Jen Yates at Cake Wrecks has a never-ending supply of submitted cake decorations gone wrong. How does it happen? Sometimes it's obviously the work of someone who has never decorated a cake, or is in training, or who is in too much of a hurry to care. Other times, it's a matter of communication breakdown. Or it could be just a lack of both education and common sense. In a recent roundup of perplexing cakes, we actually got to see the order form, so we can parse what happened The customer wanted a cake to celebrate "Over the Hump Day."
Now, I've worked in a bakery and often rewrote an order to make everything as clear as could be. Those forms come in boxes of hundreds. We don't know if the person who took the order is the same person who decorated the cake, but it hardly matters. There were problems on both ends.
Considering how they spelled "green" and "different," you know something will go wrong. But at least we would get something green and different, right? With pink and yellow decorations as the checkmarks indicate, right? Right? Let's see...
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Oh my. It's neither green nor different, but they got the blue "writhing" going on. And the phrase they wanted was completely scrambled. Looking on the bright side, maybe it tasted good. Read the whole story of the hump day cake and others at Cake Wrecks.