Tuesday
Oct262010
Going Through a Rough Patch
October 26, 2010 It's the quintessential symbol of Halloween: the Jack-O-Lantern. Fortunately, it's also one of the easiest designs for a baker to make. Just take one round cake, ice it in orange, add a cartoony face, and...voilá!
AAAEEIII!! Er. Heh, sorry. Let's try that again.
Voila!
Voila!
That's...not a cake.[rolling up sleeves] Voila!
Is that...plastic?Cheater.
Voila!
A Pumpkin Poo-nicorn. Well. That's a first.[through gritted teeth] Voi-la.
What the...what IS that? Come on, seriously, there's no way you could make this thing look less like a pumpkin!
Allow me to retract that last statement.Knock, knock.
Well? Orange you glad I didn't say "voila?"Hm. Maybe the problem lies in trying to make the whole cake look like a pumpkin. Maybe if the baker just drew a pumpkin ON the cake...
[blinking]Um...
[more blinking]
Voila!
Dorota, Carra M., Melody N., Shanna T., Andrew M., Ted, Donny & Amanda, Kaitlin K., & T.A., don't ask me; I'm going with "abstract jack-o-lantern."
Reader Comments (124)
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Pumpkin Poo-nicorn! It doesn't get any better than that!
Actually I really liked the first two cakes. Sure, they don't look like pumpkins at all, but they do look Halloween-ish and they're rather cute.
The other cakes were indeed complete wreckies.
Oh. My. Those last two make me feel dirty.
hahaha! The next to last one has "poopkins" on it! I was waiting for you to say that!!
i actually kinda like http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TLeKfk9GVxI/AAAAAAAANd0/Cz0HXwCe-x0/s400/Donny+%26+Amanda+L+-+pumpkin.jpg
I wasn't going to post a comment, but my WV was "diast"; as in "those cakes are diasterous" (did I spell it right? ;-)
"Pumpkin Poo-nicorn" made me laugh waaaay too hard. Thank you!
Thank you for all the laughs. My hubby and I love it!
That last cake looks more like orange vulvas were drawn on.... perhaps its their Snookie-o-Lantern cake?
so i'm not the only one who thought that last cake looks like it might have been a rendition of a series of ladies in the stirrups. good to know it's not just me.
wv: rerche - some of those cakes are so bad i had to go rerche. pass the disinfecting wipes.
*dying laughing, brb*
OH MY! That was a good one today!! thank you for the laugh!! I snorted too, just not at work!!!
You keep using that word "voila." I do not think it means what you think it means.
I shall take the idea of a ballad for the poo-nicorn...and run with it!! Silly,whimsical (but also serious!:) couplets will be here within the next few days!!!
POO-NICORN?? *diez and iz ded*
*resurrects* CCCs gussied up as mutant gourds of dubious ancestry? PTOOOIE!!
@Mary, ummmm that last one is a little....shall we say....feminine. Ah-hem. Moving on, yes, please ;) .
Have to say I kinda like the frowny one towards the end. But the others... sheesh!
Now I know why there is a reason I hated carving Jack-o-lanterns. I could have had a less dangerous time just slapping icing on a cake--any cake.
True story:
Several years ago I had a call at the library reference desk asking how to spell fu-ella. Stumped, I asked if she could put it in a sentence.
"Sure. The caterpillar made a cocoon and fu-ella--it's a butterfly."
Ah, yes! Voila! I can spell it for you.
Oh my goodness! I love this blog, but have never commented before, but I had to seeing as how my 18-month old daughter started pointing to her bottom and saying, "bootie! bootie!" when I got to the last picture. Hilarious!
The first cake looks kind of like a Goron from Legend of Zelda
http://www.zelda-gc.com/dossiers/races/gorons/gorons1
See, they could be...distant cousins twice removed?
Oh gosh! Pumpkin Poo-Nicorn! I LOL'ed at that one! I just can't imagine what they are thinking when decorating these things?!?
DK @ http://sweetsbyd.blogspot.com/
I think you have a new mascot: the Pumpkin Poo-nicorn!
It can duel with Carrot Jockey for supremacy.
I kind of like #7, the "angry face" pumpkin. If my cake cracked like that, I'd have that expression on my face, too.
my son said the fourth one looked like a guy with a drill in his head
I showed this to my aunt and her response was, "Oh My God, those are being sold??? This makes me want to go bake a cake." I think you have another fan:)
Did anyone else have the pear tree unveiling flashback from the last cake here?
God help us all.
I HAVE to figure out a way to use poo-nicorn in everyday conversation. Just too funny! Thanks!
Those last ones look like prostates.
Actually, that first one is pretty cool...
I *LOVE* these! Your site always makes me laugh (usually in the library, out loud, and then everyone looks at me funny...)
Also, you give me hope that I can definitely find work as a cake decorator, because I certainly can't do any *worse* than these...not without trying, anyway :)
all are awful, though there is one if it were supposed to be an orrange, it would be ok
what really funny is that i bet they all taste great
I laughed 'till I cried while reading the post, then I laughed 'till I cried all over again as I read the comments.
Poo-Nicorn! I almost peed my pants reading the caption!
The last cake looks a little like an outline of some female parts...hmmm...
Poo-nicorn? omg that is perhaps one of the funniest things I have read on-line. ever.
I love your sight. a novice decorator, it gives bolsters my confidence :)
I would like to know what that first cake was eating to make the "blood" drops
Bethe
Dear lord, have any of those people ever seen a pumpkin?
The last one looks like sliced tomatoes. :)
#7 looks like Meatwad.
I agree that the first one looks like it was well done, except for, you know, missing the mark and creeping me out. But it would have been nice.
The last one is just disturbing. I'm sure THAT wrecorator was stoned. Or should be. With ccc 'stones'.
hahahaha! this may be one of my favorites yet! and not that this is the worst offense, but what's with the pumpkin with three noses across its face? or was it three rosy cheek blushes? oh dear...poor pumpkin-creature.
I would totally buy the one with the crack in it...if it didn't have a crack in it. Otherwise, it's freakin' adorable!
Okay, the poonicorn alone makes this my all time favorite post, but the comments are also cracking me up.
@Bad Karma!
Best use of wv EVER. Thank you for the laughs! (Or better put, danke schön!)
Would love to yell Abracadabra and turn the wreckerators into these horrific "pumpkin" things. But then all of us would have to run and hide from the evil unleashed lol. Man Halloween really gets me.. weirder than usual.
What is #2 made of anyway? (yeah, I know, #2 - ha ha!) I'm guessing corned beef hash.
WV: lopowine. No snarky comment, just funny.
I didn't realize ATHF's Meatwad was a pumpkin cake.
I laughed so hard my coffee came out my nose. I actually sprayed the screen when I read the Pumpkin Poo-nicorn :)
number 1 looks like Paul Stanley (In full Kiss make-up) after he had a bad reaction to some shell fish.
The last "cake" looked like it was decorated with "female parts" seen in abstract. and the poo-nicorn cake is just twisted. I do like the pissed off pumpkin cake. looks like he is DARING you to eat him.
Pooh-nicorn!!
Hilarious.
Delicious cake!!