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)
A fail cake?? The icing is black, what color is the cake???
Perhaps "Fial" is someone's name. Who knows?
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I actually like the black frosting. The color is beautiful. The fial just . . . fails me, lol.
moonpuppy in colorado
Definitely intentional. I'm shuddering to think how bitter it must be, too. Blargh.
That is the best cake ever.
I am shocked at how few people posed the question, "why make a fail cake anyway??"
Poor, poor recipient.
Damn. About 8 hours after eating all of that black icing, the toilet is sure going to look horrific.
Had to be written by the government and the IRS to remind people to "FILE" !! Hmmmmmmm....where is Dan Quayle these days?
To get black icing you would start out with chocolate icing and add black food coloring. Chocolate icing is pretty dark...you're more than half way there, so not much food coloring is needed.
I relate to this cake lately.
Would *love* the backstory.
Wish I'd been clever enough last year to send that cake to the guy who stole my Bar exam prep books...and then still proceeded to FIAL....TWICE!!!
word verification: firefyi
"that kwanzaa cake should be set on fire,fyi" ;)
Always made horse-y cakes for the horse-loving daughter's birthdays, and mostly they were pretty good.
I had no idea how to make black icing way back then (only the red, yellow, blue greens being commonly available)but if I could have made icing like this I would have had the world's most beautiful Black Stallion cake !
Come to think of it, perhaps I'll make one for her next (37th)birthday- yaaaahh !
I'm just dying to know what the occasion was!?? I'm guessing there was some retaliation somewhere down the road for that one!
I spent nearly 4 hours at work going through each & every "FAIL" on www.failblog.org. Next to CakeWrecks, that's is the funniest site on the web!!
Why would someone make an ugly black cake with the word "Fail" or "Fial" on it? What the heck does that mean and why does it deserve a cake? On another point, that is the grossest looking think I have ever seen!
This cake was sent by Darth Vader on Luke Skywalker's 21st birthday.
mmm purple teeth and misspelled fail.
Twenty-some years ago a friend of mine got a Darth Vader helmet cake for her birthday. The icing started out as basic chocolate that was darkened with as much black food coloring as necessary. Very nice result.
And it definitely was a gift that kept on giving, about a day after the party when all the guests starting calling one another..."You, too?!".
....I want this cake. I so want it. This is seriously the best cake ever. :D
I'm pretty sure the misspelling was intentional. Whoever orders a fail cake might as well order it with a self-referential misspelled writing on it. Other than that - the real failing is in the black icing - urglll.
Kookaburra said Damn. About 8 hours after eating all of that black icing, the toilet is sure going to look horrific.
Man, you're telling me! This is why I never let my toilet eat cakes with black icing any more.
CAPTCHA: blacr (as in "can this cake get any blacr?")
LOL weird cake I wonder what it was for.
I want that cake! :D
And man, that black frosting is going to stain like nothing else...
Epic fial.
That's not food coloring... it's ink...
It's the flower design that kills me! They make me think maybe Fial is actually someone's name ... but then the black icing is just crazy. But 'epic/ ultimate failure' is an occasion for flowers??? This thing's just ulgy. :)
Wow. Now I have *another* site to addict me!! Thanks for that. Ü
omg! that was such a brilliant idea. im so mad that someone messed up the fail cake.
to whoever did that...
YOU ARE AN EPIC FAIL!!!!
Black frosting is gross. And makes your mouth and teeth turn black or blue.
Yuck.
This has made my entire day.
Not just fail...metafail!
Whoa! Epic Fial!!
Am I missing something? Does everyone know what the blob next to Fial is? I get the humor in Fial but what IS that black mess next to it? Why is no one asking?
Am I the only one who doesn't mind that the cake is black? I'd totally eat a black cake.
I'm not sure I'd eat those frosting roses, but I never eat frosting roses regardless of the color anyway.
Aww that's gonna make a lot of black mouths, intestines, and.. other stuff.
It took me three times to see that the "black pile" was roses with leaves. Maybe 9 years of decorating cakes helped with that? Maybe I didn;t want to BELIEVE that that's what it was! Dang, that's the funniest cake I ever saw...
its been mentioned that whoever ordered it already has a sense of humor, so maybe the cake decorator has the same and saw a chance to join in the joke without to much hassle over it... i mean, how many chances like this come along?
Can you image eating all that black frosting? YUCK
ACK! Though normally a lover of the dark and spooky, that cake gives me the creeps!!!
Intentional or not, this makes me laugh every time. XD
THAT will make your teeth blue-green for days!
not to mention the huge mound of frosting on top of it...
(wouldn't this be funny if this was for a kid's birthday party and they picked up the wrong cake? I believe that would be considered a fail-fail-fail)
MeMouse said...
Maybe this is a divorce surrender cake, like "Well just go ahead and FIAL!"
My friend made a cake similar to this one. But she intentionally put fial instead of fail.
Are you sure it isn't like, another language or an inside joke??
I sooooo want that cake :D
How much more black could this cake be? NONE! NONE MORE BLACK!
Actually, black icing turns your poop green for several weeks. VERY green. Radioactive green, actually. So, there's more concerning things to be worried about with this cake than black teeth.
The real atrocity here is all of that black frosting... *shudders* Just don't do it. EVER.
Are we sure this cake was just a misspelling of fail? There's actually a name spelled Fial. Maybe this was a birthday cake? LOL