**The Creation of a Hollywood Glamorous Cake: A Step-by-Step Guide**

As we delve into the world of cake design, we find ourselves in the hands of a talented artist who is about to create a show-stopping cake for the Oscars. The cake is designed to resemble a popcorn box, complete with intricate details and a stunning black and gold design. Our guide takes us through every step of the process, from creating the dress on her body to adding the final touches.

To begin, the artist starts by covering each panel of the fondant dress for the popcorn box with a layer of sugar paste. This is done to create a smooth surface that will hold the intricate details and design elements in place. As she works, she mentions that she's "literally just sewing her into it," emphasizing the level of detail and precision required to create this intricate cake.

Next, the artist focuses on creating the dress itself. She explains that she wants the look of the dress to have a bit of sheen, and to achieve this, she dilutes some black gel food coloring with a little bit of white rum. This mixture is then painted onto all sides of the cake in one motion, creating a uniform and sleek design.

The artist also discusses the importance of getting into character for the shoot. She mentions that she's "not going for just black," but rather a deeper, richer shade that will add depth to the overall design. This attention to detail is evident throughout the entire process, as our guide takes the time to explain every step and technique used.

With the dress complete, the artist turns her attention to adding patterns to the cake. She reveals that 2016 is the year of patterns, citing "stripes and stars" as inspiration for this particular design. To create these patterns, she uses a combination of fondant and gum paste, carefully cutting out intricate designs and applying them to the cake.

One of the most striking elements of the cake is the scalloped pattern at the top, which is achieved using a sharp knife or X-acto blade. The artist takes great care to ensure that every edge and corner is perfectly trimmed, creating a seamless and polished finish.

As we near the end of our journey with this talented baker, she reveals that she's also created a label for the cake, complete with the words "cake corn" in elegant gold lettering. This final touch adds an extra layer of whimsy and fun to the design, tying in perfectly with the popcorn box theme.

Finally, we arrive at the finishing touches, where our guide adds a sprinkle of caramel corn on top of the cake to give it a curly, wavy appearance. She also tops the dress off with a sprig of gold luster, adding an extra touch of glamour and sophistication.

Throughout this article, it's clear that our talented baker is dedicated to creating a truly show-stopping cake. From the intricate details to the stunning design elements, every aspect of this creation has been carefully considered and executed with precision and flair. As we take a final look at this incredible cake, we can't help but be impressed by the skill and artistry that has gone into its creation.

**Behind-the-Scenes Insights**

As our guide works on creating this stunning cake, she reveals some behind-the-scenes insights into her creative process. She mentions that she's been working on this project for a long time, and that it takes a lot of patience and dedication to bring a design like this to life. Our guide also thanks her team, including Sasha behind the camera, Chet (although he's not with us anymore), Connie, Amy, Emmy, and Mr. Cake, who have all played an important role in helping her create this masterpiece.

In addition to the artistic process, our guide takes a moment to acknowledge the importance of having a great support system. She expresses her gratitude to Jocelyn for her hairdo, and to everyone else who has helped her along the way. This emphasis on teamwork and collaboration is a testament to the value of working with others in the creative industry.

**A Message from the Artist**

As we conclude our journey with this talented baker, she takes a moment to express her gratitude to all of those involved in bringing this cake to life. She thanks everyone who has supported her throughout this process, and reminds us that creativity is often about taking risks and pushing boundaries. Our guide also invites readers to check out the time-lapse video of the entire process on her Facebook page, giving them a behind-the-scenes look at how this incredible cake was created.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood evening everyone welcome to the eighth patty cake it tuesday of 2016. it's gonna be a great show tonight i'll be making the tuxedo of popcorn box cakes it's the oscars yolanda yolanda what are you wearing tonight oh i'm wearing a hat a cake it's sweater designed by me for me exclusive one of a kind each one is available at habitreacup.com you can order your own one of a kind we have hundreds each one one of a kind i begin by making four pounds of my vanilla cake and folding in one and a half cups of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips then i make four pounds of my chocolate cake diet black with some food coloring and fold in one and a half cups of mini white chocolate chips i want to get rid of all the caramelization so all i see is black and white striped cakes now i'm going to cut both of my square cakes into four even smaller squares it's time to make my italian meringue buttercream oscar ready i take two cups of my buttercream and stir in a half a cup of my homemade caramel i start by layering my cakes black white black white and i fill each layer with caramel buttercream so in the end i have two identical cakes that are four layers high i'm going to stack these cakes one on top of the other and then i add a smaller board on top i'm going to carve this cake into the shape of a popcorn box by creating an a line on all four sides i'm going to use that top board as my guide cutting right beside the side of it down on an angle and i want to make sure that the bottom cake stays the same measurement then i add some dowels because eventually i will be turning this whole cake over dowels and a board are necessary to support the structure of this cake it's kind of like double-sided tape on a really low-cut dress or spanx you know to keep you know your mom belly in i know you all feel me once it's chilled i ice this cake as smoothly as i can she wants to look svelte on that red carpet every step has to be done right the makeup the hair do you like my hair it was done by jocelyn mercer it's kind of falling out of the back so don't say i did it well i'm not hiring her again it's time for this cake to be fitted for her little black dress i flip her over then i measure her her height and her width i roll out black fondant into four individual rectangles i cut two of my fondant slabs to be the right width and the right height i use a frill cutter on the top edge of both of these slabs because it's an old-fashioned popcorn box i place both slabs of fondant onto my cake on opposite sides and i use a fondant smoother to help secure it now i use a sharp knife and a ruler to trim my fondant to fit this cake like a glove now i cut my remaining two slabs of fondant in the same way to cover my last two sides of the cake oh bobby pins falling out everywhere i'm not going back to jocelyn i have custom made each panel of this fondant dress for the popcorn box so i'm literally just sewing her into it i'm creating the dress on her body so i don't know how she's going to go to the bathroom i want the look of this dress to have a bit of sheen you know i'm not going for just black just black is so last year i'm going for deep black i do this by diluting some black gel food coloring with a little bit of white rum and i paint it on all of the sides of the cake in one motion this dress is looking great but it needs some detail needs a pattern 2016 is the year of patterns what kind of pattern yolanda stripes and stars from february 26 to 29th at midnight oh it's a leap year this year our valentine's day limited edition t-shirts will be 20 off doesn't that make them not couture i roll out some deep yellow fondant as thinly as i can making sure it's tall enough for my cake then i cut three quarter inch stripes from the fondant very carefully and with a very sharp knife keeping my stripes intact i need to separate the stripes and i'm about to paint them gold and i need to get every single corner and edge i'm using the finest quality gold luster diluted with some white rum to paint these stripes the perfect shade of gold i'm applying my stripes with a little bit of water brushed on the back and holding them very very gently because the gold rubs off now i need to trim the tops of the stripes to match that lovely scalloped pattern at the top of our popcorn box i use a very sharp almost i use kind of like a scalpel you can use a sharp knife an x-acto knife and just slowly trim all of those stripes to go along with your frill i'm going to put a label another thing i'm a fan of using the same deep yellow fondant i used for the stripes i cut out the words cake corn with some alphabet cutters i'm going to paint these cake corn letters the same gold as the stripes of the cake and apply them in the same way front and center so everyone can see it it's time for touch-ups you know you can't walk the red carpet without a once-over so i give her a once-over the tops of the stripes where i cut are revealing some yellow and i can't have that so i paint that gold any little yellow bits poking out at the side this is not yellow and black i don't want a dress controversy this dress is black and gold the dress is black and gold the lady of the evening is almost ready she's almost there but do you know what she needs hair and she needs a hairdo that's better than this one yolanda i tried okay i'm topping her off with caramel corn we're not having plain popcorn on oscar night and i'm gonna sprinkle on a little of that gold luster i just place my popcorn on top it's like curly hair it doesn't stay in place you know what i mean there's probably evidence of this right here jocelyn yes some will fall off but she's you know she's that kind of girl she doesn't when a hair gets misplaced she's just like i've still got it i've still got it guys what is my good side because i literally don't know i really want these comments because i don't know what my good side is every time i take a photo i'm like because i'm not sure it's been a long night she rocked the red carpet but the only way to get her out of this dress is to cut her out of it couture takes a long time you cannot rush couture if you want to know how long this cake actually took to make head over to my facebook page we're going to load a time lapse video of the entire process from start to finish and you can see for yourself the tour is hard work i just want to take a moment to thank the people that got me here i want to thank sasha behind the camera doing such a great job chet who although he's not with us anymore was here from the beginning and such an integral part of this project connie can tardy my producer amy thank you for your support when i text you when i call you you're always there i couldn't do this without you emmy orhan you edit out all my flubs and my flips it's amazing thank you so much i need to thank mr cake behind every good woman there's a good man and of course my son brings me love and light thank you so everyone have a great night aren't you forgetting someone oh thanks jocelyn for my hairdo i love it you are a horrible person jocelyn i'll thank you just come on camera i'll thank you in persongood evening everyone welcome to the eighth patty cake it tuesday of 2016. it's gonna be a great show tonight i'll be making the tuxedo of popcorn box cakes it's the oscars yolanda yolanda what are you wearing tonight oh i'm wearing a hat a cake it's sweater designed by me for me exclusive one of a kind each one is available at habitreacup.com you can order your own one of a kind we have hundreds each one one of a kind i begin by making four pounds of my vanilla cake and folding in one and a half cups of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips then i make four pounds of my chocolate cake diet black with some food coloring and fold in one and a half cups of mini white chocolate chips i want to get rid of all the caramelization so all i see is black and white striped cakes now i'm going to cut both of my square cakes into four even smaller squares it's time to make my italian meringue buttercream oscar ready i take two cups of my buttercream and stir in a half a cup of my homemade caramel i start by layering my cakes black white black white and i fill each layer with caramel buttercream so in the end i have two identical cakes that are four layers high i'm going to stack these cakes one on top of the other and then i add a smaller board on top i'm going to carve this cake into the shape of a popcorn box by creating an a line on all four sides i'm going to use that top board as my guide cutting right beside the side of it down on an angle and i want to make sure that the bottom cake stays the same measurement then i add some dowels because eventually i will be turning this whole cake over dowels and a board are necessary to support the structure of this cake it's kind of like double-sided tape on a really low-cut dress or spanx you know to keep you know your mom belly in i know you all feel me once it's chilled i ice this cake as smoothly as i can she wants to look svelte on that red carpet every step has to be done right the makeup the hair do you like my hair it was done by jocelyn mercer it's kind of falling out of the back so don't say i did it well i'm not hiring her again it's time for this cake to be fitted for her little black dress i flip her over then i measure her her height and her width i roll out black fondant into four individual rectangles i cut two of my fondant slabs to be the right width and the right height i use a frill cutter on the top edge of both of these slabs because it's an old-fashioned popcorn box i place both slabs of fondant onto my cake on opposite sides and i use a fondant smoother to help secure it now i use a sharp knife and a ruler to trim my fondant to fit this cake like a glove now i cut my remaining two slabs of fondant in the same way to cover my last two sides of the cake oh bobby pins falling out everywhere i'm not going back to jocelyn i have custom made each panel of this fondant dress for the popcorn box so i'm literally just sewing her into it i'm creating the dress on her body so i don't know how she's going to go to the bathroom i want the look of this dress to have a bit of sheen you know i'm not going for just black just black is so last year i'm going for deep black i do this by diluting some black gel food coloring with a little bit of white rum and i paint it on all of the sides of the cake in one motion this dress is looking great but it needs some detail needs a pattern 2016 is the year of patterns what kind of pattern yolanda stripes and stars from february 26 to 29th at midnight oh it's a leap year this year our valentine's day limited edition t-shirts will be 20 off doesn't that make them not couture i roll out some deep yellow fondant as thinly as i can making sure it's tall enough for my cake then i cut three quarter inch stripes from the fondant very carefully and with a very sharp knife keeping my stripes intact i need to separate the stripes and i'm about to paint them gold and i need to get every single corner and edge i'm using the finest quality gold luster diluted with some white rum to paint these stripes the perfect shade of gold i'm applying my stripes with a little bit of water brushed on the back and holding them very very gently because the gold rubs off now i need to trim the tops of the stripes to match that lovely scalloped pattern at the top of our popcorn box i use a very sharp almost i use kind of like a scalpel you can use a sharp knife an x-acto knife and just slowly trim all of those stripes to go along with your frill i'm going to put a label another thing i'm a fan of using the same deep yellow fondant i used for the stripes i cut out the words cake corn with some alphabet cutters i'm going to paint these cake corn letters the same gold as the stripes of the cake and apply them in the same way front and center so everyone can see it it's time for touch-ups you know you can't walk the red carpet without a once-over so i give her a once-over the tops of the stripes where i cut are revealing some yellow and i can't have that so i paint that gold any little yellow bits poking out at the side this is not yellow and black i don't want a dress controversy this dress is black and gold the dress is black and gold the lady of the evening is almost ready she's almost there but do you know what she needs hair and she needs a hairdo that's better than this one yolanda i tried okay i'm topping her off with caramel corn we're not having plain popcorn on oscar night and i'm gonna sprinkle on a little of that gold luster i just place my popcorn on top it's like curly hair it doesn't stay in place you know what i mean there's probably evidence of this right here jocelyn yes some will fall off but she's you know she's that kind of girl she doesn't when a hair gets misplaced she's just like i've still got it i've still got it guys what is my good side because i literally don't know i really want these comments because i don't know what my good side is every time i take a photo i'm like because i'm not sure it's been a long night she rocked the red carpet but the only way to get her out of this dress is to cut her out of it couture takes a long time you cannot rush couture if you want to know how long this cake actually took to make head over to my facebook page we're going to load a time lapse video of the entire process from start to finish and you can see for yourself the tour is hard work i just want to take a moment to thank the people that got me here i want to thank sasha behind the camera doing such a great job chet who although he's not with us anymore was here from the beginning and such an integral part of this project connie can tardy my producer amy thank you for your support when i text you when i call you you're always there i couldn't do this without you emmy orhan you edit out all my flubs and my flips it's amazing thank you so much i need to thank mr cake behind every good woman there's a good man and of course my son brings me love and light thank you so everyone have a great night aren't you forgetting someone oh thanks jocelyn for my hairdo i love it you are a horrible person jocelyn i'll thank you just come on camera i'll thank you in person\n"