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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Ceudy Gutierrez reads a book to her 2-year-old son, Matias, at their home in Buford, GA, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Ceudy Gutierrez is struggling to make ends meet for herself and her three young kids following her husband’s ICE arrest earlier this fall. (Miguel Martinez/ AJC)

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