Big Day, Big Wrecks
January 16, 2009 By popular demand, here are a few more Inspiration vs Perspiration Wedding Wrecks. And shame on you all for finding them so funny.
What was ordered:
What was received:
(Fortunately Christine C. reports the the bride and family had a great sense of humor about this Wreck, and even dubbed it the "bamPOO" cake. Heheh.)
Ordered:
And received:
Uh, since the cake itself leaves me speechless, I'm going to comment on the background. Hey Jessica M., is that Chewbacca through the window? I mean, given the Han Solo & Leia topper, I was wondering if Chewie was the ring-bearer or something.
And lastly, ordered:
Aaaand received:
You have to wonder if that swipe was a result of the bride fainting at the sight of it, don't you? Still, I guess she should count her blessings: imagine if the wreckerator had been asked to write something on it!
Reader Comments (211)
How did those bakeries think they even came close? wow...
Ya know I had a friend whos wedding cake got so messed up (unfortunately no pictures) they wound up getting a sheet cake from Costco. The baker at Costco felt bad for them and added a little wedding decoration and it looked quite nice. Myself I skiped the whole issue and had a desert table rather tan cake.
I would imagine the last cake was created by a baker high on out-of-date narcotics and helium.
I also believe that swipe was how the cake was delivered. The baker, his drug induced paranoia kicking in, attacked the cake monster before it could attack him.
brown icing has to be the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on a cake . And I can't believe how common it is.
I am, quite simply, aghast...
Mother of God. Okay, seriously, decorators. You cannot pipe buttercream frosting and have it look the same as rolled fondant or royal icing decorations. You can't. You can't you can't you can't stop trying. Lordy... how do these poor women find these bakers??
Wow, that is all I can say, wow...
I hope no one actually had to pay for any of those cakes, I would be in tears if that happened to me. Did any of them look at any samples of what the bakery had actually produced?
Wow!!!
These are my favorite posts. Though I would love to hear stories from the brides - who was responsible for these crimes against cakery?
I feel terrible for the people who got the last cake. :( FAIL.
My sincere apologies to the geek community about the whole "Luke vs Han" snafoo. Really, I DO know that's Han; I guess I must have just been thinking of http://www.geekologie.com/2008/03/omg_grody_star_wars_cake_featu.php" REL="nofollow">this cake when I typed that. :)
Man oh man. Do they get their money back, I wonder?
wedding cakes, look more like gifts. still better than the cakes I make
What so sad is the decorators really spent some time with their... um... creations.
You can't do anything BUT laugh, otherwise you would be crying if you had ordered one of these!
Wow. I'm not sure exactly whose idea it was to change the type of frosting for the first and last cakes, but even I know that the originals were both fondant (and that's why they worked) and that the imitations were buttercream (and that's why they didn't work). Don't mess with what the cakes were topped with if you're going for horizantal detailing!
I need a cake.... Anybody got the number handy for Three Blind Idiots bakery?
WV.. brette.... I brette to inform you that your cake looks like it was wreckorated by a three year old.
I always think about those missed mark cakes... and I was delighted/horrified to see them today. But I am officially freaked out that one day, I will be the bride with the crap cake that I send in to cakewrecks. =/
That first one seemed fine to me, minus the bamboo of course.
Hey, I'd be proud to have made any of them, although I'd resist cutting a chunk out of it.
I cannot believe that there were more Star Wars faux pas comments than cake comments in response to this post! (NERD ALERT!!! :-p)
I probably would have fainted ON the last cake if it would have been mine... Then at least it wouldn't have made it to the reception. I'd rather serve Wal-Mart mini cupcakes to all of my guests...
I agree with the comments before. The icing colors and the wreckiness of the last one really remind of me of the plaid wreck of http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/07/inspiration-vs-perspiration.html" REL="nofollow">this post. It even has the same slumpy look. One just can't help wondering~
Thank you Clara Cupcakes! I was thinking the same thing - read the comments before posting a correction. Chances are it has already been said... no need to beat a dead horse into the ground.
As for the cakes - YIKES!!!
My daughter and I looked at the first 2 and gasped at the wrecks, imagining the distress of the brides.
The third cake, well it really....um...took the cake!
In South Africa, our favourite expression of compassion, whether one has scraped a knee or suffered a broken heart, is 'SHAME' or 'Ag Shame'. The last wreck elicited a huge OMG...SHAME! That poor bride.
All the geekitude is warming my heart on this too cold for school day. I think the inspiration vs perspiration is my favorite cake wreck category.
Brandi said, "I doubt that any of these really came from real professionals..."
Unfortunately Brandi, as we've seen time and time again in this blog, professionals can and absolutely do screw up cakes this badly. Even wedding cakes. Ughhh...
I'm not saying they DESERVE to be called professionals, but so many of these wrecks come from bakeries (not just "professionals" working from home for $$$)
That last one baffles me... How hard would it be to just roll out some colored fondant and cut ribbons for the stripes? Heck, they could have even used REAL ribbon and it would have looked a thousand times better! I'd rather have to peel fabric ribbon off my cake before eating it then have THAT nasty frosting mess!
If you can't make/replicate the item that people order, then don't take the order!!! How hard is that for bakers/bakeries to understand?
Jeez.
--Kate
All the comments made me laugh, too, Good grief, Star Wars fans. Okay, we got it.
My husband just emailed that they had a lunch at work to honor a co-worker having a baby. And I quote: "And there was a pink cake with brown polka dots – it looked like something from a Dr Seuss book."
So, I asked if it was a Cake Wreck, and he replied: "Close, but it wasn’t a sculpture, the spelling was okay and there weren’t any odd attempts at frosting art. It was just a putrid pink with unevenly spaced half-dollar sized cow droppings."
Too funny.
Were these ordered from grocery store-type bakeries?
Jen - will that cake be coming here? lol
'Bampoo' is my new favorite word...I think it should enter the WV rotation ;)
Hmm.
Seriously? I mean just look at -
SERIOUSLY???
OMG...why can't some people just admit they can't do something. Or do a trial run, if you're a self employed baker. Sheesh...
wvotd rewobill..."Fondant decorations cannot, for the most part, be replicated with buttercream. The buttercream cannot hold the intricaties of the required shapes and it will rewobill into a shapeless mound on top of the supporting layer."
do people pay for these cake disasters?
jackie31337- That video is SO HILARIOUS!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure that's an out of focus woman with shoulder length blonde hair in a black dress playing a violin. I sure would hate to appear in someone's picture and be called Chewbaca. :(
EEEEEKKKKKK! I would have freaked out seeing these on my big day. Yikes!
I don't think that's a swipe on the last cake.
The designer tried to make it slanty, as in the photo, and the cake fell off the table, resulting in the gash.
Bam-poo cake...still laughing about that one!
P.S. why does everyone keep telling you it's Han Solo and Leia on top of the cake as though that's NOT what you said?
I think this (stripe cake) was made by the same bakery that made the plaid disaster the other day. Does anyone else see that? I also think they used the left over icing from it. (or they were drunk)
How awful for those Brides. I can't imagine. Are these bakers colorblind or something? I think as mother-of-the-bride I might have been tempted, no I take that back, I would have taken the top tier, and pushed it in the face of the baker. I'm not as forgiving as these folks were.
Someone is going to have to explain what "WV" means to this newbie. I don't quite get it.
Every one of your posts make me laugh at first then I shake my head thinking what in the world??!!
I posted about your blog on my blog. :)
I'm totally freaked out that the presentation of the Star Wars cake was so beautiful — flower petals and all — for a cake that should have been heaved out the window.
The last one. No. Just no. Run out to the local Piggly Wiggly and get something generic. But I can't blame the gouge — someone must have wanted to see if it tasted as horrible as it looked.
Oh, and Jen: Before you put in a link to a cake such as the one you did, please warn us not to have a mouthful of Coke when we click. Help save a keyboard today.
Word verificaiton: undeffi. These cakes are the undeffi-nition of good.
These are by far my favorite wrecks. If it damns me to hell, so be it!
Please tell us Jen, WHY DO PEOPLE PAY FOR THESE?!?! I don't understand how that would even make it to someone's wedding because I can't believe the person who paid for it or picked it up would stand for that kind of abuse! Honestly, it blows my mind. It's one thing to ruin a birthday cake or a sugar bowl cake, but for a wedding? Inexcusable.
I love these! Keep em coming!
"bamPOO" Thank goodness I wasn't the only one seeing that!
When I got married the flowers for the cake were provided by the florist so that they would coordinate with the wedding flowers. I notice that all of these wrecks have beautiful flowers.
I'd love to have seen the florists' faces when they (who probably had the same "inspiration" picture) showed up to add the flowers.
That last one does bear a strong resemblance to the plaid cake.
I wonder if there's any sort of cake paint available...kind of like airbrushing, except it wouldn't have that airbrushed effect, because you'd just paint it on, like you'd paint a wall. You wouldn't be able to apply stand-out strips of it, but at least it seems like you'd be able to get more even, less wrecky stripes.
word verification: ments, a shortened, plural form of mental, which is what the wreckorators of these cakes must have been when they made them.
@ Kelly:
WV stands for "Word Verification", as in the random sequence of letters you're required to type in before blogger lets you post your comment.
Okay really. Are these professional renderings, or ones done by "loved" ones trying to saving a buck or two? Holy cow!