Taylor’s Bakery mocks New England Patriots with ‘Deflate-cakes,’ Tom Brady cookies

As the New England Patriots prepare to take on the Indianapolis Colts this weekend, one Indianapolis bakery is causing a stir with some edible humor.

Taylor’s Bakery, known as the oldest bakery in the Hoosier State, is serving up homemade butter cookies at their two Indianapolis locations this week featuring a frosting recreation of Patriots’ Quarterback Tom Brady’s courtroom sketch, the Boston Globe reported.

The bakery is also selling a “Deflate-cake” — a chocolate-frosted cake resembling a flattened football — and smartphone-shaped cookies with cracked screens, alluding to Mr. Brady’s comments during the Deflategate trial about smashing his phone to destroy any trace of personal information stored on the device.

Bakery owner Matt Allen said his business began offering the cakes and cookies to customers early Friday morning, and they are flying off the shelves.

But Patriots fans are not laughing at the bakery’s joke.

“The reaction has been pretty good, but Boston fans are definitely voicing their displeasure,” Mr. Allen told the Boston Globe. “We knew we would sell a lot of cookies here, but I guess I wasn’t expecting the backlash out of Boston.”

Some have taken to the bakery’s Facebook page to voice their distaste for the baked goods.

“Thanks for throwing more fuel on the fire. Colts about to get stomped this weekend,” one Patriots fan wrote.

Others fired back at the bakery on Twitter.

“When the Patriots hang 50 on the Colts, are you baking teardrop cookies?” one person tweeted.

Mr. Allen said he understood the backlash, but he added it was just friendly sports banter based on current events. He told the Boston Globe that his bakeries often make confections that reflect topics in the news.

“I don’t think that they like being accused of being cheaters, especially multiple cheats,” he said. “We are just a bunch of capitalists here trying to make some money.”

This weekend’s game is the first between the two teams since last season’s AFC Championship. It was after that game that the Colts raised concerns to the NFL about the lack of air pressure in Mr. Brady’s footballs, launching the Deflategate controversy.