r/cakefails 9h ago

They deadass wrote “lowercase”😭😭

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183 Upvotes

I asked for the letters to be lower case not the word lowercase 😭😭😭 and when I went back in they said “are you sure” um YES 💀💀 im sure


r/cakefails 2d ago

coked out elmo

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242 Upvotes

continuing my saga of being bored at work, i present to you elmo on copious amounts of cocaine!


r/cakefails 2d ago

Is this Carrot cake i bake fail?

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6 Upvotes

I try to bake it for my mom's birthday and when i cut it opened some part still wet and outside of the cake so crumbled. I want to ask is this wrong and what can i do to fix it. Thank for reading. ( i from Vietnam so sorry for my bad English)


r/cakefails 8d ago

You can tell it's the Terminator right?

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167 Upvotes

r/cakefails 9d ago

Last minute attempt at birthday cake lettering 🥴

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33 Upvotes

My sister didn’t want to wait for my niece’s cake to be lettered, so she customized it herself. Luckily my family all have a sense of humor, so we thought it was hilarious!


r/cakefails 11d ago

Round and ‘round like a horse on a carousel, we go

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143 Upvotes

I made a 3-tier cake for the second time. The first one? Let’s just say it was a disaster that could’ve been its own reality show. I’ve learned a lot, but I’m still trying to figure out how to stop the cakes from sliding, get them perfectly aligned, and create horses that look less like mystical beasts and more like well.. actually horses??!!


r/cakefails 15d ago

The cake that lived!!

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537 Upvotes

So, I decided to make an aquarium cake (rookie mistake #1), then thought, "Hey, why not make it a 3-layer ice cream cake?" (rookie mistake #2). Fast forward to impatience (rookie mistake #3), and the ice cream wouldn’t solidify. The result? Leaking ice cream, a collapsing cake, and a mad dash to the freezer to ice it with the door wide open. It turned out… weird, ugly, and totally asymmetrical. But hey, at least it stayed together… kinda 😭


r/cakefails 19d ago

Twilight cheesecake fail 🧛 🐺

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216 Upvotes

First is when I decorated the cheesecake, the morning of. It says, “This is the skin of a killer Bella”, and second is queen we opened it to eat. We were laughing all night long, from the movies and the cake 😂


r/cakefails 19d ago

Big bird disaster

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296 Upvotes

I wanted to make the big bird from Seasame street (pic 1) and but ended up with this goofy face (pic 2); also i gave up lol


r/cakefails 20d ago

Made a cake for my baby’s 6 month

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516 Upvotes

Very very new at the cake decorating stuff here. In hindsight sight, I should’ve used fondant for the limpy stairs and the disfigured baby 😭

I honestly don’t know how that buttercream ladder held on for life and didn’t just break.


r/cakefails 19d ago

Vanilla cake

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58 Upvotes

I mixed cream cheese with butter to make the frosting, but bought thr wrong kind of cream cheese. It was too acidic and made the butter split. It was also not enough for me to use on the whole cake, so I used some leftover condensed milk I had to make a vanilla custard and just poured it on top

The cake tastes amazing though. My neighbour loved it


r/cakefails 23d ago

Whale shark cake

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100 Upvotes

i know this on cake fails but he is perfect in my heart ❤️


r/cakefails 23d ago

Question Is this too much frosting?

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1.9k Upvotes

I need a sanity check. I ordered a cake from the grocery store for my kids birthday. It was supposed to have chocolate fudge filling and chocolate buttercream frosting. When I cut it, I realize it has buttercream filling, which was annoying but not the end of the world. It was a little hard to cut, because the buttercream was too cold.

Once I cut in, I see about two inches of frosting filling, and it is uneven. To me, this looks like a mistake. Like they tried to make up for uneven layers by adding more frosting. It’s possible the bottom layer just compressed from the weight of the frosting.

I called the store to complain, because this cake was $25, and it is basically inedible. The manager said they get a lot of questions about the frosting but they make it according to the recipe. She said I can bring the cake back and get a refund if I’m unhappy.

Are my expectations unreasonable? I order from this bakery a couple times a year, and I’m used to about half an inch of filling. This is a wild amount of filling, right?


r/cakefails 29d ago

Doraehorn

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64 Upvotes

r/cakefails Mar 05 '25

the smeared edge really sells it

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1.2k Upvotes

my brother turns 27 this week and always complains that our mom gets him clearance shelf cakes and cookies from Walmart. so she ordered a custom cookie cake from Great American Cookie Co this time and.........well, lol


r/cakefails Mar 04 '25

all in lower case...

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406 Upvotes

r/cakefails Mar 03 '25

My brother's SO (who hasn't seen star wars) baked him a birthday cake

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2.4k Upvotes

r/cakefails Mar 04 '25

Half a cake is better than none!

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89 Upvotes

Nah, imma redo it in the morning. But this "sock it to me" cake really socked it to me!!


r/cakefails Feb 23 '25

Bought a grocery store carrot cake

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1.7k Upvotes

That was my first mistake. Cake part was very much so red velvet 😅


r/cakefails Feb 22 '25

Mom tried a new recipe for her chocolate cake...

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1.1k Upvotes

r/cakefails Feb 23 '25

Showcase Grocery store work of art

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147 Upvotes

r/cakefails Feb 19 '25

Meme i made the iconic cursed hedgehog cake😍

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502 Upvotes

he's chocolate filling and icing. the pretzels give him a nice salty crunch and the marshmellows are sweet and soft. he's gongeous🩷🩷🩷🩷


r/cakefails Feb 19 '25

Question Tried to make strawberry angle food cake…

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480 Upvotes

It came out more pudding like than fluffy (this pic is after a couple bites, but yes it did sink in on itself) Was it too much strawberry puree? We didn’t do exact measurements if I’m being honest and we used the store bought mix, made the puree from frozen strawberries, could that have been it? Either way, it was still delicious! Just wondering what went wrong 🥲


r/cakefails Feb 17 '25

From this to that on the way to my niece's party

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1.4k Upvotes

They ate it anyway lol