We Love This Hilarious Woolworths Cake Fail

All Woolworths did was follow the customer’s instructions to the tee, but the result was an epic cake fail that had us all in giggles.

A Woolies shopper ordered a custom-designed cake from the supermarket and her directions were simply to leave the top of the cake blank. She certainly didn’t expect the baker to actually do exactly what she asked.

When Amy collected the cake from her local store in Mayfield, NSW, she discovered that it had the words “Leave blank” written on the top of the cake, as reported on 7News.

The amused customer shared a photo of the cake to facebook saying:

“This is not a joke. This is the cake we collected from Mayfield Woolworths this morning for a work event today. Thank you for the laughs. Everyone thought it was hilarious! And it tasted delicious.”

Lots of laughs and funny comments followed. Even Woolworths saw the funny side of the situation remarking:

“WOW Amy! We’ve got no words – you’ve left US blank! When our bakers say they’ll follow all instructions, they literally follow all instructions.”

“We’re glad our Mayfield team could provide you with a little giggle today, and we’ll be sure to let them know. Also, we totally agree – this looks absolutely delicious!”

It Was All A Set Up?

However, there are rumblings that this was actually one big (but funny) set-up. There are claims that the Woolies baker who took the order actually double checked that this was what Amy wanted written on the cake.

One comment read: “I was there when they phoned in the order, she even asked what was the reason they wanted this written on the cake and they said because it’s funny.”

Amy said that she certainly wasn’t aware of any set-up but admitted that either way it didn’t matter.

She added: “Even if was a setup, it’s still pretty funny – thanks to Woollies for going along with the joke.”

Have you ever had a big cake fail? Tell us in the comments below.

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48 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 07 Jun 2023
    12:45 pm
Ah well……something to talk about I guess

- - mom466291 said
  - 14 Sep 2021
    6:52 am
Lol either eau2

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 06 Aug 2021
    3:44 pm
I love it! And written so beautifully too – I think it must be a set up as it says further though!

- - mom418449 said
  - 03 Jul 2020
    12:54 pm
This is hilarious! I can’t believe that they wrote that on there though!

- - mom290396 said
  - 11 Jan 2020
    5:55 pm
This is old. Prob a few years, unless they keep making the same mistakes

- - Ariana82 said
  - 11 Jan 2020
    3:58 pm
It wouldn’t be too hard to remove the writing

- - mom2one16 said
  - 11 Jan 2020
    12:37 pm
Busy people, busy times maybe. Hopefully it was able to be laughed off.

- - Fluffys57 said
  - 01 Nov 2019
    1:56 pm
This is great at least Woolworths have a good sense of humour

- - mom19782016 said
  - 30 Oct 2019
    2:12 pm
Surely not real but still worth a giggle!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    8:24 pm
It’s pretty funny, whether its a set up or not.

- - Ellen said
  - 30 Sep 2019
    4:40 am
Set up or not, it’s pretty funny !

- - rnash02 said
  - 21 Sep 2019
    12:41 pm
My daughter’s mermaid tail didn’t set so was very floppy

- - kathryn said
  - 18 Sep 2019
    5:56 am
As long as it tastes good

- - deb_gs said
  - 15 Sep 2019
    9:27 pm
For heaps more of these, go to Buzzfeed cake fails. Some made me laugh so hard.
- Ellen replied
  
  16 Sep 2019 , 4:33 am
  I should have a look
- - ella12 said
  - 11 Sep 2019
    12:30 pm
Very silly or funny depending how you look at it.

- - Ellen said
  - 11 Sep 2019
    7:31 am
Always good to see the humor in a fail instead of getting frustrated

- - rovermum said
  - 10 Sep 2019
    3:33 pm
Yes, I had a cake fail when they spelt my son’s name wrong. Lucky a quick knife job was able to fix it up, but not originally happy.

- - tessie said
  - 10 Sep 2019
    11:49 am
I’m sure everyone would have had a good laugh about it. Hope everyone had a great time and that this was just the icing on the cake so to speak

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 10 Sep 2019
    10:55 am
Oh dear!

- - mom140193 said
  - 10 Sep 2019
    9:01 am
Made me laugh looking at the cake. But less funny if the lady wanted it this way – yes still very funny for who she ordered it for who would’ve enjoyed the laugh too. but less funny if she did order it to be written on top. And if she did then just say so.
But on the picture alone without the story – it’s pretty funny & a good laugh.