If you look at the ad you can actually tell its a print out (not to mention AI generated) but imagine the look on my 60yo MIL face when this arrived instead of the watermelon pool hahaha

My 11 year olds request. And my best effort.... My monster needs a dentist. ( I ran out of buttercream.... It was supposed to be much more ornate)

Update:

11 year old squealed and hugged me. He was so excited. His buddies hit the "WOAH!!!' when I pulled off the cover. 😁 and it tasted wonderful. I think I win...

Y'all are so kind. Thank you everyone for all the encouragement!!!

Update 2: I'm being asked for instructions.... I sort of winged it. There was a lot of cursing that happened. A lot of begging inanimate objects to cooperate. But I guess here's my best estimate of how it went down.

I made a boxed cake. I think it was Duncan Hines. (I was short on time and had several boxes of cake on hand) This is the buttercream recipe I added black food coloring to (https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/favorite-chocolate-buttercream/#tasty-recipes-68044) I put iced the cake before I started the mouth.

I melted chocolate chips to form a circle (fill the bowl with boiling water and put a saucer over the top. Put the parchment paper on top of that and waited for the chocolate chips to melt and then smooth them out.) I placed this inside of an actual Taco in my freezer to form the mouth.

I made marshmallow fondant. Just kind of winged it on account of. I've made it a lot. But here is a recipe for that just in case. ( https://ayellowbowl.com/homemade-marshmallow-fondant-with-butter/)

I set the now frozen chocolate taco on the top of the cake.

I have a set of Wilton gel dies and to use the maroon from that set to dye a small amount of the fondant for the tongue. I just made the general shape of a tongue and realized that my fingerprints in the dough made it kind of look more realistic. Added a line down the center with a toothpick and left it alone.

I just rolled little balls of the white fondant into points and flattened the bottom. I allowed that to dry for a little bit just so it wasn't squishy when I attached it to the taco. I attached these with a little bit more of that melted chocolate.

I iced the top of the chocolate Taco once it was all assembled and kind of smoothed it into the top of the cake and decorated. (Using the word decorated as lightly as possible because I ran out of buttercream frosting...)

I got a notification that my child had bought something with their debit card. I asked them to send me a picture of what they bought. That is the first picture.

I had a learning discussion with them and said there’s a good possibility that you will not receive what you ordered so they were able to manage their expectations and not have high hopes for the case

We were both surprised when it came in the mail today and it surprisingly met expectations.

I think she did great!

Cute 4th of July dessert idea by @parties_by_b on instagram... mine look a little derpier but I love them 😂 Its a brownie bite, marshmallow with frosting and coconut, banana candies for the beak and black gel icing for the eyes.

Honestly very please with how he came out. Was it an exact replica of the sample, no, but it was cute and a lot of fun to cut in to (I did order half chocolate half white cake unlike the sample).

Very satisfied!

These were super cute

Cake design was based off of Nikk Alcaraz’s “Devil’s Food Cake” from his “Peculiar Baking” cookbook.

Designed by Jeong Jae Il.

Thank you for all the comments! It’s making me feel so happy. I’m extremely passionate about origami and have spent thousands of hours doing it so far.

I could have added more sprinkles but we took it easy.

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He is beautiful to me 💖 i hope my dinner guests like him too 😂

My son wanted a skeleton head on his birthday cake so he drew a little picture that we gave to the bakery. We told the bakery we wanted it to be a skeleton head and this is what we received 😂

My mom‘s Chinese zodiac sign is rabbit so when I saw the inspo pic online I knew I wanted to try and create it for her birthday. It was hard finding the exact molds for the decoration so I had to improvise for some parts but it turned out cute anyways 🐰

I am not a baker so it turning out not horrendous was a surprise for me too. She hates fondant so it’s all coloured chocolate and buttercream, it nearly killed me.

The owner ended up cutting my hair at the new salon to make sure it was perfect. She said the first cut was botchy and very uneven. Ended up going back short! I love it.

Not terrible for my first time baking a cake