r/cakefails • • 3d ago

Showcase cat cake

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35 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 3d ago

Other My attempt at a zombie cake for my son’s birthday

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53 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 5d ago

Igelkuchen

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204 Upvotes

Passend zum Herbstgeburtstag 🍂🦔


r/cakefails • • 5d ago

Showcase My son wanted a Fuggler cake for his 4th birthday. I think I made it worse.

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79 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 6d ago

Just finished making this cake

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547 Upvotes

Son requested a "strawberry dino" cake for his birthday lol. I tried..


r/cakefails • • 9d ago

Why does this cake i made make me so mad?

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275 Upvotes

It pisses me off. I sent a picture to my mom.


r/cakefails • • 10d ago

Attempted to make a Birthday cake for my Sister

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18 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 11d ago

Fugly cake 💔

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157 Upvotes

I spent a really long time on this cake but it ended up really ugly.. i love to bake but im terrible at making my desserts look nice. The texture also wasn’t as fluffy as I wanted, even after whipping my egg whites. Any recommendations for how I could remedy this in the future?


r/cakefails • • 17d ago

My wedding cake…(fail… sort of?)

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r/cakefails • • 22d ago

This made me snort

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Obviously an underbaked cake made with black cocoa, but the song is hilarious! 🤣


r/cakefails • • 24d ago

Ordered the first cake, got the second

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438 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 24d ago

Tried to make a frog cake for my fiancé’s birthday

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2.0k Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 24d ago

My sisters gold wedding cake from a few years ago.

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52 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • 25d ago

Showcase It's my fault really

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Sister wanted a (i know basic) cake of new girl show for her 29. I wanted to give her a cute one. I wanted it to be light purple with sage green ¿scalp? pipping. (I knew it would look werid with the image cause of the colors, but i knew they would only do edible paper on top so i didn't care. i wanted the outside to be pretty). With dark purple lettering.

I gave them the image, and they told me they can only do a white backgound. Gave them 4 days, maybe that was too little time. I paid 60 and got the most basic, store bought looking cake. I feel increasingly sad looking at it, even though i didn't have high expectations. I just told them thank you and left, hopefully the cake is delicious at least.

I don't know, maybe this was harder then I thought it was going to be. My grandma is currently adding sprinkles to the edge of the paper border so it's not so obvious. That is helping. I called to tell my sister it isn't pretty, and got her favorite ice-cream. I hope everyone else gets the cake of their dreams this year.


r/cakefails • • Sep 20 '26

My homie’s accidental forbidden jack o lantern cake

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162 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • Sep 09 '26

Bolo perfeito

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13 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • Aug 31 '26

Meme My son’s second birthday cake

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592 Upvotes

😭 This was from two years ago when I was living in Hesperia, California. I won’t lie, the cake tasted fire. I think my ex’s family friends made it in their shop and they paid like 80$ for it 😭😭😭😭😭 It still cracks me up


r/cakefails • • Aug 29 '26

Congratutalion’s

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r/cakefails • • Aug 30 '26

Chocobo Cake fail

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108 Upvotes

Didn't have 2 circles pans so I got the idea to do it all in a big rectangle pan, cut it in half, and then stack them. Also messed up with the frosting by using 6 tbsp of granulated sugar instead of powdered. The first picture is what it's SUPPOSED to look like. The second is mine.

Update: wife and daughter liked it a lot. Wife says it almost tastes like a tres leche. I think it tastes kinda like sweet cornbread and the icing tastes like whipped cream. 8/10 taste. Overbaked and dry. 4/10 looks. Haphazardly made lol.


r/cakefails • • Aug 29 '26

There were three of us to make the cake

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Birthday cake. There were three of us making it, and in the end, it's raw, burnt, and has the texture of sand....


r/cakefails • • Aug 28 '26

Meme Business owner is defending this cake

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96 Upvotes

r/cakefails • • Aug 26 '26

What I got and what I did with it.

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I got this cake from vons for $14.99 and added a little pistachio icing and some figures to make it fit for my kiddo. What do you think?

Edit: The photo order is funny. Photo 3 is what I got. A blank brown cake with a few blue accents. It was supposed to have an image on it, but "The printer went down," so I got what I got.


r/cakefails • • Aug 23 '26

what i got vs what i wanted

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first photo is the cake i received for my 21st which was actually supposed to look like the second photo. The second cake was an entire year later for my 22nd birthday and actually came out right


r/cakefails • • Aug 22 '26

Disabled Woman Says Weehawken Restaurant Wrote “Happy Birthday Wheelchair” on Dessert

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r/cakefails • • Aug 21 '26

My favorite cake fail.

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When I was 8 and my cousin turned 6, her mom told the cake decorator “she loves swimming so maybe draw a girl on a beach!”. We all laughed the whole time and I send it to her every year on her birthday.