New Netflix Show ‘Is It Cake?’ Changes The Recipe of Baking Shows
It's the trend that refuses to die.
An upcoming Netflix TV show promises to confound your knowledge about whether everyday objects are actually edible cakes, because this trend will simply never die.
Turning the easy-bake formula of rival baking shows on it’s head, Is It Cake? tasks nine cake experts with creating editable facsimiles of everyday objects in the hopes of winning thousands of dollars.
The trailer features host Mikey Day of SNL fame, explaining the kooky premise of cake-ception as bowling balls, handbags and shoes are revealed as delicious cakes.
“What I do is the weirdest thing in the world, like there are people saving lives and I am making cake look like other things!” quotes one contestant in the trailer.
It looks like the contestants are applying some pretty intense baking engineering in making their cakes appear as similar to inedible objects as possible. There will be no room for pastry-novices, like James Acaster’s horrifying attempts in the Great Celebrity Bake Off.
The premise of the show seems to be a development of the concept in Japanese TV Show Candy or Not Candy, where contestants are asked to nibble household objects like Hansel and Gretel in a witch’s gingerbread house.
My unfounded theory about why this trend of identifying cakes from other objects is so darn popular is that it springboards off an ancient human obsession of detecting camouflaged predators in the wild. Whereas once for survival cavemen and women would have speculated if each grassy tuffet contained a hidden jaguar, we’re now free to apply that instinct to the detection of cakes in everyday objects. Just my two cents.
Is It Cake? comes to Netflix this month.