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What's a Wreck?

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.

Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)

- Jen
Monday
Aug102009

I Wanna Be a Wreck Star

Are you still preoccupied with 1985? (With Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana...)

If so, then I'm sure you understand wanting an 80s pop star on your cake. Uh. Right?

For instance, how about the artist formerly - and now back to currently - known as Prince?

Yeah, he'd totally rock on a cake. Maybe for a birthday, bridal shower, or any nondescript "sexy" occasion, really.

[PHOTO REMOVED - Sorry, guys, turns out the cake wasn't a pro job. You'll just have to let your imagination run free in place of the actual Wreck.]

Great glaring gobs of guy-liner! I'm pretty sure those lips would make doves cry.
(Say, what kind of cake is this again? Oh, that's right: it's filled with [singing] "RAS-pberry puree...")

Hey, what's Demi Moore doing here?

Oh, sorry, Demi; that's Boy George. Well, I'm sure he'd be great on a cake, too.


Of course, I have been wrong before.

How about a photo cake? Do you have "Faith" that would look better?


Wham I'm not sure that "wham" is appropriate in front of every wham sentence. Wham what do you think? Wham am I right?

And finally, I have to end with what is most certainly NOT a Wreck, so don't even bother trying to find fault with it:

Yep, THAT, my friends, is a David-Bowie-from-Labyrinth cake, aka quite possibly the Coolest Birthday Cake Ever. This thing is up there with the Darth Vader Baby Shower cake in my book. (Well, not the actual book. The figurative one.) Not only does it feature the Goblin King himself, it ALSO says - and with correct quotation marks, even - "You Remind Me of the Babe."

What babe, you ask? Why, the babe with the power.

This cake has renewed my faith in both the airbrush and future generations, so kudos to Maddy's parents for giving her a proper education in all things awesome.

Jenny M., Brian K., Anony M., & Lonny S, you have no power over me.


Related Wreckage: Guess Who!

UPDATE: So apparently, every one of you has seen Purple Rain and can tell that the first cake is actually supposed to be Epco...urm, Morris Day. And it turns out you are correct. Go figure. I'll leave it to Jen to decide how to adjust the post but in the meantime Sexy Morris up there is still giving me the stink eye so I'm still calling wreck. And yes, *sigh* we know George Michael was part of Wham! -john

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Reader Comments (225)

A Labyrinth cake...now I really HAVE seen it all!

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJulie

Don't people READ some comments Before posting their own REPEATS?! ACK!

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterI should 'blog

Labyrinth has got to be the coolest movie ever & even in cake form!

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMoonGoddess

OMG I can't believe it! I had a David Bowie Labyrinth cake for my 6th or 7th birthday party too! We all argued over who got to eat his face!

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnnemarie

Ok now that the controversy is over I would like to add a quote that I saw in Toy Fair a long time ago, captioned in a word baloon coming out of Jareth's mouth:
Dance magic dance
In my pants magic pants!

yes, it stuck with me...

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterChristina

I just have to ask--am I the only one here who knows that patter ("The power of hoodoo." "Who do?" "You do." etc.) from The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer instead of Labyrinth?

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMelindaB65

the babe with the power.
what power?
the power of voo-doo!
who do?
you do!

thanks, now i have to go watch labyrinth.

August 12, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterfransmomma

Not only is that song going to be in my head for a while, but that is the coolest cake EVER!

August 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKristina

I must also join in the chorus of "I want that David Bowie cake, gimme it NAOW!" lol

*skips away doing the Magic Dance*

August 18, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

I'm not completely sure that's George Michael. Could it be this guy from the Benny Lava video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

Hm. It's a toss up for me.

August 18, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSusan O.

The "Happy Birthday Mike" cake (Boy George) looks more like a frosted mahjong tile of someone than a cake. Wow.

Word Verification: "initinti". See? I knew it. These cakes were done by Initiates, not Professionals! *joking*

August 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSr. Mina, BSP

DANG! I missed the Prince cake.

August 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLadyGlamSlam

I'm a bit late to the game, but I just have to say that I'm very disappointed in everyone pointing out the title as a Bowling for Soup reference when the ORIGINAL (and much better version, in my opinion) is actually by SR-71. Look it up on YouTube or Imeem.

September 5, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSuri

I LOVE Prince so I wish I would have discovered this site earlier to see the Prince cake. lol

Dawn

October 15, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

nice! can you do a post about the beatles now? please? (i'm a total beatles geek if you didnt guess)

November 1, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlolcatt

what power? *lqtm*

April 27, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterVeggieT

THe Labyrinth cake is awesome, just like the film!

"Not the Bog of Eternal Stench!" (which is where some wrecks have clearly been...)

October 28, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterLucy

Soooo Girlie Geek, love the movie!!!

November 17, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterVanessita

I could use a Labyrinth birthday cake for sure!!
-Heather C.

January 25, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Honestly, I'm not a fan of the David Bowie cake. I've seen much prettier cakes on this site, so I set the bar extremely, insanely high... :/

Still, the Boy George cake was really funny!

March 2, 2011 | Unregistered Commenterwhirlofwings

Omigod!!! David Bowie!! SQUEEEEEE!!! Awesome!

April 3, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterIhluvkittehs

Poop!!

June 22, 2013 | Unregistered Commenternoni

I don't know if anyone else mentioned it, but the George Michael cake that says Wham! is probably from George. In the 80's before he went solo, he was in a band called Wham!

August 7, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterHarlieD

AAAAAAAH, I love the last cake!!! I know she tells him, "You have no power over me" in the movie, but that is not so for this cake and me! :D :D :D :D

June 1, 2018 | Unregistered CommenterPerson15

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