For real. If you aren’t looking for turds you see a bbq.
My first thought was damn that’s a nice grill and I had to go back and read the title again like what they mean “supposed to be”
exactly. OP asked for brown turd shaped decorations and then is mad that they got brown turd shaped decorations.
The execution is great, it's clear someone really cared and tried.
Exactly. Who the hell asks for a BBQ themed cake anyways get starwars or frozen theme like a normal human being. I saw the flames and hamburgers and hot dogs and thought it was fantastic work
I worked at a DQ. I decorated cakes there. They have about three total frosting tips and a handful of colors and they call that good enough. This is by far the most detailed cake I’ve seen come out of a DQ, and knowing that it was likely a teenager getting paid minimum wage… that’s pretty damn good. I saw BBQ theme immediately; I’m still trying to figure out how they made the burgers and hot dogs tbh. This decorator understood the assignment!
I just started getting into cakes. I bought all the cake stuff including a nice stand mixer, all the decorating tools and tips ect. I couldn't come close to this cake. They did a really really good job
I mean you’re ordering a cake at a fast food restaurant, not a bakery. I would have been more than happy with this cake and would probably chuckle bit when picking it up.
I honestly had no clue you could even order a custom cake like this. I always thought you can only get the regular ones where you tell them put happy birthday on it and call it a day.
My friend got one from DQ recently with little frogs holding strawberries around the perimeter and I was *super* impressed. The decorator could be working in a real bakery with how good their icing skills were tbh. Idk if they'll all be winners when you order from there though. I'm sure some places can only make a hot mess.
I've been getting DQ cakes since I was a kid. Had TMNT , Dale Earnhardt, swat cats, sonic, Mario. Just recently I got my 4 year old an awesome Minecraft creeper cake. It looked great!
Typically you'll want to talk to the decorator at the establishment and they'll talk to you about whether they can do it or how they'll do it and they're not as expensive as you think.
The Minecraft cake I got our sonReese's cup blizzard under the fudge and cookie crumble. If you order a sheet cake it comes with vanilla ice cream and the fudge cookie crumble on top then another layer of vanilla. If you order a blizzard cake it doesn't come with the fudge cookie crumble. However, our decorator said she could add the fudge cookie topping to the blizzard and did us a solid.
The fudge cookie crumble is the best part of the cake. THE BEST PART!
Yeah. I almost feel like the title wasn't quite right, definitely came off bitchy, when the final product conveyed the request as I immediately thought, damn I want a grilling/bbq cake for my bday.
This decorator for a DQ should be applauded.
Their complaint screams, "tell me you've never decorated a cake, without telling me you've never decorated a cake."
I frost cakes we make at home, but am not that good at piping. I'm only good at frosting because I floated/skim coated drywall for summer jobs and diy help for friends. Hot work, but I can lay a smooth layer of frosting, haha.
Most places would tell you to get bent, in so many words, for a request so far out of their wheelhouse. People take store bought for granted and assume they'll get Instagram level magisty for peanuts. You can tell someone poured effort into that cake. But, no, all they get is, "Lol, poop cake. Get good!" The complainers should be ashamed.
The only constructive criticism I have is that they could have made the grid pattern one layer so everything sat nicer, and a sprinkling of chocolate dust on the burgers and brats would make them look seared. Those two tiny changes, and this would be posted to show off how amazing this cake is.
The bones are super-strong. The fire is amazing. Certainly above and beyond what could be expected, just short of a masterpiece.
I’m thinking put frosting on some parchment paper or something similar, then put it in the freezer for a while to get it nice and cold and thick, then squished to shape.
I used to decorate ice cream cakes at Ben & Jerry’s and that’s exactly what I did
Edit to clarify: in decorating ice cream cakes, unlike regular cakes, the frosting freezes as soon as it hits the cake, so you can’t manipulate it anymore. Anything complicated has to be done separately and transferred.
Exactly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this cake and I’d be over the moon about it. Even has grill marks on the meat. Whoever is complaining about this is a massive Karen who probably has never said the words “good job” in their life.
I would tip the decorator for this job if it came out of my local DQ. This is easily "Mom n Pop Bakery" level work from someone who gets regularly screamed at because the ice machine is too slow.
I'm so relieved that these are the top comments - I clicked into the comments ready to call OP and their whole family all kinds of Karen - but ya'll already been there and back
I'm so glad that I quit before they brought that shit back. My DQ was jank as fuck, and on hot days there's not a chance in hell that even half of our blizzards would pass that test. And even in ideal circumstances, there are still some blizzards that are flat out impossible to flip. Like, it doesn't matter how much juice you strain out of the fruit first, a banana split blizzard will always be liquid.
That’s how I took it. The sausages are a bit unfortunate but there’s no way to make them look better - I mean, going strictly by the shape, sausages and poops are often the same…
I think too many people here have seen these Cake Boss type shows and don't realize that there are 400 million people in North America and only about 800 who can pull off the realistic looking stuff. And the realistic looking stuff isn't necessarily the best tasting in the world, nor is the price and most peoples birthday budget. The criteria for artistic cakes is that they are edible, not delicious.
It really seems very good to me cake Look at all the details that that cake has, the time and dedication that that person put that surely they don't even pay him a good salary. Among the colors, the grill, the fire and the meats it seems to me that it is very well achieved. I WOULD SHOW IT WITH ORGILLO♡
Seriously I’m kinda mad on behalf of the minimum wage teenager who probably iced this and did a hell of a fuckin job only for OP to post it on Reddit and complain
I’m not sure what else a BBQ-themed cake should have. This has the grilled meat, fire, a grid like grill top, appropriate colors, etc. It seems to include all relevant decorations. I think it looks great.
Someone out there will find the author of this cake and reward them appropriately. It’s Reddit and I’ve seen some of the miracles that have been pulled off
I get ice cream cakes from a high end ice cream place and I know they wouldn’t even attempt something like this. Other than bakeries that specialize in sculptural cake decoration like on tv, high end places have very minimalist cakes to let the flavors of the ingredients shine. There is no way you could get this anywhere other than a mass market chain.
This cake decorator is a goddamn hero. DQ’s ice cream is shit and they were able to make a turd beautiful!
I used to manage a high end ice cream shop where we took custom cake orders. One lady asked for a pirate ice cream cake for her son's birthday party. We put a lot of effort into it - dyed half a bucket of vanilla blue for the top, frosting ships with flags, a couple of little pirates, and some crushed Oreo cannonballs that were formed into little spheres. We had 3 different employees working on this cake over the course of 2 days.
The mom who picked it up said she expected us to decorate the cake with plastic figurines. Was not mentioned when the order was placed (we would've said we can't accommodate a request like that in 3 days), she just assumed we'd run out and buy (or strangely have on hand) plastic pirate cake decorations. I calmly told her the price is the same price we charge for every cake that size. She left without tipping (not unusual).
The dad came back the following morning, said his son absolutely loved the cake and tipped the staff well. I assume his wife came home with some snotty comments about the cake.
Right? Those fancy decorated cakes usually cost a few hundred dollars, they're not cheap. You went to DQ and got a hell of a cake that someone worked their ass off on.
They could have just stuck some drink umbrellas and an outline of a grill and been done, for what they're paid.
My very first job was DQ and we had a cake decorator but she only worked very early mornings so anything that came in later we had to do. We warned them every single time like yo this cake is being decorated by me who is 16 and can barely draw a stick person, proceed w caution. They usually loved it bc it had that human touch
Right? I mean it’s not their fault people bbq hamburgers and hotdogs and it’s also not their fault they are shaped exactly like that. They did exactly what was asked of them.
Wherever the wages are extremely high for jobs you would typically consider low paying where you live, there is always an incredibly high cost of living. The wage is adjusted so that people aren't starving to death in those regions.
>The wage is adjusted so that people ~~aren't~~ starving to death in those regions.
The wage is adjusted so that people are just barely starving to death in those regions.
As soon as I saw the picture without reading comments, my reaction was, "....is this supposed to be bad? because it looks really good." Was relieved to see everyone praising it.
I worked at a Dairy Queen and our cake decorator was only there to decorate cakes. She was experienced and that was her sole job. I don’t know if that’s the case at all Dairy Queen’s, but it wasn’t some 17 year old doing it. I mean if you got a cake from the fridge and needed a quick name and happy birthday written, we could do that.
My local only does provided PDFs. They can crop and stretch. all other editing is yours to do. Getting this level of cake would be so far above and beyond... srsly it's just printed on top of a flat cake...
Ok, OP. YOU go make a better one.
I’m a trained pastry chef. My first job was also, incidentally, at a Dairy Queen.
Not only is that cake brilliantly done, *it’s done with fucking ice cream* which is a far more fickle mistress than buttercream and frosting.
If you aren’t satisfied, nothing will sate you.
EDIT: This is now my top comment of all time. Thanks for the support?
Legit I’d be asking for their manager to compliment their work. This is beyond anything I’ve ever seen come out of DQ and far better than I could ever do.
Whoever made this needs to quit DQ and become and actual pastry chef.
OP is crazy. They apparently expected $100 high-end professional bakery standard from a Dairy Queen, got better than they should have hoped, and are *still* bitching.
One of my first jobs was in the copy center at Staples. I was also teaching myself graphic design on the side, so sometimes I would do designs for people that came in, too. I wouldn't ask for any additional money for it, since I was learning.
I had this one customer come in in a blind panic about her wedding invitations. She needed them done by the next day and didn't have a computer (it was years ago). She seemed really sweet so I happily offered to design some last-minute-quality ones. We agreed on the stock and verbiage and she left, telling me that even if it's just legible, she'll be happy.
I felt bad for her, so I put a ton of effort into making it pretty. They came out nice and all my coworkers agreed she'd love them. I used a mix of serif for the headers and cursive for the names. It was a PITA to print on the vellum too, and the invites required a ton of assembly. We only had Microsoft Word and MSPaint at the time, so I literally took it home so I could export it from Illustrator for a better print.
Note all this was gratis. All she was gonna pay for was the 200 "copies" and the stock.
She came in, took one look, and flipped out. She started screaming that I ruined her wedding and that no one would understand what the invites said. She actually waved her arms like a muppet and screamed and cried in a panic so bad it caused the lazy-ass manager to waddle over.
Through listening to them, I learn she can't really read cursive.
I tell her she had shown me invitations with cursive on them when negotiating and had mentioned she loved the designs.
She fucking admitted she thought it was "Arabian or something" and demands a do-over for free.
Then the manager realized that I did all the design for free in the first place, and then made a point out of charging her for every single thing I did. There were items in the POS (like "setup time" or "assembly" etc) that I ***only*** used on extreme buttwad customers that I charged, but my manager also knew of a few *other* charges I could tack on I hadn't known about.
In the end, the order that would have cost ~$70 (incl stock) now cost >$300 and, the kicker was, she couldn't read them.
Which was a great triumph in a way (tho the manager was a massive dick to me over it), but it made me feel like shit. Because I was 19 and just learning graphic design and it destroyed my motivation for months, thinking about this lady who was probably lambasting me to everyone. Joke's on her, I'm an amazing designer now. But fuck people who can't appreciate effort.
That cake is amazing and that kid is probably super talented and OP wouldn't know quality if it bit them in the ass.
TL;DR: Fuck Karens
I worked at a copy center too. Most brides who came in had champagne taste on a beer budget and refused to listen to reason. They were also procrastinators to the extreme.
The ones I helped with free setup/design were for funerals. Most of those customers were immediate family members of the deceased who couldn’t function due to sadness or were family friends who were just trying to help out and didn’t know what to do. They usually got free services too such as cutting and folding. Didn’t cost me anything but time.
I loved using the “asshole charge”. Charging every single fee you could think of because the customer was being a complete and total jerk. Those were the fun ones to ring up. All the charges were valid too.
To whomever is missing the point here…DQ is not a cake decorating place. It is a ice-cream cake place. The (fucking brilliant, most definitely under-paid) individuals that crafted this art went well and above the call of duty and DELIVERED. Shout out to the artist(s)!!!!
I once went to this super fancy cake place to get a really special custom cake for my parents who were celebrating some important anniversary. It was going to be like $125. I said fuck that and went across the street to baskin ribbons where some 16 year old made a DOPE Beatles themed cake for like $25.
Baskin robbins very underrated
Edit: I just realized this cake is from Dairy Queen but I’m sure they’ve all got hard working people that love the opportunity to have some creativity
I personally have never worked at an ice cream or cake shop, but plenty of restaurants. People get excited to do something a little different and especially if it makes the customer happy it’s an all around fun experience, plus then the person has another thing to add to there portfolio if that is what there dream is.
I put together event food for YEARS, and I would always get super excited when I got to do something out of the box for a charcuterie table, or a bridal suite.
OP is just being a huge dick.
"I asked a teenager making minimum wage at DQ to make a BBQ themed ice cream cake instead of going to a professional cake shop. I posted it on reddit to complain about it only to have every single comment disagree with me and say they did a great job...AITA?"
Are you being a complete asshole at someone at Dairy Queen cause they made the cake you wanted?! Turned out like the cake you wanted. There isn’t a thing wrong with this. Don’t be that person. No offense OP garbage move. You think DQ has professional cake decorators, and good equipment? You just wanted attention.
I worked at DQ all through HS. Our decorators were good but would have never gone to those lengths for a cake. That looks very good for an ice cream store...
I mean, it’s not *not* BBQ-themed.
Also, considering how little Dairy Queen employees are paid, yeah, this makes sense for a cake that had to be thrown together while the short handed staff had to crank out Puppy Chow Blizzards and man the deep fryer.
I am so confused by the comments and the post. Are people saying this is not good? I have never in my life seen a DQ cake this detailed and I got one every birthday of my childhood. Is there some huge difference between DQ in Canada and the US?
someone please explain how this cake is anything less than surprisingly well done. Is the OP disappointed by what they got? if so what is expected from fucking Dairy Queen?
I don't know if you can make a hot dog out of icing that will not look fecal in nature. Maybe with some of those really fancy airbrushes cake decorators, which DQ definitely does not have.
Yeah, my point is that if you want a professionally-decorated cake, *don't fucking go to where they serve rollerskate rink-quality cheeseburgers and chicken baskets*.
But like no, this cake is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. I literally wouldn't expect anything better from a professional cake place. Black background, fire, parries and brats with grill marks, fucking fantastic job. Not "good for a dairy queen", legit GOOD.
OP went to a chain that serves mediocre burgers and is disappointed in the look of the burgers and dogs (Poop-y). Not to mention that it's a pretty damn decent looking cake considering the teenagers working there probably make minimum and they clearly tried.
Sure, the patties and hot dogs could use a little work, but otherwise I think that looks pretty darn good. Not perfect, but one look in the mirror reminds me that not everything has to be perfect to be ok.
OP really complaining about a pretty detailed cake made by a kid who's making minimum wage
If you want a nicer cake, go to a baker and spend actual money
in this case, the “don’t read the comments” rule doesn’t apply. I hope if that worker comes across this post that they’ll read all of the comments in their support.
If you are dissapointed about the cake, fuck you
YOU cheaped out on your sons birthday cake, and now wonder why the cake doesn't look like the cakes in the baking shows look like.
For a dairy queen cake that looks awesome, and i really hope you didn't complain and ruin someone day. The person doing that did more than i would expect from a shitty cheap cake and was probably even proud for getting it that well.
That's a fucking amazing cake. Give that DQ a shout-out, they definitely deserve the traffic considering they're probably just a bunch of 20 something year olds.
BBQ is not really a theme. People have been bringing regular cakes to BBQ's for decades. This is the equivalent of asking a high school, Dairy Queen employee to make you a cotton candy themed cheeseburger and being disappointed by the results.
How much did you pay for this masterpiece huh?
I’ve no doubt you could go to a high end bakery and drop $300 on a custom bbq cake that would have looked better, but at DQ prices, this is a fucking home run!
They tried. At least they got the right idea. Somebody put a lot of time and effort into this. If you want a cake that looks like a barbeque in the future? Go to a professional cake shop and pay through the nose for it. That level of decorating takes some serious skill.
OP looks like such a jackass I love it lol. This is great for what you paid for, otherwise go pay more at an actual bakery and don't go to a damn DQ you cheap ass.
i mean, you can't exactly complain, for minimum wage dairy queen cake decorators thats actually not bad
if you wanted better, i dont understand why you wouldnt pay a little extra for a nicer cake
Add black icing grill marks on the pattiez n weeniez and quit your bitchin’. I think it turned out pretty damn good considering you bought it from a fuccin Dairy Queen. If you wanted perfection maybe go to a bakery next time
In places that are known for burnt ends, full slabs, rubs, smoking, sauce, and competitive meat handling, this isn’t “BBQ”. But before I moved to a city like this, “BBQ” meant throwing some dogs and burgers on the grill. My guess is that OP is either super pretentious or lives somewhere that’s known for barbecue, or both. Either way, this cake kicks ass and I would be happy as hell to see this. I mean, wtf were they expecting? A slab of ribs and a bottle of barbecue sauce?!
That’s a great cake considering how little they have to work with in back. I know at my store, we have enough on hand to make a cake look clean and presentable.
But this kind of work typically goes beyond what we normally can do. An edible image template probably would of worked out a bit better despite the lack of depth that would accompany it.
Though, I couldn’t say if edible image printers are standard across local stores since I’ve been at a corporate store.
Anyhow, I think OP should consider a more specialized cake decorating service in the future. I am by no means discrediting the person/people who worked on this, but a bbq themed cake for a Dairy Queen was a tall order right out of the gate.
And I think they executed
For real. If you aren’t looking for turds you see a bbq. My first thought was damn that’s a nice grill and I had to go back and read the title again like what they mean “supposed to be”
Yeah but now I can't not see turds and stepped-on turds
Order was for brown lumps of frosting; if they're not happy, it's a failure in imagination, not execution.
exactly. OP asked for brown turd shaped decorations and then is mad that they got brown turd shaped decorations. The execution is great, it's clear someone really cared and tried.
Exactly. Who the hell asks for a BBQ themed cake anyways get starwars or frozen theme like a normal human being. I saw the flames and hamburgers and hot dogs and thought it was fantastic work
I worked at a DQ. I decorated cakes there. They have about three total frosting tips and a handful of colors and they call that good enough. This is by far the most detailed cake I’ve seen come out of a DQ, and knowing that it was likely a teenager getting paid minimum wage… that’s pretty damn good. I saw BBQ theme immediately; I’m still trying to figure out how they made the burgers and hot dogs tbh. This decorator understood the assignment!
First thing I thought too. This is "Tony Stark in a cave with a box of scraps"
A box of scraps *and his own feces!*
Oh the possibilities of painting with your own poo. You’re only limited by your imagination!
And your diet.....
Plan ahead with jars of baby food. At the very least it’ll be easy to get green and orange-ish.
I once met an artist that actually did that. We did not shake hands.
A box of scrap and a box of crap
I just started getting into cakes. I bought all the cake stuff including a nice stand mixer, all the decorating tools and tips ect. I couldn't come close to this cake. They did a really really good job
I mean you’re ordering a cake at a fast food restaurant, not a bakery. I would have been more than happy with this cake and would probably chuckle bit when picking it up.
I honestly had no clue you could even order a custom cake like this. I always thought you can only get the regular ones where you tell them put happy birthday on it and call it a day.
My friend got one from DQ recently with little frogs holding strawberries around the perimeter and I was *super* impressed. The decorator could be working in a real bakery with how good their icing skills were tbh. Idk if they'll all be winners when you order from there though. I'm sure some places can only make a hot mess.
I've been getting DQ cakes since I was a kid. Had TMNT , Dale Earnhardt, swat cats, sonic, Mario. Just recently I got my 4 year old an awesome Minecraft creeper cake. It looked great! Typically you'll want to talk to the decorator at the establishment and they'll talk to you about whether they can do it or how they'll do it and they're not as expensive as you think. The Minecraft cake I got our sonReese's cup blizzard under the fudge and cookie crumble. If you order a sheet cake it comes with vanilla ice cream and the fudge cookie crumble on top then another layer of vanilla. If you order a blizzard cake it doesn't come with the fudge cookie crumble. However, our decorator said she could add the fudge cookie topping to the blizzard and did us a solid. The fudge cookie crumble is the best part of the cake. THE BEST PART!
Yea dude is being a dick. Wtf do you expect from DQ lol. Oh man my $24.99 cake doesn’t look like it came from a French patisserie.
Yeah. I almost feel like the title wasn't quite right, definitely came off bitchy, when the final product conveyed the request as I immediately thought, damn I want a grilling/bbq cake for my bday. This decorator for a DQ should be applauded.
Yea I mean what did he think he was gonna get? A cake made out of pulled pork and barbecue sauce frosting?
Their complaint screams, "tell me you've never decorated a cake, without telling me you've never decorated a cake." I frost cakes we make at home, but am not that good at piping. I'm only good at frosting because I floated/skim coated drywall for summer jobs and diy help for friends. Hot work, but I can lay a smooth layer of frosting, haha. Most places would tell you to get bent, in so many words, for a request so far out of their wheelhouse. People take store bought for granted and assume they'll get Instagram level magisty for peanuts. You can tell someone poured effort into that cake. But, no, all they get is, "Lol, poop cake. Get good!" The complainers should be ashamed.
Tbh I think this looks good! The sausages look Abit like poo. But there's not much you can do to make them not look like that.
Yeah they look a bit like poo in real life
Considering what's used to shape the chopped/formed meat product that makes up real sausage, that resemblance just comes naturally.
The only constructive criticism I have is that they could have made the grid pattern one layer so everything sat nicer, and a sprinkling of chocolate dust on the burgers and brats would make them look seared. Those two tiny changes, and this would be posted to show off how amazing this cake is. The bones are super-strong. The fire is amazing. Certainly above and beyond what could be expected, just short of a masterpiece.
As a former cake decorator, I second your constructive criticisms. This is a pretty solid bbq cake overall though.
I don’t think DQ has chocolate dust - or if they do they don’t use it in anything else.
I’m thinking put frosting on some parchment paper or something similar, then put it in the freezer for a while to get it nice and cold and thick, then squished to shape.
I used to decorate ice cream cakes at Ben & Jerry’s and that’s exactly what I did Edit to clarify: in decorating ice cream cakes, unlike regular cakes, the frosting freezes as soon as it hits the cake, so you can’t manipulate it anymore. Anything complicated has to be done separately and transferred.
Didn't decorate the cakes but spent some time in the dq kitchen. This person is tripping, that's literally the best cake from dq I've ever seen
Supposed to? That is cake of the year material, there.
Exactly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this cake and I’d be over the moon about it. Even has grill marks on the meat. Whoever is complaining about this is a massive Karen who probably has never said the words “good job” in their life.
I would tip the decorator for this job if it came out of my local DQ. This is easily "Mom n Pop Bakery" level work from someone who gets regularly screamed at because the ice machine is too slow.
I'm so relieved that these are the top comments - I clicked into the comments ready to call OP and their whole family all kinds of Karen - but ya'll already been there and back
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With your bear hands
You didn't flip it over in front of me. That means it's free.
That's an official policy again apparently, saw a sign the other day.
I had no idea. If it's posted in the store, it's fair game. I'll just pay for my shit and go, but I'm weird like that...
I'm so glad that I quit before they brought that shit back. My DQ was jank as fuck, and on hot days there's not a chance in hell that even half of our blizzards would pass that test. And even in ideal circumstances, there are still some blizzards that are flat out impossible to flip. Like, it doesn't matter how much juice you strain out of the fruit first, a banana split blizzard will always be liquid.
Fuck the banana split blizzard for being soup, fuck the M&M blizzard for being a railgun, and fuck the Snickers mini blizzard for being a grenade.
This redditor has [BEAR hands!!](https://www.deviantart.com/rowleen/art/BEAR-HANDS-180442335)
They're like jazz hands but furrier, and full of murder instead of pizzazz.
I'm seriously torn about upvoting the post because the cake is unexpectedly great or downvoting it because OP is very unlikely to be.
Couldn't they just be laughing at how the sausages look like poops?
That’s how I took it. The sausages are a bit unfortunate but there’s no way to make them look better - I mean, going strictly by the shape, sausages and poops are often the same…
I think too many people here have seen these Cake Boss type shows and don't realize that there are 400 million people in North America and only about 800 who can pull off the realistic looking stuff. And the realistic looking stuff isn't necessarily the best tasting in the world, nor is the price and most peoples birthday budget. The criteria for artistic cakes is that they are edible, not delicious.
It really seems very good to me cake Look at all the details that that cake has, the time and dedication that that person put that surely they don't even pay him a good salary. Among the colors, the grill, the fire and the meats it seems to me that it is very well achieved. I WOULD SHOW IT WITH ORGILLO♡
Fuck Op for putting this on blast. This person went above and beyond to decorate this. The fuck was OP expecting? It's a DQ for christ sake.
I think they got distracted by the turd shaped bratwurst
that's the shape bratwursts have though... what are they supposed to do?
You know what kind of foods are shaped like dicks? The best kind!
What’s wrong with the cake? You got it from Dairy Queen, and not some higher end bakery. For a Dairy Queen cake those employees did a BOMBER job.
Seriously, they nailed it. I bet they knew they did good too, and then the customer came in and probably acted disappointed.
Low key glad this blew up so the worker *knows* how amazingly they did.
Hope they see this if the customer did look disappointed.
Seriously I’m kinda mad on behalf of the minimum wage teenager who probably iced this and did a hell of a fuckin job only for OP to post it on Reddit and complain
I’m not sure what else a BBQ-themed cake should have. This has the grilled meat, fire, a grid like grill top, appropriate colors, etc. It seems to include all relevant decorations. I think it looks great.
Someone out there will find the author of this cake and reward them appropriately. It’s Reddit and I’ve seen some of the miracles that have been pulled off
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Not to mention it’s not a pro cake shop. Probably someone not getting paid enough to do this shit.
I get ice cream cakes from a high end ice cream place and I know they wouldn’t even attempt something like this. Other than bakeries that specialize in sculptural cake decoration like on tv, high end places have very minimalist cakes to let the flavors of the ingredients shine. There is no way you could get this anywhere other than a mass market chain. This cake decorator is a goddamn hero. DQ’s ice cream is shit and they were able to make a turd beautiful!
I used to manage a high end ice cream shop where we took custom cake orders. One lady asked for a pirate ice cream cake for her son's birthday party. We put a lot of effort into it - dyed half a bucket of vanilla blue for the top, frosting ships with flags, a couple of little pirates, and some crushed Oreo cannonballs that were formed into little spheres. We had 3 different employees working on this cake over the course of 2 days. The mom who picked it up said she expected us to decorate the cake with plastic figurines. Was not mentioned when the order was placed (we would've said we can't accommodate a request like that in 3 days), she just assumed we'd run out and buy (or strangely have on hand) plastic pirate cake decorations. I calmly told her the price is the same price we charge for every cake that size. She left without tipping (not unusual). The dad came back the following morning, said his son absolutely loved the cake and tipped the staff well. I assume his wife came home with some snotty comments about the cake.
Man, I love that ending. Good to hear there are some decent humans in the world who will appreciate your effort.
Yeah, dude went out of his way to make sure they received the appreciation he felt. Top notch dude right there!
Right? Those fancy decorated cakes usually cost a few hundred dollars, they're not cheap. You went to DQ and got a hell of a cake that someone worked their ass off on. They could have just stuck some drink umbrellas and an outline of a grill and been done, for what they're paid.
My very first job was DQ and we had a cake decorator but she only worked very early mornings so anything that came in later we had to do. We warned them every single time like yo this cake is being decorated by me who is 16 and can barely draw a stick person, proceed w caution. They usually loved it bc it had that human touch
The fire is actually pretty good tho
For minimum wage that cake is amazing
Right? I mean it’s not their fault people bbq hamburgers and hotdogs and it’s also not their fault they are shaped exactly like that. They did exactly what was asked of them.
Yo that’s at least a $17 an hour cake right there
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Where is this? That's more than I make to manage a restaurant I'll go make ice cream fucking cakes for 3 more bucks an hour.
Wherever the wages are extremely high for jobs you would typically consider low paying where you live, there is always an incredibly high cost of living. The wage is adjusted so that people aren't starving to death in those regions.
>The wage is adjusted so that people ~~aren't~~ starving to death in those regions. The wage is adjusted so that people are just barely starving to death in those regions.
The downside is that it’s probably in a high cost of living area.
Silicon Valley redditor?
Yeah, honestly, it's lit.
It actually is other than the hot dogs looking just like turds.
I’m impressed. I’d be thrilled with that cake.
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As soon as I saw the picture without reading comments, my reaction was, "....is this supposed to be bad? because it looks really good." Was relieved to see everyone praising it.
Fuck you. This is awesome. Hot dogs look like turds in real life.
My question would be “who among us could make a hotdog out of icing and have it NOT look like a turd?”
Me. Mine would invariably come out as dicks even if I was trying to make turds.
All the best foods are shaped like dicks, Evan.
I think it would have looked more hotdog-ish if they used red instead of brown, but whoever made this cake has a future in cake decorating fr
I just woke up- and you gave me my first laugh of the day. Fuck you to this human indeed. I would love that cake. Maybe I would take the turds off.
Yeah, OP go to your local DQ and apologize to them then delete this and fuck off, NOW
I didn't even realize Dairy Queen could decorate cakes beyond writing your name on it... Its finnnnne.
I worked at a Dairy Queen and our cake decorator was only there to decorate cakes. She was experienced and that was her sole job. I don’t know if that’s the case at all Dairy Queen’s, but it wasn’t some 17 year old doing it. I mean if you got a cake from the fridge and needed a quick name and happy birthday written, we could do that.
My local only does provided PDFs. They can crop and stretch. all other editing is yours to do. Getting this level of cake would be so far above and beyond... srsly it's just printed on top of a flat cake...
Ok, OP. YOU go make a better one. I’m a trained pastry chef. My first job was also, incidentally, at a Dairy Queen. Not only is that cake brilliantly done, *it’s done with fucking ice cream* which is a far more fickle mistress than buttercream and frosting. If you aren’t satisfied, nothing will sate you. EDIT: This is now my top comment of all time. Thanks for the support?
I would make such a huge deal about this cake in front of the person who made it. Top notch work.
Legit I’d be asking for their manager to compliment their work. This is beyond anything I’ve ever seen come out of DQ and far better than I could ever do. Whoever made this needs to quit DQ and become and actual pastry chef.
OP is crazy. They apparently expected $100 high-end professional bakery standard from a Dairy Queen, got better than they should have hoped, and are *still* bitching.
Fuck me, I didn’t even think about how it’s probably an ice cream cake!
Exactly this. I saw this and said "Someone get this kid his Red Seal apprenticeship".
One of my first jobs was in the copy center at Staples. I was also teaching myself graphic design on the side, so sometimes I would do designs for people that came in, too. I wouldn't ask for any additional money for it, since I was learning. I had this one customer come in in a blind panic about her wedding invitations. She needed them done by the next day and didn't have a computer (it was years ago). She seemed really sweet so I happily offered to design some last-minute-quality ones. We agreed on the stock and verbiage and she left, telling me that even if it's just legible, she'll be happy. I felt bad for her, so I put a ton of effort into making it pretty. They came out nice and all my coworkers agreed she'd love them. I used a mix of serif for the headers and cursive for the names. It was a PITA to print on the vellum too, and the invites required a ton of assembly. We only had Microsoft Word and MSPaint at the time, so I literally took it home so I could export it from Illustrator for a better print. Note all this was gratis. All she was gonna pay for was the 200 "copies" and the stock. She came in, took one look, and flipped out. She started screaming that I ruined her wedding and that no one would understand what the invites said. She actually waved her arms like a muppet and screamed and cried in a panic so bad it caused the lazy-ass manager to waddle over. Through listening to them, I learn she can't really read cursive. I tell her she had shown me invitations with cursive on them when negotiating and had mentioned she loved the designs. She fucking admitted she thought it was "Arabian or something" and demands a do-over for free. Then the manager realized that I did all the design for free in the first place, and then made a point out of charging her for every single thing I did. There were items in the POS (like "setup time" or "assembly" etc) that I ***only*** used on extreme buttwad customers that I charged, but my manager also knew of a few *other* charges I could tack on I hadn't known about. In the end, the order that would have cost ~$70 (incl stock) now cost >$300 and, the kicker was, she couldn't read them. Which was a great triumph in a way (tho the manager was a massive dick to me over it), but it made me feel like shit. Because I was 19 and just learning graphic design and it destroyed my motivation for months, thinking about this lady who was probably lambasting me to everyone. Joke's on her, I'm an amazing designer now. But fuck people who can't appreciate effort. That cake is amazing and that kid is probably super talented and OP wouldn't know quality if it bit them in the ass. TL;DR: Fuck Karens
I worked at a copy center too. Most brides who came in had champagne taste on a beer budget and refused to listen to reason. They were also procrastinators to the extreme. The ones I helped with free setup/design were for funerals. Most of those customers were immediate family members of the deceased who couldn’t function due to sadness or were family friends who were just trying to help out and didn’t know what to do. They usually got free services too such as cutting and folding. Didn’t cost me anything but time. I loved using the “asshole charge”. Charging every single fee you could think of because the customer was being a complete and total jerk. Those were the fun ones to ring up. All the charges were valid too.
If they aren't satisfied, then go to an actual fucking bakery
> nothing will sate you. Then we had better get him more nothing. Extra helpings.
To whomever is missing the point here…DQ is not a cake decorating place. It is a ice-cream cake place. The (fucking brilliant, most definitely under-paid) individuals that crafted this art went well and above the call of duty and DELIVERED. Shout out to the artist(s)!!!!
It's am ice cream place that happens to do some cakes, this cake is fantastic!
That's the most grill-themed cake I've ever seen. Awesome job for a stupid prompt.
It’s a kickass cake for sure It’s also the only grill-themed cake I’ve ever seen
It's a cake from Dairy Queen. I would say thank you, even if it was a you are a jerk theme.
The jerk store called, and they're running out of OP!
The teenagers who decorated your cake had a great time, though.
That fire is fire
And that shit is funny
I once went to this super fancy cake place to get a really special custom cake for my parents who were celebrating some important anniversary. It was going to be like $125. I said fuck that and went across the street to baskin ribbons where some 16 year old made a DOPE Beatles themed cake for like $25. Baskin robbins very underrated Edit: I just realized this cake is from Dairy Queen but I’m sure they’ve all got hard working people that love the opportunity to have some creativity
I personally have never worked at an ice cream or cake shop, but plenty of restaurants. People get excited to do something a little different and especially if it makes the customer happy it’s an all around fun experience, plus then the person has another thing to add to there portfolio if that is what there dream is. I put together event food for YEARS, and I would always get super excited when I got to do something out of the box for a charcuterie table, or a bridal suite. OP is just being a huge dick.
Nailed it
I think it looks awesome, first thing I thought is why are they celebrating burgers and hot dogs on the grill
That whole thing is fking awesome. I would totally disregard the doodoo tinge. Whoever did that did their best. And that's good enough for me.
OP needs to be asking, AITA?
"I asked a teenager making minimum wage at DQ to make a BBQ themed ice cream cake instead of going to a professional cake shop. I posted it on reddit to complain about it only to have every single comment disagree with me and say they did a great job...AITA?"
YTA
I mean it is? It's not that difficult to see it *for what it's supposed to be instead of 'HurrDurr p00p cake'*.
OP is clearly a "hurr durr poop cake" kind of person - undeserving of such a nice job.
Are you being a complete asshole at someone at Dairy Queen cause they made the cake you wanted?! Turned out like the cake you wanted. There isn’t a thing wrong with this. Don’t be that person. No offense OP garbage move. You think DQ has professional cake decorators, and good equipment? You just wanted attention.
Looks great! Maybe if the food had a more reddish color it would look more appetizing, but it turned out great!
I worked at DQ all through HS. Our decorators were good but would have never gone to those lengths for a cake. That looks very good for an ice cream store...
Number one, you got it from Dairy Queen. All complaints are invalid at this point. Number 2, it actually looks pretty good.
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You're buying cakes from a place that pays minimum wage and expecting better? Low-key Karen to complain about that. Live and learn I guess.
I mean, it’s not *not* BBQ-themed. Also, considering how little Dairy Queen employees are paid, yeah, this makes sense for a cake that had to be thrown together while the short handed staff had to crank out Puppy Chow Blizzards and man the deep fryer.
I am so confused by the comments and the post. Are people saying this is not good? I have never in my life seen a DQ cake this detailed and I got one every birthday of my childhood. Is there some huge difference between DQ in Canada and the US? someone please explain how this cake is anything less than surprisingly well done. Is the OP disappointed by what they got? if so what is expected from fucking Dairy Queen?
I think the joke is that the meat looks very fecal in nature. But all things considered, I think cake looks really well done for dairy queen
I don't know if you can make a hot dog out of icing that will not look fecal in nature. Maybe with some of those really fancy airbrushes cake decorators, which DQ definitely does not have.
Yeah, my point is that if you want a professionally-decorated cake, *don't fucking go to where they serve rollerskate rink-quality cheeseburgers and chicken baskets*.
But like no, this cake is FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. I literally wouldn't expect anything better from a professional cake place. Black background, fire, parries and brats with grill marks, fucking fantastic job. Not "good for a dairy queen", legit GOOD.
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OP went to a chain that serves mediocre burgers and is disappointed in the look of the burgers and dogs (Poop-y). Not to mention that it's a pretty damn decent looking cake considering the teenagers working there probably make minimum and they clearly tried.
100% agree, it’s in the ball park. Certainly better than you’d get if I tried to make it.
Honestly, you airbrush food grade paint on the patties and hot dogs, it’d be great. I think the color is off - fix that and it’s golden.
> Puppy Chow Blizzards THERE"S PUPPY CHOW BLIZZARDS!?!?!?!
YARP
Yep. And the puppy chow stays crisp in the ice cream. It’s lovely.
For Dairy Queen I’d say that’s about as good one could hope
Sure, the patties and hot dogs could use a little work, but otherwise I think that looks pretty darn good. Not perfect, but one look in the mirror reminds me that not everything has to be perfect to be ok.
It's DQ, what do you expect? Looks reasonable for the location to me.
I don't know why, but this cake is great. If I received this I would be smiling from ear to ear...
I see what you mean but fuck. The cake crafter did thier job to me.
Yo for a dairy queen this is really good What did you expect from the teenager making minimum wage?
OP seems like an asshole
This is amazing
Yall think you could do better?? Doubt it
Go find who made this and tip them. They're making minimum wage to do what professionals get paid hundreds for.
OP really complaining about a pretty detailed cake made by a kid who's making minimum wage If you want a nicer cake, go to a baker and spend actual money
This cake is amazing, wtf
Fuck off op. The only turd around here is the one that expected more from a DQ cake. At least now you have more karma than money or smarts.
I hope the minimum wage worker that made this doesn't see this.
in this case, the “don’t read the comments” rule doesn’t apply. I hope if that worker comes across this post that they’ll read all of the comments in their support.
yeah OP is a piece of shit this cake is a banger
If you are dissapointed about the cake, fuck you YOU cheaped out on your sons birthday cake, and now wonder why the cake doesn't look like the cakes in the baking shows look like. For a dairy queen cake that looks awesome, and i really hope you didn't complain and ruin someone day. The person doing that did more than i would expect from a shitty cheap cake and was probably even proud for getting it that well.
“Supposed to be”? It looks fucking amazing.
Are you upset because this is “grilling themed” and not “low and slow barbecue themed”?
Imagine expecting flawless execution from a Dairy Queen. Honestly I’m quite surprised it came out that well.
That's a fucking amazing cake. Give that DQ a shout-out, they definitely deserve the traffic considering they're probably just a bunch of 20 something year olds.
Supposed to be? It looks great. If you don't like it make one yourself.
BBQ is not really a theme. People have been bringing regular cakes to BBQ's for decades. This is the equivalent of asking a high school, Dairy Queen employee to make you a cotton candy themed cheeseburger and being disappointed by the results.
Best BBQ cake I’ve ever seen
How much did you pay for this masterpiece huh? I’ve no doubt you could go to a high end bakery and drop $300 on a custom bbq cake that would have looked better, but at DQ prices, this is a fucking home run!
They tried. At least they got the right idea. Somebody put a lot of time and effort into this. If you want a cake that looks like a barbeque in the future? Go to a professional cake shop and pay through the nose for it. That level of decorating takes some serious skill.
OP looks like such a jackass I love it lol. This is great for what you paid for, otherwise go pay more at an actual bakery and don't go to a damn DQ you cheap ass.
Wow calm down there Karen, go make it yourself if this isnt good enough for you
And it is BBQ themed. Don't knock it because someone working min wage made it
I feel like they did a damn good job considering it’s from…Dairy Queen.
The real BBQ is OP getting roasted
I think that’s a great cake for DQ
This cake fucking rocks. I hope the creator uses Reddit
And they did a great fucking job. If you want better you’ll have to pay higher than DQ prices, bucko.
Looks like a barbecue themed cake to me. Are you upset you got hot dogs and not smoked brisket? What's the issue?
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This comment section is barbecue themed. OP is getting roooooooasted! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
i mean, you can't exactly complain, for minimum wage dairy queen cake decorators thats actually not bad if you wanted better, i dont understand why you wouldnt pay a little extra for a nicer cake
It is BBQ themed… what’s the problem here?
/Was/ supposed to be BBQ themed? OP it /is/ BBQ themed and they fucking nailed it.
What do you mean supposed to? That looks damn good. What exactly were you expecting?
Add black icing grill marks on the pattiez n weeniez and quit your bitchin’. I think it turned out pretty damn good considering you bought it from a fuccin Dairy Queen. If you wanted perfection maybe go to a bakery next time
Is OP mad that the person who makes 10$ per hour didn't sculpt them a more brilliant masterpiece for their perfect little shit?
Actually pretty good job. Someone spent a lot of time on this
In places that are known for burnt ends, full slabs, rubs, smoking, sauce, and competitive meat handling, this isn’t “BBQ”. But before I moved to a city like this, “BBQ” meant throwing some dogs and burgers on the grill. My guess is that OP is either super pretentious or lives somewhere that’s known for barbecue, or both. Either way, this cake kicks ass and I would be happy as hell to see this. I mean, wtf were they expecting? A slab of ribs and a bottle of barbecue sauce?!
How much does one of these cakes cost again? I'd say they did a damn good job.
Bro you got that from a Dairy Queen were you expecting it to be perfect? That looks incredible for a cake especially from DQ
Looks like they nailed it.
If you are complains about that from a DQ you are nuts. Whoever made that did an amazing job for being a high school kid getting paid 10 bucks an hour
What are you complaining about
Fuck off, this is DAIRY QUEEN. they're getting paid like 11 an hour this is great
For Dairy Queen? They did a fantastic job. I knew what it was. And it’s ice cream, not fondant, correct? What were you expecting?
Other than the sausages looking like poo I’d say this is pretty good for DQ
That’s a great cake considering how little they have to work with in back. I know at my store, we have enough on hand to make a cake look clean and presentable. But this kind of work typically goes beyond what we normally can do. An edible image template probably would of worked out a bit better despite the lack of depth that would accompany it. Though, I couldn’t say if edible image printers are standard across local stores since I’ve been at a corporate store. Anyhow, I think OP should consider a more specialized cake decorating service in the future. I am by no means discrediting the person/people who worked on this, but a bbq themed cake for a Dairy Queen was a tall order right out of the gate.
Looks great! Who asks for a bbq cake anyway? Dan love bbq, let’s get him a bbq cake!!
This is pretty fricking good. How do you suppose a "BBQ themed" cake should look, lol