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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
Monday
Oct192009

Sideshow Slideshow

(Yeah, just try saying that three times fast.)

Step right up, folks! Witness the stupendous, astounding, incomprehensibly incomprehensible, Freak Animal Mutations Only a Baker Could Create!

First, feast your eyes on a spectacle n'er before seen this side of Pooville...

The crappily conjoined cupcake kitties!
Yessir, there's nuthin' like a few fecal felines to show a baker's "anything goes" attitude - especially when they number two. [smirk]

Well it looks like a frog, but I detect some monkey business.


"Walk the dog"? Looks more like "Scrape the Sidewalk."

And don't you love it when Wrecks are so unrecognizable that the bakers have to write us little clues on the cake board? I think I'll have to do a whole post on those soon...

Oh, but first, remember that kiddy song "Do Your Ears Hang Low?"

meeyOW.

Ok, last one - just for the "shell" of it:


"Dude, I used to have nightmares about a turtle that looked exactly like this when I was little."

"But that was a long time ago. How can you be sure?"

"Turtle recall."

Thanks to Wreckporters Sarah P., Melissa T., Meredith, Kristin C., & Ed P.!

- Related Wreckage: Blame Decopac

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Reader Comments (119)

I have no trouble saying that three times fast.

That that that.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJasini

Note to self: do not attempt to eat cereal while reading CakeWrecks.

"Turtle Recall"

spews milk and cereal bits on to monitor

BWAHAHAHA

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMilton

Walter.
Tango.
Foxtrot.

nuff said

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDebbra

The best thing about the tiger is the extra cupcake/ paw print off to the side!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEllen

Those green things are turtles? Are you sure???

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHyacinth

Turtles? I thought those were possessed radioactive beehives!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMarliO

"Turtle recall" - that's awesome.

I figured you'd go with "those blobs look returtled."
Or maybe "these put the turd in turtle!"

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTaylor@MyOlderBrothers

"Turtle recall" is so bad I wish I'd thought of it.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdeckardcanine

OK so I got through the whole post with my 22 month son looking at the pictures, but when we got to the poo-turtles he just pointed and kept going "uu-uuu-uuu". Even he thought they were incomprehensible. Doesn't bode well, now does it?

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNatasha D

Do people actually BUY these???

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

"turtle recall" ??!!!!

boo! hiss!

(ok, I did a literal lol, so kudos to you there)

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

OMG that last joke actually made me laugh out loud. My daughter even looked at me funny. Turtle recall...hehehehehhe.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterColleen

Okay, so where's the jackalope cake? :)

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHalf Assed Kitchen

Are you sure those are supposed to be turtles?

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMike Owens

Yeah, I think I have to agree. The turtles are definitely the scariest things on there. Holy crap! Are we even sure those aren't flesh-eating aliens?

You made me groan with the Turtle Recall.

And my eyes are now hurting from the wreckage.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCat Skyfire

My 3 year old son just asked me "What are those green things by the tiger". Turtle schmurtle I say!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSarah McNair

Those turtles scare me.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSoCalAmy

Thanks! Now I have the "ears hang low" song stuck in my head!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRoseAnn

maybe the first picture is showing the inner desire of the baker for some fuzzy slippers for Christmas???

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjoyce

Not related to this post, but you might be interested to know that Amazon shipped pre-orders of your book in the Uk today.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Re: the one that looks like a frog/monkey cross:

(singing in his best Kermit The Frog voice)

"It's not easy being brown..."

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJim Todd

Those so-called turtles look like piles of alien poop. With faces.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNikki

Animals on crack. Look at the dogs eye!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSweet Success

LOOK! It's a TURDle!!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterpeaches1111_00

those are grossness!!!!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLucille Ball Jr.

heh. Turtle recall.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterstr4y

turtle recall....

I actually groaned aloud. :) Loved it tho.

Jenn

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJenn

My 5 year old said the the "turtles" were "probably aliens."

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJill J

Don't you mean "turdle"?

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Wait. Wait. Wait.

That brown monkey frog thing... it's supposed to be a monkey? Because it took me a good 2 minutes to realize it wasn't a brown frog with something stuck on it's head. The bananas gave it away.

Green poo turtles. Yum.

WV: Terma. As in, these wreckerators should be terma-nated from their current positions.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBek

My 5 year old saw the picture of the turtles and said, "ALIENS!"

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMrs. X

Those conjoined turd cats shall haunt my dreams!! ((shudders))

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Those "kitties" look like old (and I mean, very old) slippers.

Those "turtles" look like poo piles. Very sick poo piles!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWriteCards

Those are turtles?? They look like aliens! Or maybe they are turtles made of alien poo??

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJanella

Turtle recall...
*snickers*
Niiice. ;)

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterStephanie

Ok, I like to challenge myself to identify the cakes before reading the commentary, then I go back and read it all. I had absolutely no idea those were supposed to be turtles...That is a pretty amazing wreck.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Turtle Recall?...................................
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..cough cough ahem...

nice...

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterVeggieT

I think the special effects department of the BBC who deal with making props for Dr Who would be interested to see that last photo . . . . or maybe they check in here every now and then to get new ideas for their freaky alien characters . . .

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJo UK

I thought that first set of cupcakes was supposed to be a pair of bunny slippers. Maybe a pair of bunny slippers made of poo, but still.

As for the turtles, if you hadn't told me that was what they were, I would not have guessed "turtle" myself. Nuclear Plants After the Meltdown would have been my first guess.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMadeleine

OMG! That first one looks like two kitties peeking out from under a pile a of poo! The the tiger one looks like he has those hipster ear-plug thingies. Then, man it just gets weirder and scarier from there. I am amazed at the never-ending selection of terrifying cakes offered up for real hard-earned cash.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

Kid: Daddy, I want Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Decorator: (writing) mutant turtles...

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

that frog monkey cake scare the hell out of me...really it looks like it would be squatiing on some level of Dante's inferno.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjess

Do people actually buy this crap?

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHorribleLicensePlates

The "cats" look like poorly made slippers. Frogs are amphibians and rarely have belly buttons or eyebrows, but they are all about rocking the matador hats, so I'm not sure what that one is supposed to be. The dog could be from the old "Davey and Golieth" cartoon, if it weren't so swirly - and I do mean swirly! I would so order the Tony the Tiger splat; it's hilarious! I won't even try to top turtle recall. It just can't be done. You are the Pun-Master!

WV: bechec - Are these cakes wrecks? You bechec!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKelly

LMAO @ Turtle Recall!!

word verification: dewshne I'll let y'all have fun w/ that one...lol

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMichele

They're not "turtles," they're "TURDLES"!!!

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKerri

I thought the 1st one was a 2-headed racoon.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJust Me,Pilgrim

Still can't get my head around the fact people are supposed to BUY these poor rejects from The Island of Dr. Moreau!
Got your book in the post last Saturday - heehee, been chuckling over it ever since

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCaroline B

did...did those two sumo-turtlebots kill mini blue Santa????

I'm so confused.

October 19, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLaurenH

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