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What's a Wreck?

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.

Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)

- Jen
Tuesday
Oct282008

Ghosts with the Most, Continued

This is:

A) the fabled Ghost Genie of Graceland, said to occupy the King's old rhinestone jumpsuits and known to terrorize tourists with his swirly bouffant 'do and tiny T-Rex arms

B) the Michelin Man after an unfortunate smelting accident

C) cloud porn (if you don't tell your kids, who will?)


Hey, that's cheating - the ghost is made of plastic! Thank goodness for the airbrushing, tri-colored tree spikes, and two disapproving pumpkins (see below); or else this wouldn't be a Wreck at all.


Pumpkin #1: "Hey, what's with the ghost's purple nose?"
Pumpkin #2: "I dunno - maybe he got a boo-boo. Get it? 'Boo-boo'? Ahahahha!"
Pumpkin #1: "Dude. You are so annoying."
Pumpkin #2: "Or maybe he inherited it from his transparents? Huh?"
Pumpkin #1: "Forget I said anything. Really."
Pumpkin #2: "Oh, wait, I know! He had too many spirits last night! Get it? 'Spirits'?"
Pumpkin #1: "Somebody cut the cake already. I can't take it anymore."

Thanks to Leanna P. and Shawn A.!

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Reader Comments (70)

But but...you can't cut that cake...you pull it apart! ;) But that airbrush job is boo-tiful! *snort*

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJade

Cut the cake? It's a CCC - there's nothing to cut. ;-P

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJerri

As usual, your commentary is the best part of the wrecktastic offering.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterwrittenwyrdd

The first looks like a distant cousin to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLiz

Ah, what a way to start the day...with BOOffant-ed porny ghosts being heckled by emotionally wrecked pumpkins.

This place rocks. And rolls.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFlartus

What is up with all the ghost arms? Ghosts didn't have arms when I was a kid. What would they do with them? Obviously not pick stuff up.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKateT

The 2 cupcakes sitting at the top really just... I don't know. They make me extra sad for some reason.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJane

Awww, man, that top ghost is leaking T_T

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterOphelia

Ghost #1's fatal flaw: he is a CCC.

And what do you do with those free-floating butter-cream puffs? Lick them off the plastic serving board?

I rest my case: CCCs are evil AND unsanitary. Thank goodness we no longer live in the age of cholera.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Just how much are people being charged for these wrecks?! I have a friend that would have been licking the icing off the paper in the first pic.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterasillylittlegirl

Oh, I love this post! Your dialogue is great. Personally, I vote for the Michelin Man after an accident on #1.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterFreedomFirst

That first ghost is so sportin' a porn 'stache! The disapproving have to be my favorite though. :)

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKathie

Gah! That first one is horrible. Truly horrible.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterThe mama

That first one looks alarmingly like a flattened Maltipoo puppy just after the road accident. Sorry for that visual.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterechidna girl

All right children.... Who stuffed the Pillsbury Dough Boy in the microwave and nuked him like a marshmallow?

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJulie

Let's not forget the ghost poop/fart being left behind- seriously, what are these people thinking?

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBadcakesmakemeSAD

The cloud looks like he's flippin me off!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLiz

As soon as I saw that first one I thought of the Michelin man in a terrible accident...glad we were on the same page!!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBecky

Now I have some jokes for my kids when they come home today- come for the wrecks, stay for the jokes!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJamie

Ooohh nnoooo!

It's a dreaded cup-cake cake!

Scaaarryy!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterrrr

i'm thinking the first ghost might have been cute without the big blobby eyes and mouth....second thought, naw.......

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAnnimal

I'm going to go with A) for the first one because I have an irrational fear of tiny T-Rex arms.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterWhat's Her Face

Those pumpkins look like they are possessed! Too scary for me to eat...

This was a great way to start my day! I love your commentary!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBecky

I'm going into a diabetic coma just looking at CCC #1.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteryousuckatcraigslist

This first one looks like my monkey cupcake cake, the decorator thought why waste cupcakes for the tail a bunch of frosting will do! except when you remove the cupcakes it looks like the ghost had a little accident. Classic :)

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlexis

I thought the first one looked like a distorted and VERY pale purple pieman from strawberry shortcake ...complete with the bakers hat! humm wonder if they would do it in purple for me LOL....

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterjennifer H

I really like the green pepper effect on the last one.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterElena

I've yet to figure out where the baker for CCC #1 got his/her idea for what a ghost looks like. That does indeed look like either the Stay-puf dude, or Michelin Man after a bad night partying.
~Amy B.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

my immediate first thought was "Wow! Albino grapes"

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJAMIE'S CREW

Bwwhahahahaa thank you for my morning giggle. That first one looks like ghost poop though lol.

Have a good day and Keep on Wreckin'!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBlythe

I actually like the swirly frosting on #1, it just seems so thick for cupcakes... Maybe it would be better on, y'know, an actual cloud cake.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAlex H.

LOL to cloud porn!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterLuLu

Good Lord that first one is just terrible.... it's frightening but not in a scary halloween sort of way! ::shudder::

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterthe willards

For some reason the first wreck reminded me of that animated DNA strand from Jurassic Park.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterksaldria

Decorator #1: "That's a cute little ghost!"

Decorator #2: "Thanks. It took a bit, but I think it works."

Decorator #1: "But the order is for a dozen, I only count 10."

Decorator #2: "Aw crap, I'll just stick them on top of his head since I'm out of room."

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterValarie

Totally the Michelin man....in some form or another. Love it!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKat

That first cake - all I saw was Groucho Marx, minus the cigar and glasses.

Psychologists should adapt the Rorsharch (sp?)ink blot tests to nebulous cake creations. What you see in the cake can tell loads about your personality. Do you see Groucho? The Michelin Man? Cloud Porn? The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man? How about it, psychology?

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJuliet

The first one does not even look like a ghost-the only thing that makes it a ghost is that it is white! Not the arms, not the EARS!
I will say that the frosting does look pretty yummy though.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMelinda

and it wouldn't be smelting with the michelin man it would be valucanising!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenteradam harmon

the first one kinda looks like the ghost of one of the super mario bros, kinda

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterusda

The first ghost has a Groucho Marx mustache.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKathleen

I don't know..that first one looks like a cloud with prunes on it, to me!

Great site - you and all the commenters make me laugh every day. Wreck on!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterredraven

What is with all of these sucky ghost cakes? Seriously, it doesn't get any easier than a ghost!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSeaShore

OMG !!!!!!

The first wreck is a combo of all three of your choices.

I don't get the brown colored geyser of... what is that ?? Multicolored bats? Or? This has more of a sci-fi feel to it.

Sad. Even for Hallowe'en, very sad. And bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMaryO

that first one...wow. the t-rex arms, especially. just...wow.

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterkerry

What's with the brown streak in the sky of cake #1? Is it raining poo?

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSpangled

LOL at the pumpkin dialogue. You should write a book.

When are you going to get a snappy "Cake Wrecks" logo to put up top?

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSnigger Fam

I thought the first one was a visual model of small intestines that wasn't yet airbrushed to the perfect shade of peach, pink and red. Intestines could smile!

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterCaliGirl9

It's a shmooo!!! (10 points to whomever gets THAT reference!)

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMarian Murdoch

watch your step!
more random poo on the loose...now in white! egads!

-bg

October 28, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

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