Bakers Are Topping Each Other By Creating Cakes That Look Like Paradise Islands (30 Pics)
Some cakes are too cool to eat. And these heavenly delights definitely fall into that category. Bakers from all over the world have been sharing photos of their cakes that look like paradise islands and they're so gorgeous, we just had to make a post about them.
Whether you're craving colorful corals or sandy beaches, forget that holiday package you're saving up for. These cakes have everything you'd expect from a $10K trip for a fraction of the price, and you can eat them too!
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everything is cake. even we are all cake. the cake has integrated itself into the very fiber of our being.
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For a second i thought it was a miniature island in a jar of water until i saw the title...
That looks like a model! Stunning! Must taste good, but too good to eat! 🍰
A tiny bit of coral reef with moss on it jutting above the water's surface does not really qualify as an island. Or are those sea monsters?
Kinda hard to tell scale, but it looks like the slices would be really, really big!
Hahahaha - I didn't get it was "kraken waving at us!" Gracias!
Load More Replies... Here's another great recipe in Spanish, but you can understand just by watching. Check out the video at 12:40 - Incredible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOKsVGTlGFw
See more about this incredible creation: "Cake Island - Magic Cake" - Español e Ingles Tutorial. Ingredients include: gelatin, blue jelly (?) and ganache. Video shows the rest of these simple ingredients. Incredible!
Looking up "blue jelly" : Can I add food Colouring to jelly? When the jelly is inverted onto your plate, cover the tin in a warm cloth to assist the jelly slipping out of the tin. Make your own jelly mix by mixing 3 tsp gelatine with 1 cup clear apple juice and 1 cup boiling water. Add food colouring to achieve desired colour. More: https://www.kidspot.com.au/kitchen/recipes/jelly-rainbow/xqbwem23
Load More Replies... "Happy birthday to ... ". Don't forget your swim fins and snorkel. -- I'll just have ice cream, thanks.
One of the artists we featured on the list is Jessica. She runs a custom dessert business in El Salvador, called Paladarte, and has been baking for a living for 7 years now. "I went to a culinary school but I've learned a lot online too," Jessica told Bored Panda.
The idea to make a tasty paradise island cake came to her last year when she saw a mermaid cake with jelly-water. "I loved it and saved it in my 'Future projects' folder (every cake artists has one) but couldn't find the time to actually experiment and make one before the quarantine," Jessica said, adding that making an edible getaway island was her way of escaping the struggles we're all currently facing.
"When baking this cake, the key thing was finding the right consistency for the jelly (I live in a super hot country) without sacrificing the flavor. A cake has to not only look good but taste as well."
Jessica added that she has had a blast making this getaway cake, and has even uploaded video tutorials on the entire process. So if you want to try and create your own little edible paradise island, head over to her YouTube channel and check out how she does it!
Note: this post originally had 41 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Gorgeous cakes. Not something I would eat considering at least half of the “cake” is actually jelly.
Dunno about the taste but these paradise island cake are stunning.
Looks awesome, but also looks like the taste is awful. It's Jell-O, not cake.
I'm usually just happy if my cakes are edible! Lol This is cake (and gelatin) decorating mastery level 5000. Lol. It wouldn't be my first choice to eat as I'm personally not a big jell-o fan (not that it's bad, it's just not my fav), but the talent showcased here is awe inspiring. Wow!
These cakes look too god to be eaten!
A pure exercise in skill, but not at all appetizing. Now 10,000 dislike will arrive.
This is the first time I've used the phrase, "I'd like to live on a cake."
I'd like to live in a "normal" chocolate cake, too. :D
They look great but also disgusting to eat
they're all so beautiful, but cake and jelly? hmmm im not so sure about that. actually im completely sure i would hate it. really gorgeous tho!
I like that we can easily see which are the firsts ones and each step of his evolution. It's very inspiring and the lasts ones are dreams!!!
👏👏👏such talent
I cannot eat these. they are too pretty and made of jello
Where can I order one????? Lol
They look cool but kind of remind me of the heartworm-infested dog heart in a jug at my vet's office
I can appreciate the artistic flair that went into making these cakes, but I think I still prefer to eat a good slice of pound cake instead.
Some of these are so beautiful, and they have done a fantastic job on the water and land detailing, but most have done a horrible job on the boats/structures which really takes away from how realistic the rest of it looks. Pity. 😞
Ciana Lennon yes
No 27 especially looks like tge boat was made by a kid and added later there like an enthusiastic addition to Mum's work. Cute, but clumsy.
J-E-L-L, Y, half this cake is jelly? Don’t know how well it will be for the b-e-l-l-y. But it’s still going in the belly!
The sliced cake looked like an awful mess. All the gelatin on top was not appetizing.
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1) I've been treading water now for at least 72 hours. The slow leak in the life raft became noticeable around day 4. Sometime during the 8th night I woke up drowning. The remains of the life raft were floating even with the water's surface, the deflated canopy was on me cutting off my access to the surface. In the darkness I was unable to find the makeshift valve I'd been using to keep the raft topped off with lung power. I struggled to save the raft until I succumbed to exhaustion and it sank away. I rolled onto a deadman's float and began to weep. I'd have died that night had the seas not been a dead calm. Now the skin around the creases of my underarms and groin is starting to slough off. My face is scabbed over from three days straight in the unimpeded sun. A few hours ago I noticed ...something... on the horizon; only when I'm carried to the crest of one of the rollers, but I've been looking in that direction long enough now to be sure, there's **something** there.
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2) My limbs feel like they're made of wood. Even though these tropical waters are relatively warm, they've still been sapping my heat energy for three days. It's doubtful I could make it even if I was fresh. It could be a ship traveling away from me. Even if its a ship traveling towards me the odds that the lookout would notice something as small as me from the height of the bridge are nil. More hours still pass since I've noticed the anomaly on the horizon. It's getting bigger! My god, maybe I'll be sacrificing my last reserves of energy for nothing, but if the current is on my side I shall try--if for no other reason than to have *something* some task to occupy the endless monotony of bobbing in the sea. I begin to swim. Slowly. Conserving as much energy as possible. I stop to rest often. Another night falls. As the sun was setting I made a mental note of the thing's relationship to due west. It's hard to pick out polaris while bobbing neck deep in the sea though.
4) The sun burns my damaged face anew. The pain is mild but unrelenting. I lie there wondering how much I can expect the current to continue helping me and I start with fear. When the main current strikes the landmass it will part, and the outer edges of the current will go left and right of the island and I could be left miles away from the shore. I rest another few minutes and then begin another slow measured swim. I'm just now becoming aware that the wind is on my back. Oh thank all the gods, the wind is on my back; as the seafloor rises up to meet me I should have wind spawned waves to surf me in, hopefully I will be carried over any barrier reef without getting too cut up. Several more hours of swiming, resting in the dead man's float, swimming again. The waves are building now. I'm being carried into the beach. Thank the gods for that once more; my limbs are now completely numb. I'm tumbled. I breach the surface and breath when I can.
5) Though completely exhausted now in body, my spirit leaps up once again; I am going to LIVE! There was no reef. The surf calms into mild breakers. I'm carried in. First a knee makes contact with the ground. Now I put my hand down into the sand. Fuck it's cake.
Gelatin cakes are traditional in some countries. Apparently they're delicious. Not je!ly as you eat on toast.
Dorothy Parker good
Dorothy Parker yes
Dorothy Parker -
I am very very impressed
Anathor one of the "looks good, wouldn't eat"-group.
The cakes are beautiful, however there is not even one that I would like to eat
Well lately I've had a hankering for some edible island, so...
Insane! I want...
Of all the posts about cakes this is probably my fav so far. Stunningly beautiful creations and unlike most comments, I find them appetising
WOW!!!!
This is beyond awesome! I wouldn´t eat a piece of these cakes...I would preserve them forever :-)
Also because they don't look appetizing... :)
These cakes are very popular in asian countries. They take baking and their work very seriously unlike the U. S. If you are being honest with yourself, you would have no problem agreeing with me. I wanna go to Japan just check out their baked goods!
"... unlike the U.S." What's that supposed to mean? We have lots of bakers who take their artistry very seriously. These types of jelly cakes aren't generally popular in the U.S., but that has nothing to do with the skill of American bakers. Sheesh! - https://www.limacakes.com/copy-of-portfolio - https://www.satinice.com/artists/jenna-rowan - http://www.karenportaleo.com/
Duff Goldman for example lol
Trifle not cake
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Haha "paradise islands floating in the ocean" islands don't float lol
Gorgeous cakes. Not something I would eat considering at least half of the “cake” is actually jelly.
Dunno about the taste but these paradise island cake are stunning.
Looks awesome, but also looks like the taste is awful. It's Jell-O, not cake.
I'm usually just happy if my cakes are edible! Lol This is cake (and gelatin) decorating mastery level 5000. Lol. It wouldn't be my first choice to eat as I'm personally not a big jell-o fan (not that it's bad, it's just not my fav), but the talent showcased here is awe inspiring. Wow!
These cakes look too god to be eaten!
A pure exercise in skill, but not at all appetizing. Now 10,000 dislike will arrive.
This is the first time I've used the phrase, "I'd like to live on a cake."
I'd like to live in a "normal" chocolate cake, too. :D
They look great but also disgusting to eat
they're all so beautiful, but cake and jelly? hmmm im not so sure about that. actually im completely sure i would hate it. really gorgeous tho!
I like that we can easily see which are the firsts ones and each step of his evolution. It's very inspiring and the lasts ones are dreams!!!
👏👏👏such talent
I cannot eat these. they are too pretty and made of jello
Where can I order one????? Lol
They look cool but kind of remind me of the heartworm-infested dog heart in a jug at my vet's office
I can appreciate the artistic flair that went into making these cakes, but I think I still prefer to eat a good slice of pound cake instead.
Some of these are so beautiful, and they have done a fantastic job on the water and land detailing, but most have done a horrible job on the boats/structures which really takes away from how realistic the rest of it looks. Pity. 😞
Ciana Lennon yes
No 27 especially looks like tge boat was made by a kid and added later there like an enthusiastic addition to Mum's work. Cute, but clumsy.
J-E-L-L, Y, half this cake is jelly? Don’t know how well it will be for the b-e-l-l-y. But it’s still going in the belly!
The sliced cake looked like an awful mess. All the gelatin on top was not appetizing.
This comment has been deleted.
1) I've been treading water now for at least 72 hours. The slow leak in the life raft became noticeable around day 4. Sometime during the 8th night I woke up drowning. The remains of the life raft were floating even with the water's surface, the deflated canopy was on me cutting off my access to the surface. In the darkness I was unable to find the makeshift valve I'd been using to keep the raft topped off with lung power. I struggled to save the raft until I succumbed to exhaustion and it sank away. I rolled onto a deadman's float and began to weep. I'd have died that night had the seas not been a dead calm. Now the skin around the creases of my underarms and groin is starting to slough off. My face is scabbed over from three days straight in the unimpeded sun. A few hours ago I noticed ...something... on the horizon; only when I'm carried to the crest of one of the rollers, but I've been looking in that direction long enough now to be sure, there's **something** there.
This comment has been deleted.
2) My limbs feel like they're made of wood. Even though these tropical waters are relatively warm, they've still been sapping my heat energy for three days. It's doubtful I could make it even if I was fresh. It could be a ship traveling away from me. Even if its a ship traveling towards me the odds that the lookout would notice something as small as me from the height of the bridge are nil. More hours still pass since I've noticed the anomaly on the horizon. It's getting bigger! My god, maybe I'll be sacrificing my last reserves of energy for nothing, but if the current is on my side I shall try--if for no other reason than to have *something* some task to occupy the endless monotony of bobbing in the sea. I begin to swim. Slowly. Conserving as much energy as possible. I stop to rest often. Another night falls. As the sun was setting I made a mental note of the thing's relationship to due west. It's hard to pick out polaris while bobbing neck deep in the sea though.
4) The sun burns my damaged face anew. The pain is mild but unrelenting. I lie there wondering how much I can expect the current to continue helping me and I start with fear. When the main current strikes the landmass it will part, and the outer edges of the current will go left and right of the island and I could be left miles away from the shore. I rest another few minutes and then begin another slow measured swim. I'm just now becoming aware that the wind is on my back. Oh thank all the gods, the wind is on my back; as the seafloor rises up to meet me I should have wind spawned waves to surf me in, hopefully I will be carried over any barrier reef without getting too cut up. Several more hours of swiming, resting in the dead man's float, swimming again. The waves are building now. I'm being carried into the beach. Thank the gods for that once more; my limbs are now completely numb. I'm tumbled. I breach the surface and breath when I can.
5) Though completely exhausted now in body, my spirit leaps up once again; I am going to LIVE! There was no reef. The surf calms into mild breakers. I'm carried in. First a knee makes contact with the ground. Now I put my hand down into the sand. Fuck it's cake.
Gelatin cakes are traditional in some countries. Apparently they're delicious. Not je!ly as you eat on toast.
Dorothy Parker good
Dorothy Parker yes
Dorothy Parker -
I am very very impressed
Anathor one of the "looks good, wouldn't eat"-group.
The cakes are beautiful, however there is not even one that I would like to eat
Well lately I've had a hankering for some edible island, so...
Insane! I want...
Of all the posts about cakes this is probably my fav so far. Stunningly beautiful creations and unlike most comments, I find them appetising
WOW!!!!
This is beyond awesome! I wouldn´t eat a piece of these cakes...I would preserve them forever :-)
Also because they don't look appetizing... :)
These cakes are very popular in asian countries. They take baking and their work very seriously unlike the U. S. If you are being honest with yourself, you would have no problem agreeing with me. I wanna go to Japan just check out their baked goods!
"... unlike the U.S." What's that supposed to mean? We have lots of bakers who take their artistry very seriously. These types of jelly cakes aren't generally popular in the U.S., but that has nothing to do with the skill of American bakers. Sheesh! - https://www.limacakes.com/copy-of-portfolio - https://www.satinice.com/artists/jenna-rowan - http://www.karenportaleo.com/
Duff Goldman for example lol
Trifle not cake
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Haha "paradise islands floating in the ocean" islands don't float lol