Sunday Sweets Gets Corny
It's Popcorn Day! Woo woo!
Quick, let's have some cake. :D
(Little Hunny's Cakery, online classes)
Bakers use all sorts of clever tricks to make sugary popcorn for their cakes. Some cut & airbrush little marshmallows:
(Cake Central member PieceOfCakeTx)
And others pipe little balls & hand-paint the insides of the "kernels".
(Cake Central member hluterbach)
I did a triple-take on this one. The popcorn is all buttercream! WOW.
Some bakers use intricate molds to make hundreds of individual sugar paste kernels:
(TK Delights, Pennsylvania)
... which is so convincing, it's getting hard to tell which popcorn is real, and which is sugar!
Other bakers hand make their popcorn kernels, no molds:
(Andrea's Sweet Cakes, Canada)
That's a labor of love - and I am LOVING all the candy colors on this one.
Most popcorn cakes are movie-themed, but this one shines especially bright:
(Cakes By Samantha, UK)
Those spotlights are brilliant! And check out the detail in the "wood" floorboards.
Oh hey, I left out the most obvious option for a popcorn cake: using real popcorn!
(Baked, Ontario)
This baker airbrushed her popcorn in rainbow colors, which almost makes it look like it's covered in flowers, right?
Check out her popcorn tray before she decorated the cake:
SO PRETTY. I kind of want to do this for our next movie night.
Here's another super different, super cool idea:
(Honey Frosting, Nigeria)
The tear-away section almost makes this an illusion cake, like it's a bag of popcorn masquerading as a cake! When in fact it's a cake masquerading as a bag of popcorn masquerading as a cake. Ha!
Makes my brain hurt a little, but in a good way.
I don't know if the popcorn is real or sugar paste, but I love this cake design:
(Kek Couture, Turkey)
The contrasting textures of the popcorn with the cotton candy is dreamy, and I love the little gold bees.
And finally, an illusion cake so convincing I didn't quite believe it 'til I saw the cake cut:
(How To Cook That, Australia)
WOW!
Not only is this an incredible illusion, it reminds me of the time - a million years ago - when my folks would make popcorn on the stove. Happy memories!
Oh yes, and just so YOU can be convinced, too, here it is cut:
Ahhh-mazing.
I hope these made your Sunday a little sweeter, gang. Happy Sunday!
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