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 can't believe someone paid for that.
This is your cake. THIS is your cake on drugs.
Just say No to drugs (or slugs, as the case may be)
I don't think this cakewreck is real. I think they ordered it like this, or made it at home.
Just from the differences in color between the source cake and the second, um, example, I think this is simply a cry for help. The poor decorator has eye trouble. Quick, to the Opthalmologist Cave!
I can't imagine what was going through the mid of the person operating the airbrush. I spent over 2 decades working as a baker and pastry chef and that is as bad as anything I've ever seen. I hope that the purchaser of this product was offered a refund, a free new cake and a year's supply of free cupcakes. Then I hope the alleged "decorator" was hauled unceremoniously out behind the dumpster and flogged with some greasy parchment paper. And fired. That item is an invitation to lose business.
Robin is conspicuously missing from the scenario!
what happened to the sun? the sun has fallen out of the sky!! oh dear!
like Jael said it took a second look to figure out what the lemon blobs were SUPPOSED to be. Good thing the wreckorator doesn't do work in the "real" world or cars would be wrecked as well as cakes.
I hope they didn't even leave the bakery with this one... ick
i can't believe no one has made a "holy cakewreck, batman!" comment yet.
ewwww to the slugs. ewwww to the whole terrifying thing.
poor, poor birthday boy.
terry lee
I would NOT have paid for that cake!
Does this wreckorator live where there are no roads???
They obviously have a small tip, they used it for the "inscription".
(Yes grammar police, I reject the rule about punctuation inside quotes.)
@David and Sandy: we have been through this 500 times: Jen does NOT post homemade cakes without disclosing it.
"It's a fake wreck" accusations get old. Time to give up you faith in humanity and accept that people are this bad at their jobs.
Alex
The 2nd ones background looks more like a spooky scene for a southern vampire cake (poorly done mind you).
assistant: "I'm just finishing up that true blood cake they ordered"
boss(coming in with batman toys): "What true blood cake? they wanted batman, here look at the picture!"
asst: "What?!? I know!" (whips out shiny yellow frosting) "I'll just add lines to the road, they'll never know the difference"
I can't even believe this one is real.
Oficially worst wreck EVER!
That's awful! Since I have no baking or decorating skills, I have ordered several of the "book" cakes from grocery store bakeries, and they've all turned out just as pictured in the book.
seeing that makes me really glad that our local store will sell me the toy kit. I just stick it on a homemade cake and the kids just want the toys anyway. That has to be one of the most unappetizing messes I've ever seen. Yuck!
"HOLY SLITHING SLUGS BATMAN, WHERE AM I," the Boy wonder asks....
Thank god they have BOOKS to tell you how to decorate your own cakes. Whether the baker chooses to read them is a whole other thing.
I'm going to delude myself into believing that mommy let Jackson decorate his own cake...snot slugs and all. Because, as we all know, it's entirely plausible to believe that 4 year olds have mastered the art of cursive writing.
I know this is a Batman cake but the only thing that came to mind when I saw it was Harry Potter: "Eat slugs!"
Perhaps the wreckerator had a broken wand?
"Introduce a little anarchy... upset the established order... and everything becomes chaos! I'm an agent of chaos."
Holy cow! What decorator thought THAT was close to what it was supposed to be???
This gives me an idea for playing the game "telephone" with wrecks.
Take a picture of a wreck, go into a store and ask for that design. Receive worse wreck in return. Take a picture of it. Repeat until no longer recognizable.
You can almost follow the wreckoraters train of thought, because, this particular wreckorater has no clue who Batman is, and upon looking at the design they are to copy, assumes the Batmobile is being pursued by small yellow snakes slithering down the road...so they think, I know, we'll turn them into huge giant slugs...the kids will LOVE that!
Oh man, I hope she didn't actually pay for that.
Actually, the "slug" road stripes? Look to me like that foam stuff you get to fill in cracks around windows--as soon as you spray it out, it expands to like 8 times larger. Ewwww. That is truly the most UNappetizing cake you've ever featured!
I think the cake wreckorator in question is a joker, a smoker, a midnight toker.
oh my....we just dont have this kind of thing in the UK where you choose form a book in the store itself....and those sluggy blobby things...excuse me, and going to be siii.....
Oh My Gosh!! I think the slugs ate Robin! Or they rolled over him and he drowned in their ooze... And poor Batman reached out to save him, but was too slow. : (
wv: unglarg- the noise Robin made when he was drowning
WHAT
I repeat:
WHAT
("Taxi!" ROFL)
OMG! The horror! Can't help but wonder how it tasted...shudder!
Jenn McKinlay
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www.jennmckinlay.com
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No Jen, it's "Holy Slithering Slabs of Slime-Secreting Slugs, Batman"
Just a little Bat-mania.
I only paid for it because unfortunately my son was with me and just saw the Batman figurine, and happily exclaimed a "Batman Cake!". She only charged me for the plain cake, which actually did taste good, but its not HARD for this one to taste better than it looks!
I feel like a celebrity now, a whole post to my wreck!
Also - if that big black area WERE actually buildings, the Batmobile would most definitely be driving up them.
wow, I hope she didn't pay full price for that sucker
I first thought those sluggy things were peeled garlic cloves, and thought, "On a CAKE?!?!" *shudder*
That is such a shame.
Holy Bogus Bakery, Batman!
OMG! Naomi, I love how it's so bad you're being questioned whether it's legit or you're just some fame-seeking cake-wrecker!! ...not to make any excuses but again I must mention that it was a MILLION degrees that week...driving everyone a little craaaaaaaazy?!! Also making it too hot to bother arguing with the store or with a 4 year old who just wants some CAKE! Love the 84+ comments! :)
Holy Banana Slugs, Batman! It's Jackson's Birthday! I hope he's too young to remember that cake.
The look like the slugs from Flushed Away. Maybe they'll stand up and sing.
Oh, geez.
~Amy B
Snot rockets. That is all.
It looks like an original "Gordon Gartrell" cake, Theo!
Please tell me she didn't pay for that let alone serve it at the kids bday!!
Nope, sorry, wouldn't have paid for it, would have left without it. How disappointing.
Anon wrote:
"This gives me an idea for playing the game "telephone" with wrecks.
Take a picture of a wreck, go into a store and ask for that design. Receive worse wreck in return. Take a picture of it. Repeat until no longer recognizable."
Hilarious idea!!
Monkee Momma, I am glad your little boy was happy with the cake. My tactic when using a "professional" bakery: arrange to pick up the cake early, so if changes need to be made, there's time to do it, and never bring your child with you if it's the child's cake. I learned that from experience. Picked up daughter's cake and she was with me. I wasn't happy with it, but she was, so I paid for it and took it home. This was years ago, before I found my daily dose of Laughter that is CakeWrecks.
Wow the poor cake decorator. Just trying to be original! fail.
it's like ralph steadman before and after meeting hunter thompson.
My first thought... banana slug road kill.
I'm still stuck on the slugs... When decorating, don't you have a piping bag? I mean, I know I do when I make my amateur cakes...so why would you pipe out such huge, horrible things like that unless it's just pure laziness? Squiggliness, okay, even I've done that before. But you have to TRY to get them that big.
I think someone _wants_ to get fired.
What in the hell!?
word ver: mealsit - the occasion that takes place before this nasty wreck shows up.