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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November 12, 2008 
Yep, it's a Fail Cake Fail.
Jen G., I used to think the shorter the word, the harder it was to screw up. Thanks for ruining another one of my theories.
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Reader Comments (153)
I agree with some of the above comments... the frosting alone is the fail!
Okay, so maybe it WAS intentional. That doens't mean it's celver. Or appaeling.
I think it's a misspelled File cake, like you send to your friends in prison.
Yum...black icing...not!
I wanna know what the occasion was
I want to know exactly how many bottles of black Wilton gel coloring had to die to make that cake.
Oh, excellent self-esteem booster there! Wow. I'd just like to know what occasion it was for. Did someone fail their entrance exams? Wow.
You have to wonder at the decorator's response to this request (whether or not the misspelling was intentional): "All black, word Fail [or Fial] prominently displayed. OK. Do you want flowers on it? One's good? Got it. And you want to pick it up on Tues.? Great, see you then!"
Word verification: emose. I think that's a pretty accurate description of how an all black cake makes me feel.
That cake is terrifying. Should someone buy one of those for my post-funeral get together, I will haunt the person responsible until the end of time.
Please tell me that's a funeral cake.
EPIC FAILURE...!
All the black icing and angst should be the perfect base for the ultimate cynicism of our time. And yet it FIALS.
>_<
Maximun irony is a WIN!
Pwnage is a yes.
Brianna McCarthy @ Passion.Fruit
http://briannamccarthy.blogspot.com
When I decorated cakes (back in the dark ages), I HATED using black icing because you had to use so much coloring to make the stuff black that it tasted nasty.
I can't imagine a cake with nothing but black icing. *shudder*
"Fial" indeed.
You can get the color black, by starting with chocolate frosting and then adding the black food coloring. I'm not saying this is good, but it might not be as bad as you think.
Can you imagine how obvious the glutton would be--black frosting all over their fialure face and teeth?
So since it's a fail fail---do they cancel each other out?
I think this was actually a misspelling of the word "file" as a heads-up to the prisoner who received it as a gift.
OMG!!!!!!!
Words "fial" me...
I crack me up!!!
Sorry. Couldn't help myself! meo
But why? Why make a fail cake at all? WHY NOT LOOK UP HOW TO SPELL FAIL IF YOU DON'T KNOW? Why make an intentionally misspelled cake, if that's the case? WHy all the black icing? Jesus, WHYYYY??
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Fial -- FTW !
I've been curiously obssessed all day by the inmitigated ugliness of this cake (not even including the misspelling) and wonder why anyone would find this "design" appealing and/or funny. Even in its wreck-titude, it's neither. Black icing? Seriously?
Whether it was intentional or not, that is one of the funniest blog post titles ever!
it's not the black mouths that make me cringe, it's what I'll see in my toddlers diaper the next day.
OMG, I live for my daily wreckalicious fix but the past two days have almost gotten me fired! The Monkey DooDoo was pretty funny but FIAL...I'm dying here!!!
Adele
Is there a fial in that cake?
Maybe it's word verification cake.
Eckkk black icing. For the record, black icing makes your mouth and teeth blue. I know cuz I ordered black icing trim for a cake and everyone had blue teeth...and probably blue poo*LOL*
What I think is funny is...every black-coloured thing that I've ingested, when it comes out the, uh, other end, is not in fact black, but *green* (cf. eating large quantities of black Jell-O, though I don't know if that's still on the market).
I remember a time as a child, when my grandmother (the one that couldn't cook) made meatloaf. Tombstone grey meatloaf. It was so frightening that I took one look at it and said "I'm going out to eat" and literally walked out the door. I probably would have been in big trouble - if my dad and grandfather hadn't followed me with their coats and wallets!
Anyhow, I didn't think I'd ever see anything quite as morbid looking as that meatloaf - not that someone was attempting to pass off as food, anyhow.
This black monstrosity proved me wrong. Yikes. It's just horrid.
I'm not sure whether the spelling was intentional or not, so I'm going to leave that part of it alone. The cake speaks for itself.
That might be the best worst thing I've ever seen!
It reminds me of the scene in Steel Magnolias where Sally Field is saying, "It's repulsive. It's got gray icing. I can't even begin to think how you make gray icing!" Yeah, that.
I would love to know what occasion requires an all black "fail" cake anyway.
Who celebrates failure?
Ewwww how do you even achieve black frosting?
Are you sure the real fail isn't the black icing?
black icing is easy and not horrible if you start with chocolate icing. Less colour needs to be added so it doesn't taste as gross or stain quite as bad.
still, though...
ick.
Has the owner of the Fail blog seen this?? Too funny! Oh and Christina I think those are a bunch of black roses, not a big plop of icing for no reason. But still, weird!
I suppose it's possible that they made black icing the smart way and began with chocolate. That way you use way less coloring and it doesn't turn everyone's mouth black...but somehow, I doubt it.
Hey Mom, for my graduation cake, I want it all black and the word "fail" misspelled on it. I don't want people thinking we're smart.
Ew. I think I like black frosting even less than bright frosting that turns your poop funny colors.
I'd have a slice, just to show everyone my cool black teeth.
It might not have been that bad... I've had perfectly edible black frosting. You just have to start with chocolate frosting so that it's already pretty dark, and you therefore don't need as much of the nasty-tasting coloring.
I actually know some people with the last name Fial---could this be a birthday/funeral cake? Do we know the story behind this?
Pretty funny.
What a fialure!
It's so black, it shines. Yuck!
All I can think of is what all that black icing will do to anyone who ingests it. Blech.
I'd be more interested in seeing photos of those who consumed this monstrosity....it would be a dentists dream come true
'All your failcake are belong to us'
verification: rummur - it's an anagram!
Ok, this cake is full of 'fail'.
If I was to give anyone an actual Fail Cake..this is what I would write on it. So funny!
I want the story behind this cake. Why was it ordered? What Fial are they celebrating?
And for the wreck-ord, something about the black makes my insides seize up and think back to all the people who might want to poison me. I would then start trying to figure out which one of them sent me the cake...
I never needed the pee pads in my underwear until I started reading your site! You are costing me a fortune!Stop it!
IPA
Lol....
I woke up this morning with the dreams of making you a "FIAL" cake as well.
I'm sorry, but that cake just onws. [and yes, that was intentional]
It looks as though it would taste like black licorice. while I like black licorice, I prefer it to come in the size and shape of a jelly beans only...not on my cake...
that's just wrong all the way around!
Ewww, look like it tastes like black licorice. While I like black licorice, I prefer it to come in the size and shape of a jelly bean, not a whole stinking cake...
Just wrong!
P.S. had trouble submitting, sorry if this is a dup
I was thinking perhaps it was really suppose to spell vile? The perfect goth party cake.
Maybe it's NOT wrong - it's intentional. Fial IS a Ukrainian jewelry shop and Fial IS a satellite uplink (that looks like one on the left) manufacturer. FIAL is even an old Celtic female name, though I suspect it would be a cake for a Banshee given the black and bleak frosting.
I am ever amazed and enthralled at your posts.
Kat