Turkey Turkey GOOSE
November 22, 2008 Anytime you see something vaguely bird-like in a bakery this time of year, I guess you have to assume it's supposed to be a turkey. These guys found by Shelley L., however, are plopped somewhere along the line between a bat and a melting chicken:
Now, I must admit: at first glance I thought they were kind of cute. Then I realized that the 4 guys in the middle are smoking cigarettes - now what kind of an example is that? Plus, they're all being goosed by what must be uncommonly sharp candy corns: hellooo! cruelty to batty bird creatures! Not cool, man. Not cool.
Here are some other cupcake creations riding that cute/wtf? line:
Ok, yes, they're round and have googly eyes, and therefore I must love them. However, what the heck are they made of? Is that really solid icing? Please, Michele L., tell me that's not solid icing! What'd they do, ice the things with an ice cream scoop?
Reader Comments (74)
Does anyone else consider that the "feathers" on the second batch look like rotten, yellowed teeth? Teeth, in fact, that fell out of previous customers' mouths when they attempted to eat a solid ball of icing?
- Cheryl
Mmmmm solid icing... my favorite. The cakes are kinda cute, even the turds with wings.
wvotd..bersing "after I eat a whole can of Betty Crocker icing I'll be bersing at the seams"
According to my 4 year old, and I quote, "Those turkeys have faces on their bums!"
WHAT ARE THEY!?
Is it just me, or are turkeys a prime target for Cupcake Cakes?
This aren't too bad... but next to the electrified squrriels how can melting chicken-bats hope to compare? I'm hoping to make a couple of extra dollars in the next fews weeks and I can only hope I'll manage to pick of some of my local store's newest wrecks... they've got something that looks like two brown blobs with gunshot splatter coming out of the back that is suppose to be a turkey... and they've gotten really into making these bizzare cyclops cupcake creations that I can't even explain.
You say "tell me that's not solid icing" like it's a bad thing. Yay for solid buttercream turkeys!!! Mmmmsugarbuzzzzzz
We don't have candy corn, or Thanksgiving for that matter, in the UK.
The smoking bat cakes get extra points for trying to reproduce in icing that disgusting piece of flappy red flesh hanging off the Turkey's beak, which I believe is called a snood.
Turkey cupcakes from the funny farm!
If in the top pic the four guys in the middle are smoking cigarettes, the guy on the front left side has a big old stogie in his beak. They look like whole turkey lettuce wraps.
At about the same time my eyeballs were registering greasy spheres of industrial shortening-based frosting, my brain processed your text. Yep! I'd say your guess was spot on. I'm horrified at the same time imagining exactly how it would feel/taste. And *hides face* liking it.
word verification: unruc
'Eating those cupcakes would cause me to need to unruc my pants'
That first batch looks like it has moose antlers!
My husband says the first ones look like vampires. hahahaha,
I'd be all over that scoop of icing. Srsly.
Last night we hit the grocery store for emergency supplies (cat litter and wine) and I had to peruse the cake case. My husband snarked that I just had Tiramisu at dinner and I barked back that I wasn't buying a cake I was looking for something for Cake Wreck! Nothing too wrecktastic except everything was really pastel overload considering it's fall and all.
Oh and a TIP for wreckporters. Most grocery bakeries don't have staff after certain hours for the night. Easy peasy photo timez!
Please tell me that IS solid icing. Yummy!
Plus. If you had a kid who likes to pick off all the eyes, candy parts first, you'd be left... with what looks like a steaming pile of poop.
What's the with eyes!? Are they Turkeys with the Bird Flu or something?
perhaps a "cake ball", the latest trend for showers, etc.
in the interest of fully understanding what, exactly, we're looking at...i think the ones in the first photo are NOT smoking, i think they've got candy corn for beaks, and the white tip makes it LOOK like smoking. plus the flappy snood thing mentioned already.
I'm so much of cake lover that i'd eat any of these. Now, I might have my eyes closed when I do it, but I'm still eating my piece.
I'm just convincing myself it isn't solid icing but chocolate-chocolate ice cream.
Personally, I would love an ice cream scoop of icing. With or without the candy corn. :-)
I must see to much poop (I have several dogs) because just about all of them look like poo to me..LOL.. and yep, that was done with an ice cream scoop..disgusting... Also, I have never heard of a CCC before now, and i have never seen one here at any store..shrug
Vampire Turkeys, attack!!
Ha it does look like someone drew faces on turkey bottoms. ;) xx