A vegan baker has been inundated with reviews on her Facebook page after sharing a photo of a cake frosted with weapons and the words ‘Kill Nazis’.
Ashley Shotwell, an independent baker in Oakland, California, drew hundreds of critical reviews and thousands of supportive ones after posting the controversial cake last month.
Shotwell told SFGate that a customer requested the ‘Kill Nazis’ cake after seeing a colorful cake frosted with the words ‘Resist Fascism’ on her Instagram page shortly after the violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia last month.
A vegan baker has been inundated with reviews on her Facebook page after sharing a photo of this cake, which is frosted with weapons and the words ‘Kill Nazis’
Ashley Shotwell (pictured) drew hundreds of critical reviews and thousands of supportive ones after posting the controversial cake last month
Shotwell said that a customer requested the ‘Kill Nazis’ cake after seeing this colorful cake on her Instagram page shortly after the violent events in Charlottesville, Virginia
The cake is frosted with the red and black colors of a flag used by antifa, short for anti-fascists, the frequently masked group that clashed with white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville on August 12.
Antifa returned to the headlines last week, when a group of more than 100 attacked several Trump supporters in Berkeley, California.
Surrounding the words ‘Kill Nazis’ on Shotwell’s cake are frosting decorations of brass knuckles, a chain and a club studded with nails.
When Shotwell posted a video of the cake on Facebook, which she’s since taken down, she was hit by hundreds of negative reviews on her page, which previously only had about 20 reviews.
The cake is frosted with the red and black colors of a flag used by antifa. Pictured: Antifa gather at a rally in Berkley, California last week, where several Trump supporters were attacked
Negative reviews flooded Shotwell’s Facebook page after she shared a video of the cake
‘Your baked goods taste like putrid hate! You are a hateful person SHAME!’ wrote Stacey Daniels.
Some of the reviews claimed her cakes were filled with maggots or rainbow-colored armpit hair, and many contained vulgar personal attacks on Shotwell.
‘There were also a bunch saying they came into my bakery and I yelled at them about communism,’ Shotwell told SFGate, noting that her business does not have a storefront.
In response to the negative reviews, her page was flooded with positive reviews from supporters – over 2,000 of them.
In response to the negative reviews, Shotwell’s Facebook page was flooded with positive reviews from supporters – over 2,000 of them
‘Make Nazis scared again. Don’t let the trash of the world wear you down,’ wrote Brandon Scheebles.
‘Any cake that kills nazis is a great cake! And some fascists for icing!’ wrote John Fitzgerald Weaver.
Keep making amazing anti-nazi cakes… You’re awesome and I wish you all the best,’ wrote Alexandre N Skromov.
Shotwell says that, in retrospect, she would probably make a cake that says ‘Punch Nazis’ rather than ‘Kill Nazis’.
But she says that she’s not deterred from taking ‘a stance against fascist ideals’.