We made the most embarrassing mistake on a customer’s birthday cake, her gran says we’re going to hell
A UNIQUE bakery has revealed the most embarrassing blunder they made with a cake that left a gran fuming they”re “going to hell”.
Rude Cookies, based in Glasgow’s Southside, is run by best friend Aga Taylor and Magda Lo Bianco.
The pair have become a viral hit with their retro and uncensored cookies and describe themselves as “two best b****es running a rude bakery”.
They added: “We don’t bake for children, cause that’s f***ing boring.
“We bake for adults only. For adults with very specific sense of humour.”
Indeed, their beautifully decorated cookies and cakes often feature X-rated phrases and come in wickedly funny shapes.
But things don’t always go to plan, despite the award-winning duo’s best intentions.
Magda says their “biggest f*** up ever” came in the form of a 30th birthday cake in the shape of a pink heart last year.
“We are so embarrassed”, she admitted in a social media video.
“This happened over a year ago and Aga really didn’t want to post about it because she thought this is so f***ing embarrassing.
“I think it’s a really funny and honest mistake and it makes a great story.”
She added: “So this customer ordered the cake and this is what she wrote in our order form.”
The customer had requested the text “So Happy I’m Thirty (S***)” to be written on the top of her cake.
But she also added an extra instruction requesting “black for the writing so the word S*** stands out”.
Sharing their finished result, Magda said: “And voila, right? It is exactly what she asked for.
“And then months and months after that we received a very similar order but this time the customer was very specific.”
In the new order, the birthday girl had asked for each word to be written on a new line so it would spell ‘S***’ horizontally in the form of an acrostic poem.
“And this was exactly when we realised that we f***ed up with the other cake,” Magda admits.
“And we were like f***, this is what she meant.
“And for almost a year we’ve been wondering why she never messaged us. Was she angry? Was she disappointed? Or maybe she found it funny.
“Turns out that this lovely lady had absolutely no problem with it. No complaints whatsoever. It just shows how nice and unproblematic some people are.”
Backing up the bakery, their satisfied customer later said: “I loved it and honestly didn’t really care.
“I was just happy it was pink and sparkly.”
But she jokingly added: “Everyone absolutely loved it, except my gran who said I would go to hell for swearing on [the] cake.
“Will definitely not be showing her your cookies hahaha. Thanks again.”
The Rude Cookies duo have since gone viral over the baking blunder, racking up more than 340,000 views across Instagram and TikTok.
And social media users have insisted that the mistake actually made the cake better.
The history of Rude Cookies
Former photographer Magda made her first birthday cake 12 years ago for one of her kids and launched an Instagram cake business.
In 2018, she met Aga when she came in for a wedding cake consultation and said she “knew immediately she was going to be her best friend”.
Magda said: “Our cookie decorating adventure started around lockdown. I was decorating some Christmas cookies with my kids and because I was in a really, really s****y mood, I wanted my cookies to reflect that.
“So I wrote some sweary sentences on them and sent pictures of my creations to Aga. She thought they were f***ing hilarious and decided to create an Instagram account for my cookies.
“And we both had the exact same idea for the account name and we typed it at the exact same time.
“Very soon we were both making those silly little cookies simply because we were f***ing bored and also we wanted to entertain you guys.”
She added: “Foundation of this business and also our friendship is the fact that we both have a very, very dark, f***ed up sense of humour and we are brutally honest with each other.”
Since lockdown, the duo have outgrown Magda’s kitchen and now have an established bakery in the city’s Shawlands area plus a separate baking workshop where they create their cookies, cakes and Dubai chocolate.
They’ve also been crowned best new business and best bakery in Glasgow, plus best new business in Scotland.
And they even scooped top awards at Cake International, the leading worldwide competition for baking and sugarcraft.
“No that mistake was fantastic. I guarantee it made it funnier”, said one.
A second person echoed: “But you made it BETTER.”
A third added: “I would have cried laughing if I got that cake. Core memory laughing.”
Someone else wrote: “It’s a beautiful cake, I wouldn’t want to make you redo anything for something that still gets the point across in a funny way.”
A fifth person chimed in: “[This] is top tier I’d laugh so hard, even if I had the acronym in mind this is so much better.”
Meanwhile, a sixth said: “It’s such an honest mistake I would never have thought of what they actually meant either and it’s hilarious that way.”