Monday
Jul132009
Beauty is Only Skin Deep
July 13, 2009 If you think animated characters today set an unrealistic standard of beauty for your kids, then you're in luck! Today's cakes will show you some great ways to lower that standard, all while teaching important life-lessons!
First, remember, girls: strong jawlines = strong women.
Also, some things are better gotten off your chest.
While others - such as missing limbs, sagging chests, and worryingly large necks - are best left unmentioned:
On the plus side, questions like "Where's the rest of her choker? Or her arm? Or her ear?" can help distract viewers from misspellings. Case in point: did you notice "bithday"?Brenda S., Courtenay P., Aaryn C., & Beth, these cakes are beautiful, no matter what they say.
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Reader Comments (109)
I so did not catch Bithday
Don't look now, but the kelp to the viewer's right of Ariel is about to chow down on her.
Wow, the second cake looks like Yoda in a wig...
And I didn't notice "bithday." >.>
Oh my god. . . Ariel is my favorite Disney character, and they TOTALLY ruined it! It's so sad :(
The star tip icing on the 103 year old Cinderella makes it look like a yarn rug - yeah, I definitely want to eat that!
Whoa...hilarious !
These cakes are all good examples of just ordering a simple cake with NO characters on it and buying party goods such as plates, cups and loot bags with the characters on them instead !
AND why even bother writing anything on a cake ? If you're there, you know what is being celebrated anyway LOL !
Hooray ! Back to the funny, clever side of Cake Wrecks...thanks everyone ! ( can't you tell I can't stand confrontation ? )
oh my. I didn't even notice "bithday"! I think I would've cried if that was my cake...
The last cake is also educational. You could even make a game of it; "Okay, kids! What's missing on this cake?". The kid who gets 'em all right gets a prize!!!
I so did not see the bithday because of the missing arm! These are hilarious!
Ariel's jaw is dislocated, the first Cinderella is in need of a face-lift, Wonder Woman (or whomever that is) needs a bra, and the last one is just too wonky to mention. :op
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Perhaps the extremely pointy book is showing it's preference to the superhero she wants...you know, the ice dude instead of spiderman.
I thought the 103 year-old Cinderella was one of those pictures where it's an old lady one way and then you squint and it the young girl at the mirror. But I kept squinting and nothing happened.
Cinderella is obviously an elderly drag queen. But why is she wearing a headset ala Judy the Time-Life operator?
I think Little Lovables is right, that Ariel cake pan is supposed to be for a turkey cake. So if tuna is chicken-of-the-sea, does that make mermaids turkeys-of-the-sea? (Wow, I'm a dork.)
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In defense of the Little Mermaid cake, I think it actually turned out quite winningly. It looks like something either a child or an illustrator emulating a childish style would produce. If they'd wanted something exact they could have used a prefab printout. This has some character, and I think it's a little charming.
That last one kinda makes you wonder if it's one of those "what's this picture missing that the other one has" type of a game, but they forgot to include the first picture.
And happy bithday to all.
My husband and I laughed so hard. Poor Cinderella.
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Had to look up how Cinderella actually looks, after those wrecks... And according to Disney, she doesn't have ears either. Or much of an arm in that particular pose...
Cartoon anantomy = WIN!
Man oh man...that first Cinderella cake (103 y/o version?) reminds me of "Madame" from Wayland Flowers & Madame. (I'm showing my age with that reference!)
The 2nd Cinderella cake reminds me of the Halloween party at my mom's retirement community last year. Several of the 70+ yr old women dressed up as Disney princesses as a joke. So funny! I laughed until I cried when I saw the photos.
My first thought on the Ariel cake was that it was actually supposed to be Wilma Flintstone!
As for the last Cinderella cake (the 'bithday' cake), why are her lips so off-center?
oh!!! That boob and camel toe on the yellow lady superhero...I don't even know what superhero that is....made me cry laugh!
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Wow! That first cake is totally a love child between Ariel and Jay Leno!
I too did not notice the missing 'r'... there was just too many other missing things to look for :)
Mandy said...
Oh goody! More "Copyright Uninfringement"!!
Those cakes made me cringe.
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And THAT is why we should call these cases "Copyright Incringement" instead.
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At least, the nasty Cinderella cake was for a 3-yr-old; the child probably thought it was BEAUTIFUL.
Maybe even wanted to keep it--forever--and never cut it ("MommEEE! NOOOO!! NO cut SinDrella HEAD!!!")...
Kid's probably all grown up and on her own...her Mom's still got the damn thing in her deep freeze, having been too sentimental to part with it. ((SIGH))
Ooh, Ariel, infected molars are a real bummer.
Just keep demanding cocodamol till the room swims.
Have you been to Disney World? Cinderella doesn't have ears there, either. (The wig covers them.)
It's CREEPY!
Those girls are GOOD at staying in character, though. A very bored little boy literally bowled himself into Aurora's legs under her gown at a princess dinner, and she did not let loose a single curse word!
drgns4vr said...
"I thought the 103 year-old Cinderella was one of those pictures where it's an old lady one way and then you squint and it the young girl at the mirror. But I kept squinting and nothing happened."
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Seriously? Nothing?
I tried squinting (thinking maybe you were on to something here), and it DID look different!
(!!!)
Of course, maybe that's on account of the fact that I squinted so hard, I could only see the inside of my eyelids...
An improvement, nonetheless-- so thanks.
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The first one looks like you're looking at Ariel if she were inside a fish bowl. You know, that water and glass effect. Maybe that's what they were going for... yeah, that's it.
The last cake was probably a mutant Cinderella.
Why no, I did not notice "bithday." I was easily distracted by the huge neck. In fact I didn't even notice the partial choker considering the overall effect was so disturbing.
Hate to say it, but that Ariel looks like Rumer Willis.
you make a good point- I totally didn't notice the spelling error!
That last one was wreckalicious! Wreck ON!!
I also kind of love the Spiderman/Iceman/Firestar cake. And that someone actually made one.
Just needs some slight fixing. You can at least tell the characters faces look like they're supposed to.
My DD took one look at the 103 yo Cinderella cake and said, "That looks like Cinderella as a boy!"
Poor Cinderella!
Has anyone else noticed that besides the huge jaw, Ariel has eyes that point in different directions?
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No, I did not notice the 'bithday'! lol
Beauty is only skin deep...
Ugly goes all the way to the bone-or in the case of these cakes, until the "decorative" part is gone (GONE, I say).
How about "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"? Which can morph into "Beauty is holding a pie with a pot holder."
I *give*.
Is it tomorrow yet?
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Oh man... This blog makes me laugh out loud even on the crappiest days. Love the last "cinderella" cake. excellent. But it's your captions that totally get me. good job.
-V
Also did you notice the necklace only goes halp way around her neck? on the 4th picture.
I'm pretty sure those first two are CCCs... ack! ptooey!!
Is it just me, or does the first one say "Happy Birthday Hairy?"
*rme* so much effort...such wreckiness. The one in the yellow jumpsuit looks like she's smuggling lemons in her top.
Nice touch with the two toned red and yellow icing. Too bad it's a wreck.
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You know, the last cake wouldn't have been so horrible, if certain details were not missing. T_T
Great finds! =D
It's a tribute to Vincent VanGough doing cubism with a lisp.
LOL that's why I won't do a person's face in cupcake-pull-apart form.
All I see is white cartoon characters and not a single representative black face. That's SOOOOOO racist.
Also, both "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" contain witchcraft and that's SOOOOOOO anti-Christian.
Both tales end with the main character surrendering her Feminine Strength and becoming a passive Wife Figure in a heterosexual marriage. Which is not only sexist but demeaning to Lesbians.
Both marry princes of the Blood Royal, which only perpetuates the empowered/unempowered class struggle.
And both are based on folk tales from Yarrup. Other countries's traditions are, like, SOOOOOO scary.
On the topic of Cinderella's ear, she just... doesn't... have one. Go back and watch the movie. Her ears NEVER show! It's so weird!