Natalie Sideserf here of Sideserf Cake Studio
and I'm going to show you how I made AMONG US Cake Balls.
A few weeks back I did a live stream showing you how to make one of the Among Us characters
as a cake, and it was super cute. At the time I had never played the game, but now I have...
and I'm addicted.
That is one addicting game!
I am so addicted that I decided to make a full video showing you how
to make eight different characters in different poses from the game.
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So let's get started!
I'm starting out with a round ball of cake dough, which is crumbled up cake
mixed with some cream cheese buttercream and it is absolutely delicious, you guys.
It has great texture.
I cut the ball into quarters, and then I take one of those quarters,
and I cut THAT chunk into quarters. So this is just a really easy way to
separate the cake ball dough to make sure that all the chunks are similar in size.
Then i just ball up each piece, and I set them on a baking sheet.
Now it's time to shape each cake ball. The characters in the game are pretty simple.
They have a rounded top and a flat bottom, so to create this shape I just roll out the cake
dough between my hands, and to get flat sides I just roll the cake dough onto a clean table.
And there you have it!
Now I just repeat this as many times as I would like cake balls.
So I roll it in a ball, roll it between my hands, roll it on the table,
place it on the baking sheet.
And repeat.
So now that they're shaped i'm placing them in the fridge to chill for at least a few hours.
I'm covering the first chilled cake ball in a layer of rolled-out green modeling chocolate,
then I'm gathering and I'm pinching the excess chocolate, and trimming it away with scissors.
Now I'm blending the seams with sculpting tools.
So if this cake ball wasn't chilled I wouldn't be able to handle it like this.
It would be just like a mushy mess, and it definitely wouldn't hold that shape.
So chilling the cake balls before working on them is extremely important.
Just so you know, I do let them get back to room temperature before I serve them.
They are definitely better for eating at room temperature.
All right! The entire cake ball is covered in green, so let's add some legs.
I'm poking holes into foam board with my stork scissors,
and that's just going to create a little pilot hole. And then I can place the toothpicks in.
Then I place small chunks of modeling chocolate on to the toothpick,
and that's going to represent the legs
If you have too much chocolate on there, all you have to do is snip it away
Now I'm carefully feeding the green cake ball onto the toothpicks
They do have pretty stubby legs
To make it look like one solid piece, I just blend the legs into the body with a sculpting tool
The characters in Among Us don't have arms, but they do have a backpack
So i'm making that out of a chunk of modeling chocolate that's cut down into a rectangle
I just brush a little water onto the back of the character
and I place the backpack on making sure that it's secure.
For the mask i'm adding a small bit of gray modeling chocolate in a rectangular shape
and it's got rounded corners.
Green is my first victim
so I'm sculpting a crack in the mask.
And I'll explain why the mask has a crack a little later...
So let's move on to Cyan
So just like with green, I'm covering a chilled cake ball with a layer of modeling chocolate.
Only this time, it's the color cyan.
In the game, each round you're given a role. So you're either
a crewmate or you're an imposter. As far as I know when you're a crew mate
you're a person, and when you're an imposter you're an alien.
If you're a crew mate, your goal is to complete tasks while trying
to avoid getting attacked by an imposter.
So if all the crewmates complete their tasks, then everyone in the crew wins the game as a group.
On the other hand, if you're given the role of an imposter, then your goal is to attack crewmates
while keeping your impostor identity hidden so that you don't get voted out by the other players.
So one of the ways that an imposter can attack a crewmate
is by opening its giant mouth and poking the crewmate right through the mask with its long
thin pointy tongue. So that's what's happening here with cyan and green.
On to the legs!
So I'm placing toothpicks into the foam board, and I'm adding the modeling chocolate legs.
This time, one of the toothpicks is longer than the other. And that's because I'm feeding the
longer toothpick through the jaw and into the top portion of cyan's head to help hold it up.
The shorter toothpick only needs to hold up and support that jaw
Now all I have to do is blend the legs into the body and attach the modeling chocolate backpack.
I have to be super careful with this one because it's super fragile.
The imposters also have sharp pointy teeth,
so i'm attaching super small modeling chocolate cones all around its mouth.
They stick pretty well, but when they don't all I
do is brush a little water onto the chocolate and that'll do the trick
I really think that the red velvet cake ball makes for a great mouth color. It's a nice deep red.
Now I'm adding a few hand-painted details starting with the masks, so I'm painting a
gray oval on each and then a white oval over top of that one to represent a reflection.
I think that these guys are really cute!
It's probably because they don't have any arms. It looks so funny when they run around.
Sometimes their hands appear, but it's pretty rare
In the game they're simple, solid-colored characters, but they do have shadows on them so i'm painting those in too
I'm using a drop of food color that's the same color as the character, and I dilute it with a clear extract
This will paint on like watercolor. So it's translucent, and it looks like a shadow
So I have cyan as the imposter and green as the crewmate
Now let's add the finishing touches to this scene, which is cyan's tongue.
I decided to make it with a piece of raw spaghetti painted with black food color.
I'm feeding the spaghetti through the back of green's head,
through the cracked part of the mask, and into cyan's mouth.
Even I'm surprised I got this right on the first go
Here I'm cutting a chilled cake ball in half, because I'm using one cake ball
to represent two characters. So first I'm covering the top half
in a layer of pink modeling chocolate because pink is only going to be seen from the waist up.
I'm setting pink aside for a minute, and now I'm covering the other half of the cake ball
(which is the bottom half) and a layer of blue modeling chocolate.
But this time I don't want to cover the flat side of the cake ball
because guess what? Blue has been chopped in half!
Blue is the crew mate and pink is the imposter.
Blue does need some legs, so here I'm blending those into the body
I'm adding a little white bone that sticks out of the center of blue's body
And then I'm giving blue a backpack and pink needs a mask.
This scene between pink and blue is an example of another way that an imposter can attack a
crewmate, which is by crawling through the vents.
Everyone calls it "venting"
So in the game, if you're an imposter you can crawl through the vents
and travel from room to room
This is a great way to surprise a crewmate,
attack them, and then vent to another room so you don't get caught
I'm placing pink onto a black rectangle that represents the vent,
and then I'm resting a vent cover on the back of pink
It's as if pink is popping their head out
so sneaky
You know what? I really like the way that blue turned out,
so I want to add some more casualties to this scene
Let's add lime and red
I'm covering two more cake balls in modeling chocolate colored lime and red
I shaped the chocolate and then I cut one end with a knife
Then I blend in the legs
So that means that pink got blue, lime, and red. Pink is having a field day!
Pink and cyan are clearly winning this one
All right, and on to the last scene I'm going to create, which is of orange and purple
Orange is the imposter and purple's the crewmate
When you play Among Us, you can have up to 10 players playing at once
and the max number of those 10 players that are imposters is 3
You can also play with two or one imposter
That means that most of the time you're given the role of a crewmate.
When I'm chosen as an imposter, I will tell you what: I can't handle it!
I am not kidding, it freaks me out!
When you're an imposter, you have to, like, go in the chat and
lie to all the other players and pretend you're not an imposter, and I'm so bad at it
My adrenaline goes up and I either talk too much,
or I don't talk enough, and then the other players always guess that it's me
Actually, I get accused of being an imposter a lot even when I'm a crewmate
I'm sus(pect) no matter what i do!
Purple is placed onto the legs, leaning forward slightly.
And that's because this is an example of when an imposter stabs a crewmate in the back
These cake balls are so true to the game
Just when you think orange has got your back, he stabs it
I made a tiny gray chocolate knife and i'm placing it on
the purple's back with just a little bit of water
It's a cute little knife
Now that they're all sculpted,
it's time to paint the masks and then the shadows on the remaining characters
I love these little cake ball characters, but they are missing something:
HATS!
In the game, there are a bunch of different hats that you can choose from.
So let's dress these guys up
Cyan, you're getting an egg hat
Pink, let's go with the plant hat
Green gets the bird nest
I really like those tiny chocolate eggs
Let's go yellow party hat for purple
And last, the cheese hat for orange
And there you have it!
A group of Among Us cake balls
I love them all, I can't pick a favorite!
You know I've got to cut these cake balls
one.. by.. one..
Who's first?
I vote cyan
Who's the imposter now?
It's me, I am
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Now seriously guys, which of these Among Us cake balls is your favorite?
It's hard
I think i'm leaning towards purple