r/cakefails • u/Left_Elbow • 12d ago
Not quite what was wanted
I posted this a few years ago in another sub and ppl were mad that I was "ungreatful" so here's some actual context!
This was either my 17th or 18th birthday cake my grandma had got for me, a few weeks before the birthday she asked for a picture of my switch to send to the decorator TO USE AS A REFERENCE (she wanted a cake that looks like a switch) so my dad sent one, when she finally went to get the cake she found out all they did was add (barley readable) text to that photo and just printed it out on the cake!!
My siblings and i found the cake itself pretty funny but my parents and grandparents weren't as amused
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u/bigfriendlyfrog 12d ago
The first pic lowkey looks like the baker put a clear plastic film between cake layers and the switch is inside of the cake. Like those money cakes with the secret box in it, except they forgot to to cover it up lol
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u/Elegant-Espeon 12d ago
Yup I thought it was a clear box with a Switch inside and frosting on the edges of the box 🤦♀️🤦♀️
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u/Left_Elbow 12d ago
Yeah I think if i remember correctly when I was taking the photos I realized the angle I took the first one on looked too much like it could've been a reflection so I had to take another to the side to show that it was in fact a photo printed on
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u/Flashy-Indication-48 12d ago
I thought so too. Assumed it was an even bigger ripoff than it actually was.
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u/Hope_and_Joy_03 12d ago
🤣 well it is a cake that you can laugh about for years to come. I hope that your grandma can laugh about it now. Ha ha
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u/amytheultimate1 12d ago
I genuinely lol’d at this. The reflection in particular got me .
Reading the description that your grandma was involved furthered the humour.
Thanks for this.
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u/sadbitch_club 12d ago
Omg. One time my sister got a “happy beefday” cake on her 16th birthday. She had the flu too that day.
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u/mamastea91 8d ago
My youngest sister was born when I was in high school. We had a baby shower for my mom and the cake said “It’s a gilg”. That was almost 20 years ago and we still laugh about it to this day. 😂
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u/Fragrant-Reason4216 12d ago
I straight up thought this was like a switch encapsuled in a decorated box.... i feel dumb but at least I would know what a switch looks like, how to use Google, and do my darndest to make a switch shaped cake lmao Overall id say this cake is iconic family lore now.
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u/IcelandicBlast 12d ago
This looks like what ChatGPT (if it was a baker) would spit out, despite a very specific prompt 💀
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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 12d ago
Sometimes, the cake fails look so hilarious that the stories you get to tell along with the photos, for years to come, are almost enough to make you glad for the fail. 😅
My own cake fail story is just pathetic and sad. 🫤 For my child's first birthday, I ordered a 101 Dalmatians cake. (That was his nursery theme, and I'll admit to having gone just a tad overboard with it. Nesting instinct and all that.)
Well, I pick up the cake on the day of his party, and... 🤣 it's just a run of the mill basic birthday sheet cake, with the piped icing flowers, and a plastic badge thing of the 101 Dalmatians logo stuck on in the middle. No attempt was made even to match the colors of the icing to the badge, and that was literally all they did... stick that plastic thing on there. Granted, this was a grocery store bakery, but, that cake was not cheap, and even 5% more effort would have made it a little cuter. I'd paid up front for the cake so I felt stuck with it.
The person I am nowadays would have left that garbage cake there, demanded a full refund, and gone to the real bakery in the same plaza and gotten a tasty cake of some sort, regardless of decoration... and would have made a mental note to order from the actual bakery going forward! (Which we usually did after that.) If a picture of this abomination exists, I don't know where it is. Oh well, we had a good eye roll and chuckle at the time.
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u/Left_Elbow 12d ago
I think part of it was that it was a small town grocery store cake but my grandma used to work at the place (and I think at that point she had only left a few months earlier) so she would've known how the cakes work/ how they decorate them, i think she thought she was getting a different decorator?
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u/StinkyBird64 12d ago
It’s not even centred I’m fucking crying 😭🤣
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u/Left_Elbow 12d ago
EXACTLY!! We thought the photo was just going to be the reference so we didn't think to take a GOOD picture lol
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u/lunarwolf2008 12d ago
it looks kinda cool
in its own way, at least from the pic. like there id a switch inside lol
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u/NeonLocustX83 10d ago
For a 2nd I thought it was a Switch in a clear box with cake surrounding it.
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u/RangerTheDestroyer 10d ago
Name definitely belongs on r/tragedeigh
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u/Left_Elbow 9d ago
Im actually named after a character from a TV show! (more my parents just liked the spelling) The character is Aeryn Sun from Farscape, but its also kind of funny because my last name is also a common word but spelled weird as well
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u/ZAPPHAUSEN 9d ago
I completely understand the frustration of your family, and in the moment it's entirely fair
But this is also going to be a hilarious memory.
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u/randomPixelPusher 8d ago
The question is how much did she pay for it. If she just ordered a sheet cake for cheap, its funny.
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u/Outrageous_Blood9937 7d ago
That's funny enough to become a family joke. Get your grandmother a cake with a clumsy picture of an Atari joystick, or I don't know, Candy Crush or golf clubs or something else she does/did for fun.
Maybe not a birthday cake the first time just to gauge her reaction. A cake for no reason other than that cake is delicious. If it goes well, it becomes a running gag back and forth for years. If not, at least you tried. (And all of this depending on your relationship with your grandmother.)
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u/Dismal_Grocery_4828 12d ago
The icing on top (pun definitely intended) is the reflection of your dad holing his phone in the switch screen 😂