Thursday
Sep272012
Birch, Please.
September 27, 2012 
Me: AAAUUGH! BWAHAHAAA!
John: What? [seeing cake] What IS that?
Me: [laughing]
John: Is it a cow? Buried face down?
Me: [still laughing]
John: Wait, no, I think it's a tree. A birch tree.
Me: [shrill cackling punctuated by honking, bugle-like snorts]
John: Is there a two-liter in that thing? Seriously, look; I think there's a soda bottle in there! Jen?
Me: [wiping eyes] Oh, so you're saying it's all bark and no bite?
John: Ug, that's terrible. We need some good puns.
Me: Hey, if you don't like my puns, you can make like a tree, and GET OUT OF HERE.
John: That's it. No more Back to the Future marathons for you.
Me: Awww. You are my density, baby.
Thanks to Amanda C. for proving there's nothing shady at all about a tree stump with two limbs.
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Reader Comments (81)
Seriously looks like a grade 3 paper mâché project!
My first thought was,
Cow Hide Frosting And
Under Neat That
A Soda Bottle.
@ Mel,
You are brilliant!
Did anyone else notice the spots that look like a rabbit (on the right) and a dog (upper left)? I'd love to know what kind of event warrents a cake like this. Something at the Izaak Walton League? (but then why the initials in the heart?)
Apparently this cake is appealing to 4 year olds, my son said he wants a cake like that for his next birthday because he wants to taste what it's like inside.
ROTFLMAO! Okay, time to stop lurking! Sharyn, you're brilliant and I have to ask, do these little ditties just pop fully formed into your head? But today Mel is giving you serious competition.
I too saw the upside-down cow first and the tree second. Wonder what that says about our psyches?
can't. unsee. the. flailing. cow.
Gack! Who baked this utterly bugly ENGAGEMENT/WEDDING CAKE? The initials carved in "the bark" say it all.
To Sharyn...........love it! There's nothing a little Monty Python can't fix! LOL!
My husband asked if it was a cow drowning in Jell-O - I think John (husband of Jen) might be on the right track here.
J&J, Sharyn, Zoomom, Andrea, Mel . . . I'm hanging out with you guys at the mall.
Lovely tree you have there.
And that conversation between you and John, that is the kind of relationship I hope to have someday. Thank you.
three limbs. just sayin'.
Sharyn, noooooooooo, my favorite Python song?? (actually, I laughed until I nearly wet myself and sang both the lead and chorus)
mel, Andrea and zoomom pushed me over the edge!
I'm truly grateful to everyone for removing this immediate question from my brain: "Why does this dead tree have a baby bottle in its armpit?" It has now been replaced by "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the baked/fake/flaking dead tree ...please, so we can't see". Another vote for a Bourbon bottle under the cannned frosting ....
For some reason every time I look at this picture "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" pops into my head. I think it's the jaunty holiday colors of the background scarf and the run-overedness of the "cow", er excuse me, "tree".
At any rate, now Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer is stuck in your head. You. Are. Wellll-cooome!
OK, first I had to recover from the photo. Then it was Jen's line: "Honking, bugle-like snorts." You really should be on video!
It looks like a cow diving into a 3-liter pool. But cows usually have spots, not stripes.
It also looks like what happens to trees in this area when the tree-trimming service for the power company gets done with them. Except they don't hang little lanterns on them.
And what is the black pedestal on the bottom? And the grass around each layer?
I'm glad I'm not the only one to be reminded of Dead Hand...
I, for one, am happy that everyone is using the word "cow" in the comments. Just lovely.
I am strangely inspired to go watch Twister... :)
And with this cake my brain has officially exploded. I want to yell it's a larch for no particular reason other than I now have Monty Python on the brain thanks to Sharon lol. Wow.. no clue what to even think of this one.
If this is a wedding cake it must be a small wedding, because the only cake involved has got to be that black thing at the bottom. The rest is a soda bottle and bent sticks covered in fondant. It's more likely an engagement cake.
You know the way, if a tree is cut down and then just left, it grows more twigs from the stump? The symbolism here is clearly 'Your love was cut down, sprouted a few feeble twigs, and then died.'
I also love,LOVE, that it looks like the upside down discombobulated cow is tooting multicolored gas from his derriere... It may just be that I have a three year old boy whose entire vocab is made up of bodily-function words, but it is pretty obvious.
I also thought it was a cow/deer doing a face plant with a flower on it's who ha.
Yep. Great minds think alike. Like John, I thought, "Looks like a cow buried face down."
Which I thought was more awesome than it pretending to be a birch tree.
The little jars on the tree are for the fire flys they caught and hung on the tree like christmas lights....
My daughter too one look and said those are not for maple sap, but those lanterns you hang in trees. I don't know what she means, but she was absolutely sure it wasn't as odd as I thought it was.
I'll bet it's a grooms cake and there's a giant bottle of bourbon or tequila in there!
Ever heard "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?" This is what happened to the raindeer.
It is supposed to be a birch tree wedding cake that someone actually paid money for. The little jars are supposed to be lanterns with fireflies in them. I'm totally stoked this monstrosity was shared with the world :)
Not sure I'm ever going to recover from Dutch Elm Disease...
WHY is there tulle around the bottom of the cake? PLEASE tell me this is not a grooms cake that was actually at a wedding.....
HOW did you know WE said all that!? ;) STILL LMAO
C'mon here in New Vermainasota we have Birch beer trees on our state flag as well.