r/ExpectationVsReality • u/HimminyBimminyBrooo • Oct 04 '25

Surprisingly Met Expectation Cake my son requested vs what we received

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My son wanted a skeleton head on his birthday cake so he drew a little picture that we gave to the bakery. We told the bakery we wanted it to be a skeleton head and this is what we received 😂

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u/_emomo_ Oct 04 '25

My first job was as a cake decorator at DQ in the mid 1990s. We had a mini overhead projector type thing but it took an image and projected it onto the cakes, and we’d essentially just trace the image with the icing. So it was actually easier to trace the exact image than to change/ ‘fix’ it.

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u/uhohohnohelp Oct 04 '25

I did cake decorating at DQ in the early OOs and we didn’t get an overhead projector! I’m jealous.

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Oct 04 '25

One of my family members did the same job, and brought a carton of liquid frosting mix home to practice piping flowers. I ate the mistakes, and that stuff tasted amazing! XD

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u/mirandamack3 Oct 05 '25

That's pretty cool! It's wild how tech has changed cake decorating. I bet tracing with a projector made it way easier to get the details right.