A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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September 18, 2011 For years, bakers have tried to deny it.
"My balloons look like what? Really?! Well, I never. How could you even suggest such a thing? I'm aghast! I'm stunned! I'm [checking thesaurus] chagrined! Why, I would never...
...
"Um...
"Yeah, okay. You got me. Those are totally sperm.
"But how do you like my rose buds?"
Thanks to Rebecca B., who only mentioned that they misspelled "We'll." She's a forgiving sort, that one.
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Reader Comments (49)
Does that say "Perd?" As in, Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec?
What's a Perd/Pend?
Will miss you, Perd!--is that like "_____ somebody will miss you, you Perv you...or is Perd the person's name? what kind of a name is Perd! How come you didn't mention THIS!?
I couldn't help thinking it meant "We'll miss you Period." Which makes the balloon sperm seem fitting. Like they're moving on to greener pastures. Maybe it's a menopause cake!
So what is this cake about? Train Tracks, sperm, Balloons, and brown flowers? I don't get it! LOL
is that supposed to say "Will miss you Period?"
Um, is it only me, or do you see, along with the sperm balloons, that it doesn't say "Perd", it says "Period"? I'm just sayin'...
What's with the railroad tracks at the bottom?
Rose buds? I thought those we snails! Somehow, I think Perd is better off when he/she leaves!
Oh my... that's... why would balloons be going horizontally? AND um, 'cream' colored? Oh, and the small piles of pooh.
Even the colors say, "I give up."
Maybe it's "Will miss you." (a period -- being the punctuation mark the customer requested) & the baker/decorator thought it was the person's name. I don't know....
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we will miss you and we will celebrate it with poo piles, poo splatters and sperm.... and a fence? What the?
@Claire - that's exactly what I thought too!! LOL :) Kind of like a farewell cake to the sperm since they made the journey!
It looks like someone desaturated/sepia toned this cake. It's about the dreariest looking mess I've seen.
Speechless.
Maybe if you ordered it from a colour-blind, stream of consciousness thinker working at the bakery next door to the fertility clinic it would make sense?
No?
I'm starting to see things in that cake that Freud wouldn't even see.
Perd means horse in Afrikaans. Not that it makes any more sense.
This one has to be intentional. Why would the baker make the balloons sideways? The sperm and the actual balloons look like completely different styles and I wonder if they were done by two different bakers, one with an odd sense of humor. The strings are different and they are oriented differently.
There's no excuse for those "rosebuds" though. They look like what my friend's dog made when she ate a green crayon.
Hm. How perplexing.
Yeah, I'm with the others who saw "period." I assumed it to be a pregnancy cake with the sperm deftly swimming by. Though why you would miss your period...ever? Sigh. That is the gist of my understanding.
}:)
There are rosebuds on there? *peers* ...Where?
This looks like a practice cake (I keep hoping, at least). Does anyone else wonder if it was meant to say "We'll"?
We thought it said Pard, you know, short for Pardner. Maybe it is a western theme with a country fence.
That still doesn't explain the sperm and rosebuds, if that's what they are.
I automatically read it as "Pard," short for "Pardner," because the fence seemed Western. The questionable balloons and flying sky rosebuds, however, add a whole new layer of mystery.
I hope the poo tadpoles don't grow up to be chocolate frogs, or the entire wizarding world is going to get e coli.
"It's time for Ya Heard? with Perd!"
Urgh, urgh, urgh... you said "rosebuds."
And I KNOW it's because you've seen Goldmember and you're trying to gross me out with a Fat B reference.
*puts on best Dr. Evil accent*
... *hands on knees* Ok, sick as a dog now... Ok... Gonna vomit....
Carmiehead, the Un-Stalker
I said I wanted a SHEET CAKE!!!
WTF was the POINT of this??? D:
"I said I wanted a SHEET CAKE!!!"
Good one, Sara!
Assuming that the writing is indeed Perd, it could be short for Perdita, like in 101 Dalmations. It's probably a common name somewhere.
The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced it's some kind of edible rebus, but I can't make head or tail out of most of it.
@ J. Hill- more like Turd Cr*pley!
I'm thinking "Run out of town on a rail" fits in there somehow.....?
Hee! Sharyn! very clever.
Uh, "Perd" as in "perdition"? That would explain a lot.
There once was a fellow named Perd
Who was as colorblind as a dead bird
And had no sense of smell
so he just couldn't tell
that his goodbye cake was frosted with tur...tle fudge ganache. ;-)
Aaarr. So no pirates today? Just some Perd being run out on the rails trailed by some sad balloons.
Argh! It be the plank for poor bonny Perd!
Perd, in Afrikaans(a South African language) means........horse. Might explain the traintrack-like fence, no wait, now I'm even more confused.
It's a message cake I am sure. Balloons = rubber/condoms The fence as in Defense against the sperm.
It's all lies..
It represents something deep, man. Deep.
I agree with Claire! I thought it said "Period" at first... and I was thinking... well that's a way to celebrate I think?!
Achromatic world.
Gravity awry. Tracks' end.
Apocalypse now.
I think I got it! It is a hystorectomy cake! Those might be inscisions, not railroad tracks!
I don't get perd unless they misspelled period, or the brown ” flowers”.... Hmmm....
This has to be one of the ugliest cakes I've ever seen, but I laughed until tears were running down my face while reading the comments about it!! I finally had to take a bathroom break before having an "accident" from laughing so hard! There are a lot of good comments, but Sara's comment about requesting a "sheet cake", was a real winner! Thanks for making my day, everybody!!! :-D
Does anyone think the Blue Balloons look like Boobs, or is it just me?
You Guys think everything looks like boobs......LOL. I think the balloons and sperm were flying over the fence on their new journey. Maybe they will land in Emerald City with Dorothy and the tin man and breed more p - - p splatters.. Weird cake though...
I think it's supposed to say, "Will miss your pond" and the sketchy balloons are supposed to be something strange in a pond. The stuff in the top left hand corner is lilly pads with big brown toads sitting on them.
it probably should read PARD, like Partner
I thought it said Will Miss Your Period! Like a boyfriend telling his girlfriend, the condom broke or he didn't pull out in time.
Like Bob, I immediately assumed Perdita.
I thought that said, "Will miss your period", lol! that seems to be more accurate with the "balloons".