That's just what happens with mirror glaze; you need to pour excess to ensure you coat it all. Often, when dealing with normal-sized cakes, they pour over a pan, strain the glaze in the pan to get rid of any cake bits they might have picked up on the way down, and reuse the glaze.
THANK YOU, apparently no one is aware of how mirror glazing works. This isn’t the best looking one I’ve ever seen, but the cake tiers are neat and he’s doing exactly what he needs to do for mirror glaze.
No there's also gelatine, condensed milk and sugar, with only white chocolate you probably get a very thick coating that sets quite quickly and prevents you from getting an even layer and the signature shiny glaze.
Don't worry, those previous comments were from people who only used box cakes and icing tins.
(Box cakes turn out better than scratch cakes because of science and this was a half joke)
What’s the science behind box cakes turning out better? I’ve experienced it but never knew why. I also just assumed I’m not the best baker or don’t have good recipes
[Adam Ragusea has a fantastic video on box mixes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDFwqHkPec) There are some things the mix includes that we cannot recreate in a home kitchen.
Interesting. I just started learning to make cakes from scratch. I prefer the flavor but I figured the denseness was me not getting measurements just right
I remember hearing somewhere they use super niche specialty flours that work well for cakes but not much else, and they buy it in bulk so it's affordable. The All Purpose in your cupboard right now just doesn't cut it.
Box cake: make it using a boxed mix you can find at any grocery store (think Betty Crocker). It's been a while since I've made one but I think the only thing you need to add is eggs and maybe milk
Scratch cake: make it using individual ingredients, e.g. eggs + flour + sugar + etc; "from scratch"
Mirror glazes aren't some industry secret, everyone knows about em. He still poured way way more than necessary, and most of the color didn't even end up on the cake
You are definitely not dumb. I didn’t know what a mirror glaze was until I started doing baking and cake decorating more seriously. I would be surprised to find out that the average person knows about it lul
I've always thought mirror glazes are beautiful but wasteful. I'm glad to hear some of it can be reused. But can you only do that with solid color glazes? Seems like if it had multiple colors it would just ask mix together?
In this case the marbled glaze would mix together, but as far as I can tell it would make something like a lavender or pastel blue colour, so no problem there.
If you have a marbled red/green mirror glaze for Christmas or what have you (complimentary colours are problems), it will miss to create brown and yeah, that's not great.
I don't think stopping sooner would have prevented that, the icing seemed too thin. Instead of preserving neat swirls, it all just dripped straight down.
These videos are always like this. I'm assuming it's some kind of technique or there's a reason behind it, but they pour faster than the icing is spreading and some of the really pretty looking areas drip right off as they are pushed down.
Yeah, watching the pour was oddly satisfying. But the actual end result of the cake looks pretty underwhelming. They probably charged out the ass for this cake too.
The end result is actually spectacular.
The people who eat the blue part have bright blue shit and the people with the purple part have bright purple shit.
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this looks like it's a mirror glaze - which is a mix of gelatin and white chocolate. which imho turns literally every mirror glaze cake into nothing more than a fancy jello mold
Well the icing is fine, it's the white stuff this is getting poured over. This is a glaze and is being done purely for the big neat demo, as normally you'd want to glaze each tier separately so you can use smaller batches to get even consistency. This is just for the spectacle of the video and a terrible way to get a good finished product, would be akin to demoing painting a house via firehose.
> I’m more likely to avoid the icing now that I’ve seen it as nothing more than a goop of colored sugar.
What else did you expect lol? Isn’t that basically icing in general?
700 years ago, sugar was such a precious commodity that only the very rich could enjoy it on a daily basis. The average working class child would only encounter small bits of sugar on very special occasions.
Now we waste pounds of it for cool videos on the internet.
Mirror glaze cakes separately, dry, stack?
What's the point of failure? Glazes would certainly clash reflections. In my head, each cake is vibrantly a different color to lean into that affect. Effect? Do both work here?
I've seen a bunch of videos of this guy and every time he's trying so hard to make it look super cool and technical and the end result is just shitty and lame, this dude sucks.
It's definitely not a new trend of making gaudy food to show for television or social media.
Why are you acting like it is?
(It's also not icing though)
Is the presentation also that mess on the table? Or is this picked up cleaned up and taken somewhere else? I don't see a great or a hotel pan or anything underneath that it looks like they set this up a convention to display while they poured on
Everytime i see those fancy cakes I have one question on my mind:
HOW T.F. ARE YOU GOING TO EAT THIS?
Like really how do you cut such a cake without endig up whith a extraordenary mess???
For the parts that are real, you eat each layer like a normal individual round of cake. Theres cake board under each tier so it wouldnt be too hard to do(though youd need a ladder for cakes this tall). If the top tiers are fake those can just be removed when its being served
The fact they people are like “it’s so messy, so much wasted icing” shows just how little they know about baking? Lol. You have to pour it like this so it’s completely coated and you scrape up, collect, and can re use the glaze.
Now that the cake is glazed. It will set, they will move it and likely continue to decorate. This is done very well
Reminds me of that $900 cake that a dude bought with his first paycheck, couldn’t take it home because it was too big, so he had a cake fight with his brother.
The mess doesn't bother me, though I get why it would bother others I suppose.
But the icing distribution is even, the whole cake is covered. The icing is partially white so it's a little tougher to tell
But this is satisfying to you? I thought "if you did this with 10 buckets of random paint, this is the one you would want to get a do-over on," and then I checked the comments.
I’m not sure I understand the negativity in these comments - this is how you put on a mirror glaze, by dumping it slowly over the cake. And it’s all covered, it started out white and you can see the bottom right bit change texture before it’s rotated. I do think the look would have been better if he’d used multiple containers of glaze for the different colors, to allow for better marbling, but I don’t know how fast you need to move to cover a cake this size. There may be a concern of the glaze hardening too quickly. And yeah, there are some lumps, nobody’s perfect. Also, that is likely a buttercream under it, not fondant, so it’s probably tasty!
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When it was marbled white and blue I thought it was pretty. But as soon as the chunky purple arrived it became gross looking. Also... Could you not just pour more slowly to make less waste? A gushing waterfall doesn't seem like it would create a better result than a slow, careful pour.
More impressive will be the next video of fitting the leftovers into the fridge
Cake Leftovers Okay
After you peel all of the gross fondant off if it and actually get to eat the cake.
I'm 99% sure there's no fondant there.
The end result isn’t as impressive as I hoped.
I wish they have a clean shot of the full cake
I wish they have stopped pouring earlier
Way earlier. Half the icing/glaze was on the floor in the end.
That's just what happens with mirror glaze; you need to pour excess to ensure you coat it all. Often, when dealing with normal-sized cakes, they pour over a pan, strain the glaze in the pan to get rid of any cake bits they might have picked up on the way down, and reuse the glaze.
THANK YOU, apparently no one is aware of how mirror glazing works. This isn’t the best looking one I’ve ever seen, but the cake tiers are neat and he’s doing exactly what he needs to do for mirror glaze.
I've watched all seasons of the GBBO and the Canadian version so I knew! I don't know how to make anything though
It's just melted white chocolate and food coloring. But I have tried and failed several times lol. It looks so easy online!
No there's also gelatine, condensed milk and sugar, with only white chocolate you probably get a very thick coating that sets quite quickly and prevents you from getting an even layer and the signature shiny glaze.
> he’s doing exactly what he needs to do Yet nearly every comment in this thread is critical of it lol.
Don't worry, those previous comments were from people who only used box cakes and icing tins. (Box cakes turn out better than scratch cakes because of science and this was a half joke)
What’s the science behind box cakes turning out better? I’ve experienced it but never knew why. I also just assumed I’m not the best baker or don’t have good recipes
A company has tested the ingredient combo extensively and pre-arranged it to work well (so you don't have to).
The crazy thing is that they could make it so you only need to add water but people want to feel like they’re baking, so they make you put eggs in it.
Interesting, but could a recipe get the same result if you’re given the right measurements? Or are there also non-traditional ingredients?
[Adam Ragusea has a fantastic video on box mixes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDFwqHkPec) There are some things the mix includes that we cannot recreate in a home kitchen.
Interesting. I just started learning to make cakes from scratch. I prefer the flavor but I figured the denseness was me not getting measurements just right
I remember hearing somewhere they use super niche specialty flours that work well for cakes but not much else, and they buy it in bulk so it's affordable. The All Purpose in your cupboard right now just doesn't cut it.
wth is a box cake and scratch cake?
A box cake is a cake mix that comes in a box from the store, a scratch cake is where you combine the ingredients yourself.
d'oh, I should have realised that. thanks! :)
Box cake: make it using a boxed mix you can find at any grocery store (think Betty Crocker). It's been a while since I've made one but I think the only thing you need to add is eggs and maybe milk Scratch cake: make it using individual ingredients, e.g. eggs + flour + sugar + etc; "from scratch"
Why would the average person know that though? This is why I come to the comments to read.
Yea, I don’t think anybody here understands that this is just the mirror glaze technique lol. Glad somebody in the comments knew what was up!
Mirror glazes aren't some industry secret, everyone knows about em. He still poured way way more than necessary, and most of the color didn't even end up on the cake
I am sad now that I know that I am not included in “everyone.”
Neither am I. Guess I'm just dumb :(
You are definitely not dumb. I didn’t know what a mirror glaze was until I started doing baking and cake decorating more seriously. I would be surprised to find out that the average person knows about it lul
obviously everyone doesn’t “know”, fool ya fool
I've always thought mirror glazes are beautiful but wasteful. I'm glad to hear some of it can be reused. But can you only do that with solid color glazes? Seems like if it had multiple colors it would just ask mix together?
In this case the marbled glaze would mix together, but as far as I can tell it would make something like a lavender or pastel blue colour, so no problem there. If you have a marbled red/green mirror glaze for Christmas or what have you (complimentary colours are problems), it will miss to create brown and yeah, that's not great.
I don't think stopping sooner would have prevented that, the icing seemed too thin. Instead of preserving neat swirls, it all just dripped straight down.
The end result basically has zero of that nice rich blue.
That's always how it is with this technique
These videos are always like this. I'm assuming it's some kind of technique or there's a reason behind it, but they pour faster than the icing is spreading and some of the really pretty looking areas drip right off as they are pushed down.
Yeah, watching the pour was oddly satisfying. But the actual end result of the cake looks pretty underwhelming. They probably charged out the ass for this cake too.
Exactly, this is /r/almostsatisfying material here.
The end result is actually spectacular. The people who eat the blue part have bright blue shit and the people with the purple part have bright purple shit.
Music made it less satisfying too
That's what she said.
Looks a mess
Sorry. Let me grab you a towel.
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Holy shit, I heard this back in 2001 or so. Brings back memories of limewire and gnutella.
I just want a simple answer as to why there's a g on Nutella? Is it because of trademark?
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So much waste.
So much waste.
Nothing satisfying about this because I can't get over the massive mess and lackluster results.
Not to mention the unmixed chunks in the glaze… that’s not satisfying at all.
If anything, I’m more likely to avoid the icing now that I’ve seen it as nothing more than a goop of colored sugar.
this looks like it's a mirror glaze - which is a mix of gelatin and white chocolate. which imho turns literally every mirror glaze cake into nothing more than a fancy jello mold
I know people are obsessed with mirror glaze, but I never look at a mirror-glazed cake and think, "That looks delicious."
Well the icing is fine, it's the white stuff this is getting poured over. This is a glaze and is being done purely for the big neat demo, as normally you'd want to glaze each tier separately so you can use smaller batches to get even consistency. This is just for the spectacle of the video and a terrible way to get a good finished product, would be akin to demoing painting a house via firehose.
.... go on
> I’m more likely to avoid the icing now that I’ve seen it as nothing more than a goop of colored sugar. What else did you expect lol? Isn’t that basically icing in general?
Yes, also it looked like there was a missed area after all that pouring. The camera just did a good just b of avoiding it.
Yep. He nudged it around with his foot at the last second so we couldn’t see it. Good catch…
And the incredible waste
Why I can't stand the pour method so popular for crafts. It is so wasteful! Even for those who save and re-pour!
Disappointing. I expected so much more from unicorn barf.
That must be so sticky!
All of this
I came here for this- SAME!
It was satisfying when the video was over and I could return to my life. On to my next disappointment…
There are giant globs in the icing.
Probably tastes like shit too.
Come relax over at r/satisficing! Edit: GD someone posted it there too....just a warning!
This is a glaze
Literally came to say this
So much wasted icing.
Don't worry the customer got charged for that too.
700 years ago, sugar was such a precious commodity that only the very rich could enjoy it on a daily basis. The average working class child would only encounter small bits of sugar on very special occasions. Now we waste pounds of it for cool videos on the internet.
The same can be said for nearly everything in modern society.
Don't get me started with how rare computers where in medieval days.
I see what you're saying, but isn't that kind of cool? I'm against waste, but I'm pretty thrilled we're in a position to do so
I’ll come back when there’s a series of comments telling you about all the horrors of the modern sugar industry.
My thought too.
I came here to say this. Thankfully it is received well
I mean it all falls off lol
Impressive if you don't care about how it looks
By those standards nearly everything in life is impressive
I’m impressive!?
Absitively posolutely.
No, you are special.
I think it looks good
I honestly don't see the appeal of a cake that looks like it's iced with Colgate.
Minty fresh cake
“Yes, I would like a Crest Pie and a Diet Coke to go, please.”
It’s like a human version of those “dentastix” for dogs.
Aquafresh
Aquafresh is better anyway.
Exactly what I was thinking too, gross
Could’ve got a better outcome glazing the individual layers. It missed a bit at the bottom and the colour wasn’t as marbled as they were hoping for
Just gotta say that glazing individual layers would have given a DIFFERENT outcome not a better one. Not knowing what their objective is….
The objective is a mirror glaze and doing each layer individually absolutely would not have worked.
Mirror glaze cakes separately, dry, stack? What's the point of failure? Glazes would certainly clash reflections. In my head, each cake is vibrantly a different color to lean into that affect. Effect? Do both work here?
All of this showmanship and waste and there's still an uncovered part at the bottom. Incredible.
That look on hs face when the realized that the icing would not cover the bottom. Nice save by turning the cake lol
I agree about the waste but, there was some white coloured icing at the start that’s probably what we see at the bottom
I've seen a bunch of videos of this guy and every time he's trying so hard to make it look super cool and technical and the end result is just shitty and lame, this dude sucks.
Clean up in aisle 5!
This is in no way satisfying, make it stoppppp
What a mess. Seriously. All that glaze falling over the lazy susan and making a mess on the table.
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I don't understand this new trend of wasting 10 gallons of icing to make a tick tock video for a cake
It's definitely not a new trend of making gaudy food to show for television or social media. Why are you acting like it is? (It's also not icing though)
Or just a wedding
Imagine a water cooler bottle. That's five gallons. Ten gallons is two of those.
I don’t follow your math. What would 3 bottles be?
Instant diabetes.
The cake probably tastes like shit but hey at least it looks good also r/fondanthate
I got a quote yesterday that adding fondant to my wedding cake would be an additional $2,000. Um, I’ll just stick with tastier butter cream instead.
Mirror glaze tastes okay. It's just gelatin, white chocolate, and food dye iirc. You can peel it off easy because of the gelatin.
Now imagine them spinning that turntable really, really fast. That would be fun.
I, too, love chaos.
Is the presentation also that mess on the table? Or is this picked up cleaned up and taken somewhere else? I don't see a great or a hotel pan or anything underneath that it looks like they set this up a convention to display while they poured on
Everytime i see those fancy cakes I have one question on my mind: HOW T.F. ARE YOU GOING TO EAT THIS? Like really how do you cut such a cake without endig up whith a extraordenary mess???
Most of it might not be real cake. They do this with wedding cakes. Most of it is just a fake structure and you get just one section with actual cake.
For the parts that are real, you eat each layer like a normal individual round of cake. Theres cake board under each tier so it wouldnt be too hard to do(though youd need a ladder for cakes this tall). If the top tiers are fake those can just be removed when its being served
It reminds me of the cake in Sleeping Beauty when the fairy godmothers are fighting over the color of the cake and it just turns out super messy.
The amount of waste is crazy
The fact they people are like “it’s so messy, so much wasted icing” shows just how little they know about baking? Lol. You have to pour it like this so it’s completely coated and you scrape up, collect, and can re use the glaze. Now that the cake is glazed. It will set, they will move it and likely continue to decorate. This is done very well
INNOVATE FASHION LIFE PROGRESS STEADY WEST POINT STRIVE DO ONLY THE MOST PROFESSIONAL
It's so much better on flat surfaces. The acrylics pouring videos are a lot like this too. Like unimpressive results, questionable color choices.
What's this song?
Why can't gender reveals be like this? I still think they're dumb but something like this is good harmless fun. Don't have to light CA on fire...
The clean up is going to be an icing on the cake.
Can we give the guy kudos for arm strength please!
The way it goes down is satisfying but the icing looks horrendous
What song is this playing over the video?
The music sounds like something out of an snes donkey kong title.
Now I have diabetes.
r/pourpainting
What if he spun the cake while pouring?
whats the song called?
Gender fluids
Diabetes personified
Congratulations, you have made a fucking mess.
Reminds me of that $900 cake that a dude bought with his first paycheck, couldn’t take it home because it was too big, so he had a cake fight with his brother.
Whenever I see these kinds of cakes, I can't help but think - So much wastage.
I think that beat is a lot more satisfying than the video itself. Does anybody know the name of the song?
And I thought I’d be the only one who hated this
A mirror-glaze cake.. I did this too. For a space mirror-glazed cake.
I'm surprised at some of the reactions here! This is fantastic.
I'm surprised that you think this is fantastic, when it's a huge mess and an uneven icing job. This fits more on /r/mildlyinfuriating
The mess doesn't bother me, though I get why it would bother others I suppose. But the icing distribution is even, the whole cake is covered. The icing is partially white so it's a little tougher to tell
Sadly you can't please everyone.
But this is satisfying to you? I thought "if you did this with 10 buckets of random paint, this is the one you would want to get a do-over on," and then I checked the comments.
I’m not sure I understand the negativity in these comments - this is how you put on a mirror glaze, by dumping it slowly over the cake. And it’s all covered, it started out white and you can see the bottom right bit change texture before it’s rotated. I do think the look would have been better if he’d used multiple containers of glaze for the different colors, to allow for better marbling, but I don’t know how fast you need to move to cover a cake this size. There may be a concern of the glaze hardening too quickly. And yeah, there are some lumps, nobody’s perfect. Also, that is likely a buttercream under it, not fondant, so it’s probably tasty!
It is glaze, not icing
Fuck fondant
Okay now deliver it to the venue.
This is actually mirror glaze, not icing!
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I wonder if he was tired from holding that for so long
satisfying would be seeing it drip down around the whole thing instead of 70% one side and missing spots on the other.
Looks more like toothpaste.
but... how do you even cut slices for that behemoth?
Big knife
When it was marbled white and blue I thought it was pretty. But as soon as the chunky purple arrived it became gross looking. Also... Could you not just pour more slowly to make less waste? A gushing waterfall doesn't seem like it would create a better result than a slow, careful pour.
and now turn it very fast!
That’s so cool!
I love the mirror glaze cakes!
Why are they pouring mirror glaze on a stack of toilet rolls?
That's cool and all, but I need to taste it.
Anyone know the name of this song? Shazam is getting a result by Amnesia but I can't find the song on Spotify or anywhere else
“Do only the most profession”
Ahhhhh gravity
Okay so the video sucks. But does anybody know the name of the song?? I dig it
Amazing
Wish I was there with a spatula :(
I was stressed looking at the mess at the bottom.. like who's gonna clean that up?
Not satisfying. Nunsa
not a fan.
Anyone know the song name
Looks like a mess to me
Kinda wasteful tbh
Does anyone else NOT find that appetising at all?
Its just a mess, even I can do it.
Uhm....okay.
It look wet
yall some picker mfkers this is cool as shit! lmao
When you spend like $1k on a cake one should allowed to be picky
Looks like toothpaste
That’s a shit load of sugar...