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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
Feb232009

"Hey everybody, thish cake ish from Holland. Ishn't that veird?"

Brace yourself, my friends, for what you're about to see may haunt your dreams for the rest of your natural lives, and will most certainly turn you off of acrylic nails.

Ready?

Here it comes...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the baby shower, they went and added...

The DREADED MANICURED ALIEN HAND OF DOOM!!!

[drawn-out scream]

Ok, what's worse: the bone-white skin pallor, popped-out belly button that looks like the tied-off end of a balloon, or the fact that Thing-ette there seems to be sucking the life-force out of Octo-Mom Wraith-style?

Now, I have pudgy little Hobbit hands, so my basis of reference is off: tell me, is that hand as disproportionally gargantuan as I think it is?

Kevin V., you musht be toight like a toyger*. Schmoke and a pancake?

*Ok, so the pop-culture references got a little out of hand** in this post. Sorry.

**Get it? Out of hand? Booyah!

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Reader Comments (266)

It reminds me of Cruella DeVille... pale skin, freakishly long, thin, gaunt fingers...

Those are just the kind of fingernails Cruella would sport, too!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAshley

like the belly and boobage wasn't enough? wow, and no your are correct that's one gigantic hand i ever saw, she could hold that baby with just one!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDez

The hand would be a bit small compared to mine, but I have "man hands".

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

I think it's the fingers that are out of proportion and..........ewwwww, gah.

Gretchen

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

That belly button is disgusting!! And you are right...that hand is unusually large! The fingernails...all I can say is YUCK!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKelli

I just love that the word "booyah" was used in this post! HI-larious.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKate

Is it just me or does the "belly button" for this cake look actually look like something that is designed to avoid this whole pregnancy situation in the first place?

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKt

Actually, that's pretty much the proportions of my hand, minus the fake nails of tackiness and doom.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterShellie B

Despite the creepiness of the hand, my eyes were drawn to the nipples.
I wonder what they used for them. Skittles?

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterdani'

Wow - that's scary! But, I do have extremely large, long fingers myself so it doesn't look too disportionate to me. I have an almost 3 octave reach on the piano.

But still... that cake is SKEERY.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCarrie

Aliens have nipples....who knew?

Rebecca :D

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterVinca Leaf Quilts

I gotta HAND it to ya....

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterpeewee

AAAAAEEEEEEEEK!

I can't decide if the freaky nails are the worst part, of if they draw attention away from the evil hand of doom. We won't even discuss the nipples. Shudder.

Well, you warned me...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterTalia

Why are the nipples poking on this pregnancy cake as well? Creepy.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWill Hull

The only thing creepier about this cake is the fact that you have to cut into the belly to eat it. Yum...baby. *cringe*

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMissy

and the nipples! it must get chilly with one's shirt pulled up like that

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLeah

Who would want to cut into this???

Ewwww.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterquinn

THE CAKE HAS NIPPLES! OH MY DEAR SWEET JESUS MY CORNEAS! THEY BURN!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterNicole

Can't you just see the shirt this one would make? A maternity shirt! It would be great.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJess

Don't forget that one of her nipples is visible through her shirt. Sexy.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commentersammik

Your totally right, the hand is super huge. I don't know anyone that could actually basketball grip an entire pregnant tummy.

My favorite part of this cake however is the nipples.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBudgyrl

Those fingers are about 11 feet long! Yikes!

WV: entens - the cake decorator actually entens for the cake to look like THAT???

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenter~Anne

That looks like a French manicure to me. :-)

~Ken

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

That hand does look weirdly disproportionate. Like there's an alien standing behind her, holding onto her balloon...I mean, belly. And what is with the extremely prominent nipples? Mom-to-be must be cold...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKalika!

i have no words. . .

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJeanette "Frogster"

it's certainly rather goolish...and large in preportion to the belly

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterChrista

That is one seriously creepy cake.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterI Love Baby Quilts!

Yeah, I agree, those fingers are super long! I have short stubby ones too, so maybe I shouldn't judge. But they do seem really long and alien-like.

Plus..er, um....is it cold in there? Are cake-torsos just naturally cold or something?

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLeslie

Whoa! Those links need warnings! Way creepier than the creepy cake, which was totally creepy! =)

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCheryl

can you imagine getting the piece with the nips?!? I'd lose my lunch.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKate

Is it a July 4th Baby perhaps? that's gotta be the reason for the nails right?

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMarieA

eww. just eww.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commentererin

Yikes!!! I don't think I could bring myself to eat one of those terrifying fingers. You didn't even mention the lumpy boobs- what's going on there??

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSkye

Wow. Is it just me or does that look like Mickey Mouse with a bloated face?

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDevin

why does it seem like all these cakes with severed pregnant torsos are also a bit cold? they all have crazy nippleage...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

That is just awful

word verification: domentam
Domentam angry or they'll send the creepy hand of acrylic nail-land after you! Eek!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenter*James*

Oh, and you have made a Dr. Who AND Atlantis reference on this site so far! I'm in love! =P

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDevin

It's gwen stefani BEFORE the holy baby zuma!!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterbrainsurgerygirl

wow....just wow

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterjill

I think you're correct. That hand definitely looks way bigger than it should... I don't think even my hand would look like that, and I've got super-big mannish hands.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commentersarraphim

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterMisty

Are we sure it's not an ice cream cake? She certainly looks cold...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAndy

and, this alien is quite... perky, to say the least.

oy vey.

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterk8lynr

Yeah, as if the alien freak hand and nails (shudder) weren't enough, the right nipple is disturbing! I'm just waiting for the sheet to fly off the top of the cake and those giant boobs to pop out! Do people not have any sense of decency? I don't know if it's a baby or just indigestion!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJen

O.o Oh yikes, that is freaky! And lol - Wraith Queen was totally my first thought, too!

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCami

I love, love, love what a nerd you are.

Stargate.

I want to be your neighbor. T_T

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKamity

So much to love about this cake, really.
Seriously, the mom to be is wearing a belly shirt, has huge boobs, hard nips, and a scary manicure. Obviously, the expectant mom is a stripper.
As for the prominent nips....
you know they probably had the cake in the fridge at some point, so that probably explains that...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterOlson

This is just hideous. Looks like the results of a chance encounter between a pregnant lady and the T-virus


brainnns, brainnns...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnonymous

LOL -- I love it! (My hand is the opposite of pale, since I am emphatically not white, but I am very tall and thus do have those long spider fingers. Of course, I do not emphasise them by putting my country's flag all over them on long-@$$ nails...)

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterAnthrophile

I think it is the freakishly long nails that are throwing the whole thing off. Which is not to say that it would be any better with normal length nails...

February 23, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLaura [What I Like]

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