Breaking News: Head-Swelling Bakery Incident Goes Horribly Awry
January 22, 2009 You know how local morning shows always have chefs or bakers on to do little demonstrations and whatnot? And how those visiting guests always bring a little treat for the hosts and crew? Well, here's what one such visiting bakery brought to the station where Wreckporter Hayley E. works:
It's like a mixed media collage of cakedom! Seriously, this cake has it all: fun-house-mirror photos, airbrushing, fondant "hair" (don't miss the guy's!), a buttercream border, and sufficient excuse to call the show hosts "fat heads" for at least a week or so. (Oh, did I mention those are the hosts?)
Of course, it could also be used as the poster-cake for the call to ban edible image printing. Really, who thought technology that allows you to eat people's photos was a good idea? It always ends up looking rather creepy.
Or, in this case, gross:
Mmmm, now there's an appetizing composition. I bet all of Karissa's relatives were SO proud. And full. As in, "no-really-I-couldn't-eat-another-bite" full.
Reader Comments (110)
The toilet one gives new meaning to the phrase "tasteless" doesn't it!
I just hope that that wasn't chocolate mud cake.
I will never eat mud cake again!
I know that girl on the Potty's Momma is real proud.
(WV:Muffle what you do when you are reading Cakewrecks at work.)
Sure hope the grad cake didn't include a request for fudge filling.
WV: Cheri. Karissa with a cheri on top, ftw!
This is like rubber-necking at an accident on the freeway. You know you shouldn't look , but, you...just...can't...help...
yourself...
The Karissa cake has to be the most redneck, backwards, tacky cake I have EVER seen! Who would really think that was funny or cute? Stupid parents
(ask me how I really feel about it)
First Karissa has to endure getting that cake at her party. I bet she thought it was sort of funny. With her family & friends. I wonder how funny she thinks it is now that it's all over the Internet? Because now, we all know what a big freak Karissa is. And we have the toilet picture AND the cake to prove it. But hey- at least she's got that diploma! Congrats Karissa!
Hey maybe the Frolicking Fraulein is onto something here.
"So what picture do you want on your graduation cake Karissa?"
"Oh how about the picture from my MySpace profile!"
I've definitely seen this bad and worse on people's social networking pages. I just never thought I'd see it on a cake. *scratches her head* And I agree with Neil too...from the look on her face she needs to lay off eating whole blocks of cheese in one sitting.
I can't help but wonder whether Karissa was in on the joke. There are lots of people out there who have such a lowbrow sense of humor. (As an example, I sometimes refer to myself as a "young fart", as opposed to all those old farts out there.)
At least, I certainly hope she was in on the joke.
I can just hear the 5 years olds now.... "I want the butt! I want the butt!"
Nastiness
That graduation cake is just wrong on so many levels. Wow!
The first cake is bizarre. Having once worked in radio and seen firstshand what a "fan" does in frosting to represent a deejay, I feel the pain there.
The second cake. Holy crap. And I mean that literally. Talk about a "dump" cake! And dang, the diploma does look like a Tampex.
It seems after all the ahem, goofy pictures of teens that have shown up on the internet would make people think twice about posing for this kind of picture. Evidently not ... I fear for humanity's future ...
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Holy. Yikes. That is all.
FOMCALMAO (Falling Off My Chair, etc)
Oh, my god! LOL
I could just see the daughter looking at her mother a the while saying "Why, mother, Why?
*Snicker*
Peace,
Clueuin
To the Frolicking Fraulein:
Unfortunately comparing bad to to even worse taste does not negate or void the original bad taste!
WV - fieles -what the dyslexic thinks this cake will attract.
I hope its not Chocolate
That last cake defines trailer-trash-mentality. Only an utterly classless parent would think that's a terrific idea for a graduation cake, complete with expletive spelled out in blue frosting.
This country is DOOMED.
OMG does not even begin to describe it. Those booby heads are weird. But I am so jealous! When will I have my inflatable ego put on a cake for all to admire!
On Karissa's cake though, why does everyone assume it was her family? That looks like the work of very dear and near friends to me!
They'll put a picture of an adult woman on a toilet on a cake, but not the little boy named Adolf's name?
Hmmm....
I absolutely adore the clothes on the first cake!
Hookay, I'd pitch a fit to rival the Spartans in 300, if that second cake ever happened to me. THere are just some things that are too sick to laugh at.
I laughed when I realized you blocked out the 4 letter word, but had no problem posting a picture of a girl on the toilet with her pants around her ankles. Such standards! :)
OK, when I first opened this page I got a bad glare from the window, and I seriously thought the male anchor was supposed to be Kevin from the US version of The Office, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out who on the show the woman was. I was having a really hard time figuring out how you would tie this to the "I Want Sprinkles" cake that quoted Angela from that very same series.
Then I read the actually commentary on the blog.
And then I read the comments.
It's even funnier and stranger than I originally imagined.
Cake #1 is disturbing and scary.
Cake #2 is disturbing and nasty.
WV: Shlyot These cake wreckorators oughta by shlyot.
Man, you guys are all WAY too uptight. That graduation cake is just funny! It's quirky humour that some people don't get, but others (myself included) do. Just because we find that funny doesn't mean we're dumb, or trailer trash, or anything else like that. We just appreciate the weird side of life.
I'm the type that likes Monty Python, though, so that might explain it a bit. :)
Quite honestly - if I can get my youngest son through HS to graduation, I'm thinking a cake along those lines would be perfect. I'll bet his principal would help me pay for it too, since I'm sure he'll feel the same 'holy s***' way as the rest of us!
Those are just ick and wrong!!
That second cake - class. Pure class.
I bet poor Karissa was truly pissed off by that one.
What kind of boneheads think taking pictures of people on toilets is funny? With family like that, it's no wonder they are amazed she graduated.
*LOL* I guess embarrassing your kids rally is a full time job...hehe! I dont know though, I probably won't do any toilet shots of my kids on the toilet for graduation!
I think that the graduation cake is pretty funny.
The toilet cake is great. But you cant eat a cake where someone is taking a dump!!!!!!!!
I'm just glad that the writing and borders on the Karissa cake isn't brown.
Word Verification: Ofibli - Obmoa's second cousin
That is horrible! I love how one picture doesn't even cover the mound o' cake!
I'd've killed whoever took a picture of me on the pot. Photo would've been destroyed so putting it on a cake wouldn't have even been an issue.
Oh yeah, and also, I can't think of anyone in my life who'd think to put such a picture on a CAKE of all things.
Hell's bells!
The first time I viewed this post, the ad at the bottom said "diaper cakes" and I thought it was part of the post!
Absolutely adore this blog, by the way.
That second cake is absolutely hysterical! Wish I'd have thought of it!
Is.. anyone else getting the "Diaper Cake" ad? I burst out laughing over it, but.. then I realized it was real...
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Wow, that first cake is downright SCARY! And the 2nd, that's just nasty!
~K
ummm... Seriously some one needs to out law edible photo on cakes.
When people request a photo on a cake the men is white coats need to swoop in and take them to a padded cell where they can rethink the whole thing.
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I can't believe so many people don't realize that the toilet picture is completely posed and voluntary. No one busted in on her in the bathroom actually using it. She probably came up with the idea herself.
Am I the only person who thought the second cake was hilarious?? :)
And my husband wonders why I lock the bathroom door....
That's just wrong.
LOL, I recognized the last photo immediately! A friend of mine took it years ago (before cakewrecks existed!) at the bakery she works for, and said that whoever ordered it never came back to claim it. I'm glad she found the photo, we were just saying it'd make a good submission.
You really have to wonder about the relationship Karissa has with a person who would a) take a picture of her on the toilet, and b)put said picture on a graduation cake (or any cake for that matter). I wonder how that relationship held up after this incident?
God I hope that's not a chocolate cake! :)
Nothing like being caught with your pants down. LOL
I'm surprises that the bakery accepted this photo for putting on a cake. There should be a way for bakeries to decline photos they deem obscene--such as this one. Bodily functions don't belong in public, least of all on edibles.
for all of the people whose minds have been absolutely shattered over the second cake, who's to say that the honoree didn't love it, or even plan it? Or that the people eating the cake didn't totally get the joke and not have any problem at all eating a cake with edible ink that happens to be sprinkled in a pattern to resemble a photograph? Because that's really all it is... little dots of edible ink. It apparently WAS a good idea to the people who ordered and enjoyed it.