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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
Wednesday
May142014

Tonight at the Lucky Stardust Lounge

"You... are... so beautiful..."

"...to me."

"Thank you. Thank you very much."

 

[Leaning on piano]

"You... are... soooo beautiful..."

"...to meeee."

"The Goldmans, everyone! Fifty years today! Aren't they adorable?

 

"Can't you SEEE-EEE-EE?!?"

[sliding to front of stage on knees]

"You're... ev'ry-thing I HOPED for!"

[grimacing in pain]

"You're EVERYTHING I neeeeeeeeee..."

"...eeEEED!"

[winking at waitress]

 

"You... are... so beautiful..."

"Toooo... meeeeEEEEE."

 

Thank you, Nia C., Krystal C., Karen R., Julie R., Alison V., and Joshua P. Thank you so much. No, really. Thank you. Really. You're too much. Thank you. Tip your waitress!

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Reader Comments (72)

I must be the only one that thinks the last cake looks kinda like a Dalek with his head ripped off. Whoops, caught me with my nerd showing. LOL

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBeverly

SuBee??? SuBee...??? Where did you go? You didn't finish your sentence and I KNOW you are great with your grammar...SuBee...Oh. My. Gawd. What's happening? aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@Joan, agreed...controlled explosion...way out in the desert...the Sahara, or the Gobi, NOT the Mojave! HUGE controlled explosion, very far away so we NEVER have to see the ingredients again.

An aside: Purchased one of those honey and sesame seed snack bars the other day, in huge print on the front it said "100% pure ingredients" Hunh, is there something besides ingredients that a company would put into a snack? Wouldn't it be considered an ingredient after you put it IN there, thereby establishing the obsolescence of the quote? If it's not an ingredient...what the h*** did you do to it that it can now have things that are not ingredients?? (yes, all, I know they were trying to make it sound healthy, evidently there's a translation issue between Chinese and English with the words "natural" and "pure")

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSage in Reno

Hahaha @mel I LOVE your 'Royals' parody, I was singing along! Brilliant! 😂

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterGooblesnoober

I love all the different things that commentators saw on that last monstrosity. Jalapenos, olives, green condoms, pickle slices. Personally I saw kiwi slices when I first looked at it. Its like a Rorschach test in cake form. Wonder what our responses say about our personalities.

Bravo, John (thoj), Bravo. But you forgot to tell us to try the veal.

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJoeMama

I still don't understand "professionals" did those...What is the requirement to be a professional, like local bakery or store bought... Because what company would claim these cakes

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDjgrand

I LOVE the song, best take on Royals that I have come across,
"we aren't caught up in your cake affair"
genius
PS I love the site, too, watch it daily and read the comments.
Thank you and keep 'em coming

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterdrpfisher

OMG Mel I'm dying over here! Giggle snorts! I will never hear that song the same way again!

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTHE Valerie Hunter

I like the slow progression of ever more awfulness in this series of shots, an ever deepening view of Man's inhumanity to Man.

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterPatricia

Oh my word. I love that song. Lol @ grimacing in pain. It just derailed from the first! Horrendous! (I mean that in the nicest way.). Wedding wrecks indeed. I'd ask for my money back

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterEm

Oh, come on. That's not fair. Those HAVE to all be amateur cakes - well, maybe except the first two.
But as much as I don't want to hurt Aunt Harriet's feelings, that last one just killed my appetite for dinner.
Actually, it makes me want to puke.
Well, I didn't feel like cooking anyway.

.....OK, better now. I'll recuperate by reading everyone else's comments (mmm, better than dinner!)

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBlondie's Mom

Hurt myself reading mel's "Bakers".... Especially "and we're fine with this, we don't have any talent...no one's gonna want a piece"
:ROTFL: <wheez> ah, hurts so good....

thanks, mel!

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBlondie's Mom

As far as the last one goes, all I got is that maybe it was inspired by a volcano and Hawaii....

The top looks like it is erupting off the cake. The heart seems to resemble lava and even seems rocky at the edges. The flower petals make me think of Hawaiian leis and well Hawaii has volcanoes. My wife thinks this idea is probably more cohesive that the actual inspiration. So, um yeah.... volcanoes and stuff...

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDoubleJ

The first one wouldn't be too bad if you took away the tacky flowers and the Snooki-esque spray tan.

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterpikkewyntjie

This cakes are the saddest kind of cake wrecks, they would've all been great cakes...except for <fatal flaw>.

On #1 it's the orange airbrushing, on #4 it's the the glitter & dried flowers, & on #5 it's a complete lack of effort to make it look nice.

And what is that... thing in the middle of the last one??

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterNerfbomb

@Gooblesnoober: Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@drpfisher: Thanks for your kind comment. And I love this site, too!
@THE Valerie Hunter: Thanks! Glad for the giggle snorts, but death is a little too far….. (Hope I didn’t ruin the song for you….)
@Blondie's Mom: You are so welcome! Your comment made me laugh. (And I’m sorry you hurt yourself and hope the pain subsides soon…or not, depending upon how good it feels….)

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermel

I was looking through these, thinking most of these aren't THAT bad, we've seen worse here... then I got to the last one. Yipes!

Does anyone else get the overall impression of a half-plucked, green polka-dotted chicken with its neck stretched?

May 14, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSeabird

Hahaha, had so much fun giggle-snorting my way through the comments today. Loved the song too, mel.

I wonder if the people who made these cakes think they did a good job...

May 15, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermelanie sparkles

Oh man. The first one was rather nice compared to the rest of these things. At least it looked fairly even lol. I don't even want to know what held up those other cakes..eww.

May 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterArlene

Mel, you win the Internet with your "Bakers"/Royals parody. Love it!

On the last one I saw a crashed spaceship, freshly picked petals slowly going slimy (bonus points for garden wildlife!), WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING?, blueberries, and half green cherry tomatoes, all mashed into popcorn-yellow icing.

M-mmm. Where's that cake cutter?

May 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAnotherJen

@mel Well done

May 15, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterEla

@melanie sparkles, @AnotherJen, @Ela: Thank you, all. I'm glad you enjoyed it! This is such a fun place to come and laugh and play!

May 15, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermel

Reminded me of the scene in Good Morning Vietnam where What a Wonderful World was sung to the slideshow of carnage.

November 12, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJulie M

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