A video of the cake is now making the rounds

Jul 30, 2015 13:58 GMT  ·  By

A woman named Yoly Nava of Arlington, Texas, claims to have found a pair of scissors in a cake her brother bought from a local bakery store to celebrate their mother's birthday over the weekend. 

The birthday cake cost Yoly Nava's brother $59.99 (nearly €55). At first glance, it looked just like any other cake, perfectly covered in a thick layer of cream and with strawberries nestled on top.

At the party, however, one of the guests noticed something was sticking out of it. Quite surprised, Yoly Nava pulled this something out of the cake just enough to have a better look at it and realized that it was a pair of scissors.

Outraged, the woman filmed the cake, making sure to also include the scissors in the frame, and then posted the footage on her Facebook page, warning others not to buy anything from El Rancho Market in Arlington.

“I'm disappointed my brother bought this cake for moms surprise party,” Yoly Nava wrote in a message accompanying the rather disturbing video.

The scissors could have easily hurt somebody, the woman says

In an interview, Yoly Nava explained that, in her family, there is this tradition that, when somebody celebrates their birthday, they are supposed to dive face-first into their cake. Her mother was about to do just that when the party guests spotted the scissors.

The woman cannot help but worry that, had the scissors been covered by frosting and pointing up, her mother could have easily injured herself when face diving into the cake.

“What if those scissors would have been pointed up and I would have hurt my mom? Trying to make something good, I would have hurt my mom,” Yoly Nava told CBS Dallas.

Following this incident, the El Rancho Market bakery store offered the family a replacement cake. By the looks of it, this one came with hair in it.

The store's manager has offered to compensate the family, but Yoly Nasa insists she does not want any money. She just wants the store to make sure something like this never happens again.