Mother Horrified After Receiving Her Cake Order

An Australian mother has been left in shock after a cake she ordered arrived looking like a train wreck.

After paying a registered baker $300 to recreate a three-tier cake to celebrate a baby’s birth, the customer was shocked with the dessert she received.

The completed result looked far from the original with uneven tiers, patchy fondant, chipped paint and amateur decorations.

The cake maker is adamant in issuing a refund as she claims it is ‘beautiful’ and only ‘slightly’ different, shared Daily Mail.

The mother shared the disastrous result in a Facebook group and said she’s determined in getting her money back.

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‘When you pay $300 for a cake and this is what you get…. nailed it,’ she wrote sarcastically.

The disgruntled customer said she decided to go with a particular cake maker, as her regular was unavailable.

‘She is a registered cake maker. She has shown me her which is why we went with her. The lady that usually makes our cakes was unavailable but her cakes are immaculate.’

‘This lady is telling me that the cake is in perfect condition but looks slightly different due to copy right.’

The cake to celebrate the birth of a baby boy looked far from the original, with uneven tiers, patchy fondant, chipped paint and amateur decorations.

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21 Comments

- - mom111059 said
  - 31 Jan 2021
    11:59 pm
Certainly a lot to pay for a cake that isn’t up to standard.

- - mom129591 said
  - 18 Jul 2019
    7:26 pm
The photos certainly look different. I would be impressed,

- - mom81879 said
  - 26 May 2019
    2:53 pm
I wouldn’t stop naming and shaming til I got a refund. $300 for something that looks like it was made in next doors kitchen……no way! It’s more then ‘slightly’ different, it’s quite hideous

- - rnash02 said
  - 04 Apr 2019
    8:24 pm
I’d be wanting a refund that looks terrible for the price she paid!!

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 11 Jan 2019
    1:06 am
$300 for a cake ! That’s a huge amount. I would expect it to be a lot nicer than that.

- - buffy13 said
  - 05 Jan 2019
    11:18 am
i’d be happy with it if an amatuer made it but being that she was a professional NO WAY, i hope it tasted better then it looks

- - skbou said
  - 03 Jan 2019
    3:40 pm
How disappointing. And beyond annoying that she was expected to pay $300 for that! I had a close call with a special event cake that the cake decorator pulled the pin only 5 days before offering instead to do a 12″ cake for $248!!!! I had 60 people coming! Her response was that if I cut it in 2cm cubes everyone would get a taste and most people are on a diet anyway!!!

- - mom111059 said
  - 01 Jan 2019
    12:48 pm
Ouch! not a great cake for $300.

- - becstalou said
  - 29 Dec 2018
    2:51 pm
Definitely wouldn’t be happy if I’d paid $300.

- - Ellen said
  - 23 Dec 2018
    6:49 pm
I sure wouldn’t pay $300 for a cake !

- - mom112217 said
  - 22 Dec 2018
    4:03 pm
The two pictures are not quite the same and $300 is slot of money!

- - mom93821 said
  - 22 Dec 2018
    7:53 am
I would not be happy with paying $300 for the cake. Unfortunately it does look different to the requested cake.

- - ashna9 said
  - 22 Dec 2018
    1:38 am
No that’s not good at all.

- - mom153091 said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    8:40 pm
Looks like a cake the contestants in the show ‘Nailed It’ made.

- - Blossom said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    8:06 pm
Honestly, Some kids would do better than that. The decorations at the very bottom of the cake on the base don’t even look alike. The woman may have used a similar colour ribbon but it doesn’t even look nice. Was there a copyright on the original cake? Did anybody actually bother to check that out

- - nealsq said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    7:50 pm
if copyright means bad painting then yes this is copyright. I am not a pro cake decorator but even i can do better than that and have done!

- - BellaB said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    7:12 pm
I’d expect a lot better for $300.
- mom93821 replied
  
  23 Dec 2018 , 6:05 am
  I would not pay for a cake until I had inspected and was happy with the look of the cake.
- - Mum2archer said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    3:13 pm
I wouldn’t have been happy with that either! It looks as though it’s been done by a cake maker who doesn’t have a lot of experience as the fondant isn’t done very well for starters and there are a lot of little things that look quite amature on it. I would be asking for my money back

- - mom90758 said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    2:57 pm
Oh my. Very different from what she expected. I would have been very upset too.

- - mom206279 said
  - 21 Dec 2018
    2:22 pm
Yikes. Definitely a fail. I hope it at least tasted good.