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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
Sep302014

Make Mine Crafty

Oh, so you want your cake to look like this?

 

Nooo problem.

 

Thanks to Tish B. for proving, yet again, that a picture is worth a thousand facepalms.

 

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IMPORTANT ELEVEN O'CLOCK UPDATE:
(Because John was really bored.)

WE CAN GO DEEPER!

It's a picture of a picture of a picture of a cake on a cake.

 

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IMPORTANT UPDATE TO THE ELEVEN O'CLOCK UPDATE:

DEEPER!!!

It's a picture of picture of a picture of a picture of a cake on a cake.

 

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IMPORTANT UPDATE TO THE UPDATE TO THE ELEVEN O'CLOCK UPDATE:

MWUAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

It's a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a cake on a cake on a cake!

 

IMPORTANT UPDATE ETC. 

CAKECEPTION!

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Reader Comments (74)

And they even creased the paper to make the foil tray look more realistic. (Humor me)

Oy.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterFluffy Cow

Yup. Easy, Peasy, … sleazy!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterShirley Fowley

I'll bet someone's going to take a picture of the picture on the cake and put that picture on a cake!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSuBee

I took a photo
of someone else's paper.
That should earn an A.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHaiku Joy

And they say that careful craftsmanship is dead.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterFM

@SuBee> Easy for you to say! *!wink!* =^~.-^=

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commentersendingtheclowns

Facepalm indeed. Oy...

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterStephanie

=^-.~^= It's all done with mirrors. =^~.-^=

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commentersendingtheclowns

O
M
G

You gotta be kidding me.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAddie

Minecraft picture + cake + green border – any real decorating skill = Nocraft

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermel

Stellar customer service! They delivered the goods.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJodi

Well, you know... they're always telling people to play to their strengths. Apparently, this baker excels at edible (we hope) images.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMuria

Why do people keep taking these elaborate cake designs to cut-rate bakeries that only make sheet cakes?

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBob

You order a cake from a grocery store that only does sheet cakes and you only wanna pay $15 for it? This is what you get.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSarah

They couldn't even stick it on the cake vertically? They had to compound the stupid factor by putting it slap-dash horizontally. Holy cow.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAva

The wrinkle on that edible paper is what really sells it.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTAO

Remember Goofus and Gallant from that magazine at the dentist's office?

GALLANT:
Customer: I would like to purchase a cake like the one in this picture.
Grocery Store $15.00 Sheet Cake Decorator: I'm so sorry, but we are unable to make cakes such as the one in your picture. I could place a photo of your cake on a $15 sheet cake if you'd like.
Customer: Yes, that would be fine. Thank you.
OR
No that won't do, but thank you for being so honest.

GOOFUS
Customer: I would like to purchase a cake like the one in this picture.
Grocery Store $15.00 Sheet Cake Decorator: Okay. That'll be $15.00. Pick it up on Tuesday after 3:00.

The End

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHighlights

*headdesk*

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commentermindy1

Looks like that image was applied using a wooden pick-axe.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterjackwire

Wow......I've made a minecraft Creeper cake recently. Sometimes these cake makes me wonder if some people are actually androids.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterIsolder74

So if you bang on that cake hard enough, do you get wood, or stone?

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkhereva

@SuBee So then do they mail it to themselves and *smash it with a hammer*?

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterScaperMama

I was looking at it thinking what's wrong with it? I couldn't see much difference except the colour of the icing.
Then I face palmed lol.
Who does that lol. Let's just take a pic of a cake and stick it on a sheet cake

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterShell

Hold up.. I got this.
Nailed it!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBurn

Cake-ception
Its a cake within a cake

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJessi

and I'll put that box in another box and that box in another box... And Smash it With a Hammerrrrrrrrrrr.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterAnotherJenn

I actually prefer this kind of wreck as opposed to some poor wreckerator trying to actually make the cake and failing beyond all recognition. At least this way you can tell what it is! Silver linings, and all that.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJenny

Please tell me that the 3rd one was someone trying to recreate a wreck. A wreckerator can't be that stupid (writing decorating instructions on cake, word piped partially onto a balloon, picture of wreck on a cake that already qualifies as a wreck.)

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterakgreentea

Is the last picture of a real cake? At the top, the writing goes off the top edge. At the bottom, the last letter climbs a multicoloured nodule but shows little evidence of having done so. Maybe this is an unworthy suspicion, but I smell Photoshop, and used carelessly too.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTachybaptus

It's more surreal than MC Escher.
http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/most-popular/reptiles/
Let's tesselate!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterdeb in atlanta

Well, I hate to say "I told you so.."

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSuBee

The Starbucks video guy is right. They really are just $%#@ing with us. There is no way people are *actually* that dumb.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterCatherine

CAKECEPTION!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterDee

I would really love to be a fly on the wall when some of these cakes are picked up. The conversations between the "baker" and the customer when they first see it would have to be just as priceless as the cakes!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterEddie

This is a haiku
of a comment in haiku
just like a comment.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHaiku Joy

How these things happen really is a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside an enigma. Or if you prefer, a cheese filled hot dog, wrapped in bacon, inside a bagel.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterjackwire

Jon, is that all photoshopped, or did you actually go out and order a cake like that for the 11:00 update?! Either way, kudos to you, and...bwah ha ha ha ha!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterJodi

We love you, John. Someone put that last picture on a cake!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterStephanie

I'd like to place an order for a t-shirt with a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture of a cake on a cake on a cake t-shirt, please.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSuBee

I retract my unworthy suspicion about picture 3 being Photoshopped. The second view of the cake from another angle shows that it's all too dreadfully real.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterTachybaptus

Check out his new Wedding Cake from Disney Expo - Michelle George Vazul - on Face Book.
Sry I don't know how to do links to their page but it is an amazing cake they have recorded at Disney.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterNetasha

Yup, I knew someone would accept the challenge ;p

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenterkryspiikid

SuBee might have just broken the world. Fasten your seatbelts, everyone, and hang on to your t-shirts/cakes/pictures.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHaiku Joy

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xaf1/v/t42.1790-2/1725117_10154191618681515_1616884969_n.mp4?oh=33c49e110372c1961fef49d11c1fe297&oe=542B6406

This is one incredible cake, for sure

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBrooke

You guys are awesome!! :D

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMelissa

A "hall of mirrors" picture needs tout be started!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterHeather

That second cake is threatening the time / space continuum. This is worse than a particle accelerator. Please destroy by incineration ASAP.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterBunny Honey

I feel like this is about to turn into the "Seven Nation Army" video.

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterSaraV

It takes a special kind of stupid to do something like this!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterOcracoke Dreamer

@Haiku Joy FTW!

September 30, 2014 | Unregistered Commenternmn

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