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? ;)
May 23, 2012 Finally, a birthday cake that celebrates the real meaning of birthdays:
;)
(Don't even try to tell me you don't see it.)
And that, boys and girls, is HOW A STAR IS BORN.
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Thanks to Lindsay C. for the egg-cellent pregnant pause.
(Hey Lindsay, you think this cake would be hard to reproduce?)
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Reader Comments (82)
I don't see it. The birthday person's name.
I must be tired. It took me a second to see it. But now that I have seen it... well, you know.
That is going to be one difficult pregnancy.
How convenient. Birthday cake and sex ed rolled into one!
That took me a minute to see...holy cow. Was that intentional or are those supposed to be balloons?
What the fern is that supposed to be? I know what it looks like, but I'm trying to figure out what kind of directions the customer gave to the wreckerator to end up with "Miracle of Life" depicted in cake!
Once you see it you cannot unsee it.
Sung to “The Hearse Song (The Worms Crawl in)”
Don’t you laugh when the cake goes by
‘Cause it could be the next girl or guy
All wrapped up in a fondant sheet
The need to fertilize runs so deep
They put the cake onto a board
It looks askance at the coming hoard
It’s not so bad the first few tweaks
It’s only thought is “Oh, please, no freaks.”
The sperms rush in, they churn about
The sperms have one hope that is devout
They rush the sides, so bellicose
I really don’t want a cake with those
Assails your eyes, disturbs repose
Sends a shiver down to your toes
Each one a little disturbing splat
What’s the skinny on cakes like that?
Your jaw drops down and your eyes pop out
You find your head shaking all about
And then your turn a queasy green
(Tasteless reference to whipping cream…)
So next time you see the cake go by
Watch Out!
It might just
Make
You
Cry!
I didn't know ova came with personalised messages on them - cool!
Celestial bodies
atop egg in mid-coitus
celebrate with cake!
Wow, honestly my gutter brain did NOT see the image until Jen emphasized it, it IS a lovely cake but they should definitely have left the balloons off!
And that my friends is the perfect wreck! I don't even know what other wreck can surpass the perfect finesse of this one. A star is born, indeed.
@Bea-I think it's a cake for a future birthday and they couldn't fit all 17 names on the cake.
Now that I looked at it again, maybe it supposed to depict little pink and purple mice enjoying a wheel of lavender cheese.
It's another one that once you see, you can't unsee...Admittedly, it took a me a second because I was focusing on the stars...but when you look at the bigger picture...
Wow, 21 at the exact same time? All I can say is...that poor woman!!
Sometimes, it's best to just stick with stars. Then we could be making fun of how every "H' looks like "N'.
"...how a star is born..." Great puns!!
@sharyn -- thanks again for another great song!
It's an edge-of-your-seat suspenseful thrill ride. Who will be the winner and get his/her name on the cake?
This is the logo for the newest summer Olympic event: The Race for the Ovum. Eager swimmers line up, ready for the "gun" to "go off" and then swim like crazy toward the awaiting ovum. The winner is presented with the large gold star (and a baby) as a children's choir sings "Happy Birthday". The "also swams," who had high hopes, get the smaller stars, and lament that their loss was inconceivable...
@ SuBee, yes, if I squint a little with one eye, I can see the little pink and purple mice enjoying a wheel of lavender cheese...(that was funny...glad you're OK) (however, even though I grew up in Wisconsin, I don't recall ever seeing lavender cheese...)
So much potential for this cake, but the "balloons" made this look like something it should not have looked like. Sharyn, I do not know how you keep making funny songs, but keep it up XD
Ok, I have to ask. Does Sharyn get advance screening of the posts? Because there is no way I could come up with a song that quickly.
And I don't understand why half the cake is surrounded by sperm balloons, and the other half is stars. Wouldn't one or the other be a better choice (stars, definitely stars). And I didn't see it until you pointed it out. So there. My brain's not totally corrupted yet.
@Sharyn -- ah, a favorite old childhood song...nicely done, nicely done! I think Jen and john(thoj) should take you with them on the next tour and have you sing...you're building up quite a funny repetoire!!
I checked the spelling, I critiqued the star placement and overall evenness, colors, everything... or so I thought. I wondered, "What is wrong with this cake?" Then... I looked down. "Aaaaaaaahhhhh. I see it now." *facepalm*
What do pink and purple baby mice eating from a circular trough have to do with birthdays? Oh. Never mind.
At first I was trying to figure out why the pastel colored mice were burrowing into the cake, but then...
Why do people who make cakes think that balloon strings wiggle? like. sperm. tails. Stranger yet, why did this wreckorator lay the balloons (oddly) on their sides? and. make. them. burrowing. in. to. the. round. cake. It is very disturbing. Nobody wants to see that.
Cake decorating 101= Students should be forced to sit in a dark room and watch the movie UP! over and over and over and over until the image of balloons is burned into their brains.
That had to be on purpose! Didn't it?!
Wow, I didn't see it at first-even with the hints until I read the comments and went back and looked and I'm like wow, who would have thunk it?
I'm usually pretty proud of my gutter-brain, but I must admit I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the cake for quite a few seconds!! Why do people make "balloons" do that?
0_o YES...ONCE SEEN, CANNOT BE UNSEEN oh dear!
I think Sharyn has way to much time on her hands. She' needs a hobby. How about baking?
OH!
MY!
LORD!
I seriously thought "mice" at first. Wish I would've stopped at that :-)
Now there just needs to be a "balloon" on top of the "circle"...perhaps with a conversation bubble that reads "VICTORY IS MINE!"
Ok, first I saw the baby star in the center dropping out of the large star with the attendant "nurse" stars, I thought, a star being born kinda sick, but! THEN I saw the "balloons" gathered around the large oval (ha!)
More like "egg cell-ent." Get it? Get it? harharhar.
@muria -- the only posts I've ever seen in advance are the couple I helped write. My 12 yr old son and I make up real-time alternative lyrics to songs on the radio -- usually about our cats -- so I get a lot of practice.
@mel -- Greetings fellow former Wisconsinite! (I KNEW there was a reason I was not-stalking you!)
Honestly, I saw the cake and couldn't figure it out for about 3 minutes. But once I did... I think I might stop snickering next week.
Those were supposed to be balloons right? 0_o
The rightmost purple one must have been very determined, to make it this far without a tail.
It took me a a minute because the "balloons" blended into the base, and then...wow. If only the purple balloons were blue, this would have been perfect pulled off.
See, my brain went to the white star falling out of the big star's, uhm, lady parts. Only after I started reading the comments did I see the frantic swimmers.
That really is a perfect wreck and I'm going to with the belief that the baker knew what she/he was doing and that she/he was laughing maniacally while saying, "Wait until Cake Wrecks gets a hold of this one! Mwahahahaha!!!"
Perfect puns, too, Jen!!
All around win!
"I don't want to do the same boring birthday cake this time. What to do to liven it up? Wait a minute...BIRTHday! Of course! People will be so busy trying to see something in the stars that they'll miss the border! Heh...heh heh..."
And so five years of high school biology were finally put to good use.
I disagree that this is a wreck-- I think it's a hilarious, and rather appropriate, celebration of what prompts a birth. And in good taste (pun intended) as well. Unlike so much we see here...
Then again, my fiance works for an obstetricians' professional association, and so I have a stress ball on my desk that is shaped like a sperm. Tail and all! When I brought it in to show my colleagues (we work in public health, so it IS work appropriate), there was a lot of laughter around the office that day!
Loved the comments by Sharyn, mel, Subee and Katie as well as the always great Jen!
At first I thought it was a star orgy....A storgy.
Haha! It's like the opening scene of Look Who's Talking!
"Well , i must be blind because i really don't see any... Omg what were they thinking!". Yes , this is my honest reaction to this one. They are very well "camouflaged" and omce seen, you cant see the stars. My favorite kind of wreck: subtle, yet so wrong and you cant see anything else after. The evilest kind!
I was too busy wondering about the giant row of nursing newborn rats to see the sperm.
I thought they were tampons at first...
Funny, all I saw was a cake with a half-border of tampons...
Only Sharyn could write a catchy song that uses the word "bellicose." Well done.