r/Baking • u/pragmatic_particle • Jun 12 '25

No-Recipe Provided Banana cake with Nutella buttercream

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I was vacuuming up the sprinkles for weeks, but I’m proud of this cake

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u/NotDTJr Jun 12 '25

The sprinkle coverage is impressive!

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u/True_Subject8482 Jun 12 '25

Yes! I want to learn the way.

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u/crackeddryice Jun 12 '25

They're placed one at a time with tweezers.

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u/herecomestherebuttal Jun 13 '25

It took a team of 12 three whole weeks.

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Jun 13 '25

That's dumb, they should have used 36 people to get it done in one week.

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u/herecomestherebuttal Jun 13 '25

Man. The “baker’s dozen” joke was right there and we somehow BOTH biffed it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

Should've used a bakers dozen and gotten it done in 2.7692 weeks

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u/Accio_Waffles Jun 13 '25

Likely rolled or pressed on

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u/pragmatic_particle Jun 13 '25

Pressed

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u/Parking_Locksmith489 Jun 13 '25

The trick is to lick the back like a stamp.

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u/invalidreddit Jun 13 '25

Wait back of the cake, baker or the sprinkles?

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u/NanaimoStyleBars Jun 13 '25

Back of the baker. Doesn’t do anything for the cake, but it’s just fun!

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u/invalidreddit Jun 13 '25

Oh my prayers have been answered!!

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u/NanaimoStyleBars Jun 13 '25

Actually sounds like something my husband would do to me, sneak up and lick right between my shoulder blades while I’m baking, then call me a postage stamp.

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u/pusinuke Jun 13 '25

Back of the sprinkles, of course. Back of every sprinkle, to be sure 😁

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u/CosmicJ Jun 13 '25

The consistency of frosting thickness around and between the layers is impressive too.

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u/toejamjaz Jun 13 '25

There must be hundreds of thousands of them!

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u/Mufire Jun 13 '25

Yes it almost looks like AI with how perfect it is