Behind The Awkwardness: Make A Wish
September 12th, 2011
“Even a 4 year-old knows there’s no “winging it” with birthday candles. This is my brother’s birthday. My mom had obviously forgotten the candles and had instead snapped Christmas taper candles in half.”
(submitted by Denise)
I have a picture like this!! my parents had either forgotten to buy candles or had lost them so they ended up using giant christmas candles, my mom told me they were “troll candles” hahaha
OMG! THANK YOU to the kid, the mom who baked the cake, the photographer, the person who posted this picture & all the commentors. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long, long, long time.
I know, this picture is amazing! My daughter looked at my screen and asked, “Are those dynamite?” LOL, I think that was the perfect comment to cause me to errupt in laughter again!
And check out the really fancy cake!! No expense spared there!!!
I know! The cake looks aweful! Look at the pink icing on the inside of the tray. Seriously, I would not have given that poor boy the cake and the ridiculous candles! He is traumetized. I will give credit that she did something but come on …
It looks like 4 dynamite sticks
Yeah, should have seen the look on his face a few seconds later when the penny-bungers went off!
That kid is totally saying WTF?
Gasping for air ! Yup, my exact thought?!
Damn my grandma would have MADE somebody go out and buy new birthday candles. That’s how she rolls.
My mom kept a coolwhip tub full of previously used birthday candles. My favorite was when they still had a few crums and icing from the last cake stuck to them.The possability of food poisoning added a sence of danger and excitement to each and every birthday. After all this could be your last.
A Cool Whip tub of used candles – that’s just gross and hilarious!
Hey! We keep our carefully washed, very fancy and expensive “repeatedly recycled” Birthday candles in a baggie. I might have to upgrade to a cool whip tub. ROFL!!!
He’s thinking, ”Could this be revenge? Maybe I shouldn’t have left my rollerskates on the stairs.”
Birthday cake brought to you by Acme…SO GOOD!
With apologies to Emily Dickinson:
“My candles burn at both ends
They will not last the night
Yet Ah my friends, and Oh my foes,
See how bright the light!!
Not only did this poor little guy have “after thought” candles, it looks like he has a Christmastime birthday. (Notice the Santa sitting on the fireplace hearth in the background?)
My sister’s birthday is in December and she used to hate getting birthday presents in Christmas wrap.
Wow, you’ve got good eyes, it took me a while to spot Santa there.
Those closely resemble the candles on Sandra Lee’s oh-so-infamous Semi Ho-Made Kwaanzaa Cake.
Ha! I sure does. Wonder if mom baked the corn nuts in the cake instead of using them as a festive embellishment.
He’s thinking “I’m gonna need a LOT more air to blow these babies out!”
We always leave the cake in the pan. Easier to store that way.
and don’t forget the crisco…lots, and lots of crisco…easy to remove in one piece from the glass pan….
No point in serving up on a plate, it just makes more washing. At least he could just drop his face in it without doing Mum’s effort any injustice.
When I was 13, I made a birthday cake for my Mother but we didn’t have birthday candles…or enough of them, so I used a big fat emergency candle, smack in the middle! LOL This guy looks a bit shocked…haha
My 21st birthday “candle” was a BBQ lighter someone was holding over the cake as they all sang to me.
I’m not gonna lie, at first glance they looked like Hannukah candles. Poor mom, I have a feeling she did the best she could with that cake!
Let’s see, what should I wish….what the heck is going on with these candles?….oh yeah, I need to make a wish….they are huge!….wish, wish, I need to come up with a wish….why are they red?…Oh forget it, I wish I had my name on this cake and some pretty little candles!
From:Marney
The next time you make a cake, please do not use so much flour on the sides as it gets all over my kitchen. Remove the cake from the pan and put on a regulation rectangle cake plate. I have candles, we do not have cake candles-so please supply your own. Whatever you do, please do not break big candles into smaller ones.
I love it!! Marney should have been called upon to begin with!
I don’t think that’s crisco…..I think she lined the cake pan with foil. regardless, this one is priceless.
the comments are great!! That IS a lot of flour though!
How sad!! Poor kid
*note to self* BUY GIGANTIC SUPPLY OF BACK UP BIRTHDAY CANDLES!!!
my first impression was, its the Titanic,
and maybe its a slice that has to stay in the tray lol,
The cake looks like something she came up with at the last possible minute too.
“I don’t need no stinking candles!”
Gads, I think of my having forgotten the dern candles for my kids (who came up w/that any how?! ). I also am guilty of not serving the cake on a nice platter…
Wow, did Mom grease and flour that cake pan or what?
Boy, that cake must have had a serious after taste. Yuck. I’d rather have a frozen Pepperidge Farm cake.
But at least that cake will slide right out of that pan…
Are those candles? or sticks of dynamite??
Someone grew up watching Bugs Bunny!
HAHAHAHHAH!!!! LOVE IT!
LMAO!!
I love how the cake is still in it’s baking pan too! lol
That’s how I always eat cake, and I don’t know anybody who does it differently. How are you going to store it if you take it out of the pan?
i don’t know what’s worse, the candles, the cake,or the excessive amount of crisco!!
Those are *not* regulation sized birthday candles. – Marney
*wipes the laugh spit off the monitor*
HAHAHAHAHA… LIKE!!!!!! TOO Funny!!!
lmao!!!!
Marney will never get old!
Ha, Marney. You made me snort iced tea.
I sure hope they didn’t use aluminum foil to cover the cake. And WHERE is the cake knife and serving implement? Somebody didn’t get your memo…
Poor kid. A perfectly good birthday shot to heck.
Awesome!!! =)
Well played.
BWAHAHAHHAHA!!!!
That just means the wish can be bigger, too, right?
Who hasn’t been there, on BOTH sides of the equation?
My daughters last birthday had three birthday candles and a votive. I dont’ judge.
Bwahahaha! You rule!
My family has a similar photo of my younger brother with his birthday cake with a huge candle in the middle of it. I’ll bet this happens more than we think!
Been there, done that!