Mom’s ‘cocaine dealer’ birthday cake for son sparks outrage — said baker: ‘I’m not someone to judge’
Here’s one way to blow out the birthday candles.
An Australian baker upset her online community after showing off a “cocaine”-themed cake complete with chopped lines — which was reportedly ordered by a mother for her son’s birthday. A photo of the inflammatory confection has racked up over 180,000 reactions on Facebook.
“I just make the cakes … I don’t ask questions,” baker Skye Baillie, 36 told Kennedy News of the controversial order, which was placed at her bakery, Skysies Cakes, in Gawler Adelaide.
According to the cupcake cartel, the high jinks ensued after a mystery woman showed up at the shop and handed her a picture of a dessert to replicate.
“She needed a cake urgently,” Baillie said while describing the unusual encounter. “She said ‘don’t judge me’ so she already knew it was a controversial cake.”
The baker said that she initially turned “her nose up” at the problematic request — an order she found especially bizarre given that the mystery woman was making it on behalf of her son, Blake.
However, she eventually obliged after a colleague said it would be “easy,” and agreed to help her with the narcotic-honoring confection, which reportedly cost AUD 250 (around $167 USD).
The duo got to work baking the gigantic 12″ x 16″ white chocolate mud cake, which reportedly took a whopping six hours to make — two for the baking alone.
The finished product, which reportedly serves between 40-50 people, is adorned with a faux cocaine parcel next to a mirror topped with three sugar icing “lines.”
Encircling this “Scarface”-inspired centerpiece are wads of imitation cash and a bank card made from fondant, while a ribbon sports the message, “Happy 30th birthday Blake.” It evoked a confection that would be dreamt up if a cartel cook joined the “Great British Bakeoff.”
As of yet, the backstory behind the cocaine cake remains unclear, although Baillie ultimately found the whole thing “kind of funny.”
“I’ve had some pretty strange requests over the years so for me it wasn’t anything too crazy,” she said.
Many social media users, on the other hand, thought it crossed the “line.”
“Loser cake. How can you make this?” fumed one critic, while another wrote, “As a recovered addict I don’t know who would actually want this.”
A third vented, “As a user, this is f–king weird. Like, who would get this? As a dealer, there’s absolutely no f–kin way. Just no. Maaayybe as a casual user, as a joke, but even then, it’s f–king weird.”
However, others hit back at naysayers with one even labeling a protester a “Karen” for criticizing the confection.
Meanwhile, other critics heaped praise upon the baker for the cocaine cake, calling it “brilliant” and “incredibly well done.” Some fans even requested that she do the same for them in jest.
“I didn’t expect much to come from it but for the past few days my phone has been going off non-stop,” said Baillie, who ultimately has no regrets over the project.
“People have loved it more than hated it,” the baker said. “I think that people who can’t take it as a joke are a bit uptight.”
Baillie says she ultimately doesn’t discriminate when it comes to custom confections.
“At the end of the day if a customer wants a custom cake I’m not someone to judge and not make it,” the stalwart dessert maven declared. “If they’re happy to pay for it then I’m happy to take on their order.
She added, “If I don’t want to make it I’ll say no.”