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| - My baby sister and I were pregnant at the same time last year, and my family was thrilled at the coincidence, so imagine my crushing disappointment when my pregnancy turned life threatening and I was sent to Good Samaritan Hospital for bed rest at only eighteen weeks! That meant I was going to miss my little sister's baby shower! :( That made me incredibly sad. What made me even sadder was her tearfully explaining to me that the baby shower her (bossy) mother in law was organizing for her was a hot-ass mess, AND that her mother in law was refusing to provide a cake for the shower!
"Ah ha" I thought! "I can save the day from my hospital bed AND provide a kick ass cake for her baby shower! Yay!!"
So I called Karsh's because they have some of the most YUMMYTASTIC cakes I've ever tasted... Well, my first call to Karsh's didn't go so well because the first employee I spoke to didn't seem too interested in helping me AT ALL (it was close to closing time apparently) so I decided to call back the next day. On my second call to Karsh's I reached an employee who said he was a manager, so I explained to him that I was stuck in the hospital, but that I would like to order a baby shower cake for my little sister's baby shower in a couple of weeks and that I would pay for it over the phone with my credit card and that my husband would pick it up for me the day of the shower. He said he would be happy to help me with this order. I told him what size I needed and what flavors we'd like for the cake and then he asked me about a decoration for the cake and I told him that her baby shower theme was baby turtles and baby owls, and maybe could they do something with that theme in mind...? He said 'sure' and I assumed that dealing with a professional bakery and all, that they'd do something nice within those parameters.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, was I dead wrong about THAT.
You see the day of the shower arrived and my husband ran over to Karsh's Bakery and picked up the cake (and trust me, it wasn't a cheap cake) and then he brought that big, pink bakery box over to my hospital room so that when my little sister popped in to see me before going to her shower, I could surprise her with a beautiful cake to take to her party.
Well, let me tell you what, my husband opened the tape sealing the edges of that pink bakery box so I could get a sneak peek and my face just froze in an expression of utter horror... The idiots who decorated her cake over at Karsh's Bakery went and printed out an ugly black and green edible image of a giant sea turtle and plastered that monstrosity across the front of my sister's baby shower cake!! And then in teeny tiny pink letters at the bottom of the photograph wrote "Welcome Baby Emma".
I have never cried so hard in my LIFE!! I think my nurses were worried I was going to go into labor I was so upset and sobbing. Seriously, I was a wreck.
I was crushed. It was the ugliest, MOST disastrous mess you've ever seen. I seriously cried for hours and I couldn't even look at my little sister when she came to my room to see what the "big surprise" was that I had for her that day. I hid my face in my pillow quietly sobbing and pretended to be sleeping when she came by.
It was the most unprofessional thing you've EVER seen. :(
We should have taken a picture of it for the cake wrecks blog, but I was so distraught that I didn't want to look at it anymore.
My family still put on a brave face and took that monstrosity to her baby shower, while I hid in my hospital room and sobbed, and while everyone who saw it all agreed it was hideous, they also said it was quite delicious.
Thankfully my sister was quite a good sport about it and thanked me profusely for the gesture. I think she knew my intentions were good.
So there you have it; take it for what it's worth. Karsh's makes delicious cakes, as long as you don't mind your 'adorable' baby shower cake looking like some Jacques Cousteau nature photograph out of a dusty old circa. 1960's textbook with some tiny, unprofessional greeting piped out frosting at the bottom of the ridiculous photograph.
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