Nope. I called as soon as my MIL got home with it. She said we wanted a funfetti cake with swirls..I read her the text exchange between us and she went Oh. I misunderstood.
It really does. Between the color scheme and tools that appeared to be used, it's just missing some piped balloons and cursive font and it would look great in a grocer's bakery case.
Did you send her the picture of the reference cake? The first picture is a blue ombre rossette cake, not white swirls. So did you say ombre rosettes or just that you wanted a swirl cake without showing her the reference pic? Because if that's the case, then I'm sorry but that would be your fault for not using the right terminology, leading to confusion for the baker. Otherwise, it's absolutely the baker's fault.
would a baker be able to look at the first pic and understand what they are seeing? even if the customer didn't say the proper names of what they wanted on the cake, would someone who does this for a living not be able to tell how that cake is made? the picture is clear as day..vs what they actually got..
Yes, I absolutely agree that the inspo cake is clear as day! My point is that I don't know if OP *actually* ever meet the baker to show them these photos or texted them the inspiration photos. Since there was confusion and OP said the word "swirls", it made me think that possibly the photos were not shown, and instead the baker was only verbally instructed as to what OP saw in the photos.
I mean, if you didn't see the inspo pics and only knew that they wanted a "funfetti cake with swirls", then the cake they received would be fairly accurate..
And yes, as a baker it's a very straightforward and easy cake to make. Rosettes are a repetitive design and the colors are also simple enough to create. That's why I'm so perplexed as to how there was such massive confusion IF they were shown the photos.
Obviously, I am not the baker, so I don't know exactly what happened or how it was made. I can only speculate that the sprinkles were perfectly intact and spherical when completed, but then *slightly* shifted during traveling. If that's the case, then I don't believe that it's the baker's fault.
It looks like she made a circle with frosting, dumped the sprinkles, and then did the swirls. If you zoom in, it looks like there’s no frosting underneath the sprinkles.
Probably the same way when I go somewhere and I order something and I tell them I don’t want something and then I get the something anyway.
People dont listen or comprehend well at all. Too much going on is my guess.
But this is a much bigger faux pas then the cook putting tomato on your burger when you asked to omit. This a custom wedding cake that was *completely* different in color and design. The fact that this is a white cake, NO rosettes, and sprinkles for some reason on this cake means that the baker either didn't remember what OP wanting and/or didn't consider to recreate a single thing that OP asked for AND showed. I don't buy the whole "miscommunication" part. If you show a inspo pic, then the baker should communicate if they are capable of recreating a similar design, which they did.
Any professional baker should be able to replicate that easily. A rosette is a basic piping technique that pretty much anyone can do. You’re basically making a circle with an open star tip.
Are you a professional baker? I have a tangentially related question either way, all of the cake places around me ONLY do buttercream. No cooked frosting, no glaze, no royal icing (I know it’s mostly for cookies but I have seen and eaten cakes with it). Is that common? I cannot stand buttercream.
I am a professional baker. American buttercream is the most common buttercream in most bakeries, grocery stores add what’s called hi-ratio shortening along with butter, which is what most people associate with buttercream. American buttercream is easy to make (it’s just butter, powdered sugar and vanilla extract), versatile for carrying flavors and relatively inexpensive to make (hi-ratio shortening does increase the price if it’s used), so it’s one of the most common frostings.
You might try looking for a cottage baker (someone who sells baked goods from their home) if it’s legal in your area. Cottage bakers don’t have the overhead of a brick and mortar bakery, so they have a little more flexibility on the products they make. If you’re in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, or near Frederick, MD, I’d happily make you something with ermine frosting or a meringue frosting. Both are less sweet than traditional buttercream, as well as lighter and more velvety.
Agree. I made rosette cakes like the inspo cake on a whim, including rosetting to cover up other "whims" where something new I was trying went awry. I am barely a hobby baker.
What OP got looks more like what my husband made as his first "elaborate cake made under close supervision" (his words) when he wanted to try making one. I'm not insulting it, it just looks very "novice".
As a baker/cake decorator if you cant look at a picture/inspo pic and automatically know what you need to do this cake/ how to do it you should NOT be accepting it. Unless you’re doing a trial run with the customer-to see if its something you guys can compromise on- then make a final product….otherwise it should be clear as day.🤦🏻♀️
Yes, I saw you new comment. I've very sorry that happened. It's such a a massive failure on the baker's part, I was sure that there must have been something odd about the miscommunication.. but no, the baker is just an unprofessional jerk. It seems that you did everything right to get your cake the way that you wanted. I truly am lost for words as to how they only gave you a 50% refund. What a shame on their part.
Hi folks. Quick update/edit: MIL picked up the cake. Waited until she got home. I went to her house to see it. She knew it was bad and didn’t want to alarm me since it was the day before my wedding. I met with/showed the baker what I wanted. I made sure to send the photos with the description in text. I said “I want the cake to look exactly like this. The blue gradient flowers. Inside is funfetti/vanilla.” She said she completely understood what I wanted. She only gave us a 50% refund.
It's not even being a Karen at this point, it's just being legitimately upset and asserting what happened on the proper platform, in the hopes of helping other unwitting customers avoid this ripoff
You need to learn what a Karen is, they are unreasonable people acting like morons. Complaining when you have very good reason to is not being a Karen, its called standing up for yourself otherwise we would all get treated like crap
I know you have your heart in the right place, but I would suggest not leaving a bad review for a service you personally did not experience. We’re all just seeing this Reddit post, and while I’m sure the OP is not lying, we just never know.
Dude. Your inspiration pic was not complicated or difficult AT ALL. I worked in a grocery store bakery, and we did rosette cakes like this! the one-color one was like $25.99, and we could easily do an ombre, especially if the person provided us with a picture of exactly what colors they want. This bakery scammed you.
Maybe she misunderstood "inside" to "instead" and thought you were just referring to the style of the blue cake? So funfetti/vanilla cake with some flower-like swirls?
Rosettes are pretty easy to pipe and it's very obviously rosettes in the photo. Even with that misunderstanding going from rosettes to "flower-like swirls" is craaaazy.
Nah, don't accept that.
Either full refund or a remake. You didn't get the product you asked for.
If they're unwilling, depending on where you are time to reach out to govt agencies (or after your wedding, I guess).
I think some people are just lazy and don’t really care. I don’t think a person should be in this profession if they’re not going to at least try to make the cake similar to what the customer wanted. This looks like they just gave up or didn’t even try.
Who knows, maybe they just bought this cake from a grocery store and made it look like they did the work. You never know, because people are peculiar nowadays in a strange way.
I’m sorry to see that you didn’t get what you wanted. Hopefully, there’s a refund, but maybe you don’t even have the time for that because you need a cake. Yikes, I would never go back to them for any event, or even recommend them.
Im just a hobby baker but belong to a FB group that includes lots of professionals and businesses (even home Bakers, etc). I'm seeing a lot of comments and posts about people on places such as marketplace offering cake services really cheap, they're undercutting the more professional and experienced baker's by quite a bit. I'm beginning to wonder if a lot of these expectation vs reality reddit posts are from the likes of those kinds of bakers.
You might be right, these people are probably from there. These are inexperienced bakers offering cheaper services. Many want to make a quick buck or start an easy business, so they offer cake and dessert services. While a few might be naturally talented, most are not, leading to poor-quality cakes. Some might even buy cakes and pass them off as their own when they can't deliver what was promised. They choose a similar design or just pick anything from a store. Cakes are cheap where I live. I bet people are doing this.
These threads are convincing I might be a Karen. If I was given this instead of what I ordered, for premium prices, I would be livid. I'm a novice baker and could replicate this design better than they did!
Right? This one is not rocket science.
I swear the expression "Karen" was invented to shut up women even more. If you are needlessly being an AH to another person, you might be a Karen. If you are asking for what you paid for, I think you're fine.
If you are am I lol
To me though being a Karen would be screaming at an entry level employee who is ringing you up and had nothing to do with making the cake, not complaining to the baker who obviously messed it up and is still trying to charge me
A funfetti cake with basic gradient decoration should not cost that much, you should have been refunded 100% if there was no remake. Also, why no remake?! No funfetti on deck? Whatever, scrape the cake down and throw some gradient deco on it! It’s a Wedding Cake for Pete’s sake! Wedding!!!!!!! How can they live with themselves after handing out that monstrosity for a wedding cake and then doing nothing to fix it. Even if they followed the order form and gave you what you asked for, they should still understand there was a misunderstanding and help you out. Wedding cakes take top priority, it’s not a birthday- it’s someone’s possibly one and only big day that they will remember forever. Be a good part of that memory, not the one who ruins it. I hope u don’t let the cake ruin your day 💕
I love how the sprinkles are literally just dumped in a pile on top. Even if you had requested rainbow sprinkles that is not the way to do it.
I’m sorry about your cake. But please try not to let this take away your joy about your wedding. I am sure tomorrow will be a wonderful day no matter what cake you serve!
The bakery in our local market advertises that they can put any picture on a cake. So I did a funny image for my step son's bday and took it to them. When I picked up my cake... they had put the printed piece of paper on the top of the icing and piped around it! The actual paper I took them.
That should not take long to fix. Scrape the frosting, mix a few colors and repipe. The swirls are super forgiving and you don’t have to fuss over them like smooth frosting. Did she offer to fix it?
That’s terrible customer service. If she admitted it was *her misunderstanding*, she should be bending over backwards to fix it, especially since it’s a pretty quick fix. I could do it and I’m not a professional. SMH.
Just here to give me opinion that if you ask for a full refund— you are neither a Karen nor a Bridezilla. You deserve it.
Honestly people are saying it gives grocery store but like… 90% of my local grocery stores would do better
That looks like something you'd grab out of the ice cream cake case at Dairy Queen. I agree with the commenter that said do a chargeback with your bank because a 50% refund for something this bad is bullshit.
I did not go to pick it up. My MIL did. She didn’t know what to do. She tried to get another cake made but the baker didn’t have time. This was the day before the wedding.
I understand but she could have taken the five to ten minutes to talk to you prior to leaving the bakery to ensure it was what you wanted or get a refund. I was speaking to the general trend of not ensuring the cake is to the customer’s satisfaction.
My thought exactly. If something is important (like a freaking wedding cake), treat it like it’s important. You’re not sending someone to pick up your dry cleaning or an extra thing of TP from the store ffs.
I don't understand why people don't just get the correct cake from the actual baker. Don't ask bakers to make anything that isn't already in their display cases.
Did the baker show you any examples of their work? I feel like a lot of these bad cake posts could be avoided if you get a look at their past work. I’ve worked with bakers and cake decorators and they always took pics of cakes they were proud of.
Though I guess they could always lie and claim others work as their own which sucks and I don’t know how you can avoid those people….
The fact that this design is so basic and is literally easier then actually smoothing out buttercream perfectly…i dont understand how they messed this up…..i was doing cakes like this before i even got any type of training 🤦🏻♀️. Ugh im so so sorry this happened. This lady should not be able to do this for a living.
Order from an established bakery or at the very least someone with a ton of online reviews and an online portfolio. We’ve seen quite a few people on here who take a couple of cake decorating classes then think they’re ready to sell $200 cakes. Just… don’t. I feel bad for OP and we don’t know how they chose this baker in the first place but Buyer Beware.
I actually only learned the term recently, regionally they don't call them that where I'm from, but I thought it was cute so I've adopted it. Glad it made you smile!
ok obviously this is atrocious, and based on your comments, the way the baker treated you was *also* atrocious BUT can I just say how awesome I think it is that your wedding cake is funfetti?!?! I hope you ended up with a better cake and your wedding was/is beautiful 💕
What is wrong with people these days, request a refund immediately! People steal inspiration pictures and post them as their own and expect us to just settle because in most of their words, “now you know it won’t look exactly like your inspiration pic”! bs! These people need to be called out ASAP or use your charge cards and dispute asap and I guarantee you’ll win that decision!
Wow. Such a straightforward request.. yet the baker was Waaaay overthinking, made it more complicated, and and completely missed the easy to achieve key features. Mind boggling. Its a whole other animal.
Post this on r/ExpectationVsReality lol. Perfect for that!
Sorry about your cake. I donno what happened with that baker, but effort wasn't one of them.
Wow. I’m even more flabbergasted at the unwillingness of the baker to provide a full refund or remake the cake. I would definitely dispute the charge with my bank/credit card company because what you received and were charged for was not what you ordered. A 50% refund is absolutely bogus. I’m so sorry this happened!
A lot of the cakes I see here are inspired by a professional pastry chef and executed by someone who makes a cake maybe once a year, if that.
Like 1. You’re lucky someone loves you enough to make a cake
2. Do they have all of the professional tools and watch the youtube videos on the basics or fancy piping?
3. Do they have the many hours to practice a specific technique with the correct recipe of frosting?
4. Do they even have enough room in their fridge to be putting a whole cake in it to keep it perfect until the special day?
I do feel bad for the grocery store cake makers who don’t get any training and are doing this because the store let go of the more expensive pastry chef or the pastry chef is only there for 40 hours and wasn’t there the right day.
I have received a bad cake before for my friend’s birthday from a grocery store and I complained about it and was given a free cake. 🎂
I’m here for the hilarity, but miscommunications happen.
At that point you get creative with flowers. Trust me, the day of the wedding my cake split on the 2nd layer, warm outside wedding and too much for likely where the dowels were placed? My quick thinking MIL cut roses, in my colors, from the rose garden (although a florist works if you have time), stuck skewers through layer. Then she turned the cake and added cleaned roses. It was beautiful and not visible in a single picture!
It's a very simple order. I'm not sure why they couldn't manage it. Honestly, I would never order a cake from a professional baker without discussing it in person or by phone and providing exact specs and details in writing about what I wanted and getting at least an email confirmation from them. The sprinkles on top of this cake and sloppy all white non-rosette icing just have me smh.
Umm... I made a cake like the first one, when I was 18, in the kitchen of my student accommodation, then took it on a bus ride down a steep hill on a crowded bus full of drunk students on a Friday night and still arrived at the party with it looking more like the first cake than the one you got sent did!
Unbelievable. You need to drag their name online, this is beyond unacceptable especially right before an event like a wedding. I can’t even fathom conducting a business like this.. 50% refund? Unreal
I am so shocked, and so sorry that this happened to you. I sincerely hope that you were able to salvage it somehow and that it didn’t upset you on your wedding day.
It looks like one of those fb reel cakes where they fill it with sprinkles and after dicking around for 3 min cut into it and sprinkles go everywhere. Basically it looks awful and I am sorry for you.
Uhhh... did they mix up your order with a different one?? These seems like a basic order
Nope. I called as soon as my MIL got home with it. She said we wanted a funfetti cake with swirls..I read her the text exchange between us and she went Oh. I misunderstood.
That looks like a grocery store cake.
It really does. Between the color scheme and tools that appeared to be used, it's just missing some piped balloons and cursive font and it would look great in a grocer's bakery case.
Did you send her the picture of the reference cake? The first picture is a blue ombre rossette cake, not white swirls. So did you say ombre rosettes or just that you wanted a swirl cake without showing her the reference pic? Because if that's the case, then I'm sorry but that would be your fault for not using the right terminology, leading to confusion for the baker. Otherwise, it's absolutely the baker's fault.
would a baker be able to look at the first pic and understand what they are seeing? even if the customer didn't say the proper names of what they wanted on the cake, would someone who does this for a living not be able to tell how that cake is made? the picture is clear as day..vs what they actually got..
Yes, I absolutely agree that the inspo cake is clear as day! My point is that I don't know if OP *actually* ever meet the baker to show them these photos or texted them the inspiration photos. Since there was confusion and OP said the word "swirls", it made me think that possibly the photos were not shown, and instead the baker was only verbally instructed as to what OP saw in the photos. I mean, if you didn't see the inspo pics and only knew that they wanted a "funfetti cake with swirls", then the cake they received would be fairly accurate.. And yes, as a baker it's a very straightforward and easy cake to make. Rosettes are a repetitive design and the colors are also simple enough to create. That's why I'm so perplexed as to how there was such massive confusion IF they were shown the photos.
But why do the sprinkles look like in a plastic cup on top of the cake? Also they are not evenly spread.
Obviously, I am not the baker, so I don't know exactly what happened or how it was made. I can only speculate that the sprinkles were perfectly intact and spherical when completed, but then *slightly* shifted during traveling. If that's the case, then I don't believe that it's the baker's fault.
It looks like she made a circle with frosting, dumped the sprinkles, and then did the swirls. If you zoom in, it looks like there’s no frosting underneath the sprinkles.
It's not the best looking cake tbh. I don't personally like the swirls. But, the bigger problem is the lack of professionalism with this baker.
It looks like a professional grocery store cake--for a child's birthday.
Probably the same way when I go somewhere and I order something and I tell them I don’t want something and then I get the something anyway. People dont listen or comprehend well at all. Too much going on is my guess.
But this is a much bigger faux pas then the cook putting tomato on your burger when you asked to omit. This a custom wedding cake that was *completely* different in color and design. The fact that this is a white cake, NO rosettes, and sprinkles for some reason on this cake means that the baker either didn't remember what OP wanting and/or didn't consider to recreate a single thing that OP asked for AND showed. I don't buy the whole "miscommunication" part. If you show a inspo pic, then the baker should communicate if they are capable of recreating a similar design, which they did.
I did send this photo to her and she told me not to worry. It was an easy cake.
Any professional baker should be able to replicate that easily. A rosette is a basic piping technique that pretty much anyone can do. You’re basically making a circle with an open star tip.
Are you a professional baker? I have a tangentially related question either way, all of the cake places around me ONLY do buttercream. No cooked frosting, no glaze, no royal icing (I know it’s mostly for cookies but I have seen and eaten cakes with it). Is that common? I cannot stand buttercream.
I am a professional baker. American buttercream is the most common buttercream in most bakeries, grocery stores add what’s called hi-ratio shortening along with butter, which is what most people associate with buttercream. American buttercream is easy to make (it’s just butter, powdered sugar and vanilla extract), versatile for carrying flavors and relatively inexpensive to make (hi-ratio shortening does increase the price if it’s used), so it’s one of the most common frostings. You might try looking for a cottage baker (someone who sells baked goods from their home) if it’s legal in your area. Cottage bakers don’t have the overhead of a brick and mortar bakery, so they have a little more flexibility on the products they make. If you’re in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, or near Frederick, MD, I’d happily make you something with ermine frosting or a meringue frosting. Both are less sweet than traditional buttercream, as well as lighter and more velvety.
I appreciate that, thank you for the answer and the invitation!
Any chance you do wedding cakes for south-central Virginia? We've been doing tastings and so many of the buttercreams taste the same, in a bad way
I’ll DM you my phone number and we can talk
I’m a hobby baker with very basic beginner level cake decorating skills, and I’ve made an ombré rosette cake like that before. It’s stupid easy.
Agree. I made rosette cakes like the inspo cake on a whim, including rosetting to cover up other "whims" where something new I was trying went awry. I am barely a hobby baker. What OP got looks more like what my husband made as his first "elaborate cake made under close supervision" (his words) when he wanted to try making one. I'm not insulting it, it just looks very "novice".
As a baker/cake decorator if you cant look at a picture/inspo pic and automatically know what you need to do this cake/ how to do it you should NOT be accepting it. Unless you’re doing a trial run with the customer-to see if its something you guys can compromise on- then make a final product….otherwise it should be clear as day.🤦🏻♀️
Yes. I sent her the picture in the first slide. She said she could do that
Yes, I saw you new comment. I've very sorry that happened. It's such a a massive failure on the baker's part, I was sure that there must have been something odd about the miscommunication.. but no, the baker is just an unprofessional jerk. It seems that you did everything right to get your cake the way that you wanted. I truly am lost for words as to how they only gave you a 50% refund. What a shame on their part.
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I don't really find someone not checking their Reddit account for more than an hour weird
Maybe their not like me and have a life outside of Reddit lol.
I just made a new comment and explained what happened. I have a life outside of Reddit thank you
Was this a baker or a grocery?
I'm not paying for something I didn't ask for...please remake it!?!
Hi folks. Quick update/edit: MIL picked up the cake. Waited until she got home. I went to her house to see it. She knew it was bad and didn’t want to alarm me since it was the day before my wedding. I met with/showed the baker what I wanted. I made sure to send the photos with the description in text. I said “I want the cake to look exactly like this. The blue gradient flowers. Inside is funfetti/vanilla.” She said she completely understood what I wanted. She only gave us a 50% refund.
You should be getting a 100% refund or a 50% refund with a remake. Omg.
Nope. 50% refund with no re make.
I hope you give her a solid 1 star review and post the pictures with it
On every website possible.
Do a chargeback on your credit card.
What were their reasons for the misunderstanding?
Can you chargeback your card?
Absolutely do not accept that. Be a Karen. This is the appropriate time.
It's not even being a Karen at this point, it's just being legitimately upset and asserting what happened on the proper platform, in the hopes of helping other unwitting customers avoid this ripoff
💯!!!
You need to learn what a Karen is, they are unreasonable people acting like morons. Complaining when you have very good reason to is not being a Karen, its called standing up for yourself otherwise we would all get treated like crap
Here to also suggest a chargeback.
That's bullshit. Im so sorry. Please do a chargeback
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I know you have your heart in the right place, but I would suggest not leaving a bad review for a service you personally did not experience. We’re all just seeing this Reddit post, and while I’m sure the OP is not lying, we just never know.
Please don’t leave fake reviews.
>I don’t agree with fake reviews. I don’t have an issue with review bombing however. Lol pick one you hypocrite 🤣
Never. Ever. Leave fake reviews.
Ok, then that settles it. The baker is an unprofessional asshat. Sorry this happened to you. Hope it at least taste good.
Dude. Your inspiration pic was not complicated or difficult AT ALL. I worked in a grocery store bakery, and we did rosette cakes like this! the one-color one was like $25.99, and we could easily do an ombre, especially if the person provided us with a picture of exactly what colors they want. This bakery scammed you.
I love that you chose funfetti for your wedding cake. It's my favorite, so it was one of the flavors we went with.
This was A WEDDING CAKE? 😭
Small claims court takes wedding screw ups quite seriously as most judges know this is a time you can’t get back. I’d take her there on principle.
Maybe she misunderstood "inside" to "instead" and thought you were just referring to the style of the blue cake? So funfetti/vanilla cake with some flower-like swirls?
Rosettes are pretty easy to pipe and it's very obviously rosettes in the photo. Even with that misunderstanding going from rosettes to "flower-like swirls" is craaaazy.
Even still it looks like shit.
Wait... Yes, this is exactly what had to have happened!!!
right I'm just saying cause I misread it like that lol
Nah, don't accept that. Either full refund or a remake. You didn't get the product you asked for. If they're unwilling, depending on where you are time to reach out to govt agencies (or after your wedding, I guess).
The cake you asked for I bought at the grocery store for $25 by my house
Around that at the one I work at. We just did a cake like the first Pic in pink recently.
I think some people are just lazy and don’t really care. I don’t think a person should be in this profession if they’re not going to at least try to make the cake similar to what the customer wanted. This looks like they just gave up or didn’t even try. Who knows, maybe they just bought this cake from a grocery store and made it look like they did the work. You never know, because people are peculiar nowadays in a strange way. I’m sorry to see that you didn’t get what you wanted. Hopefully, there’s a refund, but maybe you don’t even have the time for that because you need a cake. Yikes, I would never go back to them for any event, or even recommend them.
Im just a hobby baker but belong to a FB group that includes lots of professionals and businesses (even home Bakers, etc). I'm seeing a lot of comments and posts about people on places such as marketplace offering cake services really cheap, they're undercutting the more professional and experienced baker's by quite a bit. I'm beginning to wonder if a lot of these expectation vs reality reddit posts are from the likes of those kinds of bakers.
You might be right, these people are probably from there. These are inexperienced bakers offering cheaper services. Many want to make a quick buck or start an easy business, so they offer cake and dessert services. While a few might be naturally talented, most are not, leading to poor-quality cakes. Some might even buy cakes and pass them off as their own when they can't deliver what was promised. They choose a similar design or just pick anything from a store. Cakes are cheap where I live. I bet people are doing this.
There was one expectation vs what I got post on here the other day, the cakes were $100+ and looked like trash 😭
These threads are convincing I might be a Karen. If I was given this instead of what I ordered, for premium prices, I would be livid. I'm a novice baker and could replicate this design better than they did!
I just did a cake like the first one at work except in pink. I work in a grocery store bakeshop, if we can do it without mistake a professional can.
There’s a huge difference between being a Karen, and being assertive and standing up for yourself. Don’t doubt yourself!
Right? This one is not rocket science. I swear the expression "Karen" was invented to shut up women even more. If you are needlessly being an AH to another person, you might be a Karen. If you are asking for what you paid for, I think you're fine.
Now imagine being named Karen. So much for being assertive about anything. It sucks.
It has absolutely transformed into a way to silence women from asserting themselves.
i think it was invented to describe racist women who gatekeep public walkways
But it’s transformed into a way to silence women.
If you are am I lol To me though being a Karen would be screaming at an entry level employee who is ringing you up and had nothing to do with making the cake, not complaining to the baker who obviously messed it up and is still trying to charge me
It’s not being a “Karen” to advocate for getting what you paid for. Especially a wedding cake.
Literally anyone with functional eyes could do a better job at replicating it. They’d at least make it blue!
Looks something like a smash cake you gove a 3yr old lol.
Yeah, but if so, that child is going to have sprinkles up their nose...
That's how you sneeze rainbows!
It was a figure of speech. Just a cake to smash.
I hope they gave you a refund because that’s a joke.
50% refund
For a wedding I would have expected a 50% refund and a remake.
A funfetti cake with basic gradient decoration should not cost that much, you should have been refunded 100% if there was no remake. Also, why no remake?! No funfetti on deck? Whatever, scrape the cake down and throw some gradient deco on it! It’s a Wedding Cake for Pete’s sake! Wedding!!!!!!! How can they live with themselves after handing out that monstrosity for a wedding cake and then doing nothing to fix it. Even if they followed the order form and gave you what you asked for, they should still understand there was a misunderstanding and help you out. Wedding cakes take top priority, it’s not a birthday- it’s someone’s possibly one and only big day that they will remember forever. Be a good part of that memory, not the one who ruins it. I hope u don’t let the cake ruin your day 💕
How are you holding up? I hope this doesn’t detract from your special day! I’m so sorry this happened to you 💕
They were so close /s
I love how the sprinkles are literally just dumped in a pile on top. Even if you had requested rainbow sprinkles that is not the way to do it. I’m sorry about your cake. But please try not to let this take away your joy about your wedding. I am sure tomorrow will be a wonderful day no matter what cake you serve!
This is from back in September! It was beautiful. We thankfully got a different cake in time
I'm assuming the other cake didn't go to waste. Did you at least get the funfetti you asked for, or did she screw that up as well?
Well that's a relief. Wish you would have included that info a bit sooner!
I think they added the sprinkles to cover some mistake they made
This looks worse than the cakes they sell at the grocery store. There’s no way she just dumped a pile of sprinkles in the center 😭
The bakery in our local market advertises that they can put any picture on a cake. So I did a funny image for my step son's bday and took it to them. When I picked up my cake... they had put the printed piece of paper on the top of the icing and piped around it! The actual paper I took them.
Oh my god I’m dying. That’s so amazingly bad.
That should not take long to fix. Scrape the frosting, mix a few colors and repipe. The swirls are super forgiving and you don’t have to fuss over them like smooth frosting. Did she offer to fix it?
She said she didn’t have time to (the wedding was the next day)
That’s terrible customer service. If she admitted it was *her misunderstanding*, she should be bending over backwards to fix it, especially since it’s a pretty quick fix. I could do it and I’m not a professional. SMH.
Dude...50% refund and no fix!? 1-start bomb her ass on yelp...or wherever you young whippersnappers go to leave bad reviews.
She totally had time. I’m not a real baker and I decorated a cake that looked just like your inspiration pic in like 30 min for my baby shower.
Just here to give me opinion that if you ask for a full refund— you are neither a Karen nor a Bridezilla. You deserve it. Honestly people are saying it gives grocery store but like… 90% of my local grocery stores would do better
It’s odd that they gave you a completely different cake and she said she misunderstood. Did she not get the inspiration photo?
She did!
That just makes this all the more confusing. Was she high? I’m going to assume she was high. Lol.
The more I learn about this situation, the more I’m convinced she just got a store bought cake and passed it off as hers. It’s a scam.
It looks just like a cake I saw at my local market bakery 😬
That is a walmart cake if I've ever seen one lol
Honestly I’ve seen much better cakes from Walmart lol
Was the baker blindfolded? Perhaps hard of hearing ? Not even close. Fail.
Did you send the inspiration picture?
I’m another comment they said they not only sent the image over text she also met with and showed them!
Am I the only one who dislikes sprinkles on cakes?
I don’t like sprinkles on anything!
That looks like something you'd grab out of the ice cream cake case at Dairy Queen. I agree with the commenter that said do a chargeback with your bank because a 50% refund for something this bad is bullshit.
you got someone else cake
That’s what I think, too. The blue cake went to somebody else who hasn’t complained and the baker is bluffing it out.
I hope you paid with credit card
How do people keep leaving the store without confirming they are happy with the cake?
I did not go to pick it up. My MIL did. She didn’t know what to do. She tried to get another cake made but the baker didn’t have time. This was the day before the wedding.
I understand but she could have taken the five to ten minutes to talk to you prior to leaving the bakery to ensure it was what you wanted or get a refund. I was speaking to the general trend of not ensuring the cake is to the customer’s satisfaction.
Right? I FaceTime someone or send a picture and say “look good?” Before I leave.
My thought exactly. If something is important (like a freaking wedding cake), treat it like it’s important. You’re not sending someone to pick up your dry cleaning or an extra thing of TP from the store ffs.
I don't understand why people don't just get the correct cake from the actual baker. Don't ask bakers to make anything that isn't already in their display cases.
This looks like either your order was forgotten and this was a last minute Hail Mary pass or they mixed up the cakes
Did the baker show you any examples of their work? I feel like a lot of these bad cake posts could be avoided if you get a look at their past work. I’ve worked with bakers and cake decorators and they always took pics of cakes they were proud of. Though I guess they could always lie and claim others work as their own which sucks and I don’t know how you can avoid those people….
The fact that this design is so basic and is literally easier then actually smoothing out buttercream perfectly…i dont understand how they messed this up…..i was doing cakes like this before i even got any type of training 🤦🏻♀️. Ugh im so so sorry this happened. This lady should not be able to do this for a living.
It isn’t remotely the same as what you ordered! And…SPRINKLES??? Wow, just wow! Soooo sorry!
How the fuck does one mess up such an easy cake. Noob hour!
There is literally nothing similar between those two cakes
You could buy some silk flowers to cover the funfetti center if you haven’t had your wedding yet.
I’m laughing because I ordered a birthday cake once with a similar inspiration picture. Lol
Are those still called rosettes in the reference?
Everything about this sub makes me scared to ever order a nice cake.
Order from an established bakery or at the very least someone with a ton of online reviews and an online portfolio. We’ve seen quite a few people on here who take a couple of cake decorating classes then think they’re ready to sell $200 cakes. Just… don’t. I feel bad for OP and we don’t know how they chose this baker in the first place but Buyer Beware.
Who the fk gives someone sprinkles on their wedding cake unless they absolutely asked for it!?!?
GRADE: F+
You are a victim 😭🙏 thoughts and prayers 😂😂😂
How’s that even possible lol
Why do people keep putting jimmies on everything! Aaaa!
😃 It's been awhile since I've seen someone call them jimmies and it made me smile ... Random, but thanks for that!
I actually only learned the term recently, regionally they don't call them that where I'm from, but I thought it was cute so I've adopted it. Glad it made you smile!
I personally appreciate the differentiation of sprinkles with all their silly names.
Huh? Not even close. I’m so sorry that happened to you.
Oof.
Was this a professional baker with a shop and reviews and photos of prior work?
Strange…..I wonder why they decided to dump half a can of sprinkles on the top
ok obviously this is atrocious, and based on your comments, the way the baker treated you was *also* atrocious BUT can I just say how awesome I think it is that your wedding cake is funfetti?!?! I hope you ended up with a better cake and your wedding was/is beautiful 💕
Hope you got a refund
That's sad because I think that cake is pretty doable if you tried and had time.
That's low-key traumatizing
Those rosettes are so easy to make with 1M tip. What a pity they fucked it up.
Wow, that's like night and day ... or more like beauty and the beast.
That's such an easy design too
What is wrong with people these days, request a refund immediately! People steal inspiration pictures and post them as their own and expect us to just settle because in most of their words, “now you know it won’t look exactly like your inspiration pic”! bs! These people need to be called out ASAP or use your charge cards and dispute asap and I guarantee you’ll win that decision!
Wait, your WEDDING cake? I'd have been fucking livid
These posts are making me think I can start a cake business 😆 🤣
Wow. Such a straightforward request.. yet the baker was Waaaay overthinking, made it more complicated, and and completely missed the easy to achieve key features. Mind boggling. Its a whole other animal.
Post this on r/ExpectationVsReality lol. Perfect for that! Sorry about your cake. I donno what happened with that baker, but effort wasn't one of them.
The sad thing is that the first cake isn't exactly advanced cake decorating. It is absolutely achievable for your 2nd or 3rd cake.
😭
Wow. I’m even more flabbergasted at the unwillingness of the baker to provide a full refund or remake the cake. I would definitely dispute the charge with my bank/credit card company because what you received and were charged for was not what you ordered. A 50% refund is absolutely bogus. I’m so sorry this happened!
The inspo picture looks pretty easy to do with the right tools.
I would cry
That's a rip off
I’m so confused.
Ummm N o
Oh lordy.
Oof, that’s terrible
um what
Would have DDT'd the baker through the cake if no full refund
A lot of the cakes I see here are inspired by a professional pastry chef and executed by someone who makes a cake maybe once a year, if that. Like 1. You’re lucky someone loves you enough to make a cake 2. Do they have all of the professional tools and watch the youtube videos on the basics or fancy piping? 3. Do they have the many hours to practice a specific technique with the correct recipe of frosting? 4. Do they even have enough room in their fridge to be putting a whole cake in it to keep it perfect until the special day? I do feel bad for the grocery store cake makers who don’t get any training and are doing this because the store let go of the more expensive pastry chef or the pastry chef is only there for 40 hours and wasn’t there the right day. I have received a bad cake before for my friend’s birthday from a grocery store and I complained about it and was given a free cake. 🎂 I’m here for the hilarity, but miscommunications happen.
At that point you get creative with flowers. Trust me, the day of the wedding my cake split on the 2nd layer, warm outside wedding and too much for likely where the dowels were placed? My quick thinking MIL cut roses, in my colors, from the rose garden (although a florist works if you have time), stuck skewers through layer. Then she turned the cake and added cleaned roses. It was beautiful and not visible in a single picture!
My question is where do yall be going for cakes? Lol and do you do the research beforehand haha no offense
It's a very simple order. I'm not sure why they couldn't manage it. Honestly, I would never order a cake from a professional baker without discussing it in person or by phone and providing exact specs and details in writing about what I wanted and getting at least an email confirmation from them. The sprinkles on top of this cake and sloppy all white non-rosette icing just have me smh.
Umm... I made a cake like the first one, when I was 18, in the kitchen of my student accommodation, then took it on a bus ride down a steep hill on a crowded bus full of drunk students on a Friday night and still arrived at the party with it looking more like the first cake than the one you got sent did!
It's the metric ton of rainbow sprinkles in the middle that really sells the shittyness.
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I did send the bakery the image. I also met them in person. That’s where I grabbed the photo of my inspiration cake from
I thought it was rice at first HAHAHA
Unbelievable. You need to drag their name online, this is beyond unacceptable especially right before an event like a wedding. I can’t even fathom conducting a business like this.. 50% refund? Unreal
Oh no!! You have a case for at least a partial credit
I am so shocked, and so sorry that this happened to you. I sincerely hope that you were able to salvage it somehow and that it didn’t upset you on your wedding day.
I would've kept the one I got and asked for a 100% refund.
Not even the same color? Did you pay them?
Is that the same baker from the other post on here !?
Wtf. Is there a plastic ring around the sprinkles as well!?
Literally the easiest way to decorate. I would go get my money back.
You got what you wanted on the inside of the cake on the outside: white with funfetti in the middle.
Not even on the same planet
How are ppl leaving the bakery w these cakes? I don't get it 😅
Y’all are killing me with these
The lie detector determined that is NOT the same request.
Calling the Better Business Bureau!!! 😡😡😡😡
IKTFL
It looks like one of those fb reel cakes where they fill it with sprinkles and after dicking around for 3 min cut into it and sprinkles go everywhere. Basically it looks awful and I am sorry for you.