Wednesday
Aug122009
It Came From the Baby Shower...
August 12, 2009 In my inadvertently controversial baby post a while back, I told bakers that there's really nothing creepier than uber-realistic baby cakes.
Turns out, I may have to amend that a little.
Realistic? No. Creepy as all get-out? Ohhh yes. Little sweet pea here has a face only a stocking-clad bank robber could love - and may, in fact, be related to the giraffe family.
Disaster can also strike when a baker takes a cutesy saying just a little too literally:
Unless this family really is only growing by two baby appendages. Huh. I suppose they could keep them in a jar...And finally, this one proves that a cake doesn't have to have an edible baby on it to give people the willies:
Yep, when you see something like this you reeeally have to stop and think: Why oh why didn't they stop with the bassinet? It looks like Ashlyn is encased in icing Han Solo style.
Thanks Michelle B. & Julie Anne D.; these babies are reeeally something.
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Hmmm...would y'all still say that if you met this cake in real life instead of on a blog where you expect a wreck?
That first one is Jack Skelingtons baby!
Doesn't every parent have a photo of their kid in the bathtub, everything but their face covered in bubbles? Looks like that might be sweet little Ashlyn's problem, although I'm not sure babies in bathtubs is really something to celebrate.
The face on the final cake is like the ones on those crocheted toilet paper cover dolls my Grandma used to make. *shudder*
http://www.craftamerica.com/dimple_doll_face.htm
WV: frutbles I like my buffet to have frutbles, like strawberries, cherries and melon.
Oh, that last comment about Han Solo made me laugh out loud!
But I have to say, in defense of the first cake, at least I could eat that. Unlike the ultra realistic ones you showed last time.
Michelle
wv: rumpyho - I'm not even going to go there...
I am so disturbed by the "realistic" baby cakes that I am left speechless.
You are soooo funny! I laughed out loud when I read "a face only a pantyhose clad bank robber could love." Hilarious!
That's too bad, the baby cradle thing on its own would have been really cute and pretty.
The middle cake looks like an evil demon is devouring the baby, leaving only the feet. The flower horns are the eyes and the slit is the mouth.
Creepy, Creepy, Creepy!
LOL! Yup, totally creepy even when NOT realistic. Love the Star Wars reference, as well...
"a face only a stocking-clad bank robber could love" HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!
That 'two feet' cake looks like it has two angry eyes and a mouth devouring a baby's feet
It really does look like the same countertop for all three cakes, although the first one looks like someone's house.
Those last two definitely look like they must have been taken by the decorators themselves, with all the equipment and icing in the background, so maybe those photos will be going into their portfolios!
Those feet look like raw chicken wings.
Where are those baby feet coming from? They seem to be floating in a pool of water? Severed baby feet floating in a pool! Oh the humanity!
Of course the grosser option is the baby is "arriving" from a pool of blue goo? ewwww!
What erinbob said. It looks like a demon that ate the baby, leaving the feet. Closer still, it looks like somebody tried to baby up the face of Oogie Boogie from "Nightmare Before Christmas"
Either that, or they just baked the baby IN the cake. Either way, incredibly disturbing. All of them are.
Am I weird because I think that two of the three cakes are kinda cute? Don't answer that.
The third cake's baby face looks like the horrible masks used in Brazil.
Are the last two pix on the same table??
WV Encetie: Screams outside at her kid "Time to come encetie!!"
Yep...really creepy...all of them! http://blog.sweetservices.com/sweetscandyblog/
OMG! That second foot one....
it looks like the cake is eating a baby! Look, those footprints look like angry eyes! Ahhhhh!!!!
Ok, so I actually did a legitimate LOL regarding the Han Solo comment.
Well-played. Well-played.
Ergh. #1 and #3 are disturbing enough. #2... well, unlike many people, I do not think baby feet are cute. The ones on this cake go beyond that and are downright revolting. Who thought this was going to be appetizing?
That first cake is SCARY!!
I also love seeing the random stuff on the counters around the cakes. For instance, what's that giant thumbtack-like thing in the last photo? What's that for? And the countertops in the all three photos are remarkably similar...
Cakes...babies...frosting globs...
yeah, yeah, yeah...BOR-ING!
Yes, they are slightly left of attractive. One might even say: "I Can't Believe It's Not Better!" -for a professional job.
But there are way more fun things going on here. Questions starving for answers!
F'rinstance:
1. Why is Sweet little Pea's cardboard bed hanging partially off the edge of the counter? Pretty reckless, isn't it? Why, the cake could fall off accidentally. Some might even hint at "intentionally"...
2. I don't get why we always cover our under-the-cake cardboard slabs with foil. It's not that much more attractive, and neither is edible.
3. What's really piqued my curiosity is the last one (and here we go again with the edge-crowding).
Was the bassinet awning (in a previous life) a lampshade? Seems like it. Hey- cut it, slog frosting on it, and there's your...well...lampshade with frosting on it. Give it to the kiddies & let 'em lick it off.
And WHY didn't they use that pretty green frosting? It's right there on the counter! See it?
One last thing: What is that thing that looks like a giant thumbtack, sitting there by the cake?
Wait! Wait! The first one is a baby from Alien Nation! Remember that great police procedural from the late 80's? And they had a baby too - that's how I recognized, um, 'her.'
Laura Dotson-Thomson said...
"Am I weird for - on the last cake - seeing one of those old Holland nuns with the big white hat-thing?"
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I don't see that here, myself, but I remember being about 3 or 4 years old and afraid of that thing, too. It was the Old Dutch Cleanser woman. What made it super-creepy to me was that she had no FACE, and she was lurching along holding up a big stick.
*shiver*
To answer the question of the "thumb tack" in the last pic....that is called a flower nail. Decorators use it to create frosting roses on a rotatable surface and then transfer the flower to a cake. Some bakers use it as a heating core in the center of very large pans to ensure even heating during the baking process. It's not out of place at all.
I see it in the first one, its "swee' pea" from popeye. Wrecktastic, nonetheless. the other two, well, i cannot give redemption.
Craig! Your Jabba the Hutt comment was priceless!
I totally want a baby-in-carbonite cake someday.
So sad, the third cake had a lot of potential.
Cake Believe said...
"To answer the question of the "thumb tack" in the last pic....that is called a flower nail. It's not out of place at all."
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Thanks for clarifying!
That's a nice little gadget to have around. Would these be available in both clockwise spin and counterclockwise spin versions (for both righties and lefties)?
>^~-^<
Idea: When not being twirled in the name of flower creation, I'd bet these things could pinch hit as a deterrent to anyone's sitting on the countertops.
they sure are freaky looking cakes...ewwwww
Rebekah, my thoughts exactly regarding the second cake's resemblance to the horrible Brazil baby masks!
Those cakes are ALMOST as creepy as baby showers themselves.
Aw! Love the first one! ;D And the third cake is co cute! Like the color, purple and pink. ;D
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The second cake, the one with the feet, looks a hell of a lot like there is a pastel monster devouring a baby. The weird rose tear drop type things (what were those even intended to be?) are the sinister glaring eyes.
Here's what I like best about the last cake - notice how the mixing bowl and icing is in the background? What the heck was the green icing for? Were those shades of pink and purple just not wrecky enough?
First I have to say that I love the theme of your blog - very creative and entertaining.
And yes, I agree with you about the cakes in this post. They are a bit much. They don't look appetizing at all.
looks more like the Annie Liebowitz VF photo shoot of Whoopie Gldberg in the milk bath, LOL!!
On the baby-drowning-in-icing-cake--
Did the _decorator_ or someone else at the bakery send that in? Since clearly all the decorating supplies and frosting are also on the table. Maybe that's a can of beer, and that explains it?
Once again the comments make a stupid cake into a hilarious one: "encased in icing Han Solo style" ... I am dying at this!
The first one reminds me of a video installation piece at the Milwaukee Art Museum:
http://www.mam.org/collection/details.php?ID=M1998.136
That piece freaks me out as much as that cake!
when i have a baby i'm so making a cake like that. cause then no one will want to eat it and my pregnant self will get a whole cake... mmm...
Good lord, that first cake looks like a piece of Tony Oursler video art; which is something I'd NEVER want to see on a baby shower cake.
Heh, it appears that "Anonymous" above me had the same idea.
All three of these cakes would have been so nice if no body parts were on them. You should never put severed feet and headless babies on cakes ever, unless those kids are going to be born on Halloween.
My husband thinks the baby under the blanket looks like Voldemort....
Oh, NO ! Who employs these people and what the heck were they thinking when they created such horrid cakes ?
I got a good chuckle out of the Han Solo style comment because I was thinking the same thing ! LOL