# Cake decorations gone awry **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432 "2007-07-27T22:14:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/1 "2007-07-27T22:14:07Z")
Inspired by [this Snopes article](http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/caketalk.asp) and a recent experience of my own. I recently left my job at the Public Defender’s office to go into private practice with a friend of mine. My last day of work coincided with my Birthday. The office staff bought a cake for me at one of the local grocery stores, and told the baker to write on it “Happy Birthday, you traitor.” All very tongue-in-cheek. However, the decorator instead wrote “Happy Birthday, you trader.” That’s not exactly rolling around on the floor funny, but we got a huge kick out of it. And you? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/2 "2007-07-27T22:19:40Z")
My name is Angelique but my nickname since childhood has been Angel. Everyone calls me Angel and virtually no one calls me Angelique, so- as you can imagine- my birthday cakes would often reflect that. Well, they were supposed to. Just about every single year, my cakes purchased at the bakery would say: “Happy Birthday, Angle!” Yeah, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the lame, old joke, “Hey, at least you’re a_cute_ angle! haha!” :smack: (I’m always astonished when people can’t spell “Angel” right. I mean, it’s a noun. A noun we use a lot, particularly at Christmas time and yet. . . always wrong. Even as an adult, people at Starbucks regularly misspell it as “Angle” on my cups). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/3 "2007-07-27T22:44:02Z")
When we went to pick up our wedding cake at the Safeway bakery, it had a very large yellow icing umbrella on it. See, we had picked out a nice and simple shower cake design - white frosting with blue flowers in the corners. Unfortunately, they had TWO shower cake designs available, and somehow the decorator got the wrong idea about ours. I took a deep breath or two, and asked them politely if there was something they could do about the large yellow umbrella on my wedding cake. I think they broke some kind of record for re-frosting a cake. 😃 (It turned out very nice, and the cake was delicious. And free. Did I mention free?) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/4 "2007-07-27T23:55:26Z")
It was the summer of 1970. My best buddy’s girlfriend make a cake. For frosting she decided to use that then brand new item, soft margarine. She whipped up a batch and was amazed at just how easy it was to spread. The cake was done in nothing flat. We went out for a couple of hours. when we got back there was a naked cake with a puddle of frosting on the plate. :smack: Not quite the effect she was going for. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/5 "2007-07-28T00:00:17Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] My name is Angelique but my nickname since childhood has been Angel. Everyone calls me Angel and virtually no one calls me Angelique, so- as you can imagine- my birthday cakes would often reflect that. Well, they were supposed to. Just about every single year, my cakes purchased at the bakery would say: “Happy Birthday, Angle!” Yeah, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the lame, old joke, “Hey, at least you’re a_cute_ angle! haha!” :smack: (I’m always astonished when people can’t spell “Angel” right. I mean, it’s a noun. A noun we use a lot, particularly at Christmas time and yet. . . always wrong. Even as an adult, people at Starbucks regularly misspell it as “Angle” on my cups). [/QUOTE] Oh, this reminds me…not about icing, but engraving…fortunately my boss was engraving this for a personal gift for someone, but stilll, it was in the middle of a long saying, on a piece she couldn’t replace…she engraved “sheltering angle” instead of “Sheltering angel”. I saw her mistake too late to stop the machine. And then I didn’t tell her, because she was already stressed out about misengraving a customer’s order, and you could make a case for the word going either way…it was some vaguely Irish-y blessing thing about always having sunlight and moonbeams and gentle rain and a sheltering angle (to wait out storms) would make some sense… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/6 "2007-07-28T05:09:50Z")
I decorated cakes at a Wal-Mart. A guy came in, the rabbi of the local synagogue, to order some cupcakes for a children’s Purim party. Simple white icing, with a blue Star of David on each cupcake. He took pains to explain that the SoD has _six_ points, because the last year, when he ordered the same thing, he’d gotten the cupcakes with a five point star. I got it right but I can’t help wondering which decorator had been so ignorant, to not know the Star of David is six-pointed. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cake-decorations-gone-awry/413432/7 "2007-07-28T08:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] My name is Angelique but my nickname since childhood has been Angel. Everyone calls me Angel and virtually no one calls me Angelique, so- as you can imagine- my birthday cakes would often reflect that. Well, they were supposed to. Just about every single year, my cakes purchased at the bakery would say: “Happy Birthday, Angle!” Yeah, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the lame, old joke, “Hey, at least you’re a_cute_ angle! haha!” :smack: (I’m always astonished when people can’t spell “Angel” right. I mean, it’s a noun. A noun we use a lot, particularly at Christmas time and yet. . . always wrong. Even as an adult, people at Starbucks regularly misspell it as “Angle” on my cups). [/QUOTE] I bought my daughter’s bassinet second-hand (“used for about 6 weeks”, I think the ad said) and I immediately got out the quick-unpick and re-embroidered the pillow, so it read “Little Angel”, rather than “Little Angle”! My Dad had the same joke about being a_cute_. I told him to stop being so obtuse!!!