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The appeal of the cake frosting video goes beyond the gustatory. I'm a frequent frosting scraper, known to discard it into colorful smears at the edge of my plate. In video format, though, frosting is entirely fantasy. Even without tasting the sugar, its texture is thick and visually pleasing, and seeing the decorating process from start to finish offers a sense of having completed something as well. The sounds are hushed, but present enough to capture my attention. And at no more than 10 minutes, the videos are perfect little bites for a quick, mid-workday break.There's a bit of a philosophical lesson in cake decorating, too. At some point in the cake decorating process, you have to know when to stop—when the frosting is as smooth as it can possibly be, or when the piping at its edges is enough. Some imperfection has to be accepted, and that's a good lesson for all of us right now.