s not just the flavor and quality of the cakes that matter, but their decorated cakes too, and they absolutely nailed it!
A Cake To Lift Your Spirits
Reddit user 3ndler revealed that the day she baked that cake, her boyfriend had broken up with her. She mentioned that that chocolate cake was the best she ever tasted. It was super moist and the frosting was perfect too. The ingredients for the cake were cocoa powder, corn flour, double cream, milk, egg yolks, soft light brown sugar and salt.
Penguin Cake
Reddit user Positive_Method_373 mentioned that her husband wanted a penguin cake, so she made an attempt and this was the result. She added that inside the cake there is red velvet and French vanilla with vanilla icing and when she was finishing the outside of the cake, while doing the beak and the feet, she ran out of piping bags.
Halloween Cake
Reddit user Green-Cockroach-8448 revealed that she is a huge fan of baking cakes for Halloween, and she has been baking since 2022. She also mentioned that she just bakes for fun and sometimes she sells them to friends or family if they ask her to. For the pumpkins, she used candy melts in silicone molds but pointed out that white chocolate would also work and then you can color it with oil-based colors.
Girlfriend’s Comic Cake
Reddit user Tox_Vampire revealed that every time he or some member of the family has to cut into the cake, nobody wants to because it will ruin it. He expressed that they have to convince someone to cut it for us. He also mentioned that it’s mind-boggling to see one of these in real life and that 100% of the cake is edible.
Baked a Birthday Cake For Myself
Reddit user Green-Cockroach-8448 revealed that she was longing for one of these decorated cakes of strawberry for so long that she figured that her birthday was a great excuse to make one, but in the end she swapped the strawberry for the raspberry. She mentioned: “The fillings are cream cheese icing, raspberry filling, and then between the middle and top cake layer is more cream cheese icing and a raspberry cheesecake layer.”
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Pond Ducks Cake
Reddit user Green-Cockroach-8448 revealed that what made her start baking decorated cakes as a hobby was one Mother’s Day, so when that date came and her mother was out of town, she felt wrong not to make a cake for herself. She added: “I made a rainy duck cake for myself that is made of layers of snickerdoodle with pecan pie filling, whipped cinnamon cream and cheese mascarpone frosting.”
Highland Cow Cake
Some of the Reddit users commented that to make one of these decorated cakes “it would be easy to make the fur in these animals but really time consuming”. And another user, such as MaxOrbita noted: “The attention to detail on the fringe and horns is incredible. You can tell how much patience went into piping all that ‘hair’.”
Amazon Box Cake
Reddit user iamnotchris decided to make an Amazon delivery box cake for a family member that was retiring from UPS, the rivalry business delivery service of Amazon. She revealed that inside was raspberry filling and that she could have used less of the buttercream but the reason for it was that she was afraid of it leaking out.
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Squirrel Coffee Roll Cake
Reddit user pinkastrogrill revealed that she made a squirrel coffee roll cake because of a video with a recipe she had seen on social media. She also added: “The cookie is pate Sablee almond biscuit with coffee sponge and vanilla Chantilly cream. It got really pillowy and delicious.”
Van Gogh’s Starry Night Cake
Reddit user Barbi0za revealed that she had thousands of sprinkles and a pair of tweezers, so she came up with the idea that she could recreate the famous painting of Van Gogh, ‘The Starry Night’ but in one of these decorated cakes. The result was a cherry and almond flavored sweet treat that some users really appreciated by complimenting her because of her patience and attention to detail.
Shrek Cake
Reddit user iamnotchris revealed that the students at the school he worked at were doing a Shrek musical for the spring event, so he volunteered to make one of these decorated cakes for their cast party and this was the result. He added: “The cake is made of a 12-inch base, 16″ cake drum, the head is made out of a hemisphere cake covered 50% in modeling chocolate and 50% of a fondant mix and I had to 3D-printed a mold for the base of the face and then sculpted out the details.”
Mimic Cake
Reddit user Thimians revealed that for his 40th birthday he decided to make one of these decorated cakes, a Mimic one for himself. The filling of this piece of art was blood orange mousse, caramel mousse, and toasted meringue buttercream frosting, he mentioned. And for the tongue he pointed out that it is just fondant and coloring, but you have to make the shape and let it dry.
Rat Process Cake
Reddit cakerycat mentioned that one of these decorated cakes is a chocolate one with buttercream and pink fondant. She also revealed that she was genuinely scared of making this cake last minute for one of her clients but somehow she pulled it off. Finally, she expressed: “I wish I had taken more photos in the process of decorating, but I was rushing too much.”
Reddit user Green-Cockroach-8448 had made many contributions to this list, and in this case it is about a lemon raspberry cake that she made for her birthday. She remarked: “The crumb was really light and moist, and had the perfect amount of lemon.”
Dog Shaped Cake
Reddit user Aggressive-Sundae885 revealed that this dog-shaped cake was for a person who had a very look-alike pet and also mentioned that her coworkers thought it was a cake for a dog. She also pointed out that the filling was made of vanilla buttermilk with strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream.
Non-Baker Cars’ Cake
Reddit user 7babydoll revealed that she is not a professional baker or even an amateur one, but this was “honest work.” She mentioned that this cake was for a 27-year-old man who asked for a Cars cake as a joke, and added: “I’ve never before made an elaborate cake shaped like anything other than cake, so this vanilla sponge cake with strawberry, mascarpone layers and Swiss meringue buttercream was pretty crazy.”
Chocolate Tiramisu Cake
Reddit user Green-Cockroach-8448 revealed that inside the chocolate cake there is mascarpone cream and homemade dipped ladyfingers, while the outside is chocolate espresso frosting. She also mentioned that she wanted to make a vintage style chocolate cake and having some cake layers and ladyfingers leftover was a great excuse to make it.
‘Sponge’ Cake for Halloween
Reddit user Taicho116 revealed that he dressed up as ‘Mr. Clean’ for Halloween and then he came up with the idea of ‘sponge’ cakes to share. He added: “The cake is a pound cake recipe, with buttery and rich, with the flavor of shortbread cookies but still tender and light as a feather.” It’s made of 3 1/4 cups of white sugar, 3/4 pound of unsalted butter, 6 extra large eggs, 2 tbsp of pure vanilla extract, 3 cups of all-purpose flour, 1/2 tbsp of baking powder, 1/2 tbsp of salt, 1/4 tbsp of ground nutmeg and 1 cup of 1% milk.
First Attempt at Decorating a Cake
Reddit user ConsciousAd3109 revealed that her husband was the one who adorned one of these decorated cakes, and it was his first time doing it. When some of the users’ comments pointed out that he had lied to her or the post was a joking one, she replied: “I swear it was his first attempt! He’s just a perfectionist and used to extreme hand precision because of his hobbies.”
Hungry Caterpillar Cake
Reddit user alwaysiamdead revealed that the only things she knows how to bake are cakes for her children. One of this decorated cakes was for her daughter’s 4th birthday, a very hungry caterpillar. She added: “I prepared it with absolutely non-professional method, just iced it with a lighter green, and then took a spatula and wiped lines of darker green across, it blended and I just worked it until I got the same texture I wanted.”
Conclusion
Many bakers say that slicing and eating the cake is part of the baking experience. So, no matter how stunning the cake looks, as is the case with all these decorated cakes, you have to bring yourself to complete the process. After all, how will you know if it truly has the flavor you were looking for? You simply have to taste it, and you won’t regret cutting into these magnificent decorated cakes.
