Friday
May282010
This Weekend, Pig Out
May 28, 2010 Since Monday is Memorial Day, I thought you guys might appreciate a few food tips before your weekend get-togethers kick off.
Tip #1: So long as you have beer and bacon, all of your male friends will be happy.
Which is why I, as a girl, think it would be hilarious if you substituted all the beer and bacon with beer and bacon cakes, like this one. Just think how pleased the guys will be at the surprise!Tip #2: Know your pig.
Calm down; I mean the animal.
Sometimes I think a vegan named these things. "Haha! I will name THIS one 'jowl butt,' so NO ONE will EVER want to eat it! Mwuhahahahaa! Now, who wants some niiice fresh asparagus?"
Tip #3: Sometimes it helps to channel your inner Freddie.
Ewwww.Tip #4: Or, if you're like me and subscribe to the "no guts; too gory" philosophy of food, try the all-inclusive cooking method:
Just don't forget the apple.I don't know why. Just...don't.
Bonus: When you're done, you'll have a lovely centerpiece!
"I see you eating that jowl butt. And, yeah, I'm totally judging you."Never mind all that, though, because the important thing to remember here is the glory of bacon.
Apparently it even makes 40 better. Although what that has to do with a mountain range at sunset is beyond me.
Julie B., Kellie B., Jade B., Dorota, Monica I., & Melissa C., notice how I didn't say anything about head cheese? Yep. Some lines you just don't cross.
Reader Comments (73)
oh that is just so nasty, I had to make my first comment on here!Why would anyone WANT to have a bacon looking pig cake?
shudder
Kathy T
These are all really beautifully-made (except the last one, auuuuugh!), but I'm pretty sure I'd run a mile if any of them were in the same room as me!
(first comment, heehee)
Hilarious and disturbing all at once. but, you kinda have 2 "tip #3"'s
wv: rucked - uh-nuther way of talkin' 'bout these cakes
actually,
it says:
"Even Makes 40 Beter!"
Ha!HA!HA!
thanks!
A second dose of Cake Wrecks?!? This is a special day indeed!! My hubby would SO want those bacon cakes!
I feel compelled to point out that head cheese is actually delicious if it's well-made with quality ingredients. It's pretty common here in south Louisiana.
Also, #2 is really cute!
Whoops! Well, we did establish a long time ago that http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/11/really-i-mean-really-yes-more-turkey.html" rel="nofollow">I can't count. ;)
Thanks for the heads up, though, Dave.
Well...these are almost as gross as the real thing. Gotta applaud them for that, at least.
I like pork, but....ew.
LOVE #1! The plastic wrap and label really "take the cake". AHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH. Ahem. Sorry.
PS: Thanks for getting rid of that really scary header with all the doll bodies. {shudder}
WV: recidui The left-over pieces of frosting after the whole cake as been cut (but not in my world - that's in OTHER people's worlds.)
#1 and #2 are kinda cute..and appear to be well made. I think #3 was made for someone who is going to be a butcher or a chef...but is rather odd. #4 & #5 are well made, but CREEEEEEEPY!!! #6...well, it's definitely a wreck!!
But...no I think I'm going to go have a BLT as my hunger has been inspired by the first cake in this post...LOL
I wonder if it's possible to make a bacon flavored cake. That would be a real surprise to the eater.
I admit, I'd definitely try a bite.
Wow! They really went whole hog!
Uh. May. Zing. I love all of these. In fact, I want to order a few of them for friends' birthdays. <3
It might just be me, but the pork cut diagram was adorable. I'd not only eat it, especially if it turned into a sort of pork meatloaf cake, but I would cut along the lines so everyone gets a proper cut of porkcake.
I would pass on all the cakes except I do really like number 2. I think it's adorable.
That last one looks like bacon that's been in the fridge for a month! Yuck-O!!!
I want to know why they only cooked HALF of that last pic... I mean, do need raw bacon for some things, and cooked bacon for others... but I am totally unaware of any recipe that calls for "slab o' bacon, cooked on one side"!
I have friends who absolutely love bacon and they're aware of this site. I don't know if they're going to laugh at the wrecks, or scream in horror at this bacon blasphemy.
OMG! That first 'pig roast' cake looks like a brown Dumbo!!!
Thank you. Much better than the cows..hahaha.suuuuueeeeet.
I love it! Even when I'm going through a rough patch you still manage to make me laugh.:)
I like 'em all! (well, except for that last one of course)
But this just ruined my thoughts of bacon and eggs for breakfast.
Just sayin'.
Gotta love me some bacon!!! Yum!
The pig head center piece is awesome lol :) It reminds me of a pig roast that we had at the Cerebral Palsy Camp I worked at a few years ago. I set up a "Kiss the Pig" contest to raise money for the camp. Six of the staff members were nominated to participate and the kids & parents donated money to the person that they wanted to kiss the pig. It came down to a girl and a guy...The guy could care less about it but the girl really didn't want to do it so she was putting $20s in the guys jar! But the parents thought it was hilarious so they made sure she "won" :)
"bacon makes even 40 better" is my new life-motto. I love cake-wrecks!
As for number three....I'm wondering, good luck with what exactly?
Ha. I made the 3rd one for a retiring meat cutter. It was great because the whole party was full of meat cutters who weren't grossed out by the cake at all. This was also my first attempt at using fondont(for the cutting boards).
I actually kind of like the cuts of meat cake. It's pretty cute.
What can I say....... Never been more glad to be a vegetarian!!!
Ahaha the pork slices cake looks like the one from the Good Eats episode on chuck roast. Know your meat!
I like the meat-reference-chart one the best.
I'm a little afraid of flavor of the various cakes. Do they make pork frosting?
You tried to gross me out but I got hungry bwahahah
mmmm. bacon!
gotta check Jim Gaffigan's take on bacon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nT9P8MMpsE
I can hear him sing/whisper "bacon" as i scroll down
To whomever asked if bacon flavored cake was possible, why yes, yes it is. I don't know if it's kosher (heh) to post this link, but my friend makes these all the time and they're yummy. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/maple-french-toast-and-bacon-cupcakes-recipe/index.html
I took a class whilst getting my degree in Food Science that I simply called "Meat Class". The second cake is AWESOME...I'm going to email that to my former meat professor. He had a picture of a guy that had that very diagram tattooed on him. So, so awesome.
mmm...bacon.
Today, I was perusing the books at a local craft store and came across a cupcake cake how-to book...GAH! Why?
Yeah, so I did what any Cake Wrecks fan would do and buried it deeeepppp under some bottom shelf dusty books. Stopping the spread of "the CCC sickness" one cupcake (book) at a time.
WV: reepio- Seeth reepio wasth the beth spath wobot eva!
#2 reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ59OJegy94 (Two minutes in.)
I love the "Boar's Head" cake! It's perfect for a medieval Christmas celebration. I would love to see that carried in at the head of a grand procession. It's totally not a wreck.
The boar's head in hand bear I
Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary.
I pray you, my masters, be merry
Quot estis in convivio.
Caput apri defero
Reddens laudes Domino.
The boar's head, as I understand
Is the rarest dish in all this land
Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland
Let us servire cantico.
Caput apri defero
Reddens laudes Domino
Barb
OMG. Jennnn. This is so right up your alley.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/05/28/debbie-goards-amazing-geeky-cakes-pics/
Ewww that third cake makes me never want to eat meat again... but fear not I will eat meat.. I just won't shop at that bakery lol. That first cake though wow looks pretty good to me anyways.
OMG what does memorial day have to do with slashers???
That last bacon is going to cause someone food poisoning, it's only partially cooked.
Alright, Lord of the Flies theme cakes again, I love it!!! Creepy, judging piggies! I like this new trend memorial day/ Lord of the Flies celebration.
I enjoyed Memorial Day when I was in America in 2000. The pig images are just so wrong I said EEEEEEEEEWWWW really loud haha ...
I'm actually kind of in awe at the first one...kudos to the baker for taking a weird request and creating a very well-done cake of it! (Subject is wrecky, but the cake is awesome)
2nd one is cute. AND well done.
3 makes sense (well...sort of ) now that we have the explanation from the creator...a retirement cake for a butcher...ummm, okay. Another well-done cake for a really bizarre request.
4 and 5? ORLY?
That last one, though...yeesh.
WV: Evibley. Evibley, some of these cakes are "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear".
Wow these cakes would confuse my senses.
The last 2 cakes of a roasted pig reminds me of mooncakes in shape of a pig! They come around the Autumn Festival (Chinese culture)--really cute and yummy (haha but filled with red bean or lotus paste, etc)! They also come fish shaped.
...Would these bacon-things help if you want to make something bacon flavoured?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/whereisit.cgi?t=bacon&x=0&y=0
BrrShudderTwitch!
Mosir: I mosir do regret knowing about the bacon-flavouring stuff, mosir-tainly!
Hi, just wanted to share that the pig cake with an apple at the mouth would probably be an immitation of a dish/delicacy from the Philippines wherein they roast a whole pig and then serve it with an apple at the mouth when put on the food table. :)
are a stake through the heart and a heart of steak connected? just wondering...
those wicked little vegans....
a mountain range at sunset! LOL
(it does look like a nice watercolor from an amateur)
never mind, "where's the beef?" (as in the commercial, I know it's pork!)
the question is, "where's the fat?"
I love #2! It's cute :) would be perfect for a butcher. Or for someone from a pork loving background. In some cultures (ex. Italy) they eat EVERY PART of the the pig. They really do provide a lot of food!
I really love a good pig roast. However, I don't think I'd want a cake of that. confusing to the senses.
You just reminded me--I'm taking my kids to a farm today to help weigh pigs. And yes, they are quickly growing piglets. There's a pig map on the wall similar to this one! (with a lot more detail)