Wednesday
Jan132010
The Labor of Love
January 13, 2010 Sure, you could go with rubber duckies and baby blocks, but that's sooo last decade. Today's shower cakes are all about the biology of baby-making: tasty and educational!
And while you're at it, why not congratulate dad, too?
Of course, mom also did her part:
(Whoah, whoah, whoah! TMI, Dad, TMI!)
(Raise your hand if you're going to have nightmares about daisies sprouting Alien-style from your midsection tonight. Anyone? Anyone? Just me? Alrighty, then.)Granted, the process doesn't always start exactly the same way:
Thank goodness that cup is labeled. Otherwise, we'd have some concerned coffee drinkers on our hands right about now.And what does all this love math equal?
(No, your eyes do not deceive you: that IS a Fetal Bite cookie in that there uterus cake. Excellent.)
And that brings us to the Big, Life-Changing Moment!
AAAAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!
Yep, I'm changed for life.
Casey D., Heidi D., Hillary M., Kristin J., Jess, Shari W., & Tiffany D., when you're ready to have "the talk" with your kids, feel free to come back here for visual aids.
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NOTE: No, I'm not I'm trying to tell you something with this recent rash of baby shower posts. Are you forgetting this post? And this one? I just figured baby cakes in January made sense: new year, new babies? Yes? No?
Reader Comments (219)
Unbelievable! Incredibly bad taste - and I'm not talking about eating those things!
It looks like a Sperm Cauldron, which is so gonna be the name of my band!
My eyes! My eyes!
Holy Cow. Seriously, it boggles my mind that these cakes were actually made. I think I just found some great motivation to go back to work now and try to clense my mental pallete.
Trains one day, babies the next. Yeah, we got that Tuesday symbolism.
Frankly, I find the idea of a flower growing in my uterus rather disturbing. Would it tickle me from the inside?
The problem is that anyone has ORDERED these cakes in the first place. A bakery can only do so much with an order like that!
the green, plant-like vagina on the plant analogies cake is what's going to give me nightmares! who thinks of this stuff?
Why, oh why, are Kristin's boobs bigger than her baby bump?
I'm sorry, maybe the people who ordered these cakes would say I have "no sense of humor" but I think every last one of these is disgusting and inappropriate.
I mean, carrot jockeys are funny. Uterine and sperm cakes? Not so much.
I'm speechless.
Erin G.
As disturbing as these cakes are (in a freakin' hilarious way), I do have to say I'm liking the goggles #2 is sporting. LOL! I scared my cats with my sudden outburst of laughter!
Wow....those are so disturbing on so many different levels!!!!
ok i am so scarred for life!
I believe your note at the end of the post, Jen, and I look forward to the end of year/old men cakes in December.
Cake #2 - Too cute. Dad never gets enough recognition.
Cake #5 - I like it. Go lesbians!
The last cake? That one makes me hysterically happy I'm menopausal.
Wait a minute! "Woman" + "sushi roll with fish eggs on top" = Baby?
Yes. but baby WHAT?
My eyes!!!
At first I thought that cup o' sperm was sushi.
I didn't think "coffee" when I saw the rainbow cake; I thought mom got pregnant in an unfortunate hot-tub incident. (Urban legends die hard. http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/swimsperm.asp)
BLARGLE
WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
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AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Yes, I will have nightmares... and I'm forever changed too. I'm loving the cup of mojo tho!
The baby in (um, literally) the last cake has the same terrified look I imagine we all do...
I'm not such a fan of icing and probably wouldn't waste time scraping it off a cake like this, whether I was the new mom or not. I can imagine the shower where I discovered it:
"Wow, let's have cake RIGHT NOW. I just can't WAIT for CAKE! Let's cut it up before we have to look at it ANY longer! Oh my GAWD, THAT'S REALLY SOME CAKE!"
WV: Zingers-- Forget the cake. Let's just all share a box of Zingers. Please? Twinkies? Anything?
I have to admit that I thought the sperm wearing goggles cake was pretty funny. The rest will give me nightmares for the rest of my life.
Totally makes sense... New year, new baby.. and those were just scary. I'll never look at my coffee cup the same way. Ever. :)
The flower sprouting out of uterus freaks me out a lot less than the green vajay. I think she should have that checked out.
Nice to show the medical side of the process of birth. You know, in case you happen to teach a Health class to impressionable teens, and you were wondering what to bring to class parties.
Egads! Good thing I'm beyond reproduction or this post may have put me off for good. I'm still debating about whether I'll return to eating cake or not. . . .
On a positive note, is there really anything better than birth control disguised as cake? Really?
Good Lordy Lord, with lashings of Lordliness, and Lordy sprinkles! I'm an ex-nurse, and still those (for want of a better word) cakes horrified me!
The last one, with a remarkably clean newborn peeping coyly from beneath the sheet, made me choke on my own spit....
WV: "ficenta" - a fictional placenta, like the one lurking inside some of those cakes!
The dad cake was kind of cute, but the pushing out and the daisy I will not be getting much sleep after seeing! My husband and I are wanting to get a start on our fmaily this year, but AGH!!!!
Changed for life? I may be scarred for life after seeing some of those!
That last cake… thank God I finished breakfast first.
"Yeah, I need a baby shower cake. Can you put some sperm on it? No, you won't do that? Well, uh, how 'bout some balloons, then? OK, that'll be fine, too."
That last one - my mind just broke.
Maybe its just me, but I thought that the colorful one was more along the lines of "woman plus birthday cake (decorated with sperm?) = baby." Still eww, but totally on theme!
Also, could the last one represent a "Congratulations on your first real job!" cake for a recently graduated Ob-Gyn? That'd make more sense...
-Richard
I find it interesting that you put a warning on the post of clowns ... er ... clowning around, but not on this display of graphic ... er ... graphics.
No, I'm not complaining, I'm just interested.
Now that schools seem not to be teaching sex ed anymore, maybe young people have to get it from cakes. How else would they learn that sperm cells have eyes and noses (and they come in a can), and that babies grow in a pod on a daisy plant in Mommy's tummy?
Having seen many babies be born that last cake is disturbing. Where is that baby coming out of??? Although if done "properly" it would probably be creepier....
i first thought the cup of sperm was a sperm sushi! Ewwww!
Glad to know your rationale--it was a little eerie to come upon these when I'm due any day now. And yes, I'll be having nightmares!
Some people are just S-I-C-K!!!!!!!
Sigh... for the first cake I'm picturing a group of kids with their plates out... "I want *that* piece. The one with the sperm on it."
Just plain wrong on so many levels.
Why, no, I'm not usually this green. Thanks for asking :o)
I am horrified by the last cake! I thought the belly cakes were bad, but to go to such lengths...I don't think I want kids now...
Holy eff, that last cake had to have originated here in Chattanooga, TN. That's where Erlanger Hospital is located.
*hides in shame*
I've had four babies & that last one still made me squirm. What in the world are people thinking when they order these cakes, let alone make them???
The sperm goggles are pretty funny though. DH always said that people's "congratulations!" when we were expecting made him uncomfortable. I'll have to show him that cake when he gets home from work!
who wants to eat a safety pin? Seriously. Yikes
steaming cup=artificial insemination?
I'll admit it...I like the sperm cakes. (Oh...oh, gosh, that sounded REALLY bad.)
Oh crap! That last one is LOCAL! My son was born at that hospital! Aaarrrggghhh!
I would so have a fit if somebody gave me that cake for a shower!
Of course it's sushi! Woman + nice dinner at sushi place = baby making opportunities galore.
(Or there's something afoul in ye olde sushi shop's kitchen!)
As if my pregnancy hormone induced dreams weren't crazy enough, now I have alien daisies to look forward to. Oh, and the last cake isn't helping either since Erlanger is where I'll deliver.
The pink uterous cake with the cookie fetus looks more like a bedpan. I think this one was for one of those ladies who go to take a poop and find themselves attached to the potty on I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant. So with that in mind, it is totally appropriate. Not gross at all.
Ick