Cakes trends and design changes every year and every season. This 2021, a new trend named tsunami cake is fascinating social media users through its unique way and peculiarity. With its unusual method of smothering the icing on the cake itself, it has reached people's attention and is looking forward to making their version.
Cakes are celebratory essentials, which means they are present to almost any occasion such as birthday, get-togethers, and you can even make it or buy it as your comfort food whenever you feel blue. Thanks to the internet's power, people can discover marvelous things like hacks that can help you perform better in your kitchen and even trends that will make your mouth water.
Tsunami Cake
Taste of Home shares that tsunami cakes' popularity is how the frosting encourages even a non-cake baker to participate in putting on the icing. They add that the frosting is suspended inside a thin acetate cake collar.
When you remove the plastic collar, the frosting runs down, smothering the sponge cake (or any type of cake used) like a tsunami gobbling up land, making it very enchanting to watch.
NDTV Food shares that the process of making the base layer of the cake itself does not differ from traditional cake making, where the sponge or chiffon cake is sandwiching a creamy buttercream. The only difference is that the icing is not entirely done so that the ones who will eat it will be able to see the decadent frosting go cover the cake.
All Recipes describe this cake to resemble a science experiment alongside offering a blank canvas to be painted by the wildest toppings and flavor combinations you want.
Netizen's reactions
Because of the cake's peculiarity, they garnered attention from different people online, feeding their eyes through creative bakers' posts.
Many Instagram users tag each other, dragging their friends to see the decadent goodness of the tsunami cake. However, not all of them were pleased with the trend raising some concerns.
Most of the tsunami or pull up cakes features edible glitters in their frosting, and this particular aspect concerns a certain amount of people online. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reminds the bakers to check the glitters' labels if they are produced specifically for food.
They add that it should not have "for decorative purpose only" or "non-toxic" in their labels because that would be inedible. The FDA also notes that most edible glitters are made from sugar, acacia, maltodextrin, corn starch, and color additives, which are approved for food use.
As long as the tsunami cakes you will be making, or you will avail, contains edible glitters just like what the FDA has recommended, this cake trend of 2021 is safe to be eaten. Just remember to eat them moderately because they still possess sugar, and excessive loads can pose a danger to your health.
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