Halloweenies
October 21, 2011 Warning: Weenie humor ahead!
Anyone else think the Halloween cakes are getting kinda handsy this year?
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No, no. I mean, it seems like the designs are getting a lot...fresher.
;)
"GOOSE!"
For example, some people might think these "pumpkins" represent huge...tracts of land:
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Others might think it's a little chilly in here.
Hey, sure, bakers, just stick that candy corn anywhere:
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I'd say the bat was a nice touch, but I think the ghost might disagree.
And when it comes to pumpkin cookies, this bakery offers up some stiff competition:
I'm surprised that they'd erect such a dinky display.
And while that might seem like a hard act to follow, it turns out there's more than one bakery trying to get ahead:
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Psst. Bakers. Here's a tip.
Also, I think your problem stems from a cockeyed decorator with a testy disposition getting a good-natured ribbing from the bakery staff.
Ben, Kristen Z., Bevin C., Petra R., Zack J., and Sara W., these cakes salute you.
Sorry about that.
HEY RICHMOND!!! We'll see you at 7 pm!!! WOOHOO!!!
Reader Comments (67)
It took me a minute just to get past the first one.
Once again, the commentary rose to the occasion.
Thank you.
Let's face it: We all know Halloween needed more jazz hands.
Now for that poor, little poltergeist. He went to all the trouble to tattoo "BOO" on his ghostly nether region just to keep the bats away from his "candy corn," and still, he is under attack. He deserves our sympathy, not our derision.
I appreciate that the wreckerators aren't discriminating in terms of gender when it comes to the pumpkins. (And that's a sentence I never thought I'd utter.)
Is that skeleton really climbing a... um... a... ??? Oh my!
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Now show me on the gingerbread man where he touched you...
My daughter Olivia (you all remember her post about how belly cakes should be reserved for Halloween movies yesterday) now loves CakeWrecks and wants to know if there is a CakeWrecks for kids. (Ah, The Next Generation...) But this ain't it.
Hmmm...looks like bakers are hard up for good ideas.
Love, love, LOVE the last sentence. Perfect. And hilarious.
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I sure hope the Boo tattooed ghost isn't dealing with a vampire bat. A regular bat would be bad enough, but a vampire bat?
Thanks, SuBee. I didn't realize that said "boo." I just thought it was an awful black icing squiggle representing I-don't-know-or-even-want-to-think-about-what . . . . Or hair.
Omg! I actually just stoped being a daybaker at the large chain that makes those pumpkin cookies! And they will all look like that in any of the stores you go into. That's so funny that I didn't notice the dirtiness of the cookies, I usually have my mind in the gutter!
Sharyn: Do you have to sit in a bathtub while eating Cialis Desserts?
@ Sharyn: You're funny!
I don't get the second one...at all. Well, this is a first!
Teeheehee! This post cracked me up more than usual :) The pumpkins! Seriously, who would make those? In more than one bakery? WHYYYYYYY? Hahahaha!
Maybe they just took the "Pumpkins" out of the freezer....is it a bit nippy in here?
I'm so embarrassed. It seems I based my last comment on some phallus assumptions. Had I been able to get my mind out of the gutter, I would have realized this is actually a subtle salute to slightly alternative children's literature.
1. Weenie the Poo
2. There was an Old (Alien) Lady who Wallowed in Spider (It wiggled and jiggled and tickled beside her...)
3. James and the Giant Pumpkins
4. Casper the Inappropriately Friendly Ghost
5. It's a "Great" Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
6. The "Great" Pumpkin Rises Again
My bad...
Can't top Sharyn's commentary, not even gonna try XD XD XD
Those pumpkin cookies are from Panera, which is a chain, which is why there are two identical pictures.
Come on, people.
Ha, Loving the Monty Python reference.
Sharyn, you made me laugh so hard! And I was already in tears from the post, now I'm dehydrated.
Okay, here I go, rising to the challenge... (11 days 'til Jen and John hit Toronto!)
(To "Don't Worry, be Happy" and I warn you, it's rather rude for me)
Here’s a little cookie ghost
A rival for “ghost with the most”
Don’t worry, he’s happy
Necrophiliac’s blow-up doll
With “boo” graffitied on his balls
Don’t worry, he’s happy
In today’s blog the bakers faced some stiff competition in getting their creations posted. Whether it was making a clean breast of things or genital…err…general Halloween work, they all rose to the occasion, stood proud and firm, unbending in their desire to get a rise out of us. Yes, seeing these was certainly the climax of my day!
@Sharyn—you’re on a roll! Loved ‘em!
Hey, those look like private body parts. Numbers 3, 4 and 5.
Being from Panera doesn't exuse it lol
OMG!! @Dark Lord of Marking and @Sharyn (two times!) -- LOL!! I can't stop laughing at your comments!! TOO DARN FUNNY!!!
And those "perky pumpkins" -- it's made even worse by where the person is holding them up in that picture!
Another holiday of decorating destruction!!
That ghost looks like it could use a Brazilian wax. Or at least a trim! Jeez!
I don't think I will be able to look at any pumpkin this year without my mind going straight to the gutter..... Ah another perfect holiday ruined by inproper thoughts and images... ..... <giggles> See I'm all torn up about it!!
I can't decide if the ghost is enjoying himself or if the bat is violating it.
same goes for the bug-eyed alien. The spider seems to surprise him tickling him THERE. But does he mind?
I wonder if those pumpkins are what a witch's implants would look like.
@JRM--if it's a vampire bat and it sucks, would the ghost mind?
@Sharyn--you are hilarious today!
Those pumpkin cookies at the end? Those ain't no bakeries . . they're PANERA. They're EVERYWHERE. Oh boy.
Is anybody else convinced yet that these bakeries are purposely trying to make cakes/cookies look like private body parts? I mean, how else do you explain these cakes?
Jen: I think you need to hire Sharyn.
Absolutely brilliant.
I'm torn between wanting to go to my local Panera to see if they have a supply of said cookies and wanting to email this post to their customer service...I mean, someone should point it out to them if they've not already noticed....right?
Gah!! I just got my Panera eNewsletter and there's a big picture of these cookies in my inbox right now. You've ruined a perfectly delicious cookie for me, thank you very much. ;)
the first one screams 'jazz hands'.
at 'Dark Lord of Marketing' still laughing... tears streaming.. best comment ever!
I don't know which was more amusing - the cakes or the commentary!!!
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I saw those pumpkin cookies at my local Panera and wanted to take a picture to send in, but I couldn't figure out a way to get one. Thanks to whoever managed to pull it off, you made my day!
Wow this whole post cracked me up. Are these bakers really that oblivious? Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference ftw. I think the worst one may be the spider crawling up the cupcake cake monsters crotch. But that first one. A poop penis? With hands? Who in their right minds thought that was a good idea. Who would want to eat that? What is that supposed to be underneath the candy corn on the ghost cookie? Do I even want to know. Maybe it's supposed to be a bat, but there's a plastic bat below the candy corn. Kinda seems like overkill.
#1 Is that brown shape/blob.... yep, it is.... omg, yep, it is phallic in shape...
#2 I'd have 3 eyes and crazy hands if a spider THAT size was that close to me too!! O_o
#3 - Pumpkin cakes served at Hooters? Or maybe they are the boobs for an all new Halloween addition of the baby belly cakes from yesterday.
#4 And you thought the reusing of the helmet-shaped cookie cakes to make new designs was bad! Seriously you made a ghost from a gingerbread man shape?! And a very excited one...
#5 & 6 Are just HARD to get past without laughing my butt off!
I must say a big "Thank You" to CW and all readers that have posted hilarious comments! I was having a horrible day (you know "unemployed, no money, pity me, party for one!") And I turned to CW for my daily dose of smiles. . . Hats off to you for "rising" to the occasion. I am now in tears from LOLing repeatedly!
PS: "Dark Lord of Marketing": You are the best! That comment made my day!
Who knew that gingerbread men cookies could be made into ghost coookies? Ghosts fleeing from candy-headed bats in search of the crotch..er I mean cave of Boo. Do ghosts have crotches? Well, gingerbread ghosts do.
cannot.
stop
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laughing.
Can't help but notice that the jazz hands on cake #1 are both RIGHT hands... just to add to the creep factor. Whattheheck are the LEFT hands doing????
And I really can't blame the second cake-monster - I'd probably look bug-eyed (but with only two eyes) like that, too, if I found giant spiders crawling all over me! Eeeewwww... wreckorators, arachnophobes will never buy that cake, I promise you.
Isn't the 5th picture of pumpkin cookies from Panera Bread???
There is nothing better than a well placed "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" reference. Thanks for the laugh!!
I wish I could have gone to Richmond!!
@Sharyn
OMG, woman, PLEASE get a publisher and a book contract of your own!