While most of us can probably scratch together a decentdishor two, baking is a whole ‘nother ball game. There is no touch and go, no feeling, just cold, heartless measurements and temperatures that have to be achieved. Naturally, things tend to gowrongall the time.

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Every Time My Wife Or I Look At This Cake I Made, We Immediately Cry Laughing

My Daughter Requested One Of Our Cats As Her Birthday Cake. It’s The First Birthday Cake I’ve Ever Made For Her (Cat Included For Comparison)

I Made Cake Toppers For My Wedding And Forgot To Check The Oven’s Temperature Before Putting My Fiancée In

For better or worse, bad cake content does appear to be quite popular. Baking show aficionados know that for every series documenting the best things professional bakers can make, there is a show dedicated to amateurs trying and failing. Take Netflix’sNailed It!which centers on home cooks attempting to recreate professional cakes.As one can imagine, it goes horribly wrong most of the time. Even without the pressure of a time limit and competition, people at home mess upconstantly. After all, baking is a science, while decorating takes hours of practice. In that sense, a delicious, gorgeous cake takes such a cross-section of skills that it might be best to leave it to the professionals.

For better or worse, bad cake content does appear to be quite popular. Baking show aficionados know that for every series documenting the best things professional bakers can make, there is a show dedicated to amateurs trying and failing. Take Netflix’sNailed It!which centers on home cooks attempting to recreate professional cakes.

As one can imagine, it goes horribly wrong most of the time. Even without the pressure of a time limit and competition, people at home mess upconstantly. After all, baking is a science, while decorating takes hours of practice. In that sense, a delicious, gorgeous cake takes such a cross-section of skills that it might be best to leave it to the professionals.

So, There Is Going To Be A Cake Competition Fundraiser At My Little Sister’s School, And She Made This

I Tried To Make A Cat Cake

That’s Brilliant

Good cakessimply take a lot of planning. Your oven and dishes need to be ready, and your ingredients measured out properly. Temperatures have to be managed, you can’t let your butter be too warm in certain situations, in others, it can’t be too cold. Don’t overmix, but also don’t undermix, let things cool, and don’t overbake, the list of things that can go wrong simply goes on and on.

Spider-Man Saving His Own Cake

The Cake Decorator Was Told To Spell “Marc” With A “C”

An Attempt Was Made

Because the oven and mixer are doing most of the work, the “human” element of making a cake has to be managed perfectly. Cooking a dish often has more leeway, you can taste, add, and adjust as you go. Even with the plethora of badcooking tipsout there, most of us can make a tasty dinner, given time.

My Friend Made A Danny DeVito Cake For Her Friend. It’s Worse In Person

I have no idea why, as he’s a retired power station design engineer. He unveiled his cake (2nd photo) with a flourish, and I laughed so hard, tea shot out my nose.

My 17-Year-Old Wanted An Owl Birthday Cake And Sent A Photo Of Her Favorite Design. My Dad (81-Year-Old) Decided He’d Make It

My sister made this for my birthday and brought this bad boy into a restaurant for a grand reveal. It was quite the spectacle, and the servers stopped to get pictures of this beautiful boy.

I See Your Ugly Hedgehog Cake And Raise You My Hedgehog Cake

Of course, even if you have mastered the cake batter and baking process, no mean feat, there is also the question of decorating. Applying frosting, managing its temperature, and mixing food coloring to get the right effect isn’t exactly easy as well. It’s like painting, except your tools are five times larger than the more ergonomic paintbrushes.

Update: I left the cake on the side while I showered, and my cat licked all the icing off.

I Tried To Make A Baby Yoda Cake For My Boyfriend’s Birthday, But I Didn’t Have Enough Cake For The Ears, So He Didn’t Have Any. Then My Friend Edited A Photo Of My Cake

See Those Eggs? They Are Supposed To Be In The Pies. I Made Two Hot Oily Chocolate Garbage Circles

Easter Cake My Friend’s Mom Made. Those Eyes Rub Me The Wrong Way

Once you add in fondant and modeling chocolate, you are in a world of pain until you learn how to do it. After all, chocolate needs to be tempered, which feels like a particularly cruel chemistry experiment. Fondant has to be rolled and modeled, colored, and painted. All this just to make a cake slightly more pretty before it’s sliced up and consumed.

We Sent This Cake Photo (Left) To A Cake Shop, And This Is What We Got (Right)

This Was Way Cuter When I Pictured It In My Head

“It’s Going To Look Just Like That!”, It Didn’t Look Just Like That

The end result is that many will fail, as can be clearly seen here, but there is then all the more glory for the bakers who can manage to turn out something beautiful. So if you struggle to bake something that is edible, keep trying, this article is evidence that most people, including some professionals, simply can not make it.

Your Daughter Will Go Far

A Betty Crocker Attempt Was Made. I Tried To Make My Mom A Hedgehog Cake For Her Birthday. For Context, I’m 34 She Was Turning 62. Tasted Great

I Made A He-Man Cake Today. Let The Hubby Decorate. Likeness Is Uncanny

The Cake My Wife Ordered From Walmart. She Called Me Upset And Said She Wanted To Take It Back. I Told Her Nahh It Can’t Be That Bad

I Told The Child That This Was The Last Time I Would Mix Anything With Food Coloring. I’m Not A Baker And I Don’t Create Any Masterpieces

He Had One Job - To Write “Happy Birthday”

The More I Look At This, The Better It Gets

I Tried To Make My Long-Distance Friend A Cake To Celebrate His Birthday. There Were Not A Lot Of Supplies. It’s Really Bad

Happy Easter From The Cohen Family

My Wedding Cake. Yes, We Paid For This

I Made A Cake For My Friend. It’s Pretty Obvious But Just To Make Sure It’s Sonic

This Is Just Too Funny

Tried Making A Frog Cake For My Boyfriend, I Think He’s Going To Leave Me

It’s My Spouse’s Birthday, So Here’s A Throwback To The Time He Said He Wanted An R2-D2 Cake (His Mom Still Had The Cake Pan From His Childhood) And I Made This Monstrosity

The Cake My Girlfriend Baked Me

I Tried To Make A Unicorn Cake Once And It Turned Out To Look Like Godzilla. It Was An Angry Unicorn

If My Writing Career Fails, I Can Always Fall Back On Cake Baking. It’s Such A Relief To Have A Backup Plan

May I Offer You A Frog?

My Horrifying First Attempt At Using Fondant For A “Phantom Of The Opera” Birthday Cake. It Was A Big Hit

Wedding Cake. What I Asked For vs. What I Got, Publix Edition

I Made A Shrek Cake

Asked My Mom For A Hulk Cake. Nailed It

My First Duck Cake

It’s Seen Some Stuff

Best Eat That Cake, Before It Eats You

My Dad Tried To Bake A Cake For My Mom’s Birthday. Tried

What’s This

Shrimp Cake

It’s My Daughter’s Birthday And I’ve Made Her A Cake. It’s Been Cooling Down In The Fridge. Let Me Just Check On It Real Quick

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An Attempt At A Christmas Cake

My Cake Naturally Formed An Evil Smiling Face

Asked the deli lady if she could put her name on it. She replied “Yes, but I’m not the greatest at cake decorating”. She wasn’t kidding…

The Neighbor Purchased A Birthday Cake For His Wife

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Drake Cake My Sister Made For My Mom’s Birthday

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It Understands Its Purpose, And It’s Afraid Of What Is To Come

My Attempt At A Zombie Cake For My Son’s Birthday

My Wife’s Attempt At A Scooby-Doo Cake

She Liked Hedgehogs, So We Made A Cake For Her Birthday

I can’t make this up. I bought the cake on my way there and asked if they could add some lettering and the guy said yeah and this is what he came back with. He said it looked like that because the fudge was cold…

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To make it worse, my house was too hot while I was trying to ice it, so it was just perpetually melting and sliding. It’s the thought that counts right?

Tried Making My Friend A Birthday Cake. They’re Supposed To Be Frogs

I Tried Making A Birthday Cake For My Friend

Ugly Shrek Cake

In Honor Of Taylor Swift’s “Midnights” Release Tomorrow, We Baked This Cake

My Beautiful Garfield Cake

My Sister’s Attempt At A Homemade Caterpillar Cake

I Thought Y’all Would Enjoy My Poorly Made Birthday Cake For My Dad

There Was An Attempt To Make A Ghost Cake - Thanks To The Employee For Pointing This Out To Me

At The Last Minute, Violet Decided A Star Birthday Cake Would Be Cool. Poor Vi, This Is The Ugliest Cake I’ve Ever Made. But I’m Sharing It Because It Is Hilarious To Me

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My daughter turned 4 years old yesterday, but I could only make this today since we were over at a friend’s then. I used strawberry cake and buttercream frosting. This was so difficult to make…

Duck Cake

My Very Own Disney-Themed Birthday Cake Fail. It’s Horrendously Perfect

This was a last-minute order for our marriage signing. We didn’t want anything crazy - just a simple cake to cut. This is what we were given. We just had our actual wedding (much better cake this time around), but we will forever laugh about this one.

Cake For Our Civil Wedding Ceremony

I Hosted My First Football Viewing Party And Wanted To Impress My Guests. Tasted Okey

This Cake

That Third Layer Really Got Me! Just Add More Frosting Right?

That’s The World’s Happiest Birthday Boy Behind It Who Told Me “I Hope Your Love For Me Is Just Like This Cake: All Over The Place, Sloppy, And Sweet.” What A Man

My Coffee Whipped Cream Bears Look Possessed After Spending The Night In The Fridge. They’ve Seen Some Things. I Thought This Was Too Funny Not To Share

Mom Gets Points For This One

Tried To Make A Cake. Not Sure What Went Wrong

Duck Cake Or Portal To Hell?

Practice Makes Perfect

My Sister Sent This Cake She Ordered To Our Grandmother To Celebrate Her Pregnancy

I Made An R2-D2 Cake

My Gluten-Free And Lactose-Free Thanos Princess Cake

My Grandma And I Made This Chikorita Cake For My 14th Birthday

There Was An Attempt To Make A Lamb Cake For Easter

It’s My Daughter’s Birthday. Can You Make A Cake Look Like A Switch? Here Is A Picture For Reference

My Friends And I Attempt At A Hedgehog Cake

The Cake My Wife’s Work Bought For Employee Appreciation Day

That Is The Ugliest Cake I’ve Ever Seen

A Licorice Cake I Made For My Husband 3 Years Ago, And I’ll Never Hear The End Of It

My Dad’s Disastrous Attempt At Baking A Cake

Watermelon Cake. For Mother’s Day. I’m A Disappointment

My Sister Made My Brother A Birthday Cake

My Roommate And Boyfriend Made Me A Cake For My Birthday, But They’re All Funky Looking

This Is What My “Guitar” Cake For My Boy Looks Like

Just Your Basic Unicorn

My Sister Was Looking At The Facebook Page Of A Local Bakery She Used To Frequent And Saw This. Couldn’t Stop Laughing

First Attempt At A Layered Cake

I Was Told My Failed Instant Pot Cake Attempt Would Be Welcomed Here

Easter Tradition

It Needs Some SOS For Sure

My Wonderful Mother Made Me This Cake For My Birthday. It’s Supposed To Be Betty White/Rose Nylund. We Had A Good Long Laugh With Her About This One

My Sad Attempt At A Bruno From Encanto Cake

I Thought This Was Thomas The Tank Engine

I Had Never Baked Before Today, But My Wife Said That She Hasn’t Had A Birthday Cake Since She Was A Kid, So I Wanted To Surprise Her. It’s Pretty Awful, But She Loved It

I Requested A Hedgehog Cake. This Is What My Husband Made

My Attempt At Making Bluey Cake. It Turned Out To Be A Bit Of A Disaster. My Icing Went Horribly Wrong, But We Learned And Moved On

Don’t Think I’ll Be Going Into Business Making Cakes Anytime Soon

Is That You Through The Ages?

My First Try Making An Ugly Hedgehog Cake

My First Ever Decorated Layered Cake. I Have Never Decorated A Cake Before. I Ran Out Of Room For The “S”

I Present This Monstrosity Of A Birthday Cake I Made With My Own Two Hands. It Looks Like A Child Made It. Be Amazed

This “Congratulation” Cake That My Wife And I Were Given A Few Years Back. The Whole Foods Employee Ran Out Of Space

An Attempt At A Cheetah Print Cake For Our Friend’s Daughter’s Birthday

It Looks Just Like Her

I Tried To Make A Cake For Lana Del Rey’s Birthday And I Failed

Made This Cake For Drake’s Birthday

My Mom Made Me A Mercedes Birthday Cake

My Fiance’s Birthday Is Tomorrow. Icing Is Harder To Write With Than I Thought It Would Be

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