Wednesday
Feb172010
Cakes Only A Mother Could Love
February 17, 2010
I think the following cakes are really special. Like seeing a beautiful newborn for the first time, these baby shower cakes leave me… well, speechless.
What a coincidence! E.T. was on my TV today, too!
Ethan... phone home...(and tell your parents Jersey Shore called. They want their tan back.)
"Hi, bakery? I have a baby shower coming up. Do you make cupcakes?"
"Baby shower CUP cakes? Yeah. We can 'handle' that."
If you squint your eyes, it’s actually not a baby at all, but a bronzed, muscular man in a tank top popping out of the cup. See it? See it? Let’s call him Joe. He must be posing for his mug-shot. Just look at those eyes! He really knows how to espresso himself, doesn't he?
Thanks to Dawn M. for finding these little bundles of joy. It's been a latte fun!
- Related wreckage: The Creepiness Continues
Reader Comments (103)
This looks like something they might serve at one of those "abstinance education" classes, to scare you out of having sex (forever).
such an odd contrast between the pretty nice tv & cup to the creepy babies!
Uh... yikes?
I would guess that Ethan was anencephalic but making a cake of that would be in extremely bad taste.
See, on that first one I see an orange frog sitting on a microwave.
"Please...please don't fry me!"
Mmmmmmm..... orange frog legs.
Those are definitely the most creepy baby shower cakes yet.
wv - coadic: These cakes are a different sort of coadic moment.
Oh wow..these are just on another level of creepy..
I'm so confused. The television and the cup are well-made; were the ugly babies on purpose? Or do the respective bakers have prosopagnosia? I'm leaning towards the second.
No squinting necessary to see the beefy guy in the wife beater. Had to squint to see it as a baby in a diaper!
Aargh! Again: like the horrible baby creature in Kingdom Hospital (the Danish version)... Man, babies are gross :/
(Wv: abies - a coincidence?)
I can totally see the muscular man!
I think the thing that disturbs me most about the last one is that the liquid in the cup is kind of a mottled green-brown. I think I'd prefer not to know what "Joe" is getting up to in that cup...
Really, really ugly and disgusting.
What in the name of all that's holy were those bakers thinking?!?! I swear that first one looks just like my baby did...when they pulled him out (C section) halfway and half of him was still in. And although like all new parents we insanely took a picture of that because we were so happy he was here...I would take a fork to the eye before wanting THAT on a cake. And that's a picture we only show to people who reaaaaaaaallly are medically inclined or love us to death. :) In fact, as I started scrolling, I honestly thought that what was below the baby was going to BE some woman's stomach in mid C section...that's exactly how much it looked like it. I was almost relieved it was a TV.
But then that brings up a whole new host of questions: Why is a burnt, bloody baby bursting from the TV? WHY? Was the mom really the first woman impregnated by an alien and this was how she gave birth...in Roswell?
I would have more thoughts but I have to go lie down now.
Ethan looks like some Aztec or Mayan god... And how the italian guy managed to get stuck in that cup beats me.
Kagehikaru read my mind, the liquid in the cup combined with the creepy orange glow of the "babies" is the most creepy to me.
Yeeeeeeek!
And why is the coffee **green**??
*wimpers*
i once had a dream in which a little gremlin was chasing me... that first "baby" bares an uncanny resemblence!
wv: messete. I nearly messeted my pants when the creepy gremlin baby jumped out of the alley and attacked!
Aw, that's so sweet that you posted John Boehner's baby photos.
Hm, what's that? That's cake?
Um...
*screams in terror and flees the room*
.............. :|
And here I thought that second one was a pig in a cup...
Those are horrific.
Ethan's eyes...
*shifting side to side*
He's following me...
*barfing*
I've always believed one should choose one's own career. Whatever makes one happy, you know? And honestly, of all the wrecks I've seen here, not one has made me say to myself: "Some people just should not try to be cake decorators."
Until now.
Please put down the fondant roller and airbrush, hon. Back away. No, further. Keep going.
Hold me...I'm so frightened!
Joe is not a man in a wifebeater. Joe is the Queen of Heart's piglet in a bonnet. My God, a baby like that would put one off the continuation of the species.
i think i saw these guys in jars at the Mutter Museum a few months ago...
Uh......
What exactly IS that the creepy baby is swimming in?
~ shudder ~
I read this post three times before it sunk in that these are really baby shower cakes. Why is Ethan wearing an Amish bonnet? I don't think the Amish use tv's.
I think "Joe" looks like a genie in a turban rising out of a very unique "magic lamp". Quick make a wish ...
Why are they orange?!?
I'm worried about the blue surrounding Joe's head. Looks too much like the halos over the heads of the Holy Family in Renaissance paintings. Clearly a wife-beater like Joe would not have a halo so what could it be?
There must not be much to watch on that TV, because the TV Guide is awfully small.
Why?!?! Cutting a cake with a human figure on it is gross enough, but I'm not sure these babies are human. Alien babies perhaps?
Holy moley! Those "babies" look like something from a horror movie!
Those babies look like the mutant psychic creature in Total Recall (the one hiding under the dude's jacket) ... gone to "Oompa-loompa."
Ugh!
(And if you've gone to Oompa-loompa, it's time to put down the self-tanner or walk away from the tanning bed!!)
Wow, really punny today! Love the "cup cake" routine.
The wife beater is scary with that blue fro/bathing cap.
The roasted alien baby is really scary. What's with the Amish cap? I thought it was a boy!
wv: gauta. Those cakes are freaking me out. I gauta get outta here.
Am I the only one who sees the Buddha in the first cake? Yes? Okay...
Why is the TV Guide a little black book? What kind of channels are they watching? and how is this related to a new alien baby?
Inquiring minds want to know....
I did take the time to read all that was on the first one and thought it was too bad because: Cute idea...creepy alien lobster baby
The second looks like he is being thrown into "The Dip" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
*sobbing* Mommy!
I think it's the half-human/half-alien baby from "V" (the '80's version).
Can't deal with the puns. OMG too funny.
"Jersey Shore called... they want their tan back"?! BWAHAHAHAHA
.......were the mothers inseminated by aliens?
Yikes! I can tell they used the Wilton 3D Teddy Bear pan for these........but what a mess!
The verification word is "throp" as in a Misanthrop(e) made these cakes!
Those are insanely awful looking! If I saw them in person, I'd have to restrain myself from covering them so they wouldn't look at me anymore! Uck.
People didn't actually PAY for those, did they?
Oh. My. Lord.
...why is Joe swimming in a cup of the Hudson River???
The only explanation is that these bakers have recently watched Eraserhead by David Lynch.