Saturday
May242008
The Most Disturbing Cake EVER
May 24, 2008 
[NOTE - The original photo was removed at the baker's request. This cake is merely a similar style, to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. ;) ]
Great burrowing baby bottoms, Batman!
Wow. Here's a cake you could never photograph from the backside, eh? (Get it, "backside"?) Seriously, let's count the ways in which this cake is oh-so-wrong, shall we?
1) There is a baby butt on it
2) There is no corresponding baby head to the baby butt
3) To be in this position, the baby would have to be buried alive inside the cake (aw, what a cute concept!)
4) Two lucky individuals are going to get to play "These Little Piggies" with their mouths
5) Did I mention there is a baby butt on it?
Karen F., bottom's up!
Reader Comments (52)
OH GOD
O________O
and it's blue (boy?) baby's butt wearing a dress...or is that a kerchief? And the feet, oh the horror!
The feet... they look like little sausages... so strange.
wonder if there's a little chocolate 'surprise' in the diaper?
That is one creepy ass-cake... o.O
That...is just plain creepy.
Good Lord! It's not the baby butt that bothers me, I can't get past the bloated decomposing dead baby feet. Ewwww.
Wow. So wrong. And yet... our baby annoucements were similar -- showed a baby butt with cute (not sausage-like) baby feet tucked under it... and I thought they were adorable.
'Course, no one was expected to eat them, either.
I'm kind of surprised and grateful that nobody said it yet...
Where do you stick the candle?
Oh my gosh is that a dirty diaper showing through!
Is it just me or does anyone else want to eat a cake that so many hands have been touching...well, one set of hands, A LOT! I can't stand sculpted cakes because I know someone has had their hands all over my food. Watching Ace of Cakes gives me nightmares. Sculpted baby toes? EW! I wouldn't go near this cake with a ten foot pole.
Might I add how disproportionate the feet are to the butt?
Oh wow... this looks like a badly-topped, badly-ripped off version of my own baby shower cake... I'm not even kidding. I designed it myself with my bakery, and even the colors are the same! Mine was in January... http://pics.livejournal.com/thebitingfaery/pic/00b3by8s The horrible, bizarro-world resemblance is uncanny...
I got your site from my aunt and have been exploring ALL these crazy cakes. I started yesterday and now I am back today going through the categories....
OMG....I am laughing so hard I am crying.....who would do this????
I've been looking through your site for an hour, and now I feel like my eyes have been burned out. I may actually have nightmares about this one. BLECH!
LOL...no seriously, I am literally laughing loud enough that it might wake my own baby (who is thankfully NOT burried in cake). I wonder what the poor mother to be said!
What happened? Why did you have to remove the pic? :((((((
Yep, sorry - had to remove the original pic, since it wasn't professionally made. Fortunately I found a replacement, though. And the sad thing is, it wasn't hard to find a replacement.... ;)
dibs on the feet!
First, kudos on the blog. I've been cracking up as I look through your posts!
Second, is it just me, or does the "body" look like a turkey under a kitchen towel?
MY 7 year old just asked "what if it's chocolate inside?????" EWWWWWWWW - Dirty diaper anyone?
Okay-- so the picture's gone. I did what every self-respecting blog reader did and googled "baby butt cake".
I haven't found the original photo, but did come up with some equally creepy ones:
http://durhamregionbaby.com/2008/08/baby-butt-cakes-seriously-funky-new-crayons-bpa-safe-south-of-the-border-fun-stuff-from-all-over/
and http://rexrayrantings.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
(Scroll down to barium boy in March)
After seeing those two, I just stopped. Even inquiring minds don't always want to know...
And since you so kindly point the improper use of possessives, I thought I would point out that the bakers apparently belong to something. I love you, though. This blog is amazing. :)
Oops... you might want to erase that apostrophe in "baker's"...
Your site is very amusing. However, I found it ironic that, for as much as you harp on proper punctuation for cakes, your post has a mistake of its own (no apostrophe in "bakers").
Not trying to be overly critical. Your site is still very good.
The apostrophe is in fact correct. The possessive indicates that the request belongs to the baker. For those that don't believe see "Forming possessives of nouns" at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
I think I found the original, based on some of the comments here.
I have to say, if that cake was indeed chocolate beneath the diaper, it would have been truly sublime, not just genius...
PS: *LOVE* the blog.
The first apostrophe - "at the baker's request" - is correct; however, the second one - "all baker's" is not. The first usage is possessive and the second is plural...no apostrophe needed.
P.S. I love your blog so much that I've been reading every single entry and working my way back to the start, with frequent side trips to other sites you've mentioned. Thanks for all of the giggles!!
Wow - now that's sure to have Dewey McKinley Wilton rolling in his grave - his cake decorating company turned 80 this year!!!
Oh...so sorry you had to remove the original photo. This is (or was) the cake that got me hooked on cake wrecks...and I went searching for it to send to my friend who is expecting a baby.
Noticed you removed the part about being buried alive in the cake too...(too disturbing? or didn't fit the new cake?).
What disturbs me is that it's *not* a baby butt--it's a diaper, with all that that entails (ouch!) Somehow that's way more gross than an actual butt!
For a moment I was speechless. Why o Why would you ever make this cake?! The world if full of interesting people :| x
I think the worm cake on the New Years Hangover post was much worse. But this was a while ago, so I won't hold it against you. ^.^
I agree, though. Baby butts on cake = uneatable.
Okay, those of you who say "that's a diaper" obviously have NOT been exposed to the pageant world. That is NOT a diaper, my friends. It is a pair of white, lace/pink ruffled trim rubber pants. Remember those? Those rubberized/plasticized panty-like britches that were put on the baby AFTER changing the diaper so that when the tyke was sitting in Uncle Bubba's lap she would not make a wet spot? Those are rubber pants. And I will NOT say that any wet spot would then, thusly, belong to Uncle Bubba..... no, I will not...
I think it's cute...um never mind :8
And lo, over three years later, I believe the cake has shown up on Facebook (the original one which was removed) - the image on my News Feed page was included with an ad for teachers. The feet were horrible, the blue "dress" weird, and its on a white-with-blue-polka-dots cake.
I still stand by the fact this is actually one of the most requested designs for us. Doesn't make it right.... but it pays the bills....
I hate the baby butt cakes... or any cake with human anatomy on it... pregnant belly cakes, complete with tiny protruding footprint, let us not forget... female dismembered torsos... when I'm forced to make them by my clients, I always try to make them look really awesome, but it doesn't change the fact that they're just plain creepy. And still I get asked to make these cakes. Some people love them and say they're the "most adorable thing they've ever seen." Okay...? Anyway... yeah, that's all.
even nadia's cakes (winner of cake wars) has a baby butt cake on her website http://www.nadiacakes.com/gallery.html
I agree that it's a bit creepy, although some are better executed (no pun intended) than others. I have had many requests for this cake.
My two-year-old's assessment of this cake: "The baby hiding!"
I've made this iconographic cake for years and people go crazy for it and think its adorable. Ask yourself, if a customer wants it, and thinks it's cute; can you make it cute and not weird at all?
http://www.wilton.com/blog/index.php/how-to-make-a-baby-rump-shower-cake/
I'm surprised people find the baby rump cake so creepy. I've done many of them. The one displayed here is a bit out of proportion but other than that, it's adorable. A very common position of babies that people love to watch is a baby lying on its stomach with its feet tucked under and butt in the air. It mimics that. This can easily be done where the baby decoration is made of fondant or gumpaste and not cake and the decoration can be lifted off and the cake tier below it eaten. This gets around the issues of eating something that's been handled and molded. The same thing with a pregnant belly, etc. This is hardly a cake wreck.
I felt the smae way about these cakes and then I was asked to make one, so of caourse i thought it was the cutest thing ever because...I made it! lol
i dont see whats so wrong with this
Torsos - out of mode.
Serve headless babe with ice cream!
Always in good taste.
Oh my Go d that is disturbing!
i am baking a baby bum cake for my sister in laws baby shower. seriously ladies. there is nothing wrong with it, it is down right cute. a baby butt is always cute