 Hi everyone today, we're gonna deviate from our normal schedule programming and we're gonna try show you something a little bit different as we mentioned in the Previous episode we just passed the one-year anniversary of art of one dojo on YouTube and to commemorate this occasion We're here with Sylvia Rosenberg from We heart cake another YouTube channel. She makes fantastic cakes You should definitely check it out. We have the link at the description below and she made us a treat She made us and Keppel Karate cake kind of molded to our logo and our branding to celebrate this one-year anniversary And she was kind of to do this for us today and we're here with her and she's gonna tell us just a little bit about the cake Kind of how she approached it the process of making it constructing it and put it together And just to kind of give you a glimpse of the hard work she puts into her cakes This took you about how long you think just five hours five hours without the baking part without without it's right Without the actual bake at the cake part just to decorate it and get it to this point So we also will have a link to the description if you want to check out the whole video and the whole process of What she did to make it please be sure to check that out So if you could just tell us a little bit about what went into making this cake all right, so basically I started with two round cakes and I Started it like any other cake. I put some filling I covered it up with with buttercream and then I started carving So I printed out a big a print out of the exact shape that I wanted to My cake to be and I carved the all the sides I frosted them and I paid a lot of attention to making all the edges very very neat So that it would look right and then I covered it in fondant and then I made all these details I actually hand-caught all the letters all the O's and the D's because those are really hard to do and and then the figurines the figurines this tiger has rice crispy treats inside which is really yummy and I Build a structure with a floral wire And then I just build it with some gum paste around it And I use some tools to give it a little texture and then I painted it with this guy. It's a similar idea. So it was um you know one stick floral wire and then um no rice crispy treats because he was very thin so I used um Just plain gum paste and then I grabbed some scissors some teeny tiny little scissors to cut out all the details And then I painted a little bit the eyes and the mouth and some petal dust to give The chat to make some shadows and to make a little bit of the The the color look a little more realistic What are some of the challenges into making a cake like this? Once you carve it It's getting the buttercream to be very smooth on the edges because you see you have to you see how that The edges have to be very sharp And cold and you have to work fast because if the cake becomes warm then the edges are soft your buttercream gives so it's um That I think is the most challenging part of this and Some people might think the characters, but I find those easy the the challenging for me was that part Which is amazing because the characters are so so intricate like there's so much fine detail on there that You can look and actually see like the fur texturing and it's I think it's a fantastic It adds so much to the cake just these little details like that. It makes it more fun. Absolutely Yeah, rather than just look look traditional flat images exactly and it stands out So the whole thing just pops that much more So, um, so I mean how do you purchase in terms of like doing other cakes like this? Is it the similar process? Yeah, every time I have to make a logo cake, which is some I do tend to do those a lot. Um, especially like Football logos seem to be very popular. So I print out the image in the size I have to plan it out very well first. I print out the image in the size that I want my Final cake to be and I use that usually it's a bunch of pieces of paper taped together and I use that to um carve I cut that out and then I just carve around it so that I get the exact same shape And then I use that to make all the details Now where did you learn to do to do this? I mean, what was your background? Uh, well, I went to art school. So the artsy part it comes from art school and um, the baking part comes from Life experience. I've been baking since I was a little girl. I always loved it on your channel You do a bunch of different cakes you you do tips to do recipes you do Kind of demonstrations if somebody wanted to bake a cake like this or even approach a project like this What kind of advice can you offer them be patient? Make sure you have enough time to do it work with time and make sure you keep your cake cool so that It's easier to work with and yeah, give yourself some time My cakes did not used to look the same 10 years ago. So you definitely every time you do it It's it's a learning experience and you will get better at it. That's excellent. So thank you so much for doing this This is actually means a lot to us and it's great to be here And we really appreciate this gesture of you know celebrating the way your anniversary And if you guys have not seen her channel yet, please check out we heart cake There'll be a link in the description below. She's got all sorts of all sorts of cool videos Please go check out her channel subscribe like her videos And hopefully you can see even more projects that even bigger and better than this one So thank you so much for being here today. You're welcome. Thanks for having me here. Are we gonna eat it? Oh, we're gonna go eat it So so not only do we appreciate the martial arts and we celebrate the culture and traditions now we can eat it too So, yes, thank you so much guys. Have a great day. We'll see you in the next video