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We can’t believe it’s not cake! Ipinakita ni April Julian ang kanyang creative process kung paano siya gumagawa ng cake na mukhang lumpia!
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00:00Welcome back to Mars for More!
00:02And today, we will meet the Filipino-Canadian baker and cake master artisan and illusionist.
00:09There are so many of them, right?
00:12He is one of the talented bakers who participated in a reality baking competition series called
00:18Is It Cake?
00:19Where he became the finalist.
00:21Please welcome, Mars April Julian!
00:27Hey April!
00:30Hi, good morning!
00:31Good morning!
00:32It's such a pleasure for us to have you here.
00:34You're so beautiful!
00:37Thank you!
00:39Welcome to Mars for More!
00:41Before we start asking questions, let me show you first a photo of one of your creations.
00:46There it is!
00:46So that our Mars fans can see the parts of their creations.
00:49Yes!
00:50There it is!
00:52So there it is, Mars cams and Wilma.
00:54What can you see?
00:55I see, I think this is Lumpiang Shanghai.
00:58This is my favorite!
00:59Deep-fried Lumpiang.
01:01Deep-fried, yes, correct.
01:03Is it a real Lumpiang dish or is it cake?
01:08It is cake!
01:10Wow!
01:11It's really cake!
01:13So good!
01:14You know, that's what's fun about the show that April created.
01:19It's actually a show that's about making things that don't really look real,
01:25but you'll be surprised that it's actually a cake.
01:28But let me ask you, what kind of cake is this?
01:30It's a chocolate fudge cake with a Swiss meringue vanilla buttercream.
01:37So very complicated, right?
01:38It's so complicated, Kuya!
01:39And you know what?
01:40We'll have the chance to watch how Mars-April made this.
01:45Let's watch!
01:47Let's watch, let's watch.
01:48There it is!
01:49Okay, let's see.
01:51So it took you how many hours to bake all this?
01:55This one, maybe five.
01:57Wow!
01:57Pretty quickly.
01:59That's quick already?
02:00Usually, yeah.
02:01I mean, on the show, most of the cakes took at least eight.
02:04And we were really, really rushing.
02:07So they're not separate.
02:08Some of them look separate, but they're not.
02:09They're all together.
02:10They're all together and then it was separated, right, April?
02:15Underneath, there's one big chocolate cake.
02:17And on top, yes, there's separate chocolate lumpia on top.
02:22To give the illusion.
02:24And then on the side, it's just little nubs.
02:27So we know that you're...
02:27It's all about illusion.
02:29You're a good baker, you know.
02:30But where did you learn the sculpture?
02:31Yeah.
02:32Because there's also sculpture and art involved in this.
02:34And not only baking and not only cooking.
02:36Where did you learn that?
02:37I took some art classes in high school.
02:39That's about it.
02:39I think it's just a natural talent for replicating, you know, what I see in different mediums.
02:46In this case, it's cake.
02:48So where do you get your inspiration?
02:49I try to find things that are really interesting,
02:52but also ones that no one has done before.
02:54Where there's a lot of shock value.
02:58So for example, I haven't seen a lumpia in Shanghai cake, right?
03:02I made this especially for you.
03:03So there's something that you can see in a different form in cake.
03:08A very traditional...
03:09It's everybody's favorite Filipino dish here in Canada.
03:12Yes, that's right.
03:14Yeah.
03:15So, you know, whether it's that or something new,
03:17it's always...
03:18I'm always trying to make something new that you haven't seen before.
03:21Of all the cakes that you've done,
03:22what's your most prized creation of all?
03:26This particular cake was of some chicken wings.
03:29And you'll see there's like cooked chicken wings in the front
03:32and raw chicken wings in the back.
03:34But it's all cake.
03:35And so when people see me pick up a raw chicken wing and take a big bite,
03:39they freak out.
03:40I'm sure they do because you know eating raw chicken is kind of like dangerous.
03:47Or hell.
03:47Very dangerous.
03:50But it's fine if it's cake.
03:51It's totally fine if it's chocolate cake.
03:53But that's what makes people sort of alarmed and freaking out.
03:56And that's why that happens to be my favorite one.
03:59Just because of the reaction.
04:00You have a regular...
04:01No, because it's beautiful.
04:03You're not a full-time baker.
04:04You're not a full-time chef.
04:06No, you have a regular job.
04:07You do?
04:08That's right.
04:09Yeah.
04:10This is just a hobby that you make?
04:14It's just a sort of thing that I do at night after my daughter is in bed.
04:20My daytime...
04:22I'm an educator for a human rights organization here in Canada.
04:26So I teach about human rights and to protect human rights and civil liberties.
04:31And then at nighttime, everybody's asleep.
04:33I put on an apron and make weird cakes.
04:36Do you accept orders if they ask you because they know that you make things like this?
04:41For sure.
04:42Especially now with the show having been out for some time.
04:46I'm getting many, many requests for orders.
04:49Also, interestingly enough, I get invited to be on cool TV shows like this one.
04:55So I'm interested to see what happens.
04:58Maybe there'll be more opportunities to be a Filipino-Canadian
05:02representing the homeland on TV.
05:06And for sure, different brands also are reaching out to me,
05:09asking me to develop content for them.
05:11Amazing.