Here’s How To Upgrade A Store-Bought Cake—Store-Bought Cake Hacks
Staff, 2022-03-24 02:00:00,
In the first few seconds of a video posted by social media personality Neurotic Mom—a.k.a. baker Amy Droubay—you might be shocked to watch her unceremoniously scrape off the stiff red rosettes and rigidly piped white ruffles from a humble store-bought Walmart cake. But 30 seconds later, the dessert emerges completely transformed. Now it’s a beautiful white-and-yellow ombre creation fitting for a chic springtime wedding in the desert.
This is Droubay’s specialty: Giving store-bought cakes a complete glow-up by discarding their machine-manufactured frosting layers and replacing them with sugary, TikTok-worthy adornments.
“I just started with a basic one-tier. It was $10,” Droubay told Delish. “I went home and just started playing around with ideas. And the first one I posted went viral. And so I started doing more and people really responded to them.”
The retired professional dancer has since posted more than half a dozen Walmart cake hack videos to her TikTok channel, each pulling in anywhere between 40,000 and four million views. It’s the latest chapter in Droubay’s second act as a cake influencer, which began when she started posting videos of herself decorating cakes four years ago following a cake decorating lesson.
“I made my first cake when I was 42 years old. I loved it. I was hooked,” the…
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