Can I Decorate a Cake BETTER than a 5 Star Bakery?! 

YOU guys be the judges! What did we do great, and what could we have improved on???

Those birds are amazing but without them it reminds me of a wedding not spring. Your colors and flowers were spot on. 1 vote for you

Your cake feels like a cake for a fun, casual dinner party among friends. The other feels like it's for a more formal event like maybe a baby shower. I like both interpretations of spring and I wish I could taste that lychee rose flavor combo.

I feel like the bakery's cake made more sense for a baby shower actually. It had blue and light pink and the roses made it a little fancier. The eggs and nest with the mom and dad bird added to the whole baby shower idea. On the other hand, your cake was very colorful and really stayed true to the whole spring idea.

I really like both cakes, but it's hard to compare them to eachother because they both have a different style. Your cake is more like: 🌺🌻🎉🌈 and the cake of the bakery is like:🐦🤎✨🌸

Hmm, I love the colors on your cake for spring better, but because the competitor’s cake is all edible with that level of detail, it’s the one I’d choose if paying $170. I also prefer a cake that’s presentable from all angles, so it can be used as a centerpiece on the table. So, I do think the competitor’s cake scores higher on that element of the presentation. However, I would for sure prefer your flavors over the competitor’s cake. I love lemon cake and yours looked tastier on the inside. Fun video and you have very impressive cake decorating skills!

I prefer the bakery cake. The muted colors and the birds really make me think of spring! Whereas the bright flowers make me think more of summer wildflowers.

Can I just say how refreshing it is for a cake maker to show how anxious she is and how much self doubt goes into what she does before she gets that pop of realisation that she is, in fact, amazing! As someone who struggles with that herself, the honesty of this video was fabulous.

I feel like the cake she made is more along the lines of a small, romantic spring wedding cake and yours screams all occasion spring cake

I personally LOVED the cake with the birds!!! I loved that they used muted colors which made the birds and eggs the focal point. Everything about that cake is stunning. Your cake was pretty but I’d chose the one with the birds.

Btw I love how humble you are! "Not that I'm talented..." Lol, girl you are so talented!!

I’m just over here wondering why no ones talking about those middle 2 layers in the bakery cake looking all gummy and underbaked 😂

I think if I was payin $170 I’d probably go for the birds cake, seems like more attention to detail, and flowers on the spring cake are very nice but the top flowers needed something on the back so they don’t look so empty

The birds are absolutely adorable but the flowers on your cake were beautifully done i wish i had your cake with the bird toppers 😆 that would be perfect!

I think the commissioned cake probably required a higher skill level and amount of effort, but I would probably choose Laurie’s cake for myself-it’s more festive and pretty to look at.

It's not easy to choose because they're quite different, but I think ideally I'd like your entire cake and have the baker's birds & nest on top, along with a few flowers! That would be an amazing Ultimate Spring cake. The inner cake part of yours looks a lot tastier to me. Such a fun video! 🍃🌺🐦

I love both of them! I think the bakery cake has a more elegant feel to it, but yours screams Spring and I LOVE the colors you chose! I’d love to see more competitions between you and a bakery.....you definitely hold your own! You’re so talented!

If I had to vote for a cake, I would vote for the commissioned cake. This is based off your own feedback flavor wise and my person opinion on aesthetic and technical difficulty. You felt that your lemon cake overpowered the filling, while you hadn't tasted the flavors in a cake before of the commissioned cake you seemed more pleased with the end result. As for the aesthetic and technical difficulty I was more impressed with the handmade birds and nest for the topper along with the painting. I think you both did very well with the flower designs/patterns on the side, but I think the technical difficulty of the commissioned cake was superior. If I understood correctly the commissioned cake had a budget of $175 which is the same as the cost of the flower technique you used on your cake, so I think the commissioned cake showed value above and beyond the amount of money they charged.

Yes, the birds look absolutely fantastic but the icing itself looks colourless and more like an autumn themed cake with only the birds hinting it's spring. On the other hand, your cake really screams spring full of great pops of colour. btw I love lemony lemon cake. Great job. I'd choose yours any day.

I love your cake , that appeals to me as a spring cake.

For the ‘Spring cake’ theme, I would say that yours is the better design. I also think of bright colorful wildflowers over muted roses, and I would pick buttercream elements over fondant figures every day of the week.

The birds are just stunning and I like how she made everything else mute so that we know it was a cake but the birds were the focal point and it made them come alive where as a cake with frosting flowers and real flowers is overdone so often

Let's move over that birds & nest topper to your cake and it'll be the perfect spring cake

Both cakes are beautiful. Personally, I’m more impressed with the skill it takes to make the birds.

The birds are probably the most artistic and best thing but overall your cake is the one I would choose! It’s so pretty with all the colors.

the one that the icing artist made kind of reminds me of a spring birthday cake and the other one kind of looks like a spring wedding cake just with the colors and the flavor but both of them are AMAZING, i could never do anything like that

Kevin’s life seems awesome he just has to film and eat cake lol. Edit: OMG HOW DID THIS GET SO MANY LIKES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

High!! Okay first off I absolutely love this video, I have gotten very excited about it and wanted to share my thoughts 😂I absolutely adore your cake, the buttercream flowers are a 10/10 chefs kiss I can not get enough of them! They seem so organic and natural, I imagine your cake being brought out at a 'the-grass-just-turned-green' picnic. It gives a very spring-y vibe and I love! I love the bird topper of their cake, very creative!! I think their cake missed the mark. Has more... wedding or baby shower vibes? Absolutely gorgeous but doesn't fit with the spring theme. I think if you combined your cake and their topper.... but maybe add a second tier in a kinda light spring green or white to give some visual calm so the birds nest directly on the flowers isn't too visually overwhelming... I think it would make the ultimate spring cake! I'd personally do the second tier a strawberry short cake, at least that is what flavour I think of with spring. If anyone has read this far I hope you're having a good day!

I think your cake is more on the theme of spring. The other cake DEFINITELY had a lot of skill but doesn’t look like spring

I LOVE yours! It's amazing that you'd not done the technique before. But I'm going to have to go with the other baker in this competition 😊 Would have liked brighter colours on it but I love the direction she went with it and her skilled creativity. Your colour palette and flowers and her design combined would be heavenly!

Not sure if I’m the only one but I like your cake so much more. Well both are amazing but yours has a sense of freshness and playfulness that comes with spring. The colours pop and it’s a beautiful palette. Yayy :)

Girl after my own heart... “I’ve never done this before but I’m going to do it for this competition.” You go girl!

I would much rather have the colorful, more “textured” cake with lemon and blueberry flavors for sure!

FYI, when doing a one sided "flower arrangement" I was taught that the back ought to be as "finished" as the front. Nonetheless, YOUR cake beats the other cake hands down!! I thought the birds were too bulky when they could have been done much sleeker. And yes, those roses were too bland. I absolutely loved, loved, LOVED you spatula work!!! I really appreciated how you mixed, blended, and applied the colors!!!

For people making them at home, make sure your flowers are organic and meant for food consumption; not just store bought. The pesticides make them toxic to put in / on food, even if you wrap it with floral tape. ☺

For a “spring cake” theme, your cake is the better cake by far! It screamed SPRING to me. The other one was also beautiful but it didn’t portray the spring theme, unfortunately. Anyway, GREAT JOB!!!

I’m just here reading all the baking show judge comments from people who have probably never decorated a cake in their life. 😂 They both look great to me.

Follow a Bob Ross painting tutorial but on a cake. (Square cake/sheet cake) 🖼

i like how you can honestly review ur cake, like how the blueberry/cheesecake didnt come thru enough, instead of just being biased bc u made it urself :)

The birds. The flavors sound delightful. I love both lychee and rose.

Ok... well the one from the bakery might look slightly more “professional” but I think yours is way more springy! And the flavours of yours sounds amazing!!!!

I think her cake was more high end looking but at the same time I thought the theme choice was really weird. Like, the birds didn't look like they belonged with the rest of the cake at all. They stuck out really hard

I think you blew it out of the park! I agree with some other comments that the bakery cake looks more wedding/baby shower than just "spring" I vote for you!

Your cake feels more like "Spring" to me and is definitely my favorite. That said, the other cake would be absolutely perfect for a sophisticated baby shower and it is truly lovely as well.

I feel like you guys are voting for her because it’s her channel. I love the other cake. The amount of detail she put into it is great! And the flavor combo so amazing!! She won!! Hands down The channel owner is bias “oh that’s not really spring” yes it is

I like the bird figurines but I prefer your cake! It seems more modern and I love the bright colors. The only thing I would suggest is leveling your cakes about twice each. That way you could use more of the amazing sounding filling and the lemon wouldn´t be as overpowering anymore. I also prefer the mouthfeel of cake with equal parts of cake and filling

I would love to see this challenge again, but make it blind! Two other cakes presented against yours without revealing which one's which. Then show/explain your process.

I love both cakes! The other cake is much more intricate looking though and I feel like a slightly better value for the money and I loved the muted colors and roses for a wedding in particular. Your cake was more spring bridal shower to me, but absolutely stunning and looked like it tasted much better. Over all both bakers are so talented!

I vote for you! There colors were to muted for spring, you need vibrant and pretty outstanding colors to represent spring, and your design was AMAZING. And it wasn't really sloppy, that was the style and i felt like that went along way better with spring because spring is pretty and like flowers all or not perfectly standing or strait up, real flower petals are perfectly strait! Thank you so much!

Both cakes are so beautiful!! Yours is definitely a SPRING cake though. Those colors and flowers are fantastic. Huge props to the other baker. Theirs is gorgeous and you can see how creative they are (design + flavor).

Those flowers you did are ON POINT!! The colors are beautiful for the vibe you were going for. Maybe you could of added a sky and sun.

So, Our artists cake is just screaming : GRANDMA’S BACKYARD GARDEN! IT’S SPRING BABY And the other one screams: I’m sophisticated and absolutely adore spring And I’m at a loss

Yours was by far the best interpretation of the theme, best colors, best type of flowers. The birds and nest were cute, but the cake was dreary color wise, and the cake looked dense and undercooked in spots. You win in my book! 👍

Winner: the birds. I love that its actually muted in the bottom. It gives a monochromatic spring vibe and focuses on the birds as the highlight of spring. Her cake seems a bit “been there done that” and is too predictable. Frosting is also messy and the cake topper is only applicable on one side. Bakery gets my point for sure

Never watch these videos on an empty stomach.

The bird cake is amazing! It totally reminds me of Spring; birds 🐦 yell spring, roses are spring, pastels are spring colors-- it was like being transported to my grandmother's garden during the spring bloom. I miss my nana❤. 😍 Plus those flavors!

I always give honest reviews and I completely agree that the 'pro' had too many flavors going on; strong flavors too. I definitely liked your cake better. I loved the painted flowers. But I'm not one for putting non edible stuff on a cake.

Yours was stunning, however it felt a tad too childish for me, while the other baker screamed refinement. I think yours would have won by a landslide if you'd only done a diagonal of flowers like in the pictures you showed, rather than all around.

Your cake screams spring to me. The other cake looked almost like a muffin texture. For a "spring cake" competition you totally got it! Congratulations!!! 🌸

Your hand painted buttercream flower cake is absolutely gorgeous and I'm in love! It's way better than the bakery cake hands down! I never make cakes but this gave me the inspiration to want to try it! 🖤

I’m in awe of the birds on top of the bakery cake! I love how sophisticated it looks! But the inside does not make me eat it: it looks weird. So for decoration I vote bakery, but since we want to eat the cake I would pick yours! So final vote: yours!

Based on the flavors and esthetics of the cakes I'd definitely chose Laurie's cake as lemon cake is my favorite and her cake has so much more color and puts me more in mind of spring. The commissioned cake is very well done, especially the topper but it doesn't give me spring colorful vibes and I don't think I'd like the flavor combination they chose. 🙂

Your cake is so beautiful. I love the rustic “imperfect” edge

Omg both cakes are stunning! If I HAVE to pick one, I’d choose the birds with those beautiful muted roses, but I am so in love with lemon so I’m sure I’d love that more

The birds were the most amazing part of the store bought cake. Without them that cake is just ok. You’re cake was colorful and fun. Just like spring. If I ordered a spring themed cake, your would be what I would be looking for. Sometimes a baker can be trying to hard to be super fancy. I feel Like the cake from the bakery was trying to hard.

I love your cake but I also really love the birds, nest and eggs. I vote bakery :)

My five-year-old, who is a huge fan, voted the bakery cake. I prefer yours.

i loved both of the cakes but i thin that yours screamed spring more!!

EXCELLENT CAKE!!!! Your cake screamed SPRING!!!! The colors and the floral design you chose to do remind me of the flowers I'd see around my grams and nanas places.

Okay, but they're such a cute supportive couple. Makes me so happy.

I love her cake, don’t get me wrong but i think the store one’s better, the birds and flowers are absolutely stunning!!

Since I’m really into the muted look and the birds I vote for the bakery, but yours is so pretty too!

I’m sorry, I love those biiiirds. And the nest is so creative.

I definitely think this one goes to Laurie. Those bright colors, the beautiful buttercream flowers, and it looked absolutely delicious on the inside too! The other cake was lovely but it looked so dense on the inside.

The cake with the birds was gorgeous! The colors were beautiful & sophisticated. They really thought out of the box with the cake & flavors! The other cake was a very pretty spring flower cake. Depends on what the client orders & expects, cake wars!

I’m biased I like cute things so I really like the bird cake and when you said lychee I was intrigued cause also another one of my favorite flavors but yours was so pretty and reminds me of painting but I’d have to vote for the commissioned one I just really like the birds and the birds nest

Two totally different aesthetics for the same Spring themed cakes! Wow, they are both worth the money. I agree that bringing the teal from the birds down into the cake will tie it together a little more, but the birds and nest are amazing. Personally, I prefer the vibrant floral style of your cake. But I agree, though, that cream cheese frosting should not be over powered by other flavors. It's definitely my favorite frosting!

I loved your version of the cake more than the bird one. And you made the buttercream knife painting so good to be a first timer! Final product didnt look like you didn't do that ever before! Bravo!

I love the other cake, and I think it's more interesting from all angles. Your technique on the painted flowers is really beautiful and I think you did an amazing job, especially after not having attempted it before. My personal preference is for the other cake because of the colors and theme they used

You knocked it out of the park! It screams spring! Their's, without the birds, is just a wedding cake.

Wow!!! You did a beautiful job! I personally like the bird cake better…it is very creative.

I need a Kevin in my life to give me a confidence boost ☺️. Can I borrow him for my exams???

Hey girl, your amazing and beautiful and such a talented person. I wait every Friday for a new video. And when the video comes it never disappoints! I just want you to know you are so talented and pretty! I wish I could bake just as good as you but you know... hehe 🙃

This episode just answered a question for me. I like being creative and just spoke to my friend about moving from Cape Town to Johannesburg and start making bespoke cakes. Thank you. I'm super inspired

Their cake makes me think of mothers day, its pretty! Your cake is spring in a cake, I love it and I know it would taste amazing because I love lemon. Good job!

I really liked your cake as it gives more of 'spring vibes' then the other cake. The birds and the nest looks cute but your cake nailed it😍

Lychee and rose- please I need to try this cake! Two of my favorite flavors mashed together

+1 for you, no argument, your cake screams spring. I agree that the colors on the birds should have been tied in with the other cake, they are cute but a bit too cartoonish, but great work still, it also looked dry. I would have loved to try the lemon. Mouth watering just watching. Looks sooo good.

I am at 1:15 and what I expect now is "Somebody ordered a spring theme cake!" "Don't worry. Somebody did not pick up their wedding cake. Add some flowers and you're done!" 😁😁

Both are stunning I’d be blown away with either cake had I placed a spring order

As a professional cake decorator of 11 years, I like yours so much better! It's way more springy and technical. You did an amazing job! I've never tried this technique but I will now! It's freaking gorgeous! Sending love from indiana!!!!😘😘😘

her vibe is so relaxing, she is the type of person you get comfortable with very easily loved this video and subscribed

I love the bakery cake because is so much my aesthetic but without the birds would not remind me much of spring. You did a good job with the "paint" flowers wish your real flowers were a little smaller

I love your cake! It's so pretty. I would've chosen like...a super light pastel aqua instead of a white background or something like that for a pop of color. And the birds of the competitor were amazing, but without it...it looks a bit simple and out of life. Also, I don't like cake because of how dense it can be, and that one looked like it. But they both did an incredible job!!

going by theme, yours definitely wins and screams spring but aside from theme adherence, the bakery cake would win tbh

I would definitely pick yours if you put them side by side. The blue birds is the only thing that saved that cake (judging on a Spring themed cake). ☺️

I find it hard to determine which one I like most. The one from the bakery is lovely (especially the beautifull birds!), on the other hand I love the one from the Icing Artist, because it just screams spring and i adore the choice of color. I like them both in their own way!

Theirs is beautiful but yours is also stunning and says “spring” to me more, so I am voting for yours!

Yours is much more spring looking. Your flowers reminded me of a dress I bought as a teenager that was a sheer stiff fabric with spring colored flocking in little flowers all over. It was a formal & flowers were the thing in 1970's. Thanks for the memory...happy days. BTW, I love Archie owning up to it. When my pooch Petunia farts, she always looks around to see as if someone "else did it". I remind her who just did it and she sniffs & pouts as if "How dare you blame me" look. Yes, that is her above.

personally I think your cake has more of a spring style while the other has a soft wedding aesthetic. the light pink shade of the flowers reminds me of the bridesmaids dresses and the flowers they hold. I'd probably buy yours.