A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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December 23, 2008 It's impossible to say how this idea first entered the decorator's brain...
But now it will haunt us both day and night.
This cake makes a mockery of my horror, Chris L. It's also really icky. Tell me, do all University of Texas cakes look like week-old medical specimens?
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Reader Comments (147)
Are you sure that's not a uterus? I always thought the University of Texas' mascot was a uterus...
To the "decorator"'s credit, my first guess when I looked at it was "Texas Longhorn". But, I'm a big football fan, so I had a good idea of what it should look like.
That's just...wrong. In other news, congrats on being the Site of the Day on ew.com!
I'm SO glad you mentioned University of Texas or I would have been baffled all day wondering what could have inspired such a monstrosity!
...meaning that's supposed to be a Texas Longhorn, NOT a gouged out heart on a necklace.
This would be the prize winning entry in the "Poop a Texas Longhorn for Thanksgiving" contest. Oy Vey.
Or is it a Texas Long-Horn?
That is pretty hidious. I figured out that it was a longhorn right away but it does look a bit decayed.
Blech! If you hadn't identified what it's allegedly supposed to be, I never would have guessed. It does, indeed, look like the remnants of an autopsy dropped on a cake.
Ewww. That cake looks... just scary.
Wow it looks like a pile of oddly colored poo.
That looks more like something that came out the other end of Bevo!
University of Texas? Hmmm, I think that maybe it's meant to be a longhorn steer skull rather than a rotting heart dangling from two severed arteries. Sadly, it's better at conveying the latter rather than the former.
Summerschilde
Poop with horns! Wow. Cut me a slice!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
Oh, dear, no. I know a whole lot of UT fans who just might pass out looking at that.
and the bleeding dye in the frosting in the.... um, "horns" ... just adds to the appeal, YUM! ewwwwwwwwwww!
Perhaps you are to slice it with a scalpel...
WV- pantop... opposite of pan bottom.
My first thought was that it looked like something my dog would leave in the back yard. Delicious.
Eeeew!
Yay for first comment (in both respects!)
omg, on first glance, i thought that *was* dog doo. uck. then i thought, "maybe it's supposed to be the UT logo."
i pity the recipient of this wreck.
Hmm...looks like we have some left atrial enlargement. I suspect it's from too much buttercream.
(I just have to say that working at a med school, AND having grown up in Texas, this one amuses me to no ends).
The one right above the "heart" that's cut off in the photo looks disturbing too. Almost like the blue and brown "winter" cake.
OMG, that is just a disaster. I thought the same things: anatomical specimen, of what sort I could imagine at least three; taxidermy gone horribly wrong; and turned 90°, a snake or komodo dragon head in profile.
oh, so appropriate for a longhorn cake. I'm an aggie, of course!
It looks like a poop that grew horns.
i sure thought that was a uterus~ ack!
They missed off the ovaries.
is that what that's supposed to be? because i thought it was an anatomically correct heart made out of poop.
Where are the ovaries?
I go to UT, so I immediately knew what it was, but I really didn't want it to be... Maybe an Aggie did it?
Oh. My. God. That is disgusting!
It looks like the Texas longhorn steer massacre.
Haha this is so horribly wrong in every way. I love it.
I'm so glad I read the comments. I'm not the only person who thinks their mascot looks like a uterus. The Fighting Uteri.
Autopsy specimen cake! Yay! I'll have me a big ol' slice of ventricle please and we'll save the aorta for after dinner.
Priceless. Jen, you've outdone yourself as usual. Need an assistant?
Jen,
Please stop it. I've run out of incontinence things and now I have to do another load of laundry!
A uterus! OMG - the funiest thing I've ever seen!
Indi
hmmm...who knew there were so many, many ways to make icing/frosting look like poo? Only here at cake wrecks are we free to explore the variety of colors and textures that give cakes that poo-esque feel. I agree with Andrea...the fact that the dye has bled into the frosting gives this particular poo attempt an added and unnecessary element of realism. Go U of Poo!
~Bonnie B~
This is marginally better than the year a co-worker brought our supervisor a frosting decorated cow-pie for Christmas.
Just, ... WHY?
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As a Texas Tech fan, I'm glad it looks like something a Longhorn with digestive problems produced.
Beautiful Wreck!
I couldn't decide if this was depicting a rather macabre necklace Angelina Jolie would have worn in her younger years, or if someone was paying homage to blossoming ob/gyns in med school.
I can hear the decorator talking to her buddies now, "Well since I trimmed them off and put them on this necklace, Steve stays home at night. No more divorce talk either!" Yikes!!!!!!
Being a non-sportsfan, I first thought it was a poorly executed reindeer. Well that was my third thought, the first two were obviously heart and uterus.
I wasn't sure what this was suppose to be. I thought it was a very bad attempt at a reindeer
What I want to know about all these cake wrecks, does anyone buy them? Ever?
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Eeeuuuwww! I can't tell if that's a vital organ, or some post-Halloween/Thanksgiving orange frosting poo!
wow I thought it was a uterus and fallopian tubes.
I was way off.
Looks like a Georgia O'Keeffe painting... except, you know, horrifying.
UT shall now be called "Poo T." Or is this a UT-erus?
Oh, the puns!!!
OKAY! He's under the floorbooooooards! You caught me red handed, you baking bastard!
I guessed it was a Texas longhorn but that's proably because i live in Texas
word- muness this cake in pure muness
Most definitely a uterus or a heart. Maybe both. What would that be? A hearterus? A uterart?