Friday
Feb132015
Freaky Friday
February 13, 2015 I've heard things can get a little creepy in bakeries on Friday the 13th, but I'm sure that's all just in people's heads.
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Er... right?
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So, um... heh, say, what do you suppose is in this big hump?
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I mean, not that I'm worried or anything...
But seriously, WHAT'S IN THE HUUUUMP?
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Well, golly, look at the time!
I really must be goAAAAAAAUUUGH!!
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Please don't open your eyes, please don't open your eyes, pleasedon'topenyoureyes...
Right. Next time, let's all just stock up on cake by Thursday the 12th, k?
Thanks to Jeremy C., Alana F., Karin K., Nicole B., Rose C., & Anony M. for not including pics of just the eye on a plate. Because I need to sleep again someday.
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Reader Comments (48)
Seven joke? In all seriousness those cakes are nightmare material
At the risk of encouraging the wreckerator, I would have to have purchased the bump cake just to find out what really was inside it!
A small mixing bowl?
A face mask?
Matilda the other wreckerator's wallet? Heh heh heh what a great prank! Oh, wait a minute…
The piping bag?
No, I know what it is! Wadded up complaint letters!
#5: Concealed dead varmint cake. Goes well with the curling ribbon (gag).
That last cake....😟😮😓😥😰😨😱AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
What's in the hump, you ask? Haven't you ever seen the programme Monsters Inside Me?
Sweet dreams xxx
The last cake needs photoshopped (painted) open eyes on it, stat! (You know. something like this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e2/ff/da/e2ffda9ad20adb2b00ae6c87fe71d624.jpg )
Pretty sure the bump is a cake zit. God knows what will spew out when cut :P
The dog with the baseball glove is rather well done, isn't it? Well, Friday is close to Sunday.
Tell me one thing... HOW did they get the eyes to open and close like that???
Did you know there are Red Room Cakes? As in Red Room of Pain from 50 Shades of Grey? Just google it.
So... are you going to make the Red Room the theme of the next Sunday Sweets??? Because you already did Valentines Day last week.
I like the last cake as a way of announcing that the recipient's birthday present is a day at a beauty spa. Admittedly I like my mud facials brown, but that would look really creepy.
The dog must be scary on purpose. But I don't see anything creepy about the doll bed.
That last thing scared the beejeebeez outta me! O.O Pretty sure I'm never sleeping again. Well played Jen, well played!
In the photo of the Barbie in Bed cake, what exactly is Vermicelli Cream?
If you saw a baseball glove, you are generous. I saw a pale, bloated human hand that the zombieweenie is nomming on.
And what in the universe is the 2nd cake? I admit to not being up to speed on pop culture and video game references so I'm wondering . . . all I can tell is it appears to be a larger freaky creature consuming a smaller freaky creature. Perhaps an escaped symbiotic laboratory experiment? I'm baffled.
Is that first cake supposed to be Meatwad?
@Bea, I certainly hope that's a baseball glove the dog is chomping on. It looks more like Stretch Armstrong's hand. Yikes.
In cake #2, is Fozzy Bear eating a leprechaun?
Pretty darn cool!
@Margery: It's all done with mirrors. Don't tell me you didn't see the mirrors. Go back and look. (It works side to side, as well as up and down.) Keep at it.
The bump/hump is probably just a totally harmless little bakery mouse that crawled under the frosting "blanket" to keep warm. It won't eat much.
I see two things in the 2nd cake: (1) a dog-like creature wearing a beret, dressed all in black, and standing on its hind legs, and (2) a small man all dressed in black, lying down, with a big red hat pulled down over his face...and just ignore the rest of it.
Man, these especially weird today, or is it just me? =^0.o^=
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The last head reminds me of this:
http://blog.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/wp-content/the-brain-that-wouldnt-die.jpg
I just never thought I'd see it done in cake.
Eeeeeeeeeeek!!!
GAH! It opened its eyes!!! I think I screamed a little. And now the baby's crying. Thanks a lot, Jen!
What is "vermicelli cream"? Is there pasta in that "no one knows what Barbie's hands are doing under the covers" cake?
That gif is evil.
Creepy cakes.....and what is 'vermicelli cream'??????? That's a kind of pasta. Does that mean there's pasta in the batter or the icing?
Happy Friggatriskaidekaphobia Day, everyone!
The vermicelli cream can be chestnut paste extruded into noodle shape - vermicelli. That would explain the light brown color of the decorations on the coverlets.
There are lots of green face masks: cucumber, fresh mint, avocado...
Cake five, the pink cake, is actually a tribute to and a legacy from a little known French baker from 1484. Quiet, shy, and unsung, this decorator toiled endlessly in the bakery basement, hunched over his small work table, dedicatedly decorating cakes day in and day out, never complaining about the long hours or the cramped conditions. But alas, eventually the confinement took its toll on him, and after years of decorating his back became deformed and he was no longer able to work. His fellow bakers were sad to see him go, and when he retired they created a special cake, the cake you see above, called, in his honor, a Hump Cake. And, as a tribute to his unceasing work, they called the day he left, a Wednesday, Hump Day. But fortune smiled on the baker, and, by pulling a few strings, he was able to get a job at Notre Dame, where he knew the ropes and had some pull, as a bell-ringer.
When you ice a frozen cake and it thaws there is air that comes up under the icing. One of my co decorators thought the cake has spoiled and started throwing them away. I was like Food Lion is going to dock your pay, use a dowel and let the air out. Inset rolling eyes, where do they find these people and why do they give them to me to train?
That last cake made me pee a little, thankyouverymuch.
Can I get a hint on what I am seeing on #2 ?? I like to be able to identify my fears!!
Thanks for posting that last cake. My husband takes great delight in grossing me out so I showed him the facial cake and suggested he scroll down for another view. The blinking startled him so badly he almost fell out of him chair trying to get away, complaining "that is just wrong."
What on Earth is the second wreck supposed to be ?!!!
#1 Ok, obvs supposed to be a football player, simple bad art skills there.
#2 It's supposed to be a...um...a non-copyright-infringing Smeargle from Pokemon? I don't know. This one seems to be a product of bad art skills + psychoactive drugs.
#3 A...psychopathic dachshund...eating an obese person's hand...?!? Umm, is that supposed be a baseball glove maybe? But why does the dog have such a psychotic expression? "First the glove, then the boy, mwahahaha..." This is a product of good art skills + deep rooted psychological issues involving wiener-dogs & catcher's mitts or morbidly obese people.
#4 Naked Barbie waiting in bed for Ken to get home? Possibly she has gotten tired of waiting & decided to "start without him"? This was caused by mediocre art skills + transference of personal marital problems.
Less explicable in #2 however, is the "vermicelli cream" label. Now, vermicelli is a pasta, the name means "little worms" in Italian -- so called for the fancied resemblance of the short noodles to, well, little worms.
So, is the cream in this cake made from short pasta noodles...or is it made from actual, & presumably small, worms?
#5 What's in the hump? A million dollar question, indeed. I doubt it's a frosting lump. Perhaps a failed attempt at a "belly" cake? Maybe the baker from #2 had to quickly hide his "stash" from the boss, then promptly forgot where he put it...yes, I see the scene now.
Joe Wrecker: *standing beside fondant covered cake, gets out baggie of "'medicinal' herb substance" & starts rolling a "fatty"*
Boss: *enters room*
Joe: *hastily shoves baggie under fondant, starts piping border & thinks to self "act sober, play it straight, act sober"*
Boss: "You almost finished with that one, Joe?"
Joe: "urm...yeah...uhm...just finishing the frosting"
Boss: "Well, I need to check your work, you're on probation after that dog-in-a-beret monstrosity you made last week." *walks over to cake*
Joe: "Gee, I really thought that was a great idea, I can't believe that design didn't catch on with the customers."
Boss: "Mmhmm, sure..." *sees lump on cake* "Ur, Joe. Do you notice anything peculiar about this cake?"
Joe: *inspects cake* "...looks fine to me."
Boss: "Really, are you sure? Maybe you should look more closely..."
Joe: *stands with face 5 inches from cake* "Mm-nope...I got nothin'..."
Boss: "Uh, Joe...You know, I don't mean to embarrass you, but I'm a rather brilliant decorator. Perhaps I can help you with that hump."
Joe: *stares wonk-eyed at boss* "...What hump?"
Boss: *pauses speechlessly* " W-what hu--? Oh, I - I really don't feel well... I'm going to go to the hospital now... I - I think I'm having an aneurism. Joe, whatever you do while I'm away, don't put that pink cake out for sale...got it?"
Joe: "Sure..." *thinks to self 'put pink cake out for sale'* "...whatever you say, boss..."
#6 It's a green ninja woman! But why have her eyes clos-- *scrolls to last pic*... GAH! 0.0
@Margery with photoshop/other image editor; it's an animated gif file. ;)
I'm sorry, that dog cake looks like a dog made out of spoiled sausage eating a baseball glove made out of badly spoiled bologna. That was the worst one until I got to...the EYES! AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!
As unexciting as it is, the pink bump is just a large air bubble. It can happen when you ice a too cold cake, or one that has not 'settled'. As it comes to room temp, or as the cake compresses a little as it settles, the air shoves out of the cake and gets trapped beneath the buttercream.
Weird fact, it only happens to crusting buttercreams. (The sort with pounds and pounds of sugar)
Why isn't anyone talking about the reflection in the second pink cake?!?! There are three of them!!!!
(My geek is showing...)
That last GIF is how you look when the weeping angels are near!
Are there fake eyelashes on that last cake?!
The cake with the bump reminds me of a househunting trip when I was six. My younger sister and I were freaked out by one house -- when we looked in the bedroom, the bed was made, but there was a sizeable lump underneath the bedspread. We were convinced it was a body.
Well that gif at the end will keep me up for weeks now. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK. Lovely evil cakes for the day before Valentine's Day. At least no one did a Jason Vorhees cake.. that I know of.
Oy. Black-eyed kids* weren't bad enough, now we have to have black-eyed cakes.
*Do a search if you're really tired of sleeping. (See what I did there?)
Did anyone else notice the tag in the upper right hand corner of the one pic that said VERMICELLI CREAM??? I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome @Mel! Lol
When I was scrolling down the page and that last cake 'opened it's eyes' I thought I was having a breakdown.
What's in the reflection of the 2nd pic of the pink hump cake? Looks like a couple of special toys. :)
Jeez, Jen. That last one needs a jumpscare warning. I'm twenty one years old and I just screamed like a b****.
*Scrolls down to last cake and reads description* "Haha that's funnyAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!"
I did a little research, and vermicelli cream is a Swiss creation. It is a chestnut cream that can be pressed into the shape of vermicelli or used as a filling. I think that a previous poster said something about chestnuts.
It was more fun when it seemed patently absurd. Sorry to mess that up.