Everyone loves a good slice of cake. Well, even if you don’t have much of a sweet tooth, you probably still take a piece whenever you’re at a birthday party. There’s something irresistible about that super-sweet sheet cake covered with sticky frosting.

You might not have ever tried to decorate a cake yourself. If that’s the case, you probably don’t know just how hard it is. Even just writing on a cake is a huge challenge. Those beautiful professional cakes that you see in bakeries are made by experts. They’ve spent years perfecting their ability to sculpt gorgeous things out of frosting, sugar, chocolate, icing, and fondant.

The bottom line…it’s hard to make a good cake. But when we order one from a professional bakery — for a birthday, baptism, wedding, anniversary, or some other occasions — we expect it to look great. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.

Sometimes, even professional bakers make cakes that aren’t what the customer ordered. Some look ridiculous with misspelled words. Other times, the decorator misunderstood the instructions, leading to hilarious results. Here are 75 times cake decorators who took the customers orders just a little too literally.