Friday
Jun052009
And Now, MORE Weird Wedding Cakes
June 5, 2009 Aw, you know you love it.
Monica G. thinks this cake from the Wilton website looks like it's covered with rocks. I, however, say it looks like a pottery project. Covered in rocks.
And here we have...
A fish tank.In a wedding cake.
That is all.
(Thanks, Phyllis L.)
If that isn't fishy enough for you, though, there's always this option:
(Look closely.) I am amazed, Karin. Completely freaked out, but amazed.(UPDATE: Nope, these aren't Koi fish. Or imitation crab meat. For a close-up and explanation, go here.)
Laura M. tells me this next one is a "new take on a croquembouche gone awry". Now, I have no idea what a "croquembouche" is, but from looking at the photo...
I'm going to guess it's French for "albino booby tower".
And lastly, let's take a "peep" at Courtney S.'s find:
Hm. Now why does this topper remind me of the final scene in Beetlejuice?
Reader Comments (302)
ha - just noticed that it's already been posted by others! nevermind! :)
I actually thought the shark cake was tampons (sorry!), I am so glad I clicked to read more.
I say it's cans... Covered in rocks.
sorry but have too be a know it all ;):
Cake three is dead finless sharks.It was made as a CAMPAIGN against a shark fin soup traditionly served at chinese weddings.
ok know-it-all-ness is over!Cake 1 looks like somthing I made when I was in year 2!(got a B+!)
"And now, Robin, would you like to share the vows you've written for Lark?”
“Lark, you’ve set my heart aflutter from the start. As we perch on the edge of our life together, I promise to love and cherish you forever. Today, I vow that you will never egret marrying me. Even when I have no heron my head, and can’t remember my own name, I will still love you. I am so glad that we’ll be each other’s peeps forever.”
I say that it's some tin cans, covered in rocks.
The shark cake ... it ... omg ... it looks ... it looks like ... I'm just gonna SAY it:
It looks like a pile of used sanitary towels OK!
guh-ross :P
I think the shark one looks like a pile of blood covered bandagages!
"Knife-a goes in, a-guts come out that's what Osaka Seafood Concern is all about."
At first glance, I honestly didn't think those "sharks" were fish. They look like bloody tampons. Yum.
the shark cake...umm im just going to say it .... looks like a bunch of tampons .... fin <---- haha "fin" okay im done ...
Melissa Klyce
Out of those cakes, I like the one from the Wilton (I haven't tasted their fondant, but I read on the Web that it tastes grody to the max, as Valspeak has it for disgust-o!) website, the Truffle Tower cake, which looks like rocks!
Oh, and for the croquembouche, it's sooooo nekkid (LOL)!
People, the mysterious cake is a pile of dead sharks. It was about awareness of the brutal killing of sharks for shark fin soup in China. At least, I think it was China... click on the link under the picture. It says. Plus it has a closeup where you can tell that they're sharks. I just thought I'd remind everyone, since it seems like a lot of people are asking about it in comments. :)
Ok seriously can I just say two things?
First off, how many of you really think you need to google "Croquembouche" and post the definition like you're making some grand gesture and granting a tiny portion of your limitless knowledge to the poor ignorant readers of this site, when it's word-for-word the same definition that about 20 other people have posted the same way?
Secondly, there is a link to the picture of the shark (not fish, not tampon) cake that explains both the decorations and the purpose of the cake. Perhaps you could click on it and save your "omg gross what is that?!!one!eleven!1" response by educating yourself. Granted, it requires effort on your part, but I promise that learning something for yourself doesn't hurt. Godspeed.
Yep. I totally saw bloody tampons too. My word. Maybe they should've gone with GREY sharks. Not that I'm sure it'd have mattered.
The first cake really gets me - not only it's so funny, but the Truffle Tower cake amazes me as a Wilton fan (save for the fondant, in which many of y'all are unimpressed tastewise should you have tasted it) - I have the yearbooks and will someday make a cake (wreck) by their methods! Thanks Wilton for having the Truffle (Rock) Tower Cake as my inspiration to be a cake decorator!
The peeps cake is AMAZING. I can only hope they did it specifically for humor- anyone who honestly thought that was a truly romantic gesture is nutty.
The dead shark cake is great, even before you realize it's not a real wedding cake but a political statement. So much detail! Damn!
Sorry but I LOVE the Peeps wedding cake-what a concept..being a Peeps lover, who waits tos ee their luscious little lineup on the Easter candy counter every year, I totally get why this makes sense...
in a squishy, sugary sorta way!
The shark cake looks like a pile of used tampons! Could they not have at least tinted the sharks somewhat blue??? Did they have to all be STARK WHITE???
Ugh. *pukes in trash can*
The "pile of bleeding fish" cake isn't fish at all. Click the link. They are sharks with their dorsal fins cut off. It wasn't a cake for a real wedding, but a statement cake to show how awful it is that sharks are slaughtered merely for their fins so they can make Shark Fin soup, which is traditionally served at weddings in China. :)
I'm gagging at the grooms cake with the open pond and real fish. :P
I thought the dead fish one looked like tampons. Wow........
Ooh, I actually own the Wilton Cakebook that has the decoration instructions for that first cake. So much chocolate. And yes, those are handmade truffles (although they're made using their patented candy melts, I think. I have the book, but it's not with me currently.)
It really does look like a pottery project, though, doesn't it? Never saw that before!
I think if you're a super Peeps fan the Peeps cake is kind of cute.
There is no way I would eat the fish tank cake for fear of yucky fish water contamination.
The shark cake is to make a statement for animal rights. I think it does a good job of that. It definitely catches your attention.
I want to name a band Albino Booby Tower, as in, "Albino Booby Tower? I saw them at the Metro, they ROCKED!"
I never would have guessed "sharks" for the white-and-red one. I was thinking more of "feminine hygiene products" :(
Granted, i couldn't think of a reason why someone would make a cake comprised of little tampons... but is it really more unreasonable than the true story?!
Albino Booby Tower.
Classic!
Think I'll request one for MY birthday.
Better yet- My HUSBAND'S birthday!
I am totally weirded out by the dead fish cake. What is that?!?!? Are they really dead fish? How is that in any way appropriate? I don't get it. Very weird though! Definitely fits your site. =)
The albino boobie cake looks like a cake ball cake to me. I used to work in a bakery that made them.
I know this is an old post, but I stumbled upon it and just had to crack up at the PEEP Wedding cake! How hilarious is that?!!! :)
In regards to the croquembouche, Oh my but you must see Danielle Le Duc's work at his bakery www.douceurdefrance.com he is a classically trained chef and a wizard with baked goods!
From a distance the shark cake looks like bloody bandages. Yuck.
I have to say, I never thought it was Koi - or any kind of fish. I thought it was a stack of used tampons - after looking at the close-up... I stand by my first opinion.
It is good the dolfins are dead! They are EVIL! Evil rape creatures.Of DOOM! DOOM!!!
OH! I want the peep cake! :D
Ok, I hope I'm not alone, but all I see when I look at the shark cake is a tower of bloody tampons. Definitely NOT something I would eat.
Oh My... the shark cake... I'm damaged now LMAO
The third one looks like tampons blueeggh
These are too weird for words.. Although, the chocolate cake ( bizarre as it is) had me practically drooling. Me and my family are serious chocoaholics. ;)
Is it horrible that I like the Peep Cake?!?! I'm a grown woman who can be satisfied with a package of chicks and bunnies, but I doubt any husband of mine would actually agree to a peep cake. And I do second the Beetlejuice bit!
What bothers me is that the fish tank cake is lopsided...what if it tipped over? Guests would get a mouth full of guppie, that's what.
When I first looked at that there tower of dead sharks, I thought it was a bloody tampon cake. There is nothin on gods green earth more terrifying than that.
Thank goodness they're sharks - I couldn't get the image of Tampax out my head!
TO MANY PEEPS!!!!! OMG!!! IT'S FREAKING ME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DO THEY HAVE HUMAN BODIES???????????!!!!!!!!
OK, I have guffawed out loud several times at your wit and the appalling cakes I've come across here. But "albino booby tower" made me pee my pants. Not. Even. Kidding. I'm sending you the bill for having my couch cleaned.
The peep cake made me laugh like crazy just now. Why? Somehow it just makes them look like giant chin people. Especially the groom. With his chin in the air. Oh dear :p. Need to stop!
that peep cake is awesome! but it is still weird. :D
the red and white cake was promoting shark hunting. (It's sharks)
They aren't koi. THEY ARE SHARKS, FINS REMOVED WHILE ALIVE, AND THROWN BACK INTO THE SEA. About the boycott of the cruelty behind Shark Fin Soup.
Reading the explanation of "bleeding fish" cake is actually really cool. Each piece is shaped as a shark with it's fins removed, in protest of Shark Fin Soup. This soup was considered traditional for (wealthy) Japanese weddings, but come with a brutal hunting tradition that leaves the de-finned sharks to starve to death, get eaten alive, or suffocate.
While a strange looking cake, I actually find it kind of moving.
I thought the fish one was a massive pile of used tampons. gross