Monday
Apr162012
Body of Art
April 16, 2012 The flower represents the innocence of youth.
The stump, life's transience.
And the flaming tentacle hands cradling the noodle-limbed fetus broken in half?
Well, those are there just to freak you the f*** out.
;)
Mission accomplished, Erika K.
(Btw, pretty sure those baby legs are going to be tap-dancing their way into my nightmares tonight.)
*Tappity tap tap tap*
*Tappity tap tap tap*
(Yep.)
(NEVER. SLEEPING. AGAIN.)
[Note from john: The "f" word up there was "fern." Wait... you didn't think... what is WRONG with you people?!]
Reader Comments (161)
Holy. .. Fern.
Part of me is freaking out, and the other part wishes the fetus was doing jazz hands, to go with those tappity legs.
It's being assimilated, right?
. . . That is really, really disturbing. Who on earth could ever have thought that was a good idea?
There should be a category in the DSM for someone who would think this was a good idea for a cake. OMG.
Seriously - WTF, people?
People work so hard to make their cakes beautiful. I can't imagine someone slaving over this cake. I can't even tell what it is! Is that an arm? Is that "flower" covering her hoo-ha? I'm so conflicted right now!
My sister told me about cakewrecks a couple years ago, I caught up on the archives when I was laid off shortly after, and I've been a faithful, daily reader since. I can honestly say this is the very first time I've ever looked at a cake and physically thrown up in my mouth a little bit. Yay for cakewrecks firsts! Well played.
Maybe it's actually two babies?? And it's the second baby's legs which are visible, and it's head and torso and under the stump/arm/death trap? Not sure if that's any less freaky... <shudder> Or am I the only one who sees this?
Looks like someone took a little trip to the Mutter Museum in Phillie.
I guess they sell cakes in the gift shop now.
Uh huh.. I'm 34 weeks pregnant. According to this, the thumps I'm feeling under by ribs are coming from baby's... bum?
*blinks* *flushes eyes with saline solution, stares and blinks again* I honestly don't know if I should be confused or terrified. So far, the terror is winning by a narrow margin. O.o
I would really like to know if the baker was told that they specifically wanted to freak everyone the hell out. Seriously, what's with the bronze tentacly things? And khiemstra, I can totally see that and it freaked me out a little bit more!
What a horrifying... thing.. that is. I'm going to have nightmares.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
I think this is the most disgusting cake I've seen so far, and I have been coming to this site for a long time. I am not going to say what it reminds me of because I am a NICE person. Ugh!
I don't think any other post has elicited a "WTF...ern!" more than that cake.
My first reaction was "what in the Sam Hill is that?" After taking a closer look, it seems to me that the flower is on the neck stump. It sort of looks like there are breasts on the right side, mostly covered under the arm. The second arm is cradling the bottom of the stomach, and the bronze tentacle stuff looks to me like it's supposed to be some sort of henna or tattoo art or something to cover up where the hands should be. My guess is the baker couldn't do large hands very well and it's supposed to be more abstract than realistic.
Mother-love, a fire.
It may eat our heads, limbs, but
never modesty.
WHAT IN THE FERN IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I'm keep looking at this, hoping to make sense of it, and I just can't. Is it sort of like an open version of the preggo belly cake? With a very small and noodley babe? At least it's not an anatomically correct c-section... right? I've seen that cake, and it's not pretty. Are those arms with bronze tentacles placed for modesty or is it an "artistic" representation of the "growth and transformation" of mother hood? Or is the headless torso being assimilated? (Resistance is futile, after all.) And why is the headless torso wearing a brooch on her bare neck? I'm too confused to be terrified.
Well, i had some of the similar thoughts as Tea, but i'm thinking the bronze fire fingers on the left ( not sure if it is the top or bottom ) but if it is the bottom, i'm putting out there the idea that maybe they are ----- stretch marks? Really serious major stretch marks but ... Maybe Marie Antoinette was pregnant when they sliced off her head and this is a dedication to her? Its ashame her unborn child was going to be physically disabled and needing a wheel chair.
I figured the F*** was for freaky...
Why do I keep looking at Cake Wrecks so close to breakfast? Why?
I had already decided years ago that I didn't want to have children. After seeing this, I'm going to go ahead and just have all my reproductive organs surgically removed.
I'm having serious Lovecraftian WAKING NIGHTMARES!!1111!1!!! *shudder*
endometriosis!
Yum. Silly-Putty coloured abomination cake.
This is just...... so...... wrong.
On so many levels
How could someone take pride in making something like that???
Oh, those are arms!?
I thought they were giant ovaries run amok. Now I see they're supposed to be arms.Really strange arms.I sincerely hope, that if I'm ever decapitated, someone will be thoughtful enough to place a flower over my "neck stump."
No joke-I suddenly feel like crying. This is one powerful pastry.
It is not often that we get a cake filled with such depth of significance, yet sums up its obvious meaning with a simple metaphor – the small, dried grape on the doily on the right of the cake… it’s about raisin’ kids….
What...were they going for??? O_o It looks like the baby is being swallowed up by the Great Earth Spirit. Pagan birthing ritual?? Pro abortion cake cake?? Either way AUUUGGHH D:
I think you're right Tea. There are handish lumps under the those tentecalites. Maybe the shape of the hands helps explain those legs, and the fact that the baby is where here heart should be...Does anyone have the number for MIB?
I characteristically try to avoid recycling comments. HOWEVER, in this case, it is entirely appropriate, really, so...
DEAR GOD, WHAT IS THAT THING!?!???!??!!???!!!
Brain bleach. Please pass it. Now. Please.
My five year old says it's a sea anenome with an octopus on it
Hairy, flesh-colored
scary mama/baby thing
Can't unsee, must cry
I call the fetus!
I've watched far too much Dr. Who and read far too much Stephen King.....this is downright SCARY!
What happened to it's legs? And why is it's host turning into a centipede? Another candidate for a very sharp knife being plunged repeatedly into the centre of it to make sure it doesn't follow me home....
Worst, cake, ever.
Is this cake telling us all to disinfect something, or that we're way behind on our Science Fiction reading? Or is it an out-take from the film "You're Alien, Not Us" in which the dinner/emergence scene is replaced by a horrifying cinematic view of human birth ( rated NSH: Not Suitable for Hatchlings)?
Probably just one of those New Age, First Nations tribal things. C'mon people.
Folks, it's on a turkey platter - appropriately a turkey. Does this mean "homemade"? In any event It's WTP - What's the point . Ugh.
Brown Goose - I'm seriously worried about your 5-year-old. Agree with the kid's analysis, but if said child grows up to be a serial killer, we'll know why and how. ;-)
I'm trying to figure out what exactly the customer ordered here. Did someone really go into a cake shop and ask for an exposed freakishly tiny but well developed fetus in a scooped out belly with brass colored tendrils and neck stump or did they see this in a sample book and say "That's it! that's the one I want!"? If the latter, what kind of baker would put this in the photo book and does that mean there are two of them out there? If the former - WTF!?!?!?!
I must have the back story for this or the image will never leave my mind. I will never be able to go to a baby shower wondering if this was the cake that the baker really wanted to make.
Okay, it's a pregnant woman's body, and a flower where her head should be, and a sun on her left shoulder and suns for hands.
Maybe the bakery has molds for this style sun but never had to make an icing baby before. Maybe they thought the baby didn't look right with the legs covered up.
I will admit, it took me a few tries to get it.
That "flower" looks like some kind of skin disorder.
I thought that "arm" across the breasts was a flaming match stick.
I'm gonna say it's a representation of the scenes in The Matrix where Neo takes the red pill and then Morpheus tells him about the babies being batteries.
BUT GUYS GUYS it's all on a silver platter! It's the way we love having all of life's oddities handed to us, no?
the sad thing (other than the whole what the fern vibe) is that the wreckerator has obviously worked very hard on this, and has some actual talent (despite an utter lack of anatomical acumen).
Whomever came up with this design, though, is certifiably, and possibly criminally, insane.
If that is a rubber baby (and it certainly appears to be), then the rest must be a buggy bumper. From Neptune.
The really disturbing thought is that there might be a back story that on the surface makes some kind of sense which explains all of this. You know, like the drawing of a candlestick that becomes two faces in silhouette when the viewer's perspective shifts. There's that brief moment, like a flipped coin balanced on edge, when you can see it both ways at the same time.
I'm pretty sure it is a diabolical attempt to thaw a Thanksgiving turkey using a prototype of solar adhesive tentacle thingies and an albino hairless chihuahua.
ACK! So glad I saw this post today... three days before I am supposed to be having my first child. Those little legs ARE going to haunt me in my sleep. *shiver*
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