I get that cake making is art+skill. And it takes time to turn a bomb ass cake.
I just don't understand how people fail so miserably. Like, halfway through did they just say fuck it and start throwing icing at the cake?
Sprinkle bomb?
You should see some of my baking failures. I made something my ex refers to as cookie puddle. I read the cookie recipe, KNEW it sounded wrong, saw that the dough looked like batter, and still baked off the cookies. I was so angry. He loved it, and teasingly asks when I'll make another. I had gotten the recipe from a bag of store brand morsels. They must have gotten a lot of complaints. They've fixed the recipe.
I made a cake that kept sliding like Pisa. All the frostings and fillings kept melting. I fucked that up ROYALLY. I had to redo it from scratch.
From my own baking disasters, I can only guess that these people just kept saying every step of the way, "I can fix this."
If you notice in my gallery, dragon cake, his butt is hanging off the cake board. That cake was an entire ode to disaster and heartbreak. But I fixed it. Mostly. It ended up being too big, but you can't tell it was going awry. Sometimes you're right to think you can make the cake work. Sometimes you end up in a video like that one.