Gone are days of simple birthday cakes with some nice icing and perhaps some fondant flowers as décor. Now, cakes are works of art. They tell stories, speak of cultural allegiances, demonstrate a sense of humour, deliver insults or tell a story. Recently a man ordered a birthday cake designed to look like an Amazon package for his wife – because she liked receiving those packages so much!
Sweet Dreams Bakery in North Carolina helped create this cake for a husband who wanted to wish his wife happy birthday (or perhaps just send her a message/warning?)
There is a coffin, there is the dirt that was dug out of the ground and the space created for the coffin to go. Sure, we’ll add die one day, but this would be exceedingly macabre for someone without a sense of humour or a philosophical bent of mind.
This is a strange way of congratulating someone for navigating their teens – apparently doing so without getting pregnant is an achievement rather than simple good sense? And this woman thought her sister needed to be congratulated for this.
It’s a dino (I think or perhaps a very benign-looking dragon), with its tail on fire. The cake makes much more sense when the candles are lit up.
This is the cake that isn’t a cake at all – it’s a balloon. All I can say is, what a waste of frosting and sprinkles!
Such a lovely colour, with a happy little rainbow-winged unicorn/ horse skipping over it --- how nice, you think, until you read the wording.
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