Trying to RESCUE another Bride's FAILED Wedding Cake!

[@TheIcingArtist]

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[@queenbellroses7397]

Its amazing Laurie I love you’re hair and you’re beautiful ❤

[@RenzoJeffersonLuna]

Hello😊

[@gretta9589]

I prefer your version! ❤

[@rainaedgcumbe4889]

I feel like it would look cool if you did the camo like a peekaboo draping style over both tiers. Maybe if you know what I mean, with ruff edges painted in gold... with like gold and greens in the floral lots of leaves and maybe some oreo crumbs at the bottom of the cakes. I feel like that could be interesting. Feel free to use it!❤❤

[@floatielle2.06]

It was much better than what the original was, but I still feel like camo is a really difficult concept to "get right" on a cake. Oh, and apparently someone deemed it racist for fulfilling an American stereotype? Idk it seems like ya can't win with some people. What you made was great in comparison so... 🤷‍♀

[@jnl.]

you should have taken the cake scraper and ran it around the "camo" to smooth it out. that might have looked cool with all the colors blending into eachother.

[@chiara-giorgiax9306]

i thought the same thing 🤩

[@aworldofherown]

Same. Wish I had read a few comments before I posted.

[@CaseyMarie11-11]

I was hoping that's what she was going to do..

[@flutemusic88]

Exactly what I thought. Like watercolor camo.

[@wendyrobertson8944]

Yes! I looked that up. It would have made it smooth and hopefully looked good.

[@MurdockTheCat]

I think your greens are too blue. The one is great but then there's a teal and a mint. Maybe smoothing the cake would have made the colors blend together better and helped your texture problem.

[@penelopegarcia6573]

IMO I feel that light browns would have brought the greens together ie café au lait, tan, taupe etc

[@stephaniekern603]

The fact that Laurie's "disaster" cake came out better than the original one. 😭

[@miacarvalho8732]

That's why she said is not that bad. Like, honey... It is

[@neonmoon8356]

Yeah, I was about to comment that her version looks better. I still wouldn't want it, but the more vivid greens and orange-browns look (slightly) more appealing. More like moss than camo, I guess?

[@jessicahites871]

I liked her disaster cake so much more than her redo

[@LuckyBearie]

That's because the original "disaster" cake looks more mouldy than camouflage. Laurie's at least looked like camo.

[@stephaniekern603]

@@LuckyBearie I'm glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought moldy when I saw the original cake. It actually made me feel physically ill looking at it. 🤢

[@imjustsaying7300]

I was wondering if you took your icing scraper and ‘blended’ the camo colors , how that would look ( or if it would make it worse ) It’s cake and frosting in the end, so it’s all good!

[@jessf_2001]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@wandadruhan9935]

I was thinking this too. Actually I was talking to the tv telling her to use her smoothing thing.

[@mcrchickenluvr]

After spritzing it with a tiny bit of sugar water so the colors blend but don’t mix. It would also give it the texture of actually being outdoors.

[@marksmorphs]

Same here. The texture made them look too much like leaves to me; especially the shape being so round. Camo has more of these organic "amoeba" looking shapes that all interlock together to form a smooth flowing pattern that is meant to break up outlines so that animals cannot see you by determining your outlined shape. The purpose is to cause confusion, so the more "Shape" you see; the less effective it will be.

[@kristin4241]

Same here...think that would have smoothed it and blended it more out.

[@kioku119]

Thanks for showing Archie. I'm grateful for every chance we get to see him now. He's such a lovely boy.

[@floatielle2.06]

I showed the image of the original cake to my mother, she responded "Its for those deep south gun enthusiasts who always wear camo even if they never hunt 'cause they own like 20+ guns and use their backyards as a gun range". 😂😂 Thanks mom, real insightful.

[@rachaelt3294]

Wee have a gun range and hunt on our land. But we do not wear camo all the time.. lol I do not like that cake... maybe I'm not hillbilly enough...

[@carolinegosselin9284]

I agree 100% with your mom. It was also my thoughts. Even more with the cake topper.

[@JustAGun_]

My thoughts exactly

[@kristamcgukin6246]

Unfortunately, you would be correct... it's the "stereotypical southern hillbilly" that everyone thinks of when talking about the deep south. More of us here are NOT like that than are.

[@alexr.3504]

@@rachaelt3294I know lots of people who hunt on their land and have gun ranges on their land, and also don’t wear camo all the time. Lol But camo is popular in some states like WI (where I grew up) where hunting is a huge part of the culture!

[@Diana-wc4jl]

3:17 Laurie is making a camouflage cake and on the other side Archie is camouflaged in the rug!😂

[@TheIcingArtist]

hahaha always!!

[@stephaniekern603]

His ultimate defense mechanism when it's time to go to the vet. 😅

[@scoatgoat6415]

What cake, all I see is a cake stand and a floating bride and groom.

[@gwenifyer]

😂

[@ellie3365]

Right?? Not much effort in this video

[@Frinxmodi]

Took me wayyyyy tooo long to figure it out😂😂😂😂

[@kanditraxel]

There is always ONE. 😆

[@daeyang._]

3:40 The air brushing in snow wearing crocs makes me cackle 🤣

[@TheIcingArtist]

I can't believe he panned down to my crocs LOL!!

[@CupcakeSteph38]

😂​

[@linseylinsey]

It's extremely fitting for a camo wedding cake. There's no other way to do it now 😅

[@thelifeofbrooke2033]

My guess is that it was a red neck southern country couple who hunt, not someone military. None of the military personnel I know of would want a camouflage cake (I grew up in a military family with redneck cousins) but a couple from the Deep South probably would.

[@vintagemel6358]

This 100%. And I feel like if you really wanted to go the military route, you could do something vaguely inspired by dress uniforms that could look really elegant.

[@brooklynnbailey4356]

Thissss...this was 100000% a redneck cake... if the topper didn't give it away the camo fr should have 😂 i know a few people here in the south who would like a camo cake 🙄😂

[@mandymcnalis7551]

​@@vintagemel6358 agreed. The chosen topper on the original also screams "fanciest wedding at the trailer park since Bubba Ray got hitched in '88" to me. Edit to add: No hate on the trailer folk. I was totally a guest at Bubba Ray's reception myself in '88 😉

[@gwenifyer]

@@mandymcnalis7551😂😂😂

[@HomeNGardening]

I have been to a few military weddings as an adult. I remember some of them did have military themed wedding cakes. I don’t think I had seen a camo tho one.

[@tiffanylee3634]

I love this series! Not going to lie, I still want Kevin to do more decorating videos

[@florenceshousha7981]

I'm not sure the flower colour goes with the camo ones? But I love the gold leaves! Definitely more wedding vibe than the mess from before 😂. Tbh I feel like camo could be more woodsy (more leaves, some bark, branches etc)

[@glockenrein]

I think the only way to make a camouflage cake appealing is to use the winter camo with the twigs. 😂

[@Jaded_Canadian]

Should have done an olive green icing then air brushed the splotches that way any gaps would be the olive green and would give more depth. Camo has the base colour and thing the blobs on top of it and scrap it down to one unified layer. You could also use the tape as a reference.

[@AcaffeinatedPerson]

Oh my, I just found your channel today and have been absolutely enjoying myself, so a new video few hours later is a blessing

[@50sRockChick]

Lol @ Kevin ‘you should still do the shell border, but it should be bullet shells’. 😂

[@karennorris6135]

I almost spit out my drink when he said that

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

I am so glad that Archie is feeling better!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💋💋💋🥹

[@whitepinehomestead]

I’ve only done one camo cake and it wasn’t a wedding cake, but what I did was pipe the different camo colors in the shapes I wanted and then I used a sponge roller to smooth it all out and blend the edges of each color together and it made a perfect camo look. Just thought I’d share in case you ever wanted to try.

[@amywonderland9297]

I want to petition for Kevin to tackle the sheet cake to wedding cake challenge.

[@estherp]

Hey a message to everyone: never give up, you got this!💪😊

[@JustAGun_]

I think the bottom tier didn't exactly read as camo without any black or brown, but I did LOVE it for a completely separate reason which is that it looked like acrylic paint splotches and I love that. Plus green is my favorite color so I'm biased, but I really loved the texture actually

[@connieholdren6534]

You need a paint booth! Haha! My mom decorated cakes my whole life growing up. I've done a few here and there and LOVE it! I just don't have the space. So, watching you is awesome and gives me some ideas for anything I might do in the future! Thank you... ❤

[@jakeking3859]

I used to LOVE making icing like that for icing my cookies - it was like playdough. So your later technique of just rolling it into a ball and pulling it off the cake is very nostalgic for me 😂😂 It's also very sweet the banter you two have. Very smart of Kevin to hide out inside over the heater while you were airbrushing the cakes 😂

[@laurenschenck5355]

So happy Archie is feeling better!! Yay! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@spriteXpunk_0917]

Hi Laurie!!! I would like to just say thank you for what you do. You inspire me to bake and go out of my comfort zone. You are an amazing human being, please never forget that. I’m always so excited to watch the new video posted. They always make me smile, and give me a break from reality. I hope you, Kevin, and Archie are doing well, hope you are have a great new year so far. Thank you again for all you do!! ❤️❤️🧁🧁

[@BethanyWallace-e8j]

Maybe you could pipe the camo design on some acetate then wrap it around the cake and do one for the top as well, then when you remove the acetate it would be smooth

[@Clarky1951]

Can’t imagine a camo effect wedding cake. 🤭Sorry, even if you’re in the military. Just a bit too much for 3 tiers. I used the exact same cake topper on wedding cake in 2007. Brides request. I airbrush with my cake inside a very large box, with long sides. And usually in my basement. I put old sheets on my table & floor. Airbrushing it be kinda messy. Sorry Laurie, I think I agree with Kevin, I don’t like the camo texture. I would have done a little less splotches of colour, exposing more of the white bc. But must say, the addition of the gold leaves and flowers did elevate the cake. Poor Kevin….he’s just the camera man 😂😂

[@Kckj-q7b]

😂 You all are awesome!! I really enjoy your videos! Thanks for being so awesome!! ♥️

[@BelindaJones-d5m]

My personal opinion is that you should have used the cake smother on the camo area after you were done. I think it would have looked better.

[@Susan-w7j]

I saw this TikTok for gold dust painting. She was using a spherical sprinkles and putting them into a container with gold dust. And shake the closed container to make sure it’s mixed up. Then you can put whatever leaves or flowers into it and shake it more to paint the leaves. I don’t know if it works tho. Give it a try and let us know.

[@briannabowman9113]

I absolutely love the concept that you were going for. What if you had painted on the splotches instead to look like watercolors?

[@philoctetes_wordsworth]

Oh, my goodness-the original cake: I have so many questions! Why? Who? Where? When? Why? Just. Why?

[@AG_92]

The roses on the original cake look like little Brussels sprouts

[@dnte_86]

Ohhh goodness. The paper towel usage. 🤣 I've been following you since then. That's great!! 🤣

[@MollyBonilla1019]

As a spouse of a man who was in the army and also as someone who grew up in a family of hunter I can GUARANTEE it was hunters. If they do an “military” style it would not be that. They have colors depending on the branch.

[@emilydivis6369]

I've never liked the "bride dragging the groom" cake toppers, or any of the other wedding items built around the joke that one of the people getting married (usually the groom) doesn't want to be there. Even if you genuinely think "I hate my wife!" is funny, why do you think it belongs in an event that's all about celebrating a new marriage?

[@saraocampo9066]

Agree, not funny, not nice

[@vlo4829]

I'm not a big fan either, but sometimes the joke is "She wanted it to happen, he wanted it to happen, and the family was waiting for it to happen, but it took him SOOO long to pop the question" rather than "I hate my wife" or "I don't want to get married". In the end, though, the bride has to agree (and often chooses the cake topper), so if SHE likes it, I roll with it. Lots of weddings with tacky caketoppers still end in very happy marriages.

[@MiissMariie]

I've always wondered what u did with all the cakes u do make on ur channel and get from bakeries lol

[@karenfox5004]

This was great. This would be a fire series! Possibly outlining some of the really harsh texture edges with gold would distract the eye. Good design overall. I seen the vison.

[@tammycruz4734]

You are my biggest inspiration ❤ all the way from New Zealand

[@teshuverma8562]

Laurie's sketch looking like 5 year old kids doodles 😂and cake looking✨ majestic ✨

[@CasplenYT]

If you did want the smooth splotchy effect that I thiiink you were after I'd have started with a chilled cake in the lightest green colour and then put on splotches of the different colours before lightly smoothing them out, chilling between layers and building up the "camo" pattern. Sugar and Sparrow's watercolour cake tutorial seems pretty similar to this, but with less blending. Still, I think you did a fabulous job, cake decorating is an art not a science and what you got is still very lovely!

[@home.and.heart.]

You guys are so cute! If you want to airbrush inside, maybe use a large box with just one side cut out. Makes a mini spray booth. Not as easy to film, but warmer. 🩷

[@decelis_boys747kings]

Laurie you are a genius! I love it! 😍🔥

[@paiget6200]

I really want cake now Would it be bad to just buy a tub of buttercream and eat it straight out of the tub? 😂 😂

[@karenschlosser3762]

I think it would have come together if you could have done some smearing of the camo. Maybe, that's just a thought. It just looks too chunky for what it is

[@sabrynamartel5188]

What I usually do to keep the colors how they are but smooth. I take a metal pallet like yours and heat it up with a torch and then I make the cake turn 180° in one go while holding the warm/hot metal pallet against it. You can try different angles with the tool and see what works best for you. It does different effects. You could maybe try warming up your pallet in hot water, maybe it would work?

[@Missilyn3]

My best friend and I had a cake business in highschool and the first time we made a kids birthday cake it was a Barbie cake... We were sneezing pink and purple luster dust for WEEKS afterwards 😂

[@nimayaghobi1787]

drink a sip of water every time Laurie is saying „i think“

[@nitramael]

Comes for the light-hearted content - stays for the "sensual glitter moments"😂

[@VianneWamann]

I loooove you and Kevin being silly! ♥

[@rachelhomegrownyoga2204]

Definitely improved on the original disaster cake! I love the deep purple flower it pops against the gold leaves and cakes

[@KBish]

Kinda jealous that you get to eat cake every week. Love the channel, keep up the great work! The leaves on your cake make me think of the medals that are on a camo uniform.

[@voxangelaemortis]

There is a certain vibe from an all camo cake with a topper where the bride is literally dragging a reluctant groom to the altar. It is rural. It is red hatted. It makes me wonder if the bride/groom were actually the ones who thought it was a cake wreck.

[@painthorse1234]

We have a lot of hunters in our family. They don’t use the green camp, they use the brown camp because they hunt in the fall when everything is brown and orange . A family member got married in the fall and the groomsmen wore camo coloured vests with orange tiesand the bridesmaids had brown dresses. The men’s boutonnières were empty shotgun shells with flowers in them. The bridesmaids flowers had orange and cream coloured flowers. The cake was a three tier cake , each in a different flavor and different color icing. Just a few flowers and it was all very well put together

[@KimberlyGreene-wr5qm]

Not sure if I like the cake! But love watching u!😍

[@Kiyoko191290]

For airbrushing cakes I have a corner. Specifically I have 2 boards (it can be heavy cardboard or compound board) I usually put a plastic wrap over the boards so they wipe easier. I make a 90 degree angle with the boards and that is my designated airbrushing space

[@alschroeder1724]

Build yourself a paint booth like scale model makers have. Made one out of 6mm foam board, had enough space for a 16” model to spin 360degrees and eliminated all overspray.

[@maydrosa]

You can use a large box for the air brushing. Cut out the bottom and one side.

[@serenitymonet8601]

Need more of these!

[@noodlechild666]

I dont think its possible to make a camo cake look appealing. A green mix is off putting and unappetising. Second one is the 'best'.

[@jakeking3859]

I think it would really depend on which type of greens you use. Personally, I would go for a more pastel palette than trying to change the yellow-base greens for blue-base ones. I find that pastels are more forgiving when you're blending colours. That's why I always do pastel rainbows on my cakes rather than the full-force ones. I just think they look better.

[@candacehaydel28]

Could you flatten some of the raised areas with parchment paper to smooth it down??

[@TheIcingArtist]

oh I should have! That might have looked really good!

[@Mystrich]

Ok I wasnt sure I agreed with the comments but I see what they mean. I think going around with the icing scraper to smooth and blend the colors would have looked great. Also for the gold power, I'd recommend mixing it with alcohol - it turns into a paint that doesn't get in the air.

[@diane3428]

I laughed through this video because my entire mouth would have been green by the end ! How does she not eat all of the frosting?!

[@Brody2477]

Maybe the blobs of colour intermittent over the cake and then scrape them over to join them together? I liked the colour combo and the flowers.

[@Doriemarie-m4t]

Your cake is way better but not even close to camo 😂 love the idea of yours for a wedding cake! Especially with a little less texture :)

[@catherineware4965]

💖I can't stop looking at your gorgeous hair💝

[@laurenschenck5355]

Love ur videos Laurie! ❤😊❤😊

[@aleeza_h]

Hii Laurie, I love your videos!! For the airbrushing, maybe put down some plastic sheet or paper on the table? I don't know if that's an obvious idea that doesn't work but I thought I'd say it :)

[@Jsmythe333]

I liked the first one better, and with the gold leaf would of been awesome ❤ I love your work 😄

[@jacqpinks]

It needs the brown but I love the style and how you have created it.

[@vlo4829]

To me, the main problem with the original one is that the flowers are also camo (no contrast). I think just changing the color of the flowers (and maybe the shell borders) might have been enough. I think Lori's cake at 6:51 is better, but would also look more elegant if the flowers were not camo. I would say Lori's direct recreation was the best followed by the original. The final cake might have been better airbrushed, but I think it missed the mark: it just doesn't look enough like camo. I appreciate the experimentation and willingness to post things that don't always end better. It's honest (and relatable) and educational to see the results of two different methods. Sometimes you have to try in order to know!

[@andremendez_]

As a graphic designer and not an icing artist I really don't know how it could work, BUT looking at camo references I see a base color, very big contrasting abstract shapes, then smaller darker and more disperse shapes in two colors. I don't think the texture is necessarily a bad thing, but it probably was too much since you had to add a lot to cover the base. Very beautiful result tho!!!

[@alaxwriter8430]

Your rescue is definately an improvement, imo. I agree that the camo didn't quite turn out and maybe it's because the splotches were all similarly sized/shaped, and a couple greens were pretty blue. Not a baker so I can't be trusted on what would fix it, but maybe even adding tiny gold splotches, like little hints of gold to the camo might help? Gold seems like a fancy tan color

[@-Katetastrophe-]

8:50 I think your husband is really on to something with that "shell" border 😂

[@donnaknowles-ni8fg]

i love your final cake... you nailed it

[@NefiCZ]

Archie the cutie steals the show in the 2 seconds present :D

[@kjeracarroll450]

I think it is a lovely cake! I do liked it better when the bottom still had holes of white in between the textured splotches of camo! It’s a fun cake!

[@anarchyvixyn]

The process was great, I think the green you used was good but the teal should have been forest or emerald and the sage should have been a tan or a lighter brown. The point of camo is to blend into nature. And doing the all white top layer was a copout...there were flower cascading down the cake, the top should have had more flowers.

[@PhoenixHinds]

I wonder if the cake would have looked nice if the textured greens were slightly smoothed by one light scrape around the cake? Still leaving a mottled pattern of colours and looking camo-esque.

[@melodyesmith468]

I think you should use that one technique where you did designs then one color over chilled and scraped away the top layer i think it will give you the affect you want and solve the texture issues

[@Dapper_Doormat]

I wasn't thinking about camo when I saw the cake you were working from, I was thinking about this one zombie wedding I went to as an 11 year old where everyone had to wear zombie makeup and the cake was green and covered in fake mold, dirt (crushed oreos) and gummy worms. Honestly, that would have been a 10/10 zombie wedding cake.

[@crowcalls]

I think one thing with the camo is two of your colours have similar values and then one is much lighter. At a glance it looked a bit like two greens on a white background, rather than cohesive camo. But overall I love the design!

[@stacylamb5607]

Camo and wedding don’t go together in my opinion . It’s really hard to make camo elegant and stunning .

[@tiffanymachelleyoung]

I did it once. Not the wedding dress but made camo elegant. I had a Real Tree camouflage prom dress with a knee slit and the inside was Blaze orange.

[@jonmh9668]

Nah it's not too hard if you know what you're doing. Camo ombre touch up with a bit of gold and flowers.

[@serene-cat-aah]

I definitely think that the teal is where it went south it doesn’t give camo and isn’t in the color pallet of the others

[@amberbrehaut7045]

It looks like a camo cake that got caught in a fire and is also starting to mold 😂.

[@swimnwfishes]

I had a beautiful green wedding cake, not camo, but green. I loved it!

[@AutumnMoonlight95]

Wondering if the original was Mama June's cake from her camo and orange wedding? It looked like there was some gold shimmer on it.

[@marialauragiordani3487]

I'm curious, let us know what the client said. The new cake has more wedding vibe and you did a great job!

[@MysticUser]

You had me with slender taller cake, you lost me with "tExTuRe", wrong flowers, and lack of floral climb 🥺 I'd be a grateful but still a sad bride

[@anitamackeigan108]

I think its the white of the top tier that throws it off. Maybe if it was the lightest green you had used, it would have blended. But I still think its beautiful and so are the three of you!!!

[@jillybean9071]

I liked the bottom at the 18:40 mark. Still had some white cake showing thru and I think the pure white cake on top would have looked like 1 whole cake rather than 2 different cakes stacked together.

[@ENTREPRE-MOMMY]

The "fail" actually didn't look too bad. However, I'm looking forward to seeing what Laurie comes up with.

[@annanybom356]

I would use a cardboard box for the airbrushing. Just take of one side and the "roof" and it will be a great spraystation

[@cyndimurphy5537]

It kinda looks like decoupage. The splotches needed to be smoothed into each other, either with a cake smoother or just a paper towel mushed into it.

[@MeetMushrooom]

Even though I can't watch it right now it's crazy that I was able to be one of the first ones lol Also I really like your energy in your videos!

[@griftspotting]

I would have put leaves on and sprayed color over the top. "Graffiti style" camo and out lined some leaves and ferns in gold.

[@jenniferarnett8719]

Bottom layer is giving me Peter Pan leaves costume

[@ACWells13]

You do airbrushing in a little square tent (collapsible for storage) with a built in extractor fan system 😂 i bet if you search airbrushing tent you'll find one

[@Johnnydcolyer]

I would have liked to see you turn it with the flat thing and kinda blend all the colors smooth but it's cute