Help!! Break-Up Cake Ideas Needed
Decorating By DesignerCakes Updated 20 Feb 2007 , 6:45pm by TooCuteRose
Any ideas for a 'break up cake'? I need to make a cake for a friend whose fiance called off the wedding and broke up with her the morning after the lavish engagement party. What a d!@khead. Her dad lost thousands of dollars he'd put down for the reception - which was going to cost over $50K!
Anyhow, what better way to drown out your sorrows than with cake, right? Chocolate cake, maybe?
Any ideas???? I was thinking a life-size saw or something painful looking... LOL. I don't think daisies and well wishes are going to cut it.
Ok, serious. I don't know what to create for a situation like this.
Thought you could adapt some of the ideas...
Here's a link to divorce cake threads:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-51303-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-30448-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-35531-.html
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-3897-.html
HTH
Don't be too hard on him. better now than right after the wedding.
I'd go with something that has no mention at all of anything groom or wedding related. sometimes less is more.
i agree. whether he warrents being called a creep or not, she probably has feelings for him and may be hurt at insensitivity, regardless of the humor intended.
just make her feel valued as a friend and focus on her, not him.
I agree that I'd focus on her and not him. She's probably pissed but still loves him and won't like him being badmouthed (even if he does deserve it).
Oh, one other thing I just thought of--What if they get back together? She'll have the memory of all of her friends talking bad about her guy, and then she'll really feel bad later on.
You're a good friend to try and cheer her up. 
I'd probably just make something heavy on the chocolate and then hire a dancing boy.
...LOL....a 'dancing boy'....too funny!!!!
Ya know, it depends on your friends personality....maybe she would enjoy bashing him...??? Or is she a softie? Is she a practical joker?
I think it more depends on how you think she would receive the cake....is she a bawling mess right now? Pissed off?
If that were me, I'd want to 'bash' him for a while...then drown my sorrows later
Hmmm....how can I put this. Let's just say she wishes things would fall off his body and come crashing down to the floor! To say she's angry is pytting it mildly. She has bent over backwards for him and all of a sudden he gets cold feet. He thinks he's better than her. He hasn't been taking his meds, and I will leave it at that.
It's ugly. Her dad lost alot of money on the reception - and it was HIS mother that demanded things be a certain way because she had to 'impress her family that was coming from out of town'. And those were her exact words. So, the total for just the reception alone was all the way up to $55K.
She still wanted to work things out but he basically called everything off, including their relationship, this morning.
All that money and you should see the dinky little ring he gave her! It no where nears covers even a small percentage of what her dad lost to the hotel.
So, yeah, a 'swift kick in the you-know-what' is more in order. And she'd probably enjoy that kind of message on her cake the most. Not sure she's all that humorous at the moment, but she's normally a really outgoing and very funny gal who is very laid back. She could use a good laugh.
I was thinking of writing something like 'you don't need two a@@holes' or something like that. It's a bit over the top, but she'd probably get a kick out of that, LOL. We are very close, like family, so she wouldn't be offended. Not really sure what else to write.
Geez, what a bad situation. But cake cures all, right?
Man, that really sucks...but ya know what...sure sounds like she's gonna be alot better off...he sounds like a jerk, so does his mother...I'd go with something totally sarcastic...maybe do something she can whack with a big knife...ya know what I mean??? 
All I can think of is Loraina Bobbitt!!! LOL!
She is better off!
Did you hear about the bride who's groom called off the wedding so she still had the reception and turned it into a fund raiser for a few women's causes? They won't recoup their money, but at least it would be a tax write off?
http://www.care.org/newsroom/articles/2006/09/20060913_paxman.asp
Funny, the first thing I thought of was Lorena Bobbitt, too! How funny.
Hey, I agree with the idea on heavy on the chocolate and get a "dancin' boy"! LOLL In fact, make the whole party chocolate!! Choc. Truffles, chocolate fountain, and chocolate MILK!! ( I don't drink!)
Actually, she doesn't see it now....maybe won't ever see it....but, SHE DODGED A BULLET!!! 55K for a reception? I didn't pay that much for my HOUSE!!! Of course, I AM OLD! LOLL
Beth in KY
sweetresults....Yes! I remember that! I thought it was fantastic story! If it was 'too far gone' already, thats exactly what I would do...I mean, if the money's already spent, why not?
("...You must not know about me
You must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
matter fact he'll be here in a minute - baby!"...)
)
I would LOVE to hang out with all of you ladies one night. What a riot!!! I haven't laughed this hard in a million years!
I like the 'to the left, to the left' idea. I do like that song!
My husband, upon hearing me laughing hysterically while reading your posts, reminded me that SHE was the one that got 'the boot'. He does have a point. Hmmmm....
It doesn't matter...had she known he was gonna do it maybe she woulda gave him the boot first....
soooooooo
to the left to the left
and don't show him that she was hurt...just put his s#!+ in a box and let him pick it up outside....and go on to the ...
NEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXT!!!
I don't know if you are familiar with old film "The Great Escape"- great film by the way- but it sounds like she has made the great escape, even if she wasn't the one who planned it. A Nazi prison camp with a tunnel to freedom...humm... that would make a very strange cake.
He was off his meds? Ouch, definitely a great escape- her gardian angel was working over time on this one.
Narie, that's what I say. She was lucky. I told her this morning that he did her a great favor but she just doesn't know it yet.
She tried to work it out with him, but his friends and his sister convinced him not to do it. The idiot owns a little barber shop and a relatively new house. He thinks she is going to get it all if things don't work out. He is afraid to loose it all - and that's the line he gave her. Go figure.
So, he used that as an excuse and backed out. They'd known each other for a year. And yes, when he didn't take his meds, he just went off into his own strange world. She DEFINITELY has someone looking out for her, ha?
We tried to tell her all along that she was settling, but she loved him and bent over backwards for him.
'To the left' is right!
i know this is not such a great idea, but here is a site a friend of mine sent me...
the EX
http://www.overstock.com/sm-the-ex-5-piece-ss-knife-set-with-unique-holder--pg-proframe_pi-1892705_ti-82124.html
Have her dad call the the reception hall and ask if the $ he paid can go down for the next big event. I had a friend who's so called man did the same thing 2 days before the wedding. She finally met a good man about 2 years later and got married. She had the reception at the same place since they just had the 4 paid before applied to her then wedding. She wore the same dress and everythng and so did the bridesmaids.
How about her living it up on the top of the cake and him on the bottom living in the gutter as a bum (or better off dead!)
He did her a favor actually, but yikes!!!! I still like the idea of the "divorce cake" If you look close you can see where the body left dents in the fondant. You may not want to do all the blood though unless she's holding his manhood in her hands. iI like the idea of her stepping out with a new life and him to the curb too.
...but she just doesn't know it yet.
That's the problem. He has just wrecked her fantasies and saved her from more grief than she has ever imagined. She is just going to have to mourn the loss of her dream and that is all it ever was - a dream.
Does she have any other dreams? A trip to China, rafting down the Colorado, getting a pilot's licence, swimming with dolfins, focus on something she had always wanted to do but didn't quite have the guts to try. The ex may have squelched some of her ideas, get her to shake those old dreams loose. Make a cake about that.
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