You found the right ingredients in your cupboard. You’ve followed the recipe step by painstaking step. But somehow, somewhere, you messed up the baking recipe and your cake looks absolutely nothing like what it’s supposed to. (On the plus side, it might scary enough for Halloween!) One of the best places to see some unexpected fails is the ‘Expectation Vs. Reality’ subreddit, home to 709k people who just love sharing that the Universe sometimes has a pretty good sense of humor. We’ve collected some of the best cake fails they’ve featured for you to enjoy, dear Pandas. So scroll on down, and upvote the best worst cakes.
Your cake might come out bad because of a dozen different reasons. You might have mixed up Celsius and Fahrenheit on the oven or accidentally used stale ingredients without checking the expiration date. Whoops! But fear not, brave baking adventurers, for all is not lost.
Bored Panda reached out to talented baker and pie artist Jessica Clark-Bojin to talk about when we should follow recipes to the letter and when we should experiment with our baking. Scroll down for our interview with her and with Canadian baker and cake designer Darci.
#1 Belle Cake
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#2 From A Kids Party To A Bachelorette Sorry Real Quick
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#3 My Darth Maul Birthday Cake Ate Too Much Cake
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#4 Tried A Mirror Glaze
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#5 Daughter Wanted A Homemade “Little Mermaid” Cake. I Tried Really Hard
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#6 Merry Christmas Everyone!
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#7 Well I Tried
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#8 I Was In Rehab For Hard Drugs At 21, And This Is Still By Far The Biggest Failure Of My Life
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#9 My Wife Made A Dragon Cake For Her Mother’s Birthday…
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#10 Elsa Cake
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#11 This Attempt At A Rainbow Crepe Cake
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#12 Nailed It!
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#13 There Was An Attempt By My Dad To Make My Brother A Patrick Star Birthday Cake
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#14 Elmo / Elmer
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#15 Minnie Gained Some Weight
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#16 I Way Over-Estimated My Abilities
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#17 My Sister Attempted To Make A Red Velvet Christmas Tree Cake
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#18 Tried My Best To Make A Roach Cake For My 8 Yo
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#19 Friends Parents Tried To Re-Do A Chewbacca Cake They Found On The Internet For His Birthday…
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#20 Ordered Cake On Left, Received Cake On Right
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#21 Grooms Cake Disaster, What We Wanted vs. What We Got
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#22 My Aunt Tried To Make A Cake Of Dolly Parton For A Friend
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#23 I Tried Making Japanese Cotton Sponge Cake…
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#24 A Spoderman Cake
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#25 Peacock Cake Of Dreams
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#26 The Wedding Cake We Ordered vs. The Cake We Picked Up
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#27 Snow White Cake
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#28 I Tried To Make My Girlfriend A Galaxy Mirror Cake
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#29 Yup. My Wedding Cake
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#30 Ordered The Cake On The Left, Got The One On The Right
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