CAKETASTROPHE!! (By Special Request)
July 21, 2017 I was perusing the Cake Wrecks Facebook page the other day (where every follower gets a free invisible puppy!!) when I came across a rather unusual request:
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Ahh, so you want to pop open the hood and take a gander inside the wrecks, is that it, Jennifer?
Well, I'm glad you asked.
BEHOLD!!
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And BEHOLD!!
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KEEP BE-HOLDING!
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Hey, Jennifer, you ever wonder how cupcake cakes (ptooie!) keep their icing from falling through all those big gaps?
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NOW YOU KNOW.
We just saw last week how a gender reveal cake failed to actually reveal anything - other than plain yellow cake - but here's the opposite problem:
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The cake was blue inside with pink icing.
Oy.
Now I'm going to show you my absolute favorite cake cake wreck of all time, Jennifer, and which I've been hanging onto for just this moment.
First, though, let me explain what (we think) happened:
A bakery was unable to sell a Halloween cake in time, but they didn't want to throw it away or reduce the price. So instead, they simply flipped the entire cake over, icing side down, and re-decorated the other side to make it into a generic birthday design.
CW reader Shannon had no idea of the skullduggery at work until she cut the cake, and found this:
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That's a whoooole lotta icing, right there.
(And think how fresh!!)
And finally, I know I posted the video of this over on FB a week or two back, but here's a quick .gif reminder of the importance of proper wedding cake support:
OUCH.
(Watch the original video here to see them both continue to laugh hysterically, which is just adorable. Cutest couple ever!)
Welp, I hope that satisfies some of your blood lust for caketastrophe, Jennifer!
And hey, for the rest of you, the request line... IS OPEN.
Thanks to Cherie O., Leann S., Jaunna, Fribby, Sarah, & Shannon G. for reminding me of those times bakeries accidentally left scissors, a paring knife, and other various cutlery in their cakes - because that was a HOOT. (And also because "TRAUMATIC BIEBER" *still* makes me snort-laugh.)
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Reader Comments (21)
You know, I'm okay with the first two. More frosting is rarely a bad thing in me world.
The third one (cake, is it?).....I'm thinking (smell the rubber burning?) ,that it's not a wreck, but a 4th grade science project depicting global warming, and the likelihood of the seas in terrible peril for all mankind. We MUST take a stand! We can't have only real cakes melting into the sea..... Where's the ice cream?
(Forget the candles; it's already getting hot in here.) =^-.-^=
So when I graduated college, my sisters made me an almond cake. But one corner fell so they filled it in with light blue & white frosting to match my college colors. Too bad 2 cats (Sylvia & Mela) found the cake. They both loved almond cake. But they picked the corner with abut an inch of frosting, which they ate. And then spent the rest of the week producing blue poops. Thanks for the memory lane trip!
I don't want an invisible puppy. I don't want to have to clean up invisible pee and little piles of invisible poop.
I agree with Janna. I say cake is merely a vehicle for frosting, especially when it comes to carrot cake! Besides, what if that first one was filled with what they use at Costco? That stuff is ohhhh so good.
My favorite post so far....more please!
Someone left the cake out in the raaaaain....and filled it full of sweet blue icing dripping down.
:D My teeth hurt just looking at them.
Hello, what's wrong with that first cake?! Those cake-to-filling proportions are awesome!
Nothing, and I mean nothing, gives me such joy as a botched gender reveal cake. Stick it to the man, bakers. The gender binary is false!
I really want to know the rest of the story with the flipped-over Halloween cake. Did they ask for a refund for obviously-old cake? Did it at least taste good? What did the bakery have to say for themselves?
Unfortunately, the grocery store cake recycling is a common thing. The Halloween cake doesn't sell so you scrape it off and draw a turkey. Still not sold? Scrape it off and add a Santa? Still not sold? Valentines it is!
I want the piece with the thick frosting!
I was wondering what all that noise was.
Anyway to the cakes:
1. Only thing that comes to mind is WTH?!
2. Did someone set something on it while it was cooling??
3. Surfs up!
5. Congratulations, your having a transgender!
6. Never shop there again.
7. I hope they got a partial refund.
Obviously the gender reveal cake is letting everyone know that they're having triplets: two boys and a girl.
The reason to eat cake is to get frosting into your bloodstream. The first cake would be my favorite cake ever. Of course, this is the girl that just made a snack of pretzels and the remainder of a tub of frosting.
Well if anyone ever wants a huge sugar rush get the mostly frosting cake lol. At least the bride and groom had a sense of humor as the cake toppled over.
I think the cat on the cup cake cake is cute.
That's a proper gender reveal cake, that---a reminder that external equipment does not necessarily match internal programming.
That flipped over Halloween cake. I can't get over it! I am equal parts horrified it happened and hope it will happen to me. Bonus frosting vs. old cake. The struggle (if it should happen to me) would be very, very real! Maybe that would be my own Halloween horror? LOL
For the second cake, I can hear Paul Hollywood's voice in my head saying "Undar Beyked." Then the Baker quickly hangs their head in shame since they thought they had been so clever hiding their mistake.
What is up (so to speak) with #4? Are they icebergs of frosting or styrofoam?