A husband asked his wife for a peanut butter and jelly birthday cake, and his wife has delivered—the internet can’t believe the creation isn’t a sandwich.

The Redditor, u/miscellaneousmao, shared the impressive creation—a giant sandwich cake, which could be mistaken for an actual sandwich. It garnered 71,000 upvotes in the subreddit “Baking.”

“My husband asked for a PB&J birthday cake, so I made him a sandwich,” she wrote.

“Peanut butter cake, peanut butter mousse, grape jelly, and caramelized breadcrumbs for crunch. The ‘crust’ was buttercream and a dusting of cocoa powder.

“I also tried making bread-flavored whipped cream by infusing heavy cream with toast, but the flavor was too subtle to really taste with the peanut butter—it was fun though,” they added.

The Rise of Hyper-Realistic Cakes

This creation fits into the broader trend of hyper-realistic cake art, where cakes are crafted to appear indistinguishable from everyday objects—handbags, hamburgers, shoes, even animals. These cakes are designed to fool the eye until they’re sliced open, revealing their true nature.

According to website Taste Tomorrow, this style surged in popularity around 2022, fueled by viral social media videos and the Netflix show Is It Cake?, where bakers present cakes disguised as everyday items, then dramatically cut them to reveal the truth.

Redditors React

Redditors were quick to share their amazement.

“My brain can’t process this being a cake,” said one user.

The original poster cheekily replied, “Haha thanks, it was funny taking pics of it since it looked so much like a sandwich, too bad I didn’t have a banana for scale.”

Another chimed in with, “I can’t get over how much this looks like a real sandwich. It’s perfect! This is such a fantastic idea and the execution is flawless. Mad props, chef. You killed this one.”

Yet another added, “I had to cycle through the pics a couple times before I realized OP hadn’t just passive-aggressively made him an actual sandwich.”

Some offered flavor takes: “He’s a lucky dude!! I would have gone raspberry jam, but some people like grape.”

And others marveled at the craftsmanship: “Nailed the texture on the bread. Idk how that was done but it’s amazing.”

Newsweek reached out to u/miscellaneousmao for comment via Reddit. We could not verify the details of the case.

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