Testing VIRAL TikTok CAKE TRENDS to See if They Work! 

How about a tsunami cake? It’s super satisfying 😊

I love your videos and I live in India I would like if u do a Indian based cake

Indian themed cake

Pls

Always love the videos with Kevin :)

LOVE THIS IDEA!!!!

Yes! This is what I was thinking, too.

Ganache is a great idea. I was also thinking to put cupcakes around the cake.

I was literally going to comment and ask if there was a better setting chocolate that you could use. Maybe make a ganache with coconut oil or a white chocolate one since they usually set harder/quicker, no? Or am I completely messing up my food science??

@@AskAgainL8ter great idea, would catch all that lovely pattern that went on the table!

As Bob Ross would say, happy accidents!

@@anonymouse9833 exactly! Bob Ross wisdom

i would bet money it's someone who works in a more industrial setting and this is basically how even coats of paint are applied to misshapen parts by using stainless steel ball bearings. and they just figured out how to apply it to cake ingredients.

If you watch How It’s Made or other factory tour videos for foods with coatings like m&ms or gum balls, they’ve been using techniques like this for ages. So fun you can recreate it on a smaller scale at home tho!

I'm sure desperation is at the centre of most new discoveries. Like what made our ancestors decide to milk cows, or make flax into linen.

I just had a new idea for pendulum. If U use the kind of choc that hardens and use a large surface with a board for the chocolate to land on you could make the design and let it harden and then stick it on top of cake

I love the multiple cake idea

that was my idea that i posted on a two videos back

It’s up now! 😊

OMG actual science!! Thank you lol I felt like just a fail for using thin batter but this makes perfect sense

Thats why those damp cake strips work so well, by keeping the temp down on the pan walls for more even heating.

I think the info the supposed hack video was playing on was ‘put a thumbprint in your burger so it expands flat when cooked’. But cakes are not burgers (shocking 😉) so you can’t treat them the same. And now we know why there was no end result shown in the video.

@@TheIcingArtist Actually, from experience and some understanding of science, this does work! Let's say your unspun pan has an inch of batter against the walls of the cake pan. That inch of batter sets quickly (as Mechelle notes, batter in contact with metal will set first). The cake cooks from the outside in, so as the rest of the cake cooks and expands, it has nowhere to go but up, hence the hump. Now let's say you spin the pan so that the batter raises an inch and a half against the walls of the cake pan. Now the outside sets half an inch higher; the remaining batter can rise up to this level before it starts to hump. You didn't show us the pans, so I don't know why it didn't work for you, but you do have to spin aggressively to get a noticeable effect. Also (unfortunately!) a thin batter won't work super well-it might just drip back down before it gets cooked, or leave a thin layer that cooks all the way through begore the rest of the batter rises up to meet it. I haven't fully experimented, but I also suspect this hack works better with slightly larger pans.

@@CantorVictoria no expert here but if you can pour something (e.g. cake batter) does it not basically mean it will not stay up in that shape after spinning? Unless it starts cooking as you spin

This!

Thank you! I want to try this!

Or you can cook on a lower temp for longer

Yep. Cake pan strips work every time

Cake strips. 100% every single time.

@@stacygoldscher8436 Yasss girl

I also saw people using cake strips, which helps a bit !

I wish I did now! But the whole flower was just falling apart lol. I think I cut the slits too big on the second flower but I'm tempted to try it again

@@TheIcingArtist I think you should try it again to see and making them smaller definitely helped 😀

how long would the bake time be with those changes?

@@rebeccacostin9707 it may take a tiny bit longer but not much.

I like those too but they should do one where they can use whatever decorations they want.

Love that!! I thought it seemed similar to something I've gotten from Indian restaurants. Indian food is one of my favs!!!

I love that series too!!! It's for sure one of my favs!

@@TheIcingArtist for sure Laurie Lots of love 💞

Hey hun! I'm so glad you're feeling inspired! Thank you so much for watching XOXOX Love ya!

Yes! And use a baking nail in the middle of the batter.

Yes I do the same ! I got it from Preppy Kitchen.

she already tried that in one of the videos and it didnt work for her

@@Straightforward786 that’s odd, they work great for me. Oh well, cakes can be finicky.

I agree. The hump forms during the last part of the cooking so if you lower the temperature at the end it doesn't rise so well and you end up with a flatter cake.

@@anikejulien7273 No it comes out the same😊 I might bake it for a few mins longer, so cakes that would usually bake 30 mins now bake about 40-45 but the texture remains the same with the flatter cakes😁

LOVE that idea!!! The look of it is so cool if it wasn't for the pooling but a cold cake and the hardening chocolate would probably solve that!