Thursday
Aug132009
The Joker's Revenge
August 13, 2009 Thank goodness for those big photo books at the bakery counter. You know, the ones with all the cake designs in them? Yeah. Without those, how would we ever know what toys come with the cake?
What's that? You thought the books showed the cake designs, too? Ah. Please excuse me for a moment, while I turn my head and laugh heartily at your oh-so-sweet naivete.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Ahah.
I do so love shattering expectations.
Here's what Naomi J. ordered:
"Taxi!"
Great slithering slabs of slime-secreting slugs, Sally!(Sorry Naomi; I needed an S name.)
Note how all that airbrush dye pools together and glistens wetly in the light. Mmm. And the way that blackened, moldy green offsets the fluorescent green border. Yeah, that's tasty. And, of course, there's the eclair-filling slug bombs; can't forget those.
However, you should also note - and in the decorator's defense - that the batman toys look exactly the same. Hooray, photo book!
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Reader Comments (160)
i like the skyline in the 'book' example.
i used to spend part of the time Mum was grocery shopping looking at that book of pictures when i was little. i'd pick out which one i would order or make. we never bought cakes like that because Mum's are infinitely better. but i liked the licensed characters.
Oh my...that's all I can muster at this point.
I think we should be glad that at least the decorator did not try to recreate the puff of exhaust coming out of the car.
That being said (and having just woken up) I had to stare at the lemon-tart slugs for a long time before I realised they were supposed to be lines in the road. Supposed.
i hope all that food coloring didn't make it taste nasty.
that makes me sad. and angry. some people have no pride in their work. that wasn't even a difficult design!
....not even a "boff!" or a "pow!"
sigh.
Why is Batman doing the Hitler salute in these pictures? It seems a bit out of character for him. But so does standing still, ankle deep in icing, while injustices like that horrible cake go unpunished!
Josh
http://thedmt.blogspot.com
The really dark night?
Banana slugs!
Ohhhh myyyyy....
*averting eyes*
That is... an intriguing interpretation. :-O
How bizarre. The first one doesn't even look that hard to do, really. It's like the decorator didn't even try.
The cake is definitely a wreck, but I'm stuck on Batman's pose. You can almost hear him say, "Stop, evildoer! Put down that airbrush gun!"
That's just horrible. I hope the wreckreator had a good excuse for that... like she/he was drunk. Or blind.
wow, that is awful. I wouldn't have accepted that monstrosity!
that's a disgusting yellow
It does look a bit like the Jokers face......
Oh, and the nuclear moon! Can't forget that!
Honestly, looking at the first cake, I knew that airbrushing was way beyond your average wreckerator's skills. Yet, that particular wreckerator still managed to amaze me. What another glorious example of wreckitude!
Wreck on, Batman.
(WV: mustsi: you really mustsi this one to believe it!)
The Wreck really Schumackered it up!
As a child in South Africa we would express sarcastic sympathy by saying "my heart bleeds lumpy custard for you". All I can see on this cake is lumpy custard. mmmmmmm.
Good GRIEF!!!!
There's no words. None. Poor Jackson. (I think it's supposed to be Jackson, right?) (deep and heavy sigh)
WV- prizess - That cake will not win any prizess, preciousss.
At least the toys are the same, right? Right? If you squint your eyes and turn your head sideways the cake could work... errr, maybe not, actually.
That is just so bad!!! I guess the only reason she accepted and paid for it is so she could send a picture of the WRECK onto you. =)
AhhhHahahaha...that cake should come with a sound byte from the Joker himself...
Oh my goodness! I wouldn't have even taken that from the bakery! That looks utterly disgusting! Especially the slimy slugs... gag.
Poor Jackson. Poor Naomi!
Before I started making my kids' birthday cakes, I let them choose the design from the book. Their decision was always based on what toys they would be licking icing off of. Thanksfully, they turned out like the design in the book and not like this mess! Yet another reason I'm glad I make the cakes now and am not tempting fate anymore!
mysleepinghusband.blogspot.com
How did they mess up the dividing lines of the street? With a doughnut creme filler thing?
Well, it's better than I'd be able to do. But then, I don't work in a Safeway claiming to be "professional" either.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Disgusting! Did they actually have to pay for that?
Mmmmmm, great cake for anyone on a diet. Not only does it deter you from having a slice of cake, it may make you lose your lunch.
i have no words. . . and i always do.
*L
I couldn't see past the slugs. *urp*
Gross
Becky
i have no words. . . and i always do.
*L
OH
MY
GOD!
I am truly dumbfounded!
Meow!
http://www.kitty-cakes.blogspot.com
Wow.. the site of those "slugs" nearly made me lose my breakfast. Poor Jackson..
This has to be a fake (they kept the toys from the original cake and remade a bad one). Who in their right mind would accept a cake that looked like THIS?? EVERYTHING is wrong with it!
You gotta wonder sometimes. Taxi...that's classic.
The toys are the same? In the second photo, it looks more like Batman is making an (appropriate) WTF gesture, rather than hailing a cab. Got to love the three pupae on the bottom of the cake though, what are those supposed to be?
@Alex Getts
That's hilarious. "The Wreck really Schumackered it up!"
Brilliant.
Yes I had to double check the slugs to see what they were supposed to really be. It's pretty scary when road markings change like that without warning. Puts a whole new meaning on 'tip' size.
Cheers
Oh my gawd was all I could mutter under my breath.
My first thought was why are there little yellow poops on the bottom of that cake?
My 11 year old daughter (also a cakewrecks fan) looked at the blobs on the left bottom and said, "What IS that?!?!" I said, "Mayonnaise?"
I was going to say that at least the decorator remembered the 3 road stripes, but then I read the whole slug description and ruined my appetite...
W.V. Coragria: The Coragria Slug is a precocious little devil, sometimes refered to as the "butter bug" this little guy is often attracted to sugary sweet substances and watching super-hero movies...
What the...?!?!??!
Those globs of eeriely greenish yellow slimey icing...looks like something a nurse in an OB office would have to clean up after a hooker got an exam.
I love how if you look closely you can tell that the Wreckerator was actually *trying* to re-create the scene from the book...
The brown stripe with yellow slugs is supposed to be the road and dividing stripes.
The black green blob-stripe is the buildings, sort of.
The orange spot in the top left corner is trying to be the sun.
And then the blue blob is sky.
It's kinda like those Magic Eye pictures, just keep squinting, you'll see it eventually. :)
That is downright offensive. That's not lack of skill, it's lack of trying.
OMG!
The slugs! The slugs!
In all honesty, the "original" isn't much to look at, either. But it doesn't have yellow roadkill!
Yuck!
Ooooh... lines in the road... thanks previous posters for clearing that up for me. I could not for the life of me imagine what Batman character flung slugs.
wv: sluggo. Seriously.