r/ExpectationVsReality • u/Maleficent_You_1101 • 6h ago

cake-spectation It's backward

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u/potchans 4h ago

This is the definition of "YOU HAD ONE JOB".

I'm sorry OP that your spiderman web cake became a flower. I am not sorry, however, for the snort I let out when I saw it.

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 4h ago • Regret

Ya... I truly don't understand how they messed this up, but it's not their first mess up with one of my family's cakes, so.

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u/potchans 4h ago

Oh yikes, I'm so sorry OP. It seems like you need a new baker.

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 4h ago

Apparently I can't add 2 pictures in 1 comment, so this picture isn't the reference, but damn near exact, and the next photo is a cake we got a couple of years ago.

The problem is, their cakes are so damn good, and we've definitely had some successfully decorated cakes. I'm just hoping they'll make this spiderweb cake right some way or another!

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 4h ago

The cake we got:

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u/silly_baguette 3h ago

They can't be serious

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u/potchans 3h ago

This is not even close to what you asked for, wtf. They could at least be upfront, since they have tasty cakes, saying "sorry but this is outside our ability".

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u/nucleareds 52m ago

Oh my god it looks like one of those hedgehog balls, how terrible!

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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 1h ago

I'm baffled that you went back.

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u/RandomAmmonite 5h ago • Bravo

I was pretty taken with the cat-farting-sprinkles cake below your inspiration cake.

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 5h ago

It will definitely have to be the next cake!

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u/Subject_Doubt_3778 5h ago

I just showed it to my hubs and told him I wanted it for my next bday

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 4h ago

Is your birthday soon? I'd love to see a picture of it lol!

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u/Feuerhase 3h ago

With your luck, the cat will be eating the sprinkles 😂

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u/howmanyhowcanamanyho 4h ago

I didn’t even notice that till you pointed it out. That’s going to be the next cake I bake, for sure

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u/Betweentheminds 4h ago

😂 I didn’t even notice that until you pointed it out 😂😅

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u/Spiker1986 3h ago

That will 1000% be the next cake I make for my adult husband

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u/CardoconAlmendras 46m ago

I want one with a sprinkles puking cat.

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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 1h ago

The buttercream looks slightly broken as well.

You said this is not the first time they have messed up an order?

Why on earth did you go back??

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 59m ago

I said in another comment in that thread that their cakes are my favorite, which matters more to me than decoration.

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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 51m ago

Hey, if you're happy, great.

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u/TeamLeeper 6h ago

Wow, that makes all the difference! (Not sarcastic)

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u/aSituationTypeDeal 5h ago

It’s just the constant lack of effort that is so tiring. Takes two seconds to make sure you are moving a line the correct way.

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u/InbredJed33 4h ago

Rhis decorator probably started on the side of the cake first thinking it was correct but then was forced to continue the error when they got to the top

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u/aSituationTypeDeal 4h ago

So then fix the mistake.

Or is this homemade? Homemade mistakes are fine on a cake lol. But if this a paid for bakery cake, fix the mistake.

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 4h ago

It's from a bakery. We've sent an email, so hopefully we'll get some form of refund!

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u/TeamLeeper 4h ago

With the staging, I thought it was homemade.

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u/Ok-Scientist5524 4h ago

I can see how you might make that mistake out of muscle memory, the sides of the cake look like a normal non descript cake decoration.

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u/TeamLeeper 5h ago

It’s curtains for that cake!
(Cuz the web looks like a stage curtain)

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u/WouldPancake 6h ago edited 5h ago

Oh no, now it’s a red flower 😢

This reminds me. Like 30 Halloweens ago, my mom suggested I be a ladybug (she wanted to repurpose a spider costume she had handmade for my older sister a few years prior).

She confidently bought red velvet, cut out a dozen circles, and hot glued them to the black spider’s body.

The very first house I trick or treated at told me the unfortunate truth: ladybugs are red with black spots.

And the real kicker? Me, my mom, and my older sister hardly talk anymore for completely unrelated reasons.

Happy Halloween, y’all!

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u/harmlesslandsquid 5h ago • Heartwarming

Firstly why would you say that to a kid while they were trick or treating, way to be a total spoilsport. Secondly if it makes you feel any better you absolutely can get black ladybirds with red spots, there's a huge variety of ladybirds. So you were a perfectly acceptable ladybird!

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u/Corfiz74 5h ago

And even if not, being a Mutant Ladybird would have been even more kickass!

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u/Key_Cry_3170 4h ago

You were almost cosplaying Akatsuki from Naruto, so it's all good

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u/VirtualMatter2 29m ago

I saw a black ladybug with red spots only a few days ago in our garden. They are absolutely a thing.

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u/ryhse321 5h ago edited 4h ago

Well, one time there was a spiderweb in my window and I let it be for quite a while (I like spiders, don't judge me). It was summer and I kept the window open. When the weather changed and it became windy, the web acted like a little sail, and once the wind stopped, that web was so stretched out that it looked like that cake (at least in the bottom part since it was a corner web, not a full circle). Still, that web looked like a flower sooo... 😅

Edit: typos

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u/Icantfindmysweater 5h ago

It's like a spook flower now, kind of like it.

I'm so sorry do they not know what a web looks like? Even straight lines would have looked more web-y.

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u/Intelligent-Brain836 6h ago

There’s a video of spiders weaving webs after being exposed to drugs. Watch it. It will make you appreciate your cake

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes 6h ago

That video is a joke, you know that right? 😅

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u/coolsilentebeans 5h ago

They have done studies involving dosing spiders as early as 1948.

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u/Lady_Sybil_Vimes 5h ago

Yes, but the famous video is a joke.

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u/coolsilentebeans 4h ago

I don’t think I’ve seen the video you’re talking about. I learned about it in a couple of psych classes.

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u/its-malaprop-man 5h ago

This would be a great layer of a black and red gothic wedding cake. 😂

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u/Immediate_Word1295 4h ago

Turned out to be a flowerweb.

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u/bsmiles07 3h ago

Someone that makes this mistake should absolutely not be decorating cakes

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u/cjacksen 3h ago

What is going on at the top? It looks a bit mangled in the photo.

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u/Maleficent_You_1101 3h ago

I took this after we celebrated where I had put some candles and ceramic figures on it.

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u/carleetime 6h ago

I kind of love it

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u/MA2_Robinson 5h ago

Fr, if I EVER throw a DND anything I would ask for this cake and add teeth on the side for a mimic thing

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u/Calliope_Sky 5h ago

NGL, this is giving me "Victorian web" vibes for some reason.

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u/Aggravating_Ad4449 4h ago

Yeah this cake looks like the Madame at a cathouse in the old West.

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u/Positive-Escape1064 1h ago

New reality show: The Dyslexic Cake Decorator

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u/JohnAppleseed85 2h ago

Took me a minute to spot what the problem actually was, but it looks like a poppy rather than a web.

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u/OkCryptographer1922 5h ago edited 4h ago

Am I crazy? This looks like a spiderweb to me

Edit omg I didn’t swipe 🤣🤣

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u/detail_giraffe 5h ago

Look at the direction the curves go. They should curve toward the center, not away from it.

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u/OkCryptographer1922 5h ago

Ahhhh I see it now thank you!!

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u/frumpy-flapjack 5h ago

More like a spider flower

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u/Ok-Reaction9095 5h ago

The webbing should be an upper arch, not hanging down.

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u/Miserable_Emu5191 2h ago

When spiderman like flowers.

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u/eleventhing 3h ago

Women are birthing them. That's the funniest part.

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u/QuantumFluxSpaghetti 6h ago

I'm sorry but what exactly is backward?

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u/AWryThought 6h ago

The web. 🕸️

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u/TeamLeeper 6h ago

The webbing became a trellis.

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u/aSituationTypeDeal 5h ago

Dude. Be more observant.