A Womb with a View
July 24, 2009 Sure, torso cakes are kind of freaky, and eating cake babies can be off-putting, but what else is there for the baby shower hostess who wants to creep out her guests under the guise of serving a scrumptious treat? Is there nothing new under the Wrecky sun?
(Hah, like you don't know the answer to that.)
Presenting...the sonogram cake!
Thank you, edible image printing and 3D ultrasound imaging! Who knew two technologies could come together to create something so deliciously horrifying?
Now, don't get me wrong: I appreciate that sonograms allow moms to get an advance viewing of their little bun in the oven - I do. And most of these cakes are actually really well made, too. But let's face it: these new 3D sonograms look like they were directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Look into the hollow eye sockets of this shadowy visage and tell me the truth...
...are you feeling hungry?And check out the contrast on this one: it's all sweet pastel ribbons & bows, but with a doorway into the Twilight Zone:
That bear's face says it all: "What kind of filling did you use?!?"Compared to these, the more traditional sonograms look positively cuddly. They still make for some Wrecktastic cakes, though:
Hmm. What do you suppose it really is, Hannah M.?
I think that's supposed to be a side view of the mom's torso, which makes her...a headless nudist with a skin condition? Mmm, tasty.And you know it didn't take long for someone to combine these two ideas:
"Hey, y'all! Come check out this black & white TV lodged in my belly!"- Related Wreckage: First Impressions
Reader Comments (209)
I must say those cakes would certainly help my diet along nicely. Hmmm... would I like a slice of breast or a baby head? I think I'll pass on both thanks. And if they showed the cake before lunch, bonus points for lack of calories because I'd be skipping lunch too!
That is absolutely DISGUSTING!....and I ain't easily grossed out.
Jessica
"Baby, the other, other white meat." So ick.
Duuuuuuuude. That's just....NARSTY. (My preggo semi-roomie, the other night, took a not-quite-normal joy in showing me her also-expecting friend's Myspace page, upon which she had posted the latest ultrasound results, because "Look! You can totally see the penis! I mean...this kid is gonna be HUNG!" (In fairness, if it WAS in fact the organ she claimed it to be, there DID seem to be a certain...disproportion, which raises two questions: for the mother-to-be, "Why would anyone want to thoroughly embarrass their child before it was even born?" And for my roomie: Why--for the love of all things--would this be the sort of thing you would think I, especially, would need or wish to see? This incident and its attendant conversation finally, at last, cemented in my mind the certainty: pregnancy has clearly driven this girl around the bend, which was a short trip in any case.)
That last cake made me giggle, although I was hoping to be the first one to come up with a Teletubby reference. Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa, Po, and Oops! (as in Oops, wasn't expecting THAT pregnancy!) Alas, I was beaten to the punch by several fine Wreckers. Ah, well, at least I didn't say anything about Space Station Whatever-it-Was, right? :)
(WV: derfulla. "If they think I'm gonna eat sliced-up sonogram bits, derfulla beans!!"
The last one looks like Flat Stanley finally met someone. Good for him!
The one with the bears...I see a rocking chair on a stage; see the curtains on the left?
I have been having fun sending "suggestions" for baby shower cakes to my neice : ) , who will be having a baby. I thought the baby baked into the cake was the greatest--till I saw these today. YOWZA!!!!
Wow. Super horrifying. Love that "windown into the Twilight Zone".
Ok, I like it. I also love looking at sonograms. So, there you go.
CC
NASTY!
I am genuinely nauseated now. Ugh. People are weird.
Alex
If you want to show off the ultrasounds, a scrapbook, photo album or frame is the way to go, not on the cake. If you want an interesting baby shower cake, stick with the carrot jockeys.
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Oh, and a sidenote: I have a 4-D sonogram image of my baby framed. Also, over the months of waiting for baby I would look through the album I had of 4-D images and sigh with adoration of my baby's beauty.
cc
(This is not a joke)
I just went to a cousin's baby shower last week, and she had one of these. Of course, I ended up with a sonogram piece of cake. I couldn't eat it. I don't gross out easily, but damn. That was disgusting.
All we need is some fetus cookies to serve up on the side.
That last one is over-the-top enough to make me think that they KNOW it's cheesy. The others, though...I'm afraid they were taking themselves seriously.
Those 3-d sonogram cakes are,, ugh I don't even have the proper phrasing to comment on these monstrosities. Those pictures remind me of the horrible anti-abortion pictures that they used to scare us with in Catholic school. It takes a lot for me to pass up cake; but there's no way I'd eat that
Finally, I can merge my two favorite reading topics: The unborn and the undead.
These cakes would go well with the new zombie/pregnancy books:
"What to Expect When You're Expecting (a Zombie Apocalypse)."
-and-
"Pregnancy for Dummies: The Infected One You're Carrying"
myolderbrothers.blogspot.com
So that's what a pregnant Teletubby looks like!
Thank you so much for helping decide to get back on the low-cal wagon. With sweets like these, I'll take the carrot sticks and hummus, please!
Wow, just horrible!
That last one is reminds me of a Teletubby. The Night Gallery version of a Teletubby.
Oh MAN! Those cakes are just creepy. I appreciate the idea and the guts to try something different but, I'm just not big on the idea of biteing into a baby in utero! Yuck!
The commentary is hilarious btw!
Can i get a piece with an ear on it!
Wow! These are beyond creepy cakes!
Excuse me, I feel a little sick to my stomach.
Those cakes are creepifying.
make it stop.
You know, when I had the first sonagram of my son, *I* could hardly tell it was a baby! Why in the world would you want to put a little alien on a cake to celebrate having a baby?
To all future moms out there: hide the sonagram pictures so no one can pull this one on you as a surprise!
creepy and weird when put in cake form.
All I can say is YIKES!
Sheesh...and just when you think there is nothing much new for CW's...
WV: derstri...dersti new ideas at least
tinky winky... dispy... la-la... Mom?
Uhhh...yeah...thank goodness I am past my pregnancy years! If I see this type of cake at any of the baby showers I'm attending, I am so out of there- and taking my gift with me. Bring back the carrot jockeys- please!!!
Although, great way to really put your kids into therapy when you pull out their baby book.
Word ver.: dishydra- "Dis hydra (sonogram cakes) needs to be stopped!
Does it bother anyone else that ALL of these images also include...(drum roll, please)...a woman's UTERUS!!! "Yep, that's where all the magic happened. Too bad they couldn't include the fallopian tubes in this one. Hand me a fork." And we're supposed to eat that!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/SmOiBzNHxfI/AAAAAAAADss/TVNVbVObuoQ/s1600-h/Summer+R.jpg)
i always wondered where the teletubbies came from... yikes
No thanks, i only eat my own young...
Just...freaky.
wv: comenep
I can feel my lunch comenep looking at these wrecks.
SUPER BAD idea for a cake.
Just ... Wrong.
On SO Many Levels!
de-skust-ing
oh these are horrible!! I would feel like I was eating my child!
Well, everyone has said what I came to say. I am pretty squicked out, really.
The first cake is amazing! But that last cake? Ahem.
~Lucia
My honest first thought upon seeing that first photo?
"An abortion-protest cake? Really?!"
(Then I read the text. Sorry moms! :D )
That one with the little traditional wedge sonogram is cute, but the 3D ones are creepy.
The airbrushed cake with the cracked icing looks like stretch marks...what every emotionally turbulent mom-to-be (not to mention the guests) wants to see in the midst of a gathering of friends, family or, God-forbid, co-workers...EEEK!
Why why why do you want to eat your unborn child? Those 3D ultrasounds look like poop on paper, and to put it on a cake?! Insane!
I heart Jonathon Coulton!
I am crying because I'm laughing so hard. That last one is the greatest cake ever!
HA! Now I really, really want to find a sonogram of something gross like a tumor, and have it put on a cake. Because seriously, sonograms don't look like ANYTHING. Especially not anything I'd want to be overjoyed about.
Horrifying
CREEPY!
Disgusting
Unreal
Unimaginable
Displeasing
Nauseating..
I'm running out of adjectives.
~Amy B.
These are so wrong. I would not be able to hide my horror if someone brought a cake like this to the table...
love these cakes! i just cannot believe that people actually order these. and the bakers MAKE them! do you think some of them are filled with raspberry to replicate placenta? or cream AND raspberry? ok. i'm grossing myself out here. i also love that the ad at the top of this post is for Babies R Us!