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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January 24, 2009 
If you guessed "time to learn the difference between an old-style telephone and a clock", then you are absolutely correct!
I would have also accepted "Time to ban CCCs" or "Time to train a wreckerator". Any other suggestions?
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Reader Comments (111)
Actual conversation with my 5 yr. old daughter...
H - Mom, why are you laughing?
A - I'm reading something funny. Hey, come here for a minute. What do you think this is? (Showing H picture of "cake")
H - It's a clock! No, it's a cupcake thing... What's that on top?
A - Not sure honey. Do you think it looks like an old telephone?
H - Yes! It's a cupcake clock phone thing. It's cool. I like it. Gotta go now...
There you have it - it's a cupcake clock phone thing with a 5 year olds seal of approval. :)
Maybe it's supposed to be a cloud with a clock in it, thus symbolizing the looming inevitability of death or a heavenly countdown to the apocalypse. They made it pink to remind the people eating it that God still loves them even though he's pacing back and forth waiting for them to die.
my first thought: does anybody really care? but that's really just me listening to old Chicago.
WV: coushedd.
indeed.
Okay, now I am really confused. The colck looks like something from Alice and Wonderland :)
Time to get a new Cake Decorator!
What in the world was said in that ordering conversation is what I'd like to know.
I was going to try, but darn, April, I just can't top that...laughing SO hard!!
All rightie, then!
Even if it is supposed to be a clock in a phone (why? just why?), whoever decorated the darned thing could have made the clock face a little less wonky.
I was going to mention how delish the white icing on the cupcakes looks...then I realized that there was a naked pink breast in the middle of the whole thing with a clock face on it! Ewwww!
This entry just subjected me to an ad about getting the best price on diaper cakes. I'm pretty sure I know what those usually are, but considering the things often seen here... EWWWW...
I know what it is...it is a montage of things current second grade student had no idea once exisited like rotary phones and analog clocks in the kitchen. If they could have added rabbit ears antenna and a record player, it would have been more obvious. Maybe we should call it the GreatGrandma's Things Cake cause those swirly things remind me of those crochet monstrosities with dolls heads attached that were once used to hide toilet paper.
Breathtakingly horrible.
Time for somebody to take their meds I think!
WV: prebra: What you are when an undershirt will still do it for you.
Ring ring, ring ring!!!!!!!!
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What? was it supposed to be an old phone & the wreckorator was a young'un who couldn't understand the concept of the dial? Someone said, 'the numbers go around, like a clock'. or what!?
this is hurting my brain!
Time to call in a professional.
Time to take away somebody's airbrush?
Or. . .time to find a different bakery?
Or maybe, time to say heck with it and eat some cake?
I'm really leaning towards the last one, personally. Want. Cake.
I thought it was a Dali cake.
The CCC wreckiness distracted me enough that I didn't even realize how wrong the clock on a phone bit was until I read through the blog, then stared back at the cake for about thirty seconds. Please tell me I'm not the only one!
"Happy birthday! Isn't it about time you got knocked up?"
I thought it looked like a uterus and fallopian tubes!
i actually love this one... it made me think of the curvy swirly world of Alice in Wonderland. I'd like to think the fluidity of the face and airbrushing is on purpose. I really do love it though, an dthe cupcakes aren't all smeared together.
I'm a terrible person and had to look at the rest of the entry to realize it was not in fact just a poorly-painted ugly phone CCC. I completely missed the fact there was a clock on it somehow. I feel so wrong D:
On the upside, the clock is properly made if you don't pay attention to the accuracy of the circle (face plate?). Although, after reading some of the comments here, the 2 was beginning to look like a sperm.
GAWD.
I think I have a third suggestion;
Time to ban wreckerators that make CCC's. And if they do not agree.............
Bi-bi money
AND cake
I agree with the Tickety Tock/Magenta love child idea...though I do hate to conjure that image. I -think- I could actually tell that it was a phone, but the numbers really confused me...
WV: echami: A state of confusedness, such as one brought on by this CCC.
It's a Phock silly!
WV: logre....
The logre I think about these wreckorators and their creations, the more I think that my cats are more qualified to work in a bakery then those who have wreckorated anything seen on this blog.
just wanted to let you know I'm a huge fan of your blog!!
What time is it? Time for this wreckorator I mean decorator to get a new job.
I was thinking it is a Biological Clock...the cake looking a little like a uterus and folopian tubes. Haha1
Seriously... these people DRIVE AND REPRODUCE!!!
*pulling covers over my head*
How about "Time to ask for help".
Very frilly clock/phone.
wow! You find amazing terrible cakes! I'm such a fan!...plus...where's the bottom of the comment list?
...it goes on...like forever...
After reviewing all of the possible excuses for this cake up to this point, I have come to the semi-conclusion that maybe we are all wrong in our diagnoses. There just may be no One True Explanation for this cake; not for us, anyway.
We've got nothing to work with here! No motive, no background, no history of violence or poor taste.
Sometimes, a cake is just a cake.
A kiss is just a kiss.
A cigar is just a cigar...
The cake's creator could possibly (and thoughtfully) take this secret to his or her grave (I hope they don't hurry on my account--JUST KIDDING!)in which case we will simply have to move on,
forever wondering...wondering....
Love your blog; always good for a laugh out loud.
But have you seen this cake or Oprah's head?
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=155567818d8d638e&q=cake%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcake%2Bsource:life%26start%3D100%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Dfr%26sa%3DN
my hubby says it looks like a clock under an old British costume wig
I say it's time to ban airbrushing!
Doesn't anyone else see a plain old alarm clock -- the kind that came with the bell right on top of the clock? This simply seems as close as you can come to that when you're working with cupcakes.
How about "Time to take away someone's airbrush!" I mean, what is that pink streak up at the top supposed to represent?
ring ring ring ring
cupcakephone!
*blinks* Okay. So at first glance... I thought it was an abstract (or deformed) poodle head. O.o
-Myc
Kind of reminds me of the Clock Tower/Flux Capicitor scene from Back To The Future - AFTER the tower got struck by lightining.
Just taking a wild guess...
could it be
"24 hours on call" ?
;-)
Nat
....the time is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_clock" REL="nofollow">three hours past midnight?
Whatever that was supposed to be, the decorater failed. Unless it was supposed to look so silly, in which case the decorater gets a nice shiny star sticker.
Maybe someone fell asleep the afternoon their kindergarten teacher taught the difference between phones and clocks?
I do like the colors though!
I asked my husband what this was...and he said "Biological clock?" which I didn't get until he pointed out the that tha "phone" bears a strange resemblence to health book drawings of a uterus.
My first impression was a poodle head, with a clock instead of a face.
Actually having lived in the south I know this is supposed to mean "Jesus called" meaning someone has died. Jesus called them "home".
What? MY phone has a clock in it ...
-girl with the lime