Speaker 1: I made this cake because of my own kid. He
Speaker 1: was just obsessed with Ninjago at the time, so I
Speaker 1: had to get it right.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: People used to ask me, how many times do you
Speaker 1: practice before you make it on YouTube? And the answer
Speaker 1: is zero. And most of the cakes on YouTube I
Speaker 1: had never made before. I can't even explain how I
Speaker 1: did it. Even takes on my own channel, I find
Speaker 1: myself going back and watching.
Speaker 3: How do I do that?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 3: This is Yolanda Gamp, one of the most famous cake
Speaker 3: artists on the internet. Yolanda turns everything you see into
Speaker 3: a cake. Ready to get your finger sticky? We are,
Speaker 3: because in this episode, we're going to learn the secrets
Speaker 3: behind turning anything you dream of into a delicious dessert.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Growing Up, a Lingo kids podcast, so it
Speaker 3: helps kids discover how to be whatever they want to be.
Speaker 3: Join us on an epic adventure to uncover the secrets
Speaker 3: behind awesome skills, cool hobbies, and the incredible journeys of
Speaker 3: people who followed their dreams. In today's episode, we're diving
Speaker 3: into a whirlwind of creativity, exploring the world of the
Speaker 3: most spectacular cakes you have ever seen, and meeting the
Speaker 3: enchanting cake artists who make the magic happen. Let's get
Speaker 3: inspired by the wonders of cake artistry. Happy birthday to you,
Speaker 3: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Dear Louise.
Speaker 2: Yay, that's me, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 3: Now make a wish and blow out the candle. Louise, Yeah, okay, Louise,
Speaker 3: you can do this.
Speaker 2: I wish I could time travel. Yeay.
Speaker 3: Congratulations Louise. Do you like your cake?
Speaker 2: I love it, Emily. A good night always needs a
Speaker 2: good birthday cake.
Speaker 3: Of course, that's why our friends at the Go Forward
Speaker 3: Labs made it with the sugar castle over the chocolate
Speaker 3: cake and this fierce green dragon biting the castle.
Speaker 2: Raw raw raw. I love its fangs and the red eyes.
Speaker 3: It looks so real, Emily, it really does. And you
Speaker 3: know who we're gonna play our game show with today,
Speaker 3: Louise A very famous cake artist. Her name is Yolanda
Speaker 3: gamp Wow.
Speaker 2: But Emily, what he's a cake artist? Is it someone
Speaker 2: who makes strawings of cakes?
Speaker 3: Well not exactly sure. They can start by drawing their cakes,
Speaker 3: but they actually make very beautifully and carefully designed cakes
Speaker 3: for all sorts of special occasions.
Speaker 2: Oh like birthdays.
Speaker 3: Yes. Cake artists are just so creative with their designs,
Speaker 3: and they're so talented that they make you wonder whether
Speaker 3: you're actually looking at cake or something else.
Speaker 2: Hmm, what do you mean by that, Emily?
Speaker 3: Okay, let's see take your shoe off. Oh what you'll
Speaker 3: see in a second.
Speaker 2: Okay there, now what? Okay?
Speaker 3: Now, imagine that you're not looking at a shoe, but
Speaker 3: a cake, A cake so well done that it looks
Speaker 3: like your actual shoe.
Speaker 2: Does this cake smell like my shoe too? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: then I love it.
Speaker 3: Imagine it's made with these same things as a cake,
Speaker 3: chocolate and oh maybe vanillas, sprinkles, some fruit. Maybe each
Speaker 3: shoelace is made of white icing.
Speaker 2: That sounds so good. I want some kind of chewy
Speaker 2: but not bad.
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, our very special guest, Yolanda Gamp can make
Speaker 3: the cake of your dreams.
Speaker 2: Wow. Can Yolanda turn anything she wants into a cake?
Speaker 3: She sure can.
Speaker 2: Can she make a pencil cake?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 2: A dinosaur cake? M h even a pencil dinosaur cake,
Speaker 2: you know, half pencil, half dinosaur.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure. Yes, cake artists can bake things that
Speaker 3: can look like just a basket full of vegetables, or
Speaker 3: a football, or a book, a doll or maybe even
Speaker 3: your dog Maxie.
Speaker 2: Oh, Maxie would love to have a cake of himself.
Speaker 2: It could be a chocolate one because it's furs brown.
Speaker 2: But then I wonder if max would want to eat
Speaker 2: a cake with himself on it.
Speaker 3: I guess he'll have to pause before eating it.
Speaker 2: See what you did there? So when are we meeting Yolanda? Emily?
Speaker 3: Actually today, Louise?
Speaker 2: Yes, can't wait to start the game show.
Speaker 3: Just a second, Louise, because I got a birthday present
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 2: Really for me? What is it? What is it?
Speaker 3: How about a little time traveling so we can get
Speaker 3: some cake history right before we meet Yolanda.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 3: Where's our go forward cube? That should do the job?
Speaker 2: Thanks in your office, Emily.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, let's go get it. You ready, Louise, good night.
Speaker 2: It's always a good time traveler.
Speaker 3: Oh ow ooh ow good thing needs lushy sweets. We're
Speaker 3: here to catch us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really sticky. They taste great.
Speaker 3: Ooh you're right, Louise. Hmmm, tastes like nuts and honey.
Speaker 3: I have more, sure, But let's get out of this
Speaker 3: pile first and find out where we are. Oh, okay,
Speaker 3: there's one foot there. We go. Let me help you out, Louise.
Speaker 2: Thanks, come on my foot too. Oh, Emily, I'm superdo berg.
Speaker 2: Sure these are cakes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're definitely cakes, but since we crashed right on
Speaker 3: top of them now, they're more like pancakes, not a
Speaker 3: glue one. Be careful what you walk on, Louise.
Speaker 2: There are.
Speaker 3: Lots of candles on the floor.
Speaker 2: Ouch you okay, I'm okay. But why there's so many
Speaker 2: candles everywhere? Oh? Someone must know it's my birthday.
Speaker 3: I think we're way before you and I were born, Louise,
Speaker 3: like dinosaur, way back almost. Oh that's interesting, Louise. Do
Speaker 3: you see all those people going into the giant white
Speaker 3: building over there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Are they wearing bed sheets over them?
Speaker 3: I think they're wearing robes and they look happy.
Speaker 2: Let's tell them it's my birthday today.
Speaker 3: Wait for me, Louise.
Speaker 2: Wow, I feel so small next to these very tall columns.
Speaker 3: Watch out, Louise. Looks like people are bringing more cakes
Speaker 3: into this place. We don't want to interrupt them.
Speaker 2: But Emily, the cakes have lit candles on them. Tould
Speaker 2: you it must be a.
Speaker 3: Birthday, honeycakes, candles. It's also a full moon tonight. Oh
Speaker 3: I get it. Now we're in ancient Greece. This is
Speaker 3: a cell lebration for Artemis, the goddess of the moon.
Speaker 3: This building is her temple.
Speaker 2: Whoa, there's a goddess of the moon. But wait, Emily,
Speaker 2: what does the moon have to do with cakes? They're
Speaker 2: both frowned. I guess.
Speaker 3: Actually, yes, you see, the ancient Greeks made round cakes
Speaker 3: with honey and nuts in them to honor the goddess Artemis.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's why those cakes are so good, exactly.
Speaker 3: And they also put candles to light up the cake
Speaker 3: and make it shine just like the actual moon.
Speaker 2: Oh so birthday cakes are like full moons. But I
Speaker 2: have a question. Why don't we blow out the candles?
Speaker 2: Then that makes the cake not look like the moon anymore.
Speaker 3: Good point, Louise. Blowing out candles and asking for a
Speaker 3: wish actually comes from a popular belief.
Speaker 2: You see.
Speaker 3: People thought that smoke from candles carried prayers up to
Speaker 3: the gods like Artemis.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why the ancient Greeks are carrying the cake
Speaker 3: with candles into the temple right now. So the candles
Speaker 3: smoke can reach the goddess of the moon.
Speaker 2: I bet the Greeks always wished from no more school.
Speaker 3: Ever, is that what a good night would actually wish for?
Speaker 2: Though? I don't know. But Emily, now that we know
Speaker 2: where cakes come from, I want to know more about
Speaker 2: cakes today. I mean in my today and your today,
Speaker 2: not right now in ancient Greece today.
Speaker 3: Okay, are you saying what I think you're saying, Louise.
Speaker 2: Well, if it includes asking Yolanda about her cakes, then yes.
Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, let's do that.
Speaker 2: And what about the game show I'll Bake a Cake Trivia?
Speaker 3: Oooh, sounds delicious. Here we go. Welcome to our up
Speaker 3: talking game show. I'm Emily, and this is Louis, your host.
Speaker 3: Say hi, Louis.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Louise. You're a well mannered. Night for tonight,
Speaker 2: I mean your host.
Speaker 3: And our guest tonight is the amazing cake artist Yolanda Gamp.
Speaker 3: Yolanda started her YouTube channel by making cakes right out
Speaker 3: of her own garage while her mom helped watch her
Speaker 3: new baby. Yolanda had no idea her baking adventure would
Speaker 3: turn into something so awesome. She has made people all
Speaker 3: around the world fall in love with cake artistry just
Speaker 3: like her. Yolanda has her own baking channel. She's a
Speaker 3: judge of a super big cooking show, and her sweet
Speaker 3: masterpieces are all over the internet. Please welcome her to
Speaker 3: grow enough. Welcome to the show, Yolanda. First, we're gonna
Speaker 3: start with a short conversation, and I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 3: it is going to have many layers to it.
Speaker 1: I see why you did that, and I like it.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, Yolanda, you can make any cake you want,
Speaker 3: from a car to a watermelon, a mountain, or even
Speaker 3: a book. What do you like making most?
Speaker 1: I love making objects, or especially food items, things that
Speaker 1: people recognize easily and connect with. I love to make
Speaker 1: the cake version of those items. A guitar or a
Speaker 1: box of big box of Kraft dinner with a pot
Speaker 1: of macaroni and cheese, or a giant baseball cap, things
Speaker 1: of those nature.
Speaker 2: A real sized cake guitar. I bet it tastes better
Speaker 2: than it sounds. Yum.
Speaker 3: It sounds like this guy is really the limit with
Speaker 3: your imagination. Let's go back to the basics. Then, how
Speaker 3: did you get into baking cakes?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I didn't really know a lot about cake artists specifically
Speaker 1: when I was growing up. But I did love baking
Speaker 1: and I have a sweet tooth, but I was also
Speaker 1: really into art. I went to culinary school here in Toronto,
Speaker 1: and I loved the experience. I asked the dean if
Speaker 1: I could do my co op placement at a bakery,
Speaker 1: and he thankfully said yes. So I now realized, looking back,
Speaker 1: that was a very bold move and that he changed
Speaker 1: the course of my life.
Speaker 2: So I started to.
Speaker 1: Work in a bakery. They gave me the chance to
Speaker 1: work at every single station, from you know, pies to cookies,
Speaker 1: and when I got to cake decorating, that's where I
Speaker 1: truly fell in love. They weren't the type of cakes
Speaker 1: like I make now. They were just you know, round
Speaker 1: cakes of different flavors, iced in different ways, and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to do more and more, and in the meantime,
Speaker 1: it started to make cakes on the side in my
Speaker 1: mom's kitchen when I worked at a bakery, and that
Speaker 1: was back in two thousand and one, so it's been
Speaker 1: a very long time, and.
Speaker 3: That makes me wonder, what is the most amazing cake
Speaker 3: you've made so far?
Speaker 1: I made this cake because of my own kid, who
Speaker 1: was five at the time he's now ten, he was
Speaker 1: a huge Lego enthusiast. So I decided to make Lloyd,
Speaker 1: who's the lead character in Lego Ninjago like. He was
Speaker 1: just obsessed with Ninjogo at the time, So I had
Speaker 1: to get it right. But now I have, you know,
Speaker 1: my son at my side, and he.
Speaker 3: Knows Lloyd better than anyone.
Speaker 1: So I needed to build up the legs. Then I
Speaker 1: had to sort of recarve the torso of Lloyd to
Speaker 1: make sure it fits perfectly. Then I had to make
Speaker 1: the arms and the heads and of course his head.
Speaker 1: And I have to say I loved Lego as a child.
Speaker 1: As you can see from my work, I love building things.
Speaker 2: Wow, I never thought that building cakes was just like
Speaker 2: building Legos. I guess they both used blocks, but one's made.
Speaker 3: A cake, That's right, Louise. That brings me to something
Speaker 3: else I'm curious about, Yulanda. Did you do any other
Speaker 3: cartoon characters for your son?
Speaker 1: So there has been you know, Lego, Lloyd, there has
Speaker 1: been SpongeBob, there's been his roadblocks, Avatar, there's been a
Speaker 1: Minecraft Tea and t Block. You know, as soon as
Speaker 1: he's done one bird cake, he's already telling me what
Speaker 1: he wants next year.
Speaker 3: He is just the luckiest boy, isn't he? And all
Speaker 3: those cakes sound so fun to make, but quite challenging too,
Speaker 3: I imagine.
Speaker 1: Even with as many years as I have, which is
Speaker 1: now twenty seven years of practice, cakes still make me
Speaker 1: nervous at the end of the day. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to control food, a lot of things can go wrong,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of things that you cannot control.
Speaker 1: But the mistakes that come with baking really aren't that bad,
Speaker 1: so there's nothing to be afraid of. You can have
Speaker 1: so much fun and make so many different variations. It
Speaker 1: feels like to me, it feels like play.
Speaker 3: And this brings me to the last and most important
Speaker 3: question of all. What makes you happy about being a
Speaker 3: cake artist?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: This is These are great questions. My favorite thing about
Speaker 1: being a cake decorator would be to see my client's reactions,
Speaker 1: especially when I made cakes for younger kids or teens,
Speaker 1: because they would just get so excited and to see
Speaker 1: their vision come to life, or if it was something
Speaker 1: their parents had chosen for them and it was a
Speaker 1: surprise to them. Either way, I always love to see
Speaker 1: their reaction. The number of people I met who said
Speaker 1: You've inspired me to be creative again, even if it's
Speaker 1: not in the vein of cake. It's just really heartwarming.
Speaker 1: So that makes me feel really good. It makes me
Speaker 1: feel really proud.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for chatting with us today, Yolanda.
Speaker 2: That was so inspiring, Emily. Now I want to try
Speaker 2: all sorts of cake ideas, like a spaceship.
Speaker 3: Yes, Louise, that's because cake artists inspire so many people
Speaker 3: to use their imagination and try new things.
Speaker 2: New things like the pencil dinosaur cake.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. So now it's your turn, Louise, Ready to
Speaker 3: lead the game show?
Speaker 2: Super ready? Okay, rules are I'll make a question, give
Speaker 2: some possible answers, and Yolanda has to guess the right one.
Speaker 3: Ooh this sounds good. Off you go.
Speaker 2: First question, how tall was the tallest cake ever made
Speaker 2: in the whole wide world? A thirteen meters, B twenty
Speaker 2: three meters, C thirty three meters or D forty three meters.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get WHOA they all have threes. I don't
Speaker 1: think guess thirty three. It's a pure guess, defectually correct
Speaker 1: thirty three meters tall.
Speaker 2: It was like six lords tall. Question two, what shape
Speaker 2: do you think the tallest cake in the world had?
Speaker 2: Hand alert, It's the shape that you can find in
Speaker 2: a very important holiday worldwide.
Speaker 1: A candle.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Yolanda, it was actually a cake shaped like
Speaker 2: a Christmas tree. It was made to celebrate the holidays
Speaker 2: in the city of Jakarta that's in Indonesia.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. The fact that it was Indonesia and they
Speaker 1: built this in heat is just mind blowing to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, last question for tonight's trivia number three? What are
Speaker 2: three ingredients that all cakes must have to be a cake?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is controversial now because I mean,
Speaker 1: there's all types of vegan baking. But if it was me,
Speaker 1: if it was me a butter, I.
Speaker 2: Think the right answer could also be flour, sugar, and
Speaker 2: baking powder.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, so no that you're right, though, You're right,
Speaker 1: those three things are great.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks so much for playing with us today, Yolanda.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling? Louise?
Speaker 2: And I thought the feeding dragons was hard, but this
Speaker 2: was intense and super fun.
Speaker 3: Do you want to have another piece of your birthday cake?
Speaker 2: Now? Yeah, that's my duty as birthday Luise?
Speaker 3: And what did you learn from cake artists today?
Speaker 2: Louise, Cake artists can turn anything they can think of
Speaker 2: into super cool cakes. They get to be creative every
Speaker 2: day and they make people super happy. Oh and being
Speaker 2: a cake artist takes a lot of curiosity in practice,
Speaker 2: but it's always fun.
Speaker 3: You got it. Thanks for tagging along on this episode
Speaker 3: of Growing Up all about the fascinating lives of cake artists.
Speaker 3: It was a blast. I cannot wait to see who
Speaker 3: we're going to meet next time. Remember, little listener, dream big,
Speaker 3: and always stay curious.
Speaker 2: Luis, are you.
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