Sideserf Cake Studio

Natalie Sideserf

I make cakes that don't look like cakes! Merging fine art sculpting, food science, and edible engineering, I share the process of creating hyper realistic illusion cakes and food art sculptures. Every video documents the complete build using modeling chocolate, custom armature, precision carving, and realistic painting techniques.

  1. 1d ago

    I Made a French Onion Soup CAKE

    I made a hyperrealistic French onion soup CAKE! The bowl is made entirely of modeling chocolate thrown on a pottery wheel, the broth is apple cider, and the cheese pull is 100% marshmallow and white chocolate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. Oct 23

    This Octopus Grips My Arm (Itโ€™s Cake)

    Special thanks to Vinted for sponsoring this video. Give your clothes a second life. Download the Vinted app for free and start listing. With no seller fees, you keep every dollar you earn: https://vinted.com. Is it a real, wet octopus, or is it cake? I built a hyperrealistic, life-sized octopus cake designed to wrap entirely around my real arm without breaking when I let go. To pull off this illusion, I had to hide a steel and wire skeleton inside the tentacles, stretch edible wafer paper so thin that light passes through it, and use a cantaloupe to stamp the perfect skin texture. Watch the entire sculpting and painting process, including the moment I realized I forgot how to count and only built seven arms! Does the wafer paper look like real stretched skin to you? Let me know in the comments! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. Oct 1

    Edible Candles for a Jack-o-Lantern CAKE

    Is it a pumpkin or is it cake? This hyperrealistic jack-o-lantern cake is cake through and through, from the stringy pumpkin guts to the candle glowing inside it. I had to paint it from the inside, through its own carved face, and the candle did NOT want to stay lit. Watch to the end and tell me in the comments: would this fool you on your porch this Halloween? ๐ŸŽƒ Don't forget to ๐Ÿ‘ LIKE and ๐Ÿ”ด SUBSCRIBE, and head over to sideserfcakes.com for all things Sideserf Cake Studio ๐ŸŒ Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: โœ… TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sideserfcakesโœ… Instagram: https://instagram.com/sideserfcakes โœ… Facebook: https://facebook.com/sideserfcakes #halloween #cake #hyperrealistic #jackolantern #halloweencake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. Sep 17

    Everything is 100% Cake! (It Actually Sizzles)

    I needed this mango baby food yolk to hold its shape like a real one, and then burst the second a knife touches it. It took nineteen attempts. Everything in this pan is edible: the trivet, the cast iron, the egg white, the runny yolk, and the butter that sizzles without any heat at all. WHAT'S IN THE PAN: โ€ข Granite trivet: crushed Nilla Wafers and Teddy Grahams bound in white chocolate โ€ข Cast iron skillet: black chocolate, cast from a mold of my real pan โ€ข Egg white: gelatin emulsified with melted white chocolate โ€ข Sizzling butter: baking soda, citric acid, corn syrup and yellow food coloring โ€ข Runny yolk: mango baby food frozen solid and dipped in gelatin Nothing on this plate is hot. Nothing on this plate is an egg. Don't forget to ๐Ÿ‘ LIKE and ๐Ÿ”ด SUBSCRIBE, and head over to sideserfcakes.com for all things Sideserf Cake Studio ๐ŸŒ Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: โœ… TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sideserfcakesโœ… Instagram: https://instagram.com/sideserfcakes โœ… Facebook: https://facebook.com/sideserfcakes #hyperrealistic #cakedecorating #realorcake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. Sep 3

    I Made a Moving Cake using Candy Physics!

    Can candy physics actually work, or did I ruin an entire illusion cake? Today I set an impossible rule: build a traditional Japanese Maneki-neko (Beckoning Lucky Cat) cake that waves completely on its own with ZERO plastic, batteries, or motors inside. Every single mechanical part, from the pendulum axle to the counterweight, has to be 100% edible! Between mold leaks, shrinking wafer-paper disasters, 24K edible gold leaf, and melted Jolly Rancher engineering, see if this edible machine actually beckons... or snaps under pressure. Don't forget to ๐Ÿ‘ LIKE and ๐Ÿ”ด SUBSCRIBE, and head over to sideserfcakes.com for all things Sideserf Cake Studio ๐ŸŒ Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: โœ… TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sideserfcakesโœ… Instagram: https://instagram.com/sideserfcakes โœ… Facebook: https://facebook.com/sideserfcakes #hyperrealistic #cake #art Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Aug 22

    Why Is This Cake Making Noise?

    Is it a real Alani Nu can, or is it cake? In this video, I take hyperrealistic cake decorating to the next level by building an Alani Nu Pink Slush energy drink cake that is 100% edible (and actually functional!). Watch the full design and engineering process as I build a hidden, dual-chamber edible reservoir. When you push the tab on top, it drops Pop Rocks directly into real energy drink liquid, creating an authentic fizz sound and real crackle before slicing into the cake beneath. Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE, and head over to sideserfcakes.com for all things Sideserf Cake Studio Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: TikTok: Instagram: Facebook: #hyperrealistic #cake #art #alaninu #poprocks #candy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Aug 8

    I Wore This Backpack CAKE In Public. Here's What Happened.

    I'm wearing 20 pounds of CAKE on a public street to see if anyone notices! This wasn't just a cake sculpture-it was a total engineering nightmare. Between the heat, the weight, and the secret "merch vault" I built inside, I really wasn't sure if I was going to pull this off or if I'd end up with a giant mess. In this video, Ill show you exactly how I attached real backpack straps to a cake board, how I sculpted realistic fabric folds with modeling chocolate, and built a secret vault inside the cake. Did the illusion hold up, or did I end up covered in melty chocolate? Watch until the end to see the full reveal and the reaction of people on the street! Grab the new Cake Gang Merch seen in the vault: shop.sideserfcakes.com Subscribe for more hyperrealistic cake illusions! Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: TikTok: Instagram: Facebook: #hyperrealisticcake #cakeart #realorcake #engineeringchallenge #isitcake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Jul 25

    This Charizard CAKE Breathes REAL Smoke

    I spent over 20 hours on this hyperrealistic Charizard cake, and I honestly thought Iโ€™d ruined the whole thing at the last second! Iโ€™m pushing my cake-sculpting skills as far as they can go here to create a massive, gravity-defying Pokemon cake that actually breathes real fire and exhales smoke. The engineering on this build was a total experiment. I had to figure out a complex internal structure just to support a 20lb dragon on a single leg, and then I used modeling chocolate and rice paper to get all those hyperrealistic details. I even built a glowing "lava" base using LEDs and broken hard candy shards, and rigged a hidden system to make the fire and smoke happen using wafer paper. There was a major mistake halfway through that almost cut the sculpture in half, but Iโ€™m really happy with how it finally came together. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Grab all-new Sideserf Cakes merch at: shop.sideserfcakes.com โœจ ๐Ÿ”ด Subscribe for more hyperrealistic cake illusions! Follow @SideserfCakes on Social Media: โœ… TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@sideserfcakesโœ… Instagram: https://instagram.com/sideserfcakes โœ… Facebook: https://facebook.com/sideserfcakes #isitcake #Charizard #Pokemon #CakeArt #SideserfCakes #HyperrealisticCake #Baking #PokemonCake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I make cakes that don't look like cakes! Merging fine art sculpting, food science, and edible engineering, I share the process of creating hyper realistic illusion cakes and food art sculptures. Every video documents the complete build using modeling chocolate, custom armature, precision carving, and realistic painting techniques.

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  • Creator
    Natalie Sideserf
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    41
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ยฉ Sideserf Cake Studio
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    Sideserf Cake Studio

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