Thursday
Apr232015
What They Wanted, What They Got: Princess Edition
April 23, 2015 Ever wonder what you'll really get when you order a princess cake like this?
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Well, I have good news!
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You're almost certain to get the same toys.
Or maybe you want to spring for the big castle version:
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You totally should!
How else will your baker get any airbrush practice?
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Mmmm. Spattery.
Not a big princess fan? Never fear, I've got something for you, too!
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Now, clap your hands if you believe in fairy wrecks.
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THEY DO EXIST.
Thanks to K.B., Maureen S., & Yesenia for the stellar wreckporting.
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Princess Drecks & Wrecks
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Creators of Little Princess School..where the derpiest Disney Princess rip offs reside!
Listen well, all of you! The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But...before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall choke on a piece of plastic flotsam and die!
Good thing my personal princesses have long since passed their princess phase & are now into Monster High & Adventure Time. No matter how misshapen the decorators get them, they look on purpose!
Seeing the birthday cake my kids picked for me on cake wrecks has made my whole day!! I still can't believe my husband paid actual money for that cake
They're all wrecks sure. I'm trying to figure out what possessed the last baker to put smiling gummy stars on the cake.
I LOVE the "river" on the last one!
Well, at least on the second cake they TRIED to make it look like the drawing in the kit. Even if they didn't quite succeed. But the first and third cakes -- what were they taking?
Which one was yours @Maureen?
I read the caption on that second wreck as, "How else will your baker get any AMBUSH practice?" Pretty a propo though.
Seeing these cakes makes me want to cry. Imagine being the parent going to pick up the cake for your child's birthday and then having to actually serve this? I would have yelled at the manager of the "bakery". Then again.....this is why I make my own cakes for the people I love. Bottom line, if you want a good cake, go to a reputable bakery and pay a little more money, or learn to do it yourself.
Well, that last cake should also please Pinocchio fans.
After all, when you wish upon a star,
Cakes will wreck near where you are.
C'mon Suzanne, if we can laugh at wedding cake wrecks, we can laugh just as loudly at these!
(Look at it this way... the next birthday's cake of these kids can only be better. )
@Jodie. Mine is the one with the giant pink plastic castle. It doubles as a carrying case for the plastic princesses that came on the cake. It was all I could do to hide my laughter and pretend to be in love with this cake as to not hurt my kids' feelings (they were 4&2). Lol
Princess Rex Week! where have you been all my life? The first two cakes are like a life lesson: be a good little princess and you'll get to have your sorority tea in the south garden. But if you talk to strangers, wander through forests and experiment with drugs you'll end up at a party college where no one can even make a decent frosting flower!
OH. .....wow?
@ melmac: Maybe the smiley stars were put on as a distraction...so there'd be at least some "fake-happy" going on? Poor Tink and whoever that other one is are being very careful not to let their feet touch the "water" --which could be some Evil Toxic Blueness...er, thing. Maybe even an Evil Toxic Blueness Thing... OF DOOM?
I've actually ordered the first cake from Stop and Shop and they did an excellent job. Looked exactly like the picture. I was very happy. Ordered a Cinderella cake this past year and once again they exceeded my expectations. I have never had an issue ordering from our local stop and shop. Feel bad for anyone who ordered that disaster of a cake.
Oh come on. We all know it's all about the toy!
Yes, Maureen....which cake was yours?
You didn't clap hard enough. Now Tinkerbell's WRECKED.
@SuBee: I KNEW there was more to the story than that spindle thing.
Most likely the first one was a last minute cake that was picked out from the pre-made cakes on display and toys added to it because someone forgot to order a cake in advance. Happens all the time where I work. "Can you add toys and make it prettier? The whole party is princess themed" Because it's totally my fault that you forgot it was your kid's birthday. But I agree that the second and third cake are pitiful and need some serious help.
I wonder though if the first wreck was honestly an "ordered" cake or if it had been a cake in the case and they had asked to have the kit slapped on it. I've seen that happen quite a bit(especially since it even looks to be one of the pre-iced cakes that come in for some grocery stores). Though that doesn't excuse the sloppy overall look and terrible hand writing.
I think the stars on the last one are the candles, so it's plausible that the wreckerator didn't put those on. Though that cake is so fantastically wrecky that they fit right in.
I must admit that the year my daughter wanted a Tinkerbell cake out of the catalog at the grocery store, I was secretly disappointed that it turned out lovely and basically identical to the photo.
@Jodi and @KimS ... There are three cakes. One has Lydia's name on it and one has Yesenia's name on it, Guess which one is Mareen's cake?
The first two cakes actually look decent as standalone cakes. But if they're really supoosed be the ones above, yeah it's disappointing.
They look amazing.
Wow.. just wow. The pictures of the cakes they want are gorgeous. The cakes they end up with on the other hand are just plain scary lol. I would hope no one would pay for those but alas they do.
Those aren't gummy stars on the fairy cake, they're candles, and put there by the customer.
To Creamsicle Badger: My comment has nothing to do with the wrecks. I just wanted to say :
What a neat name!
That last cake... the candles just sell it
The first cake is obviously one taken from the case that was already made. The customer probably didn't place an order in time, so they had to settle with placing the princess kit on a different cake.
I worked for a Big Box Store bakery. I was given very thorough training by the main cake decorator and by the time she finished my training, I could perfectly replicate those photos. I've done dozens of #1 and #3 and they always looked like the 'what they ordered' pictures. Our supervisor didn't get on well with our cake decorator and essentially drove her away. I took over the cake decorating and started experiencing the same problems with the supervisor and so I put in my notice and took another job elsewhere. Our supervisor didn't bat so much as eyelash and told us anyone could decorate a cake. The cakes they started putting out looked like those 'what they got' cakes.
When choosing a baker, make sure they have a portfolio. If they don't have photographs of their work run the other way. Choose another baker. If you're using a big box store, which I totally understand; they're affordable, look at the cakes they offer in the displays and coolers. If those cakes are ugly, the one you order is going to be ugly.
When I saw the first picture, I stared at it for a while because the figurines reminded me of a toy I had as a kid that came off of one of my birthday cakes. Imagine my surprise when I see my own name on the "what they got" version of the cake! Pretty freaky o.O
Poor Tinkerbell... while she was out visiting Periwinkle, Pixie Hollow turned into a desert. :(
As a former cake decorator, whenever Wilton came up with a new batch of cakes, they would bring a bunch of us together and train us how to make these cakes.
Obviously there was absolutely no training to be had.