{"id":1481,"date":"2026-09-14T16:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.famethemes.com\/techone\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:42:47","slug":"castle-cock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Castell Coch Cake Causes Spectacular Cock-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amateur baker from Penarth has regretted leaving her daughter\u2019s birthday cake to the professionals after receiving a pink castle with seven turrets that raised more questions than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she had ordered a fairytale castle.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Thomas, 28, explained: \u201cMy daughter loves fairytale castles and I asked the local bakery to make me a cake in the shape of Castell Coch. Something got lost in translation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guests reportedly spent several minutes complimenting the icing while carefully avoiding any discussion of the architecture.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cThe last time I saw that many cocks was at the city farm.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe last time I saw that many cocks was on a visit to the city farm,\u201d Debbie continued. \u201cAnd nobody there expected me to cut one off and offer it to my mother-in-law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A bakery spokesperson confirmed that the order had been taken over the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe accept there may have been some confusion over the name,\u201d they said. \u201cAlthough we stand by the quality of the brickwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1523\" src=\"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/xmogx.lw_.suggestivecastle-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/xmogx.lw_.suggestivecastle-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/xmogx.lw_.suggestivecastle.png 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cake, pictured before anyone volunteered to cut it.<\/p>\n<p>The bakery has offered to remove the turrets and refund the delivery charge.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie confirmed that next year she would be making the cake herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA plain sponge,\u201d she said. \u201cFlat. No fucking landmarks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amateur baker from Penarth has regretted leaving her daughter\u2019s birthday cake to the professionals after receiving a pink castle with seven turrets that raised more questions than expected. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she had ordered a fairytale castle. Debbie Thomas, 28, explained: \u201cMy daughter loves &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/welshbollocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}