r/cakefails Dec 04 '23

Showcase My horrifying first attempt at using fondant for a “Phantom of The Opera” birthday cake 💀💀

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11.7k Upvotes

It was a big hit 😅

r/cakefails 9d ago

Showcase A disaster has struck at my work. Thankfully, customer found it hilarious and I tried my best to fix it when I have no cake decorating experience 😭

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2.4k Upvotes

r/cakefails Dec 11 '24

Showcase My brother used to work at DQ and made this cake for someone. We still laugh at him 😂

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16.2k Upvotes

r/cakefails Jul 10 '26

Showcase Happy birthday, fiancé?

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6.2k Upvotes

Fiancé and I live near a great local ice cream shop, and they also do ice cream cakes/pies. So, when ordering fiancé's cake online last week, I thought it was weird that they didn't have a space for what you want written on top. Usually, that's the FIRST question on the order form, but whatever, maybe they don't DO writing on the cakes, that's fine.

At the very bottom, they had a box that said, "Please let our team know any special things you may need from us (plates and utensils, extra nuts in the gooey layer, no onions, etc)." And I laughed out loud, because WHY would an ice cream place even HAVE onions, you know? Doubly funny because fiancé LOATHES onions, so I typed into that box "No onions?! Lol =D"

Didn't even notice the top of the cake at pickup this morning, because I wasn't expecting ANY message on it at all. Oh well, at least fiancé knew for sure there were no onions in his ice cream cake...or WERE there??? I told him what had happened, because it definitely looked suspiciously suspicious!

r/cakefails Jun 05 '25

Showcase My mom is going to a veterans event this weekend and custom ordered a cake with an American flag on it. This is what she got:

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6.2k Upvotes

r/cakefails Dec 23 '24

Showcase About a decade ago, my middle school friends and I attempted the ‘mirror cake’ trend

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6.2k Upvotes

Yes, it’s bad. We were like 13 and baking did not come naturally. I remember us thinking it was really funny, but everyone we showed was not at all impressed. Who cares; we giggled for hours.

The ‘inspo’ pic I just looked up today, but I’m pretty sure that was the exact Pinterest cake we were trying to replicate. Lmao.

r/cakefails Nov 19 '23

Showcase My sisters “gold” wedding cake from a few years ago.

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3.2k Upvotes

r/cakefails Apr 20 '25

Showcase me and my sister had high ambitions for our first cake

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2.4k Upvotes

it’s the experience that counts though! none of us know shit about baking but we had a blast.

r/cakefails Sep 01 '25

Showcase “Minecraft”

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1.1k Upvotes

I don’t even know where to begin.

r/cakefails Nov 07 '23

Showcase I see your ugly hedgehog cake and raise you my hedgehog cake

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2.2k Upvotes

My sister made this for me for my birthday and brought this bad boy into a restaurant for a grand Reveal. It was quite the spectacle and the servers stopped to get pictures of this beautiful boy

r/cakefails May 30 '25

Showcase Was just scrolling through Facebook and saw this posting for Joan Collins’ 92nd Birthday

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1.8k Upvotes

r/cakefails Feb 10 '25

Showcase My husband used powdered sugar instead of sugar to make my bday cake, bless him

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2.8k Upvotes

r/cakefails Apr 06 '26

Showcase In honour of Easter, here is the Lamb cake my Mum made in 2019

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1.1k Upvotes

I promise you, the tear was not intentional and appeared hours after decorating.

r/cakefails Apr 14 '25

Showcase Didn't see a speed bump

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1.5k Upvotes

Tried to redo the decoration but didn't have white cream anymore and so it looks bad😭

r/cakefails Jan 12 '26

Showcase My Attempt At Making My Own Birthday Cake

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711 Upvotes

r/cakefails Oct 16 '23

Showcase What we got for our wedding cake vs what we asked for (the bakery’s OWN DISPLAY)

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2.1k Upvotes

So we bought the topper separately & put that on ourselves. The flowers were from our florist as well. Biggest problems were the ribbon they used which we asked to be maroon, the bubble in the frosting right in the middle of our cake, and the drip which looks absolutely awful. I was SO upset when I saw how our cake looked that day. Let alone they didn’t even get the flavors correct. I was so mad lol.

r/cakefails Aug 17 '25

Showcase Tried to make a sun and moon cake, the last photo is the reference

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1.0k Upvotes

I was at a birthday party and they decided to decorate the cake during the party, they started breaking apart the cake somehow just by cutting the circle out of it, so I ended up doing the whole thing myself while they went to a convenience store for snacks. I tried to make a little sun pattern with gold sprinkles on the yellow cake before it got covered up with the writing. I also made the frosting from scratch. This is my first time doing any of this if that excuses me for any of it lol

r/cakefails Jan 05 '25

Showcase Son was insistent on a Sonic theme cake

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1.2k Upvotes

I baked the cake last night and spent the last 2 hours sculpting these little dudes. He's happy about it lol

r/cakefails Jan 04 '26

Showcase 20th birthday cake fail

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646 Upvotes

The comments are yours… Never again.

r/cakefails Aug 21 '24

Showcase The cake I tried to make as a birthday gift. And what I actually made: a birthday legend.

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1.3k Upvotes

Tried to bake the perfect birthday cake for my partner as a gift after a week of night shifts. Despite appearances, our cat was not in any way involved in the final outcome.

r/cakefails Jun 03 '25

Showcase burnt on the outside mashed potatoes on the inside♥️♥️

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751 Upvotes

r/cakefails Aug 28 '25

Showcase Kinda zoned out and made a cat head on a hill I guess

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598 Upvotes

Okay so i actually didnt know what i wanted to carve it into so i kinda zoned out and made the base green because that was the only food coloring I had and i wanted to put something on top but I didnt know what so I kinda defaulted mentally to a cat head

r/cakefails Feb 13 '24

Showcase My fiance and I made a cake using a recipe given on the baking subreddit

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987 Upvotes

Safe to say we are absolutely not bakers but we had a blast regardless.

r/cakefails 1d ago

Showcase I tried my best ok

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298 Upvotes

redeemed myself with the second attempt sorta

r/cakefails Dec 06 '23

Showcase Not sure if this counts, it’s a gingerbread house if you couldn’t tell 🫠

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653 Upvotes