The Art of Cake Design: A Journey to Perfection

As I stood in front of my little red cake, I knew that I had to make it perfect. I was determined to create a masterpiece that would impress anyone who saw it. The cake's dimensions were crucial; they needed to be just right - not too big, not too small. I wanted them to be nice and condensed, all face up and ready for the next step. My goal was to avoid any collapse, ensuring that my cake didn't have any unwanted dips or valleys.

To achieve this, I carefully planned out the angles of the cake on all four sides. It was going to be a lot of cake scraps, but I knew it was necessary to get the design just right. I found the exact center of the top of my little red cake and made a mark, then used a ruler to line it up from the top center mark to the outer edge of the bottom cake. Taking a sharp knife, I made a mark into the cake on the two opposite sides first and then used a strong, large serrated knife to cut the two angles. It was like a colorful avalanche, and I repeated this process on the remaining two sides of the cake.

As I worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and pride. My cake was starting to take shape, and it was becoming more beautiful by the minute. I took a step back and admired my handiwork, satisfied with the result. The cake was now in the form of a pyramid, with each layer carefully crafted to create a stunning visual effect.

To stabilize the cake and give it a smooth finish, I crumb-coated it in a thin layer of chocolate ganache. This would also help me lift the cake onto my cart, as it weighed around 35 pounds - a feat that required two people to lift it. Luckily, I had my trusty cart to hold it together.

Next, I needed to add a decorative touch to my pyramid cake. Using a strong, large serrated knife, I carefully cut away at the edges of the cake to create a more defined shape. As I worked, I couldn't help but think about how much work went into creating this masterpiece. It was time-consuming and required patience, but the end result would be worth it.

With my cake now stabilized and ready for decoration, I moved on to add gummy candies to its surface. Using my chocolate ganache as glue, I carefully applied the gummies, making sure not to use too much ganache at a time. This ensured that they wouldn't smush out between each other. As I worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The final result would be worth all the hard work.

As the hours ticked by, my cake began to take shape. It was now covered in gummy candies, creating a colorful and whimsical design that caught the eye. But there was still one final touch - adding a purple gummy guy to the top of my pyramid. This would be his stage, and he would get to bask in the glory of his creation.

I carefully made a template out of gum paste, cut it out, and let it dry completely. Then, I rolled out some yellow fondant and glued it onto his head with a little bit of water. Once purple gummy guy was all dry, I added him to the top of my pyramid cake. He looked good there - he even had a tiny construction hat on his head.

Finally, I put some gummies in his hand, because every time I googled him, he was like "I have gummies literally." It seemed like he loved gummies almost as much as I did. And so, I added them to my cake, finishing it off with a flourish. The end result was nothing short of stunning - a colorful pyramid cake that was sure to turn heads.

But the journey didn't stop there. As I looked around at the treasures and trinkets surrounding me, I stumbled upon something unexpected - a stash of Canadian loonies hidden away in an ancient Egyptian pyramid. It seemed like a long way to travel for such a small prize, but I couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder and awe.

The Great Gummy Bake-Off Challenge

As I prepared to leave my cake behind, I received some exciting news - the developers of Gummy Drop had partnered with me to host the Great Gummy Bake-Off challenge. The stakes were high, as contestants could win a chance to travel around the world and enjoy cakes that are truly swanky.

The contest was now over, but I couldn't wait to see how my time-lapse video turned out. I uploaded it to my Facebook page, where it quickly gained popularity. And so, it seemed like my cake had not only won the challenge - it also became a viral sensation.

But as for me, I had another adventure on the horizon. As I boarded my plane and took off towards Tokyo, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The world was full of wonders and surprises, and I was eager to see what lay ahead. And so, with my trusty cake by my side, I set off on another journey of discovery and exploration.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to how to cake it i'm yolanda and this week i'm gonna cake you around the world actually we're just going to cairo but you can go around the world in the gummy drop game thank you to gummy drop developers big fish games for sponsoring and collaborating on this video with me by taking part in their great gummy bake off you could win a samsung galaxy s2 tablet all you need to do is download the gummy drop game the link is in the description below and get baking if you've been watching me you want to know how to do that for full details on the contest and how you can win make sure to check the description let's get started on my gummy bake this gummy pyramid is big i started with 32 pounds of my ultimate vanilla cake batter dyed it six glorious candy colors and divided it between 12 square cake pans i remove all 12 of my cakes from their pens level them and cut off the caramelization from the bottom leaving me with 12 colorful layers of cake that are all one inch high for details on exactly what pens i used what colors i use and how i divided my batter check the description below sir squeeze a lot has a job to do he's got a lot of simple syrup to shower on these cakes is he up for it he's always oh yeah he's the man for this cake i'm gonna need eight pounds of chocolate ganache and i actually upped the chocolate ratio in the ganache because i need this cake to be very sturdy i don't want to use boards in the middle oh no i have another plan for the middle before i continue to stack my cake i need to create the secret chamber that will house the gold oh my gosh that was your stomach it was a motorcycle i'm going to fill this cake with gold chocolate coins and i want to stack them inside the cake just like a pyramid in my two 10 inch square purple cakes i'm gonna cut an inside square that measures four and a quarter inches in my two eight inch pink cakes i'm gonna carve an inside square that is two and three quarter inches in my two six inch orange cakes i'm going to carve an inside square that is 1 and 3 8 of an inch it's time to add the purple layers to my cake but i want the surface of the blue cake where the coins are going to lay to remain ganache free so i'm just going to ice around that inner square using a template to help me keep my cake clean now i lay on my first purple layer being very careful how i handle it because it's much more delicate with a hole in it now time for more ganache on top and the next purple layer it's finally time to add my gold chocolate coins but i just want to clean up any ganache in the center of my square holes score holes i quit quit you know don't quit i need help with words i'm getting really excited about this i lined up all my coins perfectly face up i do that in my wallet too by the way i can't stand when bill's face the wrong dirt we're not going to get into this back to caking it's time for more cake layers so i'm gonna spread ganache and add my two pink cake layers and of course more gold coins this time in two rows of two but still all facing up now we're approaching the top layer of the chamber i want this to be like really serious i don't know if that's possible too many candy colors i add my two orange layers of cake sandwich with ganache and fill the tiny chamber with one stack of coins all facing upright the secret chamber is now filled with gold i'm finally gonna add my two adorable yeah they're adorable little four inch red cake layers sandwich with ganache the reason i stack the coins this way is so that the cake doesn't collapse they're nice and condensed they're all face up and this cake is going nowhere now i need to cut away the angles of this cake on all four sides guys there's gonna be a lot of cake scraps i find the exact center of the top of my little red cake and make a mark then i take a ruler and i line it up from the top center mark to the outer edge of the bottom cake and i take a sharp knife and just make a mark into my cake i do this on the two opposite sides of the cake first and then use a strong large serrated knife to cut the two angles it's like a colorful avalanche i repeat this whole process on the remaining two sides of the cake and now i'm left with the most gorgeous colorful pyramid i want to travel there right now i now need to crumb coat this cake in a thin layer of chocolate ganache and put it in the fridge to chill for 10 minutes this cake is easily about 35 pounds at least it takes two people to lift it i don't have that so i used my cart but i really could have used that helping hand and i can use your helping hand this is getting very healthy it's time to play it takes two if every one of you out there who is subscribed asked just one person to subscribe we'd hit 2 million before my birthday in july tag someone you know who isn't subscribed in the comments below get them to subscribe to how to cake it and you'll have the chance to win two matching cake me around the world teas you can wear them and go around the world and eat cake that is swanky so it's swanky i feel like you work swanky is definitely worth it now that my pyramid cake is chilled i need to cover it in gummy candies it's getting even better to add these gummies to my cake i'm going to use my chocolate ganache as glue but ganache sets up really quickly so you need to ice it bit by bit as you add your gummies you want to be careful not to use too much ganache to glue your gummies down so that it doesn't smush out between all of the gummies get adding see in three hours my cake it to the minute contest is now over but i'm still putting up my time lapse videos on my facebook the handle is below and you will see for yourself how long this time green blue purple pink orange red then green blue purple pink orange red then green blue purple pink orange red then green blue you you get it not only did my cake end in red cake layers my gummies ended with a red gummy and i had no way of knowing until i built the whole pyramid i probably did mathematically but for me i had no way of knowing i want to add a purple gummy guy to the top of my pyramid i'm going to let him take the credit for building it i mean he's wearing a construction hat to create purple gummy guy i made myself a template cut him out of gum paste and let him dry completely to make his little construction hat i rolled out some yellow fondant and glued it onto his head with a little bit of water now he's just gummy guy i have to make him purple gummy guy so i painted him with a little bit of purple food coloring diluted with rum once purple gummy guy is all dry i add him to the top of the paper he looks good there yeah oh and then i put some gummies in his hand because every time i googled him he was like i have gummies literally this is his pose he's like oh he doesn't have a smile though he has no face i don't know how to act that out he's just like i felt like i was a treasure hunter and gummy guy was just like i can't help you i mean why does he wear a construction hat i finally get to the treasure and enjoy some colorful cake with chocolate ganache and gold claims i had no idea that egyptian pyramids were filled with canadian loonies it seems like a long way to travel for that but the dollar i mean it's literally worthless sorry canada canadians better not get mad at this don't forget to take part in the great gummy bake off you can bake anything inspired by the game so don't forget to download gummy drop link in the description have fun and get that purple gummy guy to help you and thank you again to the gummy drop developers big fish games for sponsoring and collaborating on this video i'm going to tokyo i do this a lot that's where this plane is going right now okay guys thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe remember it takes two you could win this t-shirt i'll see you next week on how to kick itwelcome back to how to cake it i'm yolanda and this week i'm gonna cake you around the world actually we're just going to cairo but you can go around the world in the gummy drop game thank you to gummy drop developers big fish games for sponsoring and collaborating on this video with me by taking part in their great gummy bake off you could win a samsung galaxy s2 tablet all you need to do is download the gummy drop game the link is in the description below and get baking if you've been watching me you want to know how to do that for full details on the contest and how you can win make sure to check the description let's get started on my gummy bake this gummy pyramid is big i started with 32 pounds of my ultimate vanilla cake batter dyed it six glorious candy colors and divided it between 12 square cake pans i remove all 12 of my cakes from their pens level them and cut off the caramelization from the bottom leaving me with 12 colorful layers of cake that are all one inch high for details on exactly what pens i used what colors i use and how i divided my batter check the description below sir squeeze a lot has a job to do he's got a lot of simple syrup to shower on these cakes is he up for it he's always oh yeah he's the man for this cake i'm gonna need eight pounds of chocolate ganache and i actually upped the chocolate ratio in the ganache because i need this cake to be very sturdy i don't want to use boards in the middle oh no i have another plan for the middle before i continue to stack my cake i need to create the secret chamber that will house the gold oh my gosh that was your stomach it was a motorcycle i'm going to fill this cake with gold chocolate coins and i want to stack them inside the cake just like a pyramid in my two 10 inch square purple cakes i'm gonna cut an inside square that measures four and a quarter inches in my two eight inch pink cakes i'm gonna carve an inside square that is two and three quarter inches in my two six inch orange cakes i'm going to carve an inside square that is 1 and 3 8 of an inch it's time to add the purple layers to my cake but i want the surface of the blue cake where the coins are going to lay to remain ganache free so i'm just going to ice around that inner square using a template to help me keep my cake clean now i lay on my first purple layer being very careful how i handle it because it's much more delicate with a hole in it now time for more ganache on top and the next purple layer it's finally time to add my gold chocolate coins but i just want to clean up any ganache in the center of my square holes score holes i quit quit you know don't quit i need help with words i'm getting really excited about this i lined up all my coins perfectly face up i do that in my wallet too by the way i can't stand when bill's face the wrong dirt we're not going to get into this back to caking it's time for more cake layers so i'm gonna spread ganache and add my two pink cake layers and of course more gold coins this time in two rows of two but still all facing up now we're approaching the top layer of the chamber i want this to be like really serious i don't know if that's possible too many candy colors i add my two orange layers of cake sandwich with ganache and fill the tiny chamber with one stack of coins all facing upright the secret chamber is now filled with gold i'm finally gonna add my two adorable yeah they're adorable little four inch red cake layers sandwich with ganache the reason i stack the coins this way is so that the cake doesn't collapse they're nice and condensed they're all face up and this cake is going nowhere now i need to cut away the angles of this cake on all four sides guys there's gonna be a lot of cake scraps i find the exact center of the top of my little red cake and make a mark then i take a ruler and i line it up from the top center mark to the outer edge of the bottom cake and i take a sharp knife and just make a mark into my cake i do this on the two opposite sides of the cake first and then use a strong large serrated knife to cut the two angles it's like a colorful avalanche i repeat this whole process on the remaining two sides of the cake and now i'm left with the most gorgeous colorful pyramid i want to travel there right now i now need to crumb coat this cake in a thin layer of chocolate ganache and put it in the fridge to chill for 10 minutes this cake is easily about 35 pounds at least it takes two people to lift it i don't have that so i used my cart but i really could have used that helping hand and i can use your helping hand this is getting very healthy it's time to play it takes two if every one of you out there who is subscribed asked just one person to subscribe we'd hit 2 million before my birthday in july tag someone you know who isn't subscribed in the comments below get them to subscribe to how to cake it and you'll have the chance to win two matching cake me around the world teas you can wear them and go around the world and eat cake that is swanky so it's swanky i feel like you work swanky is definitely worth it now that my pyramid cake is chilled i need to cover it in gummy candies it's getting even better to add these gummies to my cake i'm going to use my chocolate ganache as glue but ganache sets up really quickly so you need to ice it bit by bit as you add your gummies you want to be careful not to use too much ganache to glue your gummies down so that it doesn't smush out between all of the gummies get adding see in three hours my cake it to the minute contest is now over but i'm still putting up my time lapse videos on my facebook the handle is below and you will see for yourself how long this time green blue purple pink orange red then green blue purple pink orange red then green blue purple pink orange red then green blue you you get it not only did my cake end in red cake layers my gummies ended with a red gummy and i had no way of knowing until i built the whole pyramid i probably did mathematically but for me i had no way of knowing i want to add a purple gummy guy to the top of my pyramid i'm going to let him take the credit for building it i mean he's wearing a construction hat to create purple gummy guy i made myself a template cut him out of gum paste and let him dry completely to make his little construction hat i rolled out some yellow fondant and glued it onto his head with a little bit of water now he's just gummy guy i have to make him purple gummy guy so i painted him with a little bit of purple food coloring diluted with rum once purple gummy guy is all dry i add him to the top of the paper he looks good there yeah oh and then i put some gummies in his hand because every time i googled him he was like i have gummies literally this is his pose he's like oh he doesn't have a smile though he has no face i don't know how to act that out he's just like i felt like i was a treasure hunter and gummy guy was just like i can't help you i mean why does he wear a construction hat i finally get to the treasure and enjoy some colorful cake with chocolate ganache and gold claims i had no idea that egyptian pyramids were filled with canadian loonies it seems like a long way to travel for that but the dollar i mean it's literally worthless sorry canada canadians better not get mad at this don't forget to take part in the great gummy bake off you can bake anything inspired by the game so don't forget to download gummy drop link in the description have fun and get that purple gummy guy to help you and thank you again to the gummy drop developers big fish games for sponsoring and collaborating on this video i'm going to tokyo i do this a lot that's where this plane is going right now okay guys thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe remember it takes two you could win this t-shirt i'll see you next week on how to kick it\n"