Wednesday
Apr132011
Window Pain
April 13, 2011 Bakers, in case it's been a while, this is your friendly reminder to go ahead and spruce up those window display cakes. After all, without them the customers might have to rely solely on your signage to evaluate your baking skills:
And nobody wants that.("I'll take a Sahara and two small Mojaves, please.")
Now, your display cakes say a lot about your bakery. Ideally, you want these things to be positive, like "Look! Our cakes don't show the dirt at ALL!"
Or, "Yes, we CAN cut out small pieces of paper!"
Or even just "Divorce!" written in German:
Your displays also showcase the things that are most important to your bakery.
Like spelling:
And the fact that you never make the same mistake more than twice:
And finally, remember: when it comes to drawing in potential customers, you can never go wrong with a really good wizard cake:
Guaranteed to work like magic.Thanks to Elizabeth R., Mary I., Erin Z., Kate, Catherine C., & C.M., who think that last window might have a few kinks to work out.
Reader Comments (91)
Dominatrix cake?
Wow. um...
That last cake made me shriek, "The hell?" Wow. Just wow.
bwwwwwaaaahhahhahahahhahahah thats supposed to be a wizard
B&D cakes!
Wait! Does that dominatrix have a peg leg? WTH?
Is that dominatrix standing on a prosthetic leg? Something tells me this may be an homage to a VERY close friend of the baker.
they say i have adhd but they just don't under.. look a marmaid
Wow. You know why I read the blog every day? Apart from the laughs and hilarity, of course. I am surprised constantly by what people proudly bake and decorate. I've been reading the blog for years, and just when I think we've just about seen it all, then you post a special "wizard" cake. Your site is so educational and entertaining.
I LOVE the bait-n-switch at the end. VERY well bowled, indeed.
I swear that last cake is based on a scene in a movie. Something cheesy and mid-80s, like Red Sonja or one of the Conan movies. Or maybe it was a TV show, something in the Wizards and Warriors genre. I'm not coming up with it. Anyone?
Bahahaha s&m cake...ok I could maaaaaybe see this being ordered ("hi, im looking to custom order a cake with a dominatrix with a peg leg and her slave tied to a bed. Why? Oh...its my moms birthday.") But as a window display?! Either this bakery is in the red light district or it doesn't (read: Shouldn't) cater to children. Oh this post made my day!
I don't believe I remember THAT scene being in Harry Potter :O
We never used the word 'dessert' in our British household in the 70s - the sweet course at the end of a meal was known universally as 'pudding'. So, when I first read the packaging for 'dessert topping' I thought it had something to do with the dry sandy places of the world.
WVA huffi: when I found out I was misreading it I was in a serious huffi for weeks.
The Little Marmaid is supposed to be the Little Barmaid, duh.
I've seen cakes for teachers, cakes for doctors, cakes for women in labor and cakes for young women entering the wonderful world of menstruation. Why should we question a cake for one legged domiminaxtri? Sorry,I don't know the plural of dominatrix. Are they not entitles to a little recognition?
I saw a bio the other day saying that the person had served in "Dessert Storm/Dessert Shield." Tastiest conflict ever.
Ah...the rare s&m cake.... A little reminiscent of the movie Pulp Fiction, but I think that was two guys. And, she may have a peg leg, but what is that item she's holding? It looks like something made from that rare bakery resource, dil-dough....
wv - clowin: like a clown, but not as funny
@SuBee --
"Sorry,I don't know the plural of dominatrix."
Having majored in math, I'm going to go with "dominatrices"
WTF ?!?!?! O_o what are these people thinking
'Gandalf looked on in despair as he wondered whether it was worth using his magic staff to get Frodo out of this particular predicament...'
Pup Fan - you made me laugh almost as much as these cakes!
So I totally don't get the divorce cake. No, really, it makes no sense to me. What, it's not SUPPOSED to? Oh come on!
The last cake: you know I'm totally going to make this.
@ mel
HAAAAAA
dil-dough!!!!
wv: fulffli-- an intoxicated description of an adorable feline:
"That kitty is sho fulffli!"
Little Marmaid = A girl who loves to eat Marmite.
Okay, so everyone is focused on the dominatrix in the foreground of that last picture. But tear your eyes away and look beyond that cake. Look not at the middle one but further back. Is that an actual bowl of spaghetti or a cake bowl of spaghetti? And either way, what the heck?!?!? Why is it there?
OMG there are so many things wrong with that last cake. At first, I was looking for the wizard. Apprently he's another cake in the back, unless the sadist and masochist are his "assistants."
That S&M cake is frightening. The masochist is wearing a mask like the gimp (a la Pulp Fiction) and what is his hand doing?? (it's obscured by the bed post and in Groinland.) And the sadist with her supercleavage, peg leg and multi-strand whip is coming right at us! and why is the mattress sucha shiny pink....
oh the horror!
That last display brings a whole new meaning to "fantasy" cakes....
fantasy characters (wizard)
sexual fantasies...
ruins the food fantasy though!
@Pup Fan: "the person had served in "Dessert Storm/Dessert Shield."
I can't decide if it's a food fight or something from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Marmaid: Half maid, half marmot.
what's with the divorce cake? what is that supposed to be? the division of assets with the lawyer sailing the river of money (that they're losing to him) down the middle?
and what are those little things on each side? mysterious assets indeed
What kind of clientele does the last cake cater to?
@ Mel, that was hilarious. After further looking, it is a whip.
Ah yes Spngbob and the Little Marmaid - the famous aquatic crime fighting duo!
:D ~ Saoirse
the bug eyed gimp with the zipped lips is freaking me out. and what's on his left hand?is he tied down? is it a half eaten sandwich or pastry written in foil? or a bandaged hand from some terror inflicted by Peggy, the one legged wonder?
I was looking back at the last cake (to see the big bowl of spaghetti that TexAirhead pointed out) and I was thinking maybe it was a wedding cake.
The wizard is officiating, and there's the bride with her whip and the groom...
I'm just saying it's a possibility.
wv: cleve (really!): And a man shall cleve to his wife. yada, yada, yada...
Everyone missed the point in the last picture. There actually IS a wizard cake. It's just behind the SM cake. Look closer.
"This is not the bondage cake you are looking for. Ignore the bondage cake. Concentrate on the one behind it. COONNNNNcentrate... COOONNNNcentrate..."
The Little Marmaid is Ariel's hispanic half sister who is forced by her evil step mother to clean the entire ocean before she can go to the ball....What? Am I the only one who's heard this story?
What I want to know about the last one is, what is Peggy hiding behind her back?
Andrea
Re: the spaghetti. Maybe once a wizard finds himself in that particular chamber of secrets, he might want to load up on carbs. I hear they're good for endurance.
@ mel you clever clever person...dough taken to a new height...s & m never looked so ahhh,,,errr b & d before...
wv: mangth~ how did i ever mangth my meager cube dwelling days before cw?
Ok, I have to admit that by the time I got to the last cake, that is where my thoughts ran amuck. However, that first "cake" (substitute word "monstrosity") is just one hot mess. No "fixing" that thing.
WV: reating - what the "Marmaid" wreckerator is obviously not good at
Ok the wizard cake made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants!! Thank you for making my birthday even more awesome!!! hahaha!!!!!
Now I've seen everything! An S&M cake?! Really?!
How sad that the Little Mermaid and Spongebob had their names misspelled on their tombstones.
Maybe the first sign means that they provide service to quality deserts, so, sorry Sonoran, you're outta luck. Get out of that abusive relationship with the humans there and we'll talk.
WV: sesside
The Little Marmaid and Spngebob live at the sesside.
What the what?
Ack. Good thing the title of 'Dungeons of Azkaban' was nixed.
Huh? "SpngBob"? Spng B-O-B? Mind officially in the cesspool this morning.
wv: Ponsiti -- These cakes are all part of a ponsiti scheme to suck as much laughter out of as many people as possible
I've seen the last cake before, it was at the essex street market in the LES
Oh my.
'Ne Scheidungstorte, man, ich schmeiß mich weg *kicher*; ich versuch gerade die Figürchen zu bestimmen, konnte aber nur den Wauzi erkennen.
Wer sieht mehr?
What is with her boobs?? (In the last cake!)
The typos (Little Mermaid and SpongeBob) might be ways to avoid a Disney copyright infringement lawsuit.
"No, Mom! I wanted a Spongebob-soccer-Dora-Mickey-guitar-SPIDERMAN-Cars cake, not a Spongebob-soccer-Dora-Mickey-guitar-BATMAN-Cars cake! You always ruin everything!"