"Hey, let's add a little stuffed rattle to this design, as a free bonus!'"
Now, despite the fact that this design requires no decorating skills whatsoever, it does have the fatal flaw of being a cupcake cake. [hawww ptooiee!] Which means, more often than not, you're going to get something like this instead:

"Who cares? Look, a free baby rattle!'
So, they nixed the CCCs and started putting the little stuffed toys on mini-cakes:

Then they really started to mess with us.

2) Conversely, how tiny is that stuffed lamb?
3) Whichever it is, did the Wreckerator really think that lamb effectively "filled the space?"
4) Why put a baby's stuffed animal on an engagement cake, anyway? It has nothing do to with the design! It's like the cake was being wheeled past and the little guy just hopped on Bruce Willis style, riding it out to freedom while the building exploded around him.
(Ok, that last bit could be wishful thinking on my part.)
Of course, just when you think a little stuffed lamb might be appropriate, like on a baby shower cake, they go and do this:
Good questions, all.
But perhaps the most important question of all is: When future generations look back on the day the "fake fur fiber fad" began, will this be one of Wikipedia's illustrations?
- Related Wreckage: Phony