A mother was given a blank cake instead of the Sesame Street-themed cake she ordered for her son's second birthday from Costco. She was left with no choice but to decorate the cake on her own with ...

“We just ordered a blank cake and arranged toys on top,” she says. Any easy-to-wipe toys would work—dinos, Lego minifigures, plastic fairy dolls, teacups, trains. Get creative.