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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December 12, 2008 
Ah, what a difference a horizon line can make - and how unfortunate that this one is about 3 inches below the dangling feet.
Thanks to Mar C., Wreckin' on over in Barcelona, Spain!
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Reader Comments (84)
I think I'm missing the cultural reference that would explain why the birthday girl is getting a cake with such brightly colored sneakers (suspended, at that), but I actually think the hearts and flowers are cute.
Word verification: surnmen - if you find this in place of "surname" on your cake decoration request form, run away, because you know NOTHING will be spelled correctly on the final cake...
What's the old joke about a long walk with a short jump rope?
Seriously though I think they might have been going for the effect of the jump rope laying on the ground. But it does conjure a number of other images. Poor Alexia...we hardly knew ye.
I see it more like a jumping rope than the floor. That way the lines on each side make more sens.
Are you sure it's not someone jumping rope?
No one at the bakery looked at that and thought "Oh... Maybe not..." ? Did they think that kids just wouldn't "get it"?
Yay!...A cake for a hanging....didn't think those existed. Do you suppose that they make them for electric chair or lethal injection executions too?
Adolescent angst gone unchecked. And on her birthday, too. Sad. At least she went with a lovely, turned-out second position ballet stance.
OK, here's 2 guesses--first one is jump rope. The second one is what we used to call (politically incorrectly, I'm sure) Chinese jumping rope. It was essentially a really long elastic band, which wrapped around the back of two players' ankles, knees, etc. depending on the skill level, while a third person did the jumping. Other than that, the rest of the cake is absolutely delightful, right down to the untied hi-tops!!
I'm thinking that's supposed to be a jump rope...but how could you be sure.
I know it's been said, but I'm thinkin' jump rope too!
Am I the only one who thinks that's a Ramona Quimby cake? Do they even HAVE Ramona in Spain?
Anyway, yeah, the framing - that's what it looks like to me, anyway - is really, really unfortunate. Which stinks, because the rest of the cake is really cute otherwise.
Hmmmm...I thought maybe a jumprope championship congratulations?
Amy B
laughed out loud....hilarious.
Hey, cakemakers who live in states with capital punishment should think about rolling out a new line of cakes. Maybe they can even get the state to pay for the cakes.
Best cake wreck ever!!
I don't know, I think this cake is pretty awesome. I don't think I would have even gone to the "hanging" scenario had you not pointed it out. At least everything's spelled correctly!
Cute cake . . . but if you didn't know that Alexia loves to jump rope you might think, "What the!"
OK that is a tad disturbing!! Poor Alexia... nice know'n ya pobrecita
I wonder why Alexia hung herself? It clearly wasn't due to cankles.
It's a birthday cake (thus the "Feliz Cumpleanos"), and even if it was supposed to be jump rope, then the "rope" should look like a rope, and not a black line.
I thought it was a jumprope as well.
Are you sure this cake was for a birthday and not a funeral? I still have no idea what they were going for!
Maybe it IS Ramona! Didn't she wear sneakers that looked a bit like those?
Personally, I see someone who probably took "defying gravity" a bit too seriously, and is now stuck in midair because they jumped just a bit too high on the bed, thus causing their torso to go right through the ceiling.
Definitely jump rope! Although they should have made the rope thicker.
Otherwise, I think it's a pretty cute cake. And a clever idea, too. Hell, anything other than princesses would get a thumbs up from me.
Wow I'm slow... I never in a million years would have guessed jump rope if not for the intelligent people in the comments section! I'm usually pretty good at figuring out what the actual idea was supposed to be... maybe I need a vacation...
I'd wear those shoes.
Since she's wearing basketball shoes, my first thought was that she just performed a successful slam dunk, and is celebrating by hanging on the hoop/rim for a few seconds.
But jumprope works, too.
At least both shoes are on the feet. If one was dropped on the floor, then that would really make minds wonder.
At first I thought they spelled "Feliz Compleanos" wrong by spelling it with a "u", but I checked and found out both will work. ALSO, an interesting fact is that you can say " Compleanos Feliz" as well. But we don't say "Birthday Happy" in English. But you know what? That's about all the Spanish I know!
Also, I originally thought it was a congratulations cake for someone who just learned how to tie their shoelaces!
The shoes are cute. I don't understand the lines though.
wvotd mutstriz. Don't forget, dogs with dry skin need to mutstriz.
It's like one of those face/vases images. If I think about it really hard, I can see the girl in mid jump as she's jumping rope, but then it reverts spontaneously back to the "hanging" cake.
It's an adorable cake, too, other than that one flaw.
Actually, it IS a cultural reference from a TV show (originally mexican, I think) that has that EXACT picture as its symbol. The bad taste is not the baker's, in this case. :)
I think this one is actually pretty cute... a bit sloppy if professionally done, but still cute. She's jump-roping, isn't she?
Looks like a kid jumping rope to me too.
It does look a bit like a hanging, but I could see jump rope too. Still, hilarious!
Jump rope? Nah. Our girl looks like she's laid out on a narrow slab. With her shoes untied, too, poor dear.
It says "Happy Birthday" in Spanish. Maybe the birthday girl is great at jumping rope, but the cake makes her look like she's great at ending her life.
Word Verification: Froqua. What the froqua is up with these cakes?!
I think this cake is jumping for joy over being included on this blog!
It would be a perfectly lovely cake without the black lines.
i really like the multicolored, unlaced shoes. Reminds me of my daughter, although she isn't a giant, nor has she been hanged lately...
oh my gosh - how depressing
Oh, I'm definitely seeing jump-rope theme here. With the kid actually jumping *over* the rope in the image--naturally she'd be airborne at that point, the activity is supposed to be jumping after all. I was very confused to see this on CW to begin with.
I'm amazed at all the comments so far who have said jump rope. That never even crossed my mind. If it is a jump rope, it's a stiff wire "rope" that has no elasticity and is squared off on the bottom. If it were to be a jump rope wouldn't it have more of a U shape?
word verification: imyxin. Imyxin up my own cake.
I can see why she hung herself: by the hideous scaly texture of those skinny chicken legs, I'd say she's got shingles.
Um- there's a.. uhhh something coming out from between the legs.
I saw this completely as a jump roping cake. I don't see anything wrong with it. I actually can't even figure out how you would get a hanging out of this, because why would the string hang down that low like that? It wouldn't make sense at all. And if that's not the string, than why does it go all the way up on both sides.
I love this blog, but this time around, I totally disagree.
I love Ramona! But like all the others I see a jump rope here. No wreck.
Is the wearer of the sneakers maybe lying on a beach towel?
Are the people on team "It's a jump rope" nuts? What is it made out of? A wire that is bent to right angles at the bottom? Jump ropes are NOT square!
WV:asiess. That is all I'm saying.
wvotd: fugable. (really!!)
This sad, birthday/jump rope/hanging cake is fugable.
Sorry but I don't see the jump rope thing here. WHY would a jump rope be square on the end??? To me it looks like she was on a diving board or sidewalk- or any other square-ended surface. (But why would she be swimming with shoes? who knows?)
But then, who JUMPS with their feet straight out and heels together?