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What's a Wreck?
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.
Now, don't you have a photo you want to send me? ;)
- Jen
January 2, 2012
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Reader Comments (82)
Instant way to tell if your cake was accidentilly delivered to a frat party before being delivered to you....They leave you a "surprise"....
Finely aged mayonnaise?
Beth- You are not the only one that thought otherwise..... there were so many puns in the posting that I know we are not the only ones. Whoever did that cake s/b suspended from anything but a number 10 Wilton shell and a bag of frosting that is either blue/yellow/red or green for at least 3 months.
Yep Beth, first thing that occurred to me!!!!!!!!!!
dam, never eating breakfast while reading your post ever again, not only did i want to srsly vomit ... but my face planting the keyboard turned into face planting my bowl of cereal!!! atleast the kids had a good laugh, lmao
Okay, my first thought was Vaseline (gag) then I read the captions.... GAG GAG GAG why would someone put that on a cake?!
Sharyn, made me giggle/snort and zoomom made me wet my pants laughing! It went downhill from there.
My 21st birthday cake had a small, plastic champagne glass with allegedly champagne flavored piping gel. We didn't taste it to check that claim out and by "me" I mean my parents and myself. Yeah, we went there, too.
Madi sez:
"Did anyone else notice the orange stain the wineglass (unsuccessfully) attempts to cover up?"
Yes, but I'd rather have the orange stain than what's oozing out of those glasses.
We used to worry
that our food had been spat in.
We worry no more.
Oooh.....So close to Christmas....must be immaculate ejaculate!
Hmm maybe if I close my eyes and blink three times this cake will disappear and it will be Sunday sweets again.. nope drats lol. What a lovely start to the new year these wreckerators are on the ball or is it just that they are off their rockers?
The last time I saw something like that, I had to RUSH my dog to the vet. Giardia.
'Nuff said.
Happy EwwYear!
@Jess....it's a product called Piping Gel. It's supposed to be tasteless (although does come in vanilla flavor if ordered) and is mainly used to make water effects on cakes. I like the way it looks when used correctly, but this decorator probably should've come up with something that didn't resemble snot.
Actually... and I don't know if anybody has proposed this theory yet, but I haven't seen it.... I think that the unnamed substance may be that awful jelly filling oozing out of the middle of leftover donuts shoved in the back of the tray labeled "Ass.Ring" at the 24-Hour "Diesel, Dumping, and Biggest T-Bones in Town!" gas station somewhere out on the loneliest stretch of Route 666 that runs by Ute Mountain...
Oh, it's icing?
Never mind. :)
Looks like that to me too - first, you freeze the novelty latex 'champagne glasses' ... oh, never mind.
Is it pudding? Please God, tell me it is pudding. Shivers.
When will cake decorators learn to stop smearing piping gel on cakes? It doesn't look like water, it doesn't look like a drink, it doesn't look "pretty". It just looks disgusting.
This cake may have come from this lab:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmaal7Hf0WA
"If you liked 'American Pie', you'll love... 'American Cake'! Available on DVD wherever people who like that sort of thing shop."
Does anyone have some sprinkels? Or a lot of them? Maybe sprinkles in cerice, yellow and blue will cheer up the mourning feeling. (Trying to ingnore the glasses and snot.) A lot of sprinkels. (excuse my spelling)
Erp.....just erp.
Ok, I just have to say that there are a lot of innocent minds commenting on this post. If the actual look of the "champagne" didn't make my mind go to the gutter, the puns in the post sure did!
As to the funerial type coloring: Maybe the cake was for an Ew year party at a funerla home.
As to the gunk in the glasses: What do you want to bet that BOTH glasses were to remain upright and 'someone' thought it would be more 'festive' if the flutes had fallen over and did not realize that the gunk would flow all over the cake.
HAPPY EW YEAR EVERYBODY!
I MUST know what kind of piping gel this is! I can use it for the adult cakes I make!
To Merry:
"You men, run with Mucus!"
From "History of the World, Part 1", from Mel Brooks.
Yes?
I had the pleasure of seeing this cake up close and personal. Yes folks, it looks just as slimy in person as it does in the photo. Love ya Jess, glad your wreck made it to the site!
Ok so I just read through all of the comments... am I seriously the only one who thought it looked like condoms at first? Mainly because of the color. I'm not even sure if that would be grosser than the phlegmy goo.
Upon further inspection though, all I could think about was what Vicks Vapo-Rub must taste like. Hint: not good.
I know Jess, and saw the cake. Lets just say none of us ate it...
Has this wreckerator ever actually seen champagne? Or spooge? Because that looks like two glasses of spooge to me. Certainly nothing like champagne.
Eww.
The "slime"/"goo" is actually piping gel. Its used by cake decorators to get a "wet" look or to imitate a liquid. Obviously, someone skipped a day of training on how to use it.
I seriously thought it was condoms when I first saw it
I can't look at this without wondering what fertility clinic was robbed to get the contents of those glasses!!