Bride-to-be goes to collect her wedding cake — then she noticed one big problem with the design
The cake, a creamy centerpiece, sits on a pedestal, with its delicate tiers stacked atop each other. The lush frosting enshrouding the cake bread makes the guests present there ogle-eyed as they gaze at its plump ruffles, the sugar flowers, and assorted textural elements swirling around like patterns of lace. Just like the designer dresses of bridesmaids and groomsmen, the wedding cake is a showstopper. But a TikTok video posted by Georgia Walker (@georgiawalker6) shows why choosing a drool-worthy wedding cake is not always a cakewalk. In fact, sometimes it can be plainly “frustrating,” as Walker experienced in her case.
In a June 2024 TikTok carousel, Walker showed how the cake she had ordered from the baker turned out to be frighteningly “disappointing.” Even sadder was the fact that she discovered this mishap only a few hours before her nuptials. In the three-carousel TikTok, Walker wrote, “The day before my wedding. So excited to pick up my wedding cake en route with my dog.” The photo showed her sitting in a car with her dog, a cheerful expression on her face. The bride-to-be was full of hopes that she was going to be collecting a minimalistic wedding cake with white frosting, just what she wanted.
The next slide was a heart-shaped cake, sophisticatedly laced with white frosting and outline design, plus a text frosting in the middle that read, “Just married.” In the overlay of this image, Walker described that this was the design of the cake she had chosen for her wedding and ordered from the baker. “Going for a more minimalist look and so happy she said she could do it from this reference,” the caption read. However, what she received was nothing like this reference.
The third slide depicted the disaster that was cake. The baker not only ruined the original design but also gave her a pudgy heart-shaped item with wobbly frosting and the text decorated in pink-cream letters rather than the original white cream. “Queue the crying,” Walker wrote. “The buttercream is curdled,” one TikTok user described. “Did she make it with spray foam?” another said. @ranae wrote, “They definitely used margarine for the icing.”
Another user, @maggie, said, “It looks like she used whipped cream but whipped it too long and it became butter.” One person wrote, "Did you look at her other work? I think she is not a professional." Walker responded by saying, "I swear previous cakes looked fine. I'd rather she told me the icing style wasn't in the realm of expertise." When asked whether the cake tasted nice, at least, Walker said, "The cake itself wasn't bad! The buttercream was not good, so I had to scrape it all off and do it myself."
In a following video, the bride shared how she fixed the crumbly cake using some different colored creams and decorative elements. The one-picture TikTok shows the same heart-shaped cake decorated with cream-colored frosting, re-frosted “Just married” text, and a beautiful border dotted with pink cream dollops. “She’s no cake decorator but that just scratches a part of my brain,” she wrote in the overlay caption.
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