'Thak you': 25 Seriously silly cakes made by pros and amateurs

We've all burnt a cake or dropped some cupcakes on the floor, but we've never botched a cake as bad as some of these professional bakers.

Before we start roasting these cakes, let's take a moment to comment on the types of "bad" cakes. In general, I think that almost any homemade cake that looks "bad" is actually really cute. The people sharing these photos are often parents or partners who want the perfect dessert for their loved one. They try hard, but they're not experts, and the results are silly and charming. 

However. Bakers who sell a product that looks terrible? You get no forgiveness. That means that a family came to you with an idea and an expectation that they'd get $50-$75 worth of beautiful cake to show off on the birthday person's big day. To then mangle the cake either with slopping handwriting, misspellings, or misunderstandings leaves a lot of people royally irritated. For all those below who paid for botched cakes, I hope y'all got your refunds. And for all the home bakers, keep on making the best-worst cakes we've ever seen! (Except that one person with the nightmare-inducing hedgehog cake… you knock it off.)

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