Guess That Cake
March 24, 2010 It's time again for your favorite Wreckie game-show: "GUESS... THAT... CAKE!"
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Welcome to Guess That Cake, where your most delicious desserts are decorated and designed, deconstructed and defined. I'm your host, Kay Krex. Let's start the show!
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Now folks, if you're just tuning in, you're just in time for the rules. We'll show you a cake that was prepared by professional bakers at an actual cake store. All you have to do is GUESS... THAT... CAKE!!
Here we go. Let's start off easy with a cake sent all the way across the interwebs from Bridget H.:
Is birthday boy Shaun a fan of:
A) The Fireys from Labyrinth (attacking a B for Bowie, of course)
B) Colorful Rorschach inkblot tests
C) Budweiser
And the answer goes to....
The stakes are raised on this second cake, a CCC, sent in from Jenny H. Let's take a look:
Is Jenny's cake supposed to be:
B) California holding a sledgehammer
C) The Virginia Tech logo
Drumroll please.....
Ooooh, so sorry to the contestants that did not choose "C." We realize it was the least obvious choice, as that cake absolutely does not resemble the Virginia Tech logo, especially considering the missing parts of the letter "V" and the general lack of enthusiasm put into the "go team."
Moving on to our final round where the points that we've neglected to mention until now are DOUBLED, let's take a look at this masterpiece sent in by Jasmine:
Can you tell us if that little guy on the bottom is supposed to be:
A) A broken vase
B) A bullhorn with a stick through its eye
C) A fish with legs wearing sunglasses and a beret and carrying a paintbrush
Survey says...
Eeeeesh- tough one. Tough one. I'm sure most of you were so distracted by the haphazard confetti sprinkles and day-glo lettering that you missed this little camp logo altogether. Spitting image, really. What a shame.
Better luck to you cake-lovers and wrecktators out there on the next episode of "GUESS... THAT... CAKE!" G'night, everyone!
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{off air}
- Related wreckage: Twins!
Reader Comments (91)
I love this. Being a professional decorator myself, I'd be ashamed to let something so hideous leave my back room. However, it is incredibly entertaining for the rest of us...
I like the stencil idea anonymous had. Then you just frost the cupcakes individually in red, and put a line of white around them to tie it together. Make them one cupcake thick all the way around, too.
I like how they made the left part of the V two cupcakes thick, but then made the top of the T (that doesn't have a leg) THREE cupcakes thick. That is just weird, and I think the California holding a sledgehammer thing was GENIOUS.
Ok, guys...let's not be too hard on the wreckreator who made the VT cake. It's hard enough to put those cupcakes in a line without the poo frosting getting out of hand.
I dunno about the last one, as the description actually fits pretty well, and the logo itself kind of needed explanation in the first place. I don't think you can blame someone for going their own way on that one. The whole thing's a mess just the same, though, under any circumstances.
Excellent job, #1! "Kay Krex" is inspired, really. LOL!
The orange icing on the VT cake had me fooled. I thought it was a UT cake until I read the choices. Kinda sad when you can't even get the school colors right.
I've been reading this blog entirely too long when not only did I know that was a VT logo, I also didn't think it was all that bad.
In defense of some of these cake wrecks, I've been in their shoes, and a customer will come up and just tell you, I want a fish carrying a paintbrush wearing a beret and not give ya any idea what the logo or whatever is supposed to be. And to the lady that said you need an art degree to do cakes? LOL.. that's too funny... I got paid maybe 25 cents above minimum wage to do cakes for a store. (That's what I did while going through college.) I took a cake decorating course at the local community college, and loved it, and ended up getting a part time job doing it. These stores also expect you to only put in 10-15 minutes to ice and decorate most cakes. Some of these were still REALLY sad.
VT logo did pop into my head but not before trying to figure out how it might be the TN Vols. That's REALLY sad, since out of all the CCC designs, a VT logo REALLY shouldn't have been that difficult.
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I really though the VT logo was a putt-putt course--they have putt-putt teams right?
I know what's wrong with the last one: they forgot the little beret. WTH is wrong with people? Even if this is the 21st century, it sure seems hard to find someone in a grocery store willing to put your total nonsense artist-fish logo on baked goods. *sheesh*
Kay Krex---too funny! Can't wait to put that on an "Hello..my name is" sticker. or sign her up for some list...
you have the smartest commenters!
I snicker every time I walk by the cakes at Tom Thumb wishin' I had a camera on my phone.
Well, I guess if I fail at my chosen profession, I can always get a job as a cake decorator.
Great post! LOLOLOL!
Does anyone else see a little yellow bunny caught in a forest fire in the first cake? Or is it just me?
Is it a just a coincidence that all of the answers were C? They spell out the evil CCC! (*patooey*)
:) Sara
Dang - I could have sworn the last one had something do with Darwin! The others are just pathetic.
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Is that... the Art + Fun Summer Camp logo?
I don't quite know the story behind the fish (if it is) but the fact that we're on a tropical-ish island and use fish in a lot of logos probably has something to do with it. Don't ask me why it has legs though.
And if my guess is correct, would the submitter please, PLEASE reveal which bakery is responsible for that thing? For the safety of local cake-buyers? Even just a hint would help....
I love this site and HAD to comment today on how hilarious the post was! Oh my gosh! I'm still wiping the water off my keyboard from when I squirted it out of my mouth while I was laughing. Great website!
Oh no! I'm a VA Tech alum, and as soon as I saw it, I knew deep down in the pits of my stomach that's what it was supposed to be. And I said a little prayer that it wasn't...which was quickly unanswered. Just wow...
The first cake: None of the above. That is absolutely a combination of Barbie and Hot Wheels logos. (It's a ubiquitous combination, trust me -- every time you see a toy, kids' bedding, etc. where the same thing is offered in both "girl" and "boy" variations.)
California with a sledgehammer. LOL. That even makes sense. We Californians have an attitude, you know.
The middle one was the worst!
Wah...!? I got the fish one right. Does that mean I get a cookie, or something? :)
ok, but - do they TASTE good???? Kay, your name ROX!
anyone else think the last one was a darwin fish with a machette?
Katja--I see a bunny stuck in the flames too! That was my first reaction, then i tried to figure out what could be on the other side and gave up :P
"California holding a sledgehammer" also creased me.
And the last one definitely looked like a strange Darwin fish (mutated, of course, from the weird chemicals to be found in the colouring :P)
The Virginia Tech logo cake...wow, complete lack of geometry skills there. Not to mention even my three year old knows what a V and a T look like, and could probably line up cupcakes in some semblance of the correct shape.
This site never fails to blow my mind!
Wow, I thought the second cake was supposed to be a J... though the fact that the submitter's name was Jenny probably primed my brain for that somewhat.
In retrospect, it's clearly the Japanese character ク turned on its side. Clearly.
Is that last logo really a fish with legs wearing sunglasses (which is what it looks like) or a big-headed camp girl with a ponytail?
Lol I loved today's post! That fish logo with legs looked more like an impaled darwin fish than the logo it was supposed to be. Scary how none of the cakes matched the logos especially the Virginia Tech one..couldn't stop laughing.
You're so awesome. Kay Krex!
And yeah... some of these decorators are just a liiiiittle too optimistic. I say work within your means and abilities...
That thing on the last cake looks like something I have to defeat in Pikmin 2.
How could they forget the little crown on the Budweiser B? Budweiser is the king of beers, after all!
I loved "California holding a sledge hammer" --that's exactly what it looked like!
I love you just for the Labyrinth reference <3.
Hi Jen,
Did you mean "bullfrog" instead of "bullhorn" on the last cake?
A fish with legs wearing sunglasses and a beret and carrying a paintbrush. Seriously?
Funny as always!
*face-palm* It's times like these where a PhotoCake machine needs to be involved... Or DON'T take the cake order if you know the decorator CAN'T free-hand, it's that simple.
*shakes head*
GO HOKIES! Totally showing the husband.
Just curious. What happened to the first twenty-nine Shawns? Were they not so happy?
I'm pretty sure the cupcake cake is from Walmart. The decorators can only use 24 cupcakes in the design (no more, no less), so what was a customer even thinking asking Walmart to create a sports logo out of 24 cupcakes? Walmart is cheap for a reason. You can't get fabulous for pennies.