Onion? Pizza? Toilet paper? Everything is cake in this social trend
Warning: Reading this might make you very hungry for cake
From potted plants to bags of chips, a viral internet trend is leaving people guessing between what’s real and what’s cake.
Here’s how it works: people decorate cake to make it look like a real object and then slice into it to reveal that it was secretly cake all along.
Creators like @redrosecake_tubageckil have been posting cakes like this for years but the trend went viral in early July when Tasty, a food network with a big social media following, posted a compilation of ultra-realistic cakes masked as household objects.
Here are a some of the highlights from Tasty’s compilation video:
(Tasty/Twitter, originally posted by @redrosecake_tubageckil/Instagram)
(Tasty/Twitter, originally posted by @redrosecake_tubageckil/Instagram)
That led countless internet users to question whether or not everything is in fact cake, including food, pets and plants.
Check out these Doritos — they look pretty real, right? Well, it’s actually cake.
And these lemons and onions? Cake.
Surely this big breakfast is real? Nope, once again, it’s cake.
The trend quickly snowballed into a meme, with some saying they don’t know the difference anymore between real life and cake.
Some have even suggested that perhaps everything was cake all along.
TOP IMAGE CREDIT: (@redrosecake_tubageckil/Instagram)