I Made the Tiktok Cakegate Rainbow Cake- Is it Worth $80?

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Intro: (0:00)
Store Bought/Boxed Cake Mix Rainbow Cake: (1:20)
From Scratch Rainbow Cake: (4:54)
Outro: (8:36)

[@user-lc8lw3sw3o]

I think we’re all forgetting the true victim in all of this… the poor kid whose parents named them Trilby

[@katvtay]

I thought it was a kid too. However, the customer supposedly posted footage of Trilby who is her mother!

[@delancey3181]

Omg i thought it said tailby this whole time on the cake

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I thought the name was Tailseye.....😆

[@_maddiezs]

​@Dr. Octogon good for you?

[@gurlinacoma]

Oh I thought it said Tailby 😆

[@lelandunruh7896]

There really isn't another side to this: that cake is objectively ugly and any reasonable person would be unhappy with the quality of her decorating. The price itself is not objectively unreasonable (although it is well beyond what a cheap person like me would pay), but the end product for that price surely is.

[@MonsterPrincessLala]

I feel like it's beyond that because she knew she was scamming by posting videos and pictures of other people's cakes

[@BankruptMonkey]

I feel the price is still unreasonable because even with inflation that is really expensive for West Virginia especially

[@dindog22]

I feel like she is charging professional quality prices but her skills are sub par. she probably needs to put in about a decade of work at a good bakery to hone her skills before she can justify the prices she charges

[@Appaddict01]

@@BankruptMonkey Rainbow cakes are a lot of work. The gel dyes are expensive, too. Americolor gels are the best.

[@AmiAki]

Exactly how I see this

[@stephcollins]

$80 for a multi layered cake from a small baker is absolutely reasonable (even cheap, have you seen the price of eggs and butter since 2020?). The problem with this cake is that it looks like shit and her customer service was zero.😂

[@HalfNHalf.]

Exactly my thoughts too

[@ChickNnugg3t]

Yess! Very accurate comment 👍

[@doodlebug0707]

Agreed! As a home baker making everything from scratch in VA it cost me $20 just to make a plain decorated 6 inch cake so I can easily see $80 for a 9 inch it just needs to look nice and you have to take some responsibility that your cake didn't turn out to be worth the money. You want a customer to come back or at least I do ! 😁

[@gemmeldrakes2758]

At first I thought the $80.00 was reasonable, because of the price of baking materials if you bake from scratch and the fact bakers must include their time as a cost (all that time coating a cake in sprinkles.) But that cake....looked like it could have been done by the customer at home. People pay for cakes that look like a professional did it and did something the home cook couldn't possibly recreate. Otherwise, the customer would have made a Duncan Hines mix in a sheet pan, put on some store bought frosting, and some sprinkles, for a quarter of the price.

[@Appaddict01]

Rainbow cakes are a lot of work.

[@analisajayne9695]

It must be soooo embarrasing to be Kylie right now 😭 Every amateur baker I've seen has managed to make a better cake than she did 😂

[@Melanierose21122]

Right??? I just mentioned up there that I would have probably made a better cake by following a good recipe, and I'm saying this as a beginner / home baker.

[@MonsterPrincessLala]

Without plagiarizing online for clout! 😂

[@RAN20097]

OMG I was thinking he did way more better then her and he does not do this for a living.

[@smellprophet6606]

My sister tried to make a rainbow cake for my 13th birthday 4 years ago, the coloured layers are difficult to get right because depending on what food colouring you use, it will darken when baked, but even then decorating isn’t that difficult, at least have the dignity to admit when your cake wasn’t acceptable and refund them, or atleast make them a better cake 😭

[@TomikaKelly]

I haven't basked since I was a child who owned an Easy Bake Oven, and even I did a better job replicating the cake. 😂

[@michellem9444]

To put it in perspective, I recently ordered a 3-layer cake of what looks to be similar size, from a local 5-star bakery run by an authentic French pastry chef. That cake only cost me $56, and it was both beautiful AND delicious. Also, David's cake looked much prettier and neater, and he doesn't claim to be a professional baker. The CakeGate girl's cake looked like it had been accidentally dropped on the ground, and that she was using sprinkles to cover up the damage. So no, that cake was not worth $80, plain and simple.

[@Ineddiblehulk]

Where do you live? That’s incredibly cheap. In Australia that cake (properly executed) would be minimum $80 - probably more likely $100 to $150

[@michellem9444]

@@Ineddiblehulk Midwest U.S. Granted, we have a fairly low cost of living. But still, I think most people could create a nicer looking cake than that.

[@PeroxideFlowers]

​@@Ineddiblehulk cheesecake shop has a similar cake for $67ish, including the custom message fee.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

​@@Ineddiblehulk80 aud would be cheaper than he paid. Even 100 aud would be 66 usd.

[@orangepencil7]

When I heard about baking with boxed mixes, my first thought was of Baking with Mimo. She runs a home baking business, but she's very transparent that she uses boxed mixes. I forgot what she adds to the mixes to make them higher quality, but I think she has a recipe on KZbin. I suggest checking her out

[@vaishnavisingh9244]

absolutely love mimo!

[@Melanierose21122]

I just mentioned MiMo up there and how she told us this story but didn't go into details... Yeah she uses box mix but just does the oil, eggs and essence plus now filings depending on the cake. Love MiMo. ♥

[@katvtay]

Yes! A lot of commercial bakeries actually do what Mimo does. I still will always do scratch cakes, but I’m not running a business and emphasizing great decorating, so I totally get it.

[@debfox]

Mine too! I think she does different things with them. I know some bakers use butter and milk instead

[@ChickNnugg3t]

Yeesss!! I love mimo!

[@bobateapenguin]

Omg this cakegate has gone so deep the fact that it was exposed the barker has so many goofy looking cakes is so funny 😂

[@ashleyyjinxx]

even going on her official page on fb you can see her cakes aren't executed in a way that equals the price shes charging people for at all.

[@mariapizzaa]

Well I guess we can't expect a barker 🐶 to be as good as a professional baker 🧑‍🍳

[@Appaddict01]

I’m a home baker that is artistically challenged and I’ve made cakes that look much better than her.

[@roka745]

​@@ashleyyjinxx That Encanto cake was criminal.

[@sussybaka119]

Learn English.

[@thecubemiser]

What's crazy is that I just heard about this today because our local bakery, which is also named "Kylie's" (no relation to the cakegate baker, same state different town), was getting review-bombed on google because of this fiasco.

[@michelledang6834]

Oh man that sucks. Im so sorry for her

[@naurrr]

That's sad

[@jemmaj2919]

The 12yr olds got in the game

[@roennyh1362]

@@jemmaj2919 it was all 12 year olds to begin with

[@DavidSeymourofficial]

one of the unfortunate side effects of stuff like this

[@Keshlynne]

My mother-in-law made a rainbow cake for my son's eighth birthday. She did eight colors (because he was turning eight), and my son loved it. Looking at the photo of what the TikTok girl did, I think my mother-in-law did better (maybe I'm biased, though). My husband insisted on paying her and she would only take $40 for it, so seeing that picture of an $80 cake I'm over here thinking, "We didn't pay Lola enough."

[@thatmexicanteacher1227]

I have a small cake biz and depending on the year and location that does sound underpriced but she probably only charged for the ingredients, $80 is too much tho if it’s going to look like that 😅 so sad this situation will only affect the honest bakers trying to make a living

[@esthermcafee5293]

Re. The idea of a cake where each layer is a different flavour: Safiya Nygard did that in the lead up to her wedding. The outcome seemed to be that you need to think really carefully about which flavours go together or else the results are either confusing or gross.

[@NeilDavis10]

I did this! I did one for Pride and made it 8 layers. Some flavors were lemon, chocolate, matcha, ube, chocolate hazelnut, etc

[@reyrats]

Ooooh, if you let the guests know then they could separate each layer to try while eating, and try mixing and matching certain flavors like chocolate and strawberry, I love that idea

[@MsAngrybutterfly]

I did it for Pride as well! I used Kool Aid for each flavor. It was weird and kinda good. It also cut back on the amount of food coloring you need and the colors were really vibrant.

[@TomikaKelly]

It's a good way to give everyone a flavor they like. They can only eat the flavors they want individually.

[@gutsFunnyman]

@@NeilDavis10 how'd it taste?

[@Akagism]

Truth be told, doctored cake mixes are teh perfect intersection of quality and cost-effectiveness. There are several tried and true recipes that treat box mix more like an ingredient rather than the base, they're easier to make in larger volumes and give consistent results. I will say though, boxed cake mixes aren't usually spongey. If anything, they can be too soft and fluffy. The firm sponginess is usually a product of overmixing or the oven temp being off. I noticed that you baked all of the layers at the same time on different racks. Maybe that had something to do wtih it. I'm just spitballing, but maybe the leavener in the mix couldn't make up for the uneven temperature.

[@mollymelena6104]

I was going to say the same thing. Looked like he overmixed the boxed cake mixes for sure.

[@Appaddict01]

He didn’t bake the box cakes at the same time he did them in batches. He got extra pans from friends for the scratch cake.

[@HeyLeFay]

It’s almost certainly overmixing. It’s hard not to overmix when you’re making a rainbow cake like that and have to mix the color into each layer after it’s already mixed. That’s why the better recipes calls for making all the layers separately.

[@AcanthaDante]

​@@HeyLeFay What crossed my mind is that the white cake mix appears to be a member of the velvet family, which is very easy to get spongey by overfolding the mix into the egg whites. I learned that the hard way the first time I tried to make red velvet cake (I experiment with dairy free bakes all the time for my dairy intolerant other half)

[@toothless3835]

He also looked like he undercooked the red and the orange. I've done that before when I tried a rainbow cake.

[@PoppyCorn144]

I was so blown away by the cakegate drama, the fact that someone named their child Trilby _almost_ went unnoticed. Are their siblings Fedora, Beret and Stovepipe? 🤔

[@sillau9]

Lol, that Trilby name is a unique name choice 🤔 😅..

[@ilive4anime.]

What is a Trilby??

[@anita892]

​@@ilive4anime. a Trilby is a hat

[@TheRocketbabydoll]

😆😆

[@BankruptMonkey]

Trilby isn't too bad, it at least kind of feels like a name. Abcde is a popular name right now and that's just lazy and sad.

[@helmikuu03]

I am a home baker that sells a lot of cakes made from scratch so in my personal opinion $80 is a very normal industry standard for an 8” cake. The fact that it also has so many layers and takes more time with different colors would also bump that price up since you are paying not only for ingredients but also the time and experience of the baker. That said, the cake looked bad!! I personally would not have given that to a customer or at least offered it at a steep discount if I did not have time to remake it. Just my two cents as a baker

[@TomikaKelly]

She was out of her league and wasn't humble enough to accept it. I'm not even a baker but even I know: She should've smoothed out the buttercream using a scraping tool and spatula. She should've popped the cake into the freezer for 15 minutes after icing then literally rolled it in sprinkles so they could be applied evenly. She should've used an attachment if she hasn't yet perfected her icing writing. (Ex: an Edible sugar past written in Edible ink.)

[@marlbboro8091]

She used boxed cake mixes

[@mehere8299]

I can't imagine paying $80 for a cake. I can't imagine paying even $30 for _that_ cake.

[@Anonymous-ti8yw]

I would have left the building without it 😬

[@kasairan8492]

Your name is hysterical in context of this drama

[@Ne11_Gwyn]

I can't imagine paying for low-quality copper ingots either, Ea-Nasir.

[@Appaddict01]

Given the cost of ingredients and the fact rainbow cakes are a lot of work that’s extremely reasonable. If you’re cakes don’t look like trash that is.

[@stillnotstill]

Maybe trade bad copper for bad cake, it'll all work out somehow

[@lamemechose7072]

$80 for a presentable six layer rainbow cake is a good value when you take into account the labor. If a home baker - for their own non-commercial purposes - wants to make a rainbow cake, I highly recommend using boxed cake mix with a touch of extra vanilla extract and making your own frosting. I’ve done it myself a few times and this is the winning combo. That baker was out of her league and also out of line. So rude, especially when I, an actual average home baker, can do better than what she did.

[@Melanierose21122]

But the cake wasn't presentable, so 80 dollars?? I get your point though.

[@Gamesaucer]

@@Melanierose21122 ...That's exactly what they said. The baker was out of her league.

[@katvtay]

Why do you highly recommend using a box cake? For convenience?

[@lamemechose7072]

Just a better use of time and effort that way. I’ve used Pillsbury, Dunkin Hines, and Betty Crocker mixes, all with the extra vanilla, they’ve always turned out great. I’ve never used the Great Value, so that might have been a large contributing factor here. (He’s allergic to nuts, so that may be what he can safety consume for cross-contamination reasons.) There’s lots of “make boxed cake taste homemade hacks”, but they don’t tend to work for me. The most common one is “use butter”, but butter gardens in the fridge, so if you have a frosting that needs refrigeration (cream cheese is my favorite), the cake ends up tasting dry and hard when served. Use one of those brands of mix, add in more vanilla (reduce the water the same amount), and put the energy and money into homemade frosting.

[@hhansanfranz]

I love swapping the water for milk in boxes cake mixes. It makes it so much better

[@misslovemealways123]

That girl definitely needs a PR team lol. Your cakes looked pretty good! Also, if you're looking for a cake with different flavors per level, Safiya Nygaard did a video where she made a cake where every layer was a different cake box flavor. Just look up "Safiya Nygaard wedding cake." :)

[@lil.redrobin]

As someone who is a professional baker and makes cakes for people, not only is this ladies attitude *absolutely* atrocious, the fact that she charged that price is OUTRAGEOUS. I am all for “charging what ur worth/for ur time” (hell I even do it myself) but no way that cake’s worth $80! I would have charged someone $20-$25 TOPS, and even then thats being generous. I don’t typically participate in TikTok Drama, but this girl needs a reality check- that cake was just not good. For someone who seems to have been doing this for years, I wish the skills would reflect that. Don’t get me wrong, everybody has bad days/cake fails, but the fact that she tried to argue with the customer and pass off that cake as being “what was advertised” instead of admitting the cake was just not good… is just horrible customer service to say the least. I truly hope this was a learning experience for her (if not now, hopefully later down the road) as she just did not paint herself in a good light.

[@ericamoney6257]

I’m not on Tik Tok so I haven’t heard about any of this but as someone who *lives* for drama and gossip I am happy to sit here with my popcorn and listen to you fill me in on the tea 💀 thanks king!

[@colesmith7509]

I would honestly download tiktok just for this. If you look at her other cakes yo will literally gasp. They’re UNBELIEVABLY bad

[@danielcameron9857]

I actually made a rainbow layer cake for Christmas at work one year. I used different liquors (Frangelico, Drambuie, Chambord, Creme de Cassis... can't remember them all) each mixed in a cooled simple syrup and brushed onto each layer while they were still warm after removing them from the cooled pans. I one 2 different $100 prizes for it in the baking contest!

[@spellbinder3113]

Did the flavors and taste go together well? Seems like a lot of boozie stuff.

[@danielcameron9857]

@@spellbinder3113 yes! I had so many compliments. I used small amounts. For each layer I think I used about 10ml of booze with about 20ml of simple syrup (1:1, sugar: water). I also made the layers in 10"x10" square pans. I didn't have gel colors so they weren't very vibrant. I bought the small, mini-fridge bottles so they weren't expensive. I also found my notes... Red- Maraschino liqueur, orange- Grand Marnier, yellow- Limoncello, green- Frangelico, blue- Creme de Cassis, purple- Chambord. I used black-colored butter cream for between the layers and the crumb coat. I covered that with black-colored sugar crystal. Then I made a small amount of marshmallow fondant, split into the 6 colors, plus white, and used it to make a "Dark Side of the Moon" album logo on top.

[@danielcameron9857]

I found a picture of it, but can't post it in the comments, unfortunately.

[@spellbinder3113]

@@danielcameron9857 Sounds great though! You must have put a lot of thought into it.

[@nobodyimportant1968]

@@danielcameron9857 that sounds cool as hell, that's definitely a cake to be proud of!

[@VixxyCopeland]

As someone who bakes at home and worked in a bakery for years, I have a LOT to say about Cakegate. But imma keep it short: This is her own fault tbh. I don't know why on earth she thought going public with this was a good idea. Customers have been legitimately mean and rude to me multiple times when I worked in a bakery. They were mean to the cake decorators, too! But never once did we put them on blast on social media...why? Because they kept coming back and spending their money.😅 Its okay to feel upset and other human emotions. But girlie, Your a business owner. You need to make money to survive in the market you are in. I'm more upset that you failed at being a professional than how messed up the writing on that cake is😂

[@souptaels]

She's one of the reasons why you shouldn't trust a TikToker. "well you paid for it and you were being mean about it, so now you're BANNED lol!!" f off, genuinely. She's a business. She should act more professional, but again, tiktok will be tiktok.

[@youre_mine]

she's acting as if it was a petty internet fight, this is business you have to be professional to keep up a good reputation, and just have normal human decency.

[@Appaddict01]

Live by TikTok die by TikTok.😂

[@floraflowers]

Every "small business" TikToker with an attitude looked at the pink sauce girl and thought to themselves that if she made it, they can, too.

[@Ziyanani]

I want a rainbow fruit cake now.. strawberry or cherry, orange, lemon, lime, blueberry, and blackberry! It'd be a neat adventure.

[@naiadolling]

Blackberry is such a great idea! My last layer is always vanilla because I get stuck. But thanks for sharing!

[@faukerconsulting835]

🙋🏻‍♀️Did you forget the apple??😉

[@RiaGreece12]

Hey David,you should watch how Mimo makes her cakes!She uses the cake mixes and instead of water she adds milk and one extra egg per box cake.She is amazing!

[@marvelboy74]

Right now you can get a 10in Rainbow Cake from Carlo's Bakery for $64.95, regularly $99.95, not including shipping. That's a bakery with national recognition. If she is buying the cheapest ingredients possible, charging $80 and not making a killing, then she either has huge overhead or doesn't actually know how to run a business. I mean, you can get a 25lb bag of GV flour for $9.

[@chillinwithdolyn]

I will say, she probably doesn't have the same scale as him, and cakes aren't just flour. Eggs, milk, etc. are all pretty expensive rn, not to mention equipment, rent, labour, and other business costs. That's not to say she acted professionally in this situation, just to add nuance. It's tough to compare businesses like that.

[@ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff5]

She is basically the example of what NOT to do when the internet is pissed at you.

[@certainromance24]

OMG DAVID!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FINALLY DID A RECIPE BY CUPCAKE JEMMA! ❤❤❤ Hope it's not the last time!!! I know this recipe was messy and complicated, but she also has much simpler recipes.

[@lady8jane]

I LOVE to make her unicorn fudge recipe. So easy and fun!

[@CheckTheWiki]

David, if you read this make sure to watch out when you make baked goods from other countries. I know there is a big difference between the flours from US, UK and Canada. I have to adapt much of my baking in Canada because I've had disasters following recipes.

[@Melanierose21122]

@@CheckTheWiki this makes sense why I get troubles with alot of cakes. Not only flour and stuff but like also measuring cups are made differently and that's why I ensure I just do by the gram. I really hope weighing scales are the same.

[@CheckTheWiki]

@@Melanierose21122 Yeah, if you're Canadian then our all purpose flour is more like a strong bread flour. I have to buy pastry flour instead of using AP for my pies. If you're up for experimenting you could probably blend flours to get results that work for you.

[@melaniedejonge5234]

I would pay eighty bucks for a David Seymour cake! 😁

[@EmmaBay]

I don't think you can still call yourself an "average home baker" after all the fancy recipes you've successfully baked over the years!

[@KatieCarpenter2014]

Just a quick tip: for boxed cake mixes, they should be beaten pretty rigorously for 2-3 minutes, it makes the texture better. They're made to be mixed that way. :) (Homemade cake is opposite, where you should only stir until everything is combined to avoid it from coming out tough.)

[@sparks6177]

I know David touched on this but it really is insanely common to use boxed cake, especially when you are buying a custom decorated cake. Most of the time you are paying for a cheap boxed cake with expensive decorations and that’s how the price breaks down more often then not. As far as “quality” ingredients, it’s probably true compared to other custom cakes that will use boxed cake, Betty Crocker cake is definitely the winner when it comes to boxed cake mix but it’s still only slightly better then a beginner baker making a cake from scratch

[@FoxDragon]

I made my niece a unicorn rainbow cake for her birthday one year, complete with rainbow cupcakes and tie-dye style sugar cookies that were unicorn shapes. No idea how much it cost me to make, and it wasn't perfect by any means. But I had a TON of fun doing it and my niece absolutely loved it.

[@rachelhall3892]

I bought a 6in red velvet cake from a cupcake war's winner in my hometown a few years ago and paid about $70 for it. So, I think $80 is reasonable for a CONTEST WINNING CAKE, not for a box mix tragedy of a cake. You can get a better cake than what Kylie is hawking at Walmart. AND with frosting handwriting like hers, she should not be advertising it, she can't do it. She needs to practice.

[@strangelykingless4980]

As a small tip for everyone just in general: powdered food dyes are a lot easier to work with because you can add as much as you want without having your batter become too runny! I learned that the hard way, my cake was basically still half liquid after being baked...

[@bookshelfhoney]

I've never used powder but gels are usually great, just not the liquid ones they make stuff so runny if you're using more than a drop

[@vivim29]

You can improve a cake box texture by using butter instead of oil too.

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

Welllllll, sometimes. Oil cakes are better if it's chocolate or has other ingredients that tend to be dry -- oil cakes are more moist than butter cakes on the whole, so oil is recommended for those flavors. Also, using butter is a problem if you're frosting with something that needs to stay refrigerated, like cream cheese frosting. Butter cakes need to be served at room temperature to have the right texture -- otherwise the butter is too solid and the texture of the cake will be too dense. But some frostings need to be served cold, cuz they start to weep or get runny if you let them get down to room temp. So if you're using that kind of frosting, you need to use oil for your fat.

[@adg00189]

The "weirdly firm spongy texture" on your cake is from the cake not being cooked enough/correctly. Do not eat a cake that looks that way, as it can cause a stomach ache. It looks nice though ( colorwise ) :). Second cake looked so good! I want it too.

[@Shasgirl]

The fact this cake was made so many times with the words "Happy Birthday Trilby" has to be the best part of this fiasco. Oh to be named Trilby! LMAO

[@FizzyMangoSoda]

I can’t get over the fact that you kept the writing as TRilby

[@Starforsaken101]

For someone who claims they're not great at decorating and assembling cake, your cakes turned out really good!

[@thewitch2810]

I like this style of video! It was like a chit chat with a friend combined with the recipe tryouts we all know and love!

[@thisisavivistanaccount7866]

The OG cake that the business owner made was…not good looking. It didn’t look worth $80. My parents have paid for custom cakes and I worked at a cupcake/cake shop. They get beautiful results, and great customer service. You did a great job with baking!!

[@Lori_Hanna]

Growing up my mom would buy me an "atomic cake" from a bakery. It had all different flavor cakes as layers. Then filling to match. Then covered with sweet whipped cream frosting. That was 35 years ago. At the time the cost was about 50 bucks. So worth it, sadly the bakery closed. But the memories remain

[@m1k3y48]

No offense, but I'm not sure you're quite the "average" home baker at this point David lol, just with all the experience you have making crazy internet recipes

[@joanneoldford3082]

You can make flavoured layers, you use jello powder. My mom makes an Easter cake with four layers and each layer is a different flavour and it's amazing.

[@Naks2099]

David, you are an amazing human being! I love your content, your family and your friends. please keep giving us recipies and all that great food content.

[@oliviafrank3472]

whenever I use cake mix, I always mix by hand and kind of under mix it so it doesnt get so spongey and dense, but homemade is almost always better. Also I love the Idea of flavoring each slice a different color, if you stick to fruity flavors you would have like a super fruit punch cake!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The video, cake and the chat were all wonderful david! Sending you tons of love man!

[@oncersm7884]

I love making rainbow cakes for birthdays! It’s so much more exciting to cut up to a colorful cake than just boring vanilla or chocolate. That being said, I don’t really think her cake was worth $80 with how she decorated it…

[@lokcachte]

For every layer to taste different, you could buy different extracts at a specialty kitchen store, cake decorating store, or craft store and flavor every layer. If it was flavors like strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, lime, lemon, and orange it wouldn’t be too weird. It would cost you around $15 for a pack of 12 with some brands or at least $3 a bottle at minimum though. I don’t think I’d recommend it. I do think a rainbow cake that had a bit of citrus zest added to the sugar would be fantastic.

[@JohnDoe003]

Kudos to you David, you seem very reasonable and fair in the analysis and responding to this issue. Please never lose that character. To top it off your video is great and your cakes are actually good looking. I might goes far as to say your video is darn near perfect of what I'd like to see from creators in some sense. I hope the best for you David.

[@Valentina-ng4hh]

Love the way how your cake turned out ❤️ looks yummy

[@charliemayfilms1550]

David, I used to watch you all the time back in- jeez, idk, 2017? 2018? around then. I was in a really bad place in my life, and sometimes watching your videos was the only thing that got me through the day. I stopped watching as much once I was no longer in that place, but you will always hold a special place because of that. Thank you. Watching you again now when I’m not struggling with those same things is so refreshing. Keep it up! :)

[@GirlLovesFairytale]

I love that you did a recipe from cupcake jemma ❤❤ she has amazing recipes

[@moira329]

David your layers are looking good and on the homemade very even. Nicely done.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

My lord! I love you with all my hearth David! All the care and affection you give! Keep up the amazing work and God bless you!

[@SimpleBegiknits]

I am deceased!!! The messages you handwrote on top of both cakes had me laughing so hard. Nice work! 🤣

[@mphilp]

Kudos for taking a positive, fun and cooking-based approach to this, and for your comments at the end Oh, and you got to eat cake! :D Been viewing for 4+ years and your content is deliciously enjoyable! Good job!

[@emilyrambo8683]

well david now that you have spoken it... you must make a cherry, orange, lemon, lime, blue, grape rainbow flavored cake.

[@paisleepunk]

BLUE FLAVOR!

[@Marmar-1212]

That second cake came out so gorgeous!

[@littlekitsune1]

My birthday is tomorrow and my mom is making me the rainbow cake she always makes me. Even having to have bought new supplies to bake it, we spent nowhere near $80 and it looks and tastes better than this thing. She uses powdered Jell-O to flavor and color each layer of white cake. Makes it taste unique per layer, and makes it super moist. I'm looking forward to eating it!

[@littlekitsune1]

As an edit, I said "better than this thing" but I meant the tiktok one. Not the KZbinr one. XD

[@kel1996x]

Yay! A new David vid! So excited 🤩🍰🌈

[@kubiakWU]

I don't think you mixed the cake batter long enough. Sounds weird but if you read the instructions you need to mix it for a couple minutes. People think you shouldn't over mix it like most dough/batter but the mixes are different. It makes the cooked cake a better consistency

[@BlahkieUnicornz]

The funniest thing is that people have actually spotted the great value and Betty crocker box mixes kn her shelves in sone vids so she for sure uses mixes. Also the customer remade the cake themselves and it came out leagues better.

[@sundusfarooq8268]

David, you make my days better ❤

[@rlfolder5437]

That first cake looks darn good 🤤 . 100% better than what I could do.

[@bethpierce7150]

Omgggg both of your cakes looked amazing ❤

[@angelwild5665]

Just noticed you are over 500,000 subscribers! Congratulations! Happy for your success!

[@mariapizzaa]

Hey, David finally filled all the baskets in the back of his basement background!

[@NaeOnYT]

I've had one of those rainbow cakes you showed--the one from Goddess and the Grocer. It was honestly excellent. Very nice for a special occasion. :)

[@MsAngrybutterfly]

I made one with every layer a different flavor! I used boxed cake mix and used Kool Aid for the flavors. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but my friends were impressed? They wanted me to bake it again anyway.

[@lianafeeser7868]

For flavored layers, look into recipes using jello to color and flavor.

[@ThreeWiseMagis]

4:31 for sure. When I first got into cake decorating I bought Super Moist cakes and the pick up was a nightmare! I use a simple/easy white cake recipe I found online that is I think 5-6 ingredients OR Jiffy! Lol those cheap $.50 ones? Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, etc. too moist, to fluffy for decorating and tend to have strong flavor profiles that don’t lend well to additives. However Jiffy bake mixes are simple and the cake density is so much more sturdy. You can add things like chocolate chips, fruit, or other flavors and it won’t compromise the texture or chemistry too much. By a bunch at Walmart, they are less than a dollar and perfect results every time!

[@Crochet_kitty]

You did a great job on both cakes.

[@DavidSeymourofficial]

thank you!

[@jannapenas1543]

LMAO I just closed TikTok on a cakegate video and now you’re doing one. Love it!

[@omgdiepls]

That looks awesome!!!

[@secretadmirer109]

You neeeeed to try more of Cupcake Jemma's recipes. The amount of diverse recipes she has is insane.

[@cassiel.6918]

Rainbow cake is my favorite cake, especially the ones with cream cheese frosting (aka your nemesis), yum!

[@ceycey6037]

Omg finally, a cupcake jemma recipe!!

[@thunderpants3500]

Cherry, orange, banana, lime, blueberry and raspberry! The banana will offset the citrus spazz OR you could have an orange cream flavor fade into the banana.

[@patrickcolliano7320]

You did a great job!

[@andreagriffiths3512]

I’m tempted to make this. I made my mum 60 cupcakes for her 60th. I used packet mixes but I added stuff to them, like orange essence to the chocolate mix, cherry ripe chocolate pieces, vanilla, almond - anything and everything so she had a good variety of flavours. It was a staggering amount of work. But a tonne cheaper than my dad’s idea (he was paying) that we order 60 cupcakes. He was surprised to find that each one would have cost at least $3. Funny how he then didn’t mind dumping the task on me. Fortunately, mum loved them and they froze well. This cake would be a lot easier to do I think.

[@leylapats]

I’m not saying the girl can’t bake, but she’s clearly not trained and is still learning. A lot of her fondant isn’t rolled out enough, way too thick and dry, her buttercream is too soft when she’s using it, and like duh, wear gloves girl. Not to say she isn’t talented and doesn’t have potential, she does, she just has to humble herself until she reaches it. Too much sass for that stage of learning.

[@zxtudio]

Wow, that so funny, who the hell goes public on a such small issue. Girl needed this reality check.

[@TheJamation]

I was happily enjoying watching this video, not knowing much about the whole cakegate thing, and then 5:27 hit me in the face, knocked me out my chair, and threw me down the stairs with how much butter I saw on my screen that I wasn't expecting hahahaha

[@Museislife115]

k heres the thing... bakeries that i've worked at use cake mixes but they're industrial sized, like gigantic 40lbs sacks of dry ingredients, and you can only buy them with a wholesale buisness license. they are professionally made for professional quality buisnesses, not betty crocker cake boxes you can buy at the dollar store

[@Anonymous-ti8yw]

You should do some reading on the best kitchenaid attachment to use. The beater is better for frostings and batters, the whisk is good for merengues.

[@annbrookens945]

I've missed the entire cake controversy, thankfully! Your cakes, however, came out well! The colors of both are vibrant enough but I'm sure the one from scratch tastes better. Good job, David!

[@toxin7111]

I cant believe that he, as a home-baker/ non-professional, made a way better looking cake with store bought ingredients and managed to make also I completely selfmade one...

[@serendipitousslim1529]

David I was thinking the exact same thing as you (about the different layers having different flavors) right before you said it in the video lol. I look at that cake and it makes me think it would taste like a bowl of either froot loops or fruity pebbles, just plain vanilla with all that color seems a bit disappointing imo. While I very well COULD see a cake with so many different flavors as being overwhelming, I think if each layer was subtly flavored it could actually be really, really good. Maybe another video idea in the future?

[@bakingforbusiness]

She came on our podcast and shared her side of the story. Your cakes are beautiful though and I love the point of view you shared.

[@ReyhaofMidgard]

Also when putting more cake tins in, you should add time to bake and make sure you do the toothpick test! Having more mass to cook in the oven makes it so it takes a little longer

[@Zastier]

i think you overmixed the box cake mix, you should only mix it until it is combined, and avoid going beyond because that's definitely what caused the tough texture and probably contributed to those air channels in the final cake

[@FireyGirl10]

The rainbow cake Kylie made is only something I would take without complaint if a loved one baked it. Otherwise, I'd have said "They scammed you" 😭

[@MEG4nerd]

The reason people use cake mixes and elevate them is because of the commercial leaveners and softeners in the mix and when elevated properly they are better than a home baked cake from scratch without access to those.

[@Vynjira-chan]

David, I am with you on flavor for each color.. I think it could be doable.. someone needs to get on that.

[@melsyoutube]

your remake of Jemma’s looked so good!

[@jam20230]

😂😂😂 the Happy Birthday Tilby rainbow sprinkle cake is a trend now. 😂😂 honestly your cake looks so much neater, even your writing was better😅

[@stonefacedmedusa5542]

Me too! I always thought rainbow cakes had different flavors in it, like rainbow skittles. The first time I ate a slice of rainbow cake I was disappointed.

[@noahmadrigal162]

I was waiting for this video, and nice that it's uploaded on my birthday. Almost like more birthday cakes, even though I prefer chocolate hahaha

[@B_is_for_butter]

Happy birthday! 🎉

[@Gamemaster-64]

One thing you did right is leaving room for the writing, hers is just covered in sprinkles and then a blob of frosting on top of that, not even smoothed out, look like something after I try to spread sauce on a pizza.

[@mcmolly2887]

you can mix cake flour half regular flour to get that nice not to fluffy texture.