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? ;)
September 13, 2010 faithful and friendly with stories to share!
marching along as their song fills the air!
[record screeching to a halt]
*chirp**chirp*
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Reader Comments (103)
I used to say I liked chocolate in nearly any form... I've stopped now.
It looks like a gummy bear that has been buried in a tomb and has been covered with years and years of spider webs. I think I'll have nightmares about this tonight. Thanks.
*snort*
Oh, sorry. Grasshopper, you have gone beyond teachings.
Loving the references of various 'what is it' from the comment posters.
*sigh* Not only Gummi Bears, but now Duck Tales floating through my grey matter for the week. Thanks a lot. Yeah. Really.
btw - my favorite gummi bears are the clear ones. No color, no flavor, pure sugar.
~~Di
Hmmm, I watched Alien again last night, and this cake ( do we HAVE to call it a cake?) reminds me of some evil alien spawn.
Again I have to ask, "WHAT were they thinking" or perhaps, "what WERE they thinking" or even, what were they THINKING"????
Um. Ew?
That said, just what flavor IS a mauve gummi bear? No, wait, maybe I don't want to know.
Jen - I love you for this post. :) The gummi bear theme song definitely brought back fond memories! Thanks!
The full song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJmWyZlW2sE
Even Gummi Berri Juice wouldn't wash that taste out of your mouth...
Poor thing sorta looks like it's undergoing mitosis! ew..
I think I'm the only one that was disappointed to see that they weren't real gummy bears in that cartoon.
I preferred the Wuzzles anyways.
I love gummi bears. A food you can smush with your fingertips and it will slowly go back to its original shape. No other food does that (that I can think of anyway).
LOL I totally see the plastic explosive gopher from Caddyshack! “Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts”
I don’t have that song in my head, but I do have Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when the girl says to Principal Rooney “Gummi bear? It's been in my pocket; they're real warm and soft.” Maybe this was it?
wv: witiv – Witiv we pretend you didn’t show us this cake?
Hey, I just heard on the news today that you can now get gummi bears laced with LSD. Scary.
WV: I chaysid my blues away with new LSD gummi bears.
Did that gummi bear fall into a mud pit?
@mimi You know, The Disney Afternoon should be revived so The Adventures of the Chocolate Goo would gross us out!
WV - chesseme
I got cheesed already not only because this year marks the 20th anniversary of The Disney Afternoon, where The Adventures of the (Real) Gummi Bears were featured, even if they were made 5 years before that block we 90's kids remembered watching.
My son just walked by the computer and asked, "what is that? a turd?"
Thought at first it was gonna be "El Paso" by Marty Robbins..which really made me wonder WTF the Wreck was supposed to be...
I second Katja... That really is unfortunate. The poor cake. The poor person who ordered the cake. Oh, the poor world of cakedom.
wv - noutani: "How much of this cake would you like" "Noutani, thank you. It looks like something my dog horked up last night."
Looks like something that, due to some horrible malformation, didn't make it past the fetal stage before it was...um...expelled.
Ok, I already had that song stuck in my head this morning. It's like you're reading my mind! Stop it!
How weird, though, that you blogged about the children's tv theme song that I've been humming this morning.
Looks more like a kitty to me. That cake is truly a Rorschach test!
That one terrible looking cake. I can admit that at least it looks like it might be roughly the right shape and may have been improved if the decorator added icing details.
It is done? It looks like someone should do something to finish it like clothe it or put a face on it. Ugh!
Don't ask me why, but for some reason I read that to the tune of "These Are a Few of My Favorite Things."
Are you sure that thing isn't some horrible flesh eating monster that grew out of the toxic waste stored beneath the floorboards, and it just acidently surface during a bake sale?
HAHA I had this song in my head on Thursday. My student worker wanted gummy bears out of the vending machine, so I found the song on YouTube and made him listen to it.
Ha! I loved the Gummy Bears show!! Children of the 80's.... UNITE!!
The song took me back to joyful days of bounding off the school bus to catch the beginning of Gummy Bears, and wondering just exactly what gummy berry juice tastes like...
and then that cake ripped my heart out through my belly.
Damn!
Technically, Play-Doh *is* edible. About as appetizing as this..."cake".
It looks more like Silly Putty, though, maybe even plumber's putty.
Wreckerator had a previous job at
(a) Toys 'R' Us
(b) The Home Depot
(c) pottery shop
(d) other
To those that are old enough to remember...it looks more like a much used fuzzy wuzzy bathsoap. (He definately was't very fuzzy was he?) karen
looks like stillborn bear or science experiment bear
Must've been a really bad batch of Gummiberry juice!
ROTFLOL - I was totally singing the Gummi Bears song right out loud, cheerfully earning myself a cross look from the hubs, when I scrolled down and . . . well THAT happened. Fortunately I read the comments, so now I have "Ducktales" with which to amuse myself. Yay
Might I recommend a "Gummy Bear Cocktail" to go along with it?
I actually invented this in honour of my father when he died. I am sure he would have appreciated the scientific principal being employed with it and been suitably grossed out but the entire concept... It was perfect. I could imagine him going "bleacccchhhh" but drinking it because I made it.
Gummy Bear Cocktail
4-5 Gummy Bears (more or less, as desired)
1 beer, in a glass (more or less, as desired)
Pour the beer and drop the Gummy Bears in.
Just like the classic "ginger-ale and raisins" science experiment, the bears will rise and fall within the beer as the carbon dioxide bubbles form and break on the surface of the bears.
And it doesn't taste gross because the bears don't actually impart any flavour to the beer.
Umm does that thing look like an alien ate it's face to you? It did to me and boy with the song and that..shudder.. thing staring at me I now will be up for days drinking coffee and wishing I could find the wreckerator lol. Two songs came to mind and My Favorite Things seems to be winning..help me.. lol
You're scaring the children, Jen.
Did you see the Steampunk wedding cake by Christopher Garren's Let Them Eat Cake? It was on "Amazing Wedding Cakes" on WeTV. It was phenomenal... epic, even!! I tried to find a photo, but couldn't. I did find their FB page, though, and they have Steampunk doors for their new addition to their shop. You have to check it out!
I miss watching the Disney channel when Gummi Bears, Duck Tales, and Tale Spin were shown one right after the other. D;
Good grief! Oh Dear! Dear Lordy! That is a coke cummy bear gone bad.
Maybe some Gummy Berry Juice will help this cake?
.....Doubtful.
But now my day will be plagued with the song.
I think the person who suggested the C-4 gopher is absolutely right. It had to have been a special order, and the wreckerator got it just right.
In any other case, the cake matched my WV: glyched.
It looks like some sort of alien egg-sack that's about to burst; and whatever climbs out of it is about to start biting holes in our skulls and sucking out the contents.
OMG, that cake just shouldn't exist, or be out in public for a crowd to see. I haven't heard the theme song for Gummy Bears since I was a kid. I used to watch that cartoon all the time.
@Sam Gamgee
Nice Princess Bride reference... another 80s classic :)
Daaaaaaaang yooooouuuuu!! *hums the song endlessly* What a song to have stuck in my head when I start work in an hour.
.... I remember all the words, too. Kinda scary.
But no, that is not a gummy bear. That is.... I can't even think of anything to describe that.
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Whyyyyy would one do the only thing you could possibly to do to ruin an otherwise nicely-shaped gummi bear, and frost it in the least appetizing colour on the planet??
Re: the "B.A.D. Day" post on Epbot -- this one definitely helped me out today. Thanks. The comic timing was awesome.
...maybe it's a headless Venus of Willendorf?
Yeeeah, I got nothing.
I actually have that cake mold. I, too, made a brown bear, but with the appropriate finishing decorations it can actually look like a teddy bear. I never noticed the gummi bear resemblance until you pointed it out. =)
This was awesome because I got really, really into the song as I was reading it. And when it got to "GUMMY BEARS!" I was totally pumped, and then...just...disappointed. You did a good job here. It made me happy. (Also, I know that song in Swedish. I don't speak a word of Swedish, but I can sing the Gummibears theme in it.)
I guess the brown gummy bear went the way of the tan M&M. They were too poo-rific.
Because of this post, I looked up the song and had it stuck in my head all day... thank you.