Now let me show you something funny I stumbled upon recently… Actually, I’m not 100% sure whether I found it myself or it was submitted to me by one of our fans. Whichever it is, be sure to take a moment of your time and carefully observe the attached photo. Have you noticed anything strange in it? How about them cups of hot chocolate? Anything suspicious? If you still have trouble guessing, you may find the solution in here. Now admit it, how many of you got it right?
My guess is there are forks for hot chocololate and the chocolate looks more like a mousse..maybe it’s really a dessert?
There are a few things I noticed in this picture:
One- You don’t need forks for Hot Chocolate
Two- The forks only have three points which is uncommon
Three- The cups are distorted
Four- The marshmellows are not in the hot chocolate they are sitting ON the hot chocolate. This makes it appear to be solid chocolate. This is not a liquid. It must be a solid.
The cups are not made out of ceramic because they are a little distorted, have weird looking handles and are not as reflective as the plates. Maybe they are made out of a sugary food like marshmallow or cake frosting.
they are cakes
THOSE CUPS ARE CAKES? coool
I was wondering why you would eat pudding/hot cocoa with a fork…
They’re served with forks because they’re actually cakes made to look like mugs of hot chocolate. There’s an icing overlap on the far side of the nearest “mug”
OMG They are cupcakes!!! so cute!!! soooo fooled me!!
No, do you not see the dent in the Upper left coffee cup?
thats not a dent..thats the reflection of the fork..which shouldnt be there anyway lol
Well I guess it would be easier with spoons ^^ For some reason saw it right away…
wow that’s a cool illusion :D
It’s edible
I saw immediately that there are forks instead of spoons and I think it isn’t chocolatemilk but pudding.
I thought so. The cups looked a bit too soft.
Could have sworn I saw the word cake somewhere in the text! Looked again twice but didn’t spot..
umm if you put your mouse over it…its says hot-chocolate-cupcakes………..
First I thought that it was extrange that the forks had 3 … ends (I dont know how are called), but then I realized that you dont need forks to eat chocolate!!!
wait a sec….. OH MY GOD!!! have you ever watch the program ace of cakes? THERE ARE NO CHOCOLATE CUPS… BOTH ARE CAKES!!! awesome illusion man!!!!!!
The word your looking for is “Tine”
The fork “ends” are called tines. It took me a while to figure this out and , ok I admit it, I looked at the comments to figure out what the illusion was. Funny idea, cup cakes, but can this really be called an illusion?
prongs
Definetly the forks, and the hot chocolate is refelctive, and looks solid, probably glass.
I thought it was some hyper-realistic stuff…because the saucer (?) of the cup on the right is kinda “on” the first saucer… i^_.~’
The “cups” are made of marzipan or royal icing.
fondont definately.
I predicted that, sort of. I did not specifically predict cake, but I thought the top of the hot chocolate looked too solid to be a drink. I did not even think about the forks!
i think the cup is something like a cake and all of them will be eaten using the fork.
THE CAKE IS A LIE
Is that cups or part of the dessert?
Hardly an ‘illusion’ if you ask me…
I agree with you. Can’t really classify this as an illusion. Nice trickery, but an illusion it is not.
I’ve seen cakes and frosting use to make very convincing images of many things – I don’t see it as a trick or light or perception, however, which are the things I find fascinating with regard to perception/interpretation.
Read the right blogs and you know immediately what they are. :-) Yummy and fun!
i would have never guessed the real illusion
i thought it was ketchup lol
As the link shows, they are actually little cakes. That’s why the forks.
I noticed the upper one was misshapen and the icing seemed suspicious, but I didn’t guess the cups were edible.
you’re right tom. the cups dont look real. they’re kinda warped. and the hot chocolate is definately not liquid. and forks? maybe it’s cake.
I think the whole cup, including the ‘chocolate’ is a piece of cupcake. You can see the surface of the cup is not as smooth or shiny as the plate.
Lovely cupcake :)
I wouldn’t really call this an ‘illusion’
Piece of cake…
wow its all made of candy!
Sorry, but anybody who visits cakewrecks.com regularly will spot these as cakes right away.
Extremely well done, though!
i never noticed the fork until i read these comments lol
omg there cakes i never noticed it wow
I like it very much. It’s very cute!
cup cakes
The cups aren’t quite “perfect”. I figure the entire thing (sans doily, saucer, and fork) is an edible treat. And I bet it’s really yummy!
They are Desserts creepy!
IT’S A “CUP-CAKE”! LOL
I actually did guess it! But it was a total guess.
Am I the only one who sees a smiling face looking up from inside the bottom (left) cup? The shadow of the marshmallows form the eyes. JA
i thought the hot chocolate looked strange…
they’re are meant to look like a coffee but they r actually cupcakes
That is too cute! for some reason, even though I saw that the cups are not made of ceramic, it did not cross my mind that they are real live cupcakes! :))) fooled me!
Is it an optical illusion?
It is a cake designed to look like a cup and saucer, which admittedly looks very realistic.
There is no ‘optical’ trick of the eye/brain, making you think it is something that it is not, so is it really an optical illusion?
WOAHHH they’re cakes! i only found out that they were because i saw ‘cakes’ in the tabs :P but i could tell it wasn’t real hot chocolate… and of course, it would be odd to eat/drink hot chocolate with a fork? lol.
oh yes, and im guessing the ‘cups’ are made of white fondant, that’s why the top one has like a kind of dent in it.
I saw the dent at the side of the second cup!
The title was like, ‘I BET you won’t see it’.
So I was like going backwards from the screen…
“Hey, it doesn’t look pixelated!” (It WAS pixelated…)
Then I saw the dent.
Then I noticed the forks!
What?
The cups look like they’re made out of dough or clay or something like that… They’re not perfectly round around the rim…
on because of your hinting I noticed the different texture of the cups to the saucers and also a friend of mine decorates cakes,
you can tell its a cake considering that hot chocolate is never that dark. theyre ultra cool cakes, except the hot choc part needs to be lighter to fool me!!!!!!! :):):):):)LOLOLOLOLOL
I see a small ghost in the first cup. It looks like he’s pushing the marshmellow.
As the chocolate is shiny and there are forks my guess would be the cups are cakes !
that is a perfect replica of hot chocolate. lol
I knew that it wasnt hot chocolate, I didnt know it was cake The frosting gave it away and the forks
First I was looking if maybe the fork ends were misconnected, then I noticed one ear of the cup looked funny and then I noticed that forks are not usual for hot chocolate (which looked more like tomato soup to me). :)
I admit nothing! NOTHING !!
Ok, I admit that much that I watched the solution. :) And what a clever illusion it was. I thought that the chocolate looked somewhat solid. So I would have guessed that they were some magnified miniature dollhouse cups. Edible cups, I would like to taste them.
look left and down o the white marshmellow i see a boy
The back saucer is propped up on the front saucer making it look like the two cups were taken each from a slightly different perspective.
the right cup has a dent on it both of them are not real
I saw right away that the “hot chocolate” mounded up in the middle, instead of being flat.
With the fork, it makes it obvious that it is not a liquid. I could not tell that the ‘cup’ was edible, in large part because I sculpt clay and glass, so I don’t expect cups to be ‘perfect’.
this is absolutely Perfect !!!!!
The odd thing I noticed was that they served hot chocolate with forks.
The cups are cakes! Yummy!
Very clever “cupcake”. Nice illusion…….:)
The fact that the marshmallows are just sitting right on top of the surface is a dead give away. Also there are forks and the far cup looks more of an octagon than round.
Yes! I was right. It wasn’t hot chocolate. The forks make you suspicious,and then how thick the chocolate is,way thicker and goopier than hot chocolate…
I looked a little beyond the hot chocolate cup cakes and noticed in the lower cupcake on the surface of the chocolate icing, there appears to be a human figure by the lower marshmellow. It looks to me that the figure is a female wearing a white blouse and a brown skirt leaning on/pushing/lifting the marshmellow, with her left leg crossed in front of her right leg.
they are cupcakes! lol
I saw the dent on one of the cups. So then i thought it was made of sugar, but then i realized they were cakes i thought it was funny. They were ‘cup’cakes…
:)
How is this a not an optical illusion? Cakes (and other baked goods, such as marzipan) are made into tons of different shapes. There are even television shows about how they do it.
They look tasty and the baker did a nice job, but this is not an optical illusion.
Think I’ll go get a muffin now…
i new hotchoclate didnt shine
is it just me or does there also appear to be a woman leaning on the white marshmellow in the foreground cupcake.
Unfortunately, my mouse was hovering over the image while I was reading the write-up and the tooltip that popped up show the image filename… “hot-chocolate-cupcakes-600×400-500×333”. That kind of gave it away. Maybe the images’ tooltips should either be blank, or something more generic? Something that won’t give the illusion away.
I myself thought they were the same cup.
At first I thought it was Italian style hot chocolate-thick as pudding-because I noticed the thick look of the “liquid,” but then the fork threw me off and I had to take a peek at the solution! Yum!
I noticed that it wasn’t hot chocolate, thought it was mousse in a cup. I didn’t realize the cups were edible…my brain didn’t go there. I guess you stumped me on half of the illusion. :)
I think the “hot chocalate” is actualy cupcakes.
I thought it was the fork, but now I see why there was a fork.
they look so yummy!
Ahhh there cakes, that explains the fork and the dent in the far cup :)
its pudding : D
First I thought it seemed rather than beside the first marshmallow, a child was eating the marshmallow
The forks only have three points!!
Ummm we have those forks ( tecnecley they are called throrks not FORks)
thay are called at tryten
I think the cups are just plastic and the hotchoclate is definitley choclate pudding with marshmellows ;)
Cool Illusion Dude;)
R U CARZY?! check it. ITS CAKE!!!
I think the ‘cup’ is white chocolate …
I LURVE white chocolate!!! ^-‘
look a how dented the cup at the back is, it’s not chocolate is marziepan!!
I agree with the one who said it’s not much of an optical illusion. Looks fattening though.
Actually the impossible visual creaminess of the ‘hot chocolate’ gives it away. I mean, does anyone know of hot chocolate that creamy?
I think this is rediculous. In no way is this an optical illusion. It looks like a solid substance in the cups, but that is not an “optical illusion” this picture makes me not want to view this site! CRAP!!!
I thought it was pudding.
hey people look at the forks. the illusion is in the forks. yeah got it right.
Those forks and that consistency make me think they are totally awesome cupcakes!
Yumm! Totally didn’t see that one. I wonder how long it took the baker to make those? I think I could devour it in seconds.
I thought the cup on the left the melted slightly marshmellow looks like a girl with a skirt on slightly bent.
cupcake. cup is cake. so cute. looks delicious.
haha kinda easy to get the illusion when the picture is named hot chocolate cupcakes. Just hover your mouse over the picture, riddle solved :P
you also forgot that when you put your mouse over the picture it says hot-choc-cupcakes
My friend, I DO have tumblr, of course I know that it’s a cupcake. ;)
The “cake” tag at the bottom of the picture gives it away.
The forks sort of gave it away. Also, the chocolate is too contoured… looks more like pudding. And you can see the seam of the fondant at the back of each cup. Still, a very good illusion!
Is it that the spoons have slots in?
The only odd thing I saw was the forks
me too
the hot chocolate because why is the marshmellows flowting
It’s the marshmallows. They are actually, “chalk” pieces……….right !!?
aaah, the forks all make sense now I’ve seen the solution!
its cake u dumbasses!!!!
there is no need to be calling people dumb***es. they just didn’t see the elusive fact that they were looking at cakes.
WATCH IT JOHNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so why are you a dick?
clever :)
It’s looks like hot choco but it’s acctually cake..
Hot cAKES..LOLZ!!
It’s not funny ok!! Your so FAKE and CORNY!! Gosh the Golly!! Your such a Comment Freak!!
HOT CAKES LOL :D You are sooooooo funny!
That one was dumb. While you can’t really tell exactly what it is, it is clear it’s not a liquid in the cups.
OK you dont have to be rude! it is a cool illusion and your being a total JERK!
Woah! When I click for the solution, I was taken aback for a moment there. Those who wants to guess before looking at the illusion, here’s a clue: ‘Anyone seen a person drinking hot chocolate with a fork?’ *Warning!: Spoilers!* Applause to the person who made this ‘hot chocolate’ cakes… Really beautiful cakes that looks like a nice, inviting cup of hot chocolates.
the forks. A cup of hot chocolate with a fork? Hmm? and then, tadaah, that’s not a cup of hot chocolate. that’s cake!! Omg, I love this!
I actually also got the idea that it is cake from the dent in the right cup, forks and the fork on the left, :P
Look above the end of the fork on the top mug… There is a dent!It’s how I discovered their cakes!
these were obviously cakes. There are forks instead of spoon, and they didn’t look like the usual chocolate drink.
the cup on the right has a dent in the cup, and if one has a dent like that there Thrown out. and when object is set in to a liguid: it sends of sonic waves throughout the liguid, this cup didnt do that.
hahaha…coffee cakes.
They look like cup cakes to me..I knew it was a solid..I shook my monitor and no liquid moved in either cup..
OH MY GOSH!WHO MADE THESE ME AND MY 9 YEAR OLD SISTER WERE LOOKING AT THESE FOR 5 MINUTES AND FINALLY HAD TO PEEK.NOW WE FEEL KINDA STUPID FOR NOT NOTICING THE FACT THAT THERE WERE FORKS!AND EVERY ONE THAT DIDNT PEEK BUT GUESSED GOOD JOB!AND LETS FACE IT EVERY ONE THAT SAID CAKES AND ACTED ALL SMART AND STUFF YOU PEEKED!THEN YOU ANSWERED!BUT THOSE ARE SOME NEAT CAKES.
I know A half these people probably looked first. I agree i thought it was like you know a trick my eyes couldnt see but good job! Dont feel stupid im twenty three and couldnt find it! Have a great day!
beauty ! absolute beauty !
I noticed there was a dent in the cup and the “liquid” in the cup right away.
the hot chocolate looks too thick…
and the spoons look unrealistic…
and the solution… It’s a Cake! oh lol…
Good One…
NEATEST CAKES EVER! (SOMEONE REPLY)
The cake is a lie.
^ This.
NO ITS NOT! GOSH! I CANT STAND THESE SCEPTICS!
it looks like the saucer closest to the camera is half bowl. and the fork looks funny. the shadows are off
having forks with hot cocoa is not an illusion. the stuff is also way to thick to be cocoa
yayyy!!! i want one of these cakes they’re amazing!!!
Whoaaaaaaaaaa I just jumped with joy after I saw the solution and found out I got it right! NICE!!! :D
this one’s pretty clever :D. i finally found out why the “cup” on the right isn’t looking flat.
i’d love to eat these x9
Isn’t the saucer in the top right hand corner overlapping the other one?
I was right, the chocolate was to thick to be a cup of hot coco and there shouldn’t be forks ther so it had to be a pastry!
The handles are off plus there’s a dent above the fork on the top ‘cup’ And yess I am a smart***e but I didn’t look! So F**k You!
The cake is a lie
Theres a dent in the cup and it’s cake…
The cup on the bottom left hand corner, if you look close enough the foam next to the white marshmallow looks like a woman’s body in a white dress and one hand on the marshmallow.
Kind of knew something was up with the forks and the texture in the ‘cups’.
i thought it was play dough. awesome cakes!!!!!!!
HAHHAHA i had NO idea it was a cake but i could tell after a minute of looking that it was in fact NOT an actual cup i thought it was a sculpture or it was the chocolate that wasn’t real lol
I thought the cups looked imperfect, and I didn’t think it was impossible that it might be… :D I GOT IT RIGHT. :D
Look Under The Marshmellow It Looks Like A Little Person Is Their :)
This is accuuatlly a cute cake from a website called I can haz cheezburger :3
I knew it was fake, i just didnt know it was a cake O.o
the mugs are cakes…lol nice illusion, like alina, i knew it was fake but i didnt know it was a cake, it just looked to perfect…now i know it is cake im drooling O.O
i new there was a small bend inside one of the cups or cakes should I say
there are some bending over the cup. it is because of the reflection from the fork. :)))))))))))))
Well, I am a nut because I see a little girl in the bottom photo look above the handle and someone tell me that is a girl with her hands up looks like she is praying
I did, as the cups were not absolutely round. YAAAAY :))))
Haha. I noticed that the drinks were extremely unleveled, but I definitely didn’t know that it was a CAKE!
at first I just thought the forks were weird, but when I looked closer I saw the forks were normal becase it was a cake!
Duh obviosly its a cake how did you not realise! (sarcasim)
Might be your best blog post on the web…
That would be such a cool thing to do for the holidays! Everybody gets their own individual “cup of chocolate” after the dinner.
Stick a mini candy cane in there for garnish and away you go!
Kids would love it. ^_^
Gonna have to remember this and pass it along. And hey if you come across any more illusions like this one, would Looove to see them. I love food based illusions. =)
Haha I thought it was pudding in real cups. Had to peak. Didn’t pick up on why there were forks with it!
ooooh. it is cake lol! the cup on the right has a dent in it. duuuuh!
The marshmallows?
My guess was – why forks and not teaspoons? that was suspicious enough to guess.
i hovered above the picture for too long and the words ruined the illusion…
there is a person in the first cup. it vage but you have to look close.
HOW ON EARTH IS THIS NOT AN OPTICAL ILLUSION!?!? It appears to be something that it is not… optical illusion. Sheeeeeesh people. At first I didn’t notice anything and then I realised that the cups looked like they themselves were food (like cake haha) and then I realised the whole thing is in fact cake. Really cool!
Its a piec of cake ;)
Hum i’m french so don’t care about my english please.
The illusion is on the junction of that two cups. The first cup isn’t under the second one ;)
In fact, I think this picture isn’t real, is a 3D modeling
Okay, First of all, forks are not used for a hot chocolate. I think maybe the real illusion here is, it’s a cake.
WTF am i the only one who notice the plate is above the nother ps my english is not so good
Part of the illusion is that it’s a cake, however, I think the first part of the illusion is that one plate is resting on the other plate. If the cups were real, with liquid, the liquid in the cup would not be level – probably ready to spill over.
Just my guess
I got it right :p
I don’t get it
Forks….with hot chocolate….anything strange about that?… I guess Liam Payne won’t find it weird…….get it?! Coz he’s afraid of spoons!!! Yah…no.
Wait! No! I see it! The left ‘rim of the cup’ isn’t level…so it’s a cupcake! Yum.
I noticed that the hot chocolate was served with forks… and that those forks have only three tines… and that the left cup doesn’t appear to be level on top… but I never would have guessed the reason without the explanation.
It’s a cupcake is true.
+1
I didn’t know what was wrong with it, but the fork and the non-sinking marshmallows gave away that it wasn’t hot chocolate.
I can’t see how you would eat a pudding in a cup with a cake fork, though, without having to leave quite a lot. Cake forks are for…cakes.
Annie, it’s not a pudding in a cup, the cup is part of the cake!
Its a cupcake its not that hard
where ‘in here’ is in the paragraph click it; it will lead you to the illusion and a cake!
or is it pumpkin pie?
I got it half-right: I knew it was not hot chocolate, but I didn’t know it was a cupcake. Also I thought something was wrong with those cups-the one on the right had a dent in it! Seriously, I’m 11 years old and even I could tell, (once I saw the answer)those cups are made of fondant!
ITS KETCHUP
OK AWESOME THE FORKS GAVE IT AWAY COOL.
I thought the marshmallows were actually chalk…
dude the fork left a dent in the cup look at the bottem of the top cup where the fork is
1 the hot chocolate is putting
2 the marshmellos are mints
3 the forks have three thongs
4 there is a dent in the cup
5why would someone put a cloth under it
mmmmmmhhhhhh im nine I know this
I knew there was food involved. I thought the cup was a giant marshmallow
I actually did get it right!
the back cup is floating and deforming
its cake it took me one second to figure it out
The hot chocolates have handles?
Why do they need handles
1. The forks are 3 pronged
2. The cup on the right is dented
3. The marshmallows are on TOP of the “chocolate milk” whereas if it was milk it would be IN the liquid