Thursday
Nov052009
Sporty Spice Cakes
November 5, 2009 Here at Anything Goes Bakery, we specialize in cakes that have all of the appeal of your favorite sports activities.
Baseball:
It's a mitt, of course. I don't see WHY people keep asking that.Soccer:
Boxing:
As you can see, our decorators really put their hearts in their work.Weight lifting:
Competitive...uh...sweeping?
And of course, Epcot:
[smirk]Nicole N., Rachel L., Maryann G., Charlene, Dyanna, & Sarah C., it's almost like I don't know Spaceship Earth when I see it, huh?
- Related Wreckage: Introducing a Good Sport
Reader Comments (226)
I disagree - I think the sport for the 'bowling' cake could easily be beer pong. :D Doesn't everyone draw a bowling ball face on their ping-pong balls? :D
(Note: it's REALLY challenging to play beer pong with bottled beer!)
:D
Jenn
Penis, Epcot and dangling testicles on the "boxing" cake. (Seriously? No one saw that??)
Life is good.
Obviously, only a few who know anything about hockey here. Yes, that broom cake is referring to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The numbers refer to top players...Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar, etc. Winning four straight games out of seven in a playoff series is called a "sweep." The cake makes perfect sense to me, but I'm a longtime Penguins fan.
where can i get myself one of those go penis broom cakes??
Love the thumbprints in Epcot. I sincerely hope the wreckerator was wearing a glove.
On that 'broom' does anyone else see PENIS written in big letters, or is that just me?
Ugh! Those random thumbprints on the last cake are nasty. I swear if it had finger prints on it...soooo gross! I really hope the cake maker at least wore gloves while fondling that poor cake!
Of course the first picture is a baseball mitt. Can't you tell by the sprinkles? What respectable ball player DOESN'T sprinkle glittery fairy dust on his mitt before a big game?
How do you think the Yankees won, people?
"Soccer" definitely looks like some atomic structure. Maybe it was meant for chemists?
Does "Spaceship Earth" automatically remind anyone else of Dr. Bronner? All one!!
The clean sweep looks like it says Go Penis. I'm just saying...
The "Clean Sweep" is most definitely a cricket bat - look at the scores at the top: 87-71, 55-28, 18-14 - you don't see scores like that in curling. Plus it seems every national team (including England) calls themselves the Pens. My Google Kung-Fu is ON today!
I also read #5 as "Go Penis!" and I wasn't surprised. I think a little encouragement is a good thing now and then.
um...at first glance the broom cake looked like it said "GO PENIS!" Freudian Slip?
I would interpret the 'bowling' one as beer pong.
Eric
Enough with the curling and cricket nonsense! Thanks Tina and Anonymous... beginning to think I was the only true Pittsburgh Penguins fan who didn't even do a double take at the "Clean Sweep" Go Pens cake... makes perfect sense to me. GO PENS!
The boxing heart cake..for your cardiologist who's also a boxing fan!
~Amy B-H
Yeah, I was all set from the title to see cakes depicting Mel C from the Spice Girls. What a letdown! :)
I an new to reading this blog. These cakes are SO hilarious.
Maybe the broom cake is for someone about to lose his virginity? "Go, Penis, go!"
"Have fun! Dad"-->Dad sprung for a bowling party?
The weights look rather authentic. A passable job on what looks like a groom's cake.
But the mitt, the broom, and everything else? Done in the best wrecky tradition. Wow. The well of wreckiness is bottomless, it seems!
The broom cake is for curling. But why does it say "Go penis" on the cake board?
I, too, read, "Go Penis!"
That Pens cake shouldn't be on here. It's a great looking cake. I can understand if you don't live in Pittsburgh, don't watch hockey or you are just a complete scumbag idiot, you wouldn't get it.
Let me explain it to the submitter:
"Clean sweep" is a term used in hockey when a team wins a 7 game series in the first 4 games.
Pens are a professional hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They recently won the Stanley Cup, which is the "world series" of hockey.
I suggest you do research before submitting photos. You FAIL.
I like how the (alleged) bowling cake says, "Have FUN, Dad!" (Or maybe it's, "Have FUN! Dad). In either case, is that sarcasm? At first glance, what turns out to be a pick on the bowling, er, "pin" made it look...unhealthy. Perhaps someone in this household claimed to be out bowling, but instead went out with other plans in mind?
And wound up in a clinic?
That little strategically-placed dot above "pens" on the broom cake for a minute made me think it said... um... something else.
When I first saw the broom, I thought the words said "Go Penis." Upon closer look I realized it says (I think) "Go Pen's"Nice.
the sweeping one totally looks like it says... pen*s
That's supposed to be a baseball mitt for who? Freddie Krueger? E.T?
Personally, I don't think I'd go anywhere near that weightlifting cake. Which is too bad, because the fewer people feeling that way, the quicker it would be cut up, and then no one would have to look at it anymore!
It's bowling, silly. ANYBODY can see that...
I've got to agree with everyone else that the broom cake looks like it says "Go Penis!" I mean they dotted the "i" and everything.
By the way the broom cake is either for Curling or Quidditch. http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/brooms.html#companies_models" rel="nofollow">Cleansweep is a brand of broom in the wizarding world. So apparently they can't escape cake wrecks even in the magical world of wizards.
I love the little yellow bowling ball that actually just looks like a sad little face!
Without reading through all the comments... the horrible broom cake is probalby not for curling. It is most likely for baseball. A clean sweep is winning all games in a series against an opponent.
I know, I'm such a downer. So... go curling! Yes, I'll watch it in the Olympics this year.
"Clean Sweep" I get, but the team name looks a little, uh, wrong. Hopefully that's an apostrophe and not a dotted i?
I like the bowling one, too. Apparently Dad uses a really small bowling ball.
-Holly
Jen, fabulous fabulous post today....and the commenters have outdone themselves. I'm wiping away the laughter tears...
"maybe the broom cake is for someone losing his virginity"...hahaha!!!!...ladycrim, that was hilarious.
I prefer the cauliflower theory than the "golf" reality. And the Vodka/tequila drunk bowling...Olympic hairstyling!!! And poor Gary...it's okay, several of the posts would be right along side yours...it happens to everyone :)
And along with tigerwolf, diana and Sariah, I'm glad I've been reading the blog long enough to smirk at "epcot"...tee hee...
~Bonnie B :)
Broom Ball! A lot of my friends play at my alma mater: http://www.oswego.edu/student/services/campus_life/intramurals/downloads/rules/Broomball%20Rules%2010-07.pdf
Well Epcot is my favorite sport...(Disney geek)
Thanks for labeling the first one a glove it would have drove me nuts trying to figure that one out!! Whew!
But "Go Penis"?!?! WHY????
Mickey
First cake : "Go tram" ??
For the record, upon seeing the boxing cake my 2 years old exclaimed : "Oh, ladybugs!"
All too often, horrible CCCs seem to aim at having a sports theme. Too bad that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole!
Yeah, I'm guessing that the "Go Penis" cake is actually just another instance of apostrophe abuse, and reads "Go Pen's" - which still TOTALLY makes it a Wreck. ;)
Megan @ adventuresofacarnivore.com
I think I'd rather eat a cake made of actual golf balls.
The Pens cake is for the Pittsburgh Penguins, I think. That ... thing ... is supposed to be hockey's hallowed Stanley Cup.
*shudder* Such ... travesty ...
The 'Broom Cake' is a hockey cake, not a curling cake.
A 'Clean Sweep' is when a hockey team wins a best-of-seven playoff series in only four games, meaning that the other team doesn't win any games. The Pittsburgh Penguins OWNED last season.
Too bad the cake technician used a possessive instead of a plural, to make the cake even more ambiguous and confusing(Go Penis?)
I read through the comments and find the drama in trying to explain the broom cake hilarious. I almost wish the true explanation (the Penguins winning the Stanley cup) could be posted tomorrow, just so all the hockey fans could have a chance to say, "Ha! I told you so, you silly curling, Harry Potter, and baseball fans! You were soooo WRONG!"
This might have already been asked, but I'm too lazy to go back and look through all the comments so far...
Does the one with the broom say "Go Penis"?
I have to echo all the comments about the "Go Penis." That's the first thing I noticed.
the broom cake is for the pittsburgh penguins hockey team. you can see their jerseys on the corners or the broom thing and the player numbers on the handle. they are really kicking butt this year. the whatever this is cake is bowling and epcot is i guess a poorly rounded golf ball. GO PENS!
Man, would it ever be hard to play soccer if the ball was shaped like that cake!
I like the "Epcot" comment. I got it.
oh sweeping! that is AWeSomeE! ;)
thanks for a laugh!