Great Expectations
January 11, 2017 I know we all love wedding wrecks with a schadenfreude-filled passion, but when it comes to what-they-wanted vs. what-they-got wrecks, believe me, it's not just wedding cakes:
;)
You know those days when you wonder why you even bothered showing up for work?
That's the top tier on the right.
Ammi T. hoped to find a friend in her baker when she ordered this Toy Story-inspired Woody cake:
;)
But instead she went to fecality, and beyond:
;)
It's like two poop ropes shaking hands.
In fact, I think we're going to need a rear view on this one, don't you? [nodding] Yeah.
Turn 'er around, boys!
;)
Now, to be fair, I'm not sure how anyone would go about recreating this next cake exactly:
;)
(What is that, printable fondant? It sure doesn't look like paper...)
But regardless, this isn't it:
;)
And finally, Virginia K. wanted this shaped number cake for her eighteenth birthday:
;)
But instead, she celebrated her legal coming of age - and all its unlimited litigation possibilities - with this:
;)
So many things to say, but I keep coming back to those color choices. "Ok, you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking EARTHWORMS and MINT ICE CREAM. Can we make that happen? Yes? AWESOME."
Thanks to Rebecca, Ammi T., Anony M., &Virginia K. for that horrifying mental image. I mean, sure, I wrote it, but still. I BLAME YOU.
*****
Thank you for using our Amazon links to shop! USA, UK, Canada.
Reader Comments (27)
… So, which one received the single "congratulation"; Tim or Natasha?
Aside from the "unicorn horn", that horse cake isn't too bad, but the rest? Wow. Just wow.
First off, you DO NOT try to recreate in buttercream what was done in fondant. That Woody cake is just plain pathetic, and the engagement cake is no better. When I showed The Squire the 18th birthday cake, he remarked "That's just simple numbers", and then burst out laughing when I scrolled down to the Wreck.
After all these years you'd think I would have learned by now not to be eating or drinking when I come here. But the colors on that last cake make me not want to eat, ever again.
Schadenfreude wrecked kiddie birthday cakes! The younger the kids are, the funnier it gets! XD
Yet more proof that 'Yes, we can do that in buttercream' is lie!
Ahh, "What I Ordered/ What I Got." A metaphor for so much that is going on in the world today. I guess I'll just have to learn to embrace earthworms and mint ice cream.
OMG. Laughing sooooooooooo hard.... especially at the "earthworms and mint ice cream" comment. You guys... WHAT a mental image. Too too funny!
LOL at two poop ropes shaking hands!
@ SuBee,
So very true. Love the comment! Maybe a poem/limerick is forthcoming? :-) meo
With that Woody Cake, Sonny & Cher came to mind. Ahem:
"She said I want a Woody cake,
"She asked 'Can you?'
"They said, yes we can make"
"Well she just knew, might not be true, But said "Ok, I give the job to you"
duh da da duh da da duh da da..
"Blob. (duh da da duh da da duh da da duh da da) I got Pooh Blobs'
(duh da da, duh da da, duh da da, duh)
"I got Pooh Blobs"
(duh da da, duh da da, duh da da, duh)
"i GOTTT POOOOOH BLOBBBS"
That last one, more like moldy diaper...you know what? NEVERMIND.
That last cake -- ewwwwwwwwww!
"Ugly little spud isn't he?"
"I think he can hear you Ray."
That was the first thing that came to my mind from the quote.
Not printable fondant. Its an edible image, printed on a sugar sheet or water paper. Cut it out, stick it on with water. The lazy-man's decorations.
I am genuinely curious if some wrecks occur because the customer tells their baker, "I want [example cake], but made with buttercream instead of fondant" and the baker is too inexperienced or unwilling to say "Nope, not gonna work." A lot of these wrecks are fondant to buttercream or other frosting type cakes.
You could put what I know about baking and decorating cakes in a 1/8 teaspoon (though I am EXCELLENT at eating cake), but for the life of me, I look at some of these and think, "Was the baker too cheap to go out and at least get the proper size cake pan?"
If someone made me one of these cakes I'd be stoked! No doubt it took them a long time. However if I paid for them from a "professional " it would be completely different!
The original of the picnic cake may be the work of a flatbed printer I saw a photo printed directly on a cake with a specialized version once.
Haha - and the congratulation may actually be to "Nataska."
I started doing calligraphy when I was in High School. The absolutely hardest thing to learn was how to do clean, pretty, effective filigree. If there is one lesson in my life that Cake Wrecks has reinforced it is that lesson I learned in High School.
I totally understand that buttercream will give a very different effect than fondant. But GEEZ! What happened to the Woody cake? Is that even buttercream? It has such a weird, almost gritty look to it.
The "wanted" horse-head cake would look good in someone's bed. Just sayin'.
What happened to Woody's hat?
i was actually expecting worse (well...different) results for a woody cake. this one may not be clean, but it's safe for the kiddies.
In that first baby shower cake, the "wanted" cake is pretty poorly executed as well :/ Maybe it's like making a copy of a copy of a copy, it just degrades more and more each time it's reproduced.
Oh man these.. there are no words for these things other than the fact I nearly spit soda on the screen laughing at them. Luckily I had finished it before I saw these.. lol
Is it just me or are there a lot of bakers who don't know how to do pretty swirls, so they just resort to odd curly-ended C's instead?