25+ Cake mistakes that were not what customers wanted: 'Ordered many days in advance, and this is what they gave me'

If you're paying a bakery the big bucks to make you a nice cake for a celebration, you'd hope they do an incredible job. After all, for many bakeries, churning out dozens and dozens of cakes each day is just par for the course. Even when people request specialty cakes, or those with writing on them, they expect that a professional will handle it, and all they have to do is pick up the dessert and arrive at the party with a beautiful cake to feed their loved ones.

However, it's clear that not every bakery is hiring professionals. I imagine it takes some time to learn to properly ice a cake and write on it: there are 12-week courses that teach the baker how to nail a "Happy Birthday" or "Congrats, grad!" message on a cake. Sometimes, the person doing the cake writing just doesn't understand what people actually want on the cake, or they write the directions down, being too literal instead of just reading between the lines. Like when someone writes "red heart," you aren't supposed to write that out, friend, you're supposed to… draw a red heart! As dismaying as some of these cakes made their recipients, we can only hope that they got a huge belly laugh out of it, and also got a nice refund or discount on their next dessert.

After that, read about the job candidates whose mid-interview mistakes cost them the job: "I could barely contain my laughter."

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Such dramatics

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I hope her gluten free cake helped her feel better!
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Looks great, what's wrong with it?

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...Oh... that's uncool

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I think many of us could call this a single serve cake

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Plus the spacing of the writing looks just terrible!
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This is the kind of thing you should leave a 1-star review for

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That's just a rip off, and it could've affected how many guests were able to have a slice of cake!
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Too literal

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What's your best guess?

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One person thought that this was an attempt to make a barbecue grill with a spatula, while another person speculated that it was a football field. Art is up to interpretation, I suppose.
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The top part is pretty... maybe they can just swirl around the bottom 2/3 of the cake icing and forget it ever happened

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Happy Farther's Day to all those dads near and far

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"American Flag"

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Campy! Fun! Strange!

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Let's see how one grocery store handled Mother's Day

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Best of ever?

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Well this one's true at least

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Hmm okay

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Whoops!

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Congratulations
Cast & Crew
Of
Moon _{^{over Buffalo}}

A lot going on with this cake!
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Hinty?

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Ohhh, it's the handwriting

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I hope the 30 year old laughed and laughed about this one!
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This person wondered if they were overreacting to how much frosting was in this cake, but commenters assured them that 2 inches of frosting is a bit much

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It makes you wonder if their cakes are always like that, or if they just turned out thinner than usual that day. Sadly, this person wrote that the cake was "totally inedible," and strangely enough, the manager admitted they "get a lot of questions about the frosting," even though they just make it as the recipe states. If only someone had the managerial sway to do something about that!
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I think lowercase words were around before 1993

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I love this lil Elmo! The creator writes that they were bored at work, and this was the result.
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Straight to the point

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