This was a cake I made with my 5 year old nephew 🤣🤣 Blue because he wanted an ocean themed cake. I absolutely have 0 cake baking skills (as you can clearly see lmao). Cake was a cake box mix (self rising flour) + butter eggs milk vanilla essence. Frosting is just whipped cream + sugar and vanilla essence + blue colouring.
This is hands down the ugliest cake I have ever seen, but my nephew was over the moon with how it turned out. I let him place the frosting and the sprinkles. The taste is surprisingly nice too. This is a success in my book lol. We had so much fun. I hope next time it will be prettier than this – wont be hard, the bar is literally at the bottom of the sea floor lmao.
by yurinomnom
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similar thing happened when i made pancakes with my toddler nephews one day. they wanted all the colors in them and it was so disgusting looking the colors just turned puke green and shit brown but they were so happy to just mix and play and cook. thats what mattered. and it was still delicious!
id love a slice of this cake too!
I love these stories! I remember first baking with my aunt and being so excited.
Your nephew is really blessed to make these memories with you !
Yet another ridiculously beautiful cake setting unrealistic standards for the rest of us. 🙄
The flowers floating on the gentle ocean waves were a nice touch. I can see why nephew is so happy with it. 🙂
Come on – I think it is a very nice looking cake. You are not giving yourself enough credit! I am serious!
Usually cakes that look like this taste so much better than pretty cakes , the icing on this looks soooo delicious
I can relate to this. I pretty much exclusively make 9×13 sheet cakes because I don’t want to put in the effort to make a pretty cake. I just want to eat it. Lol.
Also, for what it’s worth, I actually really like the color of the frosting.
These sprinkles are the cutest
I love it. It reminds me of the hat buzz wears in Toy Story.
I love it. This just gave me nail inspo 😆
I thought it was that putty that people add miniature toys and glitter/confetti to. 🤣😭
It has its own special charm.
Love it! Free Form! It’s beautiful.
i love this!! it reminds me of the cake from max and ruby!!
Love the variety! Mix it up, keep it fresh.
This cake is beautiful.
Actually the vision is there, fallen spring tree blossoms flowing downstream. If you had some crushed cookies on the sides for dirt, there’d be more accent.
i see the vision
It’s adorable and I love you! 🍰
As long as it tastes good and the kid is happy with it, that’s all that matters! It doesn’t need to look like something out of a food magazine. Give yourself a pat on the back. Baking and decorating takes a lot of time and still. If you keep it up, you’ll definitely improve. <3
I think it’s beautiful! Simple and bright with some avant-garde asymmetrical sprinkle placement, I love it
Slay!
IT DRIPS JUST LIKE OCEAN WATER i love it so much
It is super fun. I’ve also made my fair share of ugly but tasty cakes for my kids’ birthdays. Always grateful at the time but years later, my one son likes to remind me of the terribly unfortunate cakes over the years
Ooooh that looks like my cakes 🥹
It has ✨personality ✨🥹
It’s abstract, I love it!
That is a delightful shade of blue! AND I wouldn’t feel guilty being the first to slice it! Reminds me of the cakes my grandma made for the Horde of us grandkids! Mmmmmmmm…….. cake.
Hey, whatever. It looks good to me. 🙂
Thats the kind of blue dye saturation I’m looking for. I want my insides to remain green for weeks
Nostalgic af
It has personality.
Reminds me of Hagrids cake for Harry but in blue. It looks absolutely delicious
Idk but personally, I can see the Great Barrier Reef so, well done OP and nephew! 🌊 🪸 🐢 🦈 🪼
It reminds me of the food fight scene in Hook and I love it.
Nailed it
Love it! reminds me of max n ruby :’)
That looks radioactive. Love it!
It IS pretty hehe
What’s this??
Uhhh, art project?
Picasso, nice. I like it
I 💕 it!
My grandma, who was a legitimately great baker, always said if baked goods look pretty, they’re going to taste awful and vice versa. There was a logic to it. Cakes that stand up to a lot of sculptural shaping are probably not super soft. Ditto for icing. I think it’s overrated to judge a cake’s appearance.
This reminds me of the cake from max and ruby <3333333
It’s very pretty 💜
I’d be honoured to receive this cake but also I’m a type 1 diabetic so my expectations are low
Oddly enough, I’d take a slice of this over any fancy, excessively decorated cake. Too much icing just sucks to me.
Looks delicious
That looks good af !
The messy ones taste better.