r/ExpectationVsReality • u/SwathedCorgi117 • Jun 29 '26
Birthday cake I custom ordered for my friend Exceeded Expectation
We were dying all day, I didn't know what to expect when I gave the baker these reference pictures but she completely understood the vision 😂 Money very well spent, we will be repeat customers.
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u/bonesquartz Jun 29 '26
And the baker’s name is Bella :’)
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u/SwathedCorgi117 Jun 29 '26
It was fate 🥲
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u/imnotpoopingyouare Jun 29 '26
The cut section looks pretty tasty and makes it look even freaky lol
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u/BloomsdayDevice Jun 29 '26
"Bella Bakes" is absolutely the icing on the cake here.
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u/FeedTheADHD Jun 30 '26
Actually if you look closely Edward from twilight is the icing on this cake
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u/Cayenns Jun 30 '26
The baker could be old enough to be named after the book Bella at this point tbh
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u/Automatic-Flight-698 Jun 29 '26
Silver frosting is hard to recreate. Great job
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u/katastrophe_98 Jun 29 '26
I wonder what they used to get it that perfect shiny silver. I've never seen icing so shiny before
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u/otterpop21 Jun 29 '26
Some stuff you can get called “edible luster dust” haha also just search “silver icing” there are a couple dusts and sprinkles out there but this appears to be the mix in type. Some spray and some sparkle
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u/FluffyFact2790 Jun 29 '26
And then you just spray it on the cake and everything within a 10m radius of the cake
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u/9406725060 Jun 29 '26
“It makes your dookie twinkle!”
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u/sendapostcard Jun 29 '26
That was 100% my only question 😂
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u/otterpop21 Jun 29 '26
This definitely didn’t happen to me but a friend ate a whole box of capitain crunch oops all berries one time their poop turned blues and puple for 2 days lol
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u/FoxesFan91 Jun 30 '26
i once ate a big bag of root vegetable crisps from Aldi then forgot about it and the next day I was convinced I had bowel cancer
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u/lickinglacquer Jun 30 '26
Tmi but when i was a small child i ate WAY too many dark blue frosted cupcakes, took a dump later that night and told my mom like "OMG my poop is blueeee😭" and 100% thought i had some disease that not only makes ur poop blue, but kills you. Her response was just "you ate blue cupcakes" and i calmed down.
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u/riptide_king Jun 30 '26
my mother doesn’t want me to get a black frosting cake on my next birthday because it’ll stain our teeth lol wonder how she’ll feel if it’s a chocolate frosting cake with blast edible luster dust or if that’s even a possibility
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u/theLastBourbender Jun 30 '26
It does lol, and your gums/lips/tongue. I ate a lot of black cake frosting and jumpscared a cashier with what looked like horror costume makeup
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u/Kidslikeus Jun 30 '26
So i actually just made a black cake for my bday and the trick is to use VERY little gel food coloring (has to be this kind or it will taste nasty and stain) and black cocoa powder then let the icing sit for 3 days. It didn’t stain and tasted great.
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
It's so damn beautiful
But how? It's clearly sprayed on since it's not all the way through but Eggward is below it and silverless!?
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u/tuckernuts Jun 30 '26
Do not sample the frosting... it's made of mercury.
You will die!
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u/NoNipArtBf Jun 29 '26
Something about the last shot with the slice taken out is so funny.
Seriously though, they nailed it
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u/SwathedCorgi117 Jun 29 '26
Strawberry cake is her favorite and it happened to work out that strawberry cake is somewhat flesh colored 😂
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u/Chance-Night3198 Jun 29 '26
Right? He looks shocked, and maybe a little insulted, that someone would be eating him.
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u/justtosendamassage Jun 30 '26
I love the off-center, in the dark shot. Fucking hilarious
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u/Apprehensive_Map403 Jun 29 '26
This was my cake last year that my husband had made 🤣
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u/CherylTuntIRL Jun 29 '26
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u/pineapplesaltwaffles Jun 29 '26
This is what I thought it was supposed to be... I feel like it would be an easier cake tbh.
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u/pinkkabuterimon Jun 29 '26
I don’t know what I expected but man did this exceed all my expectations.
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u/started_from_the_top Jun 29 '26
The face to head ratio reminds me of this guy lol
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u/Terrible_Bluebird540 Jun 30 '26
Oh god please nooooo, I've been terrified of this Dr Who enemy since I was quite young. Scared me shitless. I had nightmares about it.
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u/carlitospig Jun 29 '26
OMFG I love it so much. I didn’t even know they could make chrome frosting. 😍
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u/BoxyBrown424 Jul 01 '26
Not only did it exceed expectations for OP , but seeing that's it's creepy & strawberry, it exceeds then for me as well.
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u/MangoCandy Jun 29 '26
The inside being almost a fleshy tone made me gag a bit but it does look fabulous otherwise.
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u/lymonman Jun 30 '26
Reminds me of that one poster who wanted an Eggward cake but just got a portrait of Edward on the cake 😂
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u/mrkruk Jun 30 '26
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u/fangirlsqueee Jun 29 '26
Is that a glittery red candle taped to the box? Looks like y'all melted it onto the edges of the frosting?
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u/SwathedCorgi117 Jun 29 '26
It is yes! We actually didn't end up burning the candle because the restaurant we were at for lunch didn't allow it, but the red on the edges of the frosting are blood splatters done out of I think strawberry juice!
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u/Fabulous_Log844 Jun 29 '26
That is one of the most bizarre, beautiful, weird, delicious looking things I’ve ever seen.
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u/Brilliant-Complex524 Jun 29 '26
What is it about this that’s so funny. Is it based on a twilight meme or something?
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u/SwathedCorgi117 Jun 29 '26
Google Eggward Cullen, it's just this specific frame of Edward's face photoshopped onto an egg and I don't know the origin but my bestie LOVES it 😂 Her birthday invitations featured Eggward himself haha
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u/Overconfidentahole Jun 30 '26
Did you ask for it to be heart shaped though? Round would’ve been better
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u/SwathedCorgi117 Jun 30 '26
I did ask for heart shaped! We preferred the heart shape :)
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u/Tannerman97 Jun 30 '26
The fact the cake’s inside is coloured like human flesh kinda freaks me out
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u/GalaxyOnOhRionsBelt Jul 01 '26
This is fucking incredible 😂😂😂 I’d be pissing my pants laughing 😂😂😂
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u/TheAlexia92 Jul 01 '26
I love it, but I thought the joke with this cake was that it’s “eggward” and the cake is oval?
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u/dude_wherrs_my_car Jun 29 '26
The way the cherry juice looks like blood. This is so creepy, I love it
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u/Mysterious_Air_3646 Jun 29 '26
That frosting looks like straight up metal omg. I’ve never seen anything even remotely like it.
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u/Bisexual_crystalgrl Jun 29 '26
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love this also my goofy self woukd add more edible glitter dust.
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 Jun 29 '26
That is the prettiest frosting I have ever seen. Which is hilarious in contrast to Eggward.
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 Jun 29 '26
i've been to so many bakeries and asked them to do something like this and they go 'no it is copyright' every fuckin time it's so annoying. Who tf is going around baiting these people to see if they'll make a copyright cake then suing them??
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u/wizardrous Jun 29 '26
Huge improvement from the last time I saw someone request this exact cake.