A cake shaped like a Louis Vuitton handbag. Another that looks just like a grilled chicken dinner. At Tiphani's Cakery in Oklahoma City, the whole point is to make people do a double take, and that talent is now putting the local business back in the spotlight thanks to a run on Netflix.
A Local Baker Turned National Name
Tiphani's Cakery makes hyper-realistic cakes, and its founder, Tiphani, is featured right now on Netflix's “Is It Cake?,” according to KOKH. The station reports that Tiphani makes custom cakes in Oklahoma City and that she invited its Living Oklahoma crew into her kitchen to see the work up close, even challenging them to spot the cake among her creations. Those who want to order one of her pieces can find ordering information on her website, per the same report.
Her website lists sculpted cakes and hyper-realistic creations designed, in the business's own words, to make people stop and look twice, according to Tiphani's Cakery. Among the specialty pieces she has crafted are cakes modeled after a strawberry margarita, a Louis Vuitton handbag, a Starbucks coffee cup, a bourbon bottle, a grilled chicken dinner and even sneakers, the site notes. The business also invites customers to submit their own ideas for custom creations, taking concepts that clients aren't even sure can be turned into cake and figuring out how to bring them to life, the bakery states.
From Apartment Kitchen to National Television
Tiphani's Cakery became a full-time operation in 2017, according to the business's own account on its site. Since then, the bakery says its journey has taken Tiphani from baking for the people closest to her to competing on national television and creating alongside other cake artists. She has also received top honors at the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show, per the Living Oklahoma report.
Her television résumé includes more than just the Netflix series. Tiphani won $10,000 and the title on Food Network's “Cupcake Championship,” according to KFOR. In the competition's opening round, she created turtle and pug designs atop a chocolate cupcake with vanilla buttercream, and in the championship round she built an American diner-themed cupcake topped with mini creations resembling ribs, a cheeseburger, a steak and a salad, according to KOCO. KFOR reports that Anderson is self-taught and quickly discovered a knack for creating sweet treats, and that she hoped the prize money might help her move toward opening her own storefront bakery someday.
A Long History With Sugar Art and a Return to Netflix
Anderson's eye for detail goes back years before her TV appearances. In 2016, she won first place in the adult advanced division's novelty cake category for a cake shaped like a Subway sandwich, and the following year she won Best in Division for her take on a salad, according to the same KFOR report.
This isn't Anderson's first time testing judges on “Is It Cake?” either. She competed in the show's first season and was eliminated from a Halloween-themed challenge after judges correctly identified her skull-shaped cake despite fantastic painted details, according to The Cinemaholic. That outlet describes her as running an in-home cake shop in Yukon, Oklahoma, a detail that differs from the Oklahoma City location cited elsewhere in coverage of her business.
Anderson is listed among six returning cake artists for the second season of “Is It Cake? Halloween,” alongside Bonne Bedingfield, Rodolfo Concalves, Mike Elder, Corinna Maguire and Frankie Velez, according to What's on Netflix. That season was scheduled to premiere globally on Netflix on October 9, 2026, and was reported to consist of three 40-minute episodes, per the outlet. With the new season freshly streaming and local coverage spotlighting her kitchen, Oklahoma City's most convincing cake artist is once again giving viewers a reason to look twice before taking a bite.
