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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November 4, 2013 Today Judy L. shares with us "The Inspiration"...
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... and "The Devastation":
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Or, as I like to call it, "The Reason I Can't Stop Laughing."
(But only because "The Leaning Tower of Pisa Crap" is just a little too mean. :D)
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Reader Comments (133)
The minute I saw the inspiration cake, a little high-pitched voice inside my head started screaming, "Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!"
almost wouldn't be too bad without the top 2 colored section on it? Or am I being too generous?
Oh, wow. Just wow.
Ok, now I am convinced some people choose "inspiration" cakes to deliberately get a wreck. While the inspiration was beautiful, it screamed wreck in waiting.
The Sorting Hat's day job?
I'm waiting for a house from Kansas to fall on it.
The sorting hat run
Amok in festive ruffles
For the big wedding.
Do they even look at the idea cake?!?!?!? I wonder about that
The result looks like a dunce cap. Which this wreckerator should be wearing. I mean, the colors don't even match.
As I scrolled down my first thought was "witch's hat".
This is more the work of an advanced novice than a wreck. If the layers had been thinner like the original.. and only 3 high instead of 6..possibly 7.. this cake would have looked much nicer. But changing the layers, height and color?? No, no.
Umm...anyone else reminded of the Hogwarts sorting hat?
Frankly, I don't like the inspiration cake either - but at least it's well done! The second cake... no words.
It looks like a wizard's tower from a very bad VHS copy of an 80's movie.
The wreck reminds me of Mickey's hat in Fantasia.
to me, the wreck kind of looks like a formal, disco inspired sorting hat. (on steriods).
Honestly, with an inspiration cake like that, I don't how she could have expected anything much better. The inspiration looks like something that's attractive from exactly one angle and ridiculous everywhere else.
What the... I mean, I don't even.... O.o
I think that sorting hat would put everyone in Slytherin.
It's like the wreckerator just didn't know when to stop. 'One more layer - this'll be the one that makes it look right!'
PS so glad I wasn't the only one who saw the sorting hat.
Originally I thought the inspiration cake was the wreck (it looks lopsided and has way too much icing (fondant?). But then I saw the Sorting Hat and realized my mistake.
The inspiration cake has leaning issues also. Maybe that's a feature of the design, but it does nothing for me.
It's Dumbledore's hat with all four houses represented, right?
Um. the inspiration cake looks to be 4 tiers, and the "Leaning Tower of Pisa Crap" (sooo appropriate) looks to be a tier per wrap. I am not an expert by any means, but I can tell that on the inspiration cake, each wrap does NOT have its own tier. It is so tall I wonder how the baker was able to transport it. Probably in a wagon or on a skateboard towed behind their vehicle.
As previous posts have taught us, that second cake just needs more flowers. Preferably chrysanthemums.
Frankly, I'm having a hard time getting past the dingy, stained, cement-wall setting that last cake is in. Is that a warehouse/garage?
=^e.e^=
NAILED IT!
Um. Are you sure this isn't a Halloween insired Witch's Hat cake?
*cackles like the Wicked Witch of the West*
Um...Not a fan of the inspiration cake either! What is that?
At least I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like The Sorting Hat.
They both remind me of the cake from Sleeping Beauty that Fauna ices before she bakes.
What I want to know is did someone actually *request* those colors?? EEEK!
They got screwed!
To me, it looks like the unholy combination of Dr. Seuss and J.R.R. Tolkein...like The Two Towers of the Places You'll Go.
OK, I am at a loss. Upon first glance I thought the inspiration cake was the wreck. I stand corrected.
I think the inspiration cake is just as hideous!
I weep with mirthful glee.
At what point did she/he not realize it it looked nothing like the inspiration? SMH
Though I find many of the artisan cakes being created today wonderful works of art, I'm old school, I want my cake to look like cake. :P And I would far rather the focus be on the taste than the appearance - not that I want a wreck worthy cake. What I have learned the most over the years of reading this blog...bakers are fibbers, don't sign the contract until you have seen an example of their work that includes the skills needed for your chosen cake. As we have seen, not all bakers can even handle a basic 'cake looking' wedding cake. :P
I'm guessing we can't see the top because it just continues to spire upward and upward growing darker and darker into infinity.
When the Sorting Hat decides to get on the ombre fashion trend. And fails miserably.
How did they not see the original is topsy turvy?!
There is this plant where I work in the college botanical garden called a 'corpse flower'. For some reason, I thought of that when I saw the wreck cake!
I really like both cakes, and I would have appreciated the offbeatness of the second cake more without the comparison. It's delightfully whimsical, whereas the first cake is elegant.
GRYFFINDOR!!
@EmilyRose ~ You are being very generous!
I'm with Sharyn. Except I heard the high pitched voice of Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
OMG...it reminds me of the Stinking Corpse Lily that is on yearly display at Ohio State University! While the smell is not the same (obviously,) the stench of failure probably is just as strong coming from this cake.
it looks like a mean ombre witch hat!! yikes!
As always, viewer comments are more than worth the price of admission. The Sorting Hat remarks particularly.
All I had was something about "color-blind AND math-challenged" ...
I keep...scrolling...back and forth between the two. For the life of me, I can't find even one hue that matches between them! (I really hope the colors weren't supposed to match, because...OMFG)