I Tried To Make A Hyperrealistic Popcorn Cake 

I like how you still show your cake fails. It teaches us a good lesson and we don't even know it!

I was thinking that she’s gonna make a mold of the popcorn and fill it with modeling chocolate. Just like what she did on the peanut bag cake. That’s gonna be more hyper realistic than buttercream.

Maybe they're using another kind of buttercream in the viral video? Like Swiss meringue vs American buttercream? And maybe they're chilling it beforehand? It looks almost stiff. Having said that, I think a bunch of yours got very close. The popcorn in the video also doesn't really look like hyperrealistic kernels to me haha (albeit very cool tho!). Love your videos!

Advice for piping! Hover slightly but not too much when piping.. when you were piping this buttercream you were pressing on the parchment paper, this will squish down on your dollop making it flat as u said… try hovering slightly but not too much when piping, hope this helps!! Also after you’re done with the dollops u can freeze them while handling them… good luck love ur work ❤️❤️

So, fun thing about that technique... Experienced Cake decorators who use a lot of Buttercream have issues with that. That technique is for making Bell flowers or Lily of the Valley. The thing is; you're usually in control of how much pressure you put behind squeezing things. Newer decorators don't have that fine control, so they just SQUISH that icing out of the bag. (Also helps if the icing is on the stiff side) - I would also freeze what I made before plucking it off for the cake. That also reminds me, you can put icing in the fridge to try and stiffen it up.

I’ve never done this technique so I’m just guessing at solutions. Maybe chill the buttercream a bit so it’s not so floppy. Maybe whip it so it has more air in it so it makes it fuller.

Re-do! I'm not mad,.just excited to see how you will figure this one out. 😊

I love that you still showed this even though you “failed”. It’s so important

2:56 Matchy Matchy and the cute little dance.....😭❤️ By the way I love your cakes 💞💖

I think the idea of using real popcorn with cake is a fabulous idea because salty and sweet is one of my most favorite things ever along with the little crunch😊😊😊

She's getting more cuter day by day🫶🏻 Cutest mommy to be🥰

something i noticed is that the person in the buttercream popcorn video picked the piping bag up really fast while she was piping the buttercream

1000x👍 My son Kellan says, "Thank you for making the popcorn cake for us!" (We've been asking in the comments for it for months. Guessing it's just coincidence you made it, but we like to think you did it for us 😉)

It’s amazing how you come up with all these cake ideas. 💖

Even if you couldn’t make the popcorn, the cake will have a nice crunch. And it looks really good

Her cake creations are on another level 😩🤌🏻✨

Get this girl a spot on the next is it cake series 😂❤

maybe if you tamper with the startip?? that could work. (also I think you sholud remake the slippers cake, maybe using cotton candy or something this time)

Thank you for your videos! I started watching you almost a year ago and I’ll probably watch your channel for years to come

Can you make skincare as a cake!Your so good at cake making and this would be a challenge,After all people have been going crazy over skincare lately and it would be so fun to watch!

Using real popcorn is a big brain move 🤣 Edible and delicious!

i just LOVE your cute transitions!!! also this cake looked amazing, even if it didn’t work out as planned! i would also love to see some of your new characters as plushies!

Can you make a hyper realistic cake of a candybar??

Make a cake of the CAKE GANG chilling out together!!!

You are very good at making hyper realistic cakes!

Can you make a hyper-realistic cake of your weird cravings combination you're are having?

I sense a cake remake in the future 😊🎉

You should make a record cake with a vinyl too!

Even tho you couldn't sure your buttercream, I still think it looks amazing and that you had something to use the popcorn for! Great job Natalie 🙏🙏

The cake looked really good! As for the popcorn, you have to lift the piping bag slightly off of what you're using it on. Hope this helps!

When Natalie uploads, you know it's a good day❤

"It is okay to you fail sometimes, you just gotta try really hard next time." 😭 Natalie is litterly a mentor ❤💕💖❤

maybe you should put the piping bag a bit higher than the ground so its not touching the ground and just squeze it until it reaches the piping bag tip and pull the tip out. So that way you get that round shape at the bottom and get top star hole?

love the positivity!

i think you hit the nail on the head at the end there. in the video, the buttercream puffs certainly look like popcorn, really good in fact! - but they don't look anything close to *hyper* realistic popcorn.

I love how you show your cake fails!! I think I would fail every time!😅 Love your cakes so much!! You should make a cake of your baby when she's born!! that would be really sweet!!

Dave's skill just increases with each video. I won't be surprised if he starts animating a children's show by the time he becomes a dad.

You are AMAZING 🤩 Here's my cake list: Passion fruit cake Mango cake Kiwi cake Nutella waffles cake And the best for last .... Cactus cake!

Can you make a horse head cake? I love your videos and i look forward to your videos every week ❤

So, you were putting the tip on the table you are suppose to put it a little in the air or you could have used little cake scraps and then color them. But the finished product is the best!

Usually for crisp texture you want a much stiffer,dryer buttercream that's been well chilled. There's a big difference in consistency between buttercream for layers and crumb coating and what you want for piping well defined shapes. It holds its shape and doesn't spread so it works better for 3D shapes.

Paige’s reaction at 1:59 after you said “they all kind of tasted similar” (😊➡️😮) 😂😂

Honestly, I think even if you managed to recreate these exactly like the original video they were never going to be hyperrealistic, only semi-realistic when not surrounded by the real thing. They’re too uniform in size and shape, it would’ve been a situation where you would’ve had to chill them and paint them for them to look genuinely hyperrealistic. If you do want to try it again, though, I think your main issue was technique. Since you aren’t used to buttercream you couldn’t really troubleshoot it and figure out how to get the desired outcome, so not only were you holding your tip to the tray preventing it from creating anything but the top shape of the popcorn, when you tried to pull away as you piped (which was correct) you went way too fast creating more of a twisty blob than what you wanted. If you look closely at the video you got inspiration from, the person didn’t put their piping tip directly on the sheet like you did. They started maybe a centimeter or two above, and then pulled up about an inch slowly as they piped until they reached the height they wanted for the popcorn, and then went down a little bit to create that indent and ruffle top of the popcorn. The movements are all really small and subtle, you wouldn’t really know unless you’ve done it before which is probably why you just assumed she was just holding it to the tray and letting the buttercream do the rest.

Your cake making skills are the best in the world and I love that you don’t care what people think when you show your cake fails❤❤❤

INCREDIBLE JOB Natalie! ❤❤❤❤❤

My fav popcorn is the Smart Pop!!! I’m lazy, I admit it! This is awesome!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

Maybe try chilling the butter cream so it takes a better form

you could give her everyday items and she could make it into a cake and a video! keep up the good work! ❤

Your cakes are awesome!!! 🤩

That popcorn is my favourite 🤩

I have an idea of a cake, it sounds crazy but can you make a cake of a phone that look likes its on the camera and match it with the background as a challenge!

I think you have to hover the tip a little above the parchment, because when using buttercream, you never press it on the cake. It’s always hovering just above the cake. Try doing that.

Can you make a hyper realistic cake of a tamagotchi

My theory? Slightly chill the buttercream

I LOOOOVE THE MERCH SOO MUCH I'M SAVING UP

I do still want to see a hyper realistic cake of a pie. You think you can do a cake that looks like a blueberry pie?

Day 116 of asking for a blobfish cake

I am so excited!!! I have been wanting to see you make a popcorn cake for the longest!! Still cool, but I'm not gonna lie.... I'm sure disappointed that the buttercream popcorn didn't work out! I hope you keep trying and can figure it out so you can try again!! Please show us when you do! 😄

Im glad that you post your cake fails. It just shows that your fails are just as important as your success. Keep it up!

She’s so awesome! She gets something wrong and does it again

Even though its a fail its better than any cake i can make

Even if you failed to make a hyper-realistic cake with buttercream, I hope you still had fun trying to make it. Plus, they did end up looking pretty even if they looked nothing like popcorn 😅

I like when you fail only because it makes the wins more exciting. Also, I think practice is all you need with the popcorn...or find two ways to make the popcorn & hide the buttercream among the other ones inside the bag (so like none coming out and you just see the popcorn in the bags which gives you more leeway with making the popcorn appear hyper realistic

Good job with this popcorn cake. I love the way it turned out, but can you make another one again and try again with your buttercream popcorn please? It will really mean a lot to me!😊

BRO HOW CAN U FAIL U ALWAYS MAKE ME HAPPY

Try not pressing the tip on to the paper! I’m not a baker so idk, but it might work! Love your channel ❤😊

Your first attempts at the buttercream popcorn look like if you ordered a popcorn cake from walmart 😆 I love to see the progress and trial & error of a pro

Love your videos ❤😊

Its great how you never feel to sad when you fail an idea and you always different techniques to try and make it even better than the others❤

I'm excited to watch this, the cakes you make are so cool and I love your channel! I don't think this was a fail more of a learning experience!

Ohh geez amazing those popcorns of buttercream were looking like little flowers 😂 you could have used them too. Also try to make a cake of a ceiling fan orr table fan.

That piping technique looked so difficult but great result. I don’t know why but I always make Garry sounds whenever you use the fart like sound effect 😂

your popcorn on the cake looks so real! 😄

It still looks amazing! But always remember that you learn from your mistakes so you get better each time

🍰! First!!!

make a hyper realistic mirror cake please

I wonder if crusting buttercream or a whipped cream style frosting would work better , since the thicker the frosting the worse it came out. With the smallest star tip they make.

Such a well-crafted and engaging video! 🎥

wht if u did not touch the piping tip with the surface or maybe less squezing?

you should wisk it so that air is incorperated into the buttercream and its kinda like how actual popcorn is made by the air pressure popping out you can wisk the buttercream so air is now making the buttercream more volumous yk

Your cakes are always so good!

I was so bored then I found ur vids and am obsessed❤❤❤

Please make a lego cake and blank space cake ....it would be fun to see blood pouring through it ❤❤❤

Thank you so much for including the fail! ♥️ It's great for my kiddos to see that even amazing professionals don't always get it right! The cake looks great (even with the fail 😍 )!!

I love how she talks in present tense but it happened in the past 😂❤😅

Well, I thought those first few kernels made lovely little buttercream popcorn bowls, lol. My gosh, you’re so talented and hilarious at the same time. Also, right before coming to your channel today, I just saw a video title by a crafter that said, “How to Spot fake (AI) videos so you don’t get scammed”. I wonder if the original viral buttercream popcorn video is actually AI? Cheers from 🇨🇦!

You can sub half of the butter in butter cream with Shortening to help with firmness and prevent melting. Also you butter cream looks way too warm, try chilling it for a bit before piping.

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I love how you still posted this even though it didnt turn out just how you wanted it to

i think the original baker might have chilled the buttercream for a bit before they used it, their buttercream looks firmer than yours. also, try to keep a bit of space from the end of the piping bag to the parchment paper rather than directly putting it on it!! hope this helps :))

I love your videos

She can do it. If she can hand mold a few pieces, with clay, then used the cured clay popcorn to make a mold. I made miniature a popcorn cranny-berry string, for a miniature Christmas tree. Except for the size, it looked real, and I don't have her extreme talent.

day 439 of asking for a globe cake 🌍

My granny LOVED that Act 2 popcorn! 😂😅

Hi, i love your videos❤

Don't worry too much, hopefully, someday in the future, you'll be able to make the butter cream popcorn and make a video remake!

Please could you make a ball of wool cake? It's almost my mum's birthday and i really want to see one if you're able to make one? It'll make her really happy

That’s ok. We shall revisit this one.🤗

We think it's OK that the popcorn is real. Popcorn is edible and so is cake!❤

Your cakes are THE BEST!!! 😊😊😊