Here's How To Upgrade A Store-Bought Cake—Store-Bought Cake Hacks - Delish

In the first few seconds of a video posted by social media personality Neurotic Mom—a.k.a. baker Amy Droubay—you might be shocked to watch her unceremoniously scrape off the stiff red rosettes and rigidly piped white ruffles from a humble store-bought Walmart cake. But 30 seconds later, the dessert emerges completely transformed. Now it's a beautiful white-and-yellow ombre creation fitting for a chic springtime wedding in the desert.

This is Droubay’s specialty: Giving store-bought cakes a complete glow-up by discarding their machine-manufactured frosting layers and replacing them with sugary, TikTok-worthy adornments.

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“I just started with a basic one-tier. It was $10,” Droubay told Delish. “I went home and just started playing around with ideas. And the first one I posted went viral. And so I started doing more and people really responded to them.”

The retired professional dancer has since posted more than half a dozen Walmart cake hack videos to her TikTok channel, each pulling in anywhere between 40,000 and four million views. It's the latest chapter in Droubay's second act as a cake influencer, which began when she started posting videos of herself decorating cakes four years ago following a cake decorating lesson.

“I made my first cake when I was 42 years old. I loved it. I was hooked,” the 46-year-old said. “I had the idea to video one of the cake decorating processes on time lapse on my phone. I posted it to my Instagram, and these videos started going viral. It grew from there.”

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Droubay's penchant for transforming store-bought cakes was originally inspired by a a news story about a professional baker who, while transporting a just-completed wedding cake in her car, accidentally ruined it after slamming on the brakes to avoid an accident. “I thought, ‘What would I do?’” Droubay recalled. “And then a couple of weeks later, someone commented [on Instagram] and said ‘You should take one of the bakery cakes and give it a glow up,’ and the two ideas kind of came together.”

Walmart cakes, she noted, are perfect for redecorating because they are iced by machines—“I'm not destroying anyone else's work”—plus they're inexpensive and the chain has a wide selection of cake flavors. But do they taste good enough to justify all the extra effort? "They are delicious,” Droubay assured us. Plus, how better to get a personalized cake on a budget?

“I've had dozens and dozens of people comment and say ‘I had to do this for my wedding’ or ‘My dog ate my cake’—that was a legit comment,” she said. Bending to demand, Droubay filmed an in-depth YouTube tutorial that walks viewers through the process of transforming a trio of store-bought cakes into a beautiful three-tiered wedding confection that looks like it costs hundreds of dollars.

“I'm experienced in decorating [so] I did mine in 30 minutes, [but] I think someone could do it in an hour or so,” she said. “And I spent less than $50 for the entire thing, with the fruit and everything. It turned out beautiful.”

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Want to give your own store-bought cake a glow-up? All you have to do is scrape off any unwanted decoration, let it sit in the freezer, and brush up on some piping skills. Droubay is confident that any properly motivated amateur baker is up to the task.

“Just learn how to just pipe simple rosettes or little ruffles,” she said. “This is such a good idea for people on a budget.”

Felicia LaLomia Food & Culture Editor Felicia LaLomia is the Food & Culture Editor for Delish.

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