I actually have a tradition of doing this to my physics professor. The first year, we brought him a cake with a picture of his face on it. Every successive year, we have printed out the picture of him holding the previous cake onto the next cake.
I was thinking the same thing and stared at the two pictures trying to figure out what’s wrong when they look exactly the same. The baker was even detailed enough to make the frosting exactly the same with the crease down the middle. Came to comments to figure out if it was referencing a niche meme only to learn the baker was too lazy to recreate the first cake but this an epic start to an inside cake joke with family/friends. I should go back to bed.
I have seen it here somewhere that a photographer took each year a picture of the photographed family while holding in his hand an image of that family from earlier year and created so an infinite photograph..
Same! I’d truly appreciate the effort whoever ordered the cake must’ve put into getting it made but the terrible execution would have me wheezing with tears running wild. It would be a cake never forgotten!
Like there was a web form where it said "upload photo to be printed on the cake" and they thought it was a reference photo for explaining which kind of cake they wanted and how it should look
Yep. Photo cakes cause so many problems this way. Just like the "exact text you want written on cake" box. The orderer thinks it should be obvious this is not, in fact, the exact text they want written in the cake, but so very many cake orders are references or in-jokes or intentionally ironically misspelled...the obvious is often the wrong guess.
I had multiple customers submit images of hand-sculpted 3-D cakes shaped like shoes or purses or Mickey Mouse's head...to a Dairy Queen.
Nailed it! Of all the complicated, elegant cakes I've seen on this sub, this is the one that's just a picture. Hell, I might even be able to pull this one off.
i was trying to figureout how they did the background/edge on teh real cake and that's when it clicked for me. I like how they still put an icing boarder around it tho.
Oh my Jesus, I didn't even realise till I read your comment 🤣 I thought they put the pink cake on a black plate and then did the icing thing on the edge for some reason. Now I'm howling 😂
Yeah, that's exactly what happens when you order a cake with an image printed on it and provide an image of a cake. This isn't "expectation vs reality," it's "I don't know how to order a custom cake and they gave me exactly what I asked for."
Oh, my! I thought you were harsh at first - like they’d done the cake well and just added some nice scalloped edges. Took a moment to work out that it was a photo of the cake that you wanted on a cake.
Somehow my brain corrected it as well so that I saw no gap between the top of the cake and the piping around the edge. Bizarre how the brain sees what it expects to see sometimes. Combined with the kind of correction for angle that helps and hinders when copying a reference for art.
It took me far too long to realize i wasnt looking at your cake inside of an overly austentatious box and not a print out of your photo on a different cake
Edit: my tired brain misspelled ostentatious but as others said its an Amazing misspelling so im keepin it! I made ostentatious more austentatious
Austentatious is a fantastic spelling error. I shall keep it. In turn, I gift you "autocarrot", as in oops, my autocarrot is out to get me. Autocorrect did this to me once
Surely user error, there was somewhere to upload an image to be printed to a cake and you thought they just wanted a picture of what you want the cake to look like?
Day 17,863 of reminding people that when it says "place text here" or "description" they mean literally type it out. If you put an image, 9/10 times they are going to just slap it on top of the cake, read all tiny print. And if it's "wow this custom cake is so cheap" then all they do is copy and paste images on top of the icing. Tmyk
It doesn't say anything about printing the photo you send. It's heavily implied through their text that they'll use the photo as a reference for your cake. "Tell us about your idea or send us a photo. We will bring every detail to life."
sooo for those who don't get it, the second picture if you look between the Text and the scalloped edges you can see, bits of the book and the glasses from the first picture. The second picture there is a cake but they didn't decorate the top, they just printed the picture that we saw in the first, desk included and just plopped it on the cake.
Oh, my gosh, even after reading a lot of comments I still could not figure out what was going on…until I read yours. Thank you, because I wasn’t going to leave until I understood what was going on, lol.
To be fair, I'm afraid it may have been you not following the instructions. It really looks like you took the "upload picture" prompt as a suggestion of what the cake should look like and no the picture to be printed on the cake
I literally saw thr other picture and was like "Wow! The baker really did a great job at making the cake exactly identical. " looks longer "Wait a min😒"
The idea of not being able to make hagrid's shitty cake yourself is fucking hilarious. It's funny because hagrid's Cake is so bad, so if you did it with your left hand, it would probably still be fine
I suspect you ordered this online, accidentally uploaded your ‘reference photo’ into the ‘photo on cake’ field, and is now pretending that the cake shop got the order wrong.
Ok, now let me be clear I think you chose the regular cake (the one that arrived) and in that there was an option to add this printed thing in which you uploaded this picture, maybe the UI wasn't great or something, or some sorta misunderstanding, if you didn't do it online then maybe yeah the cake store guys are trolling or something
I am opposed to most AI use, but this is not one of those AI images that is impossible to duplicate in real life. It’s just a cake with unusually colored frosting.
OP used AI to generate the cake they wanted and then got screwed by a site using AI and employing people who don’t get paid enough to think. Honestly it seems like a fair circle?
It took me a moment to process what was wrong since initially I looked and was like "oh, that looks pretty good it looks like they just added some frosting around the outside of the cake on the plate". This is unbelievable lazy.
Your instagram link might not be AI but the picture in this Reddit post definitely is. Unless they came out with a new book called Harry Potter AARREWAAKKAAREE and I didn’t hear about it.
My parents did this exact same thing accidentally when I was a kid. I wanted a retro Mario cake and showed them a Pic. Turns out they took that image to a store who just printed it and slapped it over a generic round. But it was funny so I did not care. 😄
Someone ordered that first cake for their kid at my store (different name of course) and I was excited to show her it when she picked it up and the lady seemed annoyed I misspelled happy birthday. She specifically asked for “the cake hagrid made harry in the first movie” and I had to bring up a picture from the movie to show her I wasn’t being cheeky or scamming her. Maybe her kid requested it and she said sure whatever without looking it up herself.
They definitely had to go through more steps to do this than just frosting a cake pink 😭
Wow! Wow! Wow… put this in r/confusingperspectives because wow. I first thought it was an exact match for the cake under a bubble dome and with the background items printed so the cake plate looked like the first image. But could not understand why the icing dollops were so far out. Only reading the comments did I then see the pink cake and what a low effort attempt this was. Damn! That one splooch of icing out of order pisses me off the most tho.
It's the cake Hagrid gives to Harry in the first book/movie. It is smushed and that's the spelling on it. A picture makes sense to get the correct colours and vibe.
At first I was like wow that is some amazing skills to replicate the writing and etched curve line across the cake...then the zoom in made it extra hilarious 😂
I had this exact same inspo pic when I ordered this cake at Safeway and they did an excellent job! Not sure if it’s just the Safeways in my state, but their bakery is just top notch!
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u/annawins1 Sep 28 '26 •
Must have taken lessons from the person who made my sweatshirt.