Friday
May152009
Ponder If You Will...
May 15, 2009 Sometimes, looking at all the photos you guys send in, I'm presented with one of life's little mysteries.
For example, how is it that we live in a world where these are supposed to be guitars...
(Love the random tree. Because when you think "electric guitar",naturally you think "nature.")
(Thank goodness Wreckerators are starting to put miniature plastic versions of whatthe CCC* is supposed to be on the CCC*. It's quite sporting of them to give us
a hint.)
(Here, there, and everywhere: hip, hip, it's hip to be square!)...but this is not?
Hey, kudos to the decorator for trying to get some more mileage out of his or her guitar-shaped cake pan, but really...Really? A beer bottle? Really?
Freya F., Jill B., & Joe C., really.
* Patooey! (Just a friendly reminder to always cleanse your palate after uttering the foul name of the dreaded cupcake-cake.)
Reader Comments (108)
The first one looks like a whale.
I really thought that that first cake said "Yo, Happy Birthday!" for a second.
Hey, isn't that pink ccc a guitar that Prince used back in the day?
That last one looks more like a maraca than a guitar or a beer bottle.
nah. take it from me, that's neither a guitar nor a beer bottle. it's a cello case.
Maybe it is what a beer bottle looks like after emptying too many of them?
Not that I would know :)
~C
I dunno, the first one looks more like an upside down vomiting amoeba --- or dirty ghost.... eh.
Qtswede
The guitar cake pan being used for a beer bottle reminds me of the many different ways Carvel Ice Cream shops reuse that goofy Fudgie the Whale mold. And in both cases, the cake artiste is sure no one will ever notice....
Jen, you should post Pyraterose's cake as a positive role model for these Wrecks. it's pretty cute and has correct guitar anatomy!
wv: ousiz
Ousiz dese cakez ar awfulls.
Really, it's sad. I know I've been assimilated by this blg when I think of that Miley Cyrus pink CCC monstrosity as "not bad" because at least the shape is *kind of* guitar-like, and the cupcakes seem to be largely individually frosted. YIKES!
And yet my gut KNOWS it's still a wreck.
The last one... never underestimate a decorator's... erm... creativity?
I think the first one looks like an impaled Epcot
just saying
ok I'm stealing someone else's joke... still funny
Anyone else questioning the extra purple cupcake sitting off to the side on the Hannah Montana CCC? Is it there to draw your eyes away? Is it a guitar pick? Did it get lost on it's way to a Barney CCC?
Well, I flunked the cake test--I thought the gray thing was a dead saguaro cactus, sort of symbolizing dead and the living tree symbolizing...Well, anyway Happy Birthday to Matt.
I have NO idea what the others are, but I am very sure that a gaggle of squealing girls will descend upon the pink HM ccc (patooey!) like a school of piranhas.
I don't know this for an absolute certainty, but I'm guessing that the first cake was for Matt of The Whomping Willows (Freya, if you're reading this, correct me if I'm wrong).
The Whomping Willows is a botanical wizard rock band based on the Harry Potter series. Hence, the tree.
Matt is awesome, btw, and I bet he got a huge kick out of his wrecky birthday cake!
Number 1: Underside of a sting ray, projectile vomiting.
@kid-lit-fan and Figgylicious, I too thought there was a "yo" at the top of that first one, but I thought it said, "Yo crappy birthday Matt." No lie. Look at it again!
I was frightened I'd be the first person to mention the Bo Diddley resemblance until I got through about 2/3 of the comments. Phew!
sweet! I'm so psyched about the beer bottle idea with the guitar cake pan. A little trim here and there, and it might have worked!
Nice! Love the guitars!
"Festive" gray "guitar."
Here's hoping you like tree halves.
Happle irthday, Matt!
Violet cupcake,
Rejected by cool cuppies,
Turns to the shadows.
Looky it, mama!
Made my own shoebox guitar!
Listen! Strum strum nom . . .
You mean it's hip to be square unless you are a sponge? It doesn't work for me with guitars either!
WV: bruum--the first strum of the fake guitar
Well, The first one I thought could have been an upside down nose that's nasal leakage defies the laws of gravity.
Anything with Hannah Montana on it should be considered a wreck
Patooey! *L*
impaled dead ghost for the first one has my vote.
All except the beertar look like deep sea creatures brought to the surface too quickly.
wv...putwi....no kiddin.."is the sound made when cleansing ones palate after saying CCC."
@ Ajhorse21
It's Hannah Montana :)
@Kassy: You are correct, and Matt and I both got a giant kick out of this cake (I believe there are pics of his reaction on Facebook). It was wreckier than anyone could have hoped for.
We really thought the guitar looked like a squid. I'm glad that others have weighed in with other marine life ideas as well, though the Lost theme is my favorite.
What's sad is that a guitar cake *can* be beautifully done--and it's just not that freepin' hard, y'know?
One of our church ladies made one for my former boss's birthday (as he is, among other things, an amazing guitarist, singer, and songwriter). It was superb, and although she was a professional cook, she wasn't at all a pro cake decorator--yet it beat every one of these with a stick!
Oh, I wish I had a photo of it. :(
wv: qualti. None of these qrecks are of good qualti!
Ok, I'm having trouble finding the Yo Happy Birthday.
Nonetheless I'm tipping my hat to all those who found the impaled ghost, the UFO, the stingray, Jesus, the amoeba, the dripping nose. :-)
My attention was immediately drawn to the tree that seems to be sporting a cluster of wadded up kleenexes where the leaves normally grow.
You would think one wouldn't need to clarify as to what a Hannah Montanna guitar looks like... but sometimes they really should... I once got http://idratherbeasmartass.blogspot.com/2009/04/mmmmmmmm-gummies.html" REL="nofollow">the most oddly shaped gummies. Could it be that wreckiness extends beyond cakes? Oy vey...
The first one looks like a stingray.
Mmmmmmmm stingray cake.
Red strings on a blue "guitar"... which look like melting rivers of BLOOD!
I'm a bit disturbed by that CCC (bit disturbed by all of them, actually).
Word Verification: Blyclogi: the sound you make when you see what the decorator expects you to pay for.
wow mong cakes ... but mong cakes say 'i love you' ... I made a great cake the other day then iced it with happy birthday etc. ... looked like a junkie with mild hypothermia had iced it!! he loved the caked though
I think I got it figured out. The first one is a spaceship crashing; the second is a butterfly with elephantitis on one wing; and then of course third we have the breaker box CCC.
The first one looks like how I draw guitars :P
As the first cake was loading I thought it was a road-killed elephant! Now granted I am looking at this on my phone so the pics are pretty small, but still...
MY dear it is very nice and interesting blog .best wishes.
That first one looks more like a stingray!
LaLanya,
I noticed that too! Its been annoying the heck out of me because I know, in my heart, that there is MORE of the wreck that I can not see, and the glutton for punishment in me would really like to see it! Unless... mayve there is just one very special purple cupcake that didn't quite make the cut, but they decided to throw it in there anyway. And that IS the whole story. But I think there's more to it.
HA! These are baaaaad. Especially the first one, which looks rather like a dead fish, and the second one, which is a pink blob with a plastic hannah montana guitar. * shudders* My older sister is a rocker type, so I say to her,"Ellie, you've gotta come see the newest cake wrecks, it's guitar cakes!" And so my mom says, " Oh, I've GOT to see this one" and so then followed my dad and older brother, it was kind of like a family gathering for cake wrecks. Just goes to show you how great this website is!
Uh oh. Lack of apostrophe alert. And it's not the cake. Jen, when talking about CCC, you wrote the following:
(Thank goodness Wreckerators are starting to put miniature plastic versions of what
the CCC* is supposed to be on the CCC*. Its quite sporting of them to give us
a hint.)
You know very well that there should be an apostrophe in "Its." It is it's.
Those are hilarious! Wow that first one is way off.
I thought I'd post a non-wrecky life size guitar cake. Made by 2 of my friends...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ae6p58aO68U/SYNS7qd7xhI/AAAAAAAAADI/p7pX1Pozq8Y/s1600-h/guitar.jpg
They own "Simply Sweet" http://simplysweet-customcakes.blogspot.com
Anonymous said...
Uh oh. Lack of apostrophe alert...
You know very well that there should be an apostrophe in "Its." It is it's.
**************
Uh oh!! Lack-of-capitalization alert, "Anonymous"!
You wrote: "It is it's."
You should have written: "It is It's."
It's okay--we're only human.
=^~-^=
Don't worry Jen I had you covered when I put in an extra apostrophe in my last comment....Did it get lost on it's way to a Barney CCC?...
Dawn,
I know!! Man where is Paul Harvey with the rest of the story when you need him. I am going to have sleepless nights thinking about that extra purple cupcake.
sendingtheclowns,
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Thanks.
From,
Same Anonymous
The first "guitar" is clearly an octopus diving down while squirting ink. Through tree-infested waters...
-Julie
Subliminal Lizard says: "Methinks the idea of using a guitar as an actual axe takes the meaning of figurative to a new, wrecky extreme."