This show is pure sugar.
Netflix’s Is It Cake? Halloween adds a spooky twist to the viral trend where people made hyper-realistic versions of everyday objects and made the world guess: is it re-e-e-ally a TV remote, or is it cake?!
Anything can be television if you have enough money and a streaming platform.
The original Is It Cake? series, launched in 2022, was hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day, who returns for this Halloween edition.
His manic positivity is perfect for the concept, sugar rush!
Above his usual presenter duties, he is the one cutting into whichever “cake” the contestants swear is edible.
Apparently he’s instructed via earpiece exactly when to bring down the sharp edge. Timing is precise, because there are no do-overs.
Often there are only five seconds to decide.
The premise is simple. A group of professional bakers make cakes so realistic they hide in plain sight. When displayed among real objects — like bowling balls, handbags, pumpkins or haunted props — celebrity judges have only seconds to decide which one is the frosted imposter. If they spot it, the baker loses. If not, the baker wins money and bragging rights.
Then Mikey slices in to reveal the truth, and the judges taste the treat.
The Halloween season is exactly this theme — cobwebs, mood lighting, fake fog. The bakers wear costumes, the set looks like Willy Wonka’s haunted house, and the cakes are shaped like skulls, cauldrons, coffins, and crows.
Judges include a rotating cast of actors and comedians who are there for fun more than expertise.
Shew, these bakers are skilled!
Watching someone airbrush buttercream until it looks like aged leather, or sculpt “real” bones from fondant, makes you want to check your own furniture for sponge.
Buy some cake when you watch this light, fun, absurd show, or put it on when washing dishes, folding washing, or scrolling on your phone.
Perhaps it makes for good background visuals for your halloween party.
Four 40-minute episodes.
Lekker for spooky season and short attention spans.
