BIRTHDAY GAME: THE GREAT MEH BIRTHDAY CAKE BAKEOFF
14Cake! Everybody loves cake! Ok, not everyone. I prefer a delicious cookie cake, but why am I still talking about this we have better things to do wow I’m still going and I wonder if I can gracefully transition into something else at this point we’ll never know right cake.
It’s time for The Great Meh Birthday Cake Bakeoff!
Here’s how it works:
Bake a cake to celebrate Meh’s birthday.
Send us a photo of the finished product. Describe the type of cake that it is and what you used to make it. Buttercream filled you say? Well, that’s great. Let us know how it tastes. Share it with your friends and family.
We’ve got prizes for Best In Show, Best Decoration, Worst Decoration, plus a number of other things we’re looking for that we aren’t going to advertise. Just think Meh and Cake. We’ve got lots of prizes here.
We’ll give you until Friday to send in photos of your cake, but we do have daily bonuses and prizes planned out. So don’t wait.
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First!
@lichme well doesn’t that take the cake
Can we bake a picture of a cake and have that count as a valid entry?
@PlacidPenguin No. Real cake. Really baked.
420
@ChadP
Trying to decide if the risk of getting junk I don’t need outweighs the risk of a fire or food poisoning…
@ChadP @PlacidPenguin So, drywall compound shaped like a cake and baked is out?
@ChadP @mehcuda67
Well that WOULD be a real (drywall) cake which is drywall flavored.
@ChadP @PlacidPenguin
/giphy really baked
The cake is a lie
Second?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/cake-delivery
@Ignorant Does not count.
@ChadP BOOOOOOOO!
@Ignorant
Steal a cake from here.
(Just don’t tell @ChadP.)
@Ignorant @PlacidPenguin If it’s not a fresh, real, cake, I’m deleting accounts.
@ChadP @PlacidPenguin you mean I can finally be free???
It seems this might require cooking?
@heartny
Baking would probably work out better for you.
@PlacidPenguin Cook and bake are both 4 letter words. Like iron and laundry.
@heartny nice, kind and good fall into the same category!!!
@mikibell No, they don’t involve housework
@heartny @mikibell
Washing machines and dishwashers both are made of metal, and they clean stuff using water.
Their usage should be interchangeable.
@heartny @mikibell @PlacidPenguin I think the telling difference is the noise level when you put plates and glasses in each. Dryers especially.
@heartny @mehcuda67 @mikibell
Why would you put dishes in the dryer? That’s asking for trouble.
After putting the stuff through a cycle in a washing machine, let it all air dry.
@gnol
/giphy DFTBA
@gnol I’m so excited about the future prospects of this.
@ChadP @gnol The force is strong with this one.
@ChadP @gnol can’t quite put a finger on his baking methods
does that eliminate ice cream cake??? Think I have a recipe for cake made with ice cream…
@Limewater Hmmmm. GOOD ENOUGH. Fuko for you-ko.
@ThomasF this is the greatest moment of my life.
@Limewater
Too damned hot to turn the oven on.
@lisaviolet just leave the ingredients on your sidewalk or dashboard. I’m sure you’ll have a cake in no time.
oh, and it’s vanilla. and chocolate frosting. just in case.
@LemonTheCat A fuko for your pragmatism.
@ThomasF Holy moly… thank you kindly! My dreams have now been realized. Also, I urinated everywhere when I read that.
Do I finally get credit for my birthday cake from (almost) 4 years ago?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/maybe-my-cake-bothered-me-more-than-it-should
(Almost) Happy Birthday @cinoclav !
@aetris Lol - Thanks. September 5th to be exact.
Makes me wish I had pictures from a wierd cake contest a while ago. I made a yellow cake, and added baked beans to the mix. I crushed animal crackers to thicken chocolate pudding for the frosting, and for decoration on the top I used salt, chili powder, and some mixed sprinkles. Needless to say I won. A couple people actually tried it as well. I’m sure this would have been the perfect cake for a discerning troll like Irk.
I made a cheesecake. It’s a family recipe, so I can’t go into full detail, but it’s topped with sprinkles and drizzled with chocolate.
For the record, it tastes exactly how it looks.
@lichme
Cute. It took me a couple of seconds.
@lichme mmm Krafty
@lichme Does the family recipe call for five ounces of milk?
That would make it taste better than some other cheese cakes made mostly with oil and water.
@lichme @PlacidPenguin a couple of seconds?///Thought it was first effort :thumpsup
A Frog Cake for Meh’s 4th Birthday. Yellow Cake, butter creme frosting and Oreo cookies for the eyes, I hope Irk likes it.
@tedesj leak frog cake
@tedesj yes!
@tedesj How is that Turkey Hill peaches and cream ice cream? I never had that one, but the strawberries and cream is delightful.
@hems79 the peach ice cream is awesome. The peaches are sweet and taste like they are fresh picked even though they’re Frozen. I love it.
@tedesj you were leaps and bounds ahead of me with your cake
“Dessert shell”
Extra creamy dairy whipped topping
Chocolate flavored syrup
@medz You ever grilled one of those shells? Effing delicious.
@ChadP Didn’t know that was a thing. After a quick search, it seems the approach is to put butter on it and wrap it in foil. Sounds good. Add butter and heat, I don’t see how you could go wrong with that!
@medz I go with butter, and straight on the grates. Make sure it’s well oiled as to not stick.
@ChadP @medz is that one of those little shortcakes?
@moonhat Yes. It is one of those little shortcakes one might use for strawberry shortcake.
Seriously, it’s too hot to bake a cake. I don’t have ac and my kitchen is hotter than it is outside without turning the oven on!
Okay, I already participated in the cosplay contest but this was too much fun to pass up on to participate in even if just for funzies. (Yes, I still use the phrase funzies. Trust me, this is the least of my issues.)
This is a biscuit cake with mashed potato frosting and brown gravy lettering.
I made a video documenting my process and in my genius, forgot to take a decent photo so my photo is a screenshot from the video.
It actually tastes pretty good and I am having it for supper. Yea, gluten!
@tnhillbillygal OMG! I enjoyed your video way too much to admit! Hellarious
@tnhillbillygal @ThomasF, the video alone is deserving of 2 Fukos!
@pitamuffin @tnhillbillygal Hmmm. Fair enough. Here’s another, you Fuko hoarder.
@pitamuffin @ThomasF
/giphy bashful thank you
@pitamuffin @ThomasF
Seriously though, thank you all for one of the most entertaining weeks I have had in many years. I know it had to have been stressful for you all but please know it was appreciated by us meh’ers.
@tnhillbillygal
@ChadP
Thank you! Biscuits, taters, & gravy for everybody!
/giphy nani?
For Meh’s birthday cake, I chose a Swiss chocolate cake mix, made with 2 large eggs, 1 cup of water, and 1/2 cup of vegetable oil. I mixed them all together for 30 seconds on low blender speed then 2 minutes more using the medium mixing speed. Next, I poured the cake mixture in a (sprayed Pam on the cake pan first) rectangular cake pan and baked the cake at 350 degrees for 23 minutes. I allowed the cake to cool then I used a Butter cream premixed frosting to cover the cooled Swiss chocolate cake. I then drew and cut out Irk, colored my drawing of Irk and stuck him in the cake. Next, I then took a porcelain figurine of a boy up a tree after he had been chased there by a dog and placed this figurine on the cake as well. I cut a smaller IRK DRAWING out and used frosting to place this little Irk drawing on the little boys face. The dog below my “Irk” represents MEH CUSTOMERS trying desperately to get the last Meh 4th birthday Fukobukuo. Finally, I put Happy Birthday candles on the cake and used prepackaged red frosting to write out Meh’s name. ![Meh the Fourth Birthday be with you Meh][1]
Btw the way, it tastes MEH-valous even if I do say so meh-self! Happy Birthday Meh!
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@AttyVette
Our dog was very interested in the cake mix box 4 Meh 4th birthday cake I BAKED tonight. Had to send message to my own meh screen name in order to tag it to my previous cake post.
@AttyVette Fuko for your dog.
@ThomasF really? seriously ? I am super duper estatic — I’ll share it with MEH dog Erosstros — his name means eros for love and stros as in love astros baseball team!! Thank you Meh eternal thanks
@ThomasF actually I reread your post and I’ll have to beg Erosstros to share his Fuko with me ( sigh) as he got awarded the Fuko— he said thanks in doggy language just FYI
@AttyVette
@ChadP I got one too??Happy, happy and my dog Erosstros doesn’t have to share his fuko with me ! Thank you sir for your kindness !!!
So here is the thing I am mediocre at baking and really this is for fun and a Fuko. So I’m going to put in a mediocre amount of effort. Then I stumbled across the perfect cake. Here’s the deal Meh staff, I’ll bake this for you for a fuko, I’ll ship it to you, you can try it. It will be a white cake with enough red pepper and Cayanne pepper and Paprika to look like red velvet. I’ll use butter cream and fondant (learned that from cake boss) and ship it off to you. If that doesn’t work then just enjoy the picture and Happy Birthday Meh. This cake sums up Meh perfectly.
Happiest of Birthdays Meh!! A reason to bake a cake? I’m in!
Here I present you with your chocolate cake with vanilla cream filling. Topped with vanilla frosting and orange & gold sprinkles. It’s chocolatey, soft and moist (yeah, I went there). Pair it with a cup of coffee and you’re golden.
Happy Birthday !!
@sweetpqte Fuko awarded because that looks great.
@ThomasF thank you!! I just got the email, so awesome !!
Here we have a nice coffee cake. For added flavor, it’s layered with chocolate, caramel, and bits of coconut. Topped with more caramel froth, and finally a little bit of love.
@lichme love the mug!
Happy Birthday, meh. This is… err… was a mediocre pound cake with vanilla glaze.
Will be baking before Catfish on wednesday
@vinuash maybe a catfish cake…sounds fishy to me
Do we only get one entry? I have a cake I’d like to make, but what if I think of a better cake later in the week? Could I post both?
@mossygreen you can’t have your cake and eat it too…wait actually you CAN have your meh cake and eat it too! Not a crumby idea but can be crumby if the cake crumbles on you.
@AttyVette Your words are both encouraging and confusing. Thank you.
@mossygreen thanks I resemble that remark
I sacrificed my squeaky clean kitchen to bake a VMC – Very Mediocre Cake – a mehdley of chocolate, maple, and bacon. (And oxford commas.) I added Trader Joe’s maple syrup to the cake mix and canned cream cheese frosting. I baked the bacon between 2 cookie sheets to keep it flat enough to form letters.
For extra credit, I added the oreo cookie meh faces.
For extra extra credit, the oreo cookies have pop rocks in the filling.
Now it’s a party! Happy Birthday Meh!
Now, can you send someone to clean my kitchen?
@Trillian bringing home the bacon (m)eh?
@Trillian As an apology for the goat, here’s a Fuko. Also because I want the Oreo Meh faces.
@ThomasF Come clean my kitchen and the Oreos are yours.
@Trillian this is my favorite so far.
Lastly, presenting this funfetti cake: complete with one of a kind art work featuring Irk himself (kinda). Made with vanilla icing, strawberry piping, and complete with 4 birthday suckas (assorted dum dums)!
Verdict is in, and it was tasty. Moist, just enough sweet, and went really well with some ice cream (not pictured).
@wootstalkerbot Bots don’t eat cake!
@lichme Legit Irk there.
I baked a cake! I took pictures at a few different stages of the finishing process, but then I decided to make a video. So here’s that. Um- I should warn sensitive viewers that I cuss a LOT. I didn’t really realize how much until I watched the video. heh. Oops.
Oh, and by the way- it’s delicious!
Is there a prize for excessive use of expletives? I didn’t think so. Sorry, guys. I really didn’t mean to be such a trash mouth.
I’mma go hide under a rock now.
@Pony I only count 15 and that’s even including crap and ass. 89 second long video… that’s like an average of 0.17 curse words per second. (10-11 per minute) You could try harder.
@Pony Fuckin’ incredible. Fuko awarded.
@ThomasF Holy shit! Thanks!
@Pony
I luv that cake pan set!
@mfladd This was my first time using it- I had stuck it in a cupboard and forgotten about it, then ran across it about a week ago while sorting through stuff for our move to CA. It’s pretty nifty- I plan on using it more in the future.
@Pony
@ChadP You rock. Thanks.
![mehbirthdaycake][1] So here’s your cake. Did I bake it? Hell no. I got a picture from webs and used Paint to make it say meh. Why? Because meh.
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@davidwr99 Meh thinks the powers that be won’t appreciate all the hard work that went into this meh cake — and we don’t want them all going off half baked on you because of it either - meh
@AttyVette meh.
Hey Molly and you mug cake mixes are on sale on a competitor sight right now — guess they like getting mugged — which begs the questions like why molly around and also who wants to get mugged ?
Not a real entry but I remember when we had to design cakes for the what? Second Birthday? I think so. This was mine:
@ACraigL I remember that. Here was my design. I “enhanced” it in Photoshop to make chocolate icing. July 2016.
Hmm does this cake count? I made it myself. (to be fair I also posted it yesterday in the birthday thread; I have no way to bake anything here - but my brain baked up this idea. Although some might call it a half baked idea…).
So, I decided to bake a cake… for the 3rd time in my entire life. It went great… kinda’
I only had Christmas Funfetti cake mix, so that’s what you got. I added coconut to the batter. It got baked, nothing special. Then I added a home made chocolate whipped cream topping and drizzled it in home made caramel sauce. It needed a little something extra, so I pureed some strawberries and bananas and piped those onto the cake.
The strawberry banana puree looks like vomit. It looked so great in my head and it immediately went to shit when I put it on the cake.
So happy birthday, Meh. You fuckers.
The good news is that it tasted great. Kinda’ like a banana split. Sorry it doesn’t look as good as it tastes!
@capguncowboy well that will mean everyone else in your house will be afraid to eat it and thus more for you!
@Kidsandliz The kids helped me make it. They had already tasted everything as we went along. They had no qualms about scarfing it down as soon as the picture was snapped
@capguncowboy Didn’t know you were a Royal Trux fan.
@capguncowboy cute kid!!! Has muppet hair like my son!!!
@mikibell Thanks! His hair is impossible to define. He has 5 different cowlicks. I have cut his hair since he was a toddler because none of the local barbershops/salons could figure out a way to make it look good. Hopefully his hairline will recede to a more normal hairline by the time he’s an adult
@capguncowboy I hear you… mine won’t use any gel or anything, so it just grows spiky until I get him to chop it off again… 3 and 5, or 4 and 6 for school… Love the feel of it though!!
@mikibell i use the guard between 1 and 2 on the sides, then taper it up to a 3 towards the top. The top and front get cut with scissors. My hair takes me 10 minutes to cut, tops. His hair takes me at least 30 minutes
@capguncowboy hehehe my son won’t let me near him with sharp objects, even if there is a guard. Probably the brightest move he ever made!!! Actually, in an attempt to persuade my kids not to cut their own hair (my daughter’s still hasn’t grown out from that ONE incident!!), we told them only hairdressers can cut hair. Bit by my own wisdom!!
@capguncowboy Adequate. Fuko awarded.
So I stood up and baked the attached. I didn’t ice or decorate it, as in it’s current state it is perfectly Meh and anything more would be less than Meh.
So happy birthday. Hope you liked my limited effort
@tinamarie1974 @chadp well nuts i guess meh effort does not = Fuku. Oh well. Thanks for an amazing birthday celebration! It was lots of fun.
@ChadP @tinamarie1974 I don’t think @ChadP is quite done yet…
@ChadP @therealjrn well either way Chad made this an amazing celebration for all of us
@ChadP @tinamarie1974 No doubt!
So, I don’t currently have a working stove, but if I did I’d make this wonderful Meh kitty litter cake. Or not. I’m sure it would taste fabulous.
Ingredients:
15.25 ounces German Chocolate Cake mix
15.25 ounces white cake mix
8 ounce White Sandwich Cookies
8 ounce Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix
Green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls
1 new kitty litter box
1 new kitty litter box plastic liner (optional)
1 new pooper scooper
@heartny i’m at a loss for words. Also, I wouldn’t eat it, even though I understand what it actually is
@heartny except for the tootsie rolls… sounds yummy! (change to mini twix and I think it’s a winner!!!)
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So, funny story, I bought Tony Visconti’s autobiography last Sunday, and when I was looking at the pictures I saw this chocolate cake his mom made to celebrate the success of T. Rex’s
1 single “Hot Love”. I thought OH MY GOD THAT IS A RIDICULOUS CAKE AND I HAVE TO MAKE IT. And the very next day this game was posted. A sign!
It is a chocolate & coffee single layer cake with Nutella glaze and decorated with sliced almonds. The cake itself is a '30’s/'40’s style Wacky Cake made without eggs or dairy. The recipe is delicious, but I can’t quite bear to cut into this cake yet.
For extra meh, the Nutella used has a sell-by date of October 2015. It’s still good.
@mossygreen Hmm, I thought I could edit out the numbers. But that appears to not be the case.
Anyway, I also love that someone took a picture of Marc Bolan where you can’t tell it’s him, because the important part of the photo is the cake.
@mossygreen I can’t get your photos to load. Are they ridiculously massive?
@RiotDemon Probably? I never know what I’m doing with photos.
@mossygreen I’ll take it. Payment is Fuko.
@ThomasF Pleasure doing business with you, sir. Come back anytime!
How to load photo? Technically challenged, but I baked my son’s favorite birthday cake, which might be more well known as peach and blueberry cobbler. Happy to share photo but need guidance (sorry). Happy birthday, Meh!
@rm9116
@lichme, i don’t get any objects to click, just a text block. Maybe my lack of forum skills are evident to the Meh-sters?
@lichme @rm9116 if you are on a phone/tablet, make sure it is landscape before you try to post.
Portrait options:
Landscape options:
@lichme @mikibell Thank you both!
@mikibell @rm9116 Also, requesting to view the desktop version works for that too. Glad you got it worked out.
@rm9116
@rm9116
@rm9116 yummmmmy with vanilla ice cream toooooo!
@ThomasF sad about no fuko for our traditional “cake”. At least my son and his college buddies were happy. Left baked cobbler on counter when i went to store - came back to empty dish and happy young men
@rm9116 Your sadness moves my cold heart. Fuko awarded.
@ThomasF Thank you, kind sir! Tears now of joy, at least until said fuko arrives
SO, I had originally posted this from mobile but as it turns out my cake photo didn’t show up so I was like well off it let’s post again. So for this bitchin cake my gf and I made, we used funfetti cake mix. It has vanilla icing and some black icing as well.
When it was first baked, it became a meh button, unclicked. So I obviously had to click it… but slapping another cake on top since I didn’t have a mouse. This turned it into a clicked meh. face… and then after a while it turned into a 4 for the mouth. I only had two cake candles, however… I did have a vanilla bean noel candle laying around so I used that as well.
Then I made her take photos of me blowing out candles for a website. You may remember her from the video we made last year with the random assortment of stuff. Also included is miscellaneous stuff from meh, didn’t wear my meh shirt but hey, what can ya do.
@vinuash nice documentation! Loving the clicked meh button idea.
@vinuash Worthy. Fuko assigned.
Dammit meh, I’m an accountant not a baker. Anyway here is my mediocre cake.
It’s a Yellow Cake with Milk Chocolate Icing, candy lettering and cream cheese decorating icing.
Happy Birthday Meh!!
@jdslick9 Wow, that black velvet cake looks great. Here’s a Fuko.
Smh, so it was the breakfast of champions. My wife and kids ate it up this morning while I was at the gym.
Too hot to bake, So I will submit this cute paper cake I made.
So much love for Irk… Glen was feeling very left out!
For my first attempt at a cake…yup. Very meh.
(Dark chocolate cake, with buttercream frosting. Lots of frosting.)
Oh, crap, forgot the candles!!
@janel999 nice!
@janel999 this is awesome!
@janel999 Nice! Surely it will score!
@janel999 @therealjrn We have deemed it… worthy.
@ThomasF
Wow, worthy! I would have settled for “acceptable”. Or even “adequate”. I’m just going to grin for a while - so happy to get my first fuko!
Some outdated gingerbread house kit? Sounds like a good birthday cake, though you may break a tooth trying to eat it lol
@savvysapphire It’s July, you ding dong! Ugh, Fuko awarded.
@ThomasF lol! Thanks!! I’ll even take the ding dong comment! I did say it was outdated lol!! Yummy…or not
I made a cake but my wife thought it was for my girlfriend
@meanjene O.M.G. - lolol.
@meanjene Thanks. Alright. Thank you. You shouldn’t have.
We ran out of icing unbeknownst to me so I had to use the next best thing. Have an Unremarkable Birthday meh… (Green marker is edible. No mediocre humans were harmed during the consumption of this cupcake.)
passable cake
@blkxltng My picture isn’t showing
@blkxltng Here you go…
@compunaut Thanks!
@blkxltng @compunaut I’m scared but blkxltng gets Fuko.
@ThomasF your fear is understood. But yay?
Ok…sideways it is…
Funfetti, with vanilla cream filling, marshmallow buttercream frosting…even this late at night it is too warm for buttercream.
@mikibell meh-erry nice!!
@mikibell Pearls!
/giphy pearls
@compunaut man if I had curved like that…
And sparkles…green shimmer dust…too late at night for it really shine…
@compunaut curves…it to…
past my bedtime!
@mikibell I think it’s Sophia Loren; very few have curves like that.
@mikibell That’s an awesome Irk on top and the green decoration is really nice!
/giphy birthday cake done right
@tnhillbillygal thank you kindly! I had lots o frosting leftover from my great niece’s high school graduation cake! Her school colors are yellow and green!
Front edge took a little damage when a car pulled out in front of me… And 95 degree heat wasn’t kind to the buttercream…sigh
@mikibell I have had good luck with cell phone pictures by doing an edit and save. I think someone posted that cell phone pictures have some orientation information saved with them that messes with the forum posts.
Love the cakes!
@speediedelivery yup… My pc was doing a windows update and the phone was just not cooperating. Was past my bedtime and I was getting cranky
Thank you!
@mikibell You’re on a roll. Here’s another.
@ThomasF Thank you!! Been wanting to try that frosting technique… see some ways to improve!
Very disappointed that there was no candy corn used in the creation of these cakes.
My mediocre effort. Yellow cupcake, green butter cream frosting and Alphabet soup letters. Cupcake was good but the letters were crunchy. I am not sure if cooking them would have worked better. Easier to eat but working with them I’m not sure. As I type this, “why didn’t you soak them stupid” crossed my empty head.
@speediedelivery Green frosting. Delicious. You win.
@ThomasF Ooooooo, thank you! You made my day ☻
Green is right up there with purple in my book. Don’t tell @Barney
@speediedelivery
I know I’m late. I didn’t make a cake earlier because I had plans on making one today.
This is my very meh looking cake. Angel food with whipped cream and strawberries.
It doesn’t look like much but my mom liked it so much she asked for seconds, and then she asked if there was enough to have a slice for breakfast.
@RiotDemon That looks good enough for brunch!
@RiotDemon @therealjrn That looks Yum!
@mfladd @therealjrn thanks guys!
@RiotDemon it’s freaking gorgeous!
@moonhat thanks!
@RiotDemon breakfast cake is the best kind of cake
Just imagine the possibilities. It’s the best I got
@mfladd why doesn’t my stove ever look that clean after I bake a cake??
@mikibell Hahahaha…I was in such a hurry scribbling that note I even misspelled Birthday (Birthay)! I should get extra points for that fuck up
@mfladd I figured that was a mehism … Birthay!
@mfladd such nice handwriting!
@mfladd @mikibell Me too. A fancy intention.