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.
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August 28, 2009 "Okey dokey, let's just double check that order form."
Flavor: Chocolate
"Check!"
Decoration: Chocolate dipped strawberry, ganache swirl and chocolate shavings over buttercream.
"Check, check, and check!"
Inscription: Leave blank
"Check!"
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Reader Comments (99)
I prefer to read the cake and the comment together. "Leave Blank Check!"
I would love a blank check.
Wow. Really? Just . . . wow.
OW.OW.OW.
Maybe they thought it was an inside joke?
Nope, still OW.OW.OW.
WV emotol- A drug given to those addicted to emoticons, to help them ease off them. (see nicotine gum)
ooooh, that looks delicious.
I would say "common sense" but a reply to that once was "what's common sense to you may not be common sense to someone else." Ummmmm....yeah.....that's why it's call COMMON sense.
"Unripe strawberry? Check."
Oh, I was so hoping for 'The Princess Bride' cakes.... Poo. Still really funny- the cake it pretty without the lettering, though!
The strawberry 'aint ripe neither.
I am hungry and that looks delicious. I'll bet I could get a hell of a deal on it too since someone wrecked it up.
that is one sickly looking strawberry.
I read the title and was SO excited for a whole bunch of "The Princess Bride" references. Sadly that was not the case. Oh well, it's not as sad as if I had ordered that cake...
Perhaps a husband or wife frequently referred to as "Blank" is being kicked out. Seems like a reasonable way to ask...
No, Jen... I think that cake is just a metaphor for the blank slate which has become society's moral compass and..
Nah. Nevermind. It's a genuine Cake Wreck.
ONE strawberry, and they couldn't manage to find a ripe one! the strawberry is as white as the white chocolate it is dipped in!
As for the inscription? I'm with Melonie- "wow"
"this will be a GREAT way to get rid of all those unripe strawberries...!"
Ohhh how sad! It's such a beautiful cake otherwise, too!
I love how these decorators never question the inscriptions! Wouldn't you want to double check the ones that seem a little odd?
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Wreckerator: Hey, boss!
Bakery Owner: Nice day off?
Wreckerator: Yeah, how was business?
Bakery Owner: Um, you remember that chocolate cake you made the other day?
Wreckerator: Yeah, it looked swell, didn’t it?
Bakery Owner: Uh-huh. I had to knock fifty percent off the price just to get the customer to stop screaming and take the cake. With that…inscription.
Wreckerator: What was wrong with it?
Bakery Owner: You’re kidding.
Wreckerator: Nope, I don’t get it.
Bakery Owner: Figures. Why are you still here, anyway?
Wreckerator: What do you mean?
Bakery Owner: Didn’t you see that note I put on your time card?
Wreckerator: Yeah, but I wasn’t going to try that “don’t let the doorknob hit you in the butt” thing until I went home tonight.
Bakery Owner: *Sigh…*
^..^
WV: scorping. That wreckerator will be scorping the want ads for a new job!
my fave wrecks are the literal lols! Too funny!
Nice PB reference! That strawberry is also SEVERELY under-ripened... ewwwwww! It looks putrid.
It's almost as good as "under neat that"
That strawberry looks pretty pathetic, too. Some people, lol.
Strawberry? My first thought was it was a daikon radish or a turnip.
Lol..verification word is mysigh
Did anyone notice that the cake box is about 8 sizes bigger than the cake? It would have been beat to all heck by the time they got it home. Maybe that would have taken care of the dumb inscription.
And now you have the cover for your next book.
Word verification: Really?
Wow....
WV: flergod.... Flergod's sake; did you drop your brain in the buttercream before starting that cake?
honestly. really?
what is up with people?!
makes me miss the phallic butterfly.
I just Facebook-linked it- hilarious! The permalink is still "As you wish."
I think they should've been a tad more specific (who knew it was possible?) and specified RIPE chocolate covered strawberry.
Actually I think it's an instruction for people's faces when they see the cake.
There's a Sunday sweets idea waiting, Princess Bride cakes. You know there have to be some out there!
Wow. Too use the ever popular fashion phrase...That is a hot mess!
God, a cake inscription that is actually ironic.
It's Zen, in a way. I feel myself slipping into a trance of calmness just reading it.
Seriously? Are there really people out there that are THAT stupid??
oooh, the white on the strawberry and the rest of the cake don't even match for starters...
Do you ever wonder if some bakeries just have a really strict policy for writing the inscription verbatim? they must see really weird stuff, so maybe they have just been trained really well to write whatever is listed, no matter how odd.
alternatively...maybe they are foreign, so they don't always know the difference between inscription instructions and actual inscriptions.
nevertheless. Who checks these things???
That is the ugliest chocolate covered strawberry I've ever seen.
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There should be a box on employment applications for you to check if you have common sense... that would solve so many problems
(as others have already stated)
"Farewell, Blank! Hope they don't run you out of the next place..."
Bravo!! Great use of instructions there.
~Amy B
Yeah, I think a Princess Bride-quote-infused CW post would be awesome. I love using those quotes anyway I can.
What the crap? Do they turn their brains off when they arrive at work?
I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. I saw the title was "As You Wish" and though maybe there were some Princess Bride-themed wrecks!!! Doh! Bummer.
Hilarious, though! I'm glad they caught it before the customer came! You know, unless the customer reads Cake Wrecks. Which they probably do.
i can't read that title without hearing it as westley said it while falling down the huge hill...aaaas yoooou wiiiish...!!! hahahahaha i'm so glad you love all the same movies i love, it makes for much funnier posts:)
all I can say is...lol, lol, lol!
This cake looks like it was directed by Tim Burton.
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I can see a rectangular outline around "Leave Blank". I believe this photo was photoshopped.
Are these types of wreckerators facetious or just really stupid? I can't figure which.
With this title I thought for sure you were going with a Princess Bride theme!
Seriously are they that busy that there isn't time to read what it is says AND use their brain to *think* before they start the frosting attack?