These Vintage Birthday Cakes Are Awesomely Bad
October 10, 2018 Were the good ol' days of cake decorating REALLY better?
And more importantly, can Jen find an excuse to post some of the rad vintage birthday cakes you guys have been sending in?
Let's find out, with...
EPIC CAKE BATTLES OF HISTORY!!
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I pity the fool who doesn't recognize Hulk Hogan & Mr. T.
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"I stopped listening after 'cabbage'."
(Yup, it's cake. Cabbagey, cabbagey cake.)
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Who WON? Who LOST?
YOU decide!!
And keep sending in those vintage birthday cakes, because seriously, these things are amazing.
Thanks to Robert T., Elizabeth B., Jason R., Tiki C., Jason R., Kristi C., Lindsay S., Karen H., Susan M., & Brittany J. - and a hat tip to Epic Rap Battles of History for all the lolz.
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Reader Comments (18)
That cabbage cake! How can anyone make a cake that looks so uninviting? Don't do this to cake, bakers!
1) So does "RAW" describe what's underneath the icing - uncooked cake batter?
2) So many questions about this one? Why does Superman have a UFO stuck to his feet? And what is he battling here ? Industrial pollution? A raging blaze like the Great Chicago Fire? A couple of giant turd monsters?
3) I guess the "THEN" was a Cabbage Patch Kid. But it looks like someone really getting a move on by fart power. And the cabbage cake - WHY? (Or maybe it's not cabbage. Maybe it's from the Little Shop of Horrors. Come to think of it, isn't that where most wrecks come from?)
4) I think both the "THEN" and "NOW" bakeries must have been Mickey Mouse operations. Only Donald looks half right on the first one. Goofy looks more like Wile E. Coyote, Minnie looks like she had an operation so she could resemble Miss Piggy and Mickey looks like he was crossed with a canine.
5) I don't know which one is worse here. Is it Cookie Monster/Ladybug hybrid? Or is it "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Cookie Monster?
I think the only losers were the people who bought those cakes O_o
Vintge wins!! At least they tried and were recognizable.
Jason had the best birthday cakes. Lucky kid.
The vintage cakes are definitely better executed. Some of them look downright competent by comparison.
That's quite clever actually, to put candles over the fire in the Superman birthday cake. I bet the kid loved it.
I think I'll go with the old-fashioned cakes! I don't think the wreckorator who did the last one has ever even SEEN the Cookie Monster. Gack!
I think that the cabbage thing is actually pretty awesome. Assuming that it doesn't taste like cabbage, of course.
I have the cookbook The Joy of Chocolate by Judith Onley. She has a Chocolate Cabbage Cake that is a cake covered with chocolate cabbage leaves and looks amazing.
That cabbage wreck looks nothing like hers, and I'm wondering if there is even a cake in all that. They didn't know when to stop making leaves, or that you are only supposed to use the best leaves for making chocolate ones. I wonder if they actually coated both sides, too, and left the leaves in!
Oh gosh - in the cookie monster vintage phone - the BIRTHDAY CANDLE! I had one of those!!! Haven't seen one of those in years,
The vintage wrecks are awful, but they at least look like somebody TRIED to do what the customer asked.
Woah, that cabbage cake was really amazing. Hideous, yes, but a wonder of construction!
...happy birthday "Crud"?
Whoa, whoa, whoa--I'm with Tricia. Can we talk about that massive birthday candle? What era is that from? I ask because the little girl looks scarily like a friend of mine, but many years before I met her.
I'm on "team vintage". I agree that the newer cakes are really wrecky. As for "Crud ", the only other name I could guess would be Creed. Maybe someone really liked the video game or the character on "The Office"?
Team Vintage here! The Cabbage Cake. Hum. If the entire thing is actually made of cake and icing and isn't a cake with actual cabbages (or just cabbage leaves) stuck on it, then color me impressed. If there isn't a single bit of actual cabbage on that cake, then wow.
Those vintage cakes make me love my vintage Wonder Woman cake so much. I am afraid to send it in seeing as what the evil wreckerators of today could do to poor Diana lol.