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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.

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- Jen
Thursday
Apr032014

Now Witness The Power of this Fully "Armed" Belly Cake

I've got a baaaad feeling about this...

 

 

Thanks to Lindsay for looking for wrecks in Alderaan places.

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Reader Comments (82)

I read "Alderaan places" and immediately had Eddie Murphy's voice in my head as Buckwheat singing "Yookin' pa yub."

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermeeshybee

Apart from the weirdly flexible arm, I actually think that this design is really cute...am I mad?

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDebby

Great pun, but the science fiction movie I thought of when I saw this cake was not from the Star Wars trilogy.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSusan

That's no foot...

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commentertosety

I've never been pregnant, so I don't know if I'm right, but I can't help evaluating the foot / hand ratio and extrapolating it out. Is it me, or that baby going to be the size of a normal two-month old?

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterLucy

I like it too. Cute!

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMO

Um... Gotta hand it to them. It takes someone who can really stretch their imagination to come up with that. Or something.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterCandace

I love this! It's cartoony and well done. Hardly a wreck!

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterFroggy

Debby - I think it's pretty cute and well done too. Although I can see how it could be creepy.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHeidi

I looked at this at least a dozen times before I noticed the problem. I believe I need an eye exam...

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSuBee

The baby is breech...

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterShannon

I've got you under my skin
You foot keeps pushing out parts of me
It creeps me out some. I think that is smart of me.
Could you please pull your foot in?

Love the Alderaan pun. Had it been a CCC, would you have said "CCC. <<Tatooine>>"?

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSharyn

Debby, eating human torsos is hardly ever cute. :)

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSim

I wish my preggo boobs looked that good.... :D

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAndreaB

Aside from the weird placement of the arms, I agree with those that think this is a cute take on the baby belly cake. I like it more than most!

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterRobin

Judging by the size of that foot, Mrs. Noodle-Arms looks to be in her 7th or 8th trimester.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterThom Mcan

I just can't grasp a limbless, headless, pregnant torso as being remotely tasty. Or tempting.
"So...would you like a slice of boob or womb?" Ew.
The alien spaghetti arms just reinforce this.
Give me the lovely cakes with pastel polka dots or baby animals over one of these any day!

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkrunchifrog

This design could have been greatly improved if they went a little higher on the body and included shoulders.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterjbrecken

This has to be an alien mother-to-be. Arm growing out of side-boob all noodley like it has no bones? That's just not right! Plus the thumb to finger length is WAY off. Those fingers are freakin' lo-ong! I'm kind of imagining that there are suction cups on the underside of those hands And don't get me started on that foot. What's in there? A toddler? Whoa. I really can't wait for this trend to be OVER! But I do have to say, this is the most well executed wreck I've seen yet. That lace trim was a nice touch.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSandy

@Thom Mcan:

"7th or 8th trimester"?? Proportionally (and humanly) speaking, I've seen feet smaller than that on two-year-old children! That's just plain creeperiffic. Still, it's kind of sad that the Little Mother won't ever get to see the child...or take it for a walk in the park...or do much of-- well, anything. But cute dress!
=^e.e^=

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commentersendingtheclowns

And people wonder why I refuse to go to baby showers.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterdkzody

Why is her floppy arm growing out of her boob? Also, can someone please hire poor Thing! He's been unemployed for far too long if he has to resort to being a cake model.

April 3, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSara

Nothing good can come of this cake lol. Wow. Could be a lot worse though so in that respect this isn't as bad and that is saying a lot about the ones I have seen.. eek.

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterArlene

i don't know who started this belly cake trend, but it needs to stop. that and the baby-shaped cakes that they have at baby showers that turn out creepy-looking.

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterarchersangel

Did nearly 70 commenters see "arms"?
I did a double take myself, and totally cracked up when I realized it's such a good visual suggestion/optical illusion (and a super creepy foot distraction) that it took a very good second or third look to see that there are not "arms"! Noodle-like or otherwise. Growing from side-boobs or anywhere else. Only one arm. (...and a disembodied hand)

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterdbc

I'm still traumatized by the "vagina" cakes. At first glance I wondered why this was a wreck. As far as wrecky baby shower cakes go, this one's pretty decent! :D
As far as Skele-Gro is concerned, it probably isn't safe for expectant mothers.

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGinger Snap

I LOVE the avant-garde arm and the clever heart hands around the footprint! Not a wreck in my book - but since it's your blog... lol :)

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMaeve

That right arm is creepy. What's up with the severed left hand? I think the baby's trying to escape.

April 4, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBarbara

Fully armed, I can live with. Just be glad it wasn't another of those Operational baby cake wrecks. Ew.
For the record, the hormone that makes pregnant women all stretchy (although not usually that much) is called "relaxin". Really!

April 5, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAA

Yech! Can we just have a cease and desist order on these foot-indented belly-cakes altogether? Please? They’re trying to cutesify it with the little hand-heart but it’s SO not working! Why would anyone ever want a cake like this? This is never NOT stomach-turning!

April 5, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMike

Where. Did. The. Arm. Go.

April 6, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterStoich91

I actually had a customer come into my shop and ask if we could do this cake. It took every ounce of self control to not say oh yeah I just saw that on cake wrecks!!!! I just said it'll look a lot better without the arms!

August 2, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSarah

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