Weirdly for a person who’s—as his many birthday candles clearly point out—81 years previous, Biden is true on development with Gen Z (cake-wise, if not approval-ratings-wise). Bettina Makalintal lately reported in regards to the pervasive new TikTok development of burn-away muffins, that are (simply as they sound) muffins made up of layers that disappear engulfed in flames. Makalintal attributes the present reputation of the development to bakers Namaya Navaratnarajah and Denise Steward, and goes into the science behind it, which entails frosting sheets, wafer paper, and maybe only a contact of latent pyromania. TikTokers are making their very own approximations with aplomb, and TBH, it’s mesmerizing to observe.

To not be outdone, Marc Jacobs gave us a brand new chapter within the cake-on-fire style this week with an Instagram video of himself blowing out the candles on a completely flame-drenched sheet cake (and making an attempt to guard his bag from the blaze). Now that an A-lister has embraced the development, it’s fairly objectively trendy, proper? Safe that bag, Marc!