Friday Favs 2/10/17
February 10, 2017 A few of my favorite submissions this week:
When you aim for a platitude, but end up at every cat-owner's reality:
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AIN'T IT THE TRUTH.
Then there's this gem:
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I have nothing to add; that just cracked me up.
(WHAT.)
Let's see if you can guess this party's theme:
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(Oh how I wish those Ts were Ps...)
Did you get it?
Of course you didn't. Because it's supposed to be macaroni. You know, the pasta kids use to make jewelry? Also the thing you should never ask a baker to draw free-hand on your birthday cake?
Now let's learn a little Cake Decorating Terminology.
This technique is called "Brush Embroidery":
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That's when a baker pipes a design, then uses a damp brush to feather in the edges.
It's also what Kirstina wanted on her cake - same design, different colors.
Now this technique is called "Whole-Assing It":
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That's when a baker decides that instead of half-assing two things, s/he can just whole-ass one. Which you've gotta respect. Or very much not.
Thanks to Melissa N., Rebecca C., Ryan K., Kristina H., & Ron Swanson for inspiring whole-assers everywhere.
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Reader Comments (26)
Honestly, I guessed mac & cheese for the theme on the TT/PP cake. Do I win something??
You know you've been reading Cake Wrecks a while when you actually get the "guess the theme" on the first try. "Well, it looks like an inappropriate urology cake, so it must be pasta!"
That last cake looks as though it was done by a drop out impressionist artist.
T.T.'s "macaroni" cake made me think it would be a perfect design for a Pure Romance party.
Trying to keep my mind out of the gutter (which is pointless here), I guessed that the mac" was safety pins. Like for baby diapers. Like they are celebrating baby T.T.'s birth day. I was confused though by the rainbow streamers. Is baby T.T. gay?
I would really like the whole-adding cake if it were a piece of pottery instead. But it's not. It's a cake. Supposedly edible. And so very shiny.
Can someone please explain what cake number two is supposed to be? I'm stumped!
Did a 3 year old whole-ass (decorated) the last cake?
Here, I thought they were diaper pins, not that people use those any more. But I'm bothered that the last cake is so... shiny.
@SuBee...You win a box of Penis Pasta! And yes, there is such a thing. I bought one box as part of a gift bag of , well, what shall I call it a bag of Peni gifts? All for my good friend. There were Breathmints, lollipops, and I even had giant gummi ones decorating the cake! enough cake to share with some other diners at the Outback Steakhouse, who loved our table and it's party theme. No kids around, no worries.
Second cake?? Reminds me of my job - starting one project, getting interrupted, starting second project, getting interrupted, starting third project, getting interrupted. That's how cakes end up like that! (even CCC's p-tooie!)
Zeph- it's supposed to be a diamond, I believe.
Trying to decide which is worse. Getting a birthday cake with random color squiggles and penii shaped decorations? Or having someone throw me a macaroni birthday party? Props for the WORST party theme ever.
Did anyone else try to click the little arrow on the Brush Embroidery cake image? Just me?
That was macaroni in my mind. No problem there, though it was poorly drawn.
Also "diaper pins" are called "safety pins," and they're still used, if only to guide scared "children" to "safe" people who "care" about the "scary" things that have happened over the past few months.
The first cake is so...... so...... excellent. "Every day a little stranger". There are many people to whom I would
give this cake.
"Children" to "safe" people? I wear a safety pin to tell LGBT, immigrants, PoC that if they are being harassed or in danger I am a safe person to come to.
Well I was wondering about the T. T. cake if it was the macarena done horribly wrong so I was close lol. Oh so close.
Cake #1 : The smell that doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Louizalass: Except it said "Everyday a LITTER stronger" (I think it was stronger, not stranger, but that's funny)
Yu safety pins is what I saw, still used every weekend to attach the number bibs of runners to their shirts or shorts during a race.
Kirstina's wreck reminds me of an old-time chenille bedspread... after it's been washed one too many times!
The last one looks like a dry erase board. The baker made it look like it's covered in dry erase marker drawings created by bored students.
I thought the same as TriciaT. While I was scrolling and first glanced at macaroni cake: My first thought was diaper pins = baby shower cake. I see now that I was so wrong.
I'm with Tricia + Andrea: I thought of diaper pins + babies too!! Just shows to go ya- no matter how long you've been reading Cake Wrecks you can still be thrown a curve! ROTFLMAO!
I got side-tracked by the idea of phallic pasta. So ... it goes limp with heat? I'm staying off the carbonara until I get that image out of my head. :)