Not for the gluten intolerant.
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Now, all you got to do is add a cup of flour and add it to the mix. We'll be cooking by the book, for now it's time for cake!L - R, top to bottom
And other baked goods.
These are all about tropes about the bakery, the bread, the cakes, the pies, the cookies, the cupcakes, the pastries, the pizza, and the other baked goods, and baking in general.
Best with coffee or tea for cakes and pastries, and soda or beer for pizza.
A subcategory of Food Tropes. Also see Fruit and Vegetable Tropes, Meat of the Index, and Sweet Treats Index.
Not to be confused with This Is Your Index on Drugs. This isn't that kind of baked, unless you include those "special brownies".
- 30 Minutes, or It's Free!: When one Drives Like Crazy just to deliver your hot and freshly baked pizza to your doorstep.
- Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Nobody likes those dried fishes, on pizza or anything else.
- Baguette Beatdown: When it comes to beating someone up with baked goods, the French know how to leave them in a world of pain.
- Bread of Survival: A starving person sees bread as a symbol of hope and happiness.
- Cake Toppers: A wedding cake is just a tad boring without a miniature version of the newlyweds.
- Carrying a Cake: Carrying a giant cake should be easy as pie, right?
- Dagwood Sandwich: A sandwich with fillings that stack skyward. It takes a huge jaw to eat it all.
- Delivery Guy Infiltration: "Did somebody order a big box of knuckle sandwich?" says the Badass disguised in pizza delivery uniform as he kicks the guards' asses.
- Donut Mess with a Cop: Cops love the smell of freshly baked donuts in the morning.
- Endangered Soufflé: They always deflate, or explode, at even the slightest of movements.
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: Nobody wants to eat them at Christmas, or any other time of year.
- Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: Pizza in cartoons is always depicted as pepperoni.
- Food Shove Gag: Shoving baked goods into someone's mouth to shut them up.
- Gingerbread House: A building you'll likely see at Christmas that is made of edible material, often baked goods.
- Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient: Character orders food and insists on not including unusual or nonexistent ingredients, like ordering a pizza Margherita without pineapple.
- Impossible Leavening: Too much yeast is just overkill.
- ISO-Standard Urban Groceries: Groceries always come in a paper bag with a baguette.
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake: They offer you cake as a reward. You'd hope they're not kidding.
- Jail Bake: Helping someone break out of prison through baked goods with the tool inside. Top it with a nail file, and the guards still won't notice.
- Jumping Out of a Cake: A large cake with a "surprise" jumping out of it. Happy Birthday, indeed!
- Mining for Cookies: A mine full of foodstuffs.
- Misfortune Cookie: The cookie reads: "Like pie, life hits you in the face."
- Oven Logic: Increasing the temperature for quicker baking? Good luck with that...
- Parody Product Placement: A spoof ad of a spoof product endorsed by the work's main characters. May involve parodies of comic books' Hostess Fruit Pies advertising campaign.
- Pie in the Face: Someone gets hit in the face with— Watch out! The pie is cherry filled!
- Pineapple Ruins Pizza: How dare you defile the delicious baked crust with pineapple!
- Projectile Toast: When the toast is done, it flings from the toaster high enough for you to grab it. They come in handy when you're Late for School.
- Pun With Pi: A pun on the words "pi" and "pie."
- Satiating Sandwich: Sliced bread and fillings giving convenience and satisfaction since 1762.
- Sweet Baker: Heroes identified by bakery of deserts.
- Sweets of Temptation: Candy, cake, and other sweet food is used as symbolism for temptation and hidden danger.
- Tempting Cookie Jar: The cookie jar is impossible for Little Jimmy to resist.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich: When your sandwich arrives and you don't get a chance to eat it.
- Toast of Tardiness: Woke up late and no time for breakfast? You put it in your mouth and run before the bell rings.
