Robert Lucas puts marshmallow cobwebs over black chocolate ganache
The Sweet Impact baker calls his cake easy, but viewers have questions about all those carefully placed M&Ms.
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Story of Why this story? The video is running at 1,997,924 views a day, 8.4 times its usual pace (239,160).
Black frosting is not that bad
Robert Lucas announces an easy Halloween cake, then covers its bottom tier with individually placed black and orange M&Ms. His definition of easy is getting almost as much attention as the decoration.
The Sweet Impact upload, "Black frosting is not that bad", has added roughly two million views in a day, more than eight times its usual daily pace. Posted three days ago, it turns a familiar objection to dark cake icing into a decorating demonstration with a small but important distinction.
"This is chocolate ganache, not frosting, so it shouldn't taste bitter," Lucas explains as he covers the top tier in black. Below it sits an orange tier, which he smooths before beginning the patient work of arranging candy into a chevron pattern around the entire cake.
That candy placement is the subject of the most-liked comment, while other viewers joke about how much work Lucas is willing to classify as easy. The marshmallow technique is another talking point: wearing gloves, he pulls melted marshmallows apart and stretches the strands around the black tier to make cobwebs. One viewer says they want to borrow that idea for a work celebration.
Lucas stacks the tiers, pipes a black border between them and adds Halloween Oreos on top. White frosting dollops and black sprinkles finish a cake whose cobwebs are deliberately messy, but whose candy rows require considerably more order.
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What viewers say
Bro's dedication on those m&ms was insane
@faithfaulSee it on YouTubebro has a completely different definition of “easy” 😂😂😂
@kuwjcSee it on YouTubeFor a halloween cake, blackened teeth seems more like a feature than a risk 😂
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That's fab, you've inspired me to do something halloween like for work. I particularly am going to steal the marshmallow cobweb idea 😂Ty ❤
@littlemy1773See it on YouTubeI love that you're having fun while you decorate the cake
@alicekumordziekpodoSee it on YouTubeLove the marshmallows and M&Ms. It seems like it would be really fun to eat cake with M&Ms on the edge 😊❤
@Bianca-ChristineSee it on YouTubeThat looks so good I don’t have that much patience
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- Channel
- Sweet Impact
- Subscribers
- 3,580,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,583,285
- Channel views, pace per day
- 662,396 (on a normal day: 330,791)
- Video published
- October 15, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,263,482 (3 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,997,924 (on a normal day: 239,160)
The numbers
The decorating video's daily views have accelerated sharply since its opening day.
💡 Test your knowledge
What pattern does Robert Lucas make with the black and orange M&Ms?
Lucas arranges the M&Ms into a zigzag chevron pattern around the bottom tier.