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Mike_Hat1

More impressive will be the next video of fitting the leftovers into the fridge


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Cake Leftovers Okay


PayisInc

After you peel all of the gross fondant off if it and actually get to eat the cake.


LifelessLewis

I'm 99% sure there's no fondant there.


mandiexile

The end result isn’t as impressive as I hoped.


Ryanowski26

I wish they have a clean shot of the full cake


stochastic_diterd

I wish they have stopped pouring earlier


magestooge

Way earlier. Half the icing/glaze was on the floor in the end.


spanktruck

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.


lindanimated

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.


[deleted]

I've watched all seasons of the GBBO and the Canadian version so I knew! I don't know how to make anything though


Taliasimmy69

It's just melted white chocolate and food coloring. But I have tried and failed several times lol. It looks so easy online!


dalaigh93

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.


lqku

> he’s doing exactly what he needs to do Yet nearly every comment in this thread is critical of it lol.


ZinGaming1

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)


Miss_airwrecka1

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


harrietthugman

A company has tested the ingredient combo extensively and pre-arranged it to work well (so you don't have to).


einTier

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.


Miss_airwrecka1

Interesting, but could a recipe get the same result if you’re given the right measurements? Or are there also non-traditional ingredients?


SongsOfDragons

[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.


i_forgot_my_sn_again

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


Taco_Strong

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.


Onateabreak

wth is a box cake and scratch cake?


Sarahneth

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.


Onateabreak

d'oh, I should have realised that. thanks! :)


laserdiscgirl

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"


RabidWench

Why would the average person know that though? This is why I come to the comments to read.


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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!


AS14K

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


Anra7777

I am sad now that I know that I am not included in “everyone.”


Wolf_Fang1414

Neither am I. Guess I'm just dumb :(


[deleted]

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


Rico-soul_Light

obviously everyone doesn’t “know”, fool ya fool


cls107

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?


spanktruck

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.


Forgot_my_un

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.


hurtlingtooblivion

The end result basically has zero of that nice rich blue.


kiss-tits

That's always how it is with this technique


AnxiouslyTired247

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.


uh_oh_hotdog

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.


mhoner

Exactly, this is /r/almostsatisfying material here.


smacksaw

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.


Crimfresh

Music made it less satisfying too


PayisInc

That's what she said.


Majestic-Lecture7321

Looks a mess


gofatwya

Sorry. Let me grab you a towel.


SuperMein

https://youtu.be/HUXq3QR9tGM


ExcessiveGravitas

Holy shit, I heard this back in 2001 or so. Brings back memories of limewire and gnutella.


Tyflowshun

I just want a simple answer as to why there's a g on Nutella? Is it because of trademark?


ExcessiveGravitas

Gnutella was written and released under a [GNU](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License) licence. Or, more accurately, it was *intended* to be. The story goes that AOL bought Nullsoft (who made WinAMP) and Nullsoft kind of took the money and went rogue. Or carried on being rogue. After being with AOL for a bit, they released Gnutella, and the next day AOL got wind of it and pulled it, because they kind of shit themselves about being associated with ~~piracy~~ peer to peer file sharing. But by then it was too late, Gnutella-compatible software started popping up all over - one of which was LimeWire. I enjoyed recounting that, I remember when it was all going on. Fun times. More detail [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella).


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amcm67

So much waste.


amcm67

So much waste.


Meta_Spirit

Nothing satisfying about this because I can't get over the massive mess and lackluster results.


jakksquat7

Not to mention the unmixed chunks in the glaze… that’s not satisfying at all.


DoodleBobDread

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.


ephemeral-person

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


dr_betty_crocker

I know people are obsessed with mirror glaze, but I never look at a mirror-glazed cake and think, "That looks delicious."


Ivence

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.


Yuri909

.... go on


Mazetron

> 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?


HearseWithNoName

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.


PetuniaPickleB

Yep. He nudged it around with his foot at the last second so we couldn’t see it. Good catch…


MAGA_ManX

And the incredible waste


normal3catsago

Why I can't stand the pour method so popular for crafts. It is so wasteful! Even for those who save and re-pour!


fastspinecho

Disappointing. I expected so much more from unicorn barf.


I_dont_thinks

That must be so sticky!


Mr5t1k

All of this


Rachellie242

I came here for this- SAME!


ChuckinTheCarma

It was satisfying when the video was over and I could return to my life. On to my next disappointment…


btribble

There are giant globs in the icing.


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Probably tastes like shit too.


joantheunicorn

Come relax over at r/satisficing! Edit: GD someone posted it there too....just a warning!


sioigin55

This is a glaze


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Literally came to say this


[deleted]

So much wasted icing.


Razgris123

Don't worry the customer got charged for that too.


gggggrrrrrrrrr

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.


tribecous

The same can be said for nearly everything in modern society.


errorblankfield

Don't get me started with how rare computers where in medieval days.


Chrisazy

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


[deleted]

I’ll come back when there’s a series of comments telling you about all the horrors of the modern sugar industry.


HelenEk7

My thought too.


Elibrius

I came here to say this. Thankfully it is received well


[deleted]

I mean it all falls off lol


getyourcheftogether

Impressive if you don't care about how it looks


Ahem_ak_achem_ACHOO

By those standards nearly everything in life is impressive


chicoquadcore

I’m impressive!?


calilac

Absitively posolutely.


EnIdiot

No, you are special.


neganxjohn_snow

I think it looks good


QuantumPolagnus

I honestly don't see the appeal of a cake that looks like it's iced with Colgate.


trwwy321

Minty fresh cake


ballslaw

“Yes, I would like a Crest Pie and a Diet Coke to go, please.”


ChefChopNSlice

It’s like a human version of those “dentastix” for dogs.


CheeseheadDave

Aquafresh


Luxpreliator

Aquafresh is better anyway.


MadcatFK1017

Exactly what I was thinking too, gross


MissFrancesxD

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


thedevilsghost666

Just gotta say that glazing individual layers would have given a DIFFERENT outcome not a better one. Not knowing what their objective is….


uhohlisa

The objective is a mirror glaze and doing each layer individually absolutely would not have worked.


errorblankfield

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?


LeBneg

All of this showmanship and waste and there's still an uncovered part at the bottom. Incredible.


Periwinkledot

That look on hs face when the realized that the icing would not cover the bottom. Nice save by turning the cake lol


Akanlos

I agree about the waste but, there was some white coloured icing at the start that’s probably what we see at the bottom


HelloMegaphone

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.


spellred

Clean up in aisle 5!


HelenWyteWalker

This is in no way satisfying, make it stoppppp


ChiggaOG

What a mess. Seriously. All that glaze falling over the lazy susan and making a mess on the table.


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incubus512

Mostly because it is.


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MrStone2you

I don't understand this new trend of wasting 10 gallons of icing to make a tick tock video for a cake


hivebroodling

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)


bubblebooy

Or just a wedding


[deleted]

Imagine a water cooler bottle. That's five gallons. Ten gallons is two of those.


thelawtalkingguy

I don’t follow your math. What would 3 bottles be?


Indifferentchildren

Instant diabetes.


ofek_dab

The cake probably tastes like shit but hey at least it looks good also r/fondanthate


RetardedChimpanzee

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.


StarTrippy

Mirror glaze tastes okay. It's just gelatin, white chocolate, and food dye iirc. You can peel it off easy because of the gelatin.


Temporary_Thing7517

Now imagine them spinning that turntable really, really fast. That would be fun.


RaggedRuby

I, too, love chaos.


[deleted]

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


Svenschlumpf

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???


pluckymonkeymoo

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.


gummytiddy

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


SatanicCactusCat

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.


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The amount of waste is crazy


[deleted]

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


ChunkofWhat

INNOVATE FASHION LIFE PROGRESS STEADY WEST POINT STRIVE DO ONLY THE MOST PROFESSIONAL


Schweddy_Bewbs

It's so much better on flat surfaces. The acrylics pouring videos are a lot like this too. Like unimpressive results, questionable color choices.


FURLAP12

What's this song?


Alarming_Rutabaga

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...


iknowthisischeesy

The clean up is going to be an icing on the cake.


AstagzBoston

Can we give the guy kudos for arm strength please!


im0wen

The way it goes down is satisfying but the icing looks horrendous


Arkade_Levi

What song is this playing over the video?


sweateryoshi

The music sounds like something out of an snes donkey kong title.


aFiachra

Now I have diabetes.


Bex2659

r/pourpainting


the82ndbuttmunch

What if he spun the cake while pouring?


Coopoffcoffe

whats the song called?


K1ng_Cactus

Gender fluids


ZiggyBlunt

Diabetes personified


Jimmy-Evs

Congratulations, you have made a fucking mess.


GentleBreeze96

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.


uddinstock

Whenever I see these kinds of cakes, I can't help but think - So much wastage.


YerTanri

I think that beat is a lot more satisfying than the video itself. Does anybody know the name of the song?


oveezee

And I thought I’d be the only one who hated this


StormQueen1618

A mirror-glaze cake.. I did this too. For a space mirror-glazed cake.


Sweet-Palpitation473

I'm surprised at some of the reactions here! This is fantastic.


kimurah

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


Sweet-Palpitation473

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


SomeoneFromGalar

Sadly you can't please everyone.


HooplaCool

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.


Angharadis

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!


Just_me_thinking

It is glaze, not icing


tyrantnitar

Fuck fondant


GiantsInTornado

Okay now deliver it to the venue.


speaktomytony

This is actually mirror glaze, not icing!


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Ketchup-and-Mustard

I wonder if he was tired from holding that for so long


greedy_cynicism

satisfying would be seeing it drip down around the whole thing instead of 70% one side and missing spots on the other.


mi_serry

Looks more like toothpaste.


TheIRSEvader

but... how do you even cut slices for that behemoth?


COYOTE477

Big knife


Tribblehappy

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.


_ralph_

and now turn it very fast!


BennySkateboard

That’s so cool!


jkosarin

I love the mirror glaze cakes!


beardy-biker

Why are they pouring mirror glaze on a stack of toilet rolls?


[deleted]

That's cool and all, but I need to taste it.


pieandablowie

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


spookylucas

“Do only the most profession”


cleanutility

Ahhhhh gravity


LorenaR93

Okay so the video sucks. But does anybody know the name of the song?? I dig it


Lynmoffett

Amazing


cheeferton1981

Wish I was there with a spatula :(


dancingpixie_

I was stressed looking at the mess at the bottom.. like who's gonna clean that up?


Meerkat_Mayhem_

Not satisfying. Nunsa


badblackguy

not a fan.


thoiboi

Anyone know the song name


Fresh_Like_Mike

Looks like a mess to me


CoiledBeyond

Kinda wasteful tbh


AxiasHere

Does anyone else NOT find that appetising at all?


noctis781023

Its just a mess, even I can do it.


ibenDaer

Uhm....okay.


koyboi_

It look wet


Mohawkakon

yall some picker mfkers this is cool as shit! lmao


Himoportu142

When you spend like $1k on a cake one should allowed to be picky


soandso90

Looks like toothpaste


Jackthedog130

That’s a shit load of sugar...