Friday Favs 3/6/15
March 6, 2015 Some of my favorite new submissions this week:
Briana S. asked the baker to make her cookie cake "look cute."
BIG MISTAKE.
;)
And when Lynnette's baker asked what color frosting she wanted, she said, "Whatever pops out of the icing tube; I don't care."
You should know better, Lynn.
;)
Not gonna lie; given Spidey's positioning, my mind went somewhere else entirely with the whole "pops out" thing. (WHAT.)
You ever pick up a cake at the grocery store bakery, and it's so, SO bad, but you're too embarrassed to say anything, so you sneak over to the canned vegetable aisle and stick it on a shelf while no one's looking?
Aha!
I KNEW IT WAS YOU.
;)
Jennifer B. found this here, and all I can say is: good call, shopper.
(I kind of love how the cake's announcing itself to the green beans, though.)
Isn't it cute when bakers are just learning to write their numbers?
;)
I'm gonna guess Drew is somewhere between 5 and 6.
(I usually censor bakery names, btw, but would you LOOK at that cake board? Hey, if Price Chopper Bakery wants credit that badly, who am I to stand in their way?)
And finally, here's a sweet visage to whisk you off to dreamland tonight:
;)
Yeah, SLEEP WELL, GEORGE.
Thanks to Briana S., Lynnette M., Jennifer B., Lea A., & R.B. for reminding us there's more fish in sea - so I'm prolly never sleeping again.
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Reader Comments (40)
At work we lovingly call that spiderman kit "Come Hither Spiderman"
Hope that last cake doesn't haunt me! ( since this is my birth month )
I feel sorry for the green beans...as if they're likely to get picked NOW, with an ugly-but-nevertheless-probably-at -least-sweet PASTRY sitting right beside them. =^-.-^= ("MOmmmmm...!You said if I was gooood!")
Can't sleep cake will eat me D: but seriously WTF
all right, which person let the Joker design that last cake? I swear, that looks like a cake version of the Joker-Fish from Batman: The Animated Series
::shudder::
The last guy is kind of cute, he reminds me of Glove from Yellow Submarine.
I'm totally seeing the second cake as Spidey having a tryst with Batman -- and it involves restraints. Just me? Anyone?
According to clickorlando.com, a woman gave her brother a phallic cake for his 21st birthday. In response, he shot in her the butt with a BB gun. He claimed to mean it as a harmless joke, but he still faces aggressive battery charges.
Moral: Cake wrecks are dangerous!
I actually kinda like the George cake. Reminds me of the clay platter I made in high school art class.
>hikingrrrl: I had to look it up, but Fish-Face kind of DOES resemble YS's "glove"--only it needs more "sneer".
You know, I've been following this blog religiously for a few years now, so I thought I'd become immune to being shocked. But this post, the first two in particular, actually made me audibly gasp. Didn't know you could still do that to me. Wow.
Well played, Jen. Well. Played.
Also, I think mindy1's "Can't sleep, cake will eat me" needs to be a shirt.
I must be getting jaded by this site because I decided that the fish cake wasn't that bad, except for the weird too-close-together mask eyes. Then I read @little mouse's post and love it -- it DOES look like a joker fish!
Today is my birthday and people keep threatening me with cake. One guy at work was designated to find out my favorite kind of cake. I told him, "Pie!" If I get cake, I hope it's a wreck! That would make my day!
Drew might also be 9.
And finally, I'm weirdly transfixed by the purple and blue fan hands on the "I'm here" cake.
Never seen a fish with braces before. That's what it looks like to me, anyway.
what is the last one?
If the last one was for a Tim Burton inspired Birthday, it would actually be pretty good! It could fit in with either Nightmare before Christmas or Beetlejuice
Am I the only one who thought Spidey was a new take on a birthing cake? Then I read the inscription. Kid gonna need therapy!
There are supposed to white "spider webs" shooting from Spiderman's wrists on this cake. That makes it look even worse! Tied up Spiderman anyone? I can't make this cake without going "there"!
I love the cake abandoned in the canned veggies aisle! Can't you just see it? Mom sends Dad or one of the lids to the store to get green beans and corn for her casserole, and they bring home this. "Well, it WAS with the green beans! Honest!"
Hopi Buttday @JodI! :)
The fish will be featured in my nightmares tonight. Thanks Jen!
(Not trying to be annoying, honestly!) I just noticed, and REALLY want to wish to Jodi a Happy Birthday--
so: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jodi!
I just moved to the midwest and there are a couple of Price Choppers near me. After looking at the cakes they have in their case, I don't think their decorators are really trained to do anything more than put border on a sheet cake. So... no surprise there.
The fish made me think of Yellow Submarine too. Hmmm...I wonder what would happen if I requested a cake in the style of Peter Max?
George is sleeping with the fishes tonight.
Wow. I truly don't understand how the Spiderman cake ended up with that inscription. Even with the explanation.
That 'number' cake looks to be a collection of cupcakes with...I don't know what on top. A thick layer of icing for cohesion?
"Prolly"? Prolly?!!?! PROLLY?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?
Who are you and what have you done with Jen?!
Thanks @sendingtheclowns and @Jodee! I did get both cake AND pie, but no wreck.
Jodee, I hope that grandbaby is thriving!
@Roxy Random is right--looks like the fishy has braces.
The George cake has got to be one of the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine. The blue icing around it, mask, and the teeth? Hmmm....George Harrison?
I totally saw braces on the fish cake too - wouldn't surprise me. And the Spiderman cake HAS to become a new take on a baby shower cake! It's fantastic :-)
So I guess the first baker wasn't able to make the cookie look cute.
That damn fish is scary!
George's fish cake kind of grows on you. But what is that white powder spilled near the top? Maybe that's why fish face is grinning.
Oh man that last cake lmao. Must be a fish on steroids. Scary and very nightmare inducing. Even my husband couldn't believe the horror that is the fish cake lmao.
Why does the fish have braces?
Happy birtlestray Drew!!
In other news, check out Awkward Family Photos for some wrecky wedding cake toppers: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2015/03/06/18-unusual-wedding-cake-toppers/
4th cake looks like a stitched up tongue and 5th cake looks like some character from Yellow Submarine! BOTH will give nightmares.
I actually LOVE that fish cake at the bottom. With a little tightening up of the lines and some better colors, it could be a winner.
Re: Drew's 5/6/9 cupcake cake -- what in the world are the yellow strings with teeth-like things in the middle of the stripe?