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Netflix wants to know if it’s cake. Takes slice from viral TikTok trend.

TikTok’s mind-bending cake-cutting trend, where bakers with skills too terrifying to fully comprehend make cakes that look exactly like other foods and everyday objects, is becoming a Netflix reality show.

Is It Cake? will pit nine bakers against one another in an eight-episode, unscripted competition where whoever makes the most deceptive dessert will be crowned the winner.

In case you somehow missed the entire internet being subsumed by cake mastery, here’s a few choice examples:

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The trend generated billions of views over the summer of 2020. The above video alone has 34.8 million views on Twitter.

The series will be hosted by Saturday Night Live

writer and star Mikey Day. Its season-one contestants include Andrew Fuller, April Julian, Dessiree Salaverria, Hemu Basu, Jonny Manganello, Justin Rasmussen-Ellen, Nina Charles, Sam Cade, Steve Weiss.

Bakers’ creations will be judged by a panel including “Kombucha girl” Brittany Broski, Rebecca Black, Karamo Brown, Loni Love, Michael Yo, Bobby Moynihan, Fortune Feimster, King Princess, Arturo Castro, and Heidi Gardner.

The Is It Cake? winner will bag a cash prize of $50,000.

Is It Cake? drops on Netflix March 18. You can watch the season trailer below.

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