What The Frosting?
January 16, 2014 No, no, don't tell me, bakers.
Lemme see if I can guess:
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Suffocating snowman?
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Two-tentacled jellyfish?
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Twin highways beside a poppy field?
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Dancing lampshade?
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Worm wearing a turtle shell?
(Hero in a half shell: EARTHWORM POWER.)
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Running Cupcake Man?
Oh! Or McDonald's Fry Guy?
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Elmo in a teal turtleneck doing the hula dance with his mouth wide open?
(Admit it: you see it, too.)
**SIGH**
Look, bakers, I don't...
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I mean, I just can't...
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[blinking]
Er...
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That's it.
;)
I GIVE UP.
Hat tip to Erica, Hollie, Julie B., Emily G., Daemon S., Kerensa J., Rhonda M., & Jullian G., who says she can't wait to scarf one of these down. Heh.
[eyes widening]
Hey, waaaaait a minute...
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Reader Comments (111)
I can accept that they're hat and scarf combos, but why all the same color? Presumably they were done by different bakers in different places?
Finally got it on the last cake. But the scarf still looks like those strange socks with toes!
Who decides this should be a thing, a thing people might buy? Is there a celebration that features super worm in a turtle shell -- actually I might celebrate that since I have a turtle and he eats worms but SERIOUSLY who buys a cake to celebrate hats and scarves that look like two tentacled jelly fish? And why are there dots on the hat? Is the message in the dots? Because the snowflakes have dots too.
The only logical answer is that secret messages are being sent out in cakes no sane person would ever buy.
"Jeans and a hat? It's jeans and a hat!!!"
*a few cakes later*
"IT'S A HAT AND A SCARF!!!! RIGHT THERE!!!!"
Scarf and hat. Throw in boots for good measure. This is how it's done. <nods>
http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/66679
My guess is that...you know how if you wear glasses and you come in from the cold and your glasses steam up so you can't see anything? Yeah. That's my guess....either that the baker did, or they were hoping that the shoppers who looked at these monstrosities had just done so.
Kudos Midnight Writer on both songs!
I'm STILL shaking my head over the fact that several of you figured out what these were supposed to be. I was truly baffled and NEVER would have guessed hat and scarf! And snowflake runes. I'm also down with all of you who wondered if there is some sort of nationwide "crappy design" memo that got sent out to all these bakers. Yet another bad result of the recent polar vortex!
I think maybe they are supposed to be a knit hat and scarf...
Tis the season for scarf cakes. I guess even creatures on cakes get cold during the winter.
Those are supposed to he hats and scarves? REALLY?
I think it is supposed to be a Cuban flag.
That's not how I remember Rashamon at all!
Good grief, you mean you didn't recognize that kid from the Fat Albert cartoon show who wears the red sweater cap pulled down over his face? How could you not have?
I haven't commented in a LONG time, but this one....I really and truly didn't get it until your comment at the end. =) Thanks for the laugh today. I REALLY needed it.
@The Midnight Writer ~ I'm out of superlatives so you get this one. You are supercalifragalistic :-)
What is the most horrible part of this is that cap and scarf are a designated design by the Meijer corporate chain in their bakery. (and it actually looks like that!!!) I always had to edit all my display designs whenever I decorated just so that I didn't have to put out scary looking pieces like that! (Then I'd get in trouble and have to have them re-made to look like crap...) :P
Well, I tried. I googled it every way you can think of. Red hat blue scarf cakes, winter outerwear cakes, 2014 winter olympic cakes, winter cakes, deco pac winter cakes, winter cake designs, knitted cake designs etc etc ad infinem or something like that. Not a hit. Not a single, solitary hint anywhere of anything similar. I am mystified.
What is it?
Oh my goodness. I, too, am seriously going bonkers at not knowing about the snowflake code! What does it all MEAN????!!!!
it's a snowman that's melted....???
You keep making these hat and scarf cakes. I do not think you're making what you think you're making.
So I too was of the ummmmm WTF is that until the end but the answers I sought were only partially given. FIne supposedly it is a hat and scarf although it looks like a mutant jellyfish on acid. I will buy that but then the question becomes why?
And rather than hurt myself I jumped on my trusty steed known as Google to find the answer I was missing...
But nooooooo
As I was riding towards the answer Google took a tumble into a random pothole and broke his leg. I had no choice. Modern medicine clearly has not come far enough to save poor Google and so I shot him as per drs orders. I feel bad about this but worse about the fact that Google failed me and I have NO FREAKING CLUE WHAT THE "THING" IS THAT PROMPTED ALL OF THIS.
I have failed you all for this I am sorry.
Jellyfish maybe?
My 6 year old says "walking mushroom"?
I realized they were hats and scarves on the first cake. Bear in mind that I DO knit, and quite well I might add. In the early days I produced a few hats that looked like those so inside information to the rescue.
How can this be a thing though? Hat and scarf cakes????? No.
Are these all from some national chain bakery/grocery store? That's the only reason I can think of for them all looking roughly the same.
My 12 year old (whom I thought knew everything cause hes the all knowing pre teen ya know *sigh*) said he has no idea but maybe a Elmo squid.
"I think whoever made these cakes should give up and take up dog grooming."
But imagine what the poor dogs would look like! You'd give the groomer a picture of what the dog should look like, and come back to find the picture painted onto its shaven flank.
Clearly, the first one is a large headed, small torso'd, blob-faced angry being wearing wide-wale blue corduroy pants After that is anyone's guess...
I don't think these are professional "cakes". I think this is a test to see if they can follow written directions without actually knowing what they were trying to create. That is the only explanation for the bizarre snowflakes that look so similar ... and don't look like snowflakes.
I was beginning to wonder how I had missed hearing about the Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Movie.
@SuBee: Well writ, m’lady! The cake’s the thing from whence good humour doth take wing….
I believe it is supposed to be one of those "trendy" knit hats with the long ear-warmer/scarf additions. They usually have the shape of an animal head....
I go away for a while and come back... this is what happens. Someone out there knows what this is supposed to be. Unfortunately (or not), they aren't saying. My vote is a whole new dimension to "Where's Waldo."
Okay, people, I saw one exactly like these at Meijer last night. Same colors. Same white flakes. Same wreck. I almost took a photo to submit to CakeWrecks...what is it? What the heck is it??? Whaaaaaaaat ?
Y'all, I read through ALL 83 COMMENTS. Every word. Of all 83. Comments. Just to be sure that was clear.
And NOBODY knows why all of the demented hats and scarves have the same color scheme with the snowflakes. PEOPLE I DON'T EVEN THERE MUST BE AN EXPLANATION.
(sorry about all the yelling)
Why? This can't be a meme or I would have wrangled it out of my daughter by now. (I ask her about all the new 'things'. She is patient.) Is it from Love Story? Jen, I love your comments. Everyone else, I love your comments, too.
I'm with the conspiratorialist at the top of the posts. The white dots, the blue scarf, always the red hat, the ecclesiastical looking snowflake. I'm guessing it has to do with the illuminati.
Hats off to you for trying to figure these mysterious cakes out. I give up, but I'd scarf them down, anyway.
Mr. Haiku said "It's a UFO shooting blue I-don't-know."
I thought it was a hat and scarf pretty early on, maybe because I am a knitter. What I don't get is why anyone would want that on a cake, and so many of them!
@Jodi: thank you, thank you....
@Jodee: awww...thanks....I feel as lucky as a chimney sweep...(chim chim cheree....)
:( I posted a while ago, they're all designated by Meijer corporate and sent out in handouts to the decorators and required on the cakes during the winter season. They're awful.
Thoughout that entire thing I was just thinking how high were they when they decided to make two stemmed mushrooms. i did not see hat scarf till the very end
OK. How many of you Googled "red hat blue scarf"???? WHAT is it? The inconsistent consistency blows my mind!
A variation of "The Pale Green Pants With Nobody Inside Them" by Dr. Seuss
Well…I was walking in the night
And I saw nothing scary.
For I have never been afraid
Of anything. Not very.
Then I was deep within the bakery
When, suddenly, I spied them.
I saw a red hat and blue scarf
With nobody inside them!
I wasn’t scared. But, yet, I stopped
What could those clothes be there for?
What could a hat and scarf on cake
Be floating in the air for?
@ Tricia L, I totally agree with your theory!
Maybe it's Mr. Bill run over by a steam roller while wearing a hat and scarf? Lol I really don't understand if that's supposed to look like a hat and scarf why wreckerators have no clue what they look like.
Is it something religious? A heart and ribbon? Is it even a U.S. cake theme? Seriously? The first two have what look like religious symbols in each corner. I know its winter, but I don't think that it is meant to be snowflakes or scarves. I love all the funny guesses, but my OCD won't quit until l know.
Winter hat and scarf. The last one at least sort of look liked it. The rest looked like some sort of play dough fail..
Muwahahaha! You silly mortals think this is merely a scarf and hat set. What you really see is the great demon Cthulu in his winter outfit, the Santanomicon! May the great Cthulu descend upon bad bakers everywhere and spread his wrath like funky chartreuse frosting!
I think it is like Sips n Splatters (the trendy new painting while drinking parties) only but for cakes. Everyone chooses a canvas (CCC or cake), then they start drinking heavily, then they begin to "paint" or decorate based on the same template. All finished items come out looking similar, but not quite the same.
That's my two cents anyway. :-)