Cakes So Realistic You Won't Trust Your Eyes Again

Cakes So Realistic You Won’t Trust Your Eyes Again

I’m pretty much questioning reality right now…

The launch of Netflix’s Is It Cake got me wondering just how easily I’d be fooled by a clandestine cupcake.


Courtesy of Netflix

The new game show challenges judges to guess which item is actually a cake in disguise. Sounds pretty easy, right? I mean, just how deceptive can a cake really be? 

Well, I did some research, and let’s just say I’m pretty much questioning reality right now…

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I toadilly thought I’d witnessed a murder here:

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This is one clawsome cake:

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Giving a whole new meaning to the word “sneakers”:

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I can’t stop staring at this…

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I can’t bowl-ieve this one:

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Really quite fintastic:

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Did someone order a slice of surreal?

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Might try biting my next delivery:

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I corn’t believe my eyes:

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So, this counts as one of my five-a-day, right?

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Who said veg can’t be a treat?

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This is all cake?! Stop it.

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This is bananas on so many levels:

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Up this close and still so real:

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How do you like your eggs in the morning? I like mine as a cake:

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A budding cake illusionist:

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No fouls for this display of cake artistry:

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This is just eggcellent:

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Rugrats the movie, coming to plates near you:

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Disrupted realism? You got that right!

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Move over Sabrina, this cake is the real magic here:

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It’s literally a SPONGE cake:

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A bunbelievable display of creative talent:

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Sugar and spice and all things nice:

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Sun, sea and subterfuge:

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A Valentine’s 2-in-1 special waiting to happen: flowers that are cake:

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A breakfast of champions:

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Holy smokes, you’re telling me this isn’t ribs?!

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Mac’n’please stop, I don’t know what’s real anymore:

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Just an average cup o’ joe…

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These boots were made for eatin’:

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This cake is berry deceptive:

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Hello, I’ll take one tower of trickery please:

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This honestly makes me feel so conflicted:

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Please explain to me how one cake looks like hundreds of individual noodles?!

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This is literally a cupcake.

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Full of vitamin C: C for cunning and creative, that is:

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I would 100% order a footlong cake sub:

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I am absolutely stag-gered by this cake:

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Roast dinner, anyone?

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You’re telling me this isn’t just an ornament?!

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A divine display of deception:

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Cake sorcery? Laura’s got it in the bag:

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Surreptitious but delicious:

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I never knew cakes could look straight into your soul…

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What a boot-iful cake:

Now, since you’ve been on this trippy journey with me, I’ll leave you with some tweets that sum up how I feel after this barrage of bonkers bakes:


@MNateShyamalan on Twitter / Via Twitter: @MNateShyamalan

And finally, the ol’ classic Twilight scene you all know and love:


@theofluffycat on Twitter / Via Twitter: @theofluffycat

It definitely goes exactly like that in the movie.

Which was your favourite illusion cake? And could you bring yourself to tuck into some of the more out-there bakes, like the raw chicken breasts?! Let me know in the comments!