YouTube user CharlotteSummers posted a video of a color-changing cake icing technique in which one cake's frosting changes colors when viewed at different angles.

It's not an illusion.

The key?

Airbrushing ridges of the cake frosting at a specific angle to your liking then applying other colors at the ridges on the opposite side.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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