Thanks to readers who send in pictures, Jen Yates of Cake Wrecks never runs out of hilarious cakes to show us. In her latest post, she highlights instructions that were misunderstood in ways that make you facepalm. You can almost imagine that some have to be examples of malicious compliance, because how can anyone get these instruction so very wrong? I've worked at a bakery where I was charged with adding writing to cakes, and it's a simple matter to go over a request one more time to make sure the cake will appear the way they want, or in the case of a form left for the next decorator, to call someone with any possible issues. In the case of the cake shown above "there were three choices of decorations on the order form: balloons, roses, or mums. Dee chose mums." There are several more examples of facepalm-inducing cake instructions that should have been confirmed before proceeding at Cake Wrecks.
And if you liked that, you'll love a roundup of cakes illustrating New Discoveries in the Animal Kingdom, complete with descriptive names.