When I ordered this cake for our little 5th anniversary staff party last night (and we really do wish we could have invited all our readers! But we just didn’t have the funds for something of that scale, I’m afraid), I went in person to a popular local bakery and wrote down “DCist” on the order form. The idea, I explained verbally to the woman taking my order, was to put the letters “DCist” across the whole cake, as big as possible. But at some point between when I paid for the cake and when the order got handed to the decorator, someone else wrote down these “instructions” on the order slip, indicating that “DCist” was to be written “on a whole cake.” Sloppy handwriting made this spectacularly funny mistake even better by turning the message into “DCist on a Whale Cake.” We could never have made this up.

So be on notice: the phrases “on a whole cake” and “on a whale cake” seem certain to appear multiple times in future DCist content. Whale cakes are the new fail whale. Or something.

(And yes, we have submitted this to Cake Wrecks).