By Vurdlak on May 27, 2011, with 176 Comments
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?
(59 votes)
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!!
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!
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………..
They are Desserts creepy!
IT’S A “CUP-CAKE”! LOL
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
I actually did guess it! But it was a total guess.
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.
i thought the hot chocolate looked strange…
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…
on because of your hinting I noticed the different texture of the cups to the saucers and also a friend of mine decorates cakes,
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
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
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…
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 myself thought they were the same cup.
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
First I thought it seemed rather than beside the first marshmallow, a child was eating the marshmallow
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.
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.