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.
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March 8, 2012 Hey future brides and grooms, are you looking for a wedding topper that's:
- Memorable
- Unique
and
- Disarmingly life-like?
;)
'Cuz I think we nailed it!
Hey, Amber M., high five!
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Reader Comments (74)
Hands down, the best one I've seen.
With unfurled pinky,
Groom declares his love and his
claim to the peerage.
*backing away quietly*
Also, the man hand is signing "I Love You". The lady hand doesn't seem all that committed. That's a little disturbing.
Ha! "Disarmingly"!
I've got to hand it to you, Jen, when it comes to puns, you win hands down.
As for that topper, (although it is handsomely done) if I were the bride I wouldn't let someone palm that off on me. I'd knuckle down and finger my way through the catalogue until I found something that really got under my skin.
I think it's quite handsome...
Is the groom trying to do the hook 'em horns thing while he sips his bubbly?
It's perfect for Thing from the Addams Family!
Nothing screams "Happily Ever After" like dismembered body parts. It was kind of the baker to hide the bloody stumps in the fortuitously red flowers. Now that I've seen the topper, I desperately want to see the cake stand -- was it their dismembered feet, lovingly clad in copies of their wedding shoes? (Actually, done right, that might have morphed this cake from skeevy to snarky.)
It's the sequel to the movie "The Hand" only now the hand has a bride and they're BOTH coming to get you! AAAAAAA!
Ahem, okay that is just totally NOT cool. Those hands look more like muppet hands and not at ALL appealing on top of the cake. Why hands? Did the bride actually want this? On another note, the flowers do look lovely but they're really not enough of a distraction from the disembodied drinking hands. UGH.
I mean, come on! Who makes a fist of rock with a champagne glass in hand?
Mutual heart-theft.
Penalty: traditional
medieval hand lops.
No fair! Zoomom took all of my puns!
what about those cups, people?? If you're willing to let plastic cups that approximate the shape of ice cream bowls stand in for champagne flutes or wine glasses, you've already lost.
Mouth agape
I've seen a lot of wrecks here,
but this one takes the cake!
LOLOL@zoomom. As for this topper, well done but very creepy. Good for a halloween wedding.
AAAAGH! The bride has man hands! Uh, I mean, a man hand.
It's too bad the hands are so creepy, the roses are really quite beautiful!
First thing I thought of was that old episode of MST3K, "Manos: the Hands of Fate," and that creepy Torgo music.
I couldn't get your site to load three times this morning. It just kept redirecting to "null." I was a little afraid you had decided to go through with shutting down the site, but it's nice to see you are still bringing the funny!
Is it just me, or does the groom's thumb look like a nub? Is it just the distortion from the "glass"?
"Also, the man hand is signing "I Love You". The lady hand doesn't seem all that committed. That's a little disturbing."
@Lynne. I see what you mean. It almost looks like she is saying, "I will think have to think about it."
The only thing that could "top" this would be goldfish in the glasses. Awesome!
Am I the only one thinking of the Fire Swamp after Lynea's post? "It's really quite beautiful..."
Perhaps the bride and groom have sunk into Lightning Sand. Their last act was a toast to their doomed love before being completely submerged.
Maybe the groom was using the "Hook 'Em" sign to symbolize that he "hooked" himself a keeper? Hmm? Just me? Okay.
All in all, still just wrong...
"Disarmingly"... Snicker... titter... giggle... guffaw... (blinkblink)... BWA, HAHAhHhahAhhAhAhAhAhAhahAAHAHahA!!!!
OR...maybe one (or both) of them has a prosthesis and they are celebrating their uniqueness??
@Haiku Joy: I am especially fond of your "Mutual Heart-Theft" post. Hee.
Who even thinks ordering hands on a cake is cool?
Bonus: you can use them as rock-on hands at concerts on your honeymoon, and nobody will mosh you because you're carrying severed limbs. Booyeah!
Yay! I'm not losing my mind! Someone else also had trouble with the site today! Okay, I realize I shouldn't be celebrating that necessarily but it's really nice to know I'm not completely crazy. And this topper is beyond creepy! I like the idea of using it for a Halloween wedding though.
Should have listened to the little voice that said, "Don't scroll down! Don't scroll down!"
Well done, but very, very creepy.
UUUUUUUUUUAAAAAaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!!
i so do not want a slice...gristle and bones and..... well...... ICK!!
Let's see...at least the hands aren't deathly pale with fingers that look like they bend the wrong way.
Ok, I gave the 'look on the bright side' thing a try -- not cutting it.
The wreckerator was glad of the opportunity to get some hands-on experience with digital cake design.
He: "I love you. Might I suggest that you 'rock on'? Cheerio."
'She': "Meh."
The cylindrical wrist is a tad concerning, as well.
Were you down all morning? I was in a state of withdrawal when I couldn't get to the site!!! Don't do that to me EVER AGAIN!!!!
I have been corrupted. I looked at the cake and thought "KEWL!!!"
Alas, I fear I shall be banned from CW and lose all my mirth points.
I do, however, think that "her" hand should have been signing ILY as "his" is. Soooo close!
Must be fans of Seinfeld - the "bride" has manhands!
Why aren't there rings?
Aww, Thing found himself a soulmate! Isn't that sweet?
The bride's pinky looks painfully twisted, and I can't tell from this angle where the groom's thumb is going ... or if it's even all there.
Yeah, definitely on the creepy side.
Maybe it could go with the armless bride dress cake - as long as we are going grotesque.
I rather like that one. I would like it even better if the feet someone mentioned were present.
I'm having a Masochism Tango moment here.
Hoping this is a same-sex wedding... with that extended pinky and all.... just sayin'.
@Andrea
Thank you! I wondered if the idea was too obscure for others to get, but then I decided to write it for myself anyhow. I'm glad others liked it!
I can't stop thinking about the corpse bride now.
"With this hand,
I will lift your sorrows.
Your cup will never empty,
For I will be your wine...."
So much effort to make something so hideous... and I'll bet it cost an arm and a leg.
Love. The. Pinky.
I saw this and the first thing I though of was little Emily and Thomas from our 3rd grade "rock, paper scissors" epic showdown...Awww they fell in love! He might have won the game, but she won his heart!
( I still find this disturbing, but eh, to each his own!)
When in doubt, pinky out!