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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April 7, 2009 
Apparently the art never got "broght," but what this cake lacks in illustration, proper spelling, and centering, it definitely makes up for with enthusiasm!!UPDATE: For those of you looking for some hidden meaning to this cake: There is none. I believe it was ordered by Yahoo for a company function.
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Reader Comments (72)
I always like my food to be enthusiastic! Just makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
It's always nice when the bakery realizes the difference between the instructions and the copy, don't you think!?!
I can't even READ the cake, which makes it more hilarius, seeing as I have a degree in reading illegible handwriting. It's a wonder that Yahoo! would order a cake for themselves.
I just assumed it was from a Provo bakery, where the bYu is located and the decorator was a product of our fine Utah public school system. But Yahoo, it's from another part of the country where they have bad spelling and density issues too.
Bring it, Yahoo, bring it!
It's not the Yale or BYU 'Y' It's Yahoo 'Y' see how the right side is shorter.. At least they got that 'y' correct. As for the rest...
The point of this cake eludes me.
Oh my. I am with Regina today. I so did not get this at first (sorry, it's been a long day!) Before you judge, I knew it was wrong. Then I read the comments and it was like, duh, now I know WHY it is wrong!
*walking away, hanging my head in shame ...*
This reminds me of a very depressing engraving mistake I saw on a friend's gift. The brought in the name and date of birth of their baby on a sheet of paper to be engraved on two silver cups. Rather than writing the information down on a designated work order a worker just wrote "see sheet" on the order and put the paper in the bag with the cups. Guess what they engraved...
The "Y" on this cake resembles the symbol of Brigham Young University, which is a "Y". But that is the only explanation I can come with.
I now have in mind the scene from "Not Another Teen Movie," which mocks a scene from "Bring It On" -- "Bring it!" "It has already been broughted!"
Sweet!
wv: supen = I'll have supen salad after this cake.
DUH! What happened is the person who ordered the cake couldn't spell. They 1/2 assed the order, NOT bringing the artwork for the cake and made a note to the equally stupid cake-making person. Instead of the frosting-putter-onner CALLING about the missing artwork, they just figured to go with what they felt. Not only was it SUPER poor spelling, it was also HORRID customer service!
joyce said but, the YAHOO logo needs all caps...
if I can google it, then surely, the bakers and cake decorators can too.
I find a certain amount of irony in the idea of googling the YAHOO logo. Was that intentional?
I actually know the story behind this cake!
The publishing company that I work for has a new marketing partnership with Yahoo, and this cake was ordered to celebrate it. It was supposed to have the Yahoo logo and we were supposed to supply the Publisher's logo!
The news never made it to the decorator, and this is the outcome!
It was a joke around here for WEEKS.
I love that the cake today is about spelling and your very first blogger misspelled "explaination" in their response. LOL
I hope yahoo hires a better cake decorator for future celebrations.... or else we better sell some yahoo stock...
So, the person who claims to have been at this event is lying, as I actually was at the event.
Yahoo was sponsoring a university event (not BYU, that Y was supposed to be a Yahoo! logo...) I don't think they actually ordered the cake even; that's normally handled by us. However, the mix-up was basically as described, the person taking the order didn't understand that "Art will be brought" means that someone is dropping off a graphic later.
Luckily, none of us cared; we were just happy Yahoo! gave us cake. :)
I'm sorry, I've never said this before with any real conviction but: my mind boggles.
What does it mean??
The brief story behind this cake is described where I originally posted this photo I took on my cell phone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drashid/3298752279
Basically, it was a Carnegie Mellon University event Sponsored by Yahoo! for a "Smiley" anniversary celebration I believe (Scott Fahlman, a professor at CMU is credited with the first smiley emoticon). They didn't say what the art that was to be brought would have been, I assume a smiley face as there were small smiley faces on all the other desserts at the event.
I'm not sure what cake service CMU uses, but they had another cake botched a couple weeks later...though not as amazingly as this one. But hey, it tasted fine...not that graduate students are picky about free food...
My, oh my....this is just the lamest excuse I have ever read....I actually know the story behind this cake!
The publishing company that I work for has a new marketing partnership with Yahoo, and this cake was ordered to celebrate it. It was supposed to have the Yahoo logo and we were supposed to supply the Publisher's logo!
The news never made it to the decorator, and this is the outcome!
It was a joke around here for WEEKS.
I think that--because Yahoo! is such a huge company and a decorator who can't even spell the word "brought" had to decorate a cake is assigned to do the task is ridiculous! It maybe a big joke in your place but that's a big slap on the face of Yahoo! if your Publishing Company indeed have a new Marketing partnership with Yahoo!
It makes me wonder , why did that cake even make it out of the baking/decorating area..into the display counter?
BYU football.... hahahahahahahahahaha
I got it!
The order read:
Art will be broght
(a pickture from Yahoo)