Those are the auspices behind a current cultural phenomenon: trompe l’oeil cakes. In viral internet videos, everyday objects—a microwave, a pair of shoes, a sandwich—are, with the fall of a sharpened ...

Resplendent unicorn cakes, on-trend geode cakes and other artsy cakes are all the rage on television and social media. And America continues to, well, eat them up. Even when those baked goods go oh so ...

One of this year’s surprise Netflix hits, Is It Cake? introduced a whole new audience to the art of making cakes that look like other stuff. Awed by cakes masquerading as handbags, cash registers and ...

As fans of determining whether something is an everyday object or a delicious baked good know, there is almost nothing more fun than shout-asking, “Is it cake??” For the Blanton Museum of Art in ...

PHILADELPHIA >> Delaware County cake artist Kristin Weldon Peri won the Most Artistic category at the 2017 Let Them Eat Cake competition held March 5 at The Loews hotel. The competition featured ...

They had their cake and sat on it, too. A performance artist hosted a so-called “Cake Sit” at a Gowanus art gallery on March 7. Participants arrived with pastries in tow and promptly flattened them ...

In my more than 25 years as a cake artist, I've kept a simple policy: I serve everyone, but I cannot create cakes that express every message or celebrate every event. This policy is fairly common, ...