The "funniest" baby shower I have ever given!

Ok, I must start this story by saying that you are about to see one of the UGLIEST baby shower cakes ever! I am totally not kidding you on this one. Everyone I have prepared to see this thing has ended up laughing their head off, or simply gasping.

To start, I will tell you a little about what we did. We had a baby shower for a girl in the office that is due next month with her first baby girl- Lily. Another girl and I organized everything and even coordinated with her husband so that he could be there and surprise Mary (girl we had the shower for). It was pretty simple really, not that much work involved. When it came down to the cake, I decided that I WAS NOT going to make it since the last time I ended up regretting it because I spent my whole day off working on it and I didnt think it tasted that good. I have decided that I am going to take a class on cake decorating so that I can learn the right techniques, but that is neither here nor there. Anyway we looked at a lot of places for cake designs, bakeries, etc. I have now decided that bakeries are starting to be a thing of the past. The only ones I could find in our area were in downtown Franklin and with us being in Cool Springs I didnt want to have to deal with major traffic during the day that I picked it up, plus I procrastinated and didnt order it soon enough. So, I checked out all of the places in CS that have in store bakeries and looked at their designs but nothing popped out at me. I thought that having a pull apart cupcake cake would be the best thing since there isnt much mess, no knives to worry with, etc. I ended up going to Kroger because it is very convenient to our office. I walked up to the bakery case and started thumbing through their idea book and the lady behind the counter walks up to help me. She said that she actually did the cupcake ones herself and was actually quite good at it, not meaning to brag of course! Hello, this should have been a red flag in my face! I looked at the ones she had done- a watermelon and it looked pretty good. (Note to self for future- how hard is it to do a watermelon?!) She immediately starting spouting off all kinds of ideas, so I thought this woman really knew what she was doing. Boy, was I wrong! We decided to do a baby shape with a pink diaper and a bottle. I had visions in my head, baby sleeping with a grin holding a baby rattle and thought it was going to be really sweet looking. LOL LOL LOL! I am still laughing because the expression on my face when I picked it up must have been priceless! It looked like a baby on drugs! I wont describe it any more because the picture says enough!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE................................

**Insert the sound from Psycho here....**

What cracks me up even further is that when she handed it to me she said that she was really dissapointed in its nose. HELLO!!!! The nose is the least of my worries at this point! And what is with the pink fake flower, is the baby dead?

All of the girls in the office were laughing so hard when they saw it, so we decided to put a sheet over it and unveil it as a SURPRISE at the shower. We warned Mary before hand but her face was priceless! Ha!


I am actually glad now that it turned out the way it did, because it made for a very fun time as you can imagine! If I had gotten stuck with this for anything other than the office I dont know what I would have done!!!! WARNING: If you need a "pretty" cake DO NOT go to Kroger in Cool Springs! However what was lacking in design added to the taste, it was very YUMMY!!!