Monday
Apr182011
Easter EGGcellence
April 18, 2011 Ok, bakers, huddle up!
Now, listen: Easter is coming. That means a lot of long hours, hard work, and painstaking effort on your part to ensure we make some of the most beautif...BWAHAHAHA!!
AHAHAHAHAA!!
[wiping eyes] Sorry, sorry! I really thought I'd get through that with a straight face this year. Heehee!
Right: start your airbrushes! I'll see you back here in five.
Bee-YOO-tiful.
Nice aim on those jelly beans, Jim!
And good call on the "Peep Peep." That'll clue 'em in it's not a swan or a banana or something.
Not bad, but I can still see a little icing. Can we get a little more plastic in here?And speaking of plastic, here's a great recycling tip:
St. Patrick would be proud.
And remember, bakers: the more plastic, the less time, skill, and hassle!
I made this one in 15 seconds.
With my feet.
(Aaaand that'll be $14.99, please. Cha-ching!)
And lastly, I don't actually know what this is...
...but it looks like a really efficient use of time. So let's make a few dozen more.[staring in stunned silence]
Well, one thing's for sure: You're not getting a Peep out of me.
Reader Comments (86)
damn I was hoping to be the first with a Pi joke
O_o that about covers it. Such abominable cakes should be locked up for life. That last one WTF D:
I love how there's a single bite mark out of the Peep Peep cake. Perhaps it doesn't taste better than it looks?
Let's hope the Pi Easter cake is not left over from pi day!
Looking at this with me 3 year old. We came to the "Peep" CCC. I asked him what it was and his reply? "I don't know, but it has wheels!" My thoughts exactly son. My thoughts exactly.
@Danger Boy, haven't starving 3rd world children suffered enough?! They would probably send these back.
#1 Looks like a cloud, or maybe a pillow. Nice attempt to disguise the cupcakes, anyway.
#2 "Someone left the cake out in the rain..."
#3 I kept seeing wheels on the bottom. That, plus the 'international caution' yellow, led me to realize: it's a Trojan seahorse. 'Peep peep' is the sound it makes when it backs up.
#4 By the time you get rid of the Astroturf and the flotsam, is there anything edible on the plate? And why do I think the tape in the background didn't just happen to be there.
#5 Despite the (Soylent) green, I was expecting cinnamon rolls. Then I saw the telltale paper cup liners... I wish I could un-CCC this.
#6 Forrest bunnies are related to frogs. Look it up. On Wikipedia. Mwahahaha.
#7 "I just wanna give a shout out to the Peeps!"
Wv: trounkup. That last cake in particular was a complete trounkup.
Blink. Blink. Blink....Nope, that first cake just can't be in focus! And the second one - it's got THINGS crawling up it!!
wv: slyin. Stick all that stuff slyin around on the cake; yeah, all that plastic stuff!
I THINK that a bunny...
The pink bunny will only speak on condition of anonymity.
Did anyone else see a Viking ship in that "Peep Peep" CCC, or am I just making these whiskey sours too strong?
WV: uphandu. Since he was a very young man, Jim has worked vigorously to master the uphandu method for sticking Jelly Beans onto the cake juuust right.
~The Pink Bunny
I thought the last one was an attempt at a Chippendale bunny. It kind of looks like a bow-tie, and maybe arms or a tux shirt?... I don't think I want to know what the giant purple egg has to do with it.
My 1st thought upon seeing the jelly bean cake was, "Why are sperm trying to crawl up that white cake?"
But, they're rainbow colored sperm... so appropriate for spring!
Its not a CCC peep, its a dinosaur! probably Godzillas catholic cousin, or pedgan pedning on how you view easter....
Rebecca Hamilton
Actually, I thought #3 looked more like that optical illusion where you're supposed to see either a duck or a rabbit.
And, I thought #4 looked pretty good until I realized that it was all plastic.
J @ 10:41am - thank you for the LLOL! "resurrecting this post" - awesome!
And Jen - thanks as always for the LLOLs, "with my feet" - heeheehee!
Love the jelly bean cake. Nothing says spring like sperm all over an Easter cake. Spring is a time of renewal and birth, so it's very fitting. And it could be recycled for a baby shower!
~ Krystil
That last one is the famous yet little-known Purple Rhinocerous Hedgehog found in the African part of Bucklebury in the U.K. It nests in plastic and eats sprinkles.
-Lyn, a wreckzoothropologist
With all that plastic, why even bother making a cake? It would be even more effortless to not do it!
Easter road runner days ...peep peep
Liizzz
The second cake...definitely sperm on LSD.
This is terrible - but the last cake looks just like the toilet paper cover one of my aunts crocheted. It sat on the back of the toilet. The yellow thingy on hers was supposed to be flowers, I think. I can't tell you how much it disturbs me.
I just hope the joint St Patrick's/Easter cake was an old photo from a year when Easter was really early and close to March 17...although looking up the dates for when Easter occurs, the earliest is 3/23, last happening in 2008, so maybe not??
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/freq3.html" rel="nofollow">Frequency of the Date of Easter 1875 to 2124
Gotta love the description on the sales label for the "forest bunnies" cake--"cupcake pull-apart 12 count". At least they didn't try to call it an actual "cake"!
Good gravy, those are just bad.
Easter PI ?!?!
more recycling perhaps??
#1 The putrid pink and blurry blue bunny of doom sends the frat boys screaming into the night.
#2 I though sperm only swam upstream not upcake.
#3 When amoebas attack. Or it’s Rick Astley.
#4 At least the oranges in the background are pretty- good going, Mother Nature.
#5 It’s the Estonian Kissing Cross- slightly less well known than the Blarney Stone.
#6 A Cow Pi by any other name is still $14.99.
#7 A daisy?
-Barbara Anne
Oh my gosh.. these are supposed to be Easter cakes?? That first one looks like a martian on drugs lol. At least they aren't the scary and most terrifying of all those Lamb cakes from last year..oh please tell me you didn't find more of those lol.
Who cares what that last one is? It has a Peep on it! SOLD!
Good ones, Barbara Anne. Astley FTW -- that's how Rick rolls. I do see a resemblance, come to think of it.
Be careful with the term, 'frat boy', though. As for the implication that daisies in any way resemble that last mess, it is important to maintain a high standard of factual accuracy on a comedy blog about bad cakes.
Does the green cross look deep fried to anyone else, or just me?
That last one I recognize, it is a full bodied Peep with G-String and Pasties about to climb up on a purple stage. Hey, I spend my Easter MY way, you can spend it your way.
On the last cake - the purple egg thing - doesn't the peep's expression look a lot like Mr. Bill from SNL? Just sayin'.
The last one looks like an armadillo to me. Is he auditioning for the Cadbury commercials?
Apparently I'm the only poster who saw the jelly bean cake and thought "How cute! Little bitty balloons! Oh...those are jelly beans? Oh well."
'Watership Down' in lard and sugar.
These make the Easter Bunny cry tears of blood. BLOOD I TELL YOU!
I SWEAR I will try to get some pictures to you of some REALLY CUTE Easter/Spring cupcakes that they're selling at my local grocery store.
Seriously, they are SO CUTE you wouldn't want to eat them, but display them.
Mom & Daughter L
Ummm, that yellow thing is the rarely seen "Loch Ness Peep"
lactneti: Latin for 'plastic flotsom'
"And lastly, I don't actually know what this is...
...but it looks like a really efficient use of time..."
Jen, can't you tell? It's the Holiday Armadillo!
So clearly the peep peep banana thing is an Easter seahorse. Not sure why you missed the boat on that one.
And the last purple "rabbit" is a festive version of Morla, the giant know-all turtle of "Neverending Story" fame. The face is what remains of the Easter Bunny when he tried to disturb Morla in the Swamps of Sadness...