I couldn't make this shit up. MABZY???? Nobody questioned that spelling enough to make a follow-up phone call???
Parental Lesson #2467: ALWAYS OPEN THE BOX TO CHECK YOUR CAKE FOR TYPOS BEFORE YOU TAKE IT HOME.
Luckily, Mazzy made very specific pink icing and butterfly design specifications and I wanted to see what it all looked like before I left the store. She was sitting in the car and I knew she was going to ask me as soon as I got in. Otherwise, I'm not sure I would have checked.
Again— MABZY???????
What cake decorators lack in common sense, they make up for in speedy piping bag skills. The woman behind the counter knifed off that "b" and replaced it with a "z" in five minutes and nobody would have known the difference.
That is— if I didn't insist on taking a photo first.
Here are thirteen other cake typos that should have earned a refund.
At least, this guy didn't misspell anything…
Someone was a good time around the office…
Sounds a lot more exciting than Chess Club…
I hope someone was fired over this one…
You'd think "Best Wishes" was a pretty standard request…
You gotta drink a lot of coffee to graduate with top honors…
For our next event, let's celebrate your iron-clad stomach!
Oh, the irony…
Someone needs to brush up on Star Trek…
This guy can't spell or follow instructions…
An eye for fashion? An eye for architecture? An eye for crappy grocery cakes?
This last one probably isn't a mistake. But just so we are clear— rickrolling is always a crime.
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Pictures sourced from Oddee, 11 Points, The Royal Poke, and Cake Wrecks.
So glad you caught that! For my middle son’s second birthday, I asked for a cake that said, “Happy 2nd Birthday Nick.” No one looked at it when it was picked up and when I opened the box, it said, “Happy Birthday 2nd Nick.” No joke.
GAH! SO lucky you looked! It is a really beautiful cake, though!
I ordered a cake for my mother-in-law’s birthday. It said “Happy Birthday Grand Maw!” I don’t know anyone that has ever spelled grandma like that! Of course my daughter picked it up without looking at it.
Enterprise is from Star Trek 😉
Good catch! Also, Star Wars? Intentionally ironic, or are you in need of getting your geek on?
have you seen the cakewrecks.com website? It’s full of amazing gems like these. AND MORE!
OMG… Adam with blue flowers?? That is hilarious. My high school job was decorating cakes at an ice cream store so I can TOTALLY appreciate how funny this is!
Yep. She sourced it at the bottom. I’m glad since the 11th cake is the cover of jenn’s book. 🙂 and a few others I recognized from her blog. Excellent site!
Edited. My God that’s embarrassing.
I did a google search and the pics I used came from all different sites (many of them on more than one site), but its entirely possible they were all originally stolen from Cake Wrecks.
To be fair, I have never heard the name Mazzy before reading your blog so to me Mabzy would sound just as different Mazzy.
My son’s first birthday cake said “Happy Birthday Jack.”
We had asked for the more fun-filled “Happy Birthday Jack!”
really costco?
Lolololololol
Totally agree! My husband’s family is ftom the north so I even asked him if he’d heard Mazzy’s name before. But I must say, it’s a beautiful name!
I ordered a cake for my dads 50th birthday and it came
Happy sock day.??! What the?
My graduation cake was supposed to say “Congratulations, Katherine! Good luck at Oneonta!”
Instead it said “Congratulations, Oneonta! Good luck Katherine!”
I cannot MAKE this shit up.
We decided after a number of cake incidents that I will be making cupcakes on my own for the kids from now on. Child 1 year 1- we ordered an Elmo theme ice cream cake and when the restaraunt went to serve it they realized it was in the fridge over night instead of freezer so soup. Year 2 kid 1 we ordered a Minnie themed cake- Minnie picture was placed right of center with space left for words however instead of saying Happy Birthday there it was blank and it said Happy birthday around the edge of the cake so when we asked what the hell is this- staff said well it said write it on the side! Ok on to kid #2 cake 1- go to pick it up at 9am on Sunday morning for a 10:30 Party and guess what- baker completely forgot to make it (despite the fact that I called to confirm night before) so she got a plain sheet cake with princess figures from her room stuck in it- yup that looked great. I must say I never thought to take a picture of these “fun” memories but boy did we all have a good laugh over your post today.
These are too funny. I’m glad I have a cake lady that’s totally awesome.
I got a Birthday Cake for my daughter. I had specific colors. I told them to write “Happy Birthday Katryna” in green frosting. They wrote Happy Birthday Katryna In Green on the cake and when I picked up no baker there so could only try to lift off the in green part but it bled into the frosting.. total nightmare..
I think the “best witches” is intentional! There’s a picture of what looks to be a witch/princess themed girl and a frog beneath her. Play on words?
These are hilarious! There are three that compete for first place; “Happy Birthday Adam with Blue Flowers”, “Best Wishes Suzanne Under Neat That We Will Miss You”, and “Happy Birthday Sheri with an eye”.
Mommy Shorts at least your cake is very pretty. I love the butterflies.
I was thinking the exact same thing. She was acting like the person who made this cake misspelled a super common name or something.
I was thinking the same thing.
I just thought I’d pipe up (get it?) and tell you that our nickname for our 9-month-old daughter is Mabzy! Her name is Abagail, which quickly mutated into Abbey, then Abbzey, them Mabzy. We call her a lot of other things too (most of which are nice), but our main nickname for her is Mabzy.
Although, of course if I ordered a cake to say Mabzy, it most certainly would have Mazzy written on it instead.