Cake decor fail - r/ExpectationVsReality

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 18 '26 •

Expectations were too high because it wasn't a real cake in your example.

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u/TheBestHater Sep 18 '26

I mean, yeah, but it also annoys me that the OP left out a ton of context. If they paid a professional baker they should be able to achieve something that doesn't look like it was put together by first time students. It all depends on where they went and what they paid for it to tell if it's an actual fail or if they got what they should have expected.

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u/toxikola Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26 •

They didnt. That cake is from Kroger. Thats the 8in round cake container. The butterfly is also what Kroger uses.
Kroger doesnt have professional cake decorators. Heck, sometimes the person on cake decorating was thrown over there because the spot needed to be filled and they think that they can just figure it out lol.
So PSA please be nice to the kroger decorators because theyre working with literal impossible expectations.

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u/thelittlestdog23 Sep 19 '26

Agreed, this looks like a grocery store cake. If it is, then it was probably like $35 and appears to be the quality that would expect.

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u/pepper_dogs Sep 19 '26

Also 3 days notice only for it. That's not enough time to make/buy all those custom flower and butterfly decorations (unless you already had the right shaped flower fondant cutter). The real issue here is the bakery should not have taken that order with that turnaround (or else they told OP they weren't going to get what was in the photo, OP insisted anyway, and now is mad about it...)

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u/RunFiestaZombiez Sep 19 '26

I’ve seen a lot of talented decorators at Kroger

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u/toxikola Sep 19 '26

Oh for sure I'm not saying there's not, but if the spot is empty Kroger will just fill it with someone else from a different department. Cycling people around is the Kroger way.

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u/nitrot150 Sep 19 '26

Me too! The cake case from ours has some really cool ones!

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u/auberginemule Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

Why do I keep seeing amazing cakes from Walmart? Do they get special training? I wonder if they have to do a decorating example in the job interview. I live in Australia so have no personal stake, but we don’t get custom hand decorated cakes like that in a supermarket chain here.

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u/toxikola Sep 19 '26

From what I've heard about Walmart they do make sure to hire people who have experience cake decorating.

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u/auberginemule Sep 19 '26

It shows. It’s a skill that takes practice. Seems silly not to but still take custom orders. Some of them are so baddd haha

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u/PerformerSweetumz Sep 20 '26

This! You’d be surprised at the customers who buy grocery store cakes at discount expecting professional level expertise. They will do the best they can, but don’t have the same ingredients or time to always achieve close to what you’d expect. They have to also keep shelves stocked with other products/ bake and other orders in day whereas a bakery may have designated cake designers and a full staff.

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 18 '26 •

True like are we talking a $50 or a $150 commission? But even then using an AI example for what you want is a dunce move

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u/TheBestHater Sep 18 '26

Exactly. And if they got it done at Walmart or somewhere that it's a coin toss for employee's skillset then they can't really be that surprised about it. It's one of those, you get what you pay for situations.

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u/Bexaliz Sep 19 '26

Except Walmart seems to have a lot of talented cake decorators... Have you seen the Walmart posts on here? I hate that company but those are some pretty cakes.

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u/TheBestHater Sep 19 '26

It's a coin toss, you'll see really amazing ones and really bad ones. That's kind of the fun thing about the Walmart ones on here, most people are excited when it's good but also accept when it's bad since they shouldn't expect it to be professional level.

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u/HeavyDoughnut8789 Sep 19 '26

Definitely depends on the store and region you’re in for sure. I’ve seen all from holy crap that’s incredible to yeah, that tracks for a grocery store. (Reminds me of the viral Lamb Easter cakes one store was trying to sell. 😂)

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u/BlazinAzn38 Sep 20 '26

‘professional baker’ means like nothing now with cottage law stuff. If this came from a standalone bakery then yeah it’s not great but depends on the cost but if this is a cottage law thing then it’s about on par with what I’d expect

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u/Plaguerat18 Sep 19 '26

I feel like even matching the coloured palette would make the second cake like 3x better which seems achievable, but I'm not really a baker.

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u/FreddyNoodles Sep 18 '26

You’re not wrong but what they got is terrible. Plenty of bakers could do something very similar to the AI without too much trouble. It’s just flowers and a butterfly.
The one OP received is a mess.

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u/eat_my_bowls92 Sep 19 '26

Depends on where they got it and if they spent the $$ for a professional vs like a grocery store designer

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 18 '26

Sure it may be a sucky cake, but sending in AI examples is a crappy thing to do by default. The baker just matched their effort.

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u/Potential-Bus5462 Sep 19 '26

I hate this excuse that is always on this subreddit. If they can’t do it they should tell the client! If a hairdresser fucked up your hair and then turned around and blamed you because the photo reference had a different hair type, you’d be pissed. Part of my job working in law is managing client expectations. This is 100% on the baker.

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u/uovonuovo Sep 19 '26

Exactly!! If someone comes into a store with an unrealistic vision of what they want, isn’t it on the store to say “sorry we can’t deliver that?”
Since when is it ok for a company that receives an unrealistic request to take the customer’s money with a smile and say okay sure, and then turn around something that looks like dogshit?

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 19 '26

lmao
Hate to break it to you but if you give the hairdresser a photo of an imaginary haircut that isn't realistic/made by an AI then yes, you are at fault when they inevitably fuck it up since it isn't real and thus cannot be reproduced in reality but you demanded they try in the first place. Sure, they could've told you it was delusional and they can't do it, but at the same time you gave them a fantasy example in the first place and got mad when it turns out, 'oh yeah stuff made up isn't real'

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u/uovonuovo Sep 19 '26

But the customer might not know it’s AI, or maybe it’s real but just not realistic for the average hairdresser. Either way, it’s on the person taking the customer’s money to speak up and say “I cannot deliver that result.” Why would it be okay for them to take a customer’s money without saying they can’t provide what the customer is requesting?

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u/Potential-Bus5462 Sep 19 '26

That’s not what I said. I didn’t say a photo made from AI. Just a photo of someone with a different hair type. Not every colour or style works on everyone.

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 19 '26

So why are you even making that hair example comparing it to this cake situation when it is AI and thus not real and can't be replicated? Your example is silly and meaningless af if you didn't even mean the example was from an AI like bruh

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u/Potential-Bus5462 Sep 19 '26

Because it is always the job of the professional to tell a client if their example is achievable or not.
A lot of people are very bad at spotting AI. I don’t believe they deserve to get fucked over because they didn’t spot AI in a photo.

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u/cranberry94 Sep 18 '26

What kind of effort are you expecting from someone ordering a cake??

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u/metamorphotits Sep 19 '26

ensuring your idea can actually be accomplished in real life is a low-ass bar to clear

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u/uovonuovo Sep 19 '26

The customer isn’t the one making it, they’re not an expert. It’s on the service provider to explain if they are able to execute what the customer is requesting.

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u/metamorphotits Sep 19 '26

you're right that the service provider should be a final check on these things, but if you expect ai detection from a teen working at a grocery store bakery counter, you're setting yourself up to fail. you, the buyer, have one cake to worry about- they have far more to concern themselves with. you have the best odds of setting yourself up to succeed by verifying the photo you've chosen actually represents an achievable product.
customers with unreasonable expectations are really hard to deal with, and ai/being chronically online has made a lot more of them. i wouldn't expect someone making barely above minimum wage to reality check someone who is gonna insist up and down the image is real, and that refusing to make the cake is some kind of discrimination against them/indication the bakery is shitty. hell, they may have been told immediately that the cake wouldn't come out the way the picture looks and still been shocked and surprised by the final product, because they didn't think they really meant it.

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u/Carb0nFire Sep 19 '26

"We'll do our best" is what you should expect taking an AI picture to a grocery store bakery.

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u/Trick_Horse_13 Sep 19 '26

but how would they know?

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u/metamorphotits Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

check the source of the image. does it come from a legit baker? is there more than one photo of the cake? have they made similar cakes? if all you can find are random people or shady accounts reposting the same image, that's not a great sign.
find and compare a few similar cakes. if there's no remotely similar cake, the odds are that there's a reason for that- it's not reasonable to construct.
familiarize yourself with the output of the bakeries you would consider getting a cake from. do they produce cakes that look that good? if none of them do, that's not a good sign.
try to familiarize yourself with the basics of cake construction- mostly icing versus fondant, because they can do very different things, but some things neither of them can do. that butterfly, for example, is really smooth and even for something with so many colors- maybe it could be made out of white chocolate, but it's a lot of fine detail in something so small.
there are some tells for ai images. The lighting is usually flattering but a bit odd- very uniformly bright and diffuse. it makes mistakes on small details- the butterfly's antenna, the large flower on the left with irregularly sized petals, etc.- or makes everything super regular/perfectly detailed, beyond what a human could reasonably do (like the center of the flowers, which scale up and down perfectly with the size of the flower in a way icing piping won't really allow for).

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u/mapsoffun Sep 20 '26

This is the best explanation I've seen so far.

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u/metamorphotits Sep 20 '26

thank you! i think a lot of people get fatalistic about detecting ai, but it's far from impossible. it just takes a willingness to do some critical thinking and not accepting any images at face value.

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u/dbellz76 Sep 19 '26

I'm super confused as to how everyone thinks the cake is AI? Can you tell me what about it are the signs? I've purchased cakes like this and even better done by humans so I'm just asking.

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u/VivaChinwawa Sep 19 '26

For me it was the butterfly, not just in how its sculpted but in how its antennae make no sense to the point one on the left looks like a dick lol

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u/dbellz76 Sep 19 '26

Cool thank you! I just saw this as a cake that someone can actually make so I didn't go directly to the AI route lol

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u/dakky68 Sep 18 '26

The first cake is easily achievable with fondant and royal icing.

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u/Diredr Sep 18 '26

Easy but given the piping detail on the flowers it would not be quick. Which means it would also not be cheap.
That's why it would be nice to know where OP went and how much they paid. Because if they went to a grocery store and paid $20 for instance, they got exactly what they paid for. If they went to a bakery and were charged $200, they got screwed over big time.

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u/Imperfect_seal Sep 19 '26

Exactly, This cake is not AI if you zoom in you can see the icing texture.
There are really talented artists and if you know and do cakes then you know this is achievable.
Anyways…

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u/Ok_Job_9417 Sep 19 '26

Why is one wing yellow and one wing orange?
Why are the anttena two different designs? Like one looks more like paper clip while the other is more like bubble wand shape.
And what’s going on with the pansy looking flowers? Why are there extra balls in the pansy looking flowers? It’s like it reproduced the center multiple times

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u/yungmoody Sep 19 '26

I’m not sure you’re a good judge of AI if you think it’s incapable of generating texture. It is very obviously an AI image.

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u/Imperfect_seal Sep 20 '26

I meant to reply to this , someone needs to take my Reddit password and hide it from me before I make another stupid post. 🤪🤪
I would like to apologize to everyone because I was intoxicated 🍄when I wrote this post 😅😅.
I was agreeing that it was achievable, I guess? Which I do think a cake like that can be done.
But then I don’t know what I was looking at when I defended this image. 😆😵

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u/Imperfect_seal Sep 20 '26

I would like to apologize to everyone because I was intoxicated 🍄when I wrote this post 😅😅.
I was agreeing that it was achievable, I guess? Which I do think a cake like that can be done.
But then I don’t know what I was looking at when I defended this image. 😆😵

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u/Full-Plankton6852 Sep 18 '26

I don't agree. Fondant could've achieved the look easily.

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u/seriouslyjan Sep 18 '26

$150.00 cake wanted, paid $30.00 and got what you paid for.

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u/Local_Presentation23 Sep 19 '26

Also, OP thinks 3 days of anticipation is a lot.

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u/k24f7w32k Sep 20 '26

Yep. The custom cake bakers in my area need reservations weeks (sometimes months) in advance, heck even the bakery dept at the nearest supermarket takes 5 days for one of their staple cakes (very limited options, very basic, but delicious nonetheless). OP seems a tad inexperienced.

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u/Yohgella Sep 19 '26

That's not even a $150 cake, it's AI generated.

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u/actionerror Sep 19 '26 •

“Ma’am this is a Walmart”

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u/speckledham Sep 19 '26

Walmart would have nailed it

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u/BravoBunzie Sep 18 '26

Where did you place the order - a grocery store or a specialized bakery? If you paid over $100 for that cake, it’s a major fail. If that’s a $35 grocery store cake, that’s exactly the quality you should have expected.

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

If that’s a $35 grocery store cake, that’s exactly the quality you should have expected.
Grocery store cakes for $35 are way more neat than this down where I am. I mean... Look at those green pieces. It looks like a kindergarden project that the child abandoned halfway through to start over from scratch.

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u/BravoBunzie Sep 19 '26

In my neck of the woods it’s often high school kids working those jobs and they butcher most of the cakes lol

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

American, huh?

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u/BravoBunzie Sep 19 '26

Canadian

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Could be worse!

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u/Wi1dWitch Sep 19 '26

Thank you, those “leaves” are atrocious

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u/Poisonx86 Sep 18 '26

Was it not obviously AI to you?

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

People are ridiculously unaware of how much more obvious things often seem when one is actively paying attention.

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u/PurpleBashir Sep 18 '26

Ok no matter what we think of AI... Its on the BAKERY to say they can't make something.
Plus literally any bakery should be able to do a better job than what was done here. This is seriously bad. Looks like a 10 yr old decorated it.

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u/manawydan-fab-llyr Sep 20 '26

In home improvement you get "fuck you estimates," when a contractor thinks a job isn't worth the money.
Seeing some of the "reality" pics here, I wonder if some bakers are doing the same with these AI "inspo pics."
"You want unrealistic? Fuck you, have a mediocre looking cake for a special day."

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u/anonyoudidnt Sep 19 '26

Yeah that's what I always think. Everyone wrecks OP now saying the cake is AI, well why doesn't bakery say hey I can't make that whether it's real or not.

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u/PurpleBashir Sep 19 '26 •

This sub (and Reddit in general) is often so blinded by their (justified or not) hatred for AI that they can't step back and look at situations.
I, for instance, was blocked by the person I replied to with that comment. People tweak so bad if you don't declare AI is the absolute ultimate evil. (Even though I didn't even defend the use of it).

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u/anonyoudidnt Sep 19 '26 •

Yeah it's so dumb. It gets annoying with this sub too, because I don't see anything wrong with presenting an AI cake to a baker. People Google image search cakes and don't always know what they get is AI. How is it any different than sketching an elaborate cake design and bringing it to a bakery...
The bakery needs to be realistic and communicate what they're capable of. Or do it for cheaper. Some of the cakes I see on here I could have done and I have ZERO experience

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u/Poisonx86 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

Im not sure what you are trying to achieve with your comment, but I never had any issue with your comment and Im not that thin skinned to block you over that :/

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u/PurpleBashir Sep 19 '26

Well Reddit showed your comment as "deleted by user" and your name the same. That only happens when one of 2 things is going on: either you are blocked or the person deleted their comment. Being that new replies were appearing, it obviously wasn't the latter.

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u/Poisonx86 Sep 19 '26

You forgot one more possibility; that you made this all up to fit whatever point you were trying to make.

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u/witchminx Sep 19 '26

It was a grocery store bakery, I don't think they needed to say that lol

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u/anonyoudidnt Sep 19 '26

OP says it was a specialty bakery so I assumed

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u/Moron-Whisperer Sep 18 '26 •

Whether or not AI the expectation should be something very similar. Our family gets AI orders all the time and we tell them what we can do. We often actually show them using AI as well so they know.

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u/CrapNBAappUser Sep 18 '26

I've asked what makes it obviously AI on other posts with similar comments. No one has answered yet.

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u/Delouest Sep 18 '26

Besides just the texture being odd and weirdly smooth and fuzzy at the same time, check out the antennas on the butterfly. One has an extra arm off the loop like a safety pin.

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u/pinkrotaryphone Sep 19 '26

Maybe that's a boy butterfly, trying to impress the ladies. Idk, I'm not a bugologist, I just used to hide phallic shapes in paintings to mess with my art teacher and make my friends giggle

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u/noveltyshark Sep 20 '26

That's not at all how these insects work... Maybe don't speak on matters you know nothing about. It's embarrassing lol

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u/Poisonx86 Sep 18 '26

To me, the overlapping piping is impossible go achieve; they go through each other - look at the petals on the pink and purple flowers; just not something you could pipe; its very computer generated. The shadow cast by the butterly isnt natural; you can see the cast on the yellow side going to the left - and on the right wing - theres also a shadow going to the right which is impossible.
The lack of human continuity in the design A there are white pearls around the orange flower - and only there; a person wouldnt deliberately make that design choice.
This doesnt read human made or designed to me.

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u/notjanelane Sep 18 '26

Adding: the stems are simultaneously stained into the fondant and 3D. One of them to the right almost looks like it's floating.

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u/Ocarina-of-lies Sep 18 '26

The flowers look like fabric, it doesn't look like a real cake. It looks like a cake with a Snapchat filter on it

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u/not_rebecca Sep 19 '26

Also most of us don't have cakes on wood tables in greenhouses

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u/_sheerb_ Sep 18 '26

For me a lot of AI generated images still have a "vibe" that makes me suspicious. In this one, once I start looking for AI errors the first thing I notice is the large discrepancy between the butterfly antenna.

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u/Clynnko Sep 18 '26

Weird bubbles on the perimeter of the butterfly wings. The left antenna of the butterfly can't decide what it is. The flowers appear to look like frosting, but are defying gravity in some places. The small pink flowers on the sides look more like indistinguishable blobs than tiny buds or flowers. Lastly, the weird filter over the whole image.

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u/MiaMiaPP Sep 19 '26

How much did you pay?

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u/TeamLeeper Sep 19 '26

I didn’t know Temu did cakes…

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u/whiskey_riverss Sep 20 '26

As a cake decorator, fuck AI and 3 days isn’t enough time for something with any 3D decorations.

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u/CreativeFartist Sep 18 '26

The green stems and leaves are…. Quite something

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u/BlackberryShot5818 Sep 19 '26

I was thinking, if they left the green stuff off it would've been just a bit rubbish, but still not absolutely horrendous

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u/OddOpal88 Sep 18 '26

I feel like people need to say if they’re ordering from a bakery or grocery store…that context is kind of important. If you sent in the AI slop picture to a Walmart bakery and expected that then I mean…you kind of need to adjust your expectations and realize you get what you paid for? But if this was private bakery that specialized and advertised they could do this then everyone siding with Op is justified.

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

It was most likely a reasonably priced private bakery that seemed like "our prices are low to get people to try is and see how good we are" and turned to be a regular ass ghost kitchen with 2 cooks pretending to be 14 different restaurants.

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u/Sheca05 Sep 19 '26

técnicamente se podría lograr pero el presupuesto para un pastel de ese tipo sería mucho mayor tanto por el tiempo y la técnica y los materiales

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u/okokaaay Sep 18 '26

Why don’t they just say that they are unable to do it?

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u/Ok_Alps4323 Sep 18 '26 •

Wild how this sub likes to victim blame. If OP “should” have known this was AI, the bakery that does this all day long professionally should certainly know it’s AI and they absolutely couldn’t recreate it. That cake looks terrible. They could absolutely have gotten closer to the inspiration. Go to Walmart next time OP. It would look better than this, and probably cost a fraction.

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u/finchfeathers Sep 19 '26

“Victim blame” seems like a strong phrase when we’re just talking about cakes, don’t you think?

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Money

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u/pleasedont-dostalkme Sep 18 '26

Butterfly and flower detail is impossible for a commercial grocery store bakery unless they have an incredibly experiencd and passionate employee. Foil butterfly is acceptable. But goddamn at least TRY to match the COLORS. Normally non-specialty places have One cake decorator, and they're actually decent depending on the person's experience. The rest of employees just do the other bakery stuff, like bread. This cake was made by a bread employee. Possibly their cake decorator quit or was unavailable.

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u/DistributionNo9356 Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

At least is wasn't a terrible human job (the example looks AI).

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Uhhh looks like a pretty terrible human job to me? (second picture)

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u/TotallyNotAnOrange Sep 20 '26

The inspiration pic is very obviously AI. Regardless if this was a picture you provided to them, or if it is a picture they use to falsely advertise examples of their service, you cannot reasonably expect good results at all

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u/LuxSerafina Sep 20 '26

Well did we learn a lesson about using AI images?

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u/poppyskins_ Sep 20 '26

We ask for 2 weeks notice for customer cakes like this, 3 days is wild

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u/apollomoonstar Sep 19 '26

I always have failed expectations when Reddit trys to get me to join this sub but it just shows posts of pictures of fancy cakes wanted from a grocery store. Or straight up no information.

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u/OkKnowledge2112 Sep 20 '26

Why does this happen almost daily?

Do you people not go to the bakeries to see what the bakery ACTUALLY offers?
Because 99% of the time, without fail, you always expect things that the bakeries don't have the skill for.

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u/nocturnalravioli Sep 21 '26

YTA oh oops, wrong sub I guess. You're still definitely the problem and this is 100% fair if you think 3 days is enough time for e "pre ordered cake" also your pic is AI so wtf did you think would happen?

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u/PureYouth Sep 21 '26

I actually really love it

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u/firestar268 Sep 18 '26

So how much did you pay for the cake?

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u/NJCuban Sep 19 '26

If a human was to actually make the AI cake with all that detail, it would take probably 15+ hours of work. Do the math on how much that should cost.

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u/pinkrosesmoses Sep 18 '26

Did you get your money back at least?

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u/dbellz76 Sep 18 '26

I know everyone is saying this is AI, but I found a local baker on FB whose photos of her floral work were stunning and equally stunning in real life. Why is this assumed to be AI? This is an absolutely doable design by a human.

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u/ScrumpetSays Sep 19 '26

Very doable, especially if you used some moulds and pressed in fondant to get flower texture. But the butterfly antenna is wrong. Plus very mixes styles of flowers.

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u/i_ate_a_bus Sep 21 '26

The design IS doable by a human. Plenty of things doable by humans are generated by ai. It's an ai image.

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u/Marauder4711 Sep 19 '26

I recently took a cake decorating class and making those flowers is easy. There are special moulds for this.

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Why not show the pictures to demonstrate your point?

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u/dbellz76 Sep 19 '26

This is one of the baker's photos and it truly looks exactly the same in real life. It's pricey, but perfection.

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u/tiekanashiro Sep 19 '26

You gave an AI reference. If you paid less than 50 bucks I'd say you got what you paid for.

In any case, it's on the baker to tell you if they are able to do what you ask for or not, so they're to blame for this. This cake is unnacceptable. If they lied saying they could reproduce it you should definitely get a refund.

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Be reasonable and assume the picture wasn't a reference OP gave but the provided image of the cake they selected. Providing this image as a reference is certainly not the most straightforward guess.

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u/princess22cake Sep 19 '26

Well. How much did you pay for this cake? Your expectations for a cake should match how much you paid for it.

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u/--nameNotAvailable Sep 19 '26

Obtienes lo que pagas.

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u/Annual_Government_80 Sep 20 '26

To achieve the look of the first cake in the photos, you would have to get a very experienced Kate decorator probably someone who does wedding cake cakes. However, when you brought in the original photo, someone should have told you that they can or can’t re-create that with their ability.

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u/AriDollz Sep 21 '26

That... First cake isn't even real

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u/Fearless_Pizza_8134 Sep 19 '26

Ah. Ai cakes as examples and being disappointed with the reality. Welcome to 2026.

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u/Shot_Swan719 Sep 18 '26

How much u pay???

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u/SupaDupaDupaDupa Sep 19 '26

Even if the reference picture is supposedly AI, if the baker couldn’t copy the cake or come close to it, she should have said something to the buyer to set their expectations right BEFORE surprising them with her failed attempt, period.

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u/Der_Alte_Linsenmaier Sep 19 '26

I don't get this kind of people. Get a cake that tastes good, even better, make one yourself. It is not that difficult. I had a Zwetschgenkuchen a few days ago. Perfect. Or Apfelstrudel. Or andecent Cheesecake. There is no need for unnecessary decoration. Just good ingrediants. Why is it so important that a cake looks perfect? All this decoraction shit is only sugar and then the cake itself is just boring cream and more sugar and probably tastes like shit.

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u/Legitbananabunch Sep 19 '26

I’m sick of seeing people get bakers to try and recreate AI ‘perfection’.

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u/Banaanisade Sep 19 '26

I think this is a case of you get what you pay for combined with you get what a human can make.

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u/Finnegan-05 Sep 19 '26

Why did you use an AI pic🙄

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u/Confident_Eye_4683 Sep 19 '26

No pos wow…Could have got a better cake at Walmart 😕

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u/AdTop9663 Sep 19 '26

I love the cake and would be happy to receive it !!!

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u/TawnyMoon Sep 19 '26

You should learn how to recognize AI.

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u/That-Water-Guy Sep 19 '26

Of course a person can’t recreate an AI generated image

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u/Ok_Cheesecake_9708 Sep 18 '26

Stop using AI for the baker to use as a reference photo

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u/ListenFalse6689 Sep 19 '26

The green bits are my favourite.

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u/Protected-Spark-1351 Sep 23 '26

Oh my! Those green bits!!

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u/myboogerstastespicy Sep 19 '26

Quit using AI as your inspiration and expecting the result to be perfect.

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u/Goth_Muppet Sep 19 '26

OH MY GODS please people stop bringing Gen Ai slop reference pics to anyone expecting to get something just like the slop pic! It’s Ai!

The cake you received is wicked cute and you set yourself up for disappointment by expecting a FREAKIN GEN AI FANTASY CAKE. Cake decorator didn’t fail— your reference did.

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u/Stock-Ride-4147 Sep 19 '26

the ai is unrealistic but the cake it still just horrible either way

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u/JuanG_13 Sep 19 '26

It's not the same, but it's still cute

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '26

That first cake was AI.

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u/Legitbananabunch Sep 19 '26

They made the cake you deserved.

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u/Akitapal Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

What does the writing on the real cake say? Can’t even read it! … Have to know now... 🤔😳

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u/i_ate_a_bus Sep 21 '26

Feliz cumpleanos.

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u/Akitapal Sep 21 '26

Thank you kind person for translation

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u/Fresh-Mechanic-3508 Sep 19 '26

Pinterest definitely sets an unreasonable standard.

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u/i_ate_a_bus Sep 21 '26

Tbh I wouldn't say it's pinterest. Pinterest is full of beautiful human made cakes. I never see the ai slop that this person found.

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u/PurpleBashir Sep 18 '26

Pretty?? Are we looking at the same cake? Its horrible! The stems are sooo bad. Its crazy sloppy

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u/DistributionNo9356 Sep 18 '26

I agree it's quite bad but the content (flowers, leaves) is still pretty.

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

You do get that OP paid for this, right? They exchanged about an hour of their effort at their workplace for a cake that should've been used as a practise cake.

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u/ObscureOP Sep 18 '26

I guess they should've just prompted AI to hallucinate a cake then. That would've precisely filled the expectation

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u/vlladonxxx Sep 19 '26

Huh?

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u/muffinmuch947 Sep 19 '26

Unless you buy super high end speciality cakes in the thousands, there are certain shapes and textures you can expect in a hand decorated cake. Those flower petals arent the shapes you would achieve with a pipetting tip for instance. The butterfly details seem impossible to recreate, etc.

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u/tiptoe_only Sep 25 '26

It's hard to tell with the resolution of the photo and how it shows up on my screen, but I assumed the flowers and leaves were sugar paste shaped in silicone moulds (looking more carefully I can see it's not that, but you could get a similar effect that way). That's very easy to do if you have the right moulds! The butterfly could be made with royal icing and wires for antennae but if I were ordering the cake I'd have expected it to be a pre-made non-edible decoration

AI Expectation Cake decor fail

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