**The Art of Cake Decorating: A Personal Journey**

As I sit here surrounded by my cake decorating tools and ingredients, I am reminded of the journey that has brought me to this moment. With loops of cereal as my canvas, I am about to create a masterpiece that showcases my creativity and attention to detail. The process begins with precision and patience, as I carefully place the loops into a straight line, ensuring that they are even and symmetrical.

I have found that working on cake decorating is similar to playing music - it's all about finding the right rhythm and flow. When I put on my favorite tunes and listen through noise isolating earbuds, I am able to zone out and focus on the task at hand. The Raycom earbuds are a game-changer for me, providing hours of uninterrupted listening time and allowing me to get lost in the music.

As I work on my cake, I find that using premium wireless earbuds like the Raycom makes all the difference. Not only do they sound amazing, but they also stay in place even when I'm working out or engaging in other physical activities. The fact that they are now half the price of other top brands is just a bonus.

My cake decorating process may seem intimidating, but it's actually quite straightforward. I start by creating a base layer with one type of cereal, and then build up to more complex designs using different types of cereal and decorations. For this particular cake, I've chosen a fruity cereal as the main ingredient, and will be adding horizontal lines to create a unique pattern.

To achieve this effect, I'll be using washi tape as my marker, carefully placing it along the edge of the cake to create the desired design. The washi tape is easy to remove and comes in a range of colors, making it perfect for creating intricate patterns on my cake.

As I work, I like to take breaks and recharge with a cup of milk. To add an extra touch to my cake, I'll be using mini balloons and melted chocolate to create a fun and playful design. The process involves blowing up the balloons and then carefully placing them in cups filled with melted chocolate - it's almost like creating a drip cake.

Once the chocolate has set, I'll be adding dowels to support the second tier of my cake, carefully removing it from its stand and centering it above the first layer. And just like that, my cake is complete.

**Tips and Tricks for Cake Decorating**

One of the best things about cake decorating is the flexibility and creativity that comes with it. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, there are countless ways to customize your cakes and make them truly unique.

If you're looking to get started, I recommend checking out some of our live tutorial options - they're perfect for learning new skills and techniques from experienced bakers like myself. From cookies to mega cakes, we have a wealth of resources available to help you take your baking to the next level.

**Sponsored by Raycom**

I want to extend a special thank you to Raycom for sponsoring this video. Their earbuds are truly amazing, providing hours of uninterrupted listening time and staying in place even when I'm working out or engaging in other physical activities. Whether you're a serious music lover or just someone who enjoys a good tune, the Raycom earbuds are definitely worth checking out.

**Summer Sprinklin' Cake Lightning**

And now, it's time to move on to my next project - a cake that will be perfect for the summer season. I'll be using a combination of sprinkles and new blast to create a fun and playful design, complete with colorful balloons and a sweet treat at its center.

Stay tuned for more cake decorating tutorials and tips, and don't forget to check out our live sessions for all your baking needs. And if you're looking to get into the Sweetest Club around, be sure to join us in June for a month of fun and festivities - it's going to be a blast!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis week I made a serial mega cake like cereal as in in the box as opposed to cereal like ser I al well I'm technically I'm a cereal mega cake maker I'm really boring my favorite cereal is like raisin bran what yeah even when I was a kid thank you to recon for sponsoring this video for the inside of this cake I actually decided to make velvet cake I made two batches and I died one pink and one yellow I've made pink velvet cake before most famously on my watermelon cake and I've made red velvet for my brain cake so for this cereal cake I thought I'm gonna use that same recipe but I'm gonna die one batch pink and one punch yellow to match the cereal my cakes have been baked cooled and chilled but there's something else we need to make to put inside these cakes cereal disks I was trying to think of a better name but I really can't think of one so I'm making two cereal discs out of two colorful sugary cereals that I'm using one for each tier of cake these cereal layers are made like any other cereal treat just by melting some butter marshmallows and then dumping in your cereal and I set them in the same size pans that I baked my cakes in so I'm making one disc at a fruit loops for one of the layers of cake and the other disc and a Timbit cereal which if you're not Canadian is basically like a doughnut hole cereal yeah I think you're right you know we have to work on the cereal this name yeah no we need something else crunchy disc no the problem is the disc oh the thing is it needs to be shaped like a disc in order to fit into your cake this is very important so now with my baked cooled and chilled cakes I'm going to level them as always remove the carmelization from the bottom cut each cake into two layers and then remove the carmelization from the sides I get asked a lot about caramelization I have nothing against caramelization it's just when I make a cake that's colorful that's what I want to shine through so it's colorful and bright as it is on the outside when you cut in that's what I want you to see I don't want your eye to be drawn to the brown line on the side or the top or the bottom of the cake each cake will have pink and yellow velvet layers and I have to tell you something else there's no simple syrup in this cake instead of using simple syrup on this cake I'm gonna use something that many people like not including me which is cereal milk making cereal milk is really simple all I did was take three cups of cereal and then I poured three cups of milk on top I'm using whole milk 3.25% and just let your cereal soak but you never want you to be able to get soggy but in this case you're waiting until it gets soggy and then I strained it through a sieve just to get all that milk out you can even whisk it in the sieve to make sure all the milk comes out and then I strained it again try to use a fine sieve or even a nut milk bag or cheesecloth or anything like that because sir squeeze is not here for the cereal crimes in his nozzle so one cake is dedicated to the fruity cereal and one cake is dedicated to the donut flavored cereal the cereal nuts are pretty much impossible to tell apart so make sure you remember which ones which now I'm going to fill in fact these cakes with Italian meringue buttercream I'm alternating the colorful layers and then I'm putting the cereal layers in the middle and continuing to stand once my cakes are stacked I'm going to crumb coat them and chill them see some things remain missing while my cakes are chilling I'm going to place about a cup of each cereal into my food processor one at a time not together and blend them into crumbs you're not gonna believe what I'm gonna do next not only did I intentionally make crumbs I'm now gonna intentionally fold those crumbs into Italian right back I mean you're thinking like why even bother if I'm coating and chilling but let me be clear even in this case I don't want cross coloured crumb contamination at crumb coated to keep the cake crumbs down I only want to see cereal crumbs in the butter cream crumb discrimination I might think I I'm a crummy person that's really crummy anything now I'm gonna ice each one of my cakes with the appropriate crummy buttercream I felt really free as I was icing though cuz I was like oh oh I didn't they're supposed to be there but this was a really new feeling for me I don't know if I'm gonna ever do it again and I still used a bench paper to smooth my buttercream they are very very fine crumbs in the buttercream so the buttercream still feels smooth as you're icing your cake thank goodness I'm gonna let these cakes chill for a little bit because I'm decorating the outside with my cereal if the buttercream is too soft as you add your cereal it will just smush and we don't want to see that but we also don't want to chill it so far that the cereal won't stick you know did you go through each piece of cereal and well I really I don't think you can understand I wanted to do it ahead of time but then I ran out of time but then as I was decorating the cake I was like nope nope I'm gonna begin with my fruity cereal and I think that's the larger Cape tier and what I want to do is basically create stripes with the loops because you know I thought these are loose I've clearly got to put them a straight line that makes sense with something round you straighten it I also used a ruler to help me line up the loops and I alternated the colors as I lined up my stripes on the cake as you guys know most of my cakes take a long time even the ones that don't look like they did absolutely did so when I'm working really hard and I need to focus I thought it's like to zone out with music it's just the only way I can get through it so while I'm working I like to pop in my Raycom earbuds they're noise isolating so all I hear is my music and then I just get into the groove and I am someone who was always worried to get on the wireless beer but trained because I knew my hair would pull them out I thought my hair would pull them out my hair pulls out my regular earphones all the time and my hoops just take a moment for the hoops I've lost but these earbuds stay in my cap and even better break on here but it started about half the price of any other premium wireless earbud on the market they sound just as amazing as other top audio brands you know they're great for working from home working out listening to music and podcasts for hours and hours and of course cake decorating lining up cereal loops as I know many of us do their everyday eat when t5 earbuds are their best model yet with six hours of playtime seamless bluetooth pairing more bass which I need and a more compact design that gives you a nice noise isolating fit they also come in new fun colors make sure to click the link in the description below to get 15% percent 15 percent off your order of recon earbuds my fruity cereal cake tier looks great I'm gonna move on to my second tier and the donut cereal is kind of like just little balls with sprinkles on top so I've decided to do horizontal lines just because I like to torture myself so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna start at the bottom of the cake and line them all up and then I'm just using a piece of washi which is like Japanese masking tape sort of as my marker I'm gonna put it backward on the cake and then line up the next line the reason I'm using this is it's easy to remove and it's the exact right thickness that I'm looking for if you guys make this cake of course you can use any cereal you like not raisin bread but you can line it up any way you want create whatever patterns you like I'm gonna place my cakes in the fridge to chill before I stack one on top of the other and in the meantime I want to make a milk splash I've blown up some little mini balloons and I've studied them in some little cups and basically what I'm gonna do is place my melted chocolate in a piping bag you wanted to be melted but not so hot that it will pop the balloon and then kind of like a drip cake I'm gonna go around and drip the chocolate around the lip they'll take about 20 minutes to set at room temperature or you can pop them in the fridge if it's really humid where you are but you definitely want to make sure they're a hundred percent set and rather than pop them because it's such a jolt I don't want the chocolate to crack I'm just gonna use scissors and sort of cut near the knot at the top of the balloon where the balloon is thicker and let the air just sort of count slowly you know that sound do you know exactly what I'm talking about I need to place dowels in this cake to hold up in the second cake I'll very carefully remove my second tier pick it up quickly and Center it but it sounds weird to say but this cake really smells like cereal like every time I open the fridge I was like whoa and you don't think of cereal as having a strong smell it really smelt like cereal all the membership items are here and our theme for the month of June is the movie Grease you can join the sweetest club around and get this cake ladies baseball team as well as our summer sprinklin and cake lightning sprinkle medley we're not singing some a sprinklin and new blast I don't know what if you're looking to get into baking maybe you want to start by making some gorgeous cookies or maybe you do want to make a mega cake with me we have a lot of live tutorial options for you just head to the link in the description below to check them out thank you again to Raycom for sponsoring this video can't get enough cake check this out okay ready some of sprinklin had me a blast something I met a cake crazy for me we won't continuethis week I made a serial mega cake like cereal as in in the box as opposed to cereal like ser I al well I'm technically I'm a cereal mega cake maker I'm really boring my favorite cereal is like raisin bran what yeah even when I was a kid thank you to recon for sponsoring this video for the inside of this cake I actually decided to make velvet cake I made two batches and I died one pink and one yellow I've made pink velvet cake before most famously on my watermelon cake and I've made red velvet for my brain cake so for this cereal cake I thought I'm gonna use that same recipe but I'm gonna die one batch pink and one punch yellow to match the cereal my cakes have been baked cooled and chilled but there's something else we need to make to put inside these cakes cereal disks I was trying to think of a better name but I really can't think of one so I'm making two cereal discs out of two colorful sugary cereals that I'm using one for each tier of cake these cereal layers are made like any other cereal treat just by melting some butter marshmallows and then dumping in your cereal and I set them in the same size pans that I baked my cakes in so I'm making one disc at a fruit loops for one of the layers of cake and the other disc and a Timbit cereal which if you're not Canadian is basically like a doughnut hole cereal yeah I think you're right you know we have to work on the cereal this name yeah no we need something else crunchy disc no the problem is the disc oh the thing is it needs to be shaped like a disc in order to fit into your cake this is very important so now with my baked cooled and chilled cakes I'm going to level them as always remove the carmelization from the bottom cut each cake into two layers and then remove the carmelization from the sides I get asked a lot about caramelization I have nothing against caramelization it's just when I make a cake that's colorful that's what I want to shine through so it's colorful and bright as it is on the outside when you cut in that's what I want you to see I don't want your eye to be drawn to the brown line on the side or the top or the bottom of the cake each cake will have pink and yellow velvet layers and I have to tell you something else there's no simple syrup in this cake instead of using simple syrup on this cake I'm gonna use something that many people like not including me which is cereal milk making cereal milk is really simple all I did was take three cups of cereal and then I poured three cups of milk on top I'm using whole milk 3.25% and just let your cereal soak but you never want you to be able to get soggy but in this case you're waiting until it gets soggy and then I strained it through a sieve just to get all that milk out you can even whisk it in the sieve to make sure all the milk comes out and then I strained it again try to use a fine sieve or even a nut milk bag or cheesecloth or anything like that because sir squeeze is not here for the cereal crimes in his nozzle so one cake is dedicated to the fruity cereal and one cake is dedicated to the donut flavored cereal the cereal nuts are pretty much impossible to tell apart so make sure you remember which ones which now I'm going to fill in fact these cakes with Italian meringue buttercream I'm alternating the colorful layers and then I'm putting the cereal layers in the middle and continuing to stand once my cakes are stacked I'm going to crumb coat them and chill them see some things remain missing while my cakes are chilling I'm going to place about a cup of each cereal into my food processor one at a time not together and blend them into crumbs you're not gonna believe what I'm gonna do next not only did I intentionally make crumbs I'm now gonna intentionally fold those crumbs into Italian right back I mean you're thinking like why even bother if I'm coating and chilling but let me be clear even in this case I don't want cross coloured crumb contamination at crumb coated to keep the cake crumbs down I only want to see cereal crumbs in the butter cream crumb discrimination I might think I I'm a crummy person that's really crummy anything now I'm gonna ice each one of my cakes with the appropriate crummy buttercream I felt really free as I was icing though cuz I was like oh oh I didn't they're supposed to be there but this was a really new feeling for me I don't know if I'm gonna ever do it again and I still used a bench paper to smooth my buttercream they are very very fine crumbs in the buttercream so the buttercream still feels smooth as you're icing your cake thank goodness I'm gonna let these cakes chill for a little bit because I'm decorating the outside with my cereal if the buttercream is too soft as you add your cereal it will just smush and we don't want to see that but we also don't want to chill it so far that the cereal won't stick you know did you go through each piece of cereal and well I really I don't think you can understand I wanted to do it ahead of time but then I ran out of time but then as I was decorating the cake I was like nope nope I'm gonna begin with my fruity cereal and I think that's the larger Cape tier and what I want to do is basically create stripes with the loops because you know I thought these are loose I've clearly got to put them a straight line that makes sense with something round you straighten it I also used a ruler to help me line up the loops and I alternated the colors as I lined up my stripes on the cake as you guys know most of my cakes take a long time even the ones that don't look like they did absolutely did so when I'm working really hard and I need to focus I thought it's like to zone out with music it's just the only way I can get through it so while I'm working I like to pop in my Raycom earbuds they're noise isolating so all I hear is my music and then I just get into the groove and I am someone who was always worried to get on the wireless beer but trained because I knew my hair would pull them out I thought my hair would pull them out my hair pulls out my regular earphones all the time and my hoops just take a moment for the hoops I've lost but these earbuds stay in my cap and even better break on here but it started about half the price of any other premium wireless earbud on the market they sound just as amazing as other top audio brands you know they're great for working from home working out listening to music and podcasts for hours and hours and of course cake decorating lining up cereal loops as I know many of us do their everyday eat when t5 earbuds are their best model yet with six hours of playtime seamless bluetooth pairing more bass which I need and a more compact design that gives you a nice noise isolating fit they also come in new fun colors make sure to click the link in the description below to get 15% percent 15 percent off your order of recon earbuds my fruity cereal cake tier looks great I'm gonna move on to my second tier and the donut cereal is kind of like just little balls with sprinkles on top so I've decided to do horizontal lines just because I like to torture myself so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna start at the bottom of the cake and line them all up and then I'm just using a piece of washi which is like Japanese masking tape sort of as my marker I'm gonna put it backward on the cake and then line up the next line the reason I'm using this is it's easy to remove and it's the exact right thickness that I'm looking for if you guys make this cake of course you can use any cereal you like not raisin bread but you can line it up any way you want create whatever patterns you like I'm gonna place my cakes in the fridge to chill before I stack one on top of the other and in the meantime I want to make a milk splash I've blown up some little mini balloons and I've studied them in some little cups and basically what I'm gonna do is place my melted chocolate in a piping bag you wanted to be melted but not so hot that it will pop the balloon and then kind of like a drip cake I'm gonna go around and drip the chocolate around the lip they'll take about 20 minutes to set at room temperature or you can pop them in the fridge if it's really humid where you are but you definitely want to make sure they're a hundred percent set and rather than pop them because it's such a jolt I don't want the chocolate to crack I'm just gonna use scissors and sort of cut near the knot at the top of the balloon where the balloon is thicker and let the air just sort of count slowly you know that sound do you know exactly what I'm talking about I need to place dowels in this cake to hold up in the second cake I'll very carefully remove my second tier pick it up quickly and Center it but it sounds weird to say but this cake really smells like cereal like every time I open the fridge I was like whoa and you don't think of cereal as having a strong smell it really smelt like cereal all the membership items are here and our theme for the month of June is the movie Grease you can join the sweetest club around and get this cake ladies baseball team as well as our summer sprinklin and cake lightning sprinkle medley we're not singing some a sprinklin and new blast I don't know what if you're looking to get into baking maybe you want to start by making some gorgeous cookies or maybe you do want to make a mega cake with me we have a lot of live tutorial options for you just head to the link in the description below to check them out thank you again to Raycom for sponsoring this video can't get enough cake check this out okay ready some of sprinklin had me a blast something I met a cake crazy for me we won't continue\n"