There's nothing quite like cake to celebrate a birthday. So when a little girl's special day came up, her family decided to let her live out her own fairy tale with a Frozen-themed cake topped with Queen Elsa. Things, however, didn't unfold as planned.
The cake was supposedly fashioned out of a design from McGreevy Cakes, a New York-based tutorial site on cake decorating. Based on a post in Reddit, the cake that arrived was drastically different from the cake that was ordered. In just two days, the post racked over 2,200 comments, most of them, of course, were about how horrible the cake looked.
"Apparently they didn't understand the difference between butter cake, and butter face."
"Does the purchase price include 3 free counseling visits for the kids at the party?"
"Pretty much how my online dating has gone."
To be fair, while it really did look horrible, the cake was only done in just two hours, including being delivered to the little girl in the pouring rain while the baker herself was going through a bereavement in her own family. The fact that it had managed to stay up through all that is actually commendable.
The family ordered an Elsa cake, so shouldn't they have received an Elsa cake? Is this cake not the perfect example of not getting what you're due?
On the contrary, the cake is everything right about the world right now.
It turns out it's from Icing Smiles, a non-profit that makes cakes for families dealing with the stress of having a child with illness. The little girl for whom the cake was intended is sick. She loved her cake, which to Lisa Randolph-Gant, the baker who made the cake, was more important.
"At the end of the day, I didn't let that sick baby down. I gave it all I had to give," she said.
Icing Smiles calls volunteer bakers like Randolph-Gant Sugar Angels. The non-profit's founder, Tracy Quisenberry, reached out to Randolph-Gant to offer her sympathies after the cake became viral but was pleasantly surprised that the Sugar Angel was not at all affected by all that negativity.
Today, Icing Smiles has over 7,300 Sugar Angels in the United States. Since they began in 2010, they've managed to send out over 8,100 cakes, each one translating to smiles.
