Mum's the Word
October 31, 2008 Wow, I'm almost sad it's Halloween; I have oodles more Halloween Wrecks to share! (So take note, Wreckporters: get your Thanksgiving Wrecks submitted early.)
Let's see, we've covered pumpkins and ghosts and spiders, but I feel like something's missing from our Halloween line up...
OH! I know! This is:
Erm.
Hey, John R.? What'd you say this was again? A mummy? [checking photo again] With a red hair bow? Seriously? Wait - that's a cookie! Does that even count?
Hm, well, let's see what Amanda M. dug up for us.
Amanda thought this was some kind of spiderweb, but my Wreck radar is telling me it was supposed to be a mummy head. It's also alerting me to the fact that this is a dreaded CCC, so we'd best move on.
Ok, here we go: that's actually recognizable. Kudos, Annie D.; I bet you never thought this would be the best looking one, huh? Still, I include it as a base of reference for this next one:
Yep, Stephanie S. reports that this was actually labeled "Mummy Cake". As opposed to "Ticked-Off Cross-Breed of a Storm-Trooper and a Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle Cake".
And the award for "Least Effort Exerted in Making Overstocked Cakes into Halloween Cakes" goes to:
Like you, I thought that surely this design (found by Amy W.) was a one-store fluke. But then I got this from Jessica K.:
Ack! The smiley face mummies are everywhere! And they're surrounded by nuts!
Still, I don't think any of those Wrecks can compete with what Michael G. uncovered:
Words fail me. The stringy white stuff, the eyeballs, the two fingers...yep, I got nuthin'. Y'all will have to help me out here: what the heck is this? My best guess is a melted mummy, but I'm sure you guys can come up with something better.
Reader Comments (128)
I love #3 if you're presenting it to someone who just had plastic surgery!
Ack! Those foil wrapped eyeballs freak me out. I just know someone is going to bit into one and have some tooth trauma...
Kermit the Frog attacked by Killer Shaving Cream.
Seriously, when I was a kid,the big fear on Halloween was to be sprayed with Nair. So maybe it is Kermit sprayed with Nair...except frogs don't have hair...OK I give up.
umm, Witch shaving gone bad?
Wow - you know that the green thing (for lack of a better word) is truly awful when you didn't even mention that it's a CCC! Well, at least they managed in making it terrifying for Halloween?
The first Wreck reminds me of a commercial from a few years back where a smiling Mr. Clean appeared in various household surfaces and talked to housewives.
It was on TV. Really, it was.
*goes off to eat Halloween candy*
A mummy try to claw its way out of its wrappings?? (It managed to wriggle the hands up close to the face, while still under the bandages.)
Don't forget to note that it's a dreaded (and dreadful) CCC.
-Cindy-
I like the mutant crossbreed of a stormtrooper and a ninja turtle best. XD Cheer up, green guy, you're on Cake Wrecks!
That last one is Oscar the Grouch in a mummy costume. (Jeez anyone can see that!)
It's the sad, bandagey aftermath of Frankenstein's monster's clash with a mummy. The monster thought he was tough, and that his size would be enough, but the mummy and his ancient ways overpowered the monster. ;)
And to add insult to injury, the last one is a CCC as well!
THAT COOKIE TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE A OOPS! THAT WAS TURNED INTO A KIND OF CUTE MUMMY. I CAN'T CALL IT A WRECK.
...THAT NINJA TURTLISH THING, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A WHOLE OTHER STORY...
Those mummified stock cakes would have looked so much better if they put some effort into it! But seriously, a few strands of white and they call it a mummified cake? Lame!
Last one; looks like someone tried to defeat the mummy by unwrapping it?
The green "mummy" looks an awful lot like "Eddie" the mascot of the metal band Iron Maiden.
Well, obviously that last one is an alien that got TP'd, so now it's giving the decorator the finger - twice! And rightly os, I say :-)
Zita from Halifax
The green thing is obviously Oscar the Grouch caught in a Spiderweb.
my name? Boo to Yoo
I think it was supposed to be some sort of mummy. I didn't ask the baker because I was afraid they'd know I was going to send it to Cake Wrecks LOL
I went back to purchase it for my Halloween party tonight (at a different store) but sadly they didn't have any in stock.
I love that they added those fingers. Very creepy. I suppose it qualifies quite well as a Halloween cake (even though it's a CCC)!
The last cake - the horrid, smushed, green CCC - can only be one thing.
Yep.
It's the remnants of Slimer from Ghostbusters after a run in with the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man (or whatever the heck he was called.) The scary traumatized eyeballs, the splatter of white goo, yep, I can see it now...
Maybe that one should be called "Cake Decorator's First Day."
Was that green one a ninja turtle or something?!
I think I would call that last one "Frankenstein's Mummy" The fingers are replacing the bolts on his neck, of course.
LOL! I'd say the last one is a mutant love child of a mummy and the wicked witch of the west. Great post as usual!
Clearly the last one is supposed to be a green snot monster. He's been splattered onto the cake as if picked and flung away, landing on the cake. The stringy white stuff? Maybe he's been sick!
Hey!
I saw the green mummy slightly better done at the same place I found the rasta spiders (they were delicious BTW).
Is there some book that the stores have that they share called "Bad Cakes - how to decorate them?"
Tina
I vote that it's some sort of mummy frankenstein monster...
I think that last one is Cthulhu.
The last one kind of looks like it maybe might could have been an attempt at a mummified Frankenstein's Monster. But, that's all I got. I have no explanation for the fingers.
Oscar the Grouch caught in a spider's web and visibly terrified by the experience. Sad, really.
That last one looks like Slimer from Ghostbusters after he tried to go through the Marshmallow Puff man!
Did anyone notice that the last one, the freaky green mummy was a CCC???
It was only a matter of time before a Storm Trooper and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle realised they were meant for each other.
I know exactly what that last ccc is. It's little Johnny (dressed as Frankenstein) who got into Dad's shaving cream again.
I know what the last one is...
Ya know how Frogger goes "splat" when he gets run over because you're a dolt and misjudged while playing the game? Yeah, it's that; and the bulged eyes back up a flattened Frogger. But then, the local road commission came along and painted new lines on the road, but didn't bother to move the roadkill Frogger first. They just painted the lines over him.
The fingers.... yeah, those are of somebody from the Chinese restraunt in New York state that got shut down for serving roadkill. They were trying to pick up roadkill Frogger to serve him in the stir fry.
I think you're being a little harsh. After all, with #1, it really was nice for the decorator to let her 2-year-old experiment with frosting finger painting. It's kind of a warm fuzzy cake, what with all the family involvement in its creation.
We just had a birthday party at work, and of course there was a hideous pumpkin CCC. I was sad that I have no camera to document it. Then I took a closer look. It wasn't actually cupcakes. IT WAS BROWNIES! It was a Brownie Cupcake Cake! And the brownies were stuck to the board with icing. So now I have a little cupcake-shaped brownie that has icing on the top and the bottom.
i think that's what you call a I'm-Supposed-To-Decorate-Twenty-Cakes-A-Day-And-This-Is-The-Last-One-And-I'm-Just-Going-To-Use-All-The-Leftover-Shit-That-I've-Been-Using-All-Day-Long cake.
The CCC mummy looks like the E.T. cake from a while back!
I find the green eye/finger cake delightfully bizarre. I think he looks horrified at his finger situation. Did he just lose the others? Are they someone else's fingers... that landed on him? Is he confused because they just sprouted out of his side? The poor thing.
wow...if you're trying to scare me on halloween you have definately succeeded!!! these have to be some of the most disturbing cakes we've seen all week...I had to cover my 2 year olds eyes!!!
Maybe it's because I'm hungry and haven't eaten breakfast yet, but I actually LIKE all but the last three! Except what's the thing in the bottom right of the first cookie? It looks like a can of spray paint...
Green Oobleck got into the halloween costume bucket? Maybe? Happy Halloween Cakewrecks!
My 8 year old just walked up and said "Wow. That's a blob of a cake, isn't it?" (Referring to the last one.)
It's a two fingered mutant green alien who's been silly stringed into wide eyed hysterics.
I think the last cake is a nuclear zombie!
Ugly or not, I want to eat that giant cookie. With a quart of milk and a ridiculously large napkin. If anything, it will put it out of its apparent misery.
Wait... someone used SugarVeil on that last one and made it look like THAT? I'd have thought that anyone with sugar veil would at least have talent. *Sigh*
{sniff} How appropriate! I just stayed up the last two nights until two stitching together bandages on a shirt (and hat & pants) to satisfy my daughter's requirement to be a mummy! (Please hold all bad planning & underestimating time commitments thoughts & comments. I spent every other half-hour kicking myself for same)
Anyway, these beauties have broken through my sleep-deprived haze (no small task) and have given me new hope (lessness) for Halloween! Thank you!
Hmm... I think it's someone's twin growing out of the web between that person's gangrenous index and middle fingers :)
Hmm, I think maybe it's a rabid witch who is clawing her way out of her grave before she's choked to death (by what, I don't know. Maybe one of Rasta Spiders or something!)
(I hope this didn't post three times! I keep getting directed to enter a security code, even though I KNOW I typed it correctly each time!)
The last one? So simple I can't believe you didn't see it right away. It is the deformed love child of the Mummy and Frankenstein's Monster.