Tuesday
Aug242010
Here's Your Sprinkles
August 24, 2010 Sprinkles:
Doin' it wrong:
"Wow, that's a lot of sprinkles."Doin' it wronger:
"Wow, that's a lot of..."Waaait a minute.
"Is that... paper?"
It IS!!
Not cool, man. Not. Cool.
Sorry, Anne-Marie and Katie W.; I guess one of you still can't have any.
Update: If you can't tell, the bottom cake is an edible photocopy of sprinkles. Yupperdoodles.
Reader Comments (160)
Hey, looks like my six year old got that decorating job he wanted! He loves sprinkles! (and he would considor the second cake a HUGE rip-off)
WV: Maman - yup, I'm his mama in french, too.
Wrong. Just so very wrong.
Ya know, some people like to save their sprinkles.. it's not like you can just go anywhere and get them!
Oddly I went back to a childhood memory of an old Warner Brothers cartoon of the cat and the dog in "don't forget the gravy". Only this is, "This time I didn't forget the sprinkles."
I have no words for the sprinkle paper. Esh.
WV: Preptida - prepared for the tide of sprinkles.
That second cake is genius! Sheer, cheeky brilliance! I am going to have to request one for my next birthday.
I would love to dive into cake #1. Cake #2? Not so much. Pity.
For your amusement:
wv: gofixa
LOL!
Can I please have some cake with my sprinkles? Thank you!
you can tell, because it looks awfully straight. they should have put some real sprinkles (even more?) on the side to make it more "natural" looking...
whatever
word verification: slingstr: what you call the guy that 'slings' those sprinkles on :)
I had no idea that my children had gotten a job decorating cakes!
I had no idea that my children had gotten a job decorating cakes. If I had known that all I had to do was print something on the printer and slap it on a cake, I could have been rich!
A picture of sprinkles! Hahaha....that's like that engineered wood flooring....compressed sawdust with a picture of nicely grained hardwood glued to it!
My kids have made a few cakes covered in sprinkles just like that first cake. Absolutely precious when kids make it. Not so much coming from a bakery.
Sprinklegate....
I'm just impressed that *someone* has an edible ink printer that isn't off color balance, missing a color, or with plugged print nozzles...
Hahahaha!! Especially the last cake with the *picture* of sprinkles! It's all just too much!! *:)*
I would totally eat those. More sprinkles = more fun. (#_#)
"Boss, the lady wants the top of the cake covered in Sprinkles!"
"What does she think? Sprinkles grow on trees?"
"And there's no way I have enough time to shake them on. Hasn't she heard of lead-time?"
"Ok, here's what we do--look for a downloadable image of sprinkles on-line, blow it up on adobe, and print it off on some edible paper. That paper will go down in one swift move. Time and resources saved."
"That's why you're the boss, man!"
Lol i read "paper" as "pepper" and was thoroughly confused.
No, no, no, people, it's "JIMMIES"!
The newer version of this post is more clear. The arrows have been moved over - so it might not have just been a Livejournal thing. This is definitely a re-edited picture, not the same as was up here this morning.
Like another commenter mentioned, I was just so absorbed staring at the specific sprinkles seemed to be pointing at, that I didn't notice the straight edge.
A PICTURE of Sprinkles?
Good God, how do you spell "lazy"?
Cschoen, come on now! 'Jimmies' are the chocolate ones. 'Sprinkles' are the colored ones!
I think it's a New England thing...
HAHAHHAHAHAHAH fake sprinkles!!! Soon it'll just be an edible paper cake!
First, the great minds of the food world invented artificial blueberries to go in our muffins.
Then, they invented "crab with a K", that lovely white fish with a red stripe of food coloring.
Then, what I thought was the worst food invention of all time, artificial carrot bits for carrot cake. Good God, people, carrots are about the cheapest thing on the planet, and you have to invent artificial ones?
And now, photos of sprinkles. My mind can not comprehend this. Surely the colored ink for the printer costs more than a bucket of sprinkles. However, clean up is considerably easier. What is this called? Sprynkles? Sprinklez? Zprynklz?
So the one with the actual sprinkles...it seems to have Christmas trees, fall leaves (red, green and brown maple leaves), teddy bears, and orange things--hearts maybe? That's quite the picnic.
Do you think eating sprinkle paper will give you green poops like the ones on the sides of the cake?
The Recession is hitting everyone hard! Sprinkle cutbacks suck.
Is it possible that the picture of sprinkles isn't a wreck at all? Edible paper isn't as cheap as actual sprinkles, the printing was perfect-- and it seems to be an *awfully* good way to tweak CW about the "I want sprinkles" in-joke.
I do like the lines of other commentators though about a photo of a cake, and a picture of the money...
I would have called them awesome and awesomer. Good times.
Is that for people who are allergic to sprinkles?
The 2nd cake actually wasn't looking too shabby... until I saw the edges... ((gives great big disappointed sigh)) lol.
Crunch, crunch, crunch...
Paper!? Seriously, custom margins please.
wv..chipem...don't crunch all those sprinkles with your teeth you'll chipem.
I agree with Stephanie. I was going to say the exact same thing. A cake topped with a photo of sprinkles is genius. I get the joke and I love a cake with a sense of humor. I wish I had thought of it.
Yupperdoodles :D lol
Seriously, people?!
Wow! Pretty! Pretty overdone, but pretty... except for the paper. Whatever happened to good old colored icing to decorate your cake? Sprinkles go on ice-cream or as a light decorative motif, but otherwise, just no.
Did you notice the date on Cake #1? "Sell by 1-2-2010." Maybe they had to use up 2009's sprinkle remainders before they started fresh for the new year. Hence the shamrocks, etc.
A photo of sprinkles? Now I've seen everything.
One of my friends actually made a cake like the first one for another friend of her's. I was like, "Um, that cake is gonna be kind of crunchy..." She said, "But it's pretty!" Yeah... pretty. Sure.
Who on earth would make edible paper of sprinkles and put it on a cake instead of the dog gone sprinkles??? They cheat! If I want sprinkles I want real ones lol and yes I will throw a tantrum til I get my way or blame it on pms and make them give em to me either way.. sprinkles. Must be real or the wreckerator should run for the hills.
i figured out the arrows were pointing to an edible image.
i like how sprinkles look, but they do not have a taste!!!
i think its a funny idea and less messy
Amazing. They did more work and somehow ended up being lazier!
O...M...G! Seriously? That's sort of funny!
That's just evil.
Fake sprinkles. That's just not right. Truth in advertising!
The edible paper should be attached to the inside of the cover, print side facing out. Wait for it...
Notice the other sprinklecake behind the first one. What's the story on that bakery?
"Appalling. What's for afters?" "Well, there's sprinkle cake, sprinkle tart, sprinkle sorbet..." "I'll have a slice of sprinkle cake without so many sprinkles on it."
Yes, there's nothing like a cake that has a nice, satisfying crunch to it. Though I did just eat a birthday cake (well, you know what I mean: several slices over a few days) that had the sides covered in sprinkles. And chocolate buttercream. That should be in it's own food group.
wv: alicut. What you get on your tongue if you aren't careful eating edible paper.
I was going to say the exact same thing that the first commenter did--isn't it more expensive, more trouble, and less fun to do the edible picture of sprinkles than to put on actual sprinkles?
wv: nessie -- ! the Loch Ness monster loves sprinkles. (Real ones.)
Who puts a picture of sprinkles on a cake???
Oh my sweet grasshoppers... just when I think that wreckerators might be running out of ways to wreck cakes in new ways and resorting to reinterpretations of the classics (misspellings, mangling instructions, unintentional phalli)... they do something like this... and totally redeem themselves! I'm just in awe over this one. Instant classic.
I want (a picture of) sprinkles.
--kate
P.S. Had to look up "phallus" in Merriam Webster online in order to see what the plural form is. So proud that is now in my search history. Thanks cakewrecks!