This YouTuber's mind-blowing cakes look nothing like baked goods

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This might look like a grilled cheese sandwich, but it's actually a cake. 

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That's right. It's dessert, not lunch. 

The cake was made by Yolanda Gampp, the culinary mastermind behind the YouTube series "How To Cake It." Her baked goods will make you do a double take — they're all created to look exactly like other things. One even looks exactly like a jar of Vegemite.

She's got 600,000 followers, but her videos regularly rack up over a millions views. People just can't seem to get enough of Gampp's work. 

Check out 13 of our favorites. Warning, they might make you hungry. 

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While these mini macaroni and cheeses might look savory, they're actually orange velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Gampp used white chocolate shavings to create the appearance of grated cheese.

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Different shades of green food coloring make this watermelon cake look totally realistic. The chocolate "seeds" look delicious.

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Gampp used slices of pound cake and white chocolate instead of bread and cheese for this sandwich.

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The secret to this perfectly browned pizza cake crust? Gampp uses a chef's torch to burn the "dough."

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Australian Vegemite, a spread made from leftover brewer's yeast, is a a bit of an acquired taste. Gampp's cake version has a surprise inside.

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When you cut into the cake, you'll see the colors of the Australian flag.

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For this Oktoberfest-inspired dessert, Gampp used coconut as a stand in for sauerkraut.

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Buttercream frosting makes a convincing stand-in for cream cheese on these bagel cakes.

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These cereal bowl cakes are made to have real milk poured over them so they'll taste extra moist.

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She gets inspiration from sweet food, too. These look like ice cream sundaes, but they're cakes.

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This ice cream cone cake is massive.

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Not all her cakes look like food. These prayer-hands-worthy emoji cakes are a good example.

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But they're still equally impressive. "Despicable Me" fans will appreciate this minion dessert.

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And Gampp's latest creation might be her weirdest — an almost too realistic brain cake.

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