Friday Favs 10/30/15
October 30, 2015 Some of my favorite new submissions this week:
Ann ordered a beach theme cake, and asked the baker to write "Happy Birthday Lorenzo" on the ocean part.
She got this:
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...which has to be the first time a literal LOL actually pales in comparison to the butchered name of the birthday boy.
Seriously, how do you turn "Lorenzo" into "Boricua"?? That's only two correct letters! Out of seven! Why... what... HOW....? [head explodes]
Ahem.
When a house warming party turns ominous:
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[whisper] "Geeeeet OOOOUUUUUTTT!"
Deb wants to know if she's the only one who sees a Pumpkin man wearing a fig leaf on this cake:
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Dear Deb,
NOPE.
Signed,
Everyone.
This next one is a Sports Ball thing, so allow me to translate for my fellow sports neophytes: Apparently the Royals (a Sports Ball "team") are sometimes known as the "Boys in Blue."
But after today, that's not ALL they'll be known as:
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HEYOOOOOOOOO
"VICTORIAN LACE"
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Bakers, I do not think it means what you think it means.
And finally,
Ordering a company logo on a cake can be daunting, but luckily for Will R., the Michael Kors logo is literally just the letters MK.
And yet...
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Where there's a Will, there's a way to wreck Will's manager's cake.
Thanks to Ann F., Brady T., Deb B., Sarah F., Terri C., & Will R. for giving his manager the perfect excuse to throw up his/her hands in disgust and cry, "I'M SURROUNDED BY LITTLE MK'S!"
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Reader Comments (38)
First baker definitely want on a letter journey.
As a Mets fan, I could have told you there was something not quite right about the Royals.
My husband went to school with MK, way back when his initials were KA so it's possible that Boricua changed Lorenzo sometime after graduation.
I was moving right along with this post when, BAM, albino worms thinly disguised as Victorian lace. What?
Wait, was the name on the last one blurred out to protect that person's identity or what?
Talk about your word journeys O_o how do these people breathe on their own???
That "Victorian Lace" looked like some kid's macaroni sculpture.
Is it time for "guess the blur"? I like a challenge..I'm thinking...Gavin
Actual laughing out loud with some of these! So much effort to create these wrecks.
I can't decide which is my favorite part of the first wreck. There's so much to choose from! The misspelled name! The misspelling of "writing!" The "in the ocean" portion!
It reminds me of the cake which first caused me to discover this site. I wish I had taken a picture and submitted it! My friend's name is Jeanne. We decided to surprise her with a cake from her favorite bakery. When we opened up the box, there it was: "Happy Birthday Juana!"
As a Royals fan, I say that wreck was probably the nefarious work of some deranged Mets fan baker.
Maggots. Maggots on cake. NO THANK YOU! *hides*
Victorian lace - made from chicken , beef or shrimp flavored Ramen noodles ??
Surrounded by little Missionary Kids? I mean--it sorta works?
Hmmm... the figleaf seems rather...rigid. Just sayin'.
I must have been extra tired first thing this morning, because just now I came to fully appreciate the Happy House Warning cake!
OK, so we all se Pumpkin Man with his fig leaf. Does anyone know what this was actually SUPPOSED to be?
Otherwisw, GO ROYALS! (In blue, please)
@Miss Paper: I totally agree! Let's go, Royals!
If Lorenzo is Puerto Rican he might be ok with his named being changed. Being a Boricua myself I'd be cool if that was on my cake lol.
I am so, SO glad I am alone in the office today, because the Royals cake made me laugh out loud.
Boricua means Puerto Rican but it's not even close to Lorenzo! hahahaa
That last cake! An apostrophe wreck inside a literal wreck. Bonus!
Flappy flouse ubining? Whatever does that mean?
That Victorian lace cake reminds me a bit of the ramen noodle - uh, Roman numeral cake from a couple of weeks ago.
I'm guessing that somebody wrote "Lorenzo" in bad cursive on the form.
This would have been a perfect opportunity for the Royals cake to simply have the word "BOYS" written in blue frosting ("boys" in blue). That's exactly what I expected when I saw the text above the picture.
And I third the GO ROYALS sentiment! :D
@Miss Paper - Mwah ha ha. Though seriously, I would never put that much plastic on a cookie, even for the "enemy!"
I came here to make fun of the cakes and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now.
Victorian Lace Cake: Has anyone ever purchased the Mac 'n' Cheese that was supposed to be improved from the powdered box mix? It had a packet of spreadable 'cheese' that came out of the packet looking much like the Victorian Lace. I wonder if that is cake or a giant cheese ball...
I suppose it was a technical issue, but I miss the ad blurb thingy showing Epbot tutorial projects. It's probably been noticed and explained already and I missed it while I was away. Just thought you should know. : )
@TLC:
I'm guessing that it was intended to be a harvest/fall-themed cake, & those are leaves (not of the fig variety). But I must say, it's a pretty pathetic harvest if all you got is one small pumpkin & some leaves. No jack-o-lanterns for Halloween--we need that pumpkin!
Look! It's a mac and cheese cake that's been raised in total darkness!
That "Victorian Lace" cake looks more like a design I like to call "spaghetti squiggles".
It honestly looks like thick, curly, slightly overcooked noodles freshly taken out of the pot and disguised (rather poorly) as cake.
'Victorian lace'= ramen noodles.
Well the lace cake could make it to a halloween party lol. If anyone likes worms on their cake that is.. bleh. Still laughing at the ocean cake and poor Lorenzo wow.
Is it wrong that all I could see on the Victorian Lace Cake is a butt? Diagonally up from the sign, on the right of the picture. I can't unsee it!
I would like someone to tell me what the yellow and blue blobs on the "House Warning" cake are supposed to represent. Please.
And SuBee, we're not attacking you, just the Mets <g>. Hey, they massacred my Nats and my Cubbies (I'm from Chicago and living in metro DC).
The person the decorated that Royals cookie is an awesome awesome decorator plus she's a bakery manager very very busy under lot of stress. I remember when I wrote happy birthday brain on the cake it was supposed to be Brian thank God there was no Internet back in those days for someone to post for everybody in the country to make fun of my to quit decorating right then
And for that "too much plastic on a cookie", when you're doing 200 of them a day and you got to slam them out there on displays because they're selling faster than you can decorate them,quick and easy decorations are the way to go.
I've got to admit, as an avid amateur genealogist who has tried to decipher many questionable names in cursive, I can see how the Lorenzo/Boricua thing can happen. Though the rest of the cake makes me sigh.
Also, I'm pretty sure that when they put "Victorian Lace" on the description, they meant to put "Roman Numerals" a la a recent birthday submission. ;)
I can explain 'Victorian lace'. This wreckorator never learnt to tie his shoelaces, so his mother bought him those curly ones you don't need to tie. That's all the word 'lace' meant to him, and he's done a great job of reproducing them on a cake. How to make them 'Victorian'? Easy, put a pretty rose on top.