Once upon a time, in the sprinkle-coated lands of the Cakey Kingdom, a mysterious stranger came to town. The stranger was peddling a wondrous new kind of icing: an icing so pure, so heavenly, that only those of unimpeachable character could see or taste it.
Since most of the Cakey Kingdom citizens didn't know what "unimpeachable" meant, they all immediately pretended they could see the wondrous icing - when, in fact, they could not
....Occasionally a small child would cry, "But, I want my cake FROSTED!" and the embarrassed parents would have to hogtie the toddler and shuffle home in shame. There they would have a stern talk about philosophy and keeping your head down.
Eventually the new icing craze began to take its toll: cakes drying out left and right, roving gangs of black market "frost-iteers" scalping canned frosting on the street, and the pie business booming with its new slogan, "You can really SEE the difference!"
the old Emperor himself requested the wondrous new icing for his royal birthday cake. So the palace bakers purchased gallons of the stuff, and on the big day all of the Emperor's subjects gathered round for the grand unveiling.
After several long, breathless moments, the Emperor lowered his spectacles.
"That," he said gravely, "is the ugliest cake I have ever seen."
Post by Captain Jack Harkness on Jun 21, 2013 15:40:28 GMT -5
The first one doesn't look too bad but mostly because the layers are even and straight. Cakes 2 and 3 look sloppy...which, you know, frosting could have helped cover up.
My cousin is a cake decorator at Publix, and she says the few brides who've requested this get super pissed when they find out they'll be charged the same as they would be for a normal cake.
Our wedding cake was pretty naked, but it went in layers of cheesecake, buttercream, and angel food, with strawberries and little edges of regular frosting for decoration, so it was just non-traditional all around. We're not big cake/frosting people.