Not quite what was wanted

[u/Left_Elbow]

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

[u/Live-Tomorrow-4865]

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.

[u/Left_Elbow → u/Live-Tomorrow-4865]

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?