Cakes, not hats!!!

What does that look like to you??

What about this??

The answers better be CAKES!!  not HATS!!!  So, these were some things I crocheted out of stringy thready stuff.  They’re supposed to be cakes, but most everyone I’ve shown it to thinks they’re hats!  The final count: 1/9 correctly identified these objects as cakes.  Isn’t that sad??  Is it really that bad…

I made more, but haven’t found the time to take pictures of them.  When I get around to it, I’ll post more.  In the meantime, are there any suggestions I can do to make them more cake-like?  I need them to be unmistakable!!  No more “I thought it was a hat” business!

Each one is about 1 inch in diameter, and 3/4 inch tall.  I even stuffed it with polyfil, so they’re nice and squishy!  I used the smallest crochet hook possible – no idea what size that is…and some weird stringy thready thing that I don’t know what it’s called.  Sigh, such is my amateur knowledge, I apologize.  Most of the decorations are made of felt and random craft trimmings I found lying around my mom’s craft stash.  The fruits I meticulously made out of cutting microscopic pieces of felt, gluing them together, and then sewing on lines.  Lots of work for the fruit, but I think it’s worth it.