Baking a cake should be easy until your cute unicorn ends up looking like it saw a ghost, or your Elsa looks like a horse. These 30 cake fails are proof that sometimes the oven has other plans. Whether it’s wobbly layers, terrifying faces, or misspelled words, these baking disasters are guaranteed to make you laugh (and maybe feel better about your own kitchen skills).
Tinker-rock
Can we switch the supposedly Tinkerbell cake for that little pink one over there? Please, we beg you.
No Ability To Take Directions
When ordering “Happy Birthday Grandpa” with a couple of balls, please make sure to specify that you mean basketball decorations.
Find the 7 Differences
The cake mold? A 10. The decoration skills? Keep practicing.
It Needed More Clarification
They should’ve added THEMED next to Walking Dead to help the baker.
What I Ordered vs. What I Got
Astronaut? More like frozen man from Antartica.
Belle by Picasso
Beauty and the ick but make it abstract.
Smiley Cake
Sometimes you eat the cake and sometimes it might eat you.
Chocolate Disaster
Remember to wait for your cake to cool down before adding the frosting.
Cream ‘n Cream Ice Cream Cake
One would think a store-bought cake is a guarantee, but it’s not the case.
Cream Fillers
What’s with the Phantom of the Opera mask on a swollen face? We don’t know, but we love the rose detail.
Finding Who?
Just keep swimming and no one will notice.
Hybrid Creature
Yoda meets Gremlins meets E.T.
Melted Moon
Or whoever is under this hydrating mask made out of frosting.
Cake For Your Ex
Send it to them as a reminder of how your friends see them.
Same Elmo, Same
The perfect cake for work.
Mark With The Sea
(They meant Marc “with a c”.)
Poor Cinderella
She looks like she got the worst news ever and is still trying to keep it together.
Astrology Reality
Someone needed to say it, thankfully it was this cake.
It Looks Just Like The Picture
After melting in a 120-degree weather.
Golfing Accident
These cake businesses need to work on a template to avoid these accidents (and we’re not talking about the golf cart).
Coconut Overload
This is a weird-looking cow… or sheep… or… we can’t really tell.
Mad Train
“I SAID CHOO CHOO. MOVE YOU B-“. That’s what we hear while looking at it.
Lazy Florals
POV: You bake Mother’s Day cake but are too lazy.
Rockin’
Who are they? Wrong answers only.
Mud Monster
A mud monster with a tongue made out of “teeth” and every chocolate thing you can find. Not the most aesthetically pleasing, but still delicious.
Blob
We can’t even tell what this cake was trying to represent.
Not OCD Friendly
This one doesn’t look horrible, but whoever cut it had some anger issues.
Radioactive
Hey, at least they tried. We’ll give them that.
Scary… Cat?
A scared white creature with no arms. That’s what we see.
Drake Cake
Or something like that… Please help, we’re trying to say something nice about it, and we can’t think of anything.
