#Meet the mind-blowing bakers behind those viral cake videos
“#Meet the mind-blowing bakers behind those viral cake videos”
July 14, 2020 | 3:15pm
This weekend, the internet erupted in anguish over videos of extremely realistic-looking objects being sliced open — only to reveal that they’re actually cakes.
The deceptive desserts wowing the masses are largely crafted by not one, but two evil masterminds: Natalie and Dave Sideserf, of Sideserf Cake Studio in Austin, Texas, and Tuba Geçkil, of Red Rose Cake in Turkey.
While social media is in utter dismay at their not-so-sweet sweets, the bakers are enjoying the attention.
“We have [a] Twitter account [and] follow all [the] news,” Geçkil tells The Post, via her assistant on WhatsApp. “People’s reactions [are] giving me more motivation.”
Sideserf agrees. “Whether [people] absolutely love them or they absolutely hate them, I love it,” Natalie tells The Post of the uproar her treats have caused. “If I was making cakes and everyone just loved them, I’d probably find that a little boring.”
Geçkil, 44, says that she’s been creating cakes for 12 years. Her style is completely learned, not taught. “That work was not relevant or common . . . I didn’t take a course from anywhere,” she says.
“When I started this art, I had always aimed to be the best in the world,” she told the Sun in 2017.
Like the Sideserfs, she specializes in hyper-realistic sugar, particularly bust cakes, which are cakes shaped like people. Her portfolio includes edible heads of state like German chancellor Angela Merkel and Donald Trump. “I’m so happy and glad [that] everyone knows my work and my dreams come true,” she says.
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Natalie Sideserf, 35, began baking in 2008 after a friend asked her to craft a custom cake because she had studied sculpting in college. It was a medium she learned to love. In 2012, a bust cake Natalie made of Willie Nelson blew up on Reddit, and she started her own bakery with husband Dave, 36. Although Dave’s background was in tech, he had worked in kitchens and became her “de facto baker.” “I knew how to use an oven,” he says. His job is to make the inside just as good as the outside.
On their YouTube channel, which has over 37,000 followers, the couple of 12 years document their start-to-finish cake process, like with the now-infamous onion cake.
“The onion cake, a lot of people think I took onion skin and placed it on a cake. Which is not true, that would be gross,” says Natalie. Through experimenting, she found the perfect substitute: vanilla wafer paper.
Most of the cakes in the viral montages were made for their channel and for experimenting, the Sideserfs say, and not for custom orders — or a prank. “Some people say my cakes are the reason they have trust issues,” says Natalie.
While Twitter users debate if they themselves are actually made of cake, Natalie is going one step further and crafting a self-portrait cake modeled after herself. “It looks at me, and it’s me,” she says. “It’s what they want, and it’s kind of a thank you. I think people are going to like it.”
As for the million-dollar question? The Sideserfs don’t need a knife to know what’s inside them.
“Personally, I’m loaded with a bunch of carbs and fat,” says Dave, acknowledging his kinship with cake.
Natalie agrees. “My life is quite literally cake, so I’m going with it: Yes, we are cake.”
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