Pumpkin Invasion
September 24, 2013 It still feels about a thousand degrees down here in Florida, but apparently it's "Fall." You can tell because everything in the stores has suddenly turned into pumpkin-ized versions of themselves. Candles, coffee, beer, M&Ms, lip gloss... it's a marketing exec's Cinderella Story, only with longer Limited Time Offers.
Cakes are not immune to the Fall'ing trend, of course, but they're not pumpkin-flavored, they're pumpkin... er... shaped?
;)
Well, let's just call them pumpkin "inspired."
Or possibly pumpkin "poop."
;)
Maybe it's the pumpkin beer talking, but I find this cake particularly moving.
And a little blurry.
Hey, bakers, maybe if you just put a couple of little ones together...
;)
Boops.
Never mind.
Just go back to that half-a-wheel thing:
;)
I want to believe that thing on top is a flower - I do, I DO.
Hey look, it's the famous "It's Not Magma" Volcanoes of the Tomato Eggplant Isles!
;)
(Oh, please, like YOU can resist blowing a good snot joke.)
The good news about all these pumpkin cake invaders, though, is that they're Portents of Things To Come. Spooky things. Halloweeny things. Things that look oddly like the melted face of the Kool-Aid guy:
;)
"OH YEEEAH!!"
And I, for one, can't wait.
But I think maybe this guy can:
;)
Thanks to Jenna H., Frances J., Ashley S., Jessica S., Currey M., Lana W., & Kim U. for the gourd clean fun.
Reader Comments (46)
Last one's a pumpkin?
Maybe he's a bit concerned
but not the same thing.
Sung to "I Fall to Pieces" by Patsy Cline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyeP_WnPhyU
They "fall" their pieces
It's equinox time, my friend
They "fall" their pieces
When will pumpkin carnage end?
"It's pumpkin inspired!" the bakers insist
This next one, my pet, is the most "moving" yet
And I'll try and I'll try but I'll never forget
They shouldn't have combined those pieces.
They "fall" their pieces
That flower sure is a shame
Volcanic sneezes
Kool-Aid guy's friend things it's lame
That last one looks like mayor McCheeses illegitimate son. You know a thing that popped up 9 months after his drunken night in the veggie patch.
It looks like they used a paint brush to apply the frosting on the last one.
So good to know there's yet ANOTHER use of the heart-shaped pan. Whew--thought we couldn't use that pan in October.
The last one is strangely touching.
"Dammit, I've got poop on my head."
*lifts skeletal hand to face, sighs heavily*
HAHAHA that last one! Looks like he's being fondled by off-screen skeleton and is all "Bad touch, BAD TOUCH!!"
Halloween from the point of view of a pumpkin: "I could get carved up any minute...gotta stay calm...gotta stay calm...the Pumpkin King TOLD me just to stay calm...oops, brown stuff is oozing out my bottom again; I hate it when I do that."
Number 3 is an alien...
The brown squiggly things on number 4 remind me of the snake in QBert. :)
misshapen orange orb
a plop of poo brown on top
green accouterments
Mother Nature sheds a tear
as she sees the baker’s fall
@Amanda H: You were not the only one to see that
Last cake: GET YOUR BONY HANDS OFFA ME!!
After studying this post, I have developed a mathematical hypothesis that explains why bakers have so much difficulty making pumpkins. I call it Pumpkin Pi….
@Sharyn:
I laughed and laughed at every line,
To offer my praise I cannot de-Cline.
Third cake: Run for your lives! It's the hideous Pumpkin Skeleton of Dooooooooommmm!!!!
I think the last one decorated himself after seeing all these other cakes; hence, the expression of dismay.
Now when I started this post, I thought: How can you screw up a pumpkin cake? Just bake it in a round pan! But again, I vastly underestimate our esteemed wreckerators out there. But never in a million years would I have thought to get out my heart-shaped cake pans for Halloween. **headdesk**
The last one can't understand why everyone still calls him "Mr. Poopy-head".
Ode to Number 4: "do your gourds hang low, do they wobble to and fro..."
PanWow strikes again!
Mmmm.... Pumpkin Spice Latte
#1: Work with the shape you have, people! That could have been a nice fall colored leaf, but NO-OO-OOO. Pumpkin Wreck. Pumpkin Wreckin', had me a bla-ast. Pumpkin Wreckin', happened so fa-ast!
#2: "The sun drips down bedding heavy behind, the top of it's head all poop-y lined, and the icing spewing squirts in time with your beating heart...Sing Poop Pumki-in"
#3: A bulbous-eyed, green-blooded insect suffering from ebola...I don't have a song for that.
#4: Poop Springs Eternal
#5: Dr. Evil's lair, surrounded by liquid hot magma.
#6: My computer loves me and won't show me that picture. Just that one.
#7: @Alice Shortcake: I read that in Dr. McCoy's voice. "Dammit, Jim! I'm a pumpkin, not a lavatory!"
Skeletal hand gropes
confused pumpkin, wonders why
the dripping poo hat.
Sharyn and Haiku joy bwahahahaha :D I want to give the last one a hug, he looks scared of something-he also reminds me of tacodile supreme form the cloudy with meatballs 2 movie
Am I the only one who got the Princess Bride reference! Love it! :)
My two-and-a-half-year-old son (who, despite not having great enunciation, can say "punky" for pumpkin very well) had plenty to say about this post...but never once said "punky." I got "star cake," "food cake," and "heart cake" and a lot of, "Dass funny!" but not a single "punky cake" was said!
I have seen many a poop representation on these hallowed pages, yet Cake #2 (get it?) wins the prize!
In all fairness I'd be frowning too if someone left a pile of poop on my head. Sometimes when I see a really pretty cake I'm like, "I couldn't eat that! It's a piece of art!" but that last one I want to eat just to put him out of his misery. Poor lil' pumpkin....
That last one really looks like he should be singing "If you like it then you should have put a ring on it."
Wreck #3 reminds me of two orange boobs being groped by green alien hands....and if you ever saw the movie "A Prarie Home Companion", you'll understand me when I say "what do we do with the useless boob? He made it into man....."
If not, well, the sky is a beautiful color in the world in which I live........
I present Your Moment of Zen For The Day: Today is my spouse's birthday (which I've known about for awhile), but it's also Youngest Daughter's teacher's birthday (which I discovered yesterday). Today Oldest Daughter skipped home and announced that her class had had a party with cupcakes and EVERYTHING because it was her teacher's birthday. Like, *whoa*, dude.
I'm starting to feel left out. Is it EVERYBODY'S birthday today?
Yeah, that last one ain't a pumpkin.
He's a taco. With a turd on his head.
Totally.
Speaking of Pumpkin beer...there's this kind called Terrapin Pumpkinfest that's made right here in Athens, GA. It's been stocked in my fridge since early September. It's my favorite.
The thing that astounds me is that pumpkins are round. And a lot of cakes are round. And yet, here we are. Suddenly round is a lot harder to do when it's the shape you need it to be.
Yeah...last guy scratching his head with the skeleton hand and I are on the same page - except I don't have the skeleton hand...
Why do they all have poop on top?? The stem on the pumpkin isn't even brown and its definitely not poop-like.
Here come the poopkins lmao. Can't wait to see the turdkeys soon too. Considering all the poop the wreckerators should just give up trying to do stems in brown.. but as that won't happen I will happily laugh on and on.
That last cake is clearly the mole from the most excellent children's book "The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business."
You don't know that one? Google it. It's worth it.
Pumpkin INVASION!?
*whips out fork and carving knife*
Never fear citizens! They call me....the Pumpkinator >O *omnom*
(Yeah, I love EVERYTHING pumpkin. I would eat Cinderella's carriage if I had half the chance.))
Surely cake #1 is a turkey? It has a little plastic one on it, I thought the rest was meant to look like its tail.....
Cake #4: "I want to believe that thing on top is a flower - I do, I DO."
That's not what it made me think of. Well, orchis, as in orchidectomy, maybe.
I think @Laxmom and I are in the same ballpark. :p
Last cake: What? No one got that it´s "The Story of the Little Pumpkin Who Went in Search of Whodunit"??
Do my eyes deceive me or is the second to the last one (melted Kool-aid face guy) made with Pan-Wow?!
The most ridiculous pumpkin-ized items, in my opinion, are the Reese's PB Cup pumpkins. They are not pumpkin flavored, but simply more expensive "limited edition" peanut butter cups shaped like pumpkins, which actually makes them smaller because they carve out the pumpkin shape, not add on to make a pumpkin shape.
News flash (Google-search flash): There are also pumpkin Pop Tarts, vodkas, potato chips (????), Hershey kisses, cream cheeses, eye shadows, ice creams, digital FarmVille purchases, waffles, lattes, Pepperidge Farm breads, cough drops, and face creams.
@Sabs: I love you. That is all.
I couldn't help but think of the song "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" when I got to the "It's Not Magma" part! I wonder if there are any cakes out there themed after that song... I'd like to see that!
I think they should be called poopkins.
My wife mixes pumpkin with chocolate cake and makes cookies out of it. People look at us funny when the kids come up and ask for "more pumpkin poop please."
Haha, ooh boy. Pumpkin FLAVOURED cake on the other hand, that would make everything better. Where'd that recipe go....