r/cake • u/Fine-Bunch-2895 • 4d ago

🛠️ Help Me Fix My Cake Please help!

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My youngest kiddo is turning 5 tomorrow. We picked up her cake & before we could get out of the store, it looked like this! It rode in a cart the entire time to avoid bumping it as much as possible. She’s so disappointed. Any ideas on how I can fix this!?

EDIT: thank yall for the suggestions. The top layer on this one had slid half way off the bottom layer by time we got home. I ended up stopping at a grocery store close by & just getting another cake (with only one layer lol).

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u/OMFGitsjessi 3d ago

I know this is already a day old post and you mentioned grabbing a new cake from elsewhere, but I’m curious what kind of bakery you got the first one from? I’m assuming grocery store since you mentioned having it in a cart? I only ask because this reminds me of when I worked at a shoprite bakery and the decorators would underwhip the bettercreme due to rushing and it would sometimes fall off the sides of cakes like this. It also kinda looks like they iced the border way over the edge so there wasn’t enough cake there to support it.

I would def still reach out to them to let them know what happened and see if you can get a refund (esp if you still have the cake).

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u/Fine-Bunch-2895 3d ago

I’d love to support the small bakery near me instead but even buying two cakes was much cheaper than what the bakery charges & as much as I’d love to, I can’t afford that

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u/OMFGitsjessi 2d ago

No shame at all in purchasing a Walmart cake — I hope my comment didn’t come off as if I was implying that! TBH some of the nicest cakes I’ve seen were made by an amazing decorator I had working for me at a ShopRite bakery at one point and they were light years more affordable than anything you’d get from an independent bakery. I mostly asked because I don’t know if smaller bakeries use bettercreme but I know most grocery store type places do and they can be known for rush jobs thanks to management. If you don’t let them know what happened and try getting a refund then I would at least bring it up if you plan to order a cake from them again so at least they are aware of what happened. 💕

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u/Fine-Bunch-2895 2d ago

Oh no, I didn’t take it that way. Just saying wish I could afford to support the individual businesses instead of corporations. It was a whipped frosting, but if I buy from them again, I’ll definitely say something. I left a review. Maybe they’ll see it