Summer Lovin'
July 18, 2012 So tell me, Wreckies, how are you enjoying your summer?
Sorry, I mean, "Sumer?"
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Or is it "Sumeer?"
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You know what, just to be safe, let's sell both versions.
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And then make this one the store display, so everyone can see it:
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I like to be happy, summetime.
Well, however you spell it, I hope you're taking this time to enjoy a little sun.
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Or a large, red-eyed spider crawling out of your cake.
And that you're working on your tan:
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Or dismembering Edward Cullen. (Hey bakers, where's the glitter?)
Of course, the only acceptable foot wear right now are flip-flops:
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Emphasis on the "flops."
And every meal should end with a hefty slice of watermelon:
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Preferably the seedless kind. Unless you're expecting...to be expecting.
(See what I did there?)
And since these are the lazy days of summer we're talking about, you should be taking lots of breaks:
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Stickin' it to the man. Or in this case, the customer.
Maybe visit the pit of despair community swimming pool?
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"Watch out, kids, I'm about to throw another one down."
Or just spend a few quiet evenings walking the beach, looking for seashells and/or body parts:
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Who wants ribs?
Thanks to Cassie, Brian B., Molly S., Jill V., Tina, Jaemie G., Lindsay W., Elizabeth & AnneMarie, & Anony M. for the disarming finds.
Reader Comments (75)
Arg! I read the headline and then "happened so fast" popped into my head! Now I've got that song stuck in my head.... :(
Okay, so the 1st cookie was baked to honour the ancient city of Sumer. I can see that, and the second one was especially for a little Asian kid named Sumeer.. But, by the time we get down to #6 with the blue SPF 90 sunscreen, it's becoming a bit unappetizing. How the heck do you wear #7? The "thongs" are backwards in the flops.
Then there's #8 with giant leeches swimming in the WATERmelon. #9 obviously came from Colorado; one tree left standing.
#10; did someone put that special chemical in the pool that colours up when you pee in the pool?
#11, I think the sea gulls got to her before anything else. (They don't call the "Sh*t-hawks" for nothing)
"Emphasis on the flops." hahahahah!
Completely lost my composure at the pit of despair (and alarmed a coworker who had just walked up to ask me a question). But the torso immediately beneath is very well executed, in design if not in the theory of 'who wants to eat a friggin torso??'
Obviously, the green from all the other trees has been burnt off by that ginormous sun.
I got a huge kick out of the abs cake. I used to have a student who would draw the exact same thing on his class notes and name the abs. He got up to 12-packs. With that consideration, I'm incredibly disappointed in the cakewrecker who only managed a 4 1/2 pack
Sung to Gershwin’s “Summertime”
Sumertime,
and the spellin’ ain’t easy
Sumeer’s fine
Really, either looks good.
Summe’s rich
‘Cept for magna cum laudes
So hush, little whiner
Spider cakes are fine
One of these mornings
You might try some spray tanning
Then you’ll don your thongs
You’ve got sperm cake to buy
But until that morning
I don’t mean to alarm you
But choc-o-late Pac-Man’s eating up the sky
Swimmin’ time
And I’m feelin’ quite queasy
Carrot Jockeys
In a toxic blue slime
Maybe once you’re rich
You can buy the whole body
‘til then, I think maybe
Half a girl’s just fine
Never has a "White Cake" sticker been SO appropriate!
Maybe that last one was found on Amity Beach?
Are those pineapple slices in the pit of dispair/swimming pool? Or donuts? Either way, visiting this web site on a daily basis is actually helping me stay on my diet. I seem to lose my appetite for some reason.
Why are they using chocolate icing
for the sand? If I ever went to the beach
& the sand was the color of poo I'd be on
the first plane home.
I had to stare at the Edward Cullen torso
for a minute to realize what it was. I think
they took the white cake sticker a little to
seriously. Maybe the stores chain the
bakers inside so that they've never actually
experienced summer & just have to guess
what it's like
Sumer is icumen in; bakers go cuckoo.
A nice bit of medieval content: "Sumer is icumen in" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHFxxZmyxDg&feature=related
My 11 year old son walked in while I was viewing the "watermelon" cake and said "are those guppies?" Out of the mouths of babes!
Oh, dear. Somebody nuked the Sumerians. I don't remember reading about that in the history books.
Is that first one Bikini Atoll?
What happens when you add up the personal moments of summer? You sum me-time.
Sweet mother of Moses. Emergency Education needed, Aisle One.
That sun cake just screams to me "Black hole sun...." (I mean it's black, it's a "sun", and it's being sucked into the center of the cake...) I do believe that's the perfect pun!
Aside from that, it's a pretty solid list of wrecked cakes and puns haha.
The next Cakewrecks book must be a collection of posts alongside Sharyn's wonderful song parodies. Am I right?
@LindaS I would so buy that book-Sharyn is hysterical bwahahaha. Those make me exclaim "Oh the Humanity"<D: D: D: D:
I hate Sumertime,it's too hoot and hummidd.
That last one looks like something out of a bad movie about a serial killer's victim who washed up on the beach, headless, legless, and armless. I can just see the handsome police detective called to the scene with his sidekick. "This is the work of the cake dissector, Sumeer. You can tell by the fact that he used a cake knife to remove the head and limbs. And the smoothness of the fondant. I can tell it's going to be a bad sumer.
Was anyone else bothered by the boobs on the last one?
I noticed the bikini torso cake has a sign next to it reading "Congrats Jessica." What are they congratulating her for? Her liposuction? Her belly button piercing? Her boob job?
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Breaking news..... The National Institue of Health has just reported that watermelon has replaced toilet seats as the number one cause of accidental pregnancies.....
also...I love the swimming pool!! to paraphrase the Eagles...you can stop swimming anytime, but you can never leave.....
That last one would be appropriate for a "Jaws"-themed party. But, really. "Sumer"?? "Sumeer"?? What is WRONG with people???
Susanna K., I'm glad I'm not the only one left wondering the same thing. I have to admit, though, that since we usually see cakes in the shape of female headless torsos as pregnant, my first thought was to wonder if we were congratulating Jessica on getting her post-baby body back (with or without the help of going under the knife... pun intended!).
That last cookie cake looks almost entirely unlike that weird level in the 2nd world of Super Mario Bros 3. The one where the sun chases you and you have to dodge a tornado.
I kind of like that swimming pool one. if only they hadn't filled it with blue icing and umbrellas, they oculd sell ti as "ancient ruins."
it kind of reminds me of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
1. I had a star-struck moment when Jen replied to my tweet yesterday (lizardisanerd)
2. I'm pretty sure the "life preservers" in the carrot jockey swim to the death cake are those gummy peach rings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXGxgreM1k
I hear Sumer is lovely at this time of year.
CB, LOL! You kill me.
I now have "Black Hole Sun" running through my head. Thanks, wreckerator!
Simply incredible that the same bakery created the multiple spellings of summer. Thanks for the hilarious post!
Dora, Elmo and chick flotsam pieces (or are those candies?) on the sumertime "theme" cookie with the palm tree and toothpaste-like "waves"---HUH?
Mindy1 & LindaS: it has to have the SUPER GEEK parody she wrote for Jen on Epbot last Sat. too. EPIC.
The little plastic babies never get old, huh?
Awesome that a couple of other people picked upon the Middle English lyric in the first cake! Sumer is icumen in, lude sing cuckoo...
More breaking news...this just in...Planned Parenthood has announced that it will begin distributing seedless watermelons....
Ok, the pit of despair.... shaking my head and laughing hysterically. But then comes the torso, complete with the added belly-button ring touch. Being from Canada, all I can think of seeing cakes like that one are visions of Luka Magnotta.... yuck!
Her navel ring will provide an important clue for the CSI team that shows up to investigate.
I guess she couldn't...
*puts on sunglasses*
...stomach the heat.
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh!
I made that swimming pool cake for my daughter's birthday years ago. It was fun, and turned out really well, if I do say so myself. Much nicer than the Pit Of Despair. And I'm definitely not a professional baker!
Aw man, here I think I'm being all clever and about to post a "Sumer is icumen in" comment, and I see two people have beaten me to it. BUT, I can tie it in to "Flight of Dragons", which must get me some geek points (it's the song Sir Orrin sings when the sand merks attack). :-D
I looked long and hard at those 'flip flops', but all I could see were two squished easter peeps who have chicken pox and are covering their eyes in shame....OH, it must be Illness Awareness Day at the CDC- Peeps with Pox! :D
The pit of despair *cough* *hack* kills me. I just wanna know- where's the ladder? How can those naked babies get out? Are they just doomed to float forever?
And then I got to thinking... this reminds me of when I used to play Sims on pc. I liked to put the Sims in a swimming pool with no ladder, speed up time and watch them swim around all while getting mad at me, cursing at me in Sim language because they were tired... only to watch them die.
I'm really not morbid in real life. Promise.
Darn... Classic Steve beat me to the Middle English madrigal reference.
Well played.
"Summetime, and the living is easy. Spelling's optional and the cake wrecker's high."
Also, maybe the scary sun cake is a Soundgarden tribute? (Black Hole Sun...)