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.
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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 tried to find an inspiration cake for all of those wrecks. I googled images for "hat and scarf cakes." Then "scarf and hat cakes." Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Where did they all come up with this wrecky idea?
It's either per Richard Dreyfus n Close Encounters: "this .... MEANS something - - "
or else, these are from the David Byrne school of cake decor, in which they've all stopped making sense -
Or maybe it's like wear-orange day at high school, except the bakers aren't gay, they're Illuminati -
Clearly this is some sort of religious banner or flag, but I don't have a clue exactly what it is. The white snowflakes are a Greerk or Armenian cross, maybe. The red is definitely a bishop's mitre - with those blue tail thingies. I don't know what those are called. Was there some bishop's feast day recently?
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:( 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.
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Oh. Um... I thought that wasn't meant seriously. ;)
Wouldn't you think they'd provide oh, I don't know, edible photo paper or something??
THANK YOU, Heather! I'm glad I wasn't the only one who saw mutated mushrooms from Mario.
Hat and scarf? Hmm. Yeah, I'm sticking with the mutated 'shrooms.
But seriously, when did this become a thing? And why are they all the same color? I don't get it.
I think it is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. May you be touched by His Noodly Apendage!
It's a hat and scarf? All have the same colours - so - is it someone in particular's hat and scarf? And I tried. I did. But I couldn't see Elmo. ;)
Apparently trying to copy this pinterest? http://www.pinterest.com/pin/207939707766603207/
This seriously can't be just a hat and scarf! How do so many awful cakes that look the same come from different bakeries?
Okay... this has probably already been explained (I did not read all 109 comments to see... just the first page... sorry!), but clearly the "idea" is a red winter hat & blue scarf on a blue background, with a couple of snow flakes for accent. The reason there are so many is because this was a design carried in a chain grocery store bakery... could've been Wal-Mart, Kroger, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, ANY of them really. There was no massive ORDERING of the cakes, no mass surge in popularity of hats and scarves, just a massive AVAILABILITY of the cakes as a seasonal item... executed by a wide variety of decor- um, wreck- erators- with varying degrees of, um... I'm just gonna go with "practice."
OK. I think these people should give up on making the winter hat cake a thing. This is absolutely amazing how so many people can butcher such a simple design.