Diversity Without Pity #17 | How To Cake It

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I have a confession: I’m A Yo-Yo.

Every Tuesday, I visit the YouTube channel of professional cake decorator Yolanda Gampp’s How To Cake It. She calls her fans Yo-Yos.

Her show is well produced, the ideas are really creative, Yolanda is hi-larious. Before How To Cake It, Yolanda was a co-star on SugarStars, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reality show.

These are my top 5 favorite episodes:

5. The Star Wars BB-8 cake.

This is the cake that started my obsession with Yolanda’s videos.

4. The Human Heart Cake

Because it’s really morbid. But it’s also really creative and sounds really tasty.

3. That time she brought a rare co-host Derrick to make a chocolate chip cookie megacake

And they acted a damn fool.

2. The Fall Harvest Cake

Because this one is full of fruit and cinnamon. it’s the one I would actually try to make.

1. The “controversial” Pink Lemonade cake

I still fall out at the cake-themed lyrics and the Beyonce Santaria candle.

What I especially love about her show is the the high quality instruction. Some of her fans have noticed she’s very detailed, but it’s that kind of precision that makes even a beginner cake decorator look like they know what they’re doing. There are very few Pinterest fails in the Yo-Yo clan. And her cake tees and sweaters are super-clever.

YouTube, like many other corners of the internet, has become a platform for really talented people of color to find their audience. This shift is not only a reflection of what traditional media rejects, but it’s also a reflection of where the future of entertainment and media is going.

Diversity Without Pity is a blog series from IDSL, highlighting media that uses smart design, and considers the diversity of it’s casting without selling the viewer or consumer, short.