23 Times People Tried To Make A Beautiful Dessert And Ended Up With…Something Different

Have you ever tried to make a beautiful dessert, only to have it turn out all kinds of wrong? Maybe you forgot to add baking soda to your cupcakes, or the heart-shaped cookies you saw on Pinterest turned out more like butts.

If you relate to these baking woes, take a look at some of these hilariously upsetting dessert expectations vs. realities.

1. This pride-themed cake that looks unbelievably ashamed of itself:

2. These Nutella-stuffed gingerbread men that met a cruel, cruel fate:

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3. These celebratory cupcakes that look like the celebration was over before it began:

4. This frozen vacation wonderland that turned out to be about as whimsical as a trip to your local grocery store:

5. What about these Ube mini donuts that were advertised as cute little purple treats, but showed up as a sad beige mess:

6. These Easter duckling cupcakes that are closer to Ugly Duckling cupcakes (but I love them with my whole heart):

7. This “dessert” that was very wrong…but also very right:

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8. These out-of-this-world “Mars” donuts that look more like they came out-of-the-dirt:

9. These funfetti Hamantaschens that have taken on another form entirely:

10. These cupcakes that fell flat, literally and metaphorically:

11. Augustus Gloop’s worst nightmare post-CRTI (Chocolate River Tube Incident) takes form in this chocolate banana smoothie bowl:

12. These Chanukah donuts that look more like the destroyed Second Temple this holiday commemorates than the photo on the box:

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13. This ice cream bar, which is just the dessert version of Gaslight:

14. This cake(?), which is just the dessert version of Gaslight to the 2nd power:

15. This Streusel frozen dessert that just looks all kinds of wrong:

16. Apparently, the green was intentional, which only makes this exponentially worse:

17. Does this protein cookie also remind you of SpongeBob’s parents, or is that just me?

18. This Five Nights at Freddy’s-inspired cupcake that genuinely has me in tears – both good and bad:

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19. This dessert, titled “Mothman Chimichanga,” which is already unique on its own, but the end result is very…one of a kind:

20. HELLO??

21. What about this Yule Log that’s giving me seasonal depression in April?

22. This hotel’s brownie sundae that looks like a bad case of the Mondays:

23. Lastly, this mango dessert attempt that’s giving more “egg yolk gone bad” than “refreshing summer treat:”

Disclaimer: Some “expectation” photos have been replaced with photos from other sources due to copyright issues.

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