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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
Tuesday
Nov262013

Whiskey. Turkey. Foxtrot.

Think all those turkey cakes are bad?

Well, they are.

But these are worse:

1. Mildly amusing idea, SUPER creepy execution:

No. Just... no.

 

2. "Jack Skellington and the Politically-Incorrect Window Display of Holiday Awkwardness."

With bonus charred turkey flying out of a pumpkin.

 

3. Evil Zombie Pilgrim:

Yeesh, this reminds me of the bad guy in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Whatever happened to all the cute little pilgrims?

Oh, wait, here they come!

 

4. Pilgrims in straitjackets:

You know, I'm starting to think bakers REALLY don't like these guys.

 

5. Thanksgiving Bachelorette Party:

"Hey, bebeh, do you prefer light meat, or dark?" [eyebrow waggle]

 

6. "Heeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"

Admit it: you'd order a dozen of these in a heartbeat, just to see your in-laws' reactions.

 

Actually, Jeannie tells me she HAD to buy this because her cell phone camera wasn't working - and this obviously needed to be documented for posterity. POSTERITY THANKS YOU, JEANNIE.

 

Posterity also thanks Megan L., Christie C., Jamie N., Rob, & Laurie R. for the excellent wreckporting.

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Reader Comments (63)

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! I had no idea what be a merkin. Thanks, BADKarma. I believe one of these days I will follow in the footstep of that curious cat...until then, Google is my frenemy.

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJust Andrea

The Gingerbread Man ATE THE SPAGHETTI!!!

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterKrista

@WorrierPrincess - "Remind me, which Tim Burton movie featured a pumpkin-headed fruit bat?"

The one co-written with Christopher Moore, of course: Roberto hasn't taken off his Halloween costume yet. ;)

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterhyphen8

#6 looks like the movie alien - coming out of john hurt's chest.

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterjane lewis

Apparently, Gingerbread Man is the new Pan-Wow.

I like it better when the bakers at least leave the smiley face off of Ginger so we can all *pretend* it's not a man-shaped cookie with a duck/daisy/earofcorn/turkey crotch decoration.

I'll say this for the baker of Ken's cake, that tiny turkey looks about a thousand times better than any of those ice cream turkeys from yesterday.

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterJust Andrea

Off the subject, but way too fun not to share: Youngest Daughter is actually upset with me because I'm "not a Time Lord" (well, so am I, but...) This may be a new one in the Moo-oom-You're-SOOO-Laammme book. But how do you respond to that?

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterSaraCVT

Admit it: you'd order a dozen of these in a heartbeat, just to see your in-laws' reactions.
... um yep definitely!

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterSam

#3. My first thought: "What happened to its face?!" Then I scrolled down and thought "Never mind...".

@Pam & @Misti, perhaps it's a (distant) relative of Eccentrica Gallumbits??

November 26, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterhyphen8

about #5;

it says give thanks. give thanks for what, exactly? or are we better off not knowing?

November 27, 2013 | Unregistered Commenterarchersangel

Oh man I can't stop laughing long enough to catch a breath. Especially over the cookie oh man lmao. I can only imagine my dad's reaction if I brought anything that looked like that home for Thanksgiving. Ah thanks for the hysterical laughing.

November 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterArlene

@jackwire: Go Cotton!

November 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterKim

I think the first one is a Far Side comic

November 27, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAmye

Haha oh dear at least one of them's a dollar off...oy

December 1, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterStoich91

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