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December 10, 2018 Don't sweat it, bakers; this month is going to be easy as pie. All you've gotta do is load up on super simple holiday designs!
You know, like Christmas trees:
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and candy canes:
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Or Christmas trees:
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(I see the side silhouette of Ben Franklin. You?)
And strands of lights:
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[rubbing temples] Or Christmas trees:
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And stockings:
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Or... Christmas trees?
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Ooh, hey, or presents! Right? Can't get easier than a square with a bow on it!
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Never mind.
[gritting teeth] Or Christmas trees:
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Or candles:
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Or... OH WOULD YOU JUST DRAW A GREEN TRIANGLE AND BE DONE WITH IT?
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Thank you.
Next week: SPACING.
Thanks to Erin M., Wildkatt, Jason D., Christy G., Anne H., Anne K., Emma G., Jillian H., Christine, Maureen W., and Janet P., for making like these trees, and confusing the heck out of all of us.
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Reader Comments (19)
And a Merry Chris, Sam T to you too.
Are those gumballs on that "christmas tree"???
1) The baker couldn't even play connect-the-dots correctly.
2) A Christmas boomerang. You know, you never can get rid of these things.
3) It's a seal, a Christmas seal, balancing a yellow ball on his nose.
4) Christmas sperm making their escape?
5) If this thing was white, I'd say maybe it was a snowman, with too much bling. Come on, bakers, you ever even seen a pine tree?
6) I had to pop into the local pub for a pint of my favorite Christmas ale.
7) Junior's going to be in trouble for playing ball in the house at Christmas time.
8) I think someone has their holidays confused. This looks like an Easter cake and that's supposed to be a cross. Tell the baker he needs to go back and get his story straight. His timing is really off.
9) "Look, Mommy, at what's under the "tree". It's a Christmas tree poop".
10) I guess this baker watched the one Marx Brothers movie where Harpo proved you can burn a candle at both ends.
11) Finally got the shape right and just about everything else is wrong. Is the baker trying to combine both Hanukkah and Christmas with a star of David on top of the tree? And it looks like another tree is doing its "duty". The baker could at least take a fork and make lines to make it look like bark. And then there's the message. Merry Christ Sam? What is he saying here? Is this guy Sam some delusional goofball who has a Messiah complex?
That last one is missing a comma. "Merry Christ, Sam". Also, is that a star of David on top of the, erm, tree? Oy gevalt.
Aw, man, that hexagonal cupcake cake would've been the perfect shape for a 3D present, too. They really missed an opportunity to make something of that awkward shape.
With that little dot close to the top and the downturned line, the candle on the left looks like Beaker.
Maybe it's supposed to be a chimney, not a stocking. That's on-theme.
I think that one cake looks like Woodstock.
Candles? The one on the left is Beaker from The Muppet Show.
The day when bakers stop trying to convert cupcakes into sheetcakes will be a glorious one, indeed. We will have to celebrate with.......... cake?
Cake #1: Reminds me of a dreamcatcher.
Cake #2: Australian candy cane? The boomerang-cane?
Cake #3: Anyone read Over the Hedge? Kinda reminds me of one of the critters in silhouette.
Cake #baseball: What, I have baseball ornaments on my tree…whatever gets us to summer sooner.
Cake #candles: It's like they stuck lumps of raw bread dough on the cake.
Those "candles" are celebrating the fact that both Voyager 2 probes have
excitedexited the solar system.My god these are revolting...
The boomerang cake must be a fruitcake. Those things keep coming back, too.
I think I would save my money and get a pie instead of these lol. The candy cane looks more like a candy cane boomerang which is hilarious as I picture throwing that and it coming back to get me. Oh the joys of this season lol.
On #3 - is that a magic mushroom someone is getting as a present? And on the last one, you can see they've actually corrected the way they wrote 'Christmas', and this is the improved version. (The boss wandered by and said 'Hey, you've left the s out of Christmas. Can you fix it? Perfect otherwise.')
Lovin' that Christmas tree cupcake. The more (icing) the merrier!!!
Are we sure the stocking one isn't supposed to be a chimney? I'd buy chimney before stocking with that one.
While we're at it, are we sure the candy cane isn't a festively wrapped boomerang?
For some reason, the string of lights one makes me think of the Skeksis gathering in the Dark Crystal.
Those candles look like Beaker from The Muppet Show! Meep! Mee mee meep!