The Pink Trim Was a Nice Touch
March 23, 2017 Heidi wanted a pizza cake, and so asked her local bakery to make one. The encounter went something like this:
Heidi: "Hi, I'd like to order a pizza cake, please."
Baker: "A pizza... cake?"
Heidi: "Yes, you know, a cake that looks like a pizza."
Baker: "I'm not following." Heidi: "It's a round cake, decorated like a pizza... but with icing. Lots of places make them."
Baker: "Still not with you."
Heidi: "No, see, it's really simple: it's just a single layer cake, but with icing toppings and sauce and stuff to make it look like a pizza. A pizza cake."
Baker: "Huh. Well, I guess I can make that. But you better bring in a reference photo."
Heidi: "Of a pizza cake?"
Baker: "No, of just the pizza. So I know what kind you want it to look like."
Heidi: "Oh. Well, it can just be a plain cheese pizza, but... sure?"
THREE DAYS LATER:
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[sigh]
And for those of you who like to peer down the road not traveled:
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Maybe you dodged a bullet, there, Heidi. Thanks to Heidi L., Greg, Leah R., & Kris D. for proving wrecking baked goods is a pizza cake.
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Reader Comments (31)
Thanks for the hearty WHAT THE HECK this morning. I'm not going to even attempt to decipher that black and gold . . . thing.
I honestly can't tell which is a worst cake. None of those look passable....
Foil-wrapped coins as pepperoni, sheesh!
Heidi should have given up when she got so little understanding from the baker. She had a clear warning that the end result would probably NOT live up to expectations.
Well, the first cake is really nice! Pretty!
It's just too bad that someone set a pizza on top of it. ... you know? There's not really much room to decorate it, now... and if they try to pull the pizza off? Oh, my! That would pull the frosting off like scalping a ...uh...something that gets scalped. O.o? Oh, got it!
The CUSTOMER!!
=^~.-^=
*Snort* HA HA HA HA HAAAA! "... a pizza cake"... Jen and John hoJ you guys slay me!
Wow... I didn't know about pizza cakes, but I didn't know about 'galaxy' cakes either until I read about it in the most current Food Network mag. I'm totally out of touch!
Too funny and those pizza cakes are great objects of Wreckiness - especially the one with the candy coins masquerading as pepperoni!
Ciao baby!
MaryO1230
Hey, the one with (what I hope is) chocolate coins looks great. I would totally order that if I wanted a pizza cake and there was one like that on a counter or something
#3 looks like it has potato chips on top. If they don't have any particular flavor other than "salt", that might not be that bad, flavor-wise. The foil on the chocolate coins, however....
Yellow squiggle worms,
pepperoni coins or "poop"-
paper might be best.
Or they just all stink. Yeah, we'll go with that.
Bad idea in the first place. A convincing pizza facsimile would set your taste buds wrong. I'll give the third cake credit for cleverness in using red-wrapped gelt for pepperoni.
I thought those were potato chips, but then I noticed they have dew droplets, or condensation or...something wet. So it's what? Shaved cheese? Tell me that's not shaved cheese.
Not sure if she got the better or worse cake. O_o
When a cake hits your eye like a big pizza pie
That's a Cake Wreck
When the pep'roni shines like some foil wrapped dimes
That's a Cake Wreck
Cheese that's made from some silly string, looks like silly string
Makes you say, "What the hell-a"
Sausage poop, looks like messy goop
Not so swell-a
When your pizza cake's cruel 'cause your baker's a fool
That's a Cake Wreck
When you run from the shop with a box full of slop
Please don't pay
When you walk in a dream but it's really a nightmare signore
Scuzza me, but you see, even wrecks aren't free
That's a Cake Wreck
Is that an actual pizza on cake #1 or is it just an edible picture of a pizza? Please tell me it is a picture. That might be white chocolate curls on cake #3, although I don't know why someone would use these on a "pizza" cake.
Those are not potato chips, it's shaved white chocolate. Adding the foil wrapped chocolate coins, okay, two kinds of chocolate on top, the better. But what are those tiny black plops among the white chocolate shavings? Did the bakery have a rodent problem and those are it's calling card? Ewwwwe. No thanks.
As a vegetarian, if I had to eat a pepperoni pizza I'd much rather have red foil chocolate coins masquerading as pepperoni than giant blobs of chocolate poo!
When Heidi said "lots of baker's make them", the light bulb should have gone off and she should have called one of those other bakers.
#2 cake (heh), I mistook for lava coursing across the shores of Hawaii.
It does look like the "pizza" was horribly burned and then squirted with mustard.
:D
what i'm learning from this site is that if you have to do too much explaining to the baker, best just forget the whole thing.
Silly String explosion!!!
@SuBee: Awesome!
(Now I want to watch Moonstruck!) =^~.~^=
I'm with you, Cookiemama. Shaved chocolate and (sure, foil-wrapped) chocolate coins? Not a deal-breaker. Could be good, and points for cleverness for the shaved chocolate to look like cheese. But what are those black things?
Nah, the way you make a pizza cake is to bake it in a giant pan pizza dish, so you get a cake that's about 2" deep, Chicago-style. Mix up your buttercream (don't forget to add yellow to the red to get *real* red) for the sauce, flatten red gumdrops for pepperoni, dice white and green gumdrops for onions and peppers, and use chocolate chips for sausage. White buttercream, thinner, with just a touch of yellow for the mozza drizzled over the top, and you have a sugarbomb of a pizza cake that your kid will go bananas over and that the adults will pick the candy off of to eat. But it looks amazing! (I got some practice at this because for several years running, this was what my daughter wanted for her bday.)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yet another thing not to ask the local baker to make.
Funny, I just ordered pizza...wonder if it will show up resembling cake.
That last one is an Ulcerative Colitis Cake. Just sayin'.
Oh man. I hope Heidi didn't buy that cake. Though it sort of looked nice until they plopped edible pizza picture on top..compared to ones that look like they had burnt poop on em this one wasn't so horrible lol.
Maybe the black things among the shaved white chocolate shavings are supposed to be mushrooms.
So, I knew about cutting circles from Fruit Roll-ups or such instead of those chocolate coins for pepperoni, but not having seen Wendy's response, I couldn't remember what was common for the other toppings, so I googled "pizza cake." Do you know that the top results are not cakes that look like pizzas, but the reverse? As in pizzas stacked one upon the other to make a cake! I think I'd rather have one of these cakes, ugly as they are, instead. If I'm going to cram my arteries full of fat till they can't take it any more, I'd rather it be sweet fat!
And I'm pretty sure the black things are raisins. (Ptui!)
Well that wasn't a PIZZA cake for that baker!
man i wish i knew that was a thing. my son asked for a pizza cake last year. i would totally upload the pics if i could. i made 2 and they looked faboosh.