Surprise! IT A WRECK!
February 19, 2014 Brenna P. writes,
"Since it was my husband’s birthday last week, I thought it would be a fun idea to get a birthday cake that would also reveal the gender of our baby due this summer."
[nodding vigorously] Excellent, excellent. WHAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THIS PLAN.
[making popcorn]
[pulling up beanbag chair]
Ok, Brenna, please.
DO GO ON.
"I asked that the bakery put blue frosting in the middle of the cake, with the intention of cutting it open to reveal that it’s a boy."
Good thinking. Solid plan. I like it.
And... ?
;)
TA-DAAAA!!
Note the lovely schmear of blue frosting right in the "middle" of the cake, just like Brenna asked.
(The whole "It a ..." misspelling was just the metaphorical cherry on top.)
Ah, but I know what you're thinking: what color icing was on the inside?
;)
Silly wreckie; there WAS no icing on the inside, haha!
(C'mon, now, how long have you been reading this blog? I mean, REALLY.)
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Reader Comments (38)
I am so certain that the decorator went home that night shaking their head at the stupid order they had to fulfill that day.
One can only hope that they woke suddenly in the middle of the night with a gasp of realization.
Happy Falkersatherhood! Now gather around for a story . . .
Once upon a this very week, I was grading papers. The student had written a heart-touching essay about holding his infant son for the first time after the baby had been in the hospital following complications at birth. The final line was a moving declaration: "I am a father."
All was well in the rough draft. But in the final draft, mysteriously, the student decided to improve the final line to "I am a farter."
I once asked a moron to bake
A gender-reveal birthday cake
When I started to stew
At the big schmear of blue
She said, "No. It not a mistake."
Bwwwwaaaaahhhhhaaaaahhhhhaaaa!
Thanks for the laugh on a very bad morning!
I give the baker props for the generous icing on top!
It a...
WRECK!
The stupid, it boggles O_o thanks sharyn and haiku joy for the extra giggles :D
Happy Birthday Jeff...
"It a... "
CAKE!
[Actually, I'd have guessed boy/girl twins, based on the pink/blue fraternal flotsam.]
=^e.e^=
Brenna: Congratulations on the upcoming birth of your baby schmear! How are you going to decorate the nursery?
And @Jennifer, I am there with you. New dryer is being delivered this afternoon after it broke 11 days ago, and two service calls. :-( thank heavens for interest-free financing!
Hee!! And Haiku Joy, love your story too.
I have increasingly become convinced that some "bakers" need to be quizzed at the end of the order process to make sure they understand what is being asked of them. I would have said something about drawing thema picture, but I'm sure that would have ended up on the cake....smh
Hey, you -- cake girl -- I not -- what that word? -- li... lit... -- I just have words of one sy... syl... thing. So I can not tell you that I can not make cake you want. You want cake, then blue, then cake, but you ask for sheet. Sheet is just flat cake. Put blue on sheet? I put blue on sheet, yes?
"That blue blanket looks awfully sticky. Let's just sleep on the floor."
Congratulations, Brenna!!
LOL!!!
@sharyn and @haikujoy --- thanks also for the laughs, ladies
Blue Frosting (sorry, Bobby Vinton)
She sought blue frosting,
Bluer than velvet would be right,
Softer than satin from the light
On the crib,
She sought blue frosting,
Bluer than velvet for a surprise,
Hoping to elicit happy sighs,
Once revealed.
Hers, a secret held tightly,
(Inside a little boy did grow,)
She cut the cake, nervous slightly,
But deep inside, there was no glow of
Blue frosting,
So in her heart there’ll always be
A sad and sorry memory
Through the years,
And she’ll always see blue frosting
Through her tears….
I never thought I'd say it, but I am with the wreckorator on this one. If you ask for frosting in the middle, but don't specify inside the cake then this is what you should have expected. Still funny though!
I always know where to go when I need a laugh to brighten my day.. The lead-ins to the cakes are almost as hilarious as the cakes themselves..
You guys are the best..
Thanks..
Flabbergasted. And I don't flabbergast that easily.
You want blue between layers?
You'd best be a prayer.
"In the middle" sounds great
But it's hard to translate.
No surprise gender here
It's a great blue schmear!
I really just have no words this morning. My brain is still foggy from the plague and I'm giggling uncontrollably over @Haiku Joy's "Once upon a this very week" story. Those are my favorite kind!
In other news, I got to witness the finalizing of an adoption for some family friends. Welcome to the family Dami!
The baker is a skeleton man with a big, great toque, or so I've heard it said.
"This cake decorating isn't so hard to do. I bet I could improve it, too!"
"Why does nothing ever turn out like it should?"
I love the cake decorators that are so literal they just don't take a moment to think things through...
Awesome!
And Sharyn, I'm sorry your beautiful limerick is being referred to as a haiku.
I love it. With sprinkles.
To be fair, it is a sheet cake. How often do you see filling in a sheet cake? But then again, how can a baker not know this trend, and take an order without saying something about it?
I had an eagle put on my nieces graduation cake.... when I picked it up from the award winning bakery, the eagle was gray. I asked why, she stated that she couldn't find the brown tint.... really?? All the chocolate frosting was gone??? Luckily I have a few hidden skills and fixed it myself... but, really.... no brown tint....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm crying!!! LOL!!!
Posts like these make me feel better about my own baking abilities! lol 0.o
I normally just look at these wrecks and keep on going. This one is too much for me. I'm laughing way too much at this!!!!
Yeah, if you want layers, then the stuff in the middle is the filling, and the icing is what goes on the outside. Still a pretty funny cake.
I know this design. The smear is supposed to be a baby blanket.....
Aww thank you all for the well wishes! My husband and I knew we were having a boy so we knew to look for blue something on the cake! HAHA! I totally get why the baker got confused (kind of..haha!!) and will pay more attention to detail in the future when I order a cake. At least it was good for some laughs! Thanks for posting, I feel like such a proud cake owner!
Wow! I laughed out loud for this one.
Clearly I haven't been reading this blog long enough; no frosting AT ALL inside? Wow!
Okay... HILARIOUS as this is... in all fairness, the "reveal" portion of this wreck is actually the buyer's fault, not the decorator's misinterpretation of the notes from whoever took the order.
A lot of grocery stores only sell ONE layer cakes that have icing on the OUTSIDE only... she should have verified that she would be getting a TWO layer cake that would accommodate the reveal icing "in the middle" when she placed the order, and/or gone somewhere else (like Publix) that definitely has 2 layer sheet cakes.
The spelling error? That's ALL you, Decorator!! :(
And, yes, Congratulations, Brenna and Jeff! <3
Well, Little Boy P. (which sounded better in my head, somehow) is going to have to be unbearably cute not to hear THIS story over and over and over....
Thanks, Mommy and apparently-high-on-cake-fumes baker!
Um, @Erin: I don't believe that it IS. Even if it was, wouldn't that be a fairly minor detail? I am genuinely confused here, merely seeking enlightenment. If I am wrong, as I frequently am, please correct me.
With sprinkles. :)
HOW... do such people... get HIRED???
Well at least he knows he's having a cake. Lol hoping it at least tasted good. Sheesh what on earth are wreckerators doing with the order forms? Throwing them out a window apparently.
Your fault for not saying "inside the cake."