Monday
Jun142010
Just Beachy
June 14, 2010 Summer's here!
Time to celebrate the sandy beaches, pink and orange sunsets, and crystal blue waters of the...uh...
...apocalypse?"And the sky didst turn black, and the sea to ash, and lo, the Wreckerator did thusly expendeth her wrath upon the pink paper umbrella. Eth."
Gee, bakers, all you need for a decent beach cake is some water and a palm tree. How hard is that?
Ok, let me rephrase that.How about just a palm tree? A nice, simple, cheery...
Great gobs of corpulent crappy coconuts, what is THAT?!?
Right. Um, let's get back to the beach scenes, shall we?
Looks like someone's beach birthday has a heavy chance of sprinkles:
Yeesh. Now that is a crumby way to color a cake.Still, I guess it's better than this "beach umbrella" here:
Or as I like to call it: "Sprinkled poo dreams, in four movements"
Ally F., Alyska B., Jodee R., Shae, & Colleen M., this is one time when I can honestly say I don't want sprinkles.
Reader Comments (64)
Perhaps summer cakes should only be made by bakers who have actually experienced summer, or are mature enough to quit "hiding" poo-designs in all of their cakes.
On the palm tree CCC, all I can think of is that top-most brown cupcake when it's separated from the group. As a whole it's bad, but on it's own, it looks like an icing tumor.
I'm at an utter loss for words...*shakes head*
Most of these aren't terrible IMO -- just the two whose intended shapes are barely discernible and that bring fecal matter to mind.
But of course the palm tree sticks out horizontally over the water! :P
Apocalypse Beach. Great name for a summer goth night at the club. Can I gank that?
Four movements. AWESOME.
Dear god, where do they get their skills from?
Yep, just add a little paper umbrella and you have instant FESTIVE!
maybe the bakers are "celebrating" the oil spill??
You know, I've spent the majority of my life in Florida, and I've never been on a beach that had a palm tree on it. Nearish them, sort of, yes, but never ON the beach.
I love the caption for the last one "Sprinkle poo dreams" :-)
1) ooh, that's cheery. the pink paper cocktail umbrella just livens it all up. they should poke a few holes in it so it goes with the disaster theme.
2)either that palm tree is about to be hit by a tidal wave, or someone has a problem with perspective.
3) coverage! why are we seeing half-naked cupcakes? oh yeah, beach scene. what a wonky poo tree.
4) brown sugar clumps, plastic trees, cocktail umbrella, sprinkles, and--TOOTHPASTE? yeah, that looks professional. Minty toothpaste + raspberry cake. flavor combo of dreams.
5) a poo tornado! I miss those! and it's--at the circus??
Ha ha! Four "movements"!
Sometimes I am glad I am gluten free, because no one makes craptastic cakes like that for me.
The amount of shortening involved is destined for re-runs, of that I am absolutely sure.
"Sprinkled poo dreams, in four movements" Brilliant. So glad I hadn't had my cup of coffee yet.
Okay, that last one? The first thing I thought of is "IT's a poo-nado!"
"Great gobs of corpulent crappy coconuts..."
Classic, Jen, classic. Thank you!
That top one looks like a scene from "The Road". How depressing.
1st cake - made by a seer.
3rd cake? The blue side looks like a profile from the now collapsed "Man of the Mountain"(NH) rock formation.
There's no beach anywhere near that old site.
Jen, you are hysterical.
Mocking
Yeah... I'm still sticking to my original thought that the "island" in that first cake looks like a chicken breast... on a cake!
WV: Copin - the wreckerators were copin out when they made some of these wrecks!
Dang. You beat me to it with the first cake and the oil spill footnote. On the last cake, however, is that not a poo tornado coming our way?
I think the first one was made by BP's public relations people. "Sure the water is toxic, but you can sit under this cute pink umbrella!"
hahaha
"Movements" had me laughing out loud - for real!
You know, I was at this beach this weekend and it didn't look anything like those cakes. Am I missing something here?
Ugh, I can't stand the perspective on the second one because it's like a bird's-eye view with the beach and then, apparently, a coconut tree lying flat on the sand. BOOOOOO
If you held that last one upside down, it kinda looks like sprinkle-eyed ET riding in an upturned "umbrella" or multi-coloured clown flower. I love it! :D
That one looks like a poo tornado, kicking up a pile of ... er, poo.
I think the last cake should be titled "Willy Wonka's Tornado-of-Poo"... with sprinkles!
I like the caterpillar (centipede) leaves on the palm tree on the dreaded cup cake cake cake cake.
The umbrella taking a multicolor poop is so great.
Poo cupcakes. (blech)
It actually looks like a poo tornado with sprinkle debris. Ick.
The last one looks like a tornado coming out of a rainbow cloud. It's like an optimist's version of a tornado. "Sure it can kill you, but look at all the pretty colors..."
I could forgive the crumbs as sand on the 4th cake... IF....the water wasn't just a sea of sprinkles...
The two cupcakes iced with flower petals were kind of cute....
I hate to say it, but maybe they were thinking of the oil spill.
I think the first one is supposed to be a moonlit beach at night, but then why have an umbrella at all? That one must come from the laminated 'clinical depression' page of the grocery store cake decoration binder.
Four movements. Oh, dear.
Why, why, why didn't the cupcake people just use their globs of icing to decorate all of the cc with flower tops. They would have had just as much icing and a prettier presentation.
Of course, they probably wouldn't have made the CW scene.
If the wreckerator for the first one hadn't been colour-blind, it would not have been a wreck. Maybe the only time that person ever saw a beach was during a terrible storm where the ocean was a grey froth and the sky was scary-dark? But I like your religious explanation better!
Maybe #2 is after the storm, when the palm tree had been permanently bent horizontal??? Otherwise, I'm flabbergasted that the person didn't know trees grew UP out of the ground! (how could someone miss that?!)
Love "great gobs" of newly redefined CCC! At least the flower cupcakes aren't bad!
That sprinkle cake screams "I really could care less about my job"! Sadly, I think the "four movements" cake is actually better than the sprinkles one. Gevalt!
I showed the photo of the third cake to a good friend of mine. She said it looked like the Loc Ness monster taking a dump.
Were it not for the recognizable bakery label on the second cake, I would swear it was made at a bakery in a remote Tibetan village by someone who has never had the opportunity to see even a photograph of a beach. Apparently it was just a clueless American with a piping bag. (sighs)
#2 = tsunami cake
omg - the ccc looks like "eco-poo" - something you might step in while walking along the beach in Costa Rica...yea, waaaayyyy too much of a poop theme going on here. When I see umbrellas (REAListic umbrellas) I think of refreshment, not poo.
Aw, c'mon, can't you see that first one is a Sumi painting? No, really. HONest. Would I lie to you? (blinkblink)...
The second photo looks like a tsunami ready to hit the tree, and gee, has my dog been dropping coconuts again???
Thank you, Martha in SCV
"corpulent crappy coconuts"...indeed.
wv: ullyelbb
yep.That's how they make me feel too.
For those who haven't left these fair shores...palm trees can, and do grow leaning out over beaches. Just think..coconuts float, wash ashore and grow.
See example (and I can verify - I have been lucky enough to go there)
http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/42-2885B
But still doesn't excuse the poop on the beach. I don't want to see a photo OR a cake of that.
wv coidd: They coidd it a day.
Ahhhhh!! TSUNAMI!
On the fourth cake, please tell me that those plastic palm trees are not the variety used in aquariums.
And if they are, please tell me that they are new and were washed with a 10% bleach solution before being stuck in the cake.
Of course, with these bakers, that is probably too much to ask.
Oh for pete's sake - whoever pete is. These are from one of those planets that have "different" suns, moons, atmospheres. How do you know it couldn't look like it "there"? And you call yourselves geeks, hmmmmm. And there you need the umbrellas for the really large flying critters. Norine
Arghhh what is with all the poo? Or are the wreckerators trying to tell us this is what to expect this summer? If so I will not be going to the beach I will hide out at home safe from the poo cakes waiting to grab some unsuspecting soul lol. But I must say that third cake.. my mind went way into the gutter to describe what that poop mess looked like.. now I need soap to scrub my brain.