He showed off some of his creations in a recent TikTok. It included a cake coffee machine, cake razor, cake water bottle, and cake Mona Lisa. Everything is cake for Jonny Manganello. Manganello, a ...

Those are the auspices behind a current cultural phenomenon: trompe l’oeil cakes. In viral internet videos, everyday objects—a microwave, a pair of shoes, a sandwich—are, with the fall of a sharpened ...