Tuesday
Jul142009
Does This Cake Make Me Look Fat?
July 14, 2009 Attn parents: the last photo in today's post is not appropriate for the little ones.
So you're making a Doritos-run to your local grocery store, and you see this:
And for some reason many of you are convinced by this chipped, yellowing, choking-hazard of a cake that photo cakes are a "grrrr-reat!" idea. So you run home, rifle through the blackmail folder, and order up gems like these:
And when you combine embarrassing candids with the "skill" of a seasoned Wreckerator, you can achieve a level of Wreckage never before imagined by the culinary world.Your job: find the creepiest photo of the birthday girl possible - swirling light vortex and glowing red eyes a plus.
Wreckerator's job: place photo off-center and try to use up all this extra orange icing.
(the orange is on the bottom border)
(the orange is on the bottom border)Great job, team!
Or here's an idea:
Hand out little tubes of icing and invite guests to black out teeth, draw on mustaches, etc. That'll make the birthday girl feel special.Here's an option for you creative types:
Photoshop: lending the honky some jammin' style since 1984.
Or why their new nickname is "the dragon":
Ah, cameras and alcohol: a match made in Cake Wrecks heaven.Thanks to Mangycat, Bridgett, A Nony Mouse, Emma M., Rachel B., Julie C., and Kimberly E. Remember: what happens in Vegas, gets on Cake Wrecks!
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Reader Comments (86)
AAUGH!!! MY SEARED, BLEEDING EYES!!!!!!!! Someone PLASE erase that dragon pic! It burns!
Wv: pallycor....that sounds so wrong.."ooh, who got a pallycor from Amber?"
Gee, my sister's 50th birthday is coming up...you have given me all sorts of ideas!
Do these cakes make them look fat?
No, but they sure do make them look really stupid!
Love this site. It brightens every day! Thanks.
Is it just me or is that girl with the red eyes also holding a shotgun in that photo?
Classy.
Since WHEN is 30 'over the hill'???? (The last cake)
Sheesh.
I had no idea I was getting so close to being over the hill. Heck, at 28 I thought I still had a ways to go. Now I realize I am cresting the hill as I type. *wipes tear*
These are funny in a "so glad it isn't me" kind of way, but would hate to be Mr. Pee at the party! I am guessing that the *wet* piece gets left behind....I sure hope so anyway.
Becky
These poor people. I'm glad no one has ever put my face on a cake!
I don't know about you guys, but these comment pages are hilarious. It's like a second helping of funny.
And I'm having a lot of fun reading all the blogs that the comment poster have. I really like My Older Brothers and Horrible License Plates. They're hilarious.
Let's be real: All of the photos in today's post are inappropriate for little ones. "Mommy, why has that grown man pissed his pants?"
i have no word to describe those cakes. *shakes head*
well, I was going to say that I feel sorry for the person who has to eat the wet spot, but thanks to everyone else for reminding us all that 30 IS NOT OLD!!! silly youth they don't know anything! 30 isn't old...
-Ginny
those make me wonder who thought photo cakes were a good idea in the first place.. seriously, eating someone's face, that's just creepy.
That last one is not a wreck. That is a WIN all around. ;)
But... on Emma's cake... are those chili peppers???
for some reason i really like the last cake...except for the picture
i wonder if it's just my weird tastes, but the little grim reaper on the last one, is, to me- ADORABLE!!
the girl with the red eyes is actually holding a guitar, not a shotgun (but I like your style!)
Actually, the girl with the red eyes is playing Guitar Hero, not holding a shotgun (but I like your style).
I'm also surprised that there was no mention of the chili peppers on Emma's cake. They are either peppers or poorly constructed strawberries. They look more like either of those things than they do rosebuds. Perhaps with all the other wreckiness around they were overlooked...
And 30 is NOT over the hill. I'd better not get that party until I'm at LEAST 40. Preferably 50.
Any idea what the random letters at the bottom of the dragon cake are all about?
Anyhoo...If I EVER walk into a birthday party and find a pic of myself on a cake, I'll immediately walk right back out. And if it's a super embarrassing one, I doubt I'll ever speak to the conspirators who ordered said cake again!
'Nuff said.
I have a little problem with lack of punctuation on the last cake: "Dig in Craig." Intentional or not? "Dig in, Craig" would have been sort of a welcoming gesture for Craig himself. But as written, it is asking all of us to literally dig around IN Craig. I would rather not.
wv: schinge, German for schweaty
pure excellence. I know what i'm ordering for my 30th.
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Oh my god, the cake with the lady with the blacked out teeth, which reminds me of a crackhead
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LOL! I love your blog!
I really appreciate the warning to parents at the begining of this post; my son often enjoys looking at these with me, and thankfully I read that and decided to come back later. Thanks so much!
All of those just make me think of the "face cake" episode of Scrubs. And that makes me laugh.
Alicia's friends are mean.
wow.
For my college graduation party, my parents got me a photo cake with my cap and gown pic. Even though it was a perfectly fine picture, and there was nothing wrong with the transfer, it *still* felt weird having a cake with my face on it. Like their CCC cousins, I propose that ALL photocakes are wrecks.
The last cake is a wreck in picture only. Other than that, it's pretty well constructed.
Like everybody else here, I wondered what was on Emma's cake. I thought they were wilted strawberries! And the writing looks eerily 3D.
And no, 30 is not over the hill. I'm 33, and the nursing home ain't calling me yet!
"Hand out little tubes of icing and invite guests to black out teeth, draw on mustaches, etc."
That is a great idea!!! I'm totally doing that for my next birthday cake. Its like group grafitti without the cleanup.
My husband felt there should have been a warning just before the last picture was about to appear.
He apparently did not feel it was appropriate for him any more than for small children. :) (I, on the other hand, giggled like an idiot.)
. . . the second to last one looks like my brother.
Oh wow...I just laughed until I cried. That was crazy. Thanks!
I do hate photo cakes. They are hideous. And what's worse, is that the printers for those things are the most unreliable pieces of crap ever made.
That's funny that most of those were 30th birthday cakes! I just turned 30 two days ago. Good hell. At least I didn't have a cake wreck. :) Just a LOT of sake and sushi.
I think dear Alicia is staring out of that cake with evil in her eyes saying, "You picked THIS picture for my birthday cake? WHY?"
wv: spaun--Alicia would not be happy with her spaun and husband, who planned her party, when she discovered what they put on her cake.
i find it amusing that you can see the makings of very normalfamily-photo type photos at the top of craigs cake, but yet they chose the photo that they did...
Most of these photo cakes make people look green more than they make them look fat.
Celebrate blackouts:
Turn out the lights when serving
these embarassments.