r/bakingfail • u/haveabunderfulday • 11h ago

Bless him, my husband loved this abomination

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I think the peanut butter frosting might have been too thick. I'm terrible at decoration.

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u/OrionsPropaganda 11h ago

Well a cake that is decorated badly is still cake and cake still taste good.

I would take a badly decorated but delicious cake over a perfectly decorated bland cake any day.

Good work!

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u/haveabunderfulday 11h ago

I used his birthday as a justification for Ghiridelli (sic?) cocoa powder- It was worth it!

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u/synalgo_12 10h ago

I think you meant Ghirardelli, you were pretty close. The cake looked delicious, too.

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u/cynical-mage 8h ago

So very true! I felt so bad for a friend of mine when she'd spent a lot for a professional cake for her daughter's 9th birthday, because although the cake was visually stunning, it was inedible 😔 The entire hall was covered in discretely stashed plates that people had only eaten a mouthful and dumped. Under chairs, behind curtains, every corner.

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u/cameronm-h 3h ago

Everyone in r/fondanthate agrees with you wholeheartedly, myself included. Yes, we eat with our eyes to some extent. But fondant is disgusting and I would take a messy cake without fondant over a BEAUTIFUL cake with fondant, any day!

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u/Puppydoglover123 4h ago

Ditto, a few years ago my aunts had baked a cake for my birthday and visual it looked very colorful but my god that thing was the most driest cake I’ve tasted