26 Cake Decorating Fails That Were Definitely Not What Anyone Ordered
My standards for cake are pretty lax. I’d like it to taste good, and I’d prefer my name spelled correctly, but I’m willing to negotiate on the second part if there’s enough frosting.
Still, ordering a custom cake adds a little pressure. You have to explain what you want CLEARLY and then hope the decorator understands exactly what you’re trying to communicate. Sometimes being literal just doesn’t work. But when it doesn’t, it’s hilarious..
These cake decorating fails cover everything from unfortunate spelling to designs that looked better on paper. I’d still eat most of them.
Once you’ve cut somebody a corner piece, it gets harder for them to complain about the lettering.
1. My all time favorite
2. My friend’s name is Ethelwyn, but she prefers ‘Et’..the bakery preferrred something else! She returned the favour when my birthday came around! I prefer ‘Carol’!
3. Congratulations on your weeding
4. One of my elderly clients cakes last month, I asked for it to be decorated with old cars, the older the better. She then asked after that what I would like it to say, I said “happy birthday Eddie” … I was so confused when I picked it up
5. Let’s celebrate in the middle
6. So I ordered a cake for my coworker and here’s what showed up
7. My coworker’s name is Brian.
8. I want sprinkles
9. My birthday cake during the pandemic when you’d have a field on the order form for the make and model of your car for curbside pickup.
10. Ashley
11. Thanks for a great year
12. I was responsible for the cookie cake for our Shelter Insurance Bike MS team’s annual fundraising ride. Some people rode 100 miles that day to fight multiple sclerosis (MS)! But the cake was a bit less celebratory in tone and made us feel like a bunch of MFers. I will never live this one down.
13. Best wishes Suzanne
14. Congration
15. This lamb cake.
16. Congradulalions Abigail
17. Have you ever wished for pretty-as-a-picture polka dots… only to get gravity-defying cow patties?
18. Congratulations
19. For me, cake from Publix
20. Much love
21. The image is edible paper; the writing is pure axe-criminal doing his/her day job at the bakery, & Idk wth those blobs are on the right.
22. I was THRILLED when I picked this cake up after having purchased a premade cake & asking the woman at the bakery counter if she could write “Thank you for being a friend” on it. THRILLED!
23. This one was my bad. I’m a cake decorator and I took the order over the phone. It was supposed to say “Taurus szn” like the zodiac sign…. I was so embarrassed when they came to pick it up
24. The picture vs the cake
25. My birthday is in April, so very often around Easter. One year I reminded my mom about a rabbit-shaped cake that she made for my birthday as a kid. She didn’t remember what I meant exactly, but she tried making one. This is what I got.
26. It’s either 21 71 or 11. Or L1
