If you associate the word"hyper-realistic" with art, you might be surprised by the fact that it is also a subtype of cake. Generally speaking, a hyper-realistic cake is a cake that is designed to be indistinguishable from some other physical object in texture, size, finish, and so forth, such that if you saw it next to the real object it's based on, you couldn't tell the two apart.
There's something perfect about the fact that almost two years after this wave hit, Netflix has premiered a game show — called, appropriately,-- that takes this paper-thin idea and makes eight episodes out of it. There is nothing more fitting for a silly internet phenomenon than dragging it back into the spotlight after it's mostly dead and resurrecting it to make it something far more, and also somehow less, than it deserves to be.cast members, Mikey Day.
But the most important note is that while the show is extremely silly and Day is a very self-aware host, the art of hyper-realistic cake-making takes true and tremendous skill. A lot of cake shows focus on the ability to make very big or very fancy or very elaborate cakes; this one laser-focuses in on, for instance, how hard it is to make a cake that convincingly looks like a cheap cloth bucket hat, so much that from a few feet away, you might think it was one.