It could have been kind of funny if she’d done it in photoshop and sent her the fake mock-up or even gone all out and made the cake out of scraps that weren’t going to be useable for anything else and photographed it and sent her the photo. The cake itself might possibly have even been a wee bit funny if it were just for an every day desert and she had a gift certificate so it was a “make me whatever for 30 bucks” kind of deal. I’ve been in that situation before where I had a freebie for one of those gigantic decorated cookies and didn’t really have an occasion for it so I was just ordering it to eat around the house for nothing special. I wouldn’t have minded something silly or even letting the staff make something totally off-color they never get to make for “real” customers.
But to actually make it and send it for a real engagement party isn’t a “joke” or at least is a terribly un-funny one. Since the recipient and her guests didn’t think it was funny, it was clearly not the kind of person getting it who was going to find it funny. Yeah, if my no-occasion big cookie arrived with a naughty word note and dookie drawing on it, I’d have laughed. The people at the cookie shop heard me say, “I don’t care. Write whatever you want. Ever wanted to draw a middle finger in the icing? A pentagram? Go for it. Surprise me. Just make it chocolate chip and we’re good.”. This clearly wasn’t one of those where she really didn’t care or was in a mood to be light-heartedly shocked. It was a real occasion that should have had a normal cake. Even if they thought the recipient would get a laugh out of the idea, they shouldn’t have sent it that way, just the pic or the idea, or at the very least sent it in addition to a super beautiful real cake. A little LOL, but a clearly marked surprise gag not something that was going to get revealed in front of guests who weren’t in on the joke and not something that would create the need to go get another cake last minute.
