'A slight misunderstanding at the bakery': 20 Bakery mistakes and messed-up cakes

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

Nov 4, 2024 3:00 PM EST

How hard could it be to write "Happy Birthday" on a cake? It's not as easy as it seems, and that's why we often pay professional bakeries the big bucks to handle that task for us. It's easy to look at a cake design and feel confident that you can do it yourself. But once you start frosting that cake, you realize that you're totally out of your league! And most parents want to give their children the world, so realizing that you can't make a picture-perfect Ariel the Little Mermaid cake is a good enough reason to pay for a pro to do it.

Alongside some botched cakes, we also have a few photos of bakeries who had some wild dough disasters. Apparently the yeast in some dough can cause them to balloon to insane proportions if they're not properly thrown away! It's going to be quite the mess to clean up for whatever unfortunate soul has to clean a hundred pounds of exploded dough out of these receptacles. Check out these intriguing bakery fails for yourself down below!

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