Officials ate some humble pie with this cake.
Spectators at a mayoral cake cutting ceremony in NYC were treated to an unexpected spectacle – when the 6-foot confection collapsed into a sticky mess and workers were left scrambling to piece it back together before Mayor Eric Adams arrived.
“It was a fight till the end,” said Michelle Berger of Washington Heights, who waited with her friends for over an hour to watch Hizzoner cut the cake at the Fifth Avenue shopping corridor’s 200th anniversary celebration Sunday afternoon.
Adams and the gold-gilded dessert were due to headline the music-filled event in a 3 p.m. slot, but minutes before he arrived the middle section of the triple-tiered cake collapsed in on itself and sent its crown toppling.
Workers leapt to the stage to try to salvage the thing, struggling to scrape the remains of the middle section off its base while trying to re-erect it before Adams arrived. They even tried to paste the parts together using extra frosting as reinforcement.
“They kept trying,” said onlooker Rachel Gutmann. “They brought more buttercream in Michael’s bags.”
Unsurprisingly, the decadent disaster became a smash hit for onlookers.
“We couldn’t leave. We were so invested. They tried so hard,” Gutmann said.
Eventually the cake’s middle section was completely scraped away, and the top was attached as close to the base’s center as could be managed in short time.
“When Mayor Adams arrived the cake was intact — just shorter,” a representative from Fifth Avenue Association told The Post.
After the work was done, one onlooker cried “Que feo!” – or, how ugly.
Adams didn’t even end up cutting anything in the end.