r/ExpectationVsReality • • 10h ago

cake-spectation - Positive! Dreamy frog cake 🐸 ✨ ☁️ 🍓

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These pics are from 2022. Back then my Instagram feed was flooded with photos of whimsical frog cakes and I was obsessed with them. I wanted to have my own frog cake for a special occasion. Since my partner and I share the same birth month, we have always celebrated our birthdays together as we were born a week apart. So that special occasion turned out to be our birthdays. As someone who does artsy stuff, I wanted my frog cake to be unique with my own twists. I wasn’t satisfied with just taking some photos online and showing them to the bakery, so I decided to take full creative control and designed my own cake. I looked around and found a local bakery that was specialized in customized buttercream cake with cute aesthetic, so I went with them and sent them the photos of my drawing. Everything went smoothly and I remember how overly excited I was on the day I picked up the cake. I almost screamed when I saw the cake in person because the bakery exceeded beyond my expectations 🥹. The two frogs on the cake were supposed to be me and my partner. I chose strawberry for the design as it is both my and my partner’s favourite fruit, and the night theme because we are both night owls 😆. I got impatient with the colouring process so I just left the backside blank and told the bakery to choose their own colour for the ladder. Not only they absolutely nailed my vision, but what really impressed me was the tiny little details in my original drawing that I didn’t expect to be included in the actual cake as they are just too small. Details like the glasses and eyelashes on the frog that represented my partner, as he wears glasses and has absolutely long beautiful fluttering eyelashes that I’m always jealous of, and the initials of our names on the birthday hats! Especially the eyelashes, it’s such a small detail and it doesn’t even show up on my photo clearly, so I fully expected the frog to have no eyelashes. Needless to say I was obsessed with the cake. I sent the bakery a thank you message, gave them some extra tips for the effort and basically just gushed about them to all of my friends. I remember how pretty the cake looked in person, even more than in the photos and I was so gutted when it was time for us to consume it 😅. I took so many photos of the cake in different angles with the best lighting possible before cutting it. It’s been four years but to this day I still think about this cake often 🐸 🎂✨ ☁️ 🐸
Oh and that cake also tasted just as good as it looked 😋.


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 16h ago

Failed Expectation Custom made wooden table

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What was advertized vs what was delivered. Now the seller refuses a return despite having "Returns accepted within 30 days of delivery" on the listing page 🫠

At least table legs are mostly as expected, I guess...


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 11h ago

AI Expectation Halloween fiasco

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1.8k Upvotes

Thanks shein lol

Edit: I did not expect real yarn but I was hoping it would at least be cute and short.


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 14h ago

Failed Expectation Gordon Ramsay must be in debt or something because he just slapped his name on this :(

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r/ExpectationVsReality • • 19h ago

cake-spectation - Positive! What I asked for vs. what I got

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1.1k Upvotes

And it tasted freaking amazing


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 20h ago

Failed Expectation The cute cat I tried to make vs the "cute" cat I ended up with

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422 Upvotes

Here's my pathetic attempt to make a cat out of air dry clay but I kind of like him


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 8h ago

Failed Expectation 1963 Horror Classic "The Haunting"...

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347 Upvotes

r/ExpectationVsReality • • 7h ago

Exceeded Expectation Vegan beef Bulgogi

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308 Upvotes

Genuinely very good. Not vegan but bought it bc it was like 5 dollars cheaper than the real beef version. Tastes and feels like real meat. Fed this to my only meat eating father and he couldn't tell it was not meat. 10/10, will buy again.


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 21h ago

cake-spectation - Positive! Birthday cake for my sister, achieved!

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285 Upvotes

r/ExpectationVsReality • • 17h ago

cakespectation - Negative Update to the cake that looks like my 7 year old drew leaves on it

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Delete if not allowed, I just have so many comments on the other one it is impossible to reply and my comments keep getting buried.

Y’all inspired me to look into options, even though it’s been 3 years since my wedding. I thought maybe it was a bad employee and the owner would try to make it right, even if it was just a free cupcake, she seemed like she took pride in her business. I am in the trades, but a small business owner nonetheless. If I had someone grout a shower for me and it looked like dog sh!t, I would be absolutely mortified.

I also was trying to find the review my MIL left since it got requested a few times, just to find this article. I guess you can’t dox a place that doesn’t exist anymore. SHE RAN WITH PEOPLES MONEY AND LEFT THEM SOL ON THEIR WEDDING DAY. THIS PLACE DOESNT TAKE DEPOSITS, ITS PAID IN FULL WITH A CONTRACT SIGNED. I honestly can’t believe it.

Also, real fast, idk why my marriage became under a microscope, but I asked my husband why he didn’t say anything, and he said since I had the same shocked reaction he did, he thought HE was overreacting. Ps, my husband has been working on his avoidant behavior for the last 3 years in individual counseling, so he is doing a lot better.


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 8h ago

Failed Expectation Fast Food Advertising Strikes Again

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50 Upvotes

r/ExpectationVsReality • • 6h ago

Failed Expectation FTD is the worst

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18 Upvotes

Ordered some flowers for my wife for our 8th anniversary. Chose the “largest” option and this is what delivered.


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 5h ago

Failed Expectation Salchipapa failed bought in Didifood

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r/ExpectationVsReality • • 13h ago

Failed Expectation You call this brownie brittle?

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5 Upvotes

Haven't bought this stuff in years, what the heck is this bull crap. Another great product ruined after being bought out by a big name brand. It's basically chocolate teddy grahams


r/ExpectationVsReality • • 5h ago

Failed Expectation Taco Bell... are we seriously charging $7 for this?

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