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You've probably heard about his majesty, the king and the queen of all the delicious cakes smothered with whipped cream, the hedgehog cake. Started as a sincere baking fail by someone who thought that making such a dessert would be a walk in the park, it quickly turned into an internet craze with people deliberately making the worst hedgehog cakes out there. Take a look at some wonderfully awful examples in our previous entry right here.
But a hedgehog cake is far from the only way a cake can turn from good to decent, and then drop to a monstrosity. In fact, confectionery is the perfect environment for some of the funniest, craziest and unexpected fails worthy of a place in the camera roll hall of fame.
So today, we compiled a list with some of the most stomach-churning cakes that show you to be careful what you wish for and do not underestimate a carrot cake that your local bakery is nailing effortlessly. It doesn’t mean you will nail it too.
Scroll down, upvote your favorite pics and be sure to check out our previous posts with cakes with threatening auras, cakes made by decorators who took instructions too literally, and expectations vs. reality-type of cakes.
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#1
My Cousin Wanted Cake And Ordered One. Told The Bakers To Write Whatever They Wanted Because It Was For Just For Her Anyways
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Wait, she ordered a cake for herself because she felt like it?! I didn't know we were allowed to do that!
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#2
My Mom Knows I Like Hedgehogs, She Said I Couldn’t Come In The Kitchen All Day She She Spent All Day Making Me A Surprise Birthday Cake. Love You Mom
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
This is really cute! And it looks like it would be fun to eat. Way to go, Mom!
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Ahhh, I actually think that it's quite cute! A lot of love and work certainly went into it and I'm sure it tastes delicious and it appears to be covered in chocolate ganache (which is hard to work with since it sets so fast.
#3
My Mom Ordered A Graduation Cake With A Cap Drawn On. I Guess They Misheard
As we can all clearly see from this post, confectionery is one hell of an art form not everyone was born to master. The skill, dedication, time and eye for detail that go into a beautiful piece are immeasurable, and so it’s only fair that when trying to recreate them at home, people will fail. And they will miserably.
One of the greatest symbols of cake fails is the one and only, notorious hedgehog cake. With so many absurdly bad attempts at recreating this edible monstrosity, it has become a meme in itself. Now, more and more people are embracing the horrible looks of the hedgehog cake, trying to make their own representation of it.
#4
Mother-In-Law Just Served Me This Piece Of Cake
Happi doggi 4 years ago
I guess mil wants her child to be with someone else
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#5
My Darth Maul Birthday Cake Ate Too Much Cake
Brian Brown 4 years ago
If everyone had a sense of humor, this would make for a great laugh and memory of this day.
gellert grindlewald 3 years ago
I can't stop seeing a hamster dressed as Darth maul! ack
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#6
Baby Yoda Cake
Daria B 4 years ago (edited)
I would too if I had all those candles installed to my head
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Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
This is not bad. If the person just tried for the 1st time in their life. Perspective! I think it is well done given no experience at all. It would only be a fail if it was a very experienced Baker and this is the result.
mph seti 4 years ago
I dunno, this one looks like the person honestly tried, and just doesn't know how to sculpt fondant. Kinda mean to make fun of it, IMO...
April Stephens 4 years ago
To me, it depends whether an amateur baked it or whether someone paid money for this from a professional. If it was an amateur, I agree, great try. Very good beginner's attempt, better than I could do. It's cute and recognizable. If it was a professional, they didn't perform up to expectations.
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#7
I Asked For A Cake Wreck Fail For My Birthday. They Nailed It
Kanga9ine 4 years ago
The Beast was spotted three states away after Belle slid down the bannister for her party and turned to him and told him to plant a lip lock on her soup coolers. He was gone when she opened her eyes and then passed out cold. I think it was the worm in the tequila she was knocking back with that teapot who loves to sing.
#8
The Ice Cream Cake I Ordered For Valentine’s Day Said “I Love You” But Some Of The Letters Fell Off During Transit
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
You might have been ready to say "love," but clearly the cake was not yet ready for that kind of commitment.
#9
Dear God No..
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Gizmo was creepy when I was growing up, now this new version has taken the nightmare to the next level of horror.
ekjamesable 4 years ago
This is the cake version of the VW prom dress and the Wish knockoff. Ya get what ya pay for.
“However, although the cake might look simple, when it comes to it, some people find that's not the case. It's almost become a trend now to take on the hedgehog cake challenge and share how badly you fail at it,” she explained. According to Corinne, what makes the hedgehog cake that ugly is its teeth. “Why do people insist on adding creepy human teeth? Surely that's a recipe for a disturbing disaster,” she said.
#10
My Son Turned 1 Yesterday. This Was The Topper To His Space Themed Cake. Left Is What We Ordered, Right Is What We Got
rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
the right actually looked harder to create than the left so... props to that!
#11
My Friend Made A Danny DeVito Cake For Her Friend. It's Worse In Person
Nona Wolf 4 years ago
How could it be worse in person? Does it smell bad? Is it filled with broccoli??? Did someone drop it on the white silk sofa?? HOW??????
ThoughtsAreNotFacts 4 years ago
Lol filled with broccoli would def make it worse!
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#12
My Buddy’s Girlfriend Farted In Front Of Him For The First Time. He Got A Cake For The Occasion
For anyone who’s had enough of the bad tries at making a cake, Corinne was happy to share a recipe for a mini chocolate cake (serves 6) that will put a smile on anyone’s face who tries it. So take out your notebooks, everyone!
“Chocolate ganache: 350 g dark chocolate chips, 400 ml double cream. Weigh the chocolate chips in a bowl. Heat the double cream in a pan on a medium heat until steaming. Pour the hot cream onto the chocolate chips. Whisk together until all the chocolate is melted and you have a smooth ganache. Set aside for several hours to cool, or pop in the fridge until the ganache starts to set.”
“Chocolate sponge: 82 g all-purpose flour; 24 g cocoa powder; 56 g light brown sugar; 75 g caster sugar; 1 large egg; 0.75 tsp baking soda; 0.25 tsp baking powder; Pinch of salt; 0.5 tsp espresso powder; 0.5 tsp vanilla extract; 45 ml olive oil; 90 ml whole milk; 90 ml boiling water."
#13
Found This Cake Today
grotesqueer 4 years ago
I really can't tell. On one hand it's a fairly often seen joke, but on the other it's not the only spelling error on the cake. (The first word's missing an apostrophe.)
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#14
Mi mujer no entiende por qué todo el mundo se ríe de su pastel
Robert T 4 years ago
Is that because it's actually Pegasus? (pretends not to notice the huge dong)
BlackestDawn 4 years ago
If you look closer the empty space under the pegasus outlines a smaller pegasus in more of a My Little Pony style. The dong is either very carefully planned or a genuine accident.
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LuckyL 4 years ago
Seems that I'm still a little bit innocent inside. Took me a while to find the really large dic k
MellonCollie 4 years ago
Either that, or you're not immature enough! I'd say it's a good thing either way ;-)
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Ham Explosion 4 years ago
The area it doesnt cover on the big one makes it look like the big one has a weiner
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Snekky/Snek (She/they is fine) 4 years ago
I don’t see it...? Oh wait as I was typing this I saw it oop-
Liketo Jump 4 years ago
Caption translates to "My wife doesn't understand why everyone in the world I know laughs at her cake"
#15
I Made My Friend A Campfire Cake For Her Birthday But The More I Look At It, The More It Looks Like A Flaming Pile Of Poop
Deborah B 4 years ago
Was it a birthday celebrated in 2020? Because a flaming pile of poop might be appropriate.
third molar 4 years ago
Am sorry but its a very accurate dog poop over fall leaves. Still would buy it!!
"Method:
1. Heat the oven to 170°C. Grease two 4-inch cake tins.
2. Boil the water and pour in the espresso. Set aside.
3. Mix together the oil, sugar, brown sugar and egg. Beat on high till thick and fluffy.
4. Weigh the dry ingredients and mix together in a bowl. Add to the sugar/egg/oil mix till just incorporated.
5. Pour the milk and vanilla into the mix.
6. Finally, slowly pour in the boiling water. Mix together, scraping down the bowl to ensure there are no lumps.
7. Pour the batter into the cake tins and bake for approximately 45-50 minutes till done.
8. Trim the chocolate sponges if need be so they’re flat on both sides.
9. When the ganache has started to set but is still soft, place a little in the middle of the cake board or cake stand.
10. Stack the sponges, spreading the ganache in the middle and around the outside.
11. Using an offset palette knife and a cake scraper, smooth the ganache until crumb-coated. Chill in the fridge for about 20 minutes until set.
12. Cover again with a second coat of chocolate ganache. Smooth the ganache with an offset palette knife and cake scraper.
13. Decorate however you’d like, we like to use Maraschino cherries.”
#16
Tried A Mirror Glaze
Vicky Z 4 years ago
These types of cakes are extremely difficult to make even for professionals! It was a very risky attempt
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
The cake on the left is gorgeous! I doubt many people could recreate it.
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#17
We Ordered The Cake On The Left And Received The Cake On The Right. Elmo Has Seen Better Days
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Why do people who CANNOT make professional cakes offer their services to make professional cakes?
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
At the very least they should have been able to make the eyes and nose! They're probably just fondant that you roll into balls. I can do that much. These so- called "professionals" aren't professionals.
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Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
How to you mess up that bad? Honestly the design is pretty simple
#18
How Do You Want Your Birthday Cake Decorated? I Don't Care
Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
For the love of all thats holy MY A**S IS BLEEDING!!!!
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Mister Ghost Foot 4 years ago
"My a**s is bleeding... My a**s is.. Bleeding!" Loved watching rejected. Such a good video
cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
Cake Decorator: What would you like on the cake? Customer: Nothing fancy, nothing extra and do go over the top. Just put Happy day. Period
marie elle 4 years ago
THIS IS GREAT, I hope I remember, when my doughter is due and I hope she inherits my humor!
Aliquid 4 years ago
Exactly that. A fluffy little creature with a bleeding a^us
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A Friend Of Mine Ordered A Picture Cake And Gave The Woman A Thumb Drive With The Picture She Wanted To Use
When my friend went to pick it up, this is what was waiting for her. English is the clerks second language. You can fill in the blanks here.
Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
Your friend is the dumb one here! Why did she assume the shop could access the drive?
Itzel Bastian 4 years ago
To be fair, why not take or send the picture, why do you hand someone a thumb drive for one picture on your cake.
#20
Throwback To That Time I Tried My Triedest To Make My Larry A Chewbacca Cake
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago (edited)
Hey, I think you did OK; I was guessing Chewie before I read the caption.
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
That's a damn fine start! That fur is fantastic! They got a little stressed with the eyes and that's easy to do. If they'd taken a break and came back to it, they might would have gotten a better idea for the eyes. I often have to take a break and come back to relieve the stress. If they tried the head again, they'd probably nail it.
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Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Yeah, I immediately thought of the muppet show as well
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StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
If you had paid attention to the eyes and actually tried to match them, it would have looked great. Chewbacca didn't have blue eyes like hard-boiled eggs. Black or dark brown candies would have looked better. Great frosting technique, though!
#21
Ordered A Birthday Cake For My Niece
Kanga9ine 4 years ago
Ya think all Disney characters without make up are just like regular putzes like us and we have spent millions trying to look like them, made it impossible for nice guys who don't look walk around and speak the same crap every Prince Charming knows will work on Princess after Princess, or that our cars will turn into a vegetable and our Fairy Godmother floats in a bubble we watched slapped between the hands of some kid isn't real. Pish tosh. Ask the mirror on the wall.
#22
My Girlfriend Brought Me A Cake To Work For My Birthday
Sarah Beth 4 years ago
Love how there are toothpicks in the top (to protect the details of the cake in transit), because clearly this is a masterpiece. 🎂
Mallory m. Brewer 4 years ago
I love this one actually. Imma put that cake in the list of stuff to bake when I open a bakery later in life (like when I’m 25 or something)
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Oh...you have the same dream I did!! Go out and live your dreams, my darling! Succeed where I have given up! I believe in you!!
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#23
Unicorn
An Co 4 years ago
Why? I mean, the original cake is just a round cake with a horn, ears and normal swirls. Why would you make a bowling ball with googly eyes?
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
My question exactly! The mohawk wearing fail cake would have actually been harder to make than the first...
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#24
Corgi Cake For My Boyfriend's Birthday
Daria B 4 years ago
Not only colours. It looks more like a dog, actually. I prefer that one too.
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Springy The Non Binary Boi(They/Them) 4 years ago
How is this a fail it looks so good almost too good enough to eat.
#25
Yummers!
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Are those real teeth?! This may be a crime scene... This is a true nightmare. lol
Laura Probst 4 years ago
Jesus! Kill it with fire! Or napalm. *shudder* Did they mold the cake over a real human skull? Look at those teeth!!
#26
We Wanted To Create Something Beautiful For Our Wedding Cake. I Turned Out To Be A Pregnant Sumo Wrestler
earringnut 4 years ago
No the astronaut maker had skill. Though they do seem to share the same twisted sense of humor.
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Ikr, perfectly round balls with 2 dots for eyes, no nose, small line for mouth, and tiny half hearts for ears. By not making a nose, they'd skip half the face destruction. Whoever made it, made the job more difficult for themselves.
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#27
I Wanted A Cake That Looked Like My Cat It Was A Fail But It’s Still Pretty Cute
Ozymandias73 4 years ago
Cat is saying: "Am I a joke to you? This looks like an alien had sex with another cat"
Snekky/Snek (She/they is fine) 4 years ago
Tbh that looks like that one cake in that birthday Daniel tiger episode my siblings won’t stop watching
#28
Someone Brought My Sleep Paralysis Monster To Life
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Moisturize me! Why did I instantly think of Cassandra from that infamous Dr.Who episode?
#29
Olaf Cake
Kira Okah 4 years ago
You can't exactly reproduce the look of a fondant cake if you're not using fondant though. Olaf 2 looks like he was iced while warm too, with the body parts sliding down the icing. He is saveable with time and care.
A B C 4 years ago
Tbh, I think it'd take less time to just make it again from scratch.
Load More Replies... Mark Cleary 4 years ago
Right !!!???? That's exactly what I was thinking ! If Gonzo and Olaf had a child together, lol (I know, genetically impossible, but... 🤪)
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#30
I Recreated The Cursed Hedgehog Cake, But As A Baked Alaska
Mallory m. Brewer 4 years ago
I never understood how baked Alaska worked. Like, isn’t it ice cream you put in the oven?
Marissa Taylor 4 years ago
yes but the meringue keeps the ice cream cool. and the ice cream is solid. Or you just use a kitchen torch. Over all tho its mainly for show
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BeExcellentToEachother 4 years ago
It's delicious, and pretty easy to make 😊
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Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
If you were deliberately trying to replicate the original hedgehog cake fail, you succeeded. Which means this is not a fail - you nailed it!
#31
Spiderman
#32
Steve Harvey Cake
#33
I Was Asked What I Want Written On My Cake. I Said Nothing
KJ 4 years ago
Looking at the quality of the other decorations / patterns, I would say the nothing was added by someone else.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
My very first after school job was in a bakery. There were always several blank versions of each cake available, so if someone needed a cake when the decorator wasn't working, we just got one out and wrote on it for the customer. It's not unusual to me that the writing was done by a different hand... it is surprising that they let someone write on a cake who seems to have never done it before.
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#34
I Just Couldn’t Wait To Share This
Made this little guy out of a cupcake, buttercream, pretzels, marshmallows, jellybeans, and candy eyes. His expression makes me feel like he's going to hunt me down for creating him. I can't wait to see everyone's bursting creations!
Nul Nemo 4 years ago
Well, I guess the one on the left could show what happens to your brain after you see the one on the right...🤔🤯
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#35
This Cake Looks Like A Wet Gremlin Went Leather Face Texax Chain Saw Massacre Style And Is Wearing The Face Of Another Wet Gremlin
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Mercy, after the face, it looks like they just threw blobs of icing on it and didn't even try.
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Brian Brown 4 years ago
LMAOF! The only thing that would make the second version better is the presenter of the first gremlin.
StrawberryParfait 4 years ago
When your frosting looks like poop, camouflage it with chocolate sprinkles. It will look much better than this
#36
Kill Me
Vicky Z 4 years ago
It's easier to make it "disappear" so you don't see it
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We Requested A Friends Themed Cake
Mark Cleary 4 years ago
Yes, but Joey will eat ANYTHING. Remember Rachel's meat trifle ? Lol
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#38
Shrek
Brian Brown 4 years ago
All I can imagine if that your mouth would dyed a permanent green and taste of disappointment, much like the movies. LOL
#39
Grooms Cake Disaster, What We Wanted Vs. What We Got
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
The thing I am not understanding, where are these people buying these cakes?
2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
Given a choice between the two I'd go for the amateur-cake-mess on the right right rather than a cake with dead people on it.
#40
My Mum Loves Those Pictures Of Ugly Hedgehog Cakes, So I Made Her A Zero Sugar/Low Carb Version For Mother's Day. Delicious And Terrifying
My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
Same. My mom would appreciate the heck out of this! When I was a kid, I accidentally sat on my dad's birthday cake (it was still in its box, on the backseat of the family car). He still loved it because he loved all of us kids and didn't mind the butt imprint.
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Jennifer Adams 1 year ago
This looks like something managed to scare the 💩 out of the Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
#41
Tried To Make A Fox Cake For My Partners Birthday And This Monster Was Created Instead (Added Sprinkles To Soften The Blow)
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I also see an infection to the right! Needs to visit an ob
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#42
My Mum Was Asked To Make A Baby Shower Cake. Let's Just Say, No One Wanted To Cut The Cord
MellonCollie 4 years ago
Personally, I think it looks awesome. Not sure what exactly was ordered, but you can't say it's not well done!
Robert Brooks 4 years ago
I wouldn't call this a fail... it may be rather unsettling, but it's excellent work
#43
Cake Fail
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Road hard and put away wet. For a pack of smokes, she'll show you a good time. LOL
Gerard Neaux 4 years ago (edited)
It's hilarious and not at all ugly. As fails go, it's a good one
#44
Blursed Hedgehog Cake
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
I was about to ask the same thing! Am I missing some new terrifiying trend?
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Pascale Pierloot 4 years ago
AMAZING! Nobody ever tell you...??? To leave the baking to someone else and focus on something completely different...🙃😉🤭
#45
Made A Pikachu Cake
#46
[oc] Kill Me
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
How on earth can you mess this up? I mean they didn't succeed in anything neither the cream or the biscuits or the jello! That's not so difficult to make
Marianne Saiso 4 years ago
It wasn't cooled for long enough, that's exactly how. Nothing more to it than letting it chill for over 5 hours.
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its actually easy which is saying alot all u have to do is assemble it make sure u have the mold and let it chill for over 5 hours overnight is best
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#47
My Girlfriend Spent $100 To Get Me A White Claw Cake For My Birthday. She Was Less Than Pleased With The Result
Rissie 4 years ago
But then again, you asked for a cake in the shape of a mango seltzer. I would have passed if I had the skills.
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Jo87 4 years ago
I don't know about US but the equivalent of $100 here in the UK wouldn't be a lot for the original cake. It's only small but it would take a long time to do so it's a lot of labour and you'd need to be quite skilled to pull off that writing using edible ink on a rounded surface so you'd expect the price to reflect the skill level too
#48
Ordered Cake On The Left, Received Cake On The Right
Vicky Z 4 years ago
The first one looks like a ninja like the second one looks like me when i decide to finally get out of my house and meet people!
MellonCollie 4 years ago
Is creating a cake wreck a hobby now? Not very difficult to mess up when 1. You use icing instead of fondant and 2. You don't know what you're doing 🤔
Big Blue Cat 4 years ago
Not that bad as a cake but the lego ninjago theme is totally missing.
#49
Birthday Cake My Mom's Friend Wanted A Replica Of vs. What She Got - 50€
Hugo Raible 4 years ago
Quite ok for 50 EUR. For the left one you'd be more in the 100 EUR range or more.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I can't imagine a friend charging another friend 50 euros for this... I think she ordered it from a shop.
#50
I’m Glad We Only Paid €72 For This
purple zebra 4 years ago
The one on the left would typically take about 6-8 hours to create. Multiply that by $20-$30 an hour which is what a cake artist who has the skill to make the cake on the left would be paid and that explains why you got what you got for €72
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Only?! That's almost 100 USD. For that?! How big is it? Because the fail looks like a $30 cake you can get at the supermarket.
Kristof De Smet 4 years ago
I don't get this. It wouldn't even be that hard to make it as good looking as the picture.
#51
Wife's Friend Had A Superhero Themed Swim Party For Their 4-Year Old Son. This Is What The Bakery Came Up With
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
First thing I did was look for Wolverine.
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
How you Mom tells you that she is tired of making superhero themed cakes
#52
Tried To Make A Cake To Immortalize My Cat, I Have Not Stopped Laughing
#53
My Mom Made A Lamb Cake For Easter
#54
Every Year For My Birthday My Mum Finds The Dodgyest Cake On The Internet And Recreates It For Me. This Is The Result
Casey Burns 4 years ago
LOLOL I read that as "doggyest." I'm like.... where's the dog? Ha. I'm stupid.
#55
Honestly, Happier With What I Got Than What I Ordered
#56
Cat Cake
#57
Cake Fail
#58
Cake Fail
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Thank God our sculptures do not come to life, this one would wreak havoc on the local fishing villages.
Brian Brown 4 years ago
Thank God that sculptures do not come to life. This one would wreak havoc on the local fishing villages.
#59
Master Yoda, Who Has Gone Through A Lot In His Life
#60
Cake Ordered Vs. What Arrived
#61
I Asked For A Pikachu Cake And Got A Pigachu
#62
This Beauty Has Been Both My Favorite And Worst Cake At The Same Time
#63
Lady Gaga Cake
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Maybe it was born that way? (I thought there was a bit of a nip slip on the left.)
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
If only they went with the meat dress theme them just slap some prosciutto on it and call it a day.
#64
Cake My Girlfriend Made For Her Daughter's 21st Tonight
#65
Cat Cake
#66
The Cake I Spent 1h To Make. At Least Im Sure It's Not Too Dry
#67
Birthday Cake Attempt This Weekend
#68
E For Effort For My Little Sister..
#69
Lumpy Space Princess
#70
My Wife And I Have A Competition In Who Can Get The Other Person The Most Upsetting Cake
#71
Nailed It
#72
Cake I Ordered vs. Cake I Received. Happy Mother’s Day!
#73
I Made A Hedgehog Cake For My Boyfriend Today
#74
Cute Cactus Attempt
#75
Birthday Cake
Shazz Winchester 4 years ago
My question is - what does it summon? Those runes.... look deliberately placed
#76
I Was Reminded Of A Lesson That I Hope To Always Avoid
#77
My Failed Attempt At Making A Baby Yoda Cake
#78
This Is A Horse
#79
When You Try To Bake A Cake Of Your Dog And It Looks More Like A Poo
#81
My Girlfriend Was Adamant She Could Make A Cake Exactly Like The One On The Left
#83
My Pregnant Friend Won This Cake From A Local Bakery
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Messed up another cake. Well have a drawing and give it to some random person, because free cake.
#84
Wife Made Me A Birthday Cake
Emberek Nullaharom 4 years ago
i love it! it is like rethinking the design knowing your own limits. and it kinda works for me
#85
I Made An R2D2 Cake
#86
Throwback To When We Tried To Make Aunt Petunias Cake
#87
My Friend Tried To Replicate This Cute Little Lamb Cake. What She Got Was Perfection
#88
My GF's Little Brother Wanted An Army Cake For His Birthday
Mom orders one over the phone. When they go to pick it up, this is what they arrive to. I think there was a slight miscommunication.
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
She asked for an arm-y cake, she got an arm-y cake. What's the problem?
AwkwardDinosuar3000 4 years ago
She was hoping for a military cake I guess
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Spongebob Cake
#90
Friend's Take On The Piglets In Mud Cake
#91
Sonic The Hedgehog
#92
When You Just Can’t Bear To Actually Set It On Fire
#93
Eat Pant
#94
That Is An Actual Piece Of Toast
#95
Nailed It
This is what happens when I think I have not just dropper food coloring sets but a full on 12 piece Wilton professional set of food coloring... only when I went to try to find it, it’s nowhere to be seen. The other three packages of food coloring (one all-the-chemical-way and two crunchy granola colored-by-carrots types) are now an X file. BUT....
I do have 27 bottles of various sprinkles, and this is the result. The kids even helped. My now 6 year old Birthday Boy told me it’s the best cake he’s ever had, and that his birthday was the awesomest yet.
#96
Tried To Make A Birthday Cake
#97
What Do You Do When It's Early Covid, Everything Is Closed And A 6 Year Old Boy Wants A Bugs Bunny Cake
#98
A Spongebob Cake
#99
Very Proud To Share With You Our First Cake
#100
The Glorious Snowman Ice Cream Cake My Mom Bought
Cheryl Zandt 4 years ago
Am I right in thinking that this one is the picture on the box vs what was inside the box?
#101
Brother Ordered His Daughters Birthday Cake, She Specifically Wanted It To Have Justin Bieber And Pink Color Frosting
#102
A Cereal Bowl Cake
I decided to try it for myself using (mostly) off-the-shelf baking and decorating supplies. End result is cute, quirky, and a bit flawed because I winged it on a few steps.
#103
In Keeping Up With The Tradition Of Making Tragic Holiday Cakes, Here Is An Easter Bunny Cake With Soulless Eyes
#104
Worked On This All Day. Not The Best, But My Bluey Fan Turns Three Today
#105
What’s Easter Without A Super Janky Bunny Cake? At Least It’s Yummy
#106
A Creation For Son's Birthday
#107
The One That Assembled This Cake, Read The Instructions Wrong
#108
Eight Crazy Nights! That’s How Long Those Candles Will Prop Up That House
#109
Ok You Can Laugh
#111
Bee Cake
#112
My Niece's Bday Cake. An Attempt Was Made
#114
The Best Part Of This Nightmare Was That I Knew You’d Love It Anyway And We’d Laugh About It
#116
Celebrating My First Divorceversary And The Office Girls Bought Me A Cake
#118
My Mum Asked What Cake To Make My 1yr Old For His Birthday. We Asked For A Duck
#120
It Is My Middle Child's Birthday Today. Maby Professional Cake Decorating Not In My Skillset But What It Lacked In Looks It Made Up For In Flavor
#121
I Usually Decorate The Lamb Cake For Easter, But My Mother In Law Had To Do It Herself This Year. This Is The Result
#122
It’s Supposed To Look Like Eevee, But Let’s Be Honest, It Looks Like Dobby With A Beard
#127
Made German Chocolate Cake From Scratch. Tastes Better Than It Looks
#130
The Wedding Cake I Asked For And The Cake I Received
Ayla Smith 4 years ago
The picture of the wedding cake and the actual outcome both look like s**t. Neither look like a wedding cake - both look like a homemade mess.
#131
In Today’s Episode Of How Not To Ice A Cake
#132
Donkey
memyselfandI 4 years ago
That is actually really accurate for the Shrek donkey. Maybe the proportions of the legs are a little off, but it’s a cake, so props to you.
#133
Project/Expectation Of The Night : Alligator Cake! Reality : Turdagator Cake. Poor Turdagator. I'm Sorry I've Failed You
#134
Here It Is Folks. The Pièce De Résistance
I attempted yet again to make a lego man cake for Carlisle as requested by him and as you can see, it turned out amazing! The cake got stuck in the silicone mould thing and when I was trying to get it out I kinda lost handle of everything and it flung off the cooling rack thing and smooshed onto the bench... believe it or not, what you see before you is actually 4 separate/smashed pieces and I ate the rest I couldn’t put back together lol!
So I made it a zombie instead which they both thought was hilarious 😂
And @colessupermarkets gluten free vanilla cake mix for the win 👌 tasted.
#135
A Little Love From The Woke Kirby Gang
#136
Easter Bunny Bundt Cake
Clearly someone is missing their ears and this is definitely the messiest bundt cake I’ve ever made but it was still so nice to spend Easter with my mixer, dogs and priest in HD.
#138
You Might Remember The Fabulously Terrifying Hedgehog Cake I Made For A Mate A Few Months Ago. Today She Hedgehog Caked Me Back
#139
Unicorn Cake
Karen Lyon 4 years ago (edited)
It's a layer cake, people. Butter, flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking soda. I learned how to make these from a box mix when I was five, at my auntie's knee. I made my first from scratch when I was ten and in Camp Fire Girls. (And trust me when I tell you that was all quite some time back.) It really isn't rocket science. The frosting/decorating part could be intimidating, sure, but holy shenanigans, how does a simple layer cake turn out this awful?
#140
It Was My Son's Birthday On The Weekend. All He Wanted Was A Duck Cake. Looks Great On Angle, But Front On Its Nightmare Fuel
#141
Close Enough
#143
As A Self Taught Baker, Not Every Cake Comes Out Perfect. As We Practice, We Learn , And We Are Humbled
#146
I Tried To Recreate Nailed It! The Show And I Tried To Make A Thanksgiving Turkey Cake And I Think I Did OK
#147
Here Is The Fattest, Most Diabolical LEGO Man Ever
#149
Perfect
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Most of these fails are because people are clueless about what kind of frosting to use. But it is a simple thing. The more detailed you want to get, the stiffer your frosting needs to be.
#150
Gradution Day
#155
Welcome Back From Coma
Wombatred26 4 years ago (edited)
Looks like they used catsup to line out/write in the correction...🤮
#159
Well Kids. You Win Some, You Lose Some—today The Cake Defeated Me. I’ll Get It Next Time With A More Refined Recipe
#160
I Attempted A Caterpillar Cake. It Will Haunt My Nightmares Forever
#161
When You Think You Had A Bad Day, I Want You To Look Closely At This Cake And Know That Someone Had A Way Harder Day Than You
#164
My Feeble Attempt At A Wreck It Ralph Cake By Request Of My 7-Year-Old While He Was Gone Watching The Movie For His B-Day
#167
Cake Made By Friend Who Works At Walmart
#170
My Mom Asked What Kind Of Cake I Wanted For My Birthday, I Said “Carrot Cake” And I Got Exactly What I Asked For. Well Played Mom
#171
Sometimes The Cake Works With Me, Sometimes It Fights Me And Since This Was A Monster Cake It's Not Surprising It Beat Me This Time
#172
Tried To Get Fancy With The Lamb Cake And Fill It With Sprinkles - But It Wasn’t Quite Sturdy Enough
#173
I See Your “Ugliest Carrot Cake” And Raise You My Turd Carrot Cake
#174
My Incredible Talent For Not Just Baking, But Decorating. I Will Not Be Taking Questions At This Time
Karen Lyon 4 years ago
At least this cake rose....unless that's six layers there, instead of two.
#176
Dog Cake
#178
Deflated Ball
#179
Do Better
Karen Lyon 4 years ago
There are people who think this is okay. I know of a young man who came from a dysfuntional family, with a raging alcoholic father as a role model, that ended up getting into drugs. His mother and his sister put a similar message on his birthday cake. It wasn't helpful or productive.
#180
This Patriotic Cheese Cake
Hrydhaan Worah 4 years ago
could have added blueberries where the strawberries are and strawberries where the blueberries are it would look great
#181
Traditional Thanksgiving Dessert 2020 Edition
#182
Birthday Cake My Mom's Friend Wanted A Replica Of Vs. What She Got - 50€
#183
Cake At The Wedding I Attended This Weekend
#184
Making My Dreams A Reality
#186
Remember
#187
Fiancé And I Are Practicing Our Homemade Wedding Cake
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Celeste Grant 4 years ago
This shows that people don't use the right kind of icing to get the results they want. Buttercream is never going to look or behave like fondant icing. I think they also ice the cakes warm when they need to be cold too. There is a reason that professional cakes are pricy, and that's because it takes skill and time to make them look good.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
My favorites were the ones that the original used buttercream and couldn't understand why whipped acted differently. I agree they don't seem to understand the differences between fondant, whipped, buttercream, or just because you can decorate a cake doesn't mean you can sculpt figurines. Always look to see if sculpted figurines are part of their portfolio, and know what the heck you're ordering. If the artist asks you multiple times if you're sure, you've chosen wrong and they're trying to get you to get it right.
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Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
A lot of these cakes are either homemade, or homemade by someone else for a fraction of the price of a real baker's cake. No wonder they turn out like this. I'd not accept these failures from a real bakery where you paid a normal price, but if you want to be cheap, you can expect this.
Kita Bradshaw 4 years ago
I make my kids ones and def not a professional. It’s not that hard.
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DuchessDegu 4 years ago
Frosting and fondant are completely different things. Let the damn cake to cool down, stone cold, before decorating. A lot of the cakes in photos are either inedible (for photo shooting purposes) or images been heavily edited. Yes some people can make wonderful, delicious, gorgeous cakes but it'll cost you
MonsterMum 4 years ago
I'm sure at lot of these are deliberate for likes/views. I'm no expert but if you use the right ingredients (sugar paste not buttercream most of the time) you can produce something reasonable. If you put hideous sweet teeth on your hedgehog you know it's going to look bad. I'm sorry for the ones who paid though
LittleMissLotus 4 years ago
To be fair, most of the hedgehog ones and I think the Belle one explicitly stated that they are awful on purpose because they were recreating one specific cake. I'm going to have to agree about some of the other ones, though.
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Rose the Cook 4 years ago
If someone near to you baked you a cake it is the thought that counts. If ordering from a bakery, just because they bake great cakes doesn't mean they can decorate artistically. Only buy from bakers where you have seen their decorating skills before.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I wonder if these people looked at any of the cakes leaving the bakery before they placed their order. Some bakeries have inedible models set up as examples of their work, which may or may not have been assembled by the decorator there. If you're planning to spend a bundle on a cake, look at the cakes going out of the shop before handing over money... often times, you can just peek over the counter and see the finished products, if not, ask to see several finished cakes before ordering your own.
Celeste Grant 4 years ago
This shows that people don't use the right kind of icing to get the results they want. Buttercream is never going to look or behave like fondant icing. I think they also ice the cakes warm when they need to be cold too. There is a reason that professional cakes are pricy, and that's because it takes skill and time to make them look good.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
My favorites were the ones that the original used buttercream and couldn't understand why whipped acted differently. I agree they don't seem to understand the differences between fondant, whipped, buttercream, or just because you can decorate a cake doesn't mean you can sculpt figurines. Always look to see if sculpted figurines are part of their portfolio, and know what the heck you're ordering. If the artist asks you multiple times if you're sure, you've chosen wrong and they're trying to get you to get it right.
Load More Replies... Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
A lot of these cakes are either homemade, or homemade by someone else for a fraction of the price of a real baker's cake. No wonder they turn out like this. I'd not accept these failures from a real bakery where you paid a normal price, but if you want to be cheap, you can expect this.
Kita Bradshaw 4 years ago
I make my kids ones and def not a professional. It’s not that hard.
Load More Replies... DuchessDegu 4 years ago
Frosting and fondant are completely different things. Let the damn cake to cool down, stone cold, before decorating. A lot of the cakes in photos are either inedible (for photo shooting purposes) or images been heavily edited. Yes some people can make wonderful, delicious, gorgeous cakes but it'll cost you
MonsterMum 4 years ago
I'm sure at lot of these are deliberate for likes/views. I'm no expert but if you use the right ingredients (sugar paste not buttercream most of the time) you can produce something reasonable. If you put hideous sweet teeth on your hedgehog you know it's going to look bad. I'm sorry for the ones who paid though
LittleMissLotus 4 years ago
To be fair, most of the hedgehog ones and I think the Belle one explicitly stated that they are awful on purpose because they were recreating one specific cake. I'm going to have to agree about some of the other ones, though.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 4 years ago
If someone near to you baked you a cake it is the thought that counts. If ordering from a bakery, just because they bake great cakes doesn't mean they can decorate artistically. Only buy from bakers where you have seen their decorating skills before.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I wonder if these people looked at any of the cakes leaving the bakery before they placed their order. Some bakeries have inedible models set up as examples of their work, which may or may not have been assembled by the decorator there. If you're planning to spend a bundle on a cake, look at the cakes going out of the shop before handing over money... often times, you can just peek over the counter and see the finished products, if not, ask to see several finished cakes before ordering your own.
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