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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Carleigh Knight (left) and her sister, Natalie Rogovin, look at Christmas ornaments while shopping at Kudzu Antiques + Modern in Decatur on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025. (Natrice Miller/AJC)

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