Hi everyone!
The runner @Nozotakun made the discovery, that using cakes instead of ice creams in Death% can be faster, as the eating animation is faster. It requires solid inputs though, as an additional right input is necessary to choose the cake over the ice cream.
I just did some timing on this, as I was curious, as I didn't know the duration of the animations differ. But they really do! Accourding to my tests the cake eating animation is about 0.4 seconds afster, which is huge in this short run.
I hope this discovery brings some runners back to get some competition in this category again. I know it is a meme run, but one that is really great for getting people into speedrunning! Thanks to @Nozotakun for sharing this discovery with the community and congratulations on the new world record!